Sneak Peak at the cover of Crying in Front of Your Dog and Other Stories by Phil McAndrew now available for preorder in the Grimalkin Press Store

Grimalkin Press publishes Phil Mcandrew's Debut book!

Hail and well met faithful mendicants of printed art! We are gathered here today to unleash announce that the much rumored ascendance of Phil McAndrew is at hand! All the signs and portents have led us to this annunciation!

WE WILL BE PUBLISHING "Crying in Front of Your Dog and Other Stories" by Phil McAndrew EARLY SECOND QUARTER 2013!

McAndrew is an artist that we have admired for quite some time and we are giddy with the chance to put his ideas and vision into ink and paper.  His art comes from the illustrative tradition of Searle and Steadman.

 

Crying in Front of Your Dog is  over 200 pages of new and collected stories about life, death, love, ghosts, cats, time travel, humans, literature, fear, magic, evil organizations, happiness, television, secrets, dogs, loneliness, house plants, ancient dark rituals, pizza, failure, power, money, nature, government conspiracies, regret, the internet, horrifying monsters, awful jobs, wizards, the ocean, aliens, dads, kissing, crying and teeth.

We will be collecting ALL of Phil's previous never to be reprinted work as well as over a hundred pages of new material! We're pulling out all the stops and nerding it up on the print front. French flaps, heavy offset vellum paper, patterned interior covers! We're all a'twitch just thinking about it.

Also we've decided to offer a limited edition, available ONLY with presale orders print for those who reserve a copy now! 

BUY IT HERE!

We plan to debut the book at TCAF 2013.

A Zine! Taking submissions

Some friends of ours in Columbia, MO have started a zine. They are fresh faced and zeal driven. They can make very reputable Thai peanut sauce. They like to go on long winter drives and have the fattest cat I've ever seen. They'd like to know if you want to submit things to them.

Blog Banner Art Contest

I was drawing a banner for the site tonight and had a thought. Know what would be more fun than me drawing it? You drawing it! Submit hand drawn* banners for this here Grimalkin Press site and we'll use and link the winner. If the submissions blow our minds there might even be some scwhag involved . . . .

And . . .GO!

P.S. The only text in your submission art should be "Grimalkin Press"

P.P.S. Grimalkin is an actual word, look it up.

*Well I guess you can use some P-shop too.

The power and the terror

Things that are amazing to hold in my hands = eight original pages of unpublished Chris Mostyn art.

Things that are terrifying to hold in my hands = eight original pages of unpublished Chris Mostyn art.

HIVE TWO Sneak Peek

Here is a little sneak peek of a few of the contributors to HIVE TWO


Chad Woody

Jeffrey Brown

Mark Leicht

J.M. Shiveley

Cristina Freihofer

Jon Freihofer

Chris Mostyn

Hive News

News from the printing front.

The faithful mendicants here at Grimalkin Press have been busy spreading the good news of Hive and we are happy to report that the first printing (and most of a second) of Hive: A Somewhat Quarterly Comics Journal have flown off the shelves.

The next issue should be out in the first part of July and will feature the work of

Jeffrey Brown (Eisner Award Winner)
Chris Mostyn
J.M. Shiveley
Mark Leicht
Thomas Beard
Jon Freihoffer
Kyle Jeffries
Lauryl Wagoner
Wayne Wells

and tentatively

J.W. Cotter
Shawn Cheng

It looks like it will be clocking in somewhere around a hefty 150 pages and be perfect bound sporting brand spanking new limited edition and numbered linocut covers by the talented Chris Mostyn.

We are still accepting submissions for the July issue with the deadline being Mid Mayish.

As always we love hearing from you so drop us a line or come by and sit on the porch a spell . . . we'll provide lemonade and small talk.

Contact Info:

Email: jordanshiveley@gmail.com

Old Fashioned but Neato Mail:

Jordan Shiveley
722 S. Jefferson B01
Springfield, MO
65806