Summer is here and our latest
season of books celebrates community and queer resilience,
interrogates our desires, and challenges the insanity of the
everyday.
Four books, three minis: our Summer 2025 Season is seven works
of art that will challenge and delight you.
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About the Project
Fieldmouse Press is a nonprofit comics publisher based in Grass Valley, California. This is our eighth Crowdfundr project, this time to support the publication of the books that are a part of our Summer 2025 season.
Last season, it was all about tariffs and their impact on our
ability to print and make amazing comics for discerning readers.
That pressure came from inside our own borders. Now, the shoe is on
the other foot - our printer, based in Shanghai, refuses to print
our books because of their queer content. We need your help to move
production to a North American printer and keep the presses rolling.
The goal of this project is to raise funds to offset the print costs of seven total works. We are publishing four paperback books; Flea by Mara Ramirez, Cookies and Herb by Matt MacFarland, a root bound plant needs room to grow by Stacey Zhu, and A Strong Woman and Other Stories by Valentine Gallardo. We are also debuting 3 titles from our Fieldmouse Minis series; A Scientific Study of Transsexuality by Oscar Woodiwiss, Unrest by Jurijs Tatarkins, and Double Take by Kat Foyle. We've carefully budgeted printing costs, design costs, and accounted for hidden variables. We've got everything ready to go, but we need your help to make these books a reality!
About The Books
Flea by Mara Ramirez - 132 pg, perfect bound 5" x 7" paperback; black and white throughout
Flea is a young queer woman who simply wants to be heard. In a series of funny and sometimes harrowing vignettes, Flea must navigate her overbearing family, her clod of a boyfriend, and a world that sees her as invisible and insignificant. Alternating between expressive scribbles and naturalistic drawings, Flea grapples with her perceptions of herself and reality in an attempt to feel 'real,' and the results are both beautiful and horrible.
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Advance Praise for Flea
"Flea bit me! My heart swelled up. The o nly way to scratch the itch is to bounce my eyeballs across Ramirez’s pages over and over again like a pinball delighting in the narrative spell the author has cast!"
— Molly Colleen O’Connell, author of “Pebbles” & “Shriekers”
"Flea is a beautiful, rare, and delicate thing. It’s ephemeral and sad, hilarious, bittersweet, and exquisitely crafted."
— Leo Fox, author of Boy Island, Prokaryote Season
Cookies and Herb by Matt MacFarland - 72 pg perfect bound; color throughout
Matt MacFarland grew up in the Reagan years in small town
California. The people who made up his life, like his elderly neighbor
Herb, helped him feel understood in an indifferent, insecure world.
With gentle humor and compassion, Cookies and Herb honors and
memorializes those people who gave Matt support and care when he
needed it most.
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Advance Praise
for Cookies and Herb
"MacFarland tackles a universal experience not normally explored - our non-relative elders who raised us, who we “outgrew,” and to whom we mentally return years later - and creates a poignant comic that left me aching. Rendered in confident colored pencil, Cookies and Herb walks us into MacFarland’s past with clear eyes, drawing a portrait of growing up that’s free of toxic nostalgia and full of the anguish and uncertainty of being raised by flawed human beings."
— Mary Shyne, staff artist at Peanuts Studio and author of You and Me on Repeat
a root bound plant needs space to grow by Stacey Zhu - 96 pg perfect bound paperback, full color
In this deeply intimate collection, Stacey Zhu combs through the clues left behind by romance, lust, family, and melancholia to answer a difficult but human question — what is love? What she finds in a root bound plant needs space to grow distinctly captures the paradoxes of love and acceptance in human life, and in our reading, we are forced to reckon with our own relationships, decisions, and desires.
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Advance Praise for a root bound plant needs space to grow
"Earnest, intense, and unforgettable. a root bound
plant needs space to grow is a perfect distillation of the
anguish and ecstasy of love in your early 20s, with all its vivid
heartbreak, longing, and hope.”
—Madeleine Jubilee Saito, poetry cartoonist and author of You Are a Sacred Place: Visual Poems for Living in Climate Crisis
A Strong Woman and Other Stories by Valentine Gallardo - 112 pg perfect bound paperback, full color throughout
Myth meets modern life in this collection of new and previously published short stories by Valentine Gallardo. Blending humor and fantasy with dreamlike palettes and lived-in dialogue, these surreal vignettes explore the contradictions of modern womanhood through tales of COVID lockdown parties, werewolves, deserts, and self-sabotage. Absurd yet comforting, A Strong Woman & Other Stories is a mirror for anyone who feels out of step with the world.
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A Scientific Study of Transsexuality by Oscar Woodiwiss - 44 pg saddle-stitched minicomic, full color throughout
Originally published as a part of the 2023 ShortBox Fair, an online digital comics festival, Oscar Woodiwiss' A Scientific Study of Transsexuality is a satirical fictional scientific journal that explores the expression of transsexuality in nature. Woodiwiss' moves deftly from the microscopic to the cosmic, interrogating cultural norms and affirming the sensual beauty of the trans body.
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Praise for A Scientific Study of Transsexuality:
"There is a softness and a vulnerability underlying
[A Scientific Study of Transsexuality], which fits its
all-encompassing theme [...] the ubiquity and beauty of transness
and the precarity of its position.”
—Hagai Palevsky, The Comics Journal
Unrest by Jurijs Tatarkins - 28 pg saddle-stitched minicomic, black and white
Wry and uncompromising, Latvian cartoonist Jurijs Tatarkins meditates on the uncomfortable, nagging realization that modern life is rotting at its core; his poetic ruminations in Unrest are funny and at times heart wrenching. Tatarkins' work has been previously published by kuš! in their anthologies, and we're excited to bring a full collection of Jurijs' comics to the United States for the first time!
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Double Take by Kat Foyle - 20 pg saddle-stitch minicomic, full color throughout
People often speculate what it would be like if they had a doppelganger somewhere out in the world. If you had a doppelganger, would they be cooler than you? More successful than you? Would they imitate you at the grocery store? Kat Foyle's Double Take explores this idea and all of the anxieties and irritations that would surely come with it.
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About Fieldmouse Press
Fieldmouse Press is a nonprofit publisher of comics and literature, based in Grass Valley, California. Founded in 2019, Fieldmouse Press is committed to expanding the reach and appreciation of the comics arts.
Our goal as a publisher is to make comics that challenge and delight readers from all walks of life.
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Picture Credit: Norah Clous @ SPX 2024 |
| Since 2021, Fieldmouse Press has
published comics from indie and alt comics legends like Ariel
Bordeaux, John Hankiewicz, and MariNaomi, as well as new and
upcoming artists like Noah Schiatti and Stacey Zhu.
Over the last two years, we've hit our stride, and we're
excited to keep publishing beautiful books with your help. |
Backing the Project
Backing a Crowdfundr campaign is a little different than other
crowdfunding platforms you might be used to. Click one or more perks
you're interested on the right hand side of the page, and add them to
your cart. You'll check out after selecting the perks you want, and
money will be collected immediately. You can add multiple perks to
your cart before checkout, so if you want multiple books but not the
whole season, (or if you want multiple copies of the same book), you
can do that before checkout. Shipping and fulfillment costs
are applied during check-out when you support the project.
One of our goals when publishing comics is to make sure our artists are treated equitably, so we've already paid our artists advances on royalties and offer an artist-centered royalty for all of our books.
Funding Goal
Our funding goal is $10,000 USD. These funds will be used to directly pay for printing and transportation of the books back to our warehouse, as well as for processing fees and additional unforeseen expenses. These funds will help us keep our publishing program moving forward as we plan for 2026.
We're offering a variety of packages to help fund this print run, including recently printed books, but we need your help to make this season a reality.
Risks
Fieldmouse Press has successfully funded and fulfilled multiple
campaigns through Kickstarter and Crowdfundr, so we have the
experience of crowdfunding under our belts. We are working with the
amazing folks at
White Squirrel
Distribution to help make sure that packages get out
quickly and efficiently. We were able to complete our campaign for our
previous season on time and with no damaged items on returns. We have
done all the pre-work to make sure that this campaign with be successful.
We expect to be able to start shipping books in September 2025 but have given ourselves until October 2025 to completely fulfill this campaign. We promise to keep our supporters up to date with any news, including delays and uncertainties, as we work through the campaign process.
Special Items in the Campaign
Stay tuned as we add special items to the campaign, including zines and original art!
Perks
You get a digital copy of COOKIES AND HERB by Matt MacFarland at a discount!
You get a digital copy of Stacey Zhu's a root bound plant needs space to grow at a discount!
You get a digital copy of Valentine Gallardo's A STRONG WOMAN AND OTHER STORIES at a discount!
You get a digital copy of A SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF TRANSSEXUALITY by Oscar Woodiwiss at a discount!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Mara Ramirez's FLEA at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Matt MacFarland's COOKIES AND HERB at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Stacey Zhu's a root bound plant needs space to grow at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Stacey Zhu's a rootbound plant needs space to grow at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Oscar Woodiwiss's A SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF TRANSSEXUALITY at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Jurijs Tatarkins's UNREST at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Kat Foyle's DOUBLE TAKE at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
Highlights
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You get a digital copy of COOKIES AND HERB by Matt MacFarland at a discount!
You get a digital copy of Stacey Zhu's a root bound plant needs space to grow at a discount!
You get a digital copy of Valentine Gallardo's A STRONG WOMAN AND OTHER STORIES at a discount!
You get a digital copy of A SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF TRANSSEXUALITY by Oscar Woodiwiss at a discount!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Mara Ramirez's FLEA at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Matt MacFarland's COOKIES AND HERB at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Stacey Zhu's a root bound plant needs space to grow at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Stacey Zhu's a rootbound plant needs space to grow at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Oscar Woodiwiss's A SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF TRANSSEXUALITY at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Jurijs Tatarkins's UNREST at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
For bookstores and retailers - get 5 copies of Kat Foyle's DOUBLE TAKE at 50% off MSRP. We cover the shipping!
