Red Clover 1

by Sara Lautman
16pp, Size: 8.5 x 11
September 2019
Price:$6.00

Kel, a homeopath, comes to help Noah care for his partner, who is suffering from a debilitating major depressive episode. The two old friends struggle to share space as caretakers.

Dramatic Paws Volume 1

by Elena Fox
20pp, Size: 5.5 x 8.5
September 2019
Price: $6.00

True stories based on real events in reality!

Thrills! Chills! Pills! Kills! Elena deals with spiders, cats and chauvinistic sound men.

I Feel Weird #3

by Haleigh Buck
32pp, Size: 6 x 9
September 2018
Price: $5.00

A comic about depression, anxiety, and hopefully getting over it.

#3 in a series of 12.

IFW3 covers the month of January 2016 out of an entire year trying to heal after a long spat of anxiety, depression and a second failed suicide attempt. The story is told in a small collection of short 1-10 page comics.

Baltimore Coloring Book Project Volume 2

edited by Benn Ray
designed by Ben Claassen III
20pp, Size: 8.5 x 11
Price: $5.95
December 2015

20 more pages where you can color your favorite Baltimorean!

Art by:
Tom Chalkley
Ben Claassen III
Nick DiFabbio
Alex Fine
Monica Gallagher
Kate Haberer
Laurent Hrybyk
Jordan Jeffries
Bob Kathman
Will Laren
Melody Often
Mike Riley
Whitney Sherman
Robert Young

You can color:
Abbi Jacobson
Amy Schumer
Cab Calloway
Cal Ripkin, Jr.
Cass Elliot
David Byrne
David Hasselhoff
David Simon
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Post
Gina Schock
Ira Glass
John Waters
Laura Lippman
Mink Stole
Nancy Pelosi
Ouija Board
Ric Ocasek
Rye Rye
Sisqo
W.E.B. Du Bois
Zora Neale Hurston

Baltimore Coloring Book Project Volume 1

edited by Benn Ray
designed by Ben Claassen III
20pp, Size: 8.5 x 11
December 2014
Sold Out

Pages of famous Baltimoreans you can color with accompanying biographics to inform, amuse and depress.

Museum of Mistakes: The Fart Party Collection

400pp, Size: 6.5 x 9.25

September 2014

$24

ISBN: 978-0-9786569-6-6

In 2004, Julia Wertz began a series of funny, irreverent autobiographical comics she called “The Fart Party.” After posting these comics online at fartparty.org to acclaim and controversy. She eventually started collecting these comics as self-published minis which found their way to Atomic Books in Baltimore who thought they ought to be collected into a proper book so as to garner Julia more laughs and hate mail.

As these things go, the first volume was so successful, there was a second volume. Both are out of print, but Museum of Mistakes collects them into one book, plus numerous pages of Julia’s early comic work, unpublished and/or previously uncollected comics, short stories, illustrations, process pages, hate mail, sketchbook pages, tear stains and more.

“The Fart Party is friggin’ hilarious.” – New York Magazine

“Julia is the funniest, most unique voice in comics right now.” – Brian K. Vaughan

“If you’re wondering what it’s like to be a smart, self-aware young woman, Wertz’s comics have all the answers.” – The Onion

Lulu Eightball Strips

Original Lulu Eightball strips are available at Atomic Books!

Lulu Eightball Volume 2

Coming in September 2009!

Lulu Eightball runs in numerous alternative weeklies around the country. Emily Flake’s cartoons deal with a variety of subjects, including - but not limited to - life and love and the foibles involved in both. Also drinking, smoking, bumble bees, monkeys, and generally bad decision making.

Collecting several years worth of her strip, plus "lost strips" recently rediscovered that were absent in volume 1 and a comic short story.

"Emily Flake draws these eyes... these ragged, Little Orphan Annie saucer eyes that are at once wide and naive, wise and sly, and maybe a little bit drunk. I'd like to look at the world through those eyes. But it turns out, only Emily Flake can. Thank heaven for her. And hell to boot."
- John Hodgman (More Information Than You Require)

"Don't you sometimes feel the viscous black bile heaving up and getting stuck in your throat from the areas deep in your stomach and around your heart? Because of all the easy cynicism, and sarcasm, and 'funny' pop-culture references? Or even worse: the phony compassion, cheap inspiration, and false hope? Wouldn't it be great if someone shared with you the actual pain of being a human being, accepted you as you were, and was also hilarious? Thank God for Emily Flake."
- Leo Allen (Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Human Giant)

Fart Party Volume 2

Is out now!

Available at your local comic book store.

"What allows Fart Party to stand out in a field filled with autobiographical comics is Wertz herself, who, to quote the book's foreword by former City Paper comic Perry Bible Fellowship's Nicholas Gurewitch, 'pretty much encapsulates the whole of the human condition.' Her cartoon avatar, resembling the Utz girl's neurotic older sister, is easy to like and perhaps even easier to relate to."
--Baltimore CityPaper.

Lulu Awards

The Lulu Awards are happening at MOCCA this year!

Our own Emily Flake is emceeing the event and our own Julia Wertz is nominated for a Kim Yale Award (best new talent).

And speaking of awards, Emily won a Prism Award earlier this month for These Things Ain't Gonna Smoke Themselves. She beat the Hulk, which was also nominated for "accurate depiction of drug, alcohol, or tobacco use in a comic book story line."

The Fart Party

The Fart Party by Julia Wertz, collects the acclaimed and controversial web comic and zine. The foul-mouthed and hilarious stories here follow the life of Julia, a twentysomething woman living in San Francisco. Includes an introduction by Peter Bagge.


'If you're wondering what it's like to be a smart, self-aware young woman living in San Francisco in 2006, Wertz's comic has all the answers.' -THE ONION


'I love Fart Party!' -KITCHEN SINK MAGAZINE


'When I saw the title of Wertz's zine, I didn't expect much beyond raunchy toilet humor, so what I found inside was all the more surprising! Julia's drawings are awesome and her comic timing is perfect... underneath all the drunken craziness, there's a secret heart to the comic that is warm, and dare I say, innocent.' - JOHN PORCELLINO (King-Cat)


Interview with Julia Wertz on The Comics Reporter

The Future Generation

by China Martens

The Zine-Book For Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends And Others!

'The original punk parent zine.' - Ariel Gore

'Future Generation is a must read for anyone who wants to understand Adrienne Rich's idea of mothering (Of Woman Born) based on the mother's own experience, not the patriarchal definition of motherhood in which mothers must be surveilled, controlled, advised, and punished. For here is an evolution of mothering, a memoir of a conscious mother. Get it. Read it. Pass it on.' - Katherine Arnoldi, author of The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom and All Things Are Labor

'Without a doubt, this book will go down as a parenting classic for the
future generations.' - Jessica Mills/MRR, author of My Mother Wears Combat Boots

'Martens has been writing since long before the mommy wars were a media trope, but her work is a powerful response to punditry casting institutional and political problems as personal issues of "work-life balance" for mothers (notably, not fathers).' - Lisa Jervis, Bitch Magazine

Interview with China Martens in the Baltimore CityPaper

Best Zine - Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Bests 2007

I Keee You!! A Collection of Overheards

Edited by Benn Ray
Cover Illustration by Brian Ralph

A collection of overheard snippets of conversations illustrated by many of the finest indie comics illustrators.

What have we overheard in the bathroom? On the street? In bars? In our own homes? In stores? At restaurants? As people talk into their cell phones, to their friends and, in some cases to no one at all. Have we overheard you? Could be.

Illustrations by:
Allison Cole
Andrew Goldfarb
Androo Robinson
Anne Thalheimer
Barry Rodges
Ben Claassen III
Bernie McGovern
Brian Ralph
Bruce Orr
Carrie McNinch
Cole Johnson
Delaine Derry Green
Diana Tamblyn
Emily Flake
Grant Reynolds
Greg The Zine Librarian
Hawk Krall
Jamie Dee Galey
Jeff Plotkin
Jeffrey Brown
Jen Michaelis
Jim Siergey
Joe Decie
Joe Tallarico
Joel Orff
Joshua W. Cotter
Kelly Froh
Lee Cooper
Mark Burrier
Martin Cendreda
Matt Fagan
Max Hallinan
Michael S. Bracco
Mike Weibel
Missy Kulik
Nell Taylor
Nick Bertozzi
Patrick Tianen
Peter S. Conrad
Rich Howell
Ryan Claytor
Sarah Becan
Suzanne Baumann
Tim Winkelman
Tom Chalkley
Tom Williams

Lulu Eightball

Emily Flake's first book collects her popular alternative weekly comic strip, Lulu Eightball.

"The folks at legendary alternative Bookstore Atomic Books just started their very own imprint, and it makes sense that its first offering is this brilliantly dastardly collection of comic strips. With titles like "I Never Meant to Have Thoughts Like This," "Disappointments of the Afterlife," and "Cliches Best Left Unexamined," Emily Flake's comics are morose little slices of spite that make Life in Hell look like the freakin' Family Circus - and maybe more important, serve to remind curmudgeonly types that not only are we not alone, we're everywhere." --BITCH

"For a comic with a recurring monkey who wears socks and is sometimes bashful, Flake's work can be as disturbing as it is playful...Flake writes with a cynical glee, giving voice to all of her evil thoughts in an utterly adorable way." --CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

"A collection of one page shorts, this book is packed with caustic humor and more than a little self-loathing. Some recurring themes include drinkin, smokin', belly flab, pregnancy scares and existential ponderings...I couldn't put it down until I'd read them all." -- PUNK PLANET

"Emily Flake is one funny fucking cartoonist...As for the drawing style, imagine a Precious Moments figure after you flipped it over and fucked it a couple of times. It's still cute, but now there's something tainted about it." -- SLUG & LETTUCE

#1 on Entertainment Weekly's Must List.