New for December 2015
Trophies
by Michael DeForge
This is a 16 page, 11" x 17", full color
(with a few in black & white) newspaper collection of posters for
bands, comics, tours and more. Added Bonus: thee posters on the last
three pages were done in collaboration with Patrick Kyle. You may want
to consider getting two: one to bag and save; one to cut up and hang
on your walls.
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$5.00
Space Jellyfish
by Jesse Jacobs
This one is a 16 page horizontally
formatted comic book rendered in Jacobs's patented duotone. It's laid
out, and could be read, as a series of 16 3-panel comics. Is it far
out? Yes.
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$5.00
Incubation
by Charles Burns
Publisher, Pigeon Press sez: "Incubation is a brand
new unique sketchbook by Charles Burns in that it focuses on his color
work. The images within were selectedby the artist from his notebooks
from the period during the years when he was working on his Nit Nit
trilogy (X’ed Out, The Hive, Sugar Skull). This booklet offers a
first-time look into Burn’s color process with examples of his
sketches, conceptual drawings, color studies, and notes, etc… all
presented beautifully in full-color throughout." We've provided an appetizing preview on ello, HERE.
retail price - $9.95
copacetic price -
$9.95
sorry i can't come in on monday i'm really really sick
by Jane Mai
A gloomy greeting card of a comic book,
this 16 page mini presents an illustrated diary of having a bad day.
Many will realte. Let's hope that making this comic turned that frown upside-down
retail price - $3.00
copacetic price -
$3.00
The Dharma Punks
by Ant Sang
This 416 page graphic novel was a big hit
in its native New Zealand, and now at last arrives in North America
courtesy of Canada's Conundrum Press, who has this to say about
it: "Set over one long night in Auckland New Zealand in 1994, a
group
of anarchist punks have hatched a plan to sabotage the opening of a
multi-national fast-food restaurant by blowing it sky-high come opening
day. Chopstick has been given the unenviable task of setting the bomb
before the opening, but the night takes the first of many unexpected
turns when he is separated from his accomplice. Chance encounters and
events from his past conspire against him, forcing Chopstick to deal
with more than just the mission at hand. Still reeling after the death
of a close friend, and struggling to reconcile his spiritual path with
his political actions, Chopstick’s journey is a meditation on life,
love, friendship and the ghost of Kurt Cobain. As the story
unfolds, it becomes clear there is more at stake than
was first realised, and the outcome of the night’s events will change
all of their lives in ways they could never have imagined. Reminiscent
of the drawing style of Paul Pope Sang’s
compositions are insightful and sometimes breathtaking. But what lodges
in the memory is the deep, heartfelt humanity that fills every
page. The Dharma Punks was originally published as a series of
alternative comics which, at the height of its popularity, was
outselling Spider-man and X-Men on New Zealand comic racks. Here it is
collected for the first time for an international audience."<> Introduction by Dylan Horrocks.
retail price - $25.00
copacetic price -
$22.22
New for November 2015
Crickets #5
by Sammy Harkham
It's here! The latest chapter of "Blood of the Virgin", the epic
saga set in the milleau of early-1970s B-movie making, where fantasy
and reality blend together as individuial personal perogatives clash
with each other as well as those of business and æsthetics, peer group
and family and more, with everything, somehow, finding its way into the
film, before being transmuted into this comic book and ultimately
into the readers' brains, inspiring further transmutations as the cycle
starts all over again in an endless cycle of creative rebirth.
Crickets.
retail price - $7.00
copacetic price -
$6.50
New Construction
by Sam Alden
The follow up to last year's It Never Happened, New Construction
features two new comics novellas, "Backyard" and
"Household." Each is tautly rendered in Alden's forceful
pencil line. New Construction
is aptly titled in that it is put together diferently. It is a
bifurcated edition, with the first tale, "Backyard," being both tightly
rendered and printed on a (relatively) bright cream colored stock,
while the second, "Household" is far more loose and expressionistic in
its rendering and is printed on a dull light gray newsprint. It is
worth noting here that the reproduction quality in New Construction is significantly superior to that of It Never Happened; the pencil work in both stories here is crisp and clear. (We've posted a preview on ello, HERE,
but the photos don't really do the work justice.) The stories,
however, are a bit darker, narratively speaking, dealing with the
tensions beneath the surface in relationships of all stripes, and
charting their roots to family dysfunctions. Sam Alden consistently
produces comics that seek to provide an æsthetic catharsis for
emotional devastation. The works in New Construction are confrontations with personal demons that take place in pencil on paper.
retail price - $17.95
copacetic price -
$15.00
Frontier #10: Michael DeForge
by Michael DeForge
In "Sensitive Property", Micheal DeForge employs a minimalist approach
to both text and art. The visual component conjoins his clean line
figures with blocks of primary colors employed to indicate space in a
manner somewhat akin to Blexbolex, while the text is entirely in the
form of the protagonist's narration of her actions. The combined
effect is one of extreme detachment and disassociation. The plot serves
to connect the subterfuge of corporations, the economic power of the
real estate market, and their combined cooption and subversion of
radical dissent; its folding into the status quo.
retail price - $7.95
copacetic price -
$7.50
Curveball
by Jeremy Sorese
Wow! Jeremy Sorese makes a big splash with his graphic novel debut. Curveball
is a lavishly produced 420 (!) page all-new, graphic novel. It's a
science fiction / romance epic set in a highly automated,
robotics-heavy future in which all the scientific advances don't
prevent people form being subject to the same foibles and fragilities
as ever. The folks at NoBrow have done a great job in presenting
Sorese's detailed pencil, ink & wash drawings together with
flourescent orange (!) spot colors (which occasionally morph into full
page overlays -- it's probably best that you check out the preview
photos we posted HERE).
The book looks and feels great! -- and what's more, Nobrow has pulled
off the hat trick of managing to bring this hefty tome to market,
complete with the high quality printing and packaging that it is known
for, at quite a reasonable price. Fun!
retail price - $19.99
copacetic price -
$17.77
Men's Feelings #2
by Ted May
OK, all you comics readers out of touch with your own feelings (you know
who you are!), those of the male prersuasion -- the majority, no doubt
-- are now offered respite, in the form the second jam-packed issue of Men's Feelings!
Ted May has done the heavy lifting for you, pulling back the psychic
boulders one by one to reveal the quivering mass of male insecurites
that lie within. In these eleven tales, ranging in length from the
single pagers, "Thank You," and "Good Night," to the epic, ironically
titled 10-pager, "You Can Skip This One," Mr. May demonstrates his
mastery of comics story-telling in the service of a higher calling --
that of puting men in touch with their feelings. All for a fin!
retail price - $5.00
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$5.00
Chain Mail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers
edited by Hazel Newlevant
Starting out with an in-your-face cover illustration by Hellen Jo , Chain Mail Bikini features a fistful of comics by:
Amanda Scurti (Hey, Jana J!)
Aatmaja Pandya (Travelogue)
anna anthropy (Rise of the Video Game Zinesters)
Anna Rose (Strange Paradise)
Annie Mok (Rookie Magazine)
Becca Hillburn (7" Kara)
Buntoo (Q*Star)
Caitlin Rose Boyle (An Itty Bitty Summoning)
Carey Peitsch (Adventure Time: Marceline Gone Adrift)
Diana Nock (Poorcraft)
Elizabeth Simins (Bad at Games)
Hazel Newlevant (If This Be Sin)
Jade F. Lee (Lacrimancer)
Jane Mai (Sunday in the Park with Boys)
Jeremy Boydell (Self Care with Dog)
June Vigants (Benny & Fritz)
Kae Kelly-Colon (Make Your Death)
Kate Craig (Heart of Ice)
Katie Longua (Munchies)
Kinoko Evans (The Epic of Gilgamesh)
Kori Michele Handwerker (Prince of Cats webcomic)
Laura Lannes (The Basil Plant)
Liane PyperMaggie Siegel-Berele (Jesus Loves Lesbians, Too)
Megan Brennan (Pencil Pup)
merritt kopas (Videogames For Humans)
Mia Schwartz (Strawberries)
Miranda Harmon (System Upgrade)
MK Reed (The Cute Girl Network)
Molly Ostertag (Strong Female Protagonist)
Natalie Dupille (The Feminist Bakery)
Rachel Ordway (Art School Adventures)
Sara Goetter (Boozle)
Sarah Stern (Game Boss)
Sarah Winifred Searle (Drawing Conclusions)
Sera Stanton (Temi)
Sophie Yanow (The War of Streets and Houses) and
Yao Xiao (Baopu). Whew! Someone you know wants this one...
retail price - $20.00
copacetic price -
$17.77
Irene #6
Weighing in at 214 black & white pages, and powered by a host of
talented comics creators banded together under startlingly detailed
covers by "d. w.", the sixth issue of Irene
is one of the strongest
anthologies of the season and may be the best volume yet in this
impressive series. Featuring a bushel of strong stories such as
"Girl Town" by Carolyn Nowak, "Dreaming" by Tillie Walden, "You Come to
a Strange Town" by Luke Howard and plenty more. Irene is also
pepered throughout with unique occasional art by the likes of Marc
Bell, Leif Goldberg, Jai Granofsky and others, and including a 14 page
excerpt of d.w.'s "Mountebank." Be sure to give this one the once
over.
retail price - $15.00
copacetic price -
$13.75
Dog City #4
And now, how about an anthology series with a Pittsburgh connection? This time around, the Dog City team is
focused on COLLABORATION. Each of the seven works collected here is
the result of a free for all process of collaboration between two
creators. Anything goes, and anything does in this 100+ page, B &
W, perfeect bound anthology, as the work takes unexpected twists and
turns. Collaboration with another enables a creator to break out of
their own familiar terrain and discover -- and, crucially, explore --
a new world. Join in the discover, in Dog City #4!
retail price - $15.00
copacetic price -
$12.75
Walkabout
by Sally Ingraham
Marcel Proust felt that life's events were most truly experienced after the fact, in their recreation through memory, and created what many consider the greatest novel ever penned
to back up his claim. On a much more modest scale, Sally Ingraham has
recalled and recreated some select moments of her own in Walkabout.
She recently relocated from Pittsburgh to Santa Fe, NM, at which
remove she has reflected on her former environs in the form of this
pictographic recreation of a walk, or walks -- there's quite a bit of
ground covered in this issue's 72 pages, which have been hand sewn into
a cozy, hand made comic book that may serve as a catalyst for readers'
own memories of similar perambulations, like Proust's madeleine...
retail price - $8.00
copacetic price -
$8.00
Space Punks
by Jonas McLuggage
Get ready for a fresh comics blast courtesy the recently-transplanted-to-Pittsburgh, Jonas McLuggage! Space Punks
lands you smack dab in the middle of a dynamic comics universe that
will fix your comics jones; in seconds flat you will be blasted off out
of your humdrum existence into the world of... Space Punks! This 16
page comic book is beautifully printed -- right here in Pittsburgh --
on coated stock with an extra heayweight cover. It is cover to cover
comics; all killer, no filler. It has been produced in a signed and
numbered, limited edition of 100 copies. As an added bonus, each
comic includes a tasty original sketch on the back cover! Check out
our preview of this soon-to-be-collector's-item, HERE!
retail price - $8.00
copacetic price -
$8.00
Street Angel Twofer: TrickRTreat + Xmas Special
by Jim Rugg & Brian Maruca
The holiday season has arrived, and now's
your chance to celebrate it with Street Angel in this season-spanning
Twofer Special Package containing BOTH the Halloween-themed Trick R Treat AND the Street Angel Xmas Special! Both of these comics are compact 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" editions. Trick R Treat (aka Ghost Monster) runs 20 pages in full color on glossy stock; Street Angel Xmas Special is
a pink paper edition that runs 28 pages in black & white. Both are
action-packed, fun-filled comics adventures -- ninjas! reindeer!
ghosts! -- that are sure to revive anyone's flagging holiday spirits. Made in Pittsburgh!
retail price - $10.00
copacetic price -
$10.00
There Is No Right Way To Meditate
by Yumi Sakugawa
The latest book by Yumi Sakugawa
demonstrates once again how effective comics can be in communicating
concepts and ideas. Here she imparts her hard won knowledge of not only
the value of meditation, but also the importance of being open to new
ways of thinking and how being less self critical can help achieve this.
retail price - $13.99
copacetic price -
$12.75
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
by Junji Ito
AAIIIIIEEE!!! Cats! Junji Ito reveals
the terrors of cat ownership in this manga diary that accomplishes the
rare feat of being simultaneously chilling and hilarious.
retail price - $10.99
copacetic price -
$9.99
The New Deal
by Jonathan Case
Jonathan Case delivers a sharp looking period piece. Set in the Waldorf Astoria of the 1930s, The New Dea views
the goings on there through the eyes of the staff, and in the process
confronts -- albiet from a 21st century perspective -- race, class and
gender relations and the preconceptions that go with them in this nice
looking fast-paced graphic novel, that makes for a fun and diverting
read. Full size, black and white, hardcover edition.
retail price - $16.99
copacetic price -
$15.25
Tunes Terms and Conditions: The Unabridged Graphic Adaptation - Part C & Part D
by R. Sikoryak
It's here! The second -- heftier,
weighing in at a big 60 pages -- installment of R. Sikoryak's jarring
formalist experiment that combines Apple's legal department's
boilerplate with classic comics layouts. Reading contracts wioll never
be the same again!
We've posted a preview of both issues, HERE.
retail price - $10.00
copacetic price -
$9.00
Graphic Ink: The DC Comics Art of Darwyn Cooke
by Darwyn Cooke
Darwin Cooke. Where to begin. Cooke is the heroic fantasy comics art synthesizer of his generation, par excellence.
He knows comics. He knows how they work. He can take them apart and
put them back together again, and, more importantly, he has amply
demonstrated, perhaps nowhere better than through the work collected in
this volume, that he can disassemble the machinery of the styles of the
greats of comics past, pick out the best, strongest parts, the ones
that still hold up, and then put them all together to build an awesome
new comics story-telling machine, one that can deliver page after page
of action-packed adventure. And there’s more. His work successfully
conveys, and, when the moment is ripe, reveals the emotional needs that
undergird heroic fantasy; the bruised egos, the tethered ids, the lack
of grace. Cooke is practically alone among his peers working at the
“big two” in his conscious understanding of the wounded life led by the
reader of heroic fantasy; plus, he's a die-hard romantic. It’s not
often that we’ll endorse a product released by a division of the
Time-Warner Company, but, in this case, we’ll make an exception. It
doesn't hurt that they did a really nice job with this hefty,
plus-size, hardcover edition, pulling together the 400+ pages of
Cooke's far-ranging work for DC that had yet to be collected in book
form, and including many of his standout covers, and featuring
uniformly excellent reproduction throughout.
retail price - $39.95
copacetic price -
$34.75
Inner City Romance
by Guy Colwell
A veteran of street life and all that goes with it, Guy Colwell fills the pages of Inner City Romance
with tales of sex and drugs that are far from what most of those who
encounter them for the first time here in this volume will have
experienced. Originally appearing in the 1970s, the stories deal with
LSD, heroin and hedonism, yes, but they are situated in a specific
environment and the comics work to connect these behaviors to the
poverty and neglect that the characters that populated them have
experienced in their lives. It is also important to note that the
"inner cIty" of the title can be read to mean, or at least imply,
"inter-racial." Colwell's work is fairly unique, even today, for its
bold portrayal of intimate relations people of African and European
descent. These comics work to bring the "far out", late-60s,
taboo-busting work of Crumb (Angelfood McSpade, Whiteman, etc) and
others down to earth. They work to engage the realist æsthetic and
provide a degree of verisimiltude that was previously lacking (although
these comics too are not free from prurient interest). It is important
to keep in mind when confronting the characters, situations and
narratives contained in this volume that there is no avoiding the fact
that as a white male artist, Colwell is carrying his own baggage of
assumptions that he inevitably unpacks in this work that portrays a
wide variety of relations between black and white characters of both
genders. Furthermore, his ability to have these comics published at
that time is inextricably related to his social position as a white
man. Thus, due to the historical forces in operation, comics readers,
even today, are only seeing the white point of view of these
inter-racial scenarios. That said, the comics that make up Inner City Romance indicate
that they are not simply products of idle fantasy but are rooted in
some real life experiences, and while Colwell's comics lack the power
to unlock the unconscious possessed by those created by Crumb, they are
also far less caricatured, and so provide their readers with a unique
window on this layer of history that presently lies beneath the surface
of our current social fabric.
retail price - $24.99
copacetic price -
$22.22
Items
from our November 2015 listings may now be purchased online at our
eCommerce site, HERE.
New for October 2015
The Sky in Stereo
by Sacha Mardou
Sacha Mardou is a natural born comics storyteller. Her pen &
ink characters live and breath on the page. The situations they
find themselves in, their reactions to them, and the way it all plays
out in the pages of her comics works have a verisimilitude that few
other comics creators can match. The Sky in Stereo is her first
foray into long form comics (i.e., a graphic novel). She's been
at work on it for a number of years (she and her husband, fellow comics
maker, Ted May are also raising a child, who was an infant at the start
of Sky in Stereo) and has released two of it's chapters as successful
stand-alone comics. Here in this iteration, we have a
graphic-novel length work that weighs in at 180 pages, yet we are still
only half way there, as the story is "to be concluded in Book 2."
The two stand-alone comics appear here as chapters two and three
of this work, comprising just over half its length. The new work that
appears here for the first time are the introduction and first chapter,
which follow the protagonist, Iris from the time her mother is
"born again" (courtesy some Jehovah's Witnesses) to the time which Iris
drops out of the church, and the fourth chapter in which the lingering
effects of the microdot that Iris ingested at the start of the third
chapter make themselves felt. Along the way, the reader
experiences the streets, businesses and homes of Manchester, England
(Mardou's hometown) through Iris's eyes, and almost feels the pavement
beneath her feet. For more perspective on this great work, please
see the Copacetic reviews of the first and second issues. RECOMMENDED!
retail price - $17.95
copacetic price -
$15.00
Lydian
by Sam Alden
Sam Alden's new work is quite a departure. Long time readers,
acculturated to his swift and sure pencil renderings may be startled to
open this work and find it filled with super-low-resolution pixel
renderings (at least one of his pixel art works has previously seen
print, however, in the pages of S! #18). Upon reflection,
however, Lydian can be seen as an extension of the direction Alden was
moving into with his last work, Hunter, which was a piece that
immersed the reader in a quasi-videogame world. Both Hunter and
Lydian are full color works and both employ constraints: Hunter
is hand drawn with marker, employing the constraint of being a wordless
comic; Lydian is dependent on a highly constrained computer
rendering that imposes an extreme limit upon the depiction of character
expression as a result of being at the limit of pixelation, and thus
forces the reader to be highly reliant on the dialogue to infer
character actions, expression, moods and emotions. These two
approaches may be seen as the inverse of each other. Plenty of
food for thought, regardless. Our take away is that Alden is
probing the constraints placed on consciousness in the ever more
computer-assisted / computer-dependent environment in which he and his
peers find themselves, and reporting back in comics form.
retail price - $12.00
copacetic price -
$12.00
The Understanding Monster, Book Three
by Theo Ellsworth
The concluding volume of Ellsworth's ambitious cartooned deconstruction
of the psyche has arrived! This is the third in a matched series
of full size, full color, hardcover graphic excursions. Prepare
yourself for a trip like no other, as The Understanding Monster turns
identity inside-out and then plays out a series of dramas with its
component parts... it's pretty difficult to describe actually. Here is our take on the initial volume in the series. See you on the other side!
retail price - $21.95
copacetic price -
$19.75
Capacity (Deluxe Edition)
by Theo Ellsworth
And, while we're on the subject of Theo Ellsworth, his tour de force of imaginiton is at last back in print in this "deluxe" flexibound edition. Capacity
has been a favorite here at Copacetic since day one and is one of the
singular works of 21st century comics. We are excited to be again be
able to offer it here at Copacetic, especially so that those who have
come to the world of personally expressive, small press comics while
this work was unavailable will now have the opportunity to experience
the joys of entering into the pen and ink land of Capacity! Here is our listing of the original release, and here is a preview we just posted to Ello. Now at a SPECIAL (limited-time-introductory) PRICE!
retail price - $25.00
copacetic price -
$20.00
Mini-Kus #35: Birthday
by Theo Ellsworth
What's this? Another new Theo Ellsworth work? Yes! Hot off the Latvian presses, Birthday
is a sixteen page, full color mini-comic that celebrates the "intense
psychic initiation known as the Inner-Space Birth Ritual." It is
also joined this month by three other Biedriba Grafiskie Stasti releases: Mini-Kus #34: Limonchick by Mikkel Sommer; Mini-Kus #36: Pages to Pages by Lai Tat Tat Wing ; Mini-Kus #37: Snake in the Nose by Tommi Matsuri . Hold onto your hats!
retail price - $5.00@
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$5.00@
The Arab of the Future
by Riad Sattouf
This book made a big splash in France, where it was initially
published, becoming a #1 best seller. It has subsequently gone on
to be translated into sixteen languages, including Englsh, and now is
belatedly making its North American debut in this attractively
produced, French-flapped (naturellement!) edition, with 160
interior pages printed on a nice flat, off-white paper stock which is
well suited to the judicious duo-tone color scheme that supports
Sattouf's cleanly delineated, highly expressive cartooning. The
tale is a memoir of his early childhood years spent in Libya under
Gaddafi and Syria under Assad, Sr., as well as rural France, and it is
expertly told. The likes of Alison Bechdel ("This is a beautiful, funny, and important graphic memoir."), Michel Hazanavicius ("The Arab of the Future is one of those books that transcend their form to become a literary masterpiece." [What, comics masterpiece somehow not good enough?! - ed.]), and Gene Luen Yang, who says it best ("The Arab of the Future is
a beautifully cartooned story that is both modern and timeless.
The protagonist is one of the most endearing in comics. An
important book, not just as art but as a window into another culture."). In addition to having the potential to appeal to fans of these creators' works, The Arab of the Future
stands a good chance of being appreciated by readers of Marjane
Satrapi, Guy Delisle, Joe Sacco, and anyone else who is intrigued by
the prospect of experiencing alien cultures in comics form. This
volume will provide North American readers with some serious perspective on their own lives.
retail price - $26.00
copacetic price -
$22.75
Terror Assaulter: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror)
by Benjamin Marra
In OMWOT, Ben Marra shows us what can happen when someone (well,
someone of the male gender, anyway) who grows up fully immersed in our
violence and sex drenched culture never lets go of their inner child.
In 112 blood-soaked pages, cheerfully colored soley in bold
swaths of primary colors, Marra presents us with an irony-drenched
reading of America today. It is, figuratively speaking, a
Punisher x-over in an issue of G.I. Joe that is a twisted, coded translation of Where the Wild Things Are reimagined
as a comic book adaptation of a porn film, created by a team made up of
George Saunders (script), Spain Rodriguez (pencils), Paul Gulacy
(inks), and edited by Raymond Pettibone. As Hannah Arendt
made it her business to demonstrate the "banality of evil", Benjamin
Marra has, by equating the struggle for a parking space at the shopping
mall to a terrorist takeover of the USA, shown us the banality of sex
and violence. Adding to the irony, this detailed depiction of a
corrupted and debased inner child is for ADULTS ONLY.
retail price - $14.99
copacetic price -
$13.75
Conditions on the Ground
by Kevin Hooyman
Based on the evidence provided by this voluminous volume, Kevin Hooyman
likes comics. He likes to read them; he likes to draw them; he
likes to assemble them; he like to publish them. Comics are
good. Anyone who feels similarly, would do well to pick up this
hefty tome and leaf through it; just open it at random and read
whatever you find. Comics about life in all its zany aspects is
what this book is about, and comics is how the stories are told, comics
that are steeped in the ways of the world and, especially, the world
according to comics, and, specifically, the ways of seeing that comics
engenders. The line employed here has something of Gahan WIlson
about it, and, naturally enough, because they're comics, the stories
have a bit of Kirby about them, specifically, early-sixties,
pre-superhero Marvel Kirby. There's much more informing these
comics, as well. Check them out and see.
Black Rat
by Cole Closser
Cole Closser continues to bring the past to life. In Black Rat,
he weaves a single character through a multiplicity of diverse and
distinctive styles originally possessed by an array of artists who have
passed on, leaving their work in their wake, to be picked up and
carried on in a relay race to the future. Closser has assembled
for this project a rag tag team of comics and manga artists,
animators, outsider artists and "the anonymous patients of Dr. G.M.
Bacon." Notable among them are pre-war mangaka, Suiho Tagawa and the early outsider/visionary artist, Charles A.A. Dellschau. Black Rat takes a comics-centric spin through the back roads of art history.
retail price - $15.00
copacetic price -
$13.75
Virtual Candle
by HTML Flowers
Created under the Southern Cross and rigorous social order of the Oceanic continent, Virtual Candle is the first collection of HTML Flowers's work
to land upon the shores of North America. Yet, demonstrating that
art respects no political or geographic borders, the comics and other
work collected in this spiffy softcover edition have been inhabited by
the spirit of Providence, RI-based, Paper Rad/Paper Rodeo. HTML
Flowers (playing Naomi Watts to Simon Hanselmann's Nicole Kidman)
demonstrates his multifacted talent in the pieces collected here, which
include work executed in a variety of media, pencil, pen and ink,
colored pencil, watercolor, even, apparantly, tattoos. A good bet
for the adventurous comics reader.
retail price - $15.00
copacetic price -
$15.00
¡A LA ORDEN! (NUEVO SIN CLORO)
by Lizzee Solomon
The latest by Lizzee Solomon has arrived: ¡A LA ORDEN! (NUEVO SIN CLORO). Should this be considered Mutual Paradise
#6? Maybe! Regardless, this is in pretty much the same format as the
first five issues of MP: digest size, black and white comics with a
full color, wraparound, cardstock cover; the difference this time
around is that this would have to be considered the "special vacation
issue", as this issue is entirely devoted to Ms. Solomon's vacation --
with companion -- to the resort at Cartagena de Indias on the
coast of Columbia. We've posted a brief preview HERE.
retail price - $5.00
copacetic price -
$4.50
Heavy Metal #276
by Jack Kirby
In case anyone missed it: there is an alternate edition of the latest
Heavy Metal that sports an amazing wraparound cover by JACK KIRBY
highlighting the 13 pages of excellent reproductions of vibrant,
full-color late-1970s Kirby art within. These are the spectacular
pieces that Jack executed for the proposed Lord of Light film (based on
a book series by Roger Zelazny) and/or Science Fiction Land theme
park (?!?) that were then hijacked by the CIA to play a crucial part in
a ruse to extricate some American prisoners held in Iran that involved
scouting for a film location; a ruse which was, in turn, leter turned
into the 2012 film Argo. Crazy, right? Regardless, the art here is the definition of spectacular.
retail price - $7.95
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The Twilight Children #1
by Gilbert Hernandez & Darwyn Cooke, w/Dave Stewart
Gilbert Hernandez and Dawyn Cooke (with no small help from colorist
extraordinaire, Dave Stewart) team up to bring us a four issue, full
color comic book series that presents a tale of sex and the
supernatural, mystery and intrigue, cops & scientists, and
children of light and dark, set in a nameless seaside fishing village.
Sign us up!
retail price - $4.99
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$4.99
Donald Duck: "Trick or Treat"
by Carl Barks
Yes! The latest volume in the epic 30-volume Carl Barks Library
has arrived (we believe that this is Volume 15, despite it stating that
it is Volume 13 on the copyright/indicia page). This one is
perhaps the most riotous volume yet, filled with more fun-filled antics
than any other yet published. This is due in no small part to
Fantagraphics' decision to follow the stories that make up Donald Duck
No. 26 -- one of the last issues of the actual Donald Duck title wholly by Barks (Barks of course continued to pen Donald Duck tales for WDC&S for years more, but he more or less transferred from working on Donald Duck to Uncle Scrooge,
which was, after all, his own creation) -- which includes the title
track "Trick or Treat", with a whopping fourteen consecutive
classic 10-pagers! Originally published in a stretch that ran
from late 1952 through 1953, these 10-pagers are filled with the
comedic slapstick antics that Barks arguably did better than anyone
else in comics, ever, and this volume has some of the best, including
the back-to-back masterpieces, "The Hypno-Gun" and "Omelet." Also
on hand here are the classic Barksian philsophical exploration, "Flip
Decision" and the neo-classic all-American fable of choice and faith,
"Some Heir Over the Rainbow." Comics don't get any better than
this.
retail price - $29.99
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$25.75
M Train
by Patti Smith
Patti Smith's hotly anticipated follow up to her sensational Just Kids has arrived. There are plenty of reviews to read, as Google amply testifies...
retail price - $25.00
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$21.75
Items
from our October 2015 listings may now be purchased online at our
eCommerce site, HERE.
Ramshackle: A Yellowknife Story
White Boy
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
