Description
"A rollicking mix of gunplay, quips, and romance." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Beautifully captures the visual style of the Jazz Age." - BOOKLIST
It's 1927 and Prohibition is in full effect in St. Louis, Missouri. Organized crime has risen to meet the relentless demand for illicit alcohol. Bootleggers, gangsters, and might-makes-right dominate the city's underworld, fueled by the patrons of speakeasies like Lackadaisy, run by the unstoppable force of widowed Mitzi May. Or at least, she seemed unstoppable until now.
After a violent raid from a rival operation left bullet holes all over Lackadaisy - and inside Mitzi's trusted confidante Viktor - the situation is getting desperate in the glamorous pleasure palace hidden under the unassuming Little Daisy Cafe. As her charms fail to secure new business partners and the faith of her posse waivers, ambitious external forces press ever closer in. The gang struggles to secure booze, suss out new connections, and recover from recent traumas, all while the walls keep closing in.
A keepsake collected edition of the cult classic, Eisner Award-nominated webcomic!
- Extensive ARC campaign to major trades, mainstream news, and entertainment outlets
- Active Digital ARC promotions via NetGalley and Edelweiss
- Focused press outreach to high-traffic comics and genre news outlets
- Wide social media following currently reaching over 100,000 devoted readers
- Posters, shelf-talkers, and other POP materials included in retailer mailings and available for download by request
- Featured at comic book conventions, livestreamed virtual events, and trade shows throughout the year including C2E2, Book Show, and SPX
- Paid digital ad support during publication month reaching target reading audience on multiple channels
- Frequent eNewsletter promotions reaching an engaged audience of up to 40,000 fans
About the Author
Tracy Butler was born in 1980 in Springfield, Massachusetts. She studied biology for a year at Our Lady of the Elms College in Massachusetts, before returning to her art. She created a website with some of her work, which led to a job offer from Simutronics, a Missouri game development company. Butler performed illustration and graphic design work before moving into 3D character design and animation. After living in St. Louis for some time, she purchased a 100-year-old house and began researching its history, as well as that of the local neighborhood, and ultimately the history of St. Louis itself. Combined with her interest in jazz music and the characters she had designed in school, this led to her starting Lackadaisy in July 2006.
Reviews
"This immersive Jazz Age tale offers a rollicking mix of gunplay, quips, and romance." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Butler's fine-lined, sepia-toned artwork beautifully captures the visual style of the Jazz Age." -- BOOKLIST
"The lively series is full of drama, comedy, violence, and if you squint, a history lesson or two. Did we mention that all of the characters are cats?" - SYFY WIRE
"In Lackadaisy, cartoonist Tracy Butler re-creates the Jazz Age-with a twist." -- ST. LOUIS MAGAZINE
"One of the oldest and most highly acclaimed funny animal webcomics is Tracy J. Butler's Lackadaisy." -- COMIC BOOK RESOURCES
"Manages to both simultaneously romanticize the past, while never straying into sentimentality." -- SMASH PAGES
"With its detailed, expressive artwork and character-driven plot, Lackadaisy proves that webcomics are more than equal to their print counterparts." -- PULP PRESS
Book Information
ISBN 9781638991274
Author Tracy Butler
Format Paperback
Page Count 178
Imprint Iron Circus Comics
Publisher Iron Circus Comics
Series Lackadaisy
