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NEW!! Sacked
The latest installment in this Harvey and Ignatz award-nominated series tells the 100% true*, completely unfabricated** story of how Pete and Carol failed to heed Pete’s advice from Don’t Quit Your Day Job and decided to chuck it all and open a yarn shop. Of course, they can’t do it without the help of Mister, Aunt Mary, and Young Tim. Their Deep Dive into the heady world of Job Creators brings them face-to-face*** with the Greatest Menace**** of Our Time.
Ships December 2017 • 45 pages • black and white
We sold the very last copy and now that the Donald is Traitor in Chief no more, we’re ready to leave this one in the dustbin of history.
* nothing in this book is true
** it is entirely fabricated
*** actually all the interactions are virtual
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Hey, Mister Minicomic #6
Whoa! In the rush to get our yarn shop open (yes, I quit my job and Carol and I are opening a store) I almost forgot to sell my latest book. But, here it is! It debuted at SPX ’15 and takes me back to my minicomic roots (and also features possibly the most sacrilicious panel I’ve ever drawn! #forever12)
Note: If you are near Ann Arbor and want to pick up your books instead of having them shipped, choose “Local Pickup” as your shipping method and I will have the books waiting for you at Spun in Kerrytown.
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HEY, MISTER: Come Hell or Highwater Pants
NAMED to the A.V. Club List of BEST Graphic Novels of 2014!
“Hey, Mister is bleakly, existentially funny in the most dissipated deadpan manner possible. Imagine The Iceman Cometh directed by Terry Zwigoff, and you might come close. There’s nothing flashy or experimental in Sickman-Garner’s technique. He’s an indie cartoonist of the old school, with a keen understanding of the fact that the funniest drawings are often the ugliest. If you like ugly, there’s lots of ugly here. And why wouldn’t you want ugly? Ugly is hilarious. “
Satan is sad as hell and can't take it anymore so what does he do? He abandons his post and strikes out for a better life in a better world. But pity the poor immigrant. Fitting in is hard, even with a shiftless lowlife like like his old pal Mister. Meanwhile, across town, Jesus is suffering trials of his own. Two-thousand years removed from his big finish, and he's stuck wondering what to do next. Their paths cross–everything that rises must converge–and Jesus can't resist the ultimate redemption story: Save Satan's soul. The whole Hey, Mister crew joins in the fun of the ultimate road trip to hell but someone else is watching and he's not pleased. With the forces of the cosmos in flux, and Mister, Young Tim and Aunt Mary at the center of the storm, who will come along to put everything its place?
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HEY, MISTER: Jesus Chronicles, v.1
Exclusively available on heymistercomics.com
To celebrate the publication of Come Hell or Highwater Pants and to indulge my never-ending obsession with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I put together this book featuring two new Jesus stories with a screen printed cover from the good folks at VG Kids in Ypsilanti. Every copy of this 500 print-run is signed and numbered with an original sketch. Get Saved with Hey, Mister!
Note: If you are near Ann Arbor and want to pick up your books instead of having them shipped, choose “Local Pickup” as your shipping method and I will have the books waiting for you at Spun in Kerrytown.
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Bill O’Reilly’s War on the War on Christmas
Exclusively available on heymistercomics.com
America’s greatest cultural warrior plays a tough-as-nails General who is looking for love in the middle of a war. He sets out to put the Christ back in Christmas with the help of Aunt Mary and Mister and the actual Jesus Christ!
Note: If you are near Ann Arbor and want to pick up your books instead of having them shipped, choose “Local Pickup” as your shipping method and I will have the books waiting for you at Spun in Kerrytown.
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“Pissing Contest” Signed Print
I've got a very limited run of this signed print of “Pissing Contest.” I guess I just can't leave my old pal Bill O'Reilly alone! Pick this up along with Bill O'Reilly's War on the War on Christmas and send them to that angry uncle that's always spouting off at the holiday dinner table. We all have one!
Printed on 11″ x 17″ 80# cardstock
View the full image here
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HEY, MISTER #3
Origin-story fans rejoice! This issue brings you the beginning of a bee-yoo-tee-ful relationship in “When Mary Met Mister” along with adventures in cannibalism with Sting and much more includes a cameo from Telly Savalas!
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HEY, MISTER #4: What Child is THIS?
Young Tim’s talking penis gets him into some exclusive company but it’s not all fun and games in “Members Only.” This issue also features “Billy Karma,” my jam with comics master Dean Haspiel, and the heartwarming Christmas tale “What Child is THIS?”
eBook only, 49 pages (paperback comic is out of stock)
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HEY, MISTER #5: Behind the Green Door
I snuck into the Marilyn Chambers movie on the Penn State campus with my high school friends and apparently never forgot it. This consummate issue of my series gives Mister everything he’s ever wanted which is to say he gets it on with Aunt Mary. It’ll never happen again but he’ll take what he can get. It also features Young Tim in “The Pig that Pissed Whiskey” and the eBook version includes a strip originally published in the Canadian anthology What’s Wrong?
32 pages, available as ebook
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HEY, MISTER #6: The Trouble with Jesus
And, with this issue I begin my obsession with Christianity which has carried all the way through to my upcoming release, Come Hell or High-water Pants. Here we meet CEO Jesus Christ who’s looking for the next big thing to get his organization back on track. He finds it, or, at least he thinks he does, in a lowly mail room clerk (Young Tim). In the end, of course, all hell breaks loose (literally).
32 pages, available as ebook
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HEY, MISTER #7: Eyes on the Prize
A hapless clerk (Aunt Mary) at a health-food grocery store chain loses her mind after selling one too many cases of Gaia in a Can. She tries to flee but it’s no use. You can’t outrun death, decay or the American obsession with immortality.
32 pages, available as ebook
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HEY, MISTER #8: Dial M for Mister
Mister finds out how the other half lives as he’s tabbed by the gods on Olympus in an elaborate wager to see if they can transform the world’s lowliest mortal into a lover in a league with Aphrodite. He takes well to the fast lane but it can’t last. Nothing good ever does!
32 pages, available as ebook
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HEY, MISTER (Vol 3): The Fall Collection
“Funny, wacky, compelling, and best of all, surreal. Leave it to Top Shelf to find an artist like Pete and to put his stuff together in such a nice, neat package.”
–Factsheet 5“Hey, Mister comics are laugh-out-loud, tears-rolling-down-your-face funny.” — Karon Flage, Sequential Tart
This trade paperback collects issues #5-#8 of my four-time Eisner and Ignatz award nominated series. It includes “Behind The Green Door,” “The Trouble With Jesus,” “Eyes On The Prize,” & “Dial 'M' for Mister,” and as a bonus, also includes my cartoon account of who I am and why I do what I do. Join Mister, Young Tim, Aunt Mary and the beloved Hideous Mutants as they hurtle headlong out of Eden and try to find redemption in a world where love is a four-letter word and even God gets lonely sometimes. As icomics.com's Greg McElhatton says: “If you like dark and cynical humor, you should … no, need, to be reading Hey, Mister.” What? Still not convinced? You're a tough crowd. Here's more from my favorite reviewer Artbomb!
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HEY, MISTER (Vol 2): Celebrity Roast
“Sickman-Garner’s best work shows a complexity of vision and cartooning talent that make him eminently watchable; qualities which belie the seeming hopelessness of his work. Like Shannon Wheeler, he manages to wrench some telling humor from a seemingly inauspicious vehicle.” — The Comics Journal
This trade paperback collects the first four issues of my series, HEY, MISTER, topped off with three new stories and a few anthology pieces. Follow the adventures of Young Tim, Mister, Aunt Mary, and Hideous Mutants (don't ask!), as they continue their guerrilla war against everything sacred and beautiful. Best of all, there aren't any actual celebrities. Well, except for Sting, but he gets killed off rather quickly. Don't trust me? Read this review at Artbomb!
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HEY, MISTER: The Early Years 1 : Birth of the Cruel
The first of a four volume eBook set that captures the earliest Hey, Mister pages. Witness the birth of what Details magazine called “America's funniest comic book.”
eBook only, 29 pages
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HEY, MISTER (Vol 1): After School Special
This book collects the 5-issue run of Hey, Mister mini-comics that started all this silliness. The art is crude and the humor cruder but you could do worse at 10 cents a page! Just ask Matt Fraction at artbomb.com.