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Column:
Small Press Pass
"Bleep!"
By Adam White
Published: 2006-08-08
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SMALL PRESS PASS introduces you to the world of independent and small press comicbooks. As small press titles are often hard to locate on the vastness that is the Internet, Adam will be doing the legwork for you and showcasing a different title each week so that you can stay up to date on the unbelievable variety of comicbooks available from places other than
the main four or five companies out there that you already know. Get ready to widen your domain of comicbook knowledge and enter the world of the Small Press.
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Brick City
Bunch by Justin Bleep, Tanya Eby, and Jason Masters; also Super Human Resources by Ken Marcus and Justin
Bleep.
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If you’re looking for something a little different, a bit hipper than the mainstream, you need to check out
Brick City Bunch. Eby and Masters spin a tale of a young DJ and his friends living it up in the city, making
music, and even dealing with a deranged psychopath (because every good city has at least one).
Justin Bleep’s urban stylings are well-suited to the book, his wild lines meshing with clear storytelling to create an
appropriately funky look for the series. True to its independent roots, Brick City Bunch couldn’t even be
contained in its own book, appearing in two issues and then spreading out into PEEL
Magazine #5 and Lo-Fi Magazine #3.
Genre: Urban drama/comedy
You will enjoy this series if you like: Hustle & Flow, The Source Magazine, and freestyling
Where to find it: Online at UrbanSequence.com, DDP Webstore, and finer comicbook retailers
Also from artist Bleep (along with writer Ken Marcus) is the new miniseries Super Human Resources, mixing the
worlds of office politics and superheroic craziness. Marcus provides a humorous take on the people behind the superheroes,
the ones that make their copies and take their calls —
it plays out like a sitcom in comicbook form (except it’s actually funny, unlike most of its television counterparts).
Bleep again lends his unique style to the series, adequately capturing the normalcy of office temp Tim and the hilarity of
the reformed receptionist Zombor (a Frankenstein’s Monster-like former villain who now answers phones). Marcus and
Bleep have taken a fairly simple concept and turned it into a fun world where office managers get possessed or abducted and
copy boys hit on alien superheroes. Very much fun to be had here, and very sad that no publisher has caught onto it.
Genre: Comedy (with superheroes)
You will enjoy this series if you like: The Office, Hero Squared and other Giffen/DeMatteis
collaborations, Bwa-Ha-Ha in general
Where to find it: Super Human Resources is currently without a publisher, so anyone with ties to publishers
interested in this great series should contact Justin Bleep or Ken Marcus.
—CCdC—
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