Birdcage Bottom Books

Birdcage Bottom Books Birdcage Bottom Books publishes and distributes self-published & small-press comics, prints & apparel. We specialize in hand-made comics and mini-comics.

BBB is run by J.T. Yost, a very tired man.

Hey Birdcage Artists and Creators… We want to pay you!We mostly settled accounts with folks this past spring. Everyone w...
05/28/2025

Hey Birdcage Artists and Creators… We want to pay you!

We mostly settled accounts with folks this past spring. Everyone who responded got cash back from the distro. But unfortunately, some creators whose books we sell have NOT responded! Crazy, right?

If you have books in the distro and haven’t gotten your 2023-2024 payout, PLEASE get back to us. Email [email protected] right away. It may be a little or a lot, but those sheckles have YOUR name on ‘em!

This week we shine a light on Jonathan Baylis and his long-running series "So Buttons". His auto-bio stories cover slice...
05/21/2025

This week we shine a light on Jonathan Baylis and his long-running series "So Buttons". His auto-bio stories cover slices of real life, seasoned with large helpings of pop-culture, and delivered by a masterful array of comic illustrators. The latest issue ( #14) is even nominated for an Eisner Award—you can get them all at birdcagebottombooks.com

This week's Artist Spotlight is on Robert Sikoryak Sikoryak master of the literary mashup and his continuing series of p...
05/13/2025

This week's Artist Spotlight is on Robert Sikoryak Sikoryak master of the literary mashup and his continuing series of poetry mini-comics. Great writing and classic comics like you've never seen before. The whole series is available at Birdcage Bottom Books right now...collect 'em all!

Hey! What are YOU reading this week? We're always looking for recommendations of comics to read and to carry in the dist...
05/07/2025

Hey! What are YOU reading this week? We're always looking for recommendations of comics to read and to carry in the distro! Graphic memoir, medicine, diaries, humor... what you got?

MORE NEW IN THE DISTRO: Books by Jonathan Bayliss, Joe Sikoryak, Sam Grinberg, Curt Merlo, and Violaine Briat! Graphic m...
05/02/2025

MORE NEW IN THE DISTRO: Books by Jonathan Bayliss, Joe Sikoryak, Sam Grinberg, Curt Merlo, and Violaine Briat! Graphic memoir, graphic medicine, fantasy adventure and more --- link to the store in comments.

NEW IN THE DISTRO for May: Check out books from Yeah Dude Comics, Matt Canning, Alex Nall, and Chris Shelton! Psychedeli...
05/02/2025

NEW IN THE DISTRO for May: Check out books from Yeah Dude Comics, Matt Canning, Alex Nall, and Chris Shelton! Psychedelic Sci-Fi, Mortuary memoir, Fantasy adventure and more! Link in comments...

It's January, which means it's time to close the books for 2024—and if you are one of our artists in the distro, watch y...
01/11/2025

It's January, which means it's time to close the books for 2024—and if you are one of our artists in the distro, watch your emails for a sales report! Payouts are a comin'

Are going to Comic Arts Los Angeles?This weekend, December 14 and 15, another curated festival of independent comic arti...
12/12/2024

Are going to Comic Arts Los Angeles?

This weekend, December 14 and 15, another curated festival of independent comic artists is taking place at Homenetmen Ararat North Campus. It's been 10 years since the show was first organized and it features a fantastic collection of artists from near and far.

We highly recommend that you head down to 3015 Rosslyn St. Los Angeles—admission is free—but if you can't make the trip, allow us to mention that some of the exhibitors also sell their books here at The Birdcage, including Violaine Briat, Coin-Op Books, Demi Naito, Sam Grinberg, and Fred Noland! One way or another, we hope you can check 'em out.

Just putting a pin in it... we're back! Some good things will be happening soon. Watch this space or wherever you follow...
11/23/2024

Just putting a pin in it... we're back! Some good things will be happening soon. Watch this space or wherever you follow us on social!

Our Spooky Season collections are out in the cafe and available online in the Distro!  Misfortune  Comfort Creatures and...
10/13/2023

Our Spooky Season collections are out in the cafe and available online in the Distro!
Misfortune
Comfort Creatures and Spaced Out Inner Galactic Beings
Woods
And don’t miss ‘s display of spooky themed books in the cafe as well!
Acid Nun
Demons
Be Kind My Neighbor

What’s this? What’s THIS?We know we’ve been pretty quiet around these parts but we’re BACK, HERE, with some SUPER EXCITI...
10/10/2023

What’s this? What’s THIS?

We know we’ve been pretty quiet around these parts but we’re BACK, HERE, with some SUPER EXCITING NEWS!)

Birdcage Bottom Books now has a Patreon!

As part of our continuing goal to help self-published artists and small presses reach a wider audience, the BBB has started a Patreon to help us fund the business of supporting creators! Because profit margins are so slim in the industry, we’ve found that a lot of traditional business models take that cut from artist’s profits of their books - but we’re artists too, and we know how little artists already make from their work! And that sucks!

So this is our new solution: We’re hoping to use the Patreon to fund the BBB’s expenses (and maybe even pay ourselves eventually, golly gee!) so that we can pass on as much of the profits from actual book sales to our artists as possible, both published by us and within our distro.

In return for your support we will be posting weekly content from ourselves as well as band videos and photos from shows at the Birdcage Comics Cafe, and we also hope to pull in some exclusive content from our artists to give you sneak peeks into their projects, pre-sales of our books, and maybe even some Patreon-Only freebies! Follow along as we build things from the ground up!

So help us build a better Birdcage! The first 50 people to sign up to the Bronze tier or higher will receive a FREE poster as a thanks.

Check the link in our bio - we can’t do it without you! Vive the weird funny s**t life craps out!

NEW ARTIST ALERT! Welcome  to the Birdcage Fam! You can now find Andrew Oh’s 'Day And Age' series for sale in our distro...
09/18/2023

NEW ARTIST ALERT! 

Welcome to the Birdcage Fam! You can now find Andrew Oh’s 'Day And Age' series for sale in our distro!

Day and Age is a memoir comic chronicling Andrew’s experiences starting in 2020(something significant happened then that led us all to a life of introspection, right?) and the too-relatable struggle of trying to connect with people while in lockdown and during multiple life transitions.

These comics are also a fascinating look at the development of Andrew’s personal style and voice as he explores topics like health, dating, traveling cross-country, dealing with other people’s noisy pets, and an ongoing medical misadventure.  ($12) 

Trouble Down South picks up on that thread, with a full director’s commentary into the peculiar world of an as-of-yet undiagnosed medical mystery. Straight from the doctor’s office to you comes 44 pages of ‘Huh. Well that’s not right.’ ($8)

Pick up all three over at our website!

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324-A West 71st Street
New York, NY
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