Comics by G. Fling

I've drawn comics for years on and off. After a few too many years of "off" I'm starting up again, and I've also gone back to the start of my autobio comics by assembing two books: one collecting Flung #1 - #3, and another collecting my comicbook diaries - Your Tax Dollars At Work! The Comicbook Diary of G. Fling!

I also have four minicomics available, as well as original copies of Flung #1 and #2 (while those last...grab 'em while I have 'em)! Clicking the buttons below adds your choices to a PayPal shopping cart.

"Flung #1 - #3" collects the first three issues of "Flung", complete with all stories, cover art, letters columns, and broken promises...along with 30 pages of bonus material!

Read stories:
The Music Thing
Love For Sale (excerpt)
The Personal Ad Part I
Annoyed By Music (bonus section)

Perfect bound, 134 pages, 7.44" x 9.68",
full-color wrap-around cover, B&W interior.
$12.00 + $2 shipping

This new book is a collection of diary comics drawn during my first years as a substitute teacher, general layabout and part-time musician. Includes a new 20-page introduction with a condensed history of Flung!

Visit the book Preview Page to read excerpts.

Perfect bound, 316 pages, 4.25" x 6.88",
full-color wrap-around cover, B&W interior.
$12.00 + $2 shipping

This story is the first thing I drew after starting back up making comics, and was written/drawn in 2007-2008. This was written as the introduction for the "Your Tax Dollars At Work" book, as seen above, and in this minicomic version has a couple of extra pages of material.

Read excerpt

5.5" x 4.25" (mini size), cardstock cover, B&W, 24 pages.
$1.50 + $.75 shipping

"Four Stories From My Comicbook Diary" is just that, four short pieces from a comicbook diary I kept when first writing comics. These stories are also available in the "Your Tax Dollars At Work" book, above.

Read excerpts: Weezer | Sleep Patterns

5.5" x 4.25" (mini size), cardstock cover, B&W, 16 pages.
$1.50 + $.75 shipping

"The Personal Ad" features a story about my first experience trying to find love via artificial means. This story was the lead story in "Flung #3" and is also featured in my "Flung #1-3" book, above.

Read story (without intro)

5.5" x 4.25" (mini size), cardstock cover, B&W, 12 pages.
$1.00 + $.75 shipping

"Do You Know Who This Is?" is a story about a conversation about dating, written at the time of the Flung #3 "Personal Ad" stories and drawn in 2008. Also available in the "extras" section of the "Flung #1-3" book, above.

Read story

5.5" x 4.25" (mini size), cardstock cover and interior, B&W, 6 pages.
$.50 + $.75 shipping

I assembled this comicbook mostly from stories I'd been drawing in little notebooks while at work, except for one that I redrew. It has three short pieces and concludes with a longer story about the summer after a major breakup.

Stories are: The Music Thing, The Video Store,
The Dream, The Library Girl.

Read story: The Music Thing

8.5" x 7" (legal digest), cardstock cover, B&W, 24 pages.
$3.00 + $1.25 shipping

Flung #3 -- (out of print)

The third issue of Flung is centered around stories of personal ad dates. You know, those printed notices that predate internet dating. Pretend it's internet dating if you like. This issue is longer than the previous ones (38 pages) and, as usual, has a short story tacked on (about my cat catching a squirrel), and more letters.

Flung #3 is out of print but is available in my "Flung #1 - #3" book collection.

Stories are Personals Hell (a cautionary tale in three parts) and Cat Trouble.

Read story: The Personal Ad Part I

Misc:

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Before I wrote the stories in Flung #3 I wrote a prose version of my personal ad mishaps: Welcome to my (original) Personals Hell

This isn't comics, but right after going to a Guided By Voices show I wrote up my experience. This was at a time of rabid fandom, so travel back with me if you will to GBV, 6/17/97, Seattle