Palookaville (comics)

Palookaville
Publication information
Publisher	Drawn and Quarterly
Schedule	irregular
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Alternative comics
Publication date	April 1991
Creative team
Creator(s)	Seth

Palookaville (also frequently appears as both Palooka-Ville and Palooka-ville) is a comic book written and drawn by cartoonist Gregory Gallant, better known as Seth, and published by Drawn & Quarterly. The first issue appeared in April 1991 and it has been irregularly published ever since. The comics are generally portrayals filled with lost, lonely characters searching for meaning, often reaching back into the past. They are known to be deeply affecting and almost indescribably weighty.

The series and its creator have won multiple industry awards, including the 1997 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist and for Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection (for the It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken collection).

The first 19 issues were published in traditional comic book (pamphlet) format approximately annually (from 1991 to 2008), while the 20th issue (2010) was published in much-expanded book (hardcover) format, and is now planned to continue in this format annually or semiannually (21st issue scheduled for 2012), owing to changes in the American comic book market, specifically the decline in sales of single-issue comic books during the decade 2000–2010.

Publication history

Issues of Palookaville
#	Date	Major Story	Notes
1	April 1991		10th anniversary edition released in 2001 on smaller paper with silver cover
2	September 1991
3	June 1993
4	December 1993	It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken
5	May 1994
6	November 1994
7	April 1995
8	December 1995
9	June 1996
10	April 1997	Clyde Fans
11	October 1997
12	May 1998
13	July 1999
14	May 2000
15	May 2001
16	February 2003
17	2004
18	October 2005
19	2008
20	October 2010		First hardcover issue
21	October 2013
22	April 2015

External links

• Palooka-Ville at the GCD
• preview of Palokaville #20 at Drawn and Quarterly's website