Or Else GN (2004 Drawn and Quarterly) comic books
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Issue #1-1ST
Published Oct 2004 by Drawn & Quarterly.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 1 - 1st printing. "...with Glenn Ganges!" Story and art by Kevin Huizenga. It's not often that D&Q debuts a new regular comic book series, so when it happens, it's big news. Kevin Huizenga is regarded by many as being one of the most promising new talents in comics in at least a decade. He is best known for his long-running mini-comic, Supermonster, and for several outstanding short stories, including work in last year's D&Q Showcase #1. Huizenga starts off this issue with a selection of features from Supermonster, including the breathtaking Chinese landscape story and the first appearance of Glenn Ganges. Or Else debuts this year as a new quarterly title and promises to be the best ongoing comic book series since Optic Nerve! Softcover, 5-in. x 6-in., 32 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $3.50.
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Issue #2-1ST
Published Nov 2004 by Drawn & Quarterly.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Glorianna!" Story and art by Kevin Huizenga. A 96-page extravaganza, complete with center spread gatefold. In this reprinting of his original Gloriana mini-comic, Ignatz Award winner Kevin Huizenga brilliantly uses the comic book medium to jump back and forth in time. Mix daydreams. Mix reality. Until something is blurred! Softcover, 5-in. x 6-in., 96 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #3-1ST
Published Dec 2004 by Drawn & Quarterly.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Stand Up for Zen...!" Story and art by Kevin Huizenga. This new issue of Kevin Huizenga's quarterly comic book series presents four self-contained stories; an ideal introduction for anyone who may have missed his earlier work. Huizenga continues to explore fascinating themes and widely divergent subject matter with an illustrated excerpt from Franz Kafka's diary, along with a mini-biography on noted early Mickey Mouse newspaper strip artist, Floyd Gottfredson. He then shifts gears yet again with an autobiographical story about his refusal to take part in an ad campaign for "Fashionably Zen." Softcover, 5-in. x 6-in., 48 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $3.50.
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Issue #4-1ST
Published Jan 2005 by Drawn & Quarterly.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 4 - 1st printing. "Glenn Ganges in the Wild Kingdom!" Story and art by Kevin Huizenga. Kevin Huizenga is one of the best new cartoonists of his generation, and later this year his first collection (Curses) will be published by Drawn & Quarterly. Plus, he is completing a mini-series (Ganges) with Fantagraphics. This new issue follows a day in the life of Glenn Ganges as he interacts with a squirrel, discovers a beetle in the basement, and see a pigeon get hit by a car. As a side feature, Huizenga presents the first in a series of "TV commercial" comics. Softcover, 5-in. x 6-in., 80 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $5.95.
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Issue #5-1ST
Published Sep 2008 by Drawn & Quarterly.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Rumbling!" Story and art by Kevin Huizenga. Kevin Huizenga, acclaimed author of Curses and Ganges, returns with his fifth installment of Or Else. Stories in this pocket-sized issue include an adaptation of a Giorgio Manganelli tale about a desolate world that is stricken with religious fanaticism and violence, a "special report" on household insects, a profile of a loquacious conversationalist, and an exploration of such important questions as "How are we spending our Tuesday?" Touted as one of the best new talents of his generation, Huizenga is renowned for his bursting creativity and incisive investigations of both the quotidian and the surreal. Softcover, 5-in. x 6-in., 40 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $4.95.
