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Cheese Hasselberger

For about a year, Team 12 has been devising a brutal plan to invade our readers’ personal lives in new insidious ways. That’s why we are proud to announce our new digital anthology seriesHouse of Twelve Monthly, available exclusively through Comixology’s mobile app, Comics, for your iPhone and iPod Touch.

After our nearly summer long “discussions” with distributors and Apple, Inc. over content we’ve finally been able to reach an agreement and release House of Twelve Monthly #2, and it’s beautiful. This isn’t one of those, “Oh, that might be nice to check out.” This issue is a must buy, and at over 70 plates for $1.99, it’s pretty hard to turn down.

We’ve put together a stellar cast of the indie/alt/whatever comics community and unleashed them onto the internet, and more importantly, directly into your pocket. Each issue of House of Twelve Monthly features four artists pulled from our rotating pool of amazing contributors. The most recent issue includes such notable bastards as:

From Dave McKenna's 'Creeple'

Fred Noland, whose award winning comics and illustrations have graced innumerable alt-weekly newspapers and magazines.

David Paleo, often referred to as a cartoonists-cartoonist, we offer you this unique opportunity to check out one of South America’s best kept secrets. “Hey, Amazon Jungle, keep your fucking City of Gold, I’ll take David Paleo.”

Dave McKenna is a motherfucker of a cartoonist who leaves nothing but nuclear-irradiated, naked spacechicks in his wake, whatever that means.

Kate Lacour’s Milk-Teeth lit up 2009 with nothing but raves from fans and critics a-like, now everyone can get their hands on her off-kilter whimsy.

Cheese Hasselberger starts off a new ongoing series “Richard Sharver and the Hollow Earth” described as, “totally fucked up” by several comics luminaries — and that’s just the first chapter.

From Kate Lacour's 'McThology'

Also available is the debut issue of House of Twelve Monthly, featuring stories by Miss Lasko-Gross, Darryl Ayo, K. Thor Jensen and Sam Henderson.  Now on sale for the low, low price of a buck.

House of Twelve Monthly is available now through Comixology’s free app, Comics, for the iPhone/iPodTouch/iPad and on the web at comics.comixology.com.

Too fucking sexy. Fred Noland.

Fred Noland draws from a deep well of inspiration ranging from
the Expressionists to Underground Comics.

His illustrations have appeared in the SF Weekly, LA Weekly, Tennis, Bike, Nickelodeon, Canoe and Kayak, Illinois Times, XboX Magazine, TokyoPop, Santa Fe Reporter and more. His sequential art has been featured in the Cartoon Art Museum, and the Oakland Museum the OAK
installation. He has also taken part in group shows at San Francisco’s SOMARTS and Amaru Galleries and RPS in Oakland.

http://www.frednoland.com/

Seems Apple Standards and Practices has a problem with Victor Cayro’s story, The Mazk, which is scheduled to appear in the new Ho12 Monthly#2, and we’re going to have to cut it from the issue.

I can’t say I’m too pleased with this. Apple has a rule about comics depicting torture, which I understand, and agree with. I think they’re trying to avoid something like the Human Centipede in comic form. I get that, but Victor’s story is like Bugs Bunny for adults. In Cayro’s story the main character is forced to strip and lick his own blood off of a car’s bumper. Technically, these are acts performed under duress, which would classify them as torture, but taken in the context of the whole piece, it’s a little silly to call it that.

I’ve been Victor Cayro’s publisher for about five years and I understand that his work can be jarring to people. It’s often disturbing, violent, overtly sexual and grotesque — and that’s the point. He sees the world for what it is and he doesn’t suffer fools who would candy-coat it, mocking them openly through a palette of pop-culture references and day-glow colors. He is, I believe, the finest artist working in comics today and it’s a shame Apple has chosen to reject the strip.

Nonetheless, we will suffer on, Cayro will hopefully submit another story eventually and we’ll just have to cross our fingers that it’ll meet Apple’s muster. In the meantime, Ho12 Monthly #2 will be out ASAP with new stories from Kate Lacour, Dave McKenna, Fred Noland, David Paleo and myself.

After the jump you can read Victor’s story in it’s final form. Torture porn, meaningless masturbation, or none-to-subtle social commentary? You tell me. Click for a high res version.

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