Since its inception in 2005, MOME has bridged the gap between thecontemporary graphic novel scene and the current cutting-edge literary scene,serving as a perfect sampler of today's best young graphic novelists in aquarterly format that sits as handsomely on the newsstand alongside journalslike McSweeney's and Paris Review as it does in the graphic novelssection.

Volume 12 welcomes back renowned graphic novelist David B.(Epileptic) for the first time since the fourth volume. MOME alsofeatures returning regulars Jonathan Bennett, Sophie Crumb, Andrice Arp, PaulHornschemeier, Kurt Wolfgang, Eleanor Davis, Zak Sally, Tom Kaczynski, DashShaw, Joe Kimball, and Ray Fenwick. Tim Hensley also returns with more of hisbrilliant "Wally Gropius" strips, as do fan favorites Al Columbia and R. KikuoJohnson! Plus, several other surprises from some of the best new talent incomics.

MOME is an accessible, reasonably priced quarterly runningapproximately 120 pages per volume, mostly in color, and spotlighting the mostexciting new storytellers in comics along with special surprises. MOME isquickly earning a reputation as one of the premier literary anthologies on theshelves, and the only one comprised almost entirely of comics.