Meathaus, the SVA graduate-fueled anthology comic has been running for a few years now and has always been a favorite of mine. I had the pleasure to meet Farel Dalrymple at MoCCA one year and he gladly walked me over to each member of the crew at their table that year. They were all just bubbling with energy and enthusiasm. It was a real feather inb my cap, as the codgers say, when Farel bought a copy of my own anthology, Zebramag, just two years later.
Meathaus excels at producing quality black and whit comics that stand out from similar endeavors due to its professional packaging design, superb interior layout and of course the quality of the material.
With contributing artists including Becky Cloonan, Dash Shaw, James Jean and Tomer Hanuka just to name a few, Meathaus is the best anthology comic on the market today.
A few side-projects including Getting the Sex Out of the Way and Beef Apartment have also been published by the Meathaus alumni and are also well worth checking out.
The artists represented in Meathaus have moved outside of the anthology in recent years. To name just a few, Farel Dalrymple worked for DC Comics on Caper with Judd Winnick and for Marvel Comics on Omega the Unknown with Jonathan Lethem. Becky Cloonan is known today for Demo with Brian Wood and Tomer Hanuka has contributed cover art for DC Comics and developed his own project Bi-Polar with his twin brother Asaf.
The stories in each issue are so full of feeling and honesty that they almost immediately touch the reader, but it’s the inventiveness and skill with which the stories are put together that always stuns me.
