Stuart and Kathryn Immonen, long time collaborators and malcontents, are pleased to announce the first printing of their year-long web project Never As Bad As You Think (978-0-9780216-1-0, Trade paperback, 64 color pp, $5.95 US).

Based on the weekly word choice provided by the heavily trafficked web-based drawing project Illustration Friday and inspired by a range of fluid story-telling strategies from the Surrealists to Richard Linklater, NABAYT tracks the (mostly) failed relationships of paranoid urbanites, murderous wait staff, talking cats and dogs, dissatisfied ambulance drivers, mariachi bands, people who like cake and many who wield knives for a variety of purposes.

This full color printing contains all 52 strips as well as a new introduction written by Nickelodeon Magazine Senior Editor Chris Duffy. Never As Bad As You Think will be making its debut on August 18 at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and will then be available exclusively through http://www.immonen.ca/store/.

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