Warren Ellis

Jason Howard

"Originally published in single magazine form as Trees #1-8."

Trees

Superman Red & Blue#2

bell hooks

Dorothy Allison

Connie May Fowler

Jayne Anne Phillips

Michael Croley

Silas House

Carter Sickels

Chris Offutt

Julia Watts

Ann Pancake

Jeff Mann

Aaron Smith

Lisa Lewis

Crystal Wilkinson

Charles Dodd White

Pinckney Benedict

Mary Crockett Hill

Melissa Range

Kathryn Stripling Byer

Joyce Dyer

Jacinda Townsend

Jessie van Eerden

David Huddle

Sheldon Lee Compton

Sarah Einstein

Jane Springer

Richard Currey

Rob Amberg

RJ Gibson

Tennessee Jones

Ida Stewart

In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today’s finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia. Together, these essays take the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture, whether the details of that theme revolve around faith, class, work, or family legacies.

In essays that take wide-ranging forms—making this an ideal volume for creative nonfiction classes—contributors write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken. They consider the courage required for the inheritances they carry.

Toughness and generosity alike characterize works by Dorothy Allison, bell hooks, Silas House, and others. These writers travel far away from the boundaries of a traditional Appalachia, and then circle back—always—to the mountains that made each of them the distinctive thinking and feeling people they ultimately became. The essays in Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean are an individual and collective act of courage.

Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia

Walk Til the Dogs Get Mean

When men become giant monsters hellbent on destroying the world, only girls can stop them—BIG GIRLS. Meet Ember—she writes poetry, loves to read, and she’s a 300-foot-tall full-time monster killer! She and the other big girls are all that stand in the way of our world’s complete annihilation! Critically acclaimed artist JASON HOWARD (TREES) takes full creative control as the writer and artist of a tale that’s a cross between JOHN WICK and GODZILLA by way of HBO’s GIRLS.

Big Girls #1

Robert Venditti

Steven T. Seagle

Explore the world of Superman in a way you’ve never seen before. Five brand-new stories, a visual tour de force, with only the Man of Steel’s signature colors. There are tales starring Clark Kent, the original Superman, including a showdown with his most tenacious foe, Lex Luthor-but there is also a great space adventure with Val-Zod, the Superman of Earth-2, going up against an amped-up version of Prometheus. And then there is Cyborg Superman, a warped reflection of the real deal, with a mission as opposite to Superman’s as any could be. But no matter how out there the situation gets, it always comes back to the one man and the planet he loves and has sworn to protect-and the people he inspires, young and old.

Superman Red & Blue (2021-) #2

Explores how Kentucky's landscape, culture and traditions have influenced notable contemporary musicians, in a book that features interviews with Naomi Judd, Joan Osborne and Dwight Yoakam, as well as emerging artists and local musicians.

The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music

A Few Honest Words

Farm life is no escape from the Jacks, but Ember has worse problems as she battles her toughest foe ever!

Big Girls #3

Cemetery beach

When men become giant monsters destroying the world, only girls can stop them -- BIG GIRLS. Meet Ember, she writes poetry, loves to read, she's 300 feet tall and her full time job is killing monsters! Her and the other girls are all that stand in the way of our world's complete annihilation! Critically acclaimed artist JASON HOWARD (TREES) takes the full creative reins, writing and drawing a tale that could be described as a cross between JOHN WICK & GODZILLA by way of HBO's GIRLS. Collects BIG GIRLS #1-6

Big Girls, Volume 1

Zac has never tasted freedom. In a small mining camp on the fringe of Ascadell, he lives for his fellow slaves, and they see him as their leader. One day everything changes-his mining camp is destroyed by mysterious raiders in black armor. His masters and fellow slaves are murdered. The raiders are the servants of an evil wizard who is infecting the citizens of Ascadell with an enchanted disease that turns them into vicious Banes. In the chaos of the raider attack, Zac manages to escape, leaving behind the ashes of everything he has ever known and heading for an adventure greater than anything he has ever imagined.

Nightblade

Robert Kirkman

The never-ending action continues! The fate of the world rests on the shoulders of a ten year-old kid and his best friend, a nine-foot tall Tyrannosaurus Rex who loves to play video games. New enemies, new adventures, and new weapons await Derek Dynamo and Super Dinosaur!

Origin Special

Super Dinosaur

Big Girls

GIRL FIGHT! Then we discover why High Marshall Tannik is such a bad guy. Or is he?! Also, mistakes have consequences—Ember’s, Gulliver’s, Martin’s…even yours!

Big Girls #4

Jason Howard

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