COMIC BOOKS
Vols. 1 & 2 of “I’M A COP”, real-life horror comics about U.S. policing are out now!
“I’M A COP” has been featured in The Washington Post, Boing Boing, and In These Times and named one of the Best Comics of 2022 and 2023 by The Comics Journal.
RIOT COMICS: Tompkins Square Park.
A comic book oral history of the 1988 Tompkins Square Park riot, begun by the NYPD when they cleared an unhoused encampment from the Lower East Side park.
BOOKS
Failure Biographies is available from bookstores everywhere.
Read a starred review of Failure Biographies in Publishers Weekly.
Honorable Mention in the Publishers Weekly 2021 Graphic Novels Critics Poll and one of Heavy Feather Review‘s “Favorites of 2022.”
The Science of Things Familiar
Read reviews in Publishers Weekly (starred), DIAGRAM, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and SPD Staff Picks.
Honorable Mention in the Publishers Weekly 2017 Graphic Novels Critics Poll.
One of Literary Hub’s “10 Small Press Books to Read this Summer.”
The startling juxtapositions of this hybrid book will shock readers into awareness of the various subtexts—emotional, sexual, racial, environmental—of twentieth-century American popular culture.
—Rain Taxi Review of Books
In an age of hybrid texts, The Science of Things Familiar stands out for its hybridity… It’s arresting stuff… [D]ark and original territory.
—DIAGRAM
An eccentric mashup of what author Johnny Damm calls “common phenomena” (music, film, and comic books) with personal narrative, fabricated stories of aging authors, and film bios-turned-records of lived experience, this book keeps you on your toes. Its short and captivating chapters, visually akin to both zines and old-timey science books, read similarly to the addictive scrolling of an infinite social media feed. The Science of Things Familiar presents universal topics in an endearing, poetic, and often revealing way.
—Literary Hub (“10 Small Press Books to Read This Summer”)
Johnny Damm’s luminous and poetical debut puts me in mind of films like Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, and the novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Clarence Major, William Gass, and Renata Adler. This is a highly readable, and deeply moving hyper-narrative that respects readerly intelligence. You’ll read this book as an active participant; in the very same way you read the world around you, and world inside you. It’s about film, music, race, obsession, nature, marriage, comics, history, and the shell game we call contemporary culture. This is extraordinary work, a symphony.
—Reginald McKnight, Author of He Sleeps
CHAPBOOKS
Fall, available from Paperview Books.
Your Favorite Song (Battle Stories), published by Essay Press. Read online.
The Old Man’s Illustrated Library: Issues # 36 & # 5 (No Press, 2015)
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