Alliecats: 53 Graphic Tales & Fun Puns About Cats by Allie Kirschner & Ben Stoltzfus

39 West Press is pleased to announce the publication of Alliecats: 53 Graphic Tales & Fun Puns About Cats by Allie Kirschner and Ben Stoltzfus.

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Alliecats
53 Graphic Tales & Fun Puns About Cats

illustrations by Allie Kirschner
words and text by Ben Stoltzfus

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Overview

Mississippi said to Missouri, “If I put on my New Jersey, what will Delaware?” Virginia replied, “Alaska.” This wordplay on states’ names as vestments resembles the play and ambiguity in Alliecats, a wonderful collection of fifty-three graphic tales that catenate (link) meaning, sound, and likeness into clever puns.

Novelist and literary critic BEN STOLTZFUS penned the introduction and assembled the words. His granddaughter (cater-cousin), ALLIE KIRSCHNER, drew the pictures. You will purr with satisfaction as she romps with feline grace, caterwauling from catalog to Catalina, although not without an occasional cataclysm or catastrophe.

The purrposeful puns of Alliecats will amuse as you slide helplessly into a state of muscular rigidity, or catalepsy, while author and artist cater to your funny bone and make you laugh.

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Product Details

Hardcover, Paperback
Publication Date: 24 Sep 2019
ISBN: 978-1-946358-25-7
LoC Control No.: 2019946320
Catalogue No.: 39WP-29
Pages: 82
Dimensions: 7 x 10 inches

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Dumpster, for God's Sake by Ben Stoltzfus

39 West Press is pleased to announce the publication of Dumpster, for God's Sake by Ben Stoltzfus.

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Dumpster, for God's Sake

by Ben Stoltzfus

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Overview

Equal parts sociological lore and screwball comedy, Dumpster, for God's Sake bends reality into fiction in a uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human.

"Profoundly dystopian and completely believable." −Dean MacCannell, author of The Tourist

Loviers City believes that cleanliness leads to Godliness. But order quickly descends into chaos when a sighting of the Virgin occurs. Soon, thousands arrive to visit the spot where She appeared. But the pilgrims leave their mark, discarding refuse and besmirching Loviers City's All-America vision.

Suspense mounts as Rudy Squazza, the red-bearded ringleader of the homeless, and Jasmine, a rich teenager working on a high school project, fall in love. He is a dumpster diver and the victim of police brutality. She dresses in black leather, rides a red Ducati Supersport 750, and is known as the “Angel from Hell.”

With compelling prose, canny insight, and artful empathy, Ben Stoltzfus brilliantly examines group behavior in a timely tale of collective zeal and righteous intent that explores a city’s urgent quest for soul.

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Product Details

Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
Publication Date: 9 April 2019
ISBN: 978-1-946358-16-5
LoC Control No.: 2019930909
Catalogue No.: 39WP-27
Pages: 244
Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.7 inches

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Romoland by Judith Palmer & Ben Stoltzfus

39 West Press is pleased to announce the publication of Romoland by Judith Palmer (artist) & Ben Stoltzfus.

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Romoland
A Pictonovel

by Judith Palmer (artist) & Ben Stoltzfus

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Overview

Romoland, a postmodern event conjoining feminist artist Judith Palmer and novelist Ben Stoltzfus, uses twenty-five art works as generative surfaces for a series of dialogues between a man and a woman. The images and the text explore the historical subjection of women by men, their deliverance through art, and the dismantling of cultural codes. Both texts foreground the voice of the Other as it manifests itself in the traces, lines, and cracks of speech—be they visual or verbal. The arabesques of the woman’s sensibilities oppose the squares of man’s authority. Her art speaks and his text sees. Together, they unveil another space between the pictures and the text—the body of bliss and equality—in a way that is ironic, comic, and playful.

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Product Details

Hardcover, Paperback
Publication Date: 12 Dec 2017
ISBN: 978-1-946358-12-7
LoC Control No.: 2017962314
Catalogue No.: 39WP-24
Pages: 104
Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 0.4 inches

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