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New
for September 2013
Pompeii
by Frank Santoro
Principles derived in classical antiquity
and then revived during the renaissance are given a new lease on life
in comics (Renaissance II: Comics?) through the work of Frank
Santoro. The Golden Section, Dynamic Symmetry,
and plenty
more are all incorporated
into the underlying structure of his work, and nowhere more so than
here. The complete Pompeii graphic novel premiered at this
year's SPX, a year after its first chapter had appeared as a limited
edition risograph at last year's SPX (and which went on to sell out in
the blink of an eye). The book's look and feel transmits an
æsthetic charge even before it is opened to reveal a 144 page
work, printed in a Mediterranean brown on just the right paper stock,
that tells a tale that is at once ancient and modern. At last we
have the fully fleshed out vision of Santoro's long gestated meditation
on the axes of art: artists and patrons; money, sex, power and love;
subject and object; the eternal recurrence of archetypes; and, of
course, comics and geometry. Continuing on the same course that
he set in the first chapter, Santoro here maintains and further
strengthens his compositional manifesto proclaiming the centrality of
"the spread" – the two pages that lay open before the reader and are
simultaneously taken in as a compositional whole and scanned/read as a
narrative text. This is a work that must be carefully and
deliberately studied in order to extract the multiple layers of
signification and meaning that are encoded within the art. The
parallel positioning of people, places and objects within the
respective grids of the left and right pages of each spread invites
analogical synthesis on the part of the reader, and it is within this
synthesis that the real drama unfolds. This synthesis is facilitated by the use
of rough gestural drawings throughout much of the narrative, providing
a sense of immediacy to the characters' actions and giving a "living in
the moment" feel to the drama that together serve to draw the reader in
and so more viscerally experience the last days of Pompeii. The
ease with which we note parallels to our own times leads to pondering
what may or may not lie ahead, and to wonder if there is anything any
of us can do about it. Pompeii is a rich, multi-layered
work that grows with each successive reading. COPACETIC
EXCLUSIVE: Through the holiday season, we will be
including a copy of Santoro's 2011 prelude to Pompeii, Blast Furnace Funnies,
with all orders of Pompeii -
at no extra charge; in the shop and online.
retail price - $19.99
copacetic price -
$17.77

Made Fun
by Nate McDonough
And as we're on the subject of Made in Pittsburgh graphic novels, now
would be a good time to draw your attention to the latest – and
greatest (so far) – from Pittsburgh-cartoonist-about-town and Copacetic
stalwart, Nate McDonough. Made
Fun is a full-size, 92 page descent into the maelstrom.
Two intertwining narratives lock the reader in a spiral between two
worlds. Whether the division can or should be perceived as being
between the conscious and unconscious, between waking and dreaming, or
between something else altogether is, ultimately, immaterial to the
appreciation of the drama delineated here, which is of the existential
struggle of making sense of an absurd universe.
retail price - $10.00
copacetic price -
$8.88

Incidents
in the Night 1
by David B.
Upstart Minneapolis-based publisher, Uncivilized Books, headed by the
innovative cartoonist, Tom Kaczynski, has scored a coup in securing the
US rights to this amazing series by top European cartoonist, David
B. As no one here has had the chance to do more than look at it
(and it looks great!) we're
going to pass on the official Uncivilized Books propaganda: "In Incidents in the Night David B. (Epileptic, The Armed Garden) sets
out to explore the uncharted territories of overflowing and dusty
shelves of Paris' legendary book shops. His journey quickly turns into
an obsessive vision quest in pursuit of a mysterious 19th Century
journal: Incidents In the Night. Mountains of books become sites
of archeological digs as the author excavates layers of myth, fact and
fiction in search of the elusive thread that links them all. Along the
way he stumbles on fanatical Bonapartists, occult conspiracies and the
angel of death. Incidents in the
Night is an intricate, ever-expanding
web of dream and reality exquisitely translated by novelist Brian
Evenson (Immobility, The Wavering
Knife, Fugue State)."
retail price - $19.99
copacetic price -
$17.77

Amazing
Facts and Beyond
by Kevin Huizenga and Dan Zettwoch (w/ a little help from Ted May)
Also new from Uncivilized books is this hardcover collecting the
entirety of the Amazing Facts and Beyond series that has been
self-published over the last 3-4 (?) years by the scintillating St.
Louis duo of Huizenga & Zettwoch. This series developed a
loyal following here at Copacetic, so we know that many of you reading
this already have all that this volume contains, but we're sure that
there are plenty of others who have yet to sample the obscure pleasures
of this particular text. Hosted by the cartoon creation, Leon
Beyond, this series presents page after page of cartooned "amazing
facts" that might be described as the Sunday comics edition of Ripley's Believe-It-or-Not
genetically spliced to The
Museum of Jurassic Technology... sort of. Page after page of
head-spinning information where form trumps content A perfect bedside
companion, if you'd like some help jump starting some off the wall
dreams...
retail price - $24.99
copacetic price -
$21.75

Property
by Rutu Modan
An all new, full color, hardcover graphic novel from the foremost
Israeli practitioner of the form. This time around Ms. Modan
delves into history through a trip to the "old country", in this case
Warsaw, Poland, where an elderly woman and her granddaughter try to
reclaim family property lost during World War II. A clash of both
generations and cultures ensues.
retail price - $24.99
copacetic price -
$22.22

Map of
Days
by Robert Hunter
Another beautiful book from the presses at NoBrow! Mr. Hunter,
heretofore best known here at Copacetic as the creator of The New
Ghost, has taken his art to new heights here in Map of Days. This hardcover
book with an accent on the vertical is stunningly laid out and
beautifully colored. You don't have to take our word for it; just
check out this
series of preview photos on the NoBrow site.
retail price - $18.95
copacetic price -
$17.00

World
Map Room
by Yuichi Yokoyama
Three men on a journey that is, strangely, simultaneously purposeful
and purposeless. Eventually they reach their destination: The
World Map Room. 176 pages of comics as only Yokoyama can make and
only PictureBox is hep enough to publish. Strap yourself in and
get ready for the ride...
retail price - $19.99
copacetic price -
$17.77

School
Spirits
by Anya Davidson
Chicago-based cartoonist/printmaker/musician, Anya Davidson pulls out
the stops in her debut full length work; for PictureBox (natch').
This 152 page hardcover is a collection-cum-graphic novel that is
packed cover to cover with non-stop comics power! Imagination
runs amok and one thing leads to another: exotica, fantasy,
science fiction, art, rock, drugs and sex – not necessarily in that
order – mix and mingle in a work that freely combines a wide-world of
comics influences ranging
from Archie Comics to Gary Panter in
forging an original synthesis.
retail price - $19.99
copacetic price -
$17.77

Boxers / Saints
by Gene Yang
The Return of Gene Yang! Anyone wondering what Mr. Yang's been up to
since he caused a sensation with American
Born Chinese now has the answer: He's been keeping very busy
creating this epic bipartite work dealing with the Boxer Rebellion,
Boxers/Saints. Available
in
individual volumes or as a box set. This work is a true tour de force
of comics making, and incorporates a stroke of genius in Yang's
insightful decision to tell the story of this war in two separate
volumes encompassing the same time frame, but told from the respective
points of view of each opposing side. It's intense! He
talks about
the "making of" in
a CBR
interview, here.
Boxers - retail price - $18.99
copacetic price -
$17.17
Saints - retail price - $15.99
copacetic price -
$14.44
Box Set containing both - retail price - $34.99
copacetic price -
$29.75

Relish
by Lucy Knisley
In Relish, Ms. Knisley takes
a
giant leap forward in her artistic development. With shades of
Alison
Bechdel and Ruto Modan, Knisley tackles her lifelong involvement with
food - cooking, dining and eating. Growing up in a family filled
with
food professionals provided her with plenty of food for thought – and
comics.
retail price - $17.99
copacetic price -
$16.25

Blobby Boys
by Alex Schubert
Straight up comics with plenty of 'tude, the comics collected here
capture exactly that part of the work of Dan Clowes that was strained
out by Adrain Tomine (see below). Wise-cracking street corner
antics in full color; from Koyama Press.
retail price - $10.00
copacetic price -
$9.00

The
Secret Voice #1
by Zack Soto
An action-packed adventure tale in which the energy of the rendering
matches the energy of the action. This is a comic book: 44
full color pages printed on newsprint with a wraparound risograph
cover.
retail price - $8.00
copacetic price -
$7.20

Optic
Nerve #13
by Adrian Tomine
A mere two years after the last issue, Tomine is back with a two-tale
issue. The first of these tales, "Go Owls", bores steadily - if
stealthily - straight to the core of despair that lurks in or around
the heart of many a loyal sports team fan. The second,
"Translated, from the Japanese" is a meditative recollection of life
through a parent's eyes. Added bonus: cover is one-page gag
strip!
retail price - $5.95
copacetic price -
$5.35

Smoke
Signals #15
edited by Gabe Fowler
Another thirty-two page tabloid newspaper filled with comics! This
issue has a wraparound cover by Gary Panter and includes collaborative
work by Leslie Stein and Michael DeForge, new work by Lale Westvind,
John Broadley, Gerald Jablonski, Kaz, Joe Kessler, and reprints by
Kamagurka and Seele, Scott C. and Gavin McInnes.
retail price - $3.00
copacetic price -
$3.00

A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit
Gets to a Diamond:
Captain
Beefheart interviews and texts 1966 – 2001
by Lester Bangs, et al
300 pages of classic and obscure writings on and interviews with Don
Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart; now all together in one place.
retail price - $15.00
copacetic price -
$15.00
FALL READS ARE HERE

Bleeding Edge
by Thomas Pynchon
It's the new Pynchon, do you really need to know more? Yes?
Well then, HERE.
retail price - $28.95
copacetic price -
$25.00
Archangel
by Andrea Barrett
Here's
what to expect from Ms. Barrett's latest; looking forward to digging
in...
retail price - $24.99
copacetic price -
$22.22


Dissident Gardens
by Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan
Strikes Back, on Slate.
retail price - $27.95
copacetic price -
$24.75
Night Film
by Marisha Peshel
Her long awaited follow up to Special
Topics in Calamity Physics is here. Learn more HERE.
retail price - $28.00
copacetic price -
$25.00


Claire of the Sea Light
by Edwidge Danticat
Learn more HERE.
retail price - $25.95
copacetic price -
$23.75
Someone
by Alice McDermott
Read
and/or listen to Susan Jane Gilman's review on NPR.
retail price - $25.00
copacetic price -
$22.50
Items
from our September 2013 listings may now be purchased online at
our eCommerce
site, HERE.
New for
August 2013
The Children of Palomar
by Gilbert Hernandez
Clearly, this is The Year of Gilbert Hernandez. The Children of Palomar is his third new hardcover to be
released so far this year, and we understand that another is on
schedule to be released before the year is out – in addition to an all
new issue of Love and Rockets: New
Stories!!! This volume collects the complete three issue
"Ignatz" series, New Tales of Old
Palomar, originally published in 2006-08. These stories
display Beto's talent for up
close and personal stories set amidst deftly
rendered landscapes that are by turn haunting and enchanting.
These stories marked the long-awaited return to the the land of
"Heartbreak Soup" and readers will once again get the chance to spend
time with their pen and ink pals, Pipo, Carmen, sheriff Chelo,
Heraclio, Israel, Vicente, Jesús, Satch and more as they walk
the dusty streets of Palomar...
retail price - $22.99
copacetic price -
$18.88
Comics
Workbook #1
by Andrew White
Produced in an ultra-limited edition of 25 copies, this handmade (by
Comics Workbook head honcho, Frank Santoro) wonder contains 25
individual full color pages
printed on heavy glossy stock. The grid gets a workout as Mr.
White is put through the Santoro School™ paces and comes up with an
inventive approach every time. Æsthetes and students of the
form will be equally rewarded by this excellent package.
retail price - $20.00
copacetic price -
$20.00

Strange
Worlds of Your Dreams
by Jack Kirby, with Joe Simon, Mort Meskin, Bill Draut & others
They bought our dreams... and turned them into comics. Sixty years ago,
Jack Kirby, Joe Simon and their cohorts at Prize Comics, asked readers
to send them their dreams. Readers did and they were turned into
comics. The Strange World of Your Dreams only lasted four issues, but
that was enough to fill this book. Sporting a soft, spongy cover, it
embodies a bit of visual punning in that it could be considered a
surrealistic pillow, of sorts. Comics have been linked to dreams from
their very beginnings, but the comics collected here might be the most
explicit connection made between the trade-off between
individual/personal dreaming and mass/popular entertainment ever made.
"WE WILL BUY YOUR DREAMS!" Indeed.
retail price - $29.99
copacetic price -
$25.75

Simon &
Kirby Science Fiction
by Jack Kirby, with Joe Simon, Wally Wood, Al Williamson & Reed
Crandall
More Kirby! Under appreciated classics from the master. Ideas that
Kirby explored in the sixties and - especially - the seventies are
first explored here. Many stories reprinted here for the first time in
decades - or ever! Kirby (and Simon – as well as a few other
greats, including Wally Wood, Al Williamson and Reed Crandall) science
fiction classics form the 1940s and, mostly, the 1950s in this Massive
oversize hardcover tome.
retail price - $49.99
copacetic price -
$44.44

Object 10
by Kilian Eng
Fans of Object 5 will be pleased by this oversize, full color hardcover
that presents the fantastic art to excellent advantage. Learn
more
with this "book
trailer" on Vimeo. We also have a few copies of the signed
and limited (200 copies) edition.
retail price - $29.99
copacetic price -
$25.00
signed
& numbered edition: retail price - $50.00
copacetic price -
$44.44


Copra #8
Copra Compendium 1
Copra
Compendium 2
by Michel Fiffe
Taken together with last moth's listing of Copra #7 these three items
allow those only recently aware of Copra to jump right in and get the
entire series to date. The first compendium collects issues one,
two
and three, with the second collecting issues four, five and six; both
are printed on the same stock and at the same size as the original
issues, so the experience will be nearly identical. Once you've
absorbed this heaping helping of Copra, then you'll have to wait for
the next issue along with everyone else hooked on this frenzied, fun,
full color, self-published (monthly!), science fiction, super hero
comic book series that is generating a lot of excitement in the global
village that is the wide world of comics.
Copra #8 - retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$4.50
Copra Compendium #1 - retail price - $12.00
copacetic price -
$12.00
Copra Compendium #2 - retail price - $12.00
copacetic price -
$12.00

Men's
Feelings
by Ted May
Ted May reveals the heretofore secret inner workings of the male
emotional apparatus. Not to be missed. 37 pages of released
repression
in comics form.
retail price - $6.00
copacetic price -
$5.40

Kitaro
by Shigeru Mizuki
Fans of Mizuki's late work, recently published in North America, also
by D & Q – i.e., Onward to Our
Noble Deaths and NonNonBa
– will be
pleased to have this opportunity (at long last!) to get their hands on
a meaty volume of English translations from the manga series that made
Mizuki a household name in Japan. Begun in 1959, Kitaro, along
with
his cast of cohorts, presented a long-running series of yokai tales to
a receptive and responsive audience in Japan, where these tales of
shape shifters have been an integral component of Japanese mythology
for centuries. The stories that make up this 400 page volume are
all
from the the late 1960s and are considered to be among the best in the
series. Find out for yourself by checking out this online
preview courtesy of CBR. We are thankful that D & Q has
provided an introduction,
page notes and a character glossary to help readers coming fresh to the
series to get situated.
retail price - $24.99
copacetic price -
$21.75
Last of
the Mohicans
by Shigeru Sugiura; edited by Ryan Holmberg
What we have here is a highly personal and engagingly idiosyncratic
manga take on the early 19th century novel of frontier America by James
Fenimore Cooper. It includes a thirty-six page, in-depth, illustrated
essay by Holmberg, "Shigeru Sugiura and his Mohicans." This heavily
researched essay provides an overview of Sugiura's career in general as
well as an in-depth look his creation of Mohicans in
particular.
There is also a four page essay by Sugiura on his relationship with
silent movies. As Holmberg's essay makes clear, this 1974 work
bears
little similarity to the novel it purports to adapt. It seems
possible
that Sigiura never even read Cooper's book. This could be
construed as
one of the book's virtue's as it allows readers to participate in a
series of manga riffs of Japanese consciousness free-associating on
American myths as mediated by the American popular culture through
which these myths were propagated in Japan.
retail price - $22.95
copacetic price -
$20.00

Retrofit
Comics #18: Beach Girls
by Box Brown
48 pages in larger "Golden Age Comics" format, featuring a bonus
back-up story: Dweeb by James Kochalka!
retail price - $6.00
copacetic price -
$5.40
Retrofit Comics
#17:
Raw Power 2
by Josh Bayer
72 pages of pen & ink action, produced in the larger "Golden Age"
comic format, printed on newsprint with glossy covers. Featuring
GG
Liddy, Cat Man, Mister Incompleto and more, Raw Power continues Mr.
Bayer's own unique foray into the state of mind mapped out in the
territory of the ratty line pioneered by Gary Panter.
retail price - $6.00
copacetic price -
$5.40

Green
Eggs and Maakies
by Tony Millionaire
Yes, it's yet another stretch horizontal format collection of Drinky
Crow & his company of bad boys acting out, all crsply delineated in
Mr. Millionaire's late-Victorian era pen & ink stylings.
retail price - $19.99
copacetic price -
$17.77

Little
Fluffy Gigolo Pelu, Volume 2
by Junko Mizuno
It is difficult to explain the work of Junko Mizuno to the
uninitiated. Cutey, squishy, squeezy drawings delineated in
dense black ink depict and portray twisted, perverse and often bizarre
takes on archetypal characters and situations. The only close
touchstone we can think of is the work of Vaughn Bodé. In
this volume we have the second (and final?) volume of her story about
the adventures of a cute and "fluffy" alien gigolo loose on the streets
of an alternate, "Mizuno-reality" Tokyo in search of a baby-mama.
retail price - $17.95
copacetic price -
$16.25


Fall Guy for Murder and Other Stories
by Johnny Craig
Child
of Tomorrow and Other Stories
by Al Feldstein
Here they are, the latest two
volumes in the EC "auteur" series published by Fantagraphics.
Each volume is a 200+ page, clothbound hardcover collecting work by a
single artist (also, as with the Feldstein volume, including a small
group associated with the central creator). Each volume includes
and introduction and notes and the art is impeccably reproduced in
black and white on heavy white matte stock. You pretty much can't
go wrong with these...
retail price - $28.99@
copacetic price -
$25.00@

You Can't Win
by Jack Black
Finally, a new edition of the
seminal novel, You Can't Win
by Jack Black. Here's a book that that can
lay claim - if any can - to having launched the "outlaw" literary
counterculture, way back in 1926. This edition sports an intense
black and white
cover drawn by Joe Coleman, taken from his set of illustrations of this
novel originally published in Blab!
(#3?); also included is a full
color reproduction of the Coleman painting that graced the 1988 Amok
Press republication of this classic. The foreword by William
Burroughs
written for that edition is also here (although we recommend that this
be read as an afterword, as it gives away some plot particulars).
NEW
to this edition are the (first ever?) republication of two fairly
lengthy articles
written by Mr. Black for Harpers Magazine in 1929 & 1930 and a
biographical essay on Black by Donald Kennison. ESSENTIAL!
retail price - $17.95
copacetic price -
$16.25
Items
from our August 2013 listings may now be purchased online at
our eCommerce
site, HERE.
New for July 2013
The Love and Rockets Companion: 30 Years (and
Counting)
edited by Marc Sobel and Kristy Valenti
The feature attraction of this chunky softcover are the extensively
researched timelines and character bios for both the Locas and Palomar
universes; long time L & R readers will be reminded of characters
and events that they had forgotten all about – or at
least hadn't thought about in years – and relative newcomers will be
clued in to the depths and riches that await them in the pages of Love and Rockets. In a
way, The Love and Rockets Companion
is a bit like a family album, one in which readers can immerse
themselves and discover their place in and connection to the comics
family built around Love and Rockets
that has thrived for over thirty years now.
In addition this volume includes extensive interviews with los hermanos
Hernandez – including two new major interviews conducted specifically
for this volume and appearing here for the first time! The wraparound
dustjacket is printed on extra heavy stock and folds out into a poster
(the sticker is removable), while the reverse side depicts the Locas
and Luba family trees. This jam-packed volume is a Love and
Rockets collector's bonanza! Get a feel for what to expect with
this generous
32 page PDF preview.
retail price - $29.99
copacetic price -
$25.00
The
Daniel Clowes Reader
edited by Ken Parille
This
handsomely designed 360 page flexi-cover volume is billed as being "a
critical edition of Ghost World
and other stories, with essays, interviews and annotations."
Prefaced by an appetizer consisting of a brief yet wide-ranging
sampling of epigrammatic excerpts of concise Clowes commentary, the
main course of this volume is the complete Ghost World
accompanied by a generous serving of
side dishes consisiting of many if not most of Clowes's best short
stories from the late teen issues of Eightball,
including "Blue Italian Shit", "Black Nylon", "Like a Weed, Joe", "The
Party" and "Art School Confidential", garnished with a siginificant
selection of obscurities and rarities, the most substantial of which is
the twenty page "manifesto" Modern
Cartoonist, which originally appeared as an insert in Eightball #18 (17?). All are
well reproduced in black and white, duo-tone and/or full color on high
grade white stock. Accompanying these are a dozen or so essays by
a bevy of Clowes scholars, which
provide a wide range of perspectives on Clowes's work and career.
The volume closes with a Clowes chronology and recommendations for
further reading. Teachers and professors (and reading group
organizers, too, what the heck) with an interest in Clowes, take
note: this is the book for you. Students signed up for Clowes 101 can get a headstart
taking notes now, with this 31
page PDF preview.
retail price - $35.00
copacetic price -
$29.75
Study Group Magazine #2
edited by Zack Soto & Milo George
We're here to tell you that the second issue of Study Group Magazine is just as
fabulous as the first. In bringing forth an ongoing anthology of
solid, all new comics work seasoned with interviews and critical
aoppreciations, SGM is doing a good job at plugging the hole left by
the demise of MOME.
Limited to 1000 numbered copies, this 64 page, oversized, two-color
(this time around, cerulean and magenta) comics anthology is filled
with the work of many a Copacetic favorite, including Sam Alden, Trevor
Alixopulos, Lilli Carré, Michael DeForge, Julia Gfrörer,
Aidan Koch, Jonny Negron, Onsmith, Zack Soto, Dan Zettwoch and
more. Interviews with cover artist Angie Wang (interviewed by
Milo George) and Maré Odomo (in coversation with Zack Soto)
along with appreciations of Josh Bayer (by Rob Clough) and the long
forgotten (but not by us here at Copacetic!) Helfer/Baker gem, Justice, Inc. by Sean Witzke, and,
finally, J.T. Dockery's report
on his visit to John Byrne's home and studio round out the issue.
Don't miss it! (And, in the meantime, be sure to bookmark the Study
Group website, where great new comics are posted on a regular
basis).
retail price - $12.00
copacetic price -
$10.00

It Will
All Hurt #1
by Farel Dalrymple
A Risographed cardstock cover envelopes a 48 page full color comic book
printed on high quality bright newsprint in an oversized “Golden Age”
format. You can actually read
it online, but we're here to tell you that you might want to
consider saving yourself for the hard copy, which is the real
thing.
retail price - $8.00
copacetic price -
$7.00

Heads Collider
by Mat Brinkman
Unified perception dissolves into a series of overlapping fields.
Mat Brinkman asks the question, "What if you could make mixable (and
remixable), multi-track recordings of vision, the way you can with
sound?" Mat has spent some time in his unique, personal visual
"recording studio" producing this series of multi-track harmonies of
sight that will reorient your perceptions.
retail price - $23.00
copacetic price -
$20.00

Walrus
by Brandon Graham
Here's fab fun feast of funky funnies by the undisputed master of the
squishy line. Plenty of full color drawings and story sequences
mingle with half-tone pencil repros and straight up black and white pen
& ink. The worked selected, while primarily of realtively
recent vintage, goes all the way back to 1993, presenting a twenty year
career overview which provides a solid sense of Graham's artistic
direction and development.
retail price - $19.95
copacetic price -
$17.77

Sand
Castle
by Frederik Peeters & Pierre Oscar Lévy
Here is yet
another fine volume from the UK publisher Self Made Hero.
Powerful and confident pen & brush work by the talented Swiss
comics artist, Frederik Peeters
expertly translates this
tale with a twist by
French film director, Pierre Oscar Lévy. We can't tell you
too much about it without risking ruining the reading experience, but
we can tell you that it's tailor made to read at the beach...
retail price - $19.95
copacetic price -
$17.77

Sunny 1
by Taiyo Matsumoto
Knock-your-socks-off all-new work from manga-master Matsumoto in this,
the first of a three (?) volume saga of youth, imagination and
adventure. Originally serialized in Japanese in IKKI during 2011, it has received a
brisk English translation in this handsomely produced 218 page
hardcover volume from Viz. Lonely outcast childhoods never looked
so good.
retail price - $22.99
copacetic price -
$20.00

The Graphic Canon, volume 3
edited by Russ Kick
The mammoth sized (542 pages) third and final volume of the Graphic
Canon has arrived; chock-a-block with comics adaptations, illustrations
and illuminations of 20th classics of literature. Highlights among the
dozens of featured teamings of artists and writers are: Milton
Knight & Zora Neale Hurston; Mardou & Anaïs Nin; R. Crumb
& Jean Paul Sartre; R. Sikoryak & Franz Kafka; Ted Rall &
Sherwood Anderson; Lauren Weinstein & W.B. Yeats; Onsmith &
J.G. Ballard; Aidan Koch & Ben Okri; Jeremy Eaton & Flannery
O'Connor; Robert Goodin & William Faulkner; Lance Tooks &
Somerset Maugha; Dame Darcy & Cormac McCarthy; CMU alum, Juliacks
& Hubert Selby, Jr.; and many more!
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The Cartoon Picayune: Summer 2013
edited by Josh Kramer
Lo-Fi comics journalism with a personal touch returns with the Summer
2013 issue
of The Cartoon Picayune (#5
for those who are keeping track). This time around the theme
is "Hard Work" and its contents includes: "Sex Workers of
the World, Unite!" by Andy Warner; "The Radium Girls" by Emi Gennis;
"Feeding the Meter" by editor Josh Kramer; and "Seoul Grind" by Erik
Thurman. Read all about it, here.
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Cut-Away Comics #1
by Dan Zettwoch
Dan Z.'s first Oily Comics publication is a 12 page wonder titled,
"Tree Swallows" and "starring" John James
Audubon. It's by Dan Zettwoch and it's only a dollar. What
more do you need to know?
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$1.00

TEOTFW
by Charles Forsman
And, speaking of Oily Comics, the flagship title of the series, the one
that started it all, The End of the
Fucking World, by Oily Comics editor and publisher, Charles
Forsman, has now been collected into a single volume by Fantagraphics
Books.
retail price - $19.99
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$17.77

Primates
by Jim Ottaviani & Maris Wicks
The dean of science comics, Jim Ottaviani has here teamed up with
comics artist and aquarium-based educator, Maris Wicks – who had a
small hit here at Copacetic with Yes,
Let's, originally published by our pals at Tugboat Press in
Portland, OR – to produce this full-length, full color, hardcover work
that takes a long comics look at "the fearless science of Jane Goodall,
Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. Recruited by the great
anthropologist Louis Leakey these remarkable women are responsbile for
some of the biggest advances in both primatology and our understanding
of what it meaans to be human."
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The End
by Anders Nilsen
Here we have a permanent hardcover edition of the best-selling
Ignatz title of the same name that is packed with half a
dozen additional pieces, which were either previously released in
privately published small batch editions, in MOME, or that appear here
for the first time. 80 pages in all. Essential Anders, we
say. Get some small idea of what this complex tapestry is about
by spending a few minutes with this
PDF preview.
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Failure
by Karl Stevens
Life in Allston-Brighton, a side of metropolitan Boston that lurks in
the shadows between the movers and shakers of the Brahmin-class axis
and the rough and tumble of the headline-grabbing mobsters is portrayed
here in page after page of skillfully rendered comics that come closer
to qualifying as photorealism than any others that have crossed our
desk, save those of Toc Fetch. Surprisingly, Mr. Stevens
managed to produce this detailed strip on a weekly basis, for the
now-defunct Boston Phoenix.
So, while clearly this book collects a successful comicstrip, it
nonetheless manages to live up (down?) to the promise of its
title. Between the covers of Failure,
readers will find page after page of expert renderings of drinkers
(alcoholics? you decide), druggies (addicts? ditto), and others
struggling with their personal, financial and relationship issues and
other woes (losers? too soon to tell), most notably the artist himself,
who, despite his obvious and amazing talent, never seems to get
anywhere...
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The Amazing,
Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley
by Kim Deitch
A new Kim Deitch work is always a cause for celebration, and this one
is no exception. Katherine Whaley is an
all new 166 page, horizontally formatted graphic novel that takes
readers
to "sleepy Lumberton" a hundered or so years ago, at the dawn of the
motion picture era, where the
young protagonist gets swept away by the eccentric cast and crew
of a film production company that comes through town, and her life is
changed forever. Deitch once again expertly employs his finely
honed
comics craft to leverage the strengths of comics in revealing
Hollywood's transformative effects on American culture and society,
and, perhaps most crucially, on the individual psyche, as well.
Get primed by checking out this 17
page PDF preview.
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Lost Cat
by Jason
In Lost Cat, what we believe
is the longest sustained work of his career, Jason
presents us with a two-toned tale of loneliness and despair in which
appearances can be deceiving, and so are. The lives of a
lonely guy,
a lonely gal, a man old and alone, an isolated young man with a secret,
a woman
alone with a bigger secret and a lost cat intersect in this tale of a
detective looking for clues to the meaning of his life. Should
there be anyone reading this who has yet to experience the pleasures of
the Jasonic text, dive in to this
PDF preview.
retail price - $24.99
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$21.75
Goddamn
This War
by Jaques Tardi and Jean-Pierre Verney
A graphic comics encounter with the horrible violence, shocking
brutality, stunning ineptitude and catastrophic waste that was the
First World War, that includes a 36 page illustrated appendix providing
a year-by-year history of the war, Goddamn
This War is Tardi's
follow-up to his widely acclaimed masterwork, It Was the War of the Trenches,
which also dealt with this conflict. Steel yourself for this 16
page PDF preview.
retail price - $24.99
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$21.75
Baron
Bean, Volume 1: 1916
by George Herriman
George Herriman devotees and acolytes rejoice! While the
Fantagraphical collecting of the famed Krazy Kat Sunday pages has been
now at long
last completed, there remains plenty of uncollected Herriman work
to keep us busy reading for years to come. The first volume of Baron Bean dailies is
another great volume from IDW, reproducing each
strip in its full, original, 4" x 11" size on high grade newsprint for
a truly authentic reading experience. And, lest anyone think
otherwise, let us state here that the reproductions in this volume are
uniformly excellent (in
fact, amazingly so) –
a real treat! It
starts out with
a 16 page illustrated introduction by Jared Gardner that reproduces (at
the same full size as the Baron Bean
strips) the last Dingbat Family
strip
– which, it is noted, ran the day before Baron Bean began; demonstrating
that Herriman simply switched gears and kept driving; no vacations for
this guy –
before heading on into the
full first year of Baron Bean
strips, starting
off right at the beginning, with the very first. And
remember: while
these strips were being executed Herriman was also writing and drawing Krazy Kat seven days a week at the
same time! Long live the genius of George Herriman!
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