John Porcellino

• Mar-1999
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A melancholic memoir of saying goodbye to the familiar Brimming with empathy and a charming, self-aware wit, Perfect Example is King-Cat zinester John Porcellino’s coming-of-age memoir about the momentous and eternal year between the end of high s...

• Jan-2005
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Selected from cartoonist John Porcellino's long running (18 years) self published comic "King-Cat Comics and Stories", this collection of stories deals specifically with the years Porcellino was employed as a Mosquito Abatement Technician. In his own...

• May-2007
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The definitive collection of the influential comic zine
John Porcellino has long been considered the greatest of all cartoonists coming from the self-publishing and zine movement of the early '90s. His spare approach with words and pictures focuse...

• Apr-2008
• / Historical
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"I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely." So said Henry David Thoreau in 1845 when he began his famous experiment of living by Walden...

• Oct-2009
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Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of The King-Cat Zine

Map of My Heart celebrates the twentieth anniversary of John Porcellino's seminal and influential comics zine, King-Cat Comics and Stories, which he started self-publishing in 1989. In...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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(Graphic Novel/YAdult) This graphic novella is made up of intimate interviews with survivors of near-fatal suicide attempts. Four seemingly ordinary people each offer haunting personal insight into life, the decision to end it and what comes after....

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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A mini-comics master's poetic musings on illness & the art of getting by The Hospital Suite is a landmark work by the celebrated cartoonist and small-press legend John Porcellino -- an autobiographical collection detailing his struggles with il...

• Mar-2018
• / General Fiction
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A view of America -- as seen in small towns, rural roads, and its overlooked in-between-places John Porcellino makes his love of home and of nature the anchors in an increasingly turbulent world. He slows down and visits the forests, fields, streams...

• Feb-2021
• / Graphic Novel
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"Unvarnished. Punk."â€"The New York Times King-Cat Classix collects material from the first fifty issues of John Porcellino’s King-Cat Comics as they appeared in self-published, handmade zines throughout the 1990s. These strips span Porcellino’s...

• Feb-2021
• / Graphic Novel
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Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the King-Cat zine Never before have so few lines conveyed such a wealth of meaning as in John Porcellino’s quietly riveting book about memory, relationships, and selfhood. During a period of isolation follo...