Runaway Comic #1 Mark Martin After a hiatus from a regularly serialized comic —but not from comics— Mark Martin debuts his new, semi-annual title Runaway this month. Mark Martin is probably best known for his hilarious Nude Dancer single-pagers (collected by Tundra) and his anthology comic that he shared with Jim Woodring, Tantalizing Stories. Since then, he's contributed comics to anthologies from Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, Disney Adventures, Nickelodeon, and other venues. Martin is now back with a vengeance with his own solo, semi-annual Runaway Comics. The first issue begins the longest story starring his popular character Montgomery Wart (from Tantalizing Stories) — plus several shorter stories to round out the first issue. The book is full of Martin's patented visuals, at once dazzling and animated, slapstick humor, perfect timing, distinctive character designs, and rambunctious storytelling. Find out why so many cartoonists,f rom Scott McCloud to Jim Woodring, love Martin's comics.