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March 2013

Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories
by Ben Katchor
Pulses raced throughout the shop as these meticulously designed and
printed 11 5/8" x 12 1/4" hardcover books emerged from the box they
were shipped in. This book is cover to cover fabulosity; not a
square inch of wasted space is to be found. What we have on hand
here are the more than 150 (!) full color – and what color! Katchor is
revealed here to be a colorist par
excellence (think Pierre Bonnard) – full page strips
Katchor has been producing since
1988 for
Metropolis,
the excellent and, crucially for our enjoyment of these Katchor strips,
oversize magazine devoted to architecture, design and, as the name
suggests, urban living. Rather than struggle to find the words
to adequately describe this gem, we are going to refer you to the ever
insightful and always articulate Jeet
Heer's review in The Globe and Mail. Is this Katchor's best
book yet? It's too soon to say, but the answer may very well be
yes. Regardless of the verdict, what's certain is that Hand-Drying in America is an
æsthetically delightful and intellectually stimulating work that
will leave its readers with a truer understanding and better
appreciation of city life than they had before cracking its
covers. Recommended!
retail price - $29.95
copacetic price -
$25.95

On the Ropes
by Dan E. Burr and James Vance
Will wonders never cease? Who knew that writer, James Vance, and
illustrator Dan Burr had been hard at work on a massive sequel to Kings
in Disguise, their highly original series depicting
depression-era America that originally saw print as
a six-issue mini-series from Kitchen Sink Press way back in 1988?
Not us! On the Ropes is
a 248 page oversize hardcover that takes us to the year 1937, where
Fred Bloch – the protagonist of Kings
in Disguise – has found a temporary home in a
WPA-sponsored traveling circus! Here's what Alan Moore has to say
about this just released work: "More than twenty years in its
construction and worth every moment of the wait, James Vance and Dan
Burr's On the Ropes is that
most rare of animals, a sequel that's as powerful, as vital, and as
necessary as the work that it continues. A quietly epic human
tale that beautifully and expertly employs the comic medium in its
telling, On the Ropes is very
possible the most affecting graphic narrative that you will read the
next couple of decades." High praise, indeed, from someone who
should know.
retail price - $24.95
copacetic price -
$22.22

Letting
It Go
by Miriam Katin
While we're on the subject of long-in-the-making sequels, now would be
a good time to bring Miriam Katin's follow up memoir. Her
previous work, We Are On Our Own
was a memoir of her childhood escape from the Nazis during World War
II. This time around we find Katin struggling to come to terms
with her son's decision to move to Berlin, the former center of the
Nazi menace and so origin of the trauma at the center of her life, and,
needless to say, the lives – and, of course, deaths – of so many
others. Travel with Katin in the vehicle of her expressive,
pencil-drawn comics – this time around in full color – as she twice
travels from her home in New York to Berlin, first to visit her son and
the to attend a museum opening for a show that features her own
artwork. Get a head start with this PDF
preview.
retail price - $24.95
copacetic price -
$22.22

Hair
Shirt
by Patrick McEown
This work was released in French by Gaillimard in 2010, then in the UK
in 2011, and now it has at last made its way into the North American
distribution system and onto the Copacetic new releases
table.
Published by SelfMadeHero,
the same folks who brought us Nao of Brown, Hair Shirt is another finely
printed, well produced work by a talented artist given free reign to
follow their particular muse and see where it leads them. Patrick
McEown is a Canadian cartoonist who has been working since the mid-80s
(anybody remember Aircel's Samurai?)
and may be best known for his work
with Matt Wagner on Grendel.
While there's a hint of his pal Dave
Cooper in McEown's inking, he
has clearly established his own voice in comics. Nowhere is this
more
true than in the distinctive palette of his coloring, which is amply
on display here, in the primarily nocturnal settings of Hair Shirt's action.
McEown's muse has led him to to produce a sensually rendered account of
youthful sexual exploration and discovery in a nameless Canadian "City"
under the cover of night.
retail price - $24.95
copacetic price -
$22.22
Men's Group: The Video
by Ben Jones
Best known to Copacetic customers as 1/3 of the
comics/art/animation/music/performance group Paper Rad, Ben Jones has been
using that part of his day not spent devoted to his
animation
work establishing
himself in the international fine arts community with exhibits at
museums and galleries around the world, including The Museum of
Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
and the Loyal Gallery, Malmö – at which three institutions much of
the work to be found here was shown. Men's Group: The Video is a unique
book,
edited by Dan Nadel, designed by Norman Hathaway and
published by PictureBox (of course). Bound together in a slick
cardstock ringbinder that evokes a vague space somewhere between high
school locker and corporate business meeting are eight distinct
sections, each defined by a specific combination of page dimensions and
paper stock: a collection of InstaGram™ photos taken by visitors
to Jones's installation for the exhibit TransmissionLA at MOCA LA; a
collections of writings on Jones, his work and the concept of manhood
by Joe Bradley, Byron Coley, Phil Grauer, Dacid Kramer, Keith
McColluch, Gary Panter, Nicole Rudick and Peter Saul and an
interview/conversation between Dan Nadel and Ben Jones; and a series of
separate selections of paintings, video paintings, drawings, comics,
manufactured products and "Black Math". We have a (very)
few signed copies that come with a BJ/PB tote bag that will enable you
to leave Whole Foods in style. First come first served. (still a
couple left!)
retail price - $34.95
copacetic price -
$31.75

True
Chubbo presents Infinidick
by Family Sohn
Infinidick is a 44 page
signed (well, initialed, actually) and numbered (300 copies) Risograph
collection of True Chubbo, the "beloved" strip of
cartooned, scatologically leaning, sexually oriented humor
by the husband-and-wife team known as Family Sohn, that appears weekly
on the PictureBox site. To call this strip unique is putting it
mildly. Release your inner child into the world of contemporary
urban adult sexuality, if you dare.
retail price - $12.00
copacetic price -
$10.75

Negron
by Johnny Negron
We have had this one at the shop for a bit, but were late in getting it
up here: the PictureBox collection of Johnny Negron's
sumptuous, full color, pinup style renderings of zaftig
girls, skinny boys and... ants – but
mostly girls. There are also a couple black and white continuity
comics thrown in for good measure: "Violence City" and "Library";
and the dustjacket unfolds to reveal life in "The Year 3000."
Negron!
retail price - $19.95
copacetic price -
$17.77

The Comics Journal #302
Another mammoth 600+ pages of top notch articles, surveys, reviews, new
comics by Joe Sacco and Lewis Trondheim, and epic length interviews
with Maurice Sendak and Jacques Tardi.
Surprise bonuses include a
late (last?) interview with adventure strip legend, Roy Crane along
with the never-before-published "How to Draw Buz Sawyer" manual that
Crane prepared for his apprentice. Plus in-depth and unexpected
looks at Mort
Weisinger and Fredric Wertham. And a transcription of the
internet-enabled roundtable discussion that preceded the creation of
Spiegelman and Mouly's massive collection of children's comics from
several years back. More!
retail price - $30.00
copacetic price -
$25.00

Messages
In a Bottle
by Bernie Krigstein
This softcover edition is likely to be the definitive collection of
this Atomic Age master's comic book work. Krigstein was fully
conversant in multiple genres and this volume contains a full
complement of his best stories. Many were previously issued in
the now out of print 2004 Fantagraphics hardcover, B. Krigstein Comics. Messages includes additional
stories, most notably his most famous work, the EC classic, "Master
Race", from Impact #1.
All the artwork has been cleaned up, remastered for truer color
reproduction and looks great as a result. The work on dislay here
has exerted – and continues to exert – a tremendous influence on the
development of the comics form and language. Comics
apprentices and novices, along with aficionados and conoisseurs, take
note.
retail price - $35.00
copacetic price -
$29.75

Tales
Designed to Thrizzle, Volume Two
by Michael Kupperman
Among the legions of Thrizzle fans, those few who shun the comic book
floppy pamphlet in favor of book collections can at last rejoice, as
this second colection will end their
long drought
and bring them several years worth of Thrizzling Tales in one go. Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Volume Two
collects in
their entirety
the fifth through the eighth issues of this definitive twenty-first
century take on absurdity in four-color
comic book form.
retail price - $24.99
copacetic price -
$22.22

Cartooning:
Philosophy and Practice
by Ivan Brunetti
This slim tome contains the essence of Brunetti's course in cartooning
at Chicago's Columbia College. It was initially packaged together
with Comic Art #9, the last
issue of this fabled magazine, which was a best seller here at
Copacetic (and which we still
have in stock). It was subsequently issued as a stand alone
volume by Yale University Press, publisher of the two Brunetti-edited
anthologies of comics and graphic fiction that are our go-to volumes
for introducing new readers to the splendors of the form.
Erudite, entertaining, and, of course, educational, Brunetti's Cartooning is well worth the while
of anyone interested in learning how comics are constructed. Get
a taste from this Chicago
Mag preview.
retail price - $13.00
copacetic price -
$11.75
The Next Day (CD)
by David Bowie
Push
the Sky Away (CD/DVD)
by Nick Cave
It
is probably doing a disservice both to lump these two new releases
together, but it's too late now. It is highly likely that
those reading this who have even a passing interest in either of these
two celebrated musical
artist/performers are already well aware of their recent releases, but
there is always the chance that there are some who are unaware that we
have them in stock here at Copacetic. Anyone curious about The Next Day who
has yet to check out the two videos released thus far may do so now by
clicking here and
here.
The Next
Day – "deluxe" edition, w/ 3 extra tracks - copacetic
price -
$15.75
Push the Sky Away – "deluxe"
edition, w/ DVD, packaged in hardcover book(let) - copacetic
price -
$19.75

I
Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
by Richard Hell
Richard Hell can certainly count himself among the founders of punk
rock; if anyone can be credited with pioneering the spiky hair, ripped
T-shirt and safety pin look that became the visual hallmark of punk, it
is Richard Meyers, who most know and love – or hate, or love to hate,
or hate to love – as Richard Hell. Of course, there is much more
to punk than the pose, and Richard Hell was in at the birth of the
form, singing, writing songs, and playing bass with, first and
foremost, Tom Verlaine (née Miller) in the original Television, as
one of The Heartbreakers with
legendary
rock martyr Johnny Thunders, and,
perhaps most
importantly,
fronting the Voidoids with guitar-master Robert Quine. Between
these two covers, we get his take on his punk years and more.
Richard Hell has been considering himself more of a writer than a
musician for quite a while now, and not without reason: he has
developed a cogent and readable style that is easily several notches
above that found in typical a rock memoir and that is pretty much
guaranteed to be of interest to anyone with a yen to learn more about
those halcyon punk days; but don't expect another Just Kids.
retail price - $25.99
copacetic price -
$23.75
One Tick Rip-Off + Deep Cuts
by Paul Pope
The long Paul Pope drought has at last ended, although with a reprint
edition rather than a new work. The works in this 288 page
hardcover edition are, however, new in that most of them are presented
in full color for the first time. All the works collected here
are from the 1990s, covering the years in which Pope transitioned from
his native Columbus, OH to NYC, via Toronto and Tokyo. Taken as a
whole, the works provide a solid slice of Pope's oeuvre. While
many, perhaps most, fans of Pope's work may already have these works in
their collections, anyone who is only familiar with his works via his
work for DC's Vertigo imprint – and, of course, anyone heretofore
unfamiliar with his work – would do well to check out this
volume. Pope is a gifted cartoonist whose work is informed
by the energies of art rock and fine art as well as comics and manga,
and the years covered in this volume represent his most fertile
period. Here's
a Preview.
retail price - $29.99
copacetic price -
$27.50

Copra #5
by Michel FIffe
All readers who number themselves among the burgeoning legion of Copra
fans are hereby notified that the fifth issue of this full color comic
book, written, pencilled, inked, colored, edited, published and
distributed by Michel Fiffe, is here.
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$5.00
Items
from our March 2013 listings may now be purchased online at
our eCommerce
site, HERE.
New for
February 2013

Copra #1 - 4
by Michel Fiffe

There's been a lot of interest and excitement generated by this
self-published (monthly!), 24 page, full color title written and drawn
by Michel Fiffe, and now that we have the comics in the shop we can see
why! It may be the first true post-Fort
Thunder superhero team book (we'd like to know what Chippendale
thinks of this...). Our first impressions were something along the
lines of: the drawing energy of Frank Miller's Ronin via some of the conceptual
aspects of Grant Morrison's Doom
Patrol seasoned with a bit of the cosmic quirkiness of Joe Casey
and Tom
Scioli 's
Godland. Evidently,
however, Copra is inspired –
at least in part – by Fiffe's quasi-obsession with Suicide Squad, the 1980s DC title
by John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell, Kim Yale & Co. Regardless,
this is an artistically original and highly enthusiastic take on the
the superhero team book that is invigorating its readership. These
issues
are small batch print runs (although he is, evidently, not averse to
reprinting; our copies of #1 are 2nd prints) so don't spend too much
time making up your mind about this one. Once you
get an eyeful at Fiffe's
site, we think you'll be able to come to a decision pretty quickly.
retail price - $5.00@
copacetic price -
$5.00@

Cometbus
#55: Pen Pals
by Aaron Cometbus
The latest issue of the ur-punkzine
has arrived out of the blue. Set primarily in Berkeley, CA this
issue starts off in the summer of 1988 and runs for 40 chapters filling
72 pages. Sporting a snazzy wraparound cover by Jordan Crane this
cultural mainstay costs but a mere three dollars. It's the new Cometbus! What more do you
need to know?
retail price - $3.00
copacetic price -
$3.00

45 #7:
Radon
by Travis Fristoe & Aaron
Cometbus
And here's a treat, a second work by Mr. Cometbus, this one (co-)authored
with Travis Fristoe.
In this slim 44-page take-off on Continuum's popular 33 1/3 series of
LP monographs, he and fellow traveler Fristoe each take a stab at
laying down their thoughts and feelings on the obscure-yet-legendary
Gainesville, FL 90s punk band, Radon.
retail price - $4.00
copacetic price -
$4.00

St.
Owl's Bay
by Simon Hanselmann
Tasmanian internet sensation Simon "Truth Zone" Hanselmann has,
with St. Owl's Bay,
produced an all-new work that is the third in the series of
massive –
15" x 22" – full color broadsheets being published by Portland,
Oregon's Floating World bookshop. This eight-page adventure takes
Hanselmann's
tower block apartment
protagonists on their first ever camping trip. How will these
jaded
virtual reality habituès fare in the great out-of-doors?
No one will
be surprised to learn that things don't go as planned...
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$4.50

Freddie
Stories
by Lynda Barry
Here's the next installment of Drawn and Quarterly's Complete Comics of
Lynda Barry project. It is the first to mimic the horizontal
format of
the majority of previous collections of Barry's work,
although, of course, unlike the previous (pre-D&Q)
editions, this one is a deluxe hardcover – no cheap, flimsy paperback
here. And, also unlike the previous edition of Freddie Stories,
this comes with a large number of heretofore unpublished strips!
retail price - $19.95
copacetic price -
$17.77

Cursed
Pirate Girl
by Jeremy Bastian
This all-ages fantasy tale of a girl pirate in search of her father is
packaged in a ragged-edge edition with an
embossed hardcover upon which it
is billed as a "nautical fairy tale of strange creatures, whimsical
characters, swashbuckling danger and the the most bizarre pirates you
could hope for." In addition to the appeal offered by this
description, we will also offer the fact that fans of detailed pen and
ink rendering will be sure to
find what they're looking for here. Take a gander of some of what
is in store for readers with this full-screen
preview.
retail price - $24.95
copacetic price -
$22.22
Susceptible
by Geneviéve Castrée
It's been awhile since we were last treated to a solid chunk of Ms.
Castrée's lush linework in print form may now at lat
rejoice. This black and white hardcover volume from Drawn and
Quarterly is "a devastating graphic novel ... about the heartbreaking
loss of innocence when a child is forced to be the adult amongst
grownups" that relates the childhood and young adult years of a
"daydreamer" who finds her way to adulthood through a path constructed
of "punk rock, drawing and the promise of true independence."
Here's a nice PDF
preview courtesy of D&Q.
retail price - $19.95
copacetic price -
$17.77

Molecules
by Michael DeForge
This new, 8-page, B & W micro-comic, with color cardstock cover,
from Space Face Books presents a visually enticing dose of
absurdo-science which engages the reader in their alienation from the
scientification of the everyday.
retail price - $3.00
copacetic price - gone!

Henry & Glenn Forever + Ever
by Tom Neely, Ed Luce, Ben Marra, et al
32 more pages of comics that probe contemporary youth's conceptions
of masculinity and its relationship to sexual orientation through two
iconic counter-culture figures that emerged from the musical
underground in the early 1980s and, evidently, continue to resonate
with audiences thirty years later. Now available in this
destined-to-be-a-collector's-item edition sporting the definitive
rendering of this concept by Jim Rugg drawing in the manner of Tom
of Finland.
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$5.00

Gray Is
Not a Color
by Sally Madden
The latest (as of this writing) in the series of Retrofit Comics
oneshots, Gray Is Not a Color
presents its readers with a humorous – and informative – tale of the
author's (high school [see below] senior) year working in, of all
places, the basement of the The Mutter
Museum (of medical oddities!) at The College of Physicians of
Philadelphia. An abundance of playful anecdotes, vignettes,
reminiscences, and just plain old stories fill this comic book to
overflowing, giving readers quite a bang for their buck.
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$4.50

Not My Small
Diary #17: Stories from High School
edited by Delaine Derry Green
It is clear that stories that harken back to high school days are a
perennial staple of comics publishing, and so we suppose that it was
ineveitbale that NMSD would devote an issue to this very popular
theme. This time around we have a 136 page perfectbound
collection of
over fifty (!) tales from those oh-so formative years by a host of
alphabetically ordered contributors including T. Edward Bak, Donna
Barr, Box Brown, Brad Foster, Roberta Gregory, Dave Kiersh, Carrie
McNinch, Dan Moynihan, Misun Oh, John Porcellino, Liz Prince, Lizzee
Solomon, Julia Wertz, Shannon Wheeler, and many others.
retail price - $7.00
copacetic price -
$6.00

Banksy:
The Man Behind the Wall
by Will Ellsworth-Jones
The unauthorized (could there be any other kind?) bio of the undisputed
king of using public spaces for his own (artistic) ends. To learn
more about this book, read this
review in the New Republic by Sophie Gilbert.
retail price - $27.99
copacetic price -
$25.00

The Bird
King: An Artist's Notebook
by Shaun Tan
A sketch book cum idea file by the author of The Arrival, this is an
attractively produced clothbound hardcover printed in full color and
black and white. See the creative mind in action, exploring
visual concepts and ideas. This guy can draw!
retail price - $19.99
copacetic price -
$17.77
Items
from our February 2013 listings may now be purchased online at
our eCommerce
site, HERE.
New for
January 2013
Beta Testing the Apocalypse
by Tom Kaczynski
Here they are, at last under one cover: the tales of extreme alienation
and deeply seated paranoia, of
emotions replaced by systems and humanity crushed by its own
technology, all leading to the inevitable crumbling of civilization,
that ran in MOME between
2007 and 2011, including the masterful "Million Year Boom," about which
we enthused on the occasion of its original release in MOME 11, "(It)
will knock your socks off. It is probably the first wholly
successful translation of the Ballardian (as in J.G. Ballard) narrative
approach to science fiction yet achieved in comics form. This
deeply creepy tale brings us face to face with a world where major
corporate leaders so deeply internalize their own marketing messages
and stock market hype that they become untethered from consensus
reality and move into the ambiguous landscapes of delusion, paranoia
and insanity that were so successfully mined by Ballard (and, to be
fair, by many others, most notably Philip K Dick; but none so well as
Ballard, who is most convincingly evoked here). While the
influence of Clowes is certainly evident in Kaczynski's work, he has
created a wholly original synthesis here." But wait, there's
more! Beta Testing the
Apocalypse also contains the previously
unpublished – and thus aptly titled – "The New," a 32 page epoch
spanning epic that might be Kaczynski's most ambitious tale yet.
This flexi-cover volume then concludes with an intriguingly detailed
index of the people, places, subjects, objects, themes and concepts it
contains, which should serve to inspire readers to dive right back in
and revisit the works in a fresh light.
retail price - $19.99
copacetic price -
$17.77

Aya:
Love in Yop City
by Marguerite Abouet & Clément Ouberie
This 360 page, full color volume is the follow-up to last year's
omnibus collection Aya: Life in Yop
City, which collected the first three, previously published,
volumes in the series, Aya, Aya of
Yop CIty and Aya, the
Secrets Come Out. This time around we get to go straight
to the omnibus collection and the fantastic value if offers. The
three volumes are contained in Aya:
Love in Yop City are published here for the first time in
English, and represent the conclusion to this exuberantly written and
lushly illustrated series of life in the Côte
d'Ivoire during the 1970s. Written by
Ivoirian native, Abouet and illustrated by her French husband, Ouberie,
the Aya books have met with great success in their homeland of France,
including taking home an award from the Angoulême Festival,
and there are plans for a film version. Anyone not yet familiar
with this series would do well to take a taste via this PDF
preview. This is a great series!
retail price - $24.95
copacetic price -
$22.22
Jack Jackson's American History: Los Tejanos and Lost Cause
by Jack Jackson
This volume is sure to become the definitive edition of these two
pioneering works of comics history by one of the founders of the
underground comics revolution. Jack Jackson (or Jaxon, the
Gilbert Shelton supplied nom de plume
by which he was widely known during the his underground comics heyday)
published God Nose in Texas
way back in 1964, before moving to San Francisco in 1966 to co-found
Rip Off Press with Gilbert. Los Tejanos was one of the first
graphic novels published by Fantagraphics, way back in 1982, at which
time it was a total anomaly in the comics market: a work of
serious history in comics form. As Ron Hansen writes in his
introduction to this volume, "The range of tone, the irony, and the
seriousness of his subject matter created a market resistance to
Jackson's art that he never overcame. Over twenty years, Los Tejanos sold only 4,000
copies." Lost Cause (the full title of which is Lost Cause: John
Wesley Hardin, the Taylor-Sutton Feud, and Reconstruction Texas) was
published after a long gestation in 1998 by Kitchen Sink Press.
This 313 page hardcover volume features excellent black and white
reproductions printed on flat, off-white stock and includes Jackson's
1998 Comics Journal interview, a list of sources, a brief biography by
Patrick Rosenkranz, maps and more.
retail price - $35.00
copacetic price -
$29.75

Problematic:
Sketchbook Drawings, 2004 - 2012
by Jim Woodring
Despite this book's fairly diminutive dimensions – 5" x 8" – Woodring
state in his introduction that the drawings it contains "have been
enlarged approximately 140% from the originals." This means two
things: 1) Jim Woodring works small;
and 2) readers are treated to an up close and personal look at the
artist's methods. Pencils are clearly visible under the inks of
most drawings, allowing artists curious to learn Woodring's artistic modus operandi plenty of
opportunity to do so in this chunky tome's 364 pages of nothing but
drawing.
retail price - $28.99
copacetic price -
$25.00
The
Blonde Woman
by Aidan Koch
Aidan Koch is currently at the forefront of efforts to bring painterly
values to comics. Continuing a tradition with forebears including
Jeffrey Jones, Jon J Muth and Frank Santoro, Ms. Koch creates comics in
which the content is to be found as much through the process of
representation as in that which is being represented. The Blonde Woman is a 48 page, full
color, graphic
novella, printed &
perfect bound in a numbered edition of 500 with the assistance of one
of the last grants from the Xeric Foundation. The story, as such,
is one of doubling, of seeing oneself
(or not)
in the other, of the projection of subject onto object and the gleaning
of awareness that this process offers. As is often the case in
narratives such as this, the artist renders her
hard won insights unto
the reader of the work, who receives illumination, while the characters
portrayed remain in the dark. That said, the primary
benefits on offer here are æsthetic. Ms. Koch is forging a
unique synthesis of the values of classical drawing and painting with
those of contemporary cartooning, and The Blonde Woman is the most
substantial embodiment of this synthesis she has produced thus
far. Well worth a look for anyone who like to extend their
appreciations in either direction. And to encourage Copacetic
customers to take this look, we are offering a substantial incentive
discount for a limited time.
retail price - $20.00
copacetic special price -
$13.75
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo + Me
by Ellen Forney
Marbles (as in "she's lost
her marbles") is the latest widely heralded "graphic memoir" release
from a major publisher, in
this case, the Gotham Books imprint of Penguin.
Maus, Persepolis, Fun Home:
these are but the most widely known of among countless others in this
quite successful publishing category. There's something about
comics that allows an up close and personal communion unequaled by
other forms and that makes it perhaps the ideal medium for confessional
tales, as first revealed back in 1972 by Justin Green with his Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary.
As the title suggests, this work focuses on Forney's grappling with a
diagnosis of bipolar disorder. No stranger to the graphic memoir,
Forney has been a published cartoonist for fifteen years, and and can
count among her works the zesty and zany look at her 1970s childhood, Monkey Food. In its focus on
psychiatry, coming out and coping, Marbles
is a satisfying read and might be a good suggestion for anyone looking
to follow up Alison Bechdel's latest, Are
You My Mother?, which occupies a similar terrain, albeit on very
different terms.
retail price - $20.00
copacetic price -
$17.77
Barrel of Monkeys
by Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot
The creative collaboration between Ruppert and Mulot – who written and
drawn by both artists in a "shared visual style" – began when they met
at the National School of Arts in Dijon, France. Their work has
been published in France for close to a decade. Astute Copacetic
customers may recall seeing their 2008 work, Le Tricheur (The Cheat), in the
Finnish edition published by Huuda Huuda, in the import area of our
small press table. Originally published in France in 2006, Barrel of Monkeys is their first
work to be published in an English-language edition, and is the first
release of Rebus
Books, the newly launched publisher headed by noted comics scholar,
Bill Kartalopoulos. It is, like all of Ruppert and Mulot's works
that we have been exposed to, a graphically inventive presentation of
people behaving badly. It's been getting plenty of good press,
much of which you can access via the Rebus Books Tumblr page.
retail price - $19.95
copacetic price -
$17.77

The
Libertarian
by Nick Maandag
The Libertarian is Canadian
cartoonist, Nick Maandag's follow up work to his cultishly popular 2011
comics novella, Streakers.
This 41 page digest size comic book follows the adventures of Rob
Vanderbranch, the titular libertarian, who sets himself to the unlikely
task of courting a "vegan-socialist-feminist." High jinx
ensue.
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$5.00

Heartless
by Nina Bunjevac
Ms. Bunjevac is a talented cartoonist and illustrator of Yugoslavian
heritage currently living and working in Toronto, Ontario. Heartless collects a hundred
page chunk of her comics along with a
dozen or so illustrations. Her work is finely crafted, highly
detailed and skillfully designed; the drawing is carefully stippled and
heavy on black tones; the content is both sexual and surreal, often
both at once! Comics pros like Kim Deitch and Jay Lynch, as well
as top UK critic, Paul Gravett all sing her praises. Get a better
idea of what we're talking about by taking a trip over to her website and
scoping out some
of her work.
retail price - $20.00
copacetic price -
$17.77

Fanny
and Romeo
by Pascal Girard and Yves Pelletier
Here's a treat! A 128 page, full color graphic novel that is a
collaboration between the Doug Wright Award-winning Canadian
cartoonist, Pascal Girard, and "first time author", the
Québécois comic actor, Yves Pelletier. The story is
romantic comedy that stands out for its steadfastly domestic
character.
retail price - $20.00
copacetic price -
$17.77

Weird #2
by Noel Freibert
This aptly titled 68 page magazine sports a hand silk-screened cover
that encloses a variety of work: primarily comics, but also stories and
illustrations. The lion's share of the work on hand is by Mr.
Freibert, but he has recruited a team of contributors including Sasha
Wiseman, Max Mose, Ben Stiegler, Brian Nicholson, and others. Get
an idea of what to expect by tuning into the Weird Magazine Tumblr.
retail price - $10.00
copacetic price -
$9.00
S! #12
The latest issue of this anthology of international comics art
published in Latvia (with state support, no less!) may be the best
yet. Sub-titled
"Future 2.0" and co-edited by Annie Koyama, this
pint-sized (A6 format; roughly 4" x 6") powerhouse (180 full color
pages) packs a cartoon wallop, presenting all new work by the likes of
Michael DeForge, Jesse Jacobs, Charles Forsman, Dustin Harbin, Ryan
Cecil Smith, Julie Delporte, and plenty of other talented cartoonists
from Europe and North America.
retail price - $12.00
copacetic price -
$12.00

Arthur No. 33
edited by Jay Babcock
Having spent several years in an
online-only
existence (which still continues, complimenting the relaunched print
edition), Editor Jay Babcock has teamed up with Floating World's
Jason Leivian to co-pilot Arthur's return to print. Picking up
where the print edition's numbering left off, #33 is a massive 14" x
22", 16 page, newspaper printed in full color and black & white
that sports a terrific cover by the lead interview subject, Rick
Veitch, and includes new comics by Gabby Schulz along with reviews by
long time Arthur regulars, Byron Coley and Thurston Moore,
an interview with and discography of Guitarist Jack Rose, and
plenty more.
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$4.50

Pogo, Volume 2 – 1951-1952: Bona Fide Balderdash
by Walt Kelly; forward by Stan Freberg
Two more complete years of Pogo dailies and full color Sundays, in the
ongoing Fantagraphics project to collect the complete edition of this
undisputed comics masterwork by Walt Kelly in annotated, lushly
produced, 12" x 9", horizontally formatted, clothbound editions.
retail price - $39.99
copacetic price -
$35.00
Nexus Omnibus, Volume 1
by Mike Baron and Steve Rude
One of the very few notable achievements made during the 1980 & 90s
in heroic fantasy comics, in Nexus Baron & Rude created a wholly
original concept and proceeded to put together one of the most
elaborate and fully fleshed out comics universes, one that is both
fully engaging on its own terms, but that also allegorically
corresponds to the history of the twentieth century in many instances –
particularly where totalitarianism is concerned. This 424 page
edition
collects the rare three issue original black & white run published
by the short-lived Capital Comics Imprint, and then the first eleven
issues of the full color series, the first six issues of which were
published by Capital Comics, before handing the series off to the
(then) newly formed First Comics, who published the remainder of the
original 80 issue run, after which point Dark Horse Comics took
over.
retail price - $24.99 copacetic
price -
$22.22
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