Ambrosia Publishing announced this week that they’ll publish two previously released comics, Plastic Farm by Rafer Roberts and Nantucket Brown Roasters by Jason Asala , on the web beginning in October, with collections to follow in 2008.
I’m not familiar with Plastic Farm, but I do own a complete set of Nantucket Brown Roasters — five of them, I think — and I also fondly remember Asala’s first comic series, Poe, which was published back in the 1990s. Now they just need to get the rights to publish a Poe collection, and all will be right with the world.
You can check out the press release after the jump …
Two previously-published titles, PLASTIC FARM by Rafer Roberts and
NANTUCKET BROWN ROASTERS by Jason Asala, will be debuting this October
from Ambrosia Publishing. Both titles are scheduled to begin their
online serialization this fall with the collected versions being
published in early 2008.PLASTIC FARM was originally published by creator Rafer Roberts and ran
for 12-issues where it garnered praise from such creators as Dave
(CEREBUS) Sim and Larry (AiT/PlanetLar) Young. Planned as a continuing
series, PLASTIC FARM follows the life of a man named Chester and his
slow descent into complete insanity, and chronicles how that madness
reshapes the world around him. Chester has had a rough childhood, has
a magic cowboy that rides a dinosaur living inside of his head, and is
now, late in life, sitting in a nameless airport bar during a blizzard
telling his life story to a group of people who really couldn’t care
less.Jason Asala’s NANTUCKET BROWN ROASTERS (now simply known as ROASTERS)
is an eccentric, innovative fable of action, fantasy, and weird
fiction starring Fish, a bluegill possessed by a 6,000-year-old evil
pharaoh, Ahab, a one-legged, spear-wielding strongman in a new body,
and Daisy, a living doll. The first previously-published NANTUCKET
BROWN ROASTERS mini-series will be serialized and published by
Ambrosia Publishing. We are introduced to Ahab, Daisy and Fish, who
become the core of the Roasters as well as learn about Khufu and his
crazy schemes of world domination, and oatmeal cookies.Both PLASTIC FARM and NANTUCKET BROWN ROASTERS will begin their online
serialization at Ambrosia Publishing beginning this October.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Agreed: Poe was good. It had the sort of concept I was inclined to hate in a “How-dare-you” sort-of-way, but, fortunately, I actually read a few issues and found them charming. I suppose I’ll have to give Nantucket Brown Roasters a go.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Just a quick note to let your readers know that for the past few months I’ve been giving away (for free) the first issue of Plastic Farm. So, if there’s anyone out there who is unfamiliar with Plastic Farm, I encourage them to shoot me an email (with an address where I should mail the comic) to rafer at plasticfarm dot com
And a big thanks to Mister Green at Ambrosia. I’m very excited.