Moxie, My Sweet

    (FineComix, 2005)
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Moxie, My Sweet (subtitle: “FineComix Draws the Stories of Mark Campos”) is an anthology by a Seattle creative tank, the FineComix Collective. There’s no one genre or focus for the book. Sandwiched between a Lord of the Rings pot fantasy, a lesbian fortune-telling romance, and a sci-fi fast-food revolution are one-page vignettes with a gag ending.

There’s also a fun gang-initiation tale called “Appliances Gone Wrong,” a friendship between musicians titled “Can of Beans,” and a shockingly sad 4-page story, “Endless Plain of Fortune.” The title seems applied to the book’s final section, “The Crow Passes,” about a group of forest animals you might have met if Walt Kelly had been a jazz hound. The centerpiece, “Colony of Cats” could probably find a second life as a successful children’s book if Campos and artist Elijah Brubaker so chose.

— Brendan McGinley
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April, 2005
Cover Price: $6.95
3 copies available from $5.95 		Marc CamposDavid Lasky, Tatiana Gill, Stefan Gruber, Sarah Galvin, Elijah Brubaker, Kazimir Strzepek, Scott Faulkner, Dalton Webb