Mission Art and Comic Expo 2025: Offerings

This page contains specific images of all items I plan to offer at MACE 2025, if I am accepted to table. These items are: 5 comic zines, 1 comic book, 2 comic prints and 2 non-comic prints.

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Thank you in advance for reviewing my application! 🙂

Comic Zines

Nightmares and Concrete

Summary: Sachiko is a little girl with a vivid imagination who has to navigate a difficult world around her after suffering from nightmares. One-shot comic zine (8 pages), self published in June 2025.

See full comic: https://marikoabe.com/nightmares-and-concrete/

More product details in shop listing: https://ko-fi.com/s/06c843217d

Pencilling Parallels

Summary: On a lazy Saturday morning, a daughter desperately tries to bond with her father as they stroll down memory lane over a steaming cuppa. One-shot comic zine (11 pages), self published in July 2025.

See full comic: https://en.mangadraft.com/comics/pencilling-parallels

More product details in shop listing: https://ko-fi.com/s/f589aea2ca

Yakuza Meets Detectives: THE PATRIARCH MURDER INCIDENT

Summary: A yakuza (Japanese criminal syndicate) underling seeks the help of 5 famous detectives to find out who killed her patriarch while the trail is still hot. One-shot comic zine (8 pages), self published in October 2024.

See full comic: https://marikoabe.com/yakuza-meets-detectives/

More product details in shop listing: https://ko-fi.com/s/f8cf3ac430

Lunchtime

Summary: A building manager makes the rounds at an apartment building he oversees, only to find himself in an apartment that’s not quite right. One-shot comic zine (6 pages), self published in January 2025.

See full comic: https://marikoabe.com/lunchtime/

More product details in shop listing: https://ko-fi.com/s/b1a00bafea

Anamnesis

Summary: A letter to my past self on getting out of a low point in life, juxtaposed against visuals based on the Kisaragi Station Japanese urban legend. One-shot comic zine (12 pages), self-published in March 2025.

See full comic: https://marikoabe.com/anamnesis/

More product details in shop listing: https://ko-fi.com/s/dfd539c50b (NOTE: There are two versions of this zine, one with Japanese stab binding and one with saddle stitch stapling.)

Other Comics

Hankerin’ For Ruination (Book)

Summary: Hankerin’ for Ruination is a collection of short comics inspired by song titles from the Guns N’ Roses’s 1987 debut album, published by Matthew Shultz. I contributed pages for the song title “Mr. Brownstone”, and have multiple copies of this book for sale.

More product details in shop listing: https://ko-fi.com/s/fa6ff25a88