Season 19 launched
book bundle containing 7 comics on sale together + video interviews
Approximately 10 years ago we started to pair seasons of comics and books together into collections. We then sold these to readers at a discounted price. This allowed us to market these eclectic titles together and allowed for a greater sense of discovery and community for readers. These sales were the life blood for 2dcloud.
Today, we still have a small team. It’s changed over the years.
Raighne — Publisher
Melissa Carraher — Publicity
Brianna Perry — Publicity Assistant
Kristina Tzekova — House Illustrator
Our goal remains largely the same. To bring you beautiful, tactile print comics and books into your home. Today we’ve launched these titles on Metalabel in such a way as to provide a sliding scale so that more readers can afford these titles.
2dcloud PRESENTS
Season 19
—Mirror Mirror 4 ed. Airplane Mode
—East District by Ash H.G.
—Egirl Magazine 1 ed. Katherine Dee
—La Poderosa 1 by Powerpaola
—Girls Gone Wild 1 by Katie Lane
—Altcomics Magazine 7 ed. Blaise Larmee and Katie Lane
—Nuie by Nuie
These 7 print titles will ship immediately upon ordering.
^ This is the full video for the season. It features artist interviews and readings with Ash H.G., Powerpaola, Blaise Larmee. Interviews conducted by Brianna Perry. I introduce the season and talk a bit about the label and it’s journey. In addition, there are deeper looks at the works from some of the other artists involved.
MIRROR MIRROR 4 edited by Airplane Mode
9781937541729 • 72pp • 6 × 8.8” • MSRP $9.99
“Let the aesthetically and intellectually wild run free on the page.” —Micco Caporale (CHICAGO READER)
“A cross between Mineshaft and Bubbles plus its own vibe, Mirror Mirror mixes narrative and art, wide-ranging cultural reviews” —Tom Bowden (THE BOOK BEAT)
“...an avant garde slice...” —Ryan C. (FOUR COLOR APOCALYPSE)
EAST DISTRICT by Ash H.G.
9781937541613 • 88 pp • 6 × 8.5” • MSRP $20.99
“Ash H.G.’s graphic novel EAST DISTRICT evokes Los Bros Hernandez, David Lynch, and Guido Crepax…” —from the foreword by Stefano Gaudiano (KAFKA, DETECTIVE COMICS, and THE WALKING DEAD)
“EAST DISTRICT by Ash H. G. is an eloquently quiet and beautifully disturbing, thought-provoking, and uniquely articulated apocalyptic horror noir comic story that hit me hard and struck deep.” —Farel Dalrymple (POP GUN WAR, THE WRENCHIES)
“Ash H.G.’s raw primal and atmospheric approach weaves a tense web with functional simplicity. Gripping, suspenseful and unsettling – like being caressed by a wooden hand.” —Wilfred Santiago (IN MY DARKEST HOUR, 21: THE STORY OF ROBERTO CLEMENTE)
“Ash H.G. [...] arrive[s] to me fully formed with a wonderful inky brush style that complements this atmospheric futuristic horror.” —Brian Baynes (BUBBLES)
EGIRL Magazine 1 edited by Katherine Dee
9781937541705 • 32pp • 6.625 × 10.25” • MSRP $6.99
“Masterfully documents our modern Helens of Troy, the e-girls who have launched a thousand simps, who pulled us into their orbit to become transfixed by their lives whether we like it of not.” —Blassie
“Women, or rather, girls—this nebulous category that conjures both mystery and ubiquity—are online in the strangest of ways. The egirl, that modern version of the statue come to life, has a peculiar existence: half subject-half object. She dances for a camera, and perhaps also for you, but who really knows? She sells her image, but was she ever really there? Softly intoxicating, the egirl is the irony of the ecommunity. Does she even have a history? Yes, and no. Will her image endure? Again, yes and no. Whatever you do, stay pastel.” —Nina Power (ONE DIMENSIONAL WOMAN, WHAT DO MEN WANT?)
“In its closing words— ‘a love letter to the twinkling that made us all look up’ —it reminds us that critical analysis and genuine appreciation need not be mutually exclusive. perhaps this synthesis represents the most valuable contribution of e-girl magazine.” —Amina Green (BIMBOLLECTUAL)
“[...] it’s beautifully illustrated, and it covers everything from Jennicam […] to Red Scare.” —Daisy (TASTELAND)
LA PODEROSA 1 by Powerpaola
9781937541699 • 32pp • 6.625 × 10.25”
“In true Powerpaola style, La Poderosa tells us about moments of connection and friendship. And how extra important these become when bureaucracy complicates life once again.” —Jul Gordon (PARC, IT’S OK TO GIVE IT A TRY)
“Powerpaola draws exquisite attention to the heightening of detail under duress and the small but powerful interactions that inspire living life to its fullest.” —Aidan Koch (SPIRAL AND OTHER STORIES, AFTER NOTHING COMES)
“[A] dreamlike [and] utterly fascinating, reading experience.” —Ryan C (FOUR COLOR APOCALYPSE)
“Hopefully, La Poderosa will be the success it deserves to be. More autobiographical comics from someone as in control of their voice as Powerpaola would be most welcome.” —Gary Usher (BROKEN FRONTIER)
GIRLS GONE WILD 1 by Katie Lane
9781937541712 • 28pp • 6.63 × 10.25” • MSRP $6.99
“Like conversations remembered from a dream, Katie Lane’s comics are uncomfortably familiar and persistently strange, enticing and opaque, containing some key to hidden feelings and unsaid thoughts without the map to recover it. Few have ever written trans women with this finesse, this ear, this sense of our real frustrations and desires. Her work makes me feel less lonely.” —Emily Zhou (GIRLFRIENDS)
“Girls Gone Wild is mumblecore at its heart, the conversations and conflicts feel so real, the cropping of the panels is bodily, everything feels tactile. I Thought That I Was Wrong is like going to a noise show with a fog machine, everything’s coming in and out of clarity, surfacing and submerging back into the noise.” —Benny Johnson (GLUE PRESS)
“Katie Lane makes comics that you’ve never seen before. They sidestep expectation, drawing power instead from an intense, somewhat uncomfortable, specificity. In Girls Gone Wild, Lane’s characters’ keen self-awareness and sharp tongues only serve to push them further away from one another. The reader follows in step, drifting from dissociation to disturbing hyper-presence, sharing in their desperate desire for understanding.” —Juliette Collet (THE PEACEMONGER, BLAH BLAH BLAH)
“...ethereal and otherworldly, but also disarmingly real...” —Ryan C. (FOUR COLOR APOCALYPSE)
“Lane’s visual artistry is the star of this show and shows an emerging talent worth keeping an eye on.” —Tom Bowden (THE BOOK BEAT)
ALTCOMICS MAGAZINE 7 edited by Blaise Larmee, Katie Lane
9781937541583 • 40pp • 6.625 × 10.25” • MSRP $6.99
“...the true cutting edge of comics: artists reinventing the form to explore thoughts, ideas and feelings rather than grafting naturalistic fiction onto the comics form.” Austin English (DOMINO)
“Altcomics Magazine 7 is a mature, concept-driven anthology that thrives on uncertainty and trusts the reader to navigate its suggestive pathways rather than handing them a concrete map. It’s exactly the kind of vital, open-ended anthology series we need right now.” —Ryan C (FOUR COLOR APOCALYPSE)
“Altcomics 7 is 2dcloud at their weirdest and best—jagged, uneasy, dripping with brilliance. If you want comics that leave you questioning everything in the best way, this is essential.” —DR. BEN’S INDIE COMICS REVIEWS
NUIE by Nuie
9781937541651 • 32pp • 4 × 5.697” • MSRP $9.99
“I can feel the impact of glove on glove on body. I can feel the brushstrokes of black and red. Just like the pigments of these two colors mix, figuration moves into abstraction and back again.
The very physical act of boxing gets transformed into a fragile dance. A dissolve that takes you into the motion and into this space. Pulsating in and out of the pages.
What I love about nuie’s work is that it allows you to fill in the gaps in such an exciting way. It takes you as a reader, seriously, and it plays directly into the process of intersecting this emotional seeing, creating; an almost physical sensation. We are implied in this movement. A spinning motion. As you get closer to the object you cannot grasp it wholly. Dizzying.
You put your ear to the drawing and it tells you its secrets, but you have to put it very closely and get swept up in it. That’s nuie.” —Janne Marie Dauer (AUERHAUS)
“A subtle, whimsical exploration in non-linear storytelling. There is a lightness here that I find so refreshing.” —Jake Terrell (EXTENDED PLAY)
“As someone stares at the pages one’s mind can begin to fill in the blank spaces, with Nuie’s work encouraging a reader’s imagination to run wild with the careful brushstrokes, blending what is actually there with what we readers feel is there [...] 5 out of 5 stars.” —David Bitterbaum (THE NEWEST RANT)
illustrations by Kristina Tzekova. gif by Nuie, Blaise Larmee. team illustration by Raighne. video interviews by Brianna Perry. music by Paige Alice Naylor.