Kristy Valenti has a nice two-part profile new independent publisher Bodega Distribution, which has sheparded such books as Brian Ralph’s Daybreak and Kazimir Strzepek’s The Mourning Star:
Bodega has gone on to publish the second Daybreak volume and Service Industry by T. Edward Bak. This year, Chang plans to release further works from his small stable of artists: Neverland, by David Kiersh; the final volume of Daybreak; Mourning Star #2; and “maybe on top of that there’ll be one more book for 2008, but I don’t see how I’ll have time for any more than four this year.” He humorously observed that, “if I had to put together ‘howdoyoudecidewhattopublish’ formula, it’d probably involve how well I’m able to sell their self-published mini’s through the site and at the shows, how long they’ve been self-publishing or drawing comics, and from meeting them in person. But I amend that with the fact that none of Bodega’s publications really happened exactly that way.”
