books and comics
Drawing Words & Writing Pictures $29.95
From First Second Books
A textbook on making comics. Learn more here.
Order from Amazon.com.
Life Sucks $19.95
From First Second Books
A new romantic-comedic story about loser vampires. Learn more here.
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La Perdida (complete volume) $19.95
From Pantheon Books
A story about Carla Olivares,
a young American in Mexico City.
Find out more about la Perdida,
or read an excerpt.
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Individual chapters of La Perdida
La Perdida Part One $4.95
La Perdida Part Two $4.95
La Perdida Part Three $4.95
La Perdida Part Four $4.95
La Perdida Part Five $5.95
Parts one through four are each 48 pages, part five is 64 pages. Published by Fantagraphics. If you love the cover of the complete book, these issues are still worth getting for their non-reprinted covers. (Also if you’re a true completist…there are lots of little changes!)
Order from Fantagraphics.
Soundtrack: Short Stories 1989-1996 $12.95
A collection of work from the self-published Artbabe Volume 1, including the minicomics and #5, the Xeric issue. This volume also includes a lot of work published in other magazines and comics during the same period. More about Soundtrack here.
Order from Fantagraphics.
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Mirror Window: an Artbabe Collection $12.95
A collection of all of Artbabe Volume 2 and several non-fiction and journalistic stories published during the same period (1997-1999). More about Mirror, Window here.
Order from Fantagraphics.
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Artbabe individual issues:
Artbabe Vol. 1, No. 5 SOLD OUT
Artbabe Vol. 2, No. 1 $2.95
Artbabe Vol. 2, No. 2 $3.50
Artbabe Vol. 2, No. 3 SOLD OUT
Artbabe Vol. 2, No. 4 $3.50
All five issues stand alone (i.e., do not have continuing characters or stories), so you may start wherever you like.
Order from Fantagraphics.
Radio: An Illustrated Guide
Radio is my collaboration with Ira Glass and This American Life. A 32-page book that will tell you all about what happens behind the scenes at TAL and how they make their show. Also, it will tell you how to make radio yourself.
Published by This American Life, WBEZ Chicago, Public Radio International, and Artbabe Army Publishing.
You can get this from several sources.
Order from This American Life
order from Amazon.com.
my comics in other languages
Italian
Black Velvet Editrice has published Artbabe (the material from Mirror, Window), Radio: an Illustrated Guide, and La Perdida.
Spanish
Astiberri Ediciones has published La Perdida and Escaparate (the material from Mirror, Window), and plans Soundtrack soon.
French
Editions Delcourt has published La Perdida.