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Truth Serum is an independent comic book series created, written and drawn by author Jon Adams.
Originally published as a mini comic in 2001 and given away for free, it appeared as a three-issue mini series published by Slave Labor Graphics in 2002. In 2004, it was translated and published by Italian publisher Alta-Fedelta.
In 2006, the Slave Labor Graphics mini-series, along with a long-running story from the Dark Horse Comics website and some new material was collected and self-published by City Cyclops as a 128-page oversized volume. [1] The second Truth Serum book, Truth Serum: The Lonely Parade was published in 2007. [1] In 2008 Truth Serum Conversations was published. It's a limited edition, full-color collection of the weekly strip. [1]
Currently, it appears as a weekly web comic at Dark Horse's site, [2] as well as the official Truth Serum site. [3] [4]
Slave Labor Graphics (SLG) is an independent American comic book publisher, well known for publishing darkly humorous, offbeat comics. Creators associated with SLG over the years include Evan Dorkin, Roman Dirge, Sarah Dyer, Woodrow Phoenix, Jhonen Vasquez, and Andi Watson.
Evan Dorkin is an American comics artist and cartoonist. His best known works are the comic books Milk and Cheese and Dork. His comics often poke fun at fandom, even while making it clear that Dorkin is a fan himself.
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Shannon Wheeler is an American cartoonist, best known as a cartoonist for The New Yorker and for creating the satirical superhero Too Much Coffee Man.
Milk & Cheese are a pair of comic book characters created by Evan Dorkin and published largely by Slave Labor Graphics. Their comics follow an anthropomorphic, misanthropic carton of milk and a wedge of cheese. The eponymous "dairy products gone bad" tend to drink copious quantities of gin and become violent.
Andrew "Andi" Watson is a British cartoonist and illustrator best known for the graphic novels Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day and his series Skeleton Key and Love Fights, published by Oni Press and Slave Labor Graphics.
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Ronald Wimberly is an American cartoonist and illustrator. He has published several graphic novels, as well as shorter works for The New Yorker, DC/Vertigo, Nike, Marvel, Hill and Wang, and Dark Horse Comics. Wimberly was the 2016 Columbus Museum of Art comics resident, and was a two-time resident cartoonist at Angoulême's Maison des Auteurs. He is the recipient of the 2008 Glyph Comics Award, and has been nominated for two Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
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