Tag: street angel

Jim Rugg's and Brian Maruca's Street Angel has actually been around over 10 years. It goes back to mini-comics and Slave Labor Graphics and is currently being released as a series of 40 page hardcover graphic...

Speaking of AdHouse, a second printing of Jim Rugg's classic Street Angel is out today, the story of a homeless girl who fights crime while riding around on her skateboard. It was action packed, sad and beautiful. Originally appearing in 2004, this book was, along with Scott Pilgrim, an early adapter of the "new mainstream" esthetic whereby comics broke out of both superhero and autobiographical tropes to reach a new, younger audience growing out of the manga boom. Originally published by Slave Labor the book had a cult following beforei being released by AdHouse last year. And now its in its second printing. Rachel Edidin has an overview of the book here. The new edition has a pink pages and purple ink, making it perhaps the most perfect Street Angel edition of all. And just because I can here's a preview:

Another neo classic comic for the hols as Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca's  homeless crimefighting skateboarder, Street Angel, teams with Santa on a brief adventure to find some missing reindeer in a bad neighborhood. It's...