New Items Up On Etsy!

Noah Van Sciver and O'Shell's new comics: up on Etsy!

Read 'em and weep, comic book readers. Read em' and weep, and then buy five extra copies for when your tears smudge the pages of your original copy.

Email me at ingrid.grimalkinpress@gmail.com if you have any questions about publishing with us, purchasing back issues, submitting for future issues, etc.

HIVE FIVE is almost ready! Sneak preview to come soon. Cover by Megan Frauenhoffer is going to be earth-shattering.

Reynold Kissling


Previous Post: The Epilogue

Mark and I missed our train to Minneapolis last month for MIX (long story [actually, short story: we left too late for the station]), so we ended up renting a car and driving the entire way. There's a lot of America between St. Louis and Minneapolis: about nine hours of cornfields, six hours during which the only song on the radio is "Take It Off" by Ke$ha, and three hours during which the only food you can purchase is cheese curds. There's also Iowa's Biggest Frying Pan.

Once we got there, though, it was a Small Comics Press Temporary Editor's dream: we met several Grimalkin favorites (including aforementioned Noah Van Sciver and Dave O'Shell, Sam Sharpe, and Reynold Kissling), networked with potential Grimalkin favorites, and got little pieces of our souls stolen by the local metromix page.

Mark showed me the ways of the big city, including how to use an ATM and how to order room service. I paid big money for a tiny gin and tonic.

New Releases from Noah Van Sciver and O'Shell!

Mark and I are getting ready to embark on 15 hour+ journey to display our goods at the Minneapolis Indie Xpo (MIX). Hasn't aero-flight technology made it possible to get from St. Louis to Minneapolis in a matter of hours, you ask? The answer is: yes, it has, but Grimalkin Press travels in style, via Amtrak. Taking the Amtrak is a good way to double or triple your trip time, spend nearly as much money as you would flying, eat weird, grainy veggie burgers, pay $10 for a BudLight, and sit next to people who want to cut your head off, but Mark and I happen to enjoy these things.

Anyway, the main purpose of this post is not to make you jealous about our train trip, but to announce the release of two new Grimalkin publications: Noah Van Sciver's hilarious memoir, Noah Novella, and Dave O'Shell's funny-sad memorial of his father, Owe Apostrophe. We'll get these up on our Etsy store and into your eager hands ASAP.

Noah's so good he has a religion named after him!

O'Shell does his laundries at the laundromat, just like you and me!

See you at MIX!

Partial 2010 Publishing Schedule

Here's quick look at some of what we will be publishing in 2010

HIVE: A Somewhat Quarterly Comics Anthology Number FOUR
Release date: May 1, 2010.

"Dave the Wank" Minicomic by O'Shell
Release date: By August 2010

Grimalkin No. 1 by J.M. Shiveley
Release date: By August 2010

As yet untitled "Best of Blammo" minicomic by Noah Van Sciver
Release date: By September 2010

HIVE: A Somewhat Quarterly Comics Anthology Number FIVE
Release date: By September 2010

"Food Service Anthology" Stories from the salt mines!
Release date: TBA

NOTE: All dates are what we want to do and at the moment they seem to be completely feasible. Hopefully that won't change! :D So buy some books!