It Lives #1 Cover

36 pages, full color cover,
standard mini size. $3.00

Also for sale: Orchid vol. 1

It Lives is also available at the Catastrophe Shop

Or send $3 each to:
Ted May
1115 Louisville #2N
St. Louis MO 63139
(PS - I will send a sticker that I designed too!)

DEALERS: contact distributors Last Gasp or Cold Cut. Or email me for wholesale prices (may at usscatastrophe dot com).

It Lives #1 is published by Sparkplug Comicbooks. Originally it was a self published mini. The new version has a nicer cover stock but has the same interior contents.

 It Lives is a new mini-comic by Ted May. This book features the first two parts of the continuing soap-opera saga "Help Me Understand Your World". It features torrid romance, scathing misanthropy, punk rock and vandalism.

Also featured in the book is the all-out fight comic "Toilet Battle" in which two monstrous individuals work out strong negative feelings for each other - fists first! Punch in face now, ask questions later seems to be the gist of this tale.

The final story herein is called "Monster Mask." It is an unpublished gem drawn in 1998. "Monster Mask" is a satirical take on the 50's style scientist-driven comics. This tale features awesome power, psychological mayhem, thoughts of lust and an archaeological dig gone awry!


page from "Toilet Battle"

What Wild People are Saying:
Minimalism Minicomics Artist of the Year
– Tom Spurgeon
The Comics Journal

"This thing #&@% rocks. Seriously. Under a beautiful color cover full of monsters, Ted May gives us several stories, all of which are a whole lotta fun and nice to look at… Must be seen to be believed."
— Rick Bradford
edited from Poopsheet Reviews

"Toilet Battle… is the single funniest fight scene I've seen in years."
— Kevin Bramer
Optical Sloth

This comic book is energetic, powerful, fun, and real! The primary mode is magical realism as only a comic book can do it.
— Yakov Chodosh
I Like Comics

"Absolute fresh cartooning with hallucinatory blending of the iconic and commonplace, happening inside the pages of It Lives. One of my favorite recent mini-comix."
— Mark Cunningham
The Atomic Blue Ribbon Flyer

"Superheroes and kaiju abound in the fluid reality of these comics. More entertaining than comprehensible but the dialogue in "Toilet Battle" borders on genius."
— Matt Fagan
Quimby's Bookstore

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