Mome, Volume 15

This issue features several of our favorite alternative comic artists ofthe last 15 years, bringing us great joy. Archer Prewitt is the first, withan all-new "Funny Bunny" strip created in between his active musicalcareer. "The Moolah Tree" is the new Fuzz & Pluck graphic novel fromTed Stearn, following Fuzz & Pluck and Fuzz & Pluck: Splitsville, beginning serialization here. We are equally proud to debut new workfrom Renee French, whose work is also featured on the front and backcover of this issue. And Nicholas Mahler debuts to ask "What Is Art?"(translated by secret weapon Kim Thompson).Also: the second chapter of T. Edward Bak's "Wild Man-The StrangeJourney-and Fantastic Accounts-of the Naturalist Georg WilhelmSteller, from Bavaria to Bolshaya Zemlya (and Beyond)"; a new "ColdHeat" story by the team of Ben Jones, Frank Santoro and JonVermilyea; Dash Shaw interprets an episode of "Blind Date" into comicsform; and new stories from Lilli Carre, Conor O'Keefe, Laura Park, NateNeal, and Sara Edward-Corbett, with incidental drawings by Kaela Graham.

Since its inception in 2005, MOME has served as a McSweeney's for comics. Whether exposing new talent like Eleanor Davis (author of the recent Stinky by Toon Books); featuring short stories by contemporary graphic novelists like Dash Shaw (The Bottomless Belly Button); bringing the work of international superstars like David B. (Epileptic) to American audiences; or introducing the work of legends like Gilbert Shelton (The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) to a new generation of readers, MOME is the most acclaimed, accessible, frequent, and reasonably priced anthology on the market despite its high production values and mostly color format.