MICE Previews
Here is a sneak peek at the newest comics appearing at MICE 2024.
caspin
Aidan Kitt - Table 4A
Caspin is a spacefaring scoundrel just trying to get by--until his latest job takes an unexpected turn. Hired to steal an unassuming package from a run-of-the-mill space depot, Caspin will quickly discover this job is far riskier than he imagined...
28 Pages | $10 Sci-Fi | Action Adventure
too spooky house
April Landry - Table 5A
Too Spooky House is a short horror story about a family trying to escape a house that is too spooky!
31 Pages | $5 Horror
pink world
Austin Ickes - Table 5B
PINK WORLD is collection of strips and snippets about the silly little people who live on Pink World and their silly little lives. There's GOO, GODS, and GAGS galore!
18 Pages | $3 Humor
r.u.r.
Bill Campbell | Rosarium Publishing - Table 85
Long before there was Terminator and Skynet, there was R.U.R., the Czech classic by Karel Čapek that gave us the word "robot". The R.U.R. Factory, far from humanity on its own island, has produced the perfect product: Robots! Devoid of pain, love, and all human emotion, never tiring, never bored, unfazed by death they are the ideal worker for modern-day society!
264 Pages | $32.99 Sci-Fi | Kid-Friendly
come home safe
Boya Sun - Table 28B
After a fatal explosion, an astronaut faces their last moments in the vast emptiness of space, longing for parental comfort as they approach death alone.
56 Pages | $20 Sci-Fi | Personal | Kid-Friendly
the king's warrior
Bulgilhan Press - Table 75
A mighty warrior in the service of a great King is charged with vanquishing the kingdom’s final threat, a powerful and evil alchemist. Promised that she will finally be freed alongside her brother once the deed is done, her blade will not stop and the blood of beasts will run.
74 Pages | $15 Dark Fantasy
here I am, I am me: an Illustrated Guide to Mental Health
Cara Bean - Table 65A
This colorful graphic novel adventure through the brain demystifies and destigmatizes emotional and mental health for children and adults through accessible language and lessons.
288 Pages | $17.99 Nonfiction | Kid-Friendly
orcs! The gift
Christine Larsen - Table 33A
The ORCS are back and they’re coming for you! After the tumultuous events of ORCS!: The Curse, the tribe dynamic has been changed forever by new friends and unexpected alliances. The third and final volume of the ORCS! trilogy.
224 Pages | $15 Fantasy | Adventure | Kid-Friendly
Stories of the Islands
Clar Angkasa - Table 54A
Stories of the Islands is a middle grade graphic novel that reimagines Indonesian fairy tales through a feminist perspective. Based on the Indonesian folktales "Keong Mas", "Bawang Merah Bawang Putih" and "Timun Mas", this collection takes these traditional tales and gives the girls the power to save themselves and to take control of their own happy endings.
176 Pages | $23 Fantasy | Folklore | Kid-Friendly
Cicada Comics Number 3
Cris Siqueira- Table 6
Cicada Comics Number 3 collects the first two parts of the debut graphic novel "May You Get What You Want", an absurdist critique of internet culture and the ridiculous times we're in.
52 Pages | $7 Fiction | Experimental
Oblivioun Issue 1
Cuyler Keating - Table 63B
As a curse of amnesia spreads inexorable across the world, two scavengers eke out an existence digging the ruins of the recent past. Though oblivion seems inevitable, most still cling to what remains. Perhaps some things are best left forgotten.
24 Pages | $15 Dark Fantasy
Hola.
Días Cómic - Table 41
Hola. is a punk-rock cartoon exploring the end of the world through the lives of misfits and weirdos in gritty surreal Puerto Rico. Late night house parties, talking dogs, aliens and God’s last voyage.
72 Pages | $20 Alternative
Eggman Comics Mini Collections Volume 8
Eggman Comics - Table 14A
For Inktober 2023, I did a series of comics about my dad aka Papa Egg, who passed away in 2022. I wanted to create a book to pay tributes to dad, and I was hoping to get through grief by expressing my thoughts and feelings in comics. So here is “The Papa Egg Issue”, and I can’t be more proud.
36 Pages | $10 All Ages
The Researcher
Esther Du - Table 13
The Researcher is the second chapter of my dystopian fantasy graphic novel series, where survivors walk on water while everything else sinks irreversibly to the deep sea. Through multimedia elements like illustrations, text, and flip animation, it follows Thea, a scholar recreating artifacts from a lost civilization, reflecting humanity's longing for the past and its fragile grip on identity. The story delves into themes of nostalgia, survival, and the search for meaning in a world shaped by greed and existential despair.
66 Pages | $8 Dystopian Fantasy | Experimental Narrative Art
Helix
Gabby Golec - Table 49A
a comic about finding truth in yourself and the world around you - when will you learn to believe in yourself? self printed two-colour risograph zine. black printed cover with a frosted mylar title page & blue printed inner pages.
34 Pages | $17 Perzine
Big Miskates
SMFA Graduate Program - Table 1A
Big Miskates is an experimental graphic novel that archives the friendship between five guys as they navigate high school, relationships, new hobbies, and their own weird selves. Rather than a traditional panel-by-panel comic, Hanniie focuses on more illustrative storytelling that weaves through many different visual styles.
96 Pages | $20 Slice of Life | LGBTQIA+ | Humor
THE GLOAMING - Volume One
Hans Rickheit - Table 43A
Quality ADULTS-ONLY Comics by Hans Rickheit. Crazed feral nymphet clones ravage a New England town.
72 Pages | $23 Sci-Fi | Erotica
A Brief Guide to Crutonia – Updated deluxe version
Crutonia - Table 31B
This new, expanded guidebook is the perfect introduction to the fantastic, weird, and downright dangerous land of Crutonia. With overviews of natural wonders, societies, customs, maps, history and more, it is everything you need to know for a visit or a long stay.
168 Pages | $25 Fantasy | Kid-Friendly
Do Not Touch the Plant
Vicky Yang- Table 16
This is a comic about an introverted plant and my fear for intimacy.
18 Pages | $10 Kid-Friendly
Demons: Rise & Grind
Hyena Hell - Table 56A
Bug and Grog are pit demons of Hell, and they've got it pretty good. Some routine brutality, some quotidian violence, and then they are basically free to do whatever (and whomever) they like. That is, until Grog gets noticed for being frustratingly competent, and ruins the whole thing by being sent to work in Hell’s “upstairs office.” As he tries to navigate a series of byzantine systems and bureaucratic absurdities, Bug tries to navigate the frustration of being left behind. Will Bug learn to accept this new status quo with grace, or do something impulsive and reckless? Spoiler alert: It’s something impulsive and reckless.
160 Pages | $14.99 Humor | Horror | Romance
The STAIRS
Jackie Musto - Table 54B
A black and white comic about what scares us in the dark in the places between sleep.
28 Pages | $5
Everyday Friend
Jarad Greene - Table 64A
A mini-comic exploring the similarities and differences between a best friend and an everyday friend.
24 Pages | $12 Memoir | Slice of Life | Kid-Friendly
Glimm*r Vol.1 Dreams
Jess Fleming - Table 24B
Glimm*r Magazine is a sapphic anthology that explores complex and varied relationships between girls. The first volume features 11 artists and over 100 pages of comics and illustrations under the theme "Dreams."
119 Pages | $25 Anthology | LGBTQIA+
Gymside Out
Jillian D. King- Table 49B
Inspired by the jarring experience induced by the pop music at the gym, this pop-up poetry comic explores gender expression through strength training and found song lyrics.
6 Pages | $15 Poetry | Comic Action
The Boomerang Gang #1
Joe Bortner - Table 20B
Recovering from a minor quarter-life crisis, Joe Bortner sets out to become the self-proclaimed "chillest guy ever". Fortunately, he has friends to guide him; in this silly and sentimental autobiographical comic.
36 Pages | $6 Slice of Life | Humor | Autobiography
In The City, Part Three
Karl Christian Krumpholz - Table 50
In Part Three, it's quite late as Kelly and Karl struggle to get their drunk friend home safely. The pair continue to wander the city after hours trying to find their way home, witnessing the small and grand things around them, the beauty and grimness of everyday city life. Passing through the various happy hours, they run into the characters, deadbeats, street people, and bar flies that you find in every neighborhood.
438 Pages | $16 Slice of Life
The PIrate Ship #8
Katy Finch & Bob Bergeron - Table 6
Gen X malaise in the city with dark undertones and more laughs than you can shake a bucket full of laughs at.
32 Pages | $7.50 Docudrama
Possession
Kittybug Press - Table 57
Possession is a comic about the author's eventful visit to a fortune teller in the mountains and the secrets uncovered after.
8 Pages | $10 Autobiographical
Alexander's Curse
Kruttika Susarla - Table 79B
Alexander is an average guy who thought he loved what any average guy loves: wealth, and assets management. But fate has other plans for him. Thrown into encounters with poop-cursing-birds and someone claiming to be a tree, will Alexander manage to find his one true calling?
24 Pages | $12 Fiction | Kid-Friendly
Tape #453
Mac Maclean - Table 62
Tape #453 is a full-color, wordless comic from the point of view of a security camera over the course of 20 years. Trained on a phone booth in the desert, the camera is witness to a variety of events: from a couple searching for their dog, to an alien abduction, to a fleeing bank robber. But questions remain: who operates this camera? Who is watching?
24 Pages | $12 Sci-Fi
Let Go!
Maddie Sackett - Table 23B
“Let Go! Is a collection of comics about breathing easier and being a little more comfortable in your skin everyday.”
30 Pages | $10 Anthology | Kid-Friendly
The Loud Atlas
Maria Hoey | Coin-Op Books - Table 78B
The Loud Atlas is one of our 3 new 8-panel, 45 inch long Accordion-fold books. Using the typographic style of Marinetti and the rhyming cadence of Dr. Seuss, The Loud Atlas takes a surreal look at the noisy world imagined by the Italian Futurists. Handprinted and bound in an edition of 60
8 Panels | $35 Art Book | Kid-Friendly
Kira and the (Maybe) Space Princess
Megan Brennan - Table 81B
This year in middle school, Kira is going to be cool and popular and have SO many friends because she’s going to be a MAGICAL GIRL! …Or not. Frustrated beyond belief, Kira makes a wish on a shooting star that her life will change – and when Catacorn, a cat-unicorn-space-princess, crashes into Kira’s backyard, it seems her wish has come true…kinda….
232 Pages | $14 Fantasy | Adventure | Kid-Friendly
The Black Rabbit
MystoPress - Table 86
A police detective interviews an imprisoned cop suspected of hiding a gay serial killer from the police, but what he doesn’t know is that his suspect has been hiding a young vampire who has been trying to track down and exact revenge on the man who turned and trafficked him.
48 Pages | $20 Horror | LGBTQIA+
MacMobile
Noah Jodice - Table 80A
The MacMobile is in town. The MacMobile is a big macaroni-shaped car that everyone loves. Everyone wants to meet the MacMobile. Some people even want to be the MacMobile. But nobody is asking what the MacMobile wants.
16 Pages | $7 Humor | Kid-Friendly
The Teddy Affair
Dasha Ziborova - Table 43
A humorous story of a young Russian immigrant navigating her first job as a textile designer in 1990s New York, tasked with creating a Teddy Bear-themed collection despite her complicated relationship with all things Teddy.
24 Pages | $15 Personal | Kid-Friendly
Moving Day, An Episode of the Graphic Memoir Water I’ve Loved
Pam Wye - Table 26A
“Moving Day” is a chapter in “Water I’ve Loved,” my graphic memoir in-progress. The book dips into slippery memories of Mother’s bipolar illness and the bodies of water that served me well as healers of trauma and objects of love.
13 Pages | $10 Memoir | Mental Health | Kid-Friendly
Ultrastellar, Book 1: Escape
Paul Sloboda - Table 22A
12-year-old Trevor struggles with hardships after his father’s sudden death. He’s overwhelmed by conflicts, and copes through escape: old comics, cardboard forts, meditation. But when he somehow falls into another dimension, Trevor realizes escape is no longer the solution!
100 Pages | $15 Fantasy | Coming-of-Age | Kid-Friendly
Olive Under
Raphael Pagarigan - Table 18
Olive is a young, nerdy girl who is sent through a portal under mysterious circumstances. She must now navigate a dangerous world and discover a way back home.
28 Pages | $10 Fantasy | Adventure | Kid-Friendly
Wedding Juice and Other Melodramas
Sanika Phawde - Table 26B
This book is the first issue of an autobiographical comics series I am currently working on called Wedding Juice and other Melodramas. I started working on these as a way to cope with the stress of co-planning an Indian wedding with my parents in India, while living in Boston, within a single month. I hadn't been to India in nearly 5 years and my partner had never visited before. And now we were set to wed in an elaborate three day ceremony, less than a week after we landed in the country. I have always made comics to cope with my anxiety, to process complicated emotions, and to gain a better understanding of the relationships in my life. I had to write this book to understand where my loved ones are coming from. To forgive my family, and myself, for everything we put each other through, in our desperate attempts towards our common goal— our dream wedding.
20 Pages | $20 Autobiographical | Humor | Kid-Friendly
Outpost: an Alien Fancomic
Shiv Art - Table 18A
Two lighthouse workers fight for their lives against an unexpected visitor.
24 Pages | $15 Sci-Fi | Horror
Shadows Become You: Vol. 3
Susannah Lohr - Table 16A
Amidst her night-time misdeeds, Lily meets someone who changes her perspective and reignites her interest in her own humanity. But not everyone is thrilled about that.
58 Pages | $16 Horror | Fantasy
The Tale of One-Inch Bozo
TAKU - Table 20A
Inspired by the classic Japanese fairy tale "Little One-Inch," a boy no taller than an inch finds himself trapped in a vast forest teeming with dangerous creatures. Dreaming of becoming a samurai one day, the boy must rely on his sewing needle, cleverness, and bravery to navigate the forest and overcome its towering obstacles.
40 Pages | $6 Fantasy | Adventure | Kid-Friendly
Triumph, New Mexico
Vernon Meidlinger-Chin - Table 15A
At the end of the open range era, two cowboys adopt a wild dog.
24 Pages Western | Kid-Friendly
