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Seattle and its environs has a robust comic book industry in its own right, and it is about time that someone stat down and started to take a look at the comic book industry from the smaller publisher and creative art house. This time we look at Rorschach Entertainment in Lynwood Washington.
The cool part is that they have also started up the Jet City Comics Convention in the Seattle center but it is just one day. You can spend all day at the Jet City Comics Convention and meet some very interesting Seattle comic book companies and personalities.
For their titles they have Cindy and her Obasan, which is a play on the fairy god mother with a definitive Japanese twist.
Dallas McCoy: Starstruck which is an awesome comic book to read, I picked up my copy at Emerald City Comic Con in 2009 and have ran it dog eared since then. What happens when you start taking care of billionaires and people want to kill them.
Days of the Dragon: Which I have not read yet but is about the kingdoms of Dragon World in the time of kings and queens.
Fervor: Which is a dark neo-gothic edgy comic about a very obese girl and her darker daydreams of being thin and glamorous.
Grave Digger: Which is a fun 007 style comic book where the hero really does like what he does, digging graves. The story line is a fun mashup of 007 and the macabre which will leave you wanting more out of the story. Mocking James Bond is generally entertaining.
Industriacide: This is also a darker comic book about environmental collapse, and the ramifications of what we are doing to our planet. The main hero is an experimental hospital escapee, and what happens as he tries to cope with what we are doing to the outside world. The ending is dark and morose, but well worth reading if you are into darker anti-hero dystopian style comic books.
Lucifer Fawkes: Be careful when you disturb an old Norse grave, because sometimes those Norsemen come back and slaughter everything in sight. This is another dark grim comic book with a pulp comic book feel. Lots of mayhem throughout makes this an interesting story to follow. The good part is that the author Wiliam Russette and Brian Meredith decided to have a lot of fun with this title and have expanded it into a number of other story lines that are all magic mayhem and much like being in the middle of a slaughter-matic.
Memories of Paradise: I have not read this one and it is an out of print title for them. Maybe we will get lucky and get another print run. Interplanetary archeologist Anna Reulen finds a spiritual power that has her follow a series of surprising paths to find the artist.
Mess: The product of a mentally challenged woman and a drugged out orderly, the deformed child tries to find his way in the world. Interesting almost hunch back of Notre dam style comic book with a good helping of Texas chainsaw massacre filled in along the way.
Sprecken: This is one of their better titles and follows a more mystery path rather than a doom and gloom or gothic style. Sprecken has Nazi’s, mad scientists, and a mystery man named Mr. Midnight. Overall this title just evokes a lot of the early pulp style mystery novels that were so popular throughout the 30’s and 40’s that this is a wonderful throwback with a number of modern twists.
Steve Lawlis – Frankenstein’s Monkey: Crazed monkey from the dead, oh you betcha, this is a light hearted crazed comic book that I thought was very funny. Honestly the monkey makes the story line.
It is good to see independent printers and publishers that are out there creating awesome story lines for all kinds of audiences. If you know of a small publisher that is worth noting, drop us a note here at Comics Forge and let us know about them. Who knows, we might highlight your favorite small publishing house along the way.
