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Anarchy in the Kingdom of Heaven Pablo Delcielo [ @delcielo ] August 2017

Chilean artist Pablo Delcielo with help from Shihâb Alen brings us a kaleidoscopic essay on spiritual politics in the 21st century. Pro-love and anti-capitalist, Pablo draws on Mapuche mythology and Western radicals to show both what is and what could be.

Now available in the Perfectly Acceptable store

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Accursed Daria Tessler [ @animalsleepstories ] June 2017

Stolen bronze vessel but distrustful of local authorities? Worried your enemy Susio might outshine the pantomine actor Eumolpus but not sure what to do about it? Look no further than Daria Tessler's illustrated collection of curse tablets made in ancient Greece and Rome for all the inspiration you will ever need on divine retribution.

Now available in the Perfectly Acceptable store

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Gaylord Phoenix #7 Edie Fake April 2017

Edie Fake returns to his award-winning queer, abstract comic series after a seven year hiatus to remind us of our collective strength.

Now available in the Perfectly Acceptable store

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Edie Fake's Gaylord Phoenix #7 is now available for pre-order. The first 50 orders will receive one of these prints we made from the negative of the cover die-cut. Ships late March :)

http://perfectly-acceptable.com/item/gaylord-phoenix/

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Nice words from Sequential State :)

Hotel Rompo is available for purchase at the Perfectly Acceptable Store.

Review: Hotel Rompo by Talya Modlin

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the comics work published in 2016. I think, despite the generally accepted fact that the year was horrible, the creative output for the year, especially in comics, was startlingly good. One of my favorite comics from 2016 is Hotel Rompo, a 3 foot accordion book from Perfectly Acceptable Press. The book is three color risoprint on one side, one-color comics on the other, and contained in a semitransparent, screenprinted, hand numbered sleeve. I reviewed another Perfectly Acceptable comic earlier this year and talked about the quality of the print object, but Hotel Rompo is quite possibly the most beautifully constructed comic I’ve seen this year.

Hotel Rompo is a hedonistic fever dream, part Hieronymus Bosch painting, part Where is Waldo illustration. Fruit- and vegetable-headed people have sex while onlookers gawk, a small man canoes down a slide made slick with tears (which are later collected in tea cups), a woman argues with a frog, and bathers hang out by and in a heated pool while the news plays from a TV floating in the pool. These are just a few selected images from the beautiful book. The oddness of the physical object, its stature and its size, seem perfect for the fantasies contained within. The risograph colors are blended from yellow, navy blue, and fluorescent pink, so the entire book has a faux-CMYK look to it. Hotel Rompo screams color and vibrancy. 

On the back side of the book, scenes from the front are fleshed out with loosely drawn comics. A woman at the top right hand of the illustration gets a long backstory; as she stares into her own reflection, she reflects on her memories and the people she has met, including an old boyfriend. Three stories out of 50, maybe 100 characters in the comic. The effect is that of a broadening. By giving a selection of characters their own stories, the rest of Modlin’s cast is given depth because, surely if these characters have a story, then so do all the others.

If you can find a copy, Hotel Rompo is a feast for the eyes. Recommended.

Talya Modlin is an artist based in Chicago. You can check out more comics at Modlin’s website. You can also find more from the Perfectly Acceptable catalogue here - @perfectlyacceptablepress. 

(Images for this review were taken from the Perfectly Acceptable Press website because my scanner does not capture fluorescent pink risograph ink)

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HELP YOURSELF Disa Wallander [@disawallander​] November 2016

Disa Wallander dishes out a hearty 48-page bowl of self-help vis-à-vis solipsism, garnished with jokes about death, served with a side of collage. Get it while it’s hot -- it’s going to be a long winter.

Now available in the Perfectly Acceptable store

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Disa Wallander’s book debuts this weekend at @shortrunseattle and Thought Bubble AND @comicartsbrooklyn (with our friends at @bredpress). Check it OUT

We’ll have it up online for sale soon :)

I am rrrrrready with pins prints and zines, and most importantly my new book with Perfectly Acceptable Press (photo courtesy of Matt Davis who’s done a splendid job printing it). all of this and lots more stuff by my esteemed tablemates Wai Wai Pang and Marianna Madriz at the Grid Kids table in New Dock Hall at Thought Bubble! come watch me eat snacks 24/7 for two full days, it’ll be a most grand time I assure you …

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Look at these nice previews of my book HELP YOURSELF! It’s a 48 page riso printed thing coming out with Perfectly Acceptable Press, and will debut at Short Run Seattle and Thought Bubble on the same weekend! Contains pretty pictures and funny jokes about people being miserable and mean, as per usual. WANT IT WHILE THE WANTING IS GOOD!

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The complete Spring/Summer '16 is now available for purchase as a package, makin' way for new books 🎊 an even $50 for 5 #risograph books. If you already have some and want the rest send me a message and we can work out a deal 👼 (at Perfectly Acceptable Press)

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Perfectly Acceptable FW16/17

New titles by:

Disa Wallander (Slowly Dying, The Nature of Nature, Remember This?) @disawallander

Edie Fake (Memory Palaces, Gaylord Phoenix) @ediefake​

Will Laren (Slurricane, Tat Squad) @willlaren

Our first title, Wallander’s HELP YOURSELF, will debut November 5 at @shortrunseattle.

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Sixth Mass Extinction Inés Estrada August 2016

Inés Estrada's psychedelic vision of creatures and ecosystems in decline. 20 (!!) new 4-color Risograph drawings. We fucked up and nature knows.

Now available in the Perfectly Acceptable store and later in August at Zine Dream.

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First test print for our upcoming book with Inés Estrada coming early next month 🐰 we are trying to decide between Light Teal and Cornflower ink (at Perfectly Acceptable Press)

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risograph 3 color poster

edition of 50

printed by @perfectlyacceptablepres

https://elevatorteeth.storenvy.com/admin/products/17193120-these-thoughts-riso-print

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Hotel Rompo Talya Modlin @talyamodlin June 2016

Welcome to the one place where hedonism runs high with a bright loony fever, home to all that want to lose their realities for the thick honey glaze of euphoria. No matter what your fancy -- a dip in the sunset pools, an argument with Seymour the frog, or a midnight serenade to a slice of peppery deli meat -- it’s all guilt-free in Hotel Rompo. 33″ Risograph print with accompanying comic and screen printed sleeve.

Now available in the Perfectly Acceptable Store

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HOTEL ROMPO, 3-color 3-foot Risograph accordian booklet by talyamodlin 🐣 debuting with Perfectly Acceptable at CAKE Chicago this weekend 🐤 online shortly thereafter (at Perfectly Acceptable Press)

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Canosa’s Welcome Jim Pluk - @jimpluk May 2016

It’s a night like any other, and Canosa is returning to her house in the country when suddenly some unexpected neighbors make a surprise visit to his yard, changing her life forever. Colombian cartoonist Jim Pluk explores otherness and cross-cultural communication through two aliens, Canosa, and her dog, Lula. Spoiler: some aliens like black metal, others do not.

Featuring an accompanying soundtrack here.

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Debuting at TCAF 2016 this weekend. @torontocomics

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Three Magical Recipes from the Books of Secrets of Albertus Magnus Daria Tessler - @animalsleepstories May 2016

Dig out your parents’ glassen vessel and catch thyself a rearmouse -- Daria Tessler illuminates three recipes from Alchemist-in-Chief Albertus Magnus’s Book of Secrets... One spell-binding four-color Risograph booklet.

Now available in the Perfectly Acceptable Press store