At turns cheerily whimsical and creepily serious, Neil Brideau’s Sock-Monster comic has been a favorite webcomic of Shortpants’ for a while now. Brideau’s quirkily hand-lettered panels are dark, charming and obsessively inked. His imaginative and expansive landscapes are populated with characters that run the gamut from the sweet and naive to the opportunistic and vicious. This first print collection of Sock-Monster comics contains fifty of Brideau’s favorites, punctuated by a handful of new mini illustrations. It comes with a free, limited edition pin, on which Old Skull informs Sock-Monster: “No one has ever wanted to be your friend.”

“Ah, if only all minis with one panel strips were like this… this is how it’s supposed to be done… It’s funny, that lettering is downright hypnotic, and there’s some serious inking going on… Neil clearly spends a solid chunk of time on each panel. This is well worth your time to seek out.” -Optical Sloth

4.25″ x 7″, 55 pages in a hand-serigraphed (and recycled, made from 100% post-consumer waste!) cover.