New Releases by John Allison

Eisner-Award winning author John Allison (Giant Days) and artist Christine Larsen (Adventure Time) join forces for a story about coming home, discovering identity, and accidently smashing a hole to another dimension. Aspiring documentarian (and actual Chemistry major) Jane has recently reunited with her former best friend Heather, amateur urban explorer. When a trip into an abandoned industrial building leads them to another world, their plan begins to unfold—create a documentary about the world and become filthy, filthy rich. The other side of the portal is filled with monsters, magic and a chance for a whole new life. All they have to do is step through...

Heading into their third year at university, Esther, Daisy, and Susan are living apart from each other for the first time, and it’s definitely going to be absolutely fine and not weird at all.

Introducing your girlfriend to your family can be difficult, but it’s much worse when that girlfriend is Ingrid.

With the prospect of living apart for the first time since they all met as first years just over the horizon, Daisy, Esther, and Susan spend their last summer together before beginning their third year of university.

University is a time to learn for most, but for Susan, Esther, and Daisy academia seems to be throwing more at them than books and learning. House-hunting, terrible breakups, and regretful hookups pepper the girls lives this semester as they navigate their way through Freshman year. Thankfully, they have each other. This second volume of Giant Days: Not On The Test Edition, written by John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round) and illustrated by Max Sarin and Liz Fleming, collects the third and fourth story arcs of the Eisner Award and Harvey Award-nominated series, as well as additional never-before-collected Giant Days comics in a deluxe hardcover.

Daisy and Susan betray the sacred coven, leaving Esther to try - at high speed and under considerable pressure - to claim her dream home.

McGraw puts faith in his and Daisy''s "unique understanding" while trying to deal with the fact he is a low down double-dealing dirty cheat whose name is now mud in the influential Spanish community.

"Originally published in single magazine form as Giant Days no. 21-24"--Indicia.

As Easter break looms, Esther and Susan are forced to address Ingrid''s constant crimes against household decency.

Esther feels guilty when she befriends McGraw''s girlfriend and leaves Susan out in the cold, while Daisy thinks she''s found the perfect girl for Ed Gemmell.

What''s the secret of the shed in the back of the girls'' house, and why are strange men visiting it in the middle of the night?!

Time is a fickle creature, especially when there''s wormhole in the science cupboard. When a strange boy who seems far too entranced by cell phones appears, it''s up to Lottie, Shauna, and Mildred to figure out his strange purposes. The Case of the Forked Road, the seventh book in John Allison''s award-winning Bad Machinery series, finds our young sleuths facing the intricacies of time and space itself. What is their science teacher hiding? Who is the mysterious Calvin, why is he dressed like it’s 1960, and why is he obsessed with Communists? And another thing: just what is going on with Jack, Sonny, and Linton?

It''s springtime at Sheffield University - the flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and fast-pals Susan, Esther, and Daisy continue to survive their freshman year of university. Susan is barely dealing with her recent breakup with McGraw, Esther is considering dropping out of school, and Daisy is trying to keep everyone and everything from falling apart! Combined with house- hunting, indie film festivals, and online dating, can the girls make it to second year? Collects issues #13-16.

The girls come home to find that they have been burgled, so Susan decides to employ her street smarts in order to retrieve their stolen items. Daisy and Esther, against their better judgement, decide to help.

After spending a dull summer apart, Esther, Daisy, and Susan attend a 3-day music festival that naturally ends in a battle for survival in an apocalyptic quagmire.

McGraw''s new girlfriend is the Anti-Susan, Esther and Ed get into hot water with a money-making scheme, and Daisy has trouble with a professor on an archaeological dig.

The new year brings the all the joys and near-drownings of young love in The Case of the Fire Inside, the latest volume of Bad Machinery! Sonny meets a mysterious new girl who seems to have climbed out of the sea itself, while Mildred falls for the bad boy of Saturday detention. But can either of them succeed in the face of jealous exes, overprotective fathers, and the persistent tide of DESTINY? What is a "selkie"? Is a Morton''s toe fatal? And can Dark Rotuss truly save the galaxy?

Esther''s old school friend "Big Lindsay" comes to visit with her baby, but watching the kid and being nice to the insatiable party girl begins to wear on everyone.

Ed attempts to get over his crush on Esther by working at the student paper, but stumbles into even more embarrassing romantic difficulty.

A new school year brings a new classmate to Griswalds Grammar School! But he''s a bit strange, and he really, really likes onions. When the whole school suddenly becomes best friends with him, Shauna seems to be the only one left out. It''s up to her to peel back the mystery, one onion layer at a time. Join the team for another thrilling case, full of the cunning wit and high-flying adventure you can only get from John Allison''s BAD MACHINERY.

Everyone''s favorite preteen British detectives are back for another case! With toddlers disappearing and rumors of a large, beast-like creature roaming the woods, Tackleford is in serious danger. And then there''s Mildred''s new dog Archibald... if you can even call it a dog. After all, what kind of dog drinks tea out of a cup? Everything comes to a head once the boys get a picture of the beast and Archibald goes missing. Is there a connection? And what does it all have to do with the magic pencil Mildred won from a carnie con game? Don''t miss the second installment of John Allison''s award-winning webcomic series in print!

We usually think of imagination as a fanciful, whimsical faculty that has little to do with reality and truth. This beautifully written book by the Australian poet John Allison shows how ordinary imagination can be intensified to become an organ of cognition--a path of development to real knowing. Allison shows how poetry--poetic knowing and seeing--can reveal aspects of the world invisible to science. Three lucid chapters describe the path to true imagination, where attention is the key. First we must practice it, then we must become aware of the processes involved in it. Learning to experience "poise," we must come to terms with the shadow--or all that says "No" in us. The combination of attention, equanimity, and assent opens the world in a new way. Allison then examines how poets have actually developed and practiced the kind of "deep seeing" that "image work" involves. For this he draws on William Shakespeare, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Novalis, John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Octavio Paz. The author concludes with a sequence of his own poems that exemplify the philosophy and practice he has developed. Contents: Preface: "A Way of Seeing" One: "Developing Imagination" Attending to Attentiveness Experiencing Poise Developing Imagination Owning the Shadow Getting It Two: "Poets and Imagination" Freeing Imagination from Fancy Negative Capability Deep Seeing Instress and Inscape Heartwork Three: "The Poetic Image" Another Way of Seeing Things Four: "Seeing Things" Living in the World Connections Three Portals of Imagination Otanerito Triptych: Crossings Indwelling the Overlap Catlins Gateway Reflected Light Seeing Things II