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Celebrating 10 award-winning years of Split Lip, this nearly 350-page hardcover collects 13 of the best Split Lip stories from its first decade. In addition to the stories—many of which are remastered and relettered—there’s over 50 pages of exclusive bonus content, including interviews, essays, commentary on every story, and behind-the-scenes art.

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written by Sam on Thursday, August 4, 2022
This is twice I’ve been tricked by a Nightfire book (“Nothing But Blackened Teeth” was the first). I just don’t like the books they publish. There’s fertile material in repurposing “The Fall of the House of Usher” (see Julia Gfrorer and Sean Collins’ erotic comic, for example), but this was deeply superfluous. Book: 25 out… View Article

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written by Sam on Tuesday, July 5, 2022
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