New for March/April 2017

Love and Rockets: Volume IV #2
by Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez
The second issue of the latest incarnation of The
World's Greatest Comics Magazine has arrived!
Gilbert continues to explore the nature of identity and
its relationship to family in the ongoing and
increasingly complex saga that centers on the social
group in orbit around the "international cult movie and
TV star," Rosalba "Fritz" Martinez, in three short,
inter-connected pieces. Jaime has three different
pots on the stove simultaneously this time around,
stirring each in turn: the Maggie and Hopey
reunion, the Frogmouth family saga meets the Forest
Spirit, and the intergalactic adventures of Anima &
Co. In other words: this issue has something
for everyone and everything for someone; and while there
may not ever be a comic book that has everything for
everyone, if there ever were, it would be Love and
Rockets!
retail
price - $4.99 copacetic price - $4.44

Ganges #6
by Kevin
Huizenga
IT'S HERE! The sixth and (maybe? maybe not??)
final issue of Kevin Huizenga's revelatory exploration of
and meditation on time and space: Ganges.
This issue focuses on some of the effects of technology on
our temporal experience. As always, Huizenga takes the
opportunity to explore the unique properties of comics
searching for new, untried and/or under-appreciated
approaches to what the medium has to offer by way of
communicating concepts and states – of mind as well as of being.
While all of us employing the latest gadgetry, apps,
platforms, etc. have no shortage of anecdotes pertaining to
our experience, Huizenga isn't satisfied with simply
relating an experience, he wants to take you inside of it.
He aims to demonstrate, with the comics making tools at his
command, what it feels like to move through space and time
with technologically augmented perceptions, how the
experience of moment and place is thereby altered, and so
provide readers the opportunity to step out of their
hyper-connected selves, to see what's happening in their
minds and so gain a consciousness awareness of the changes
taking places, of how our experience is undergoing a
transformation by being so immersed in connectivity and
mediated by a technology which, lest we forget, is owned and
managed – for the most part – by for-profit corporations
with agendas of their own. Yes, of course, we all know
that the world we live in is changing, but what is less
obvious, what it is important to keep in mind, is that it is
being changed, that agency is involved, and that
competing interests are locked in constant struggle to
determine the future – our future – and that
this future is ever more being determined by a controlled
altering of human interactions with and through the
temporal and spacial reality – in which we have evolved
over millions (billions!) of years – via
technological impositions designed to align our perceptions
with the agendas of corporate entities and the interests of
the hegemonic capital that they serve. And while this
capital is in turn putatively subject to private ownership,
these owners are not themselves immune to the technological
forces being employed to reshape civilization and are so
subject to the same perceptual impositions, perhaps even
more so due to their higher degree of immersion in
technology. Leading to a state of affairs in which the
abstract aims of capital to replicate itself may be liable
to determine future paths irrespective of any direct human
agency. In other words, it is imperative to gain a
greater awareness of how present – and future, as every day
brings something new – technologies are altering our
experience of reality and so be able to consciously evolve
in ways that enable us to adapt to the changes in our
perceptual environment – changes that may very well turn
out to be as momentous as the changes occurring in/to our
physical environment – in order to maintain, and,
ideally, advance, human agency. Kevin Huizenga's
timely and necessary work is aimed at providing just this
awareness.
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Crickets #6
by Sammy Harkham
The wait is over, Crickets #6, "an
interlaced body of cowardice, blindness, craftiness and
stupidity," has arrived. The story of our hero
continues. Seymour remains possessed by his cinematic
vision. The tighter he grasps the vision of what his film
should be, however, the looser his grip on the reality of
the situation in which the film is being made becomes.
Unsurprisingly, this leads to difficulties, the consequences
of which the reader sees coming, but, unfortunately, Seymour
does not, making for some farcical slapstick and some hard
life lessons, both at the same time.
retail price - $8.00 copacetic price - $7.25
Mary
by Lale Westwind
PIX Premiere. Hot off the press and
straight from PIX, it's the latest from Lale
Westwind! Here, in 20 risographed pages, Mary
posits a cyber-spirituality; the bonding together of
human spiritual energy through a hyperconnected
virtual reality space. Deep within the recesses of a
vital strategic area of a high-tech infrastructure in the
thrall of a military-industrial complex, which is in turn
leveraged by high-rolling, high-financiers – slipping in
through a hidden hole in an unsurveilled
space, a spark! The Team is formed: drone
pilot consciousness Joan and the sympathetically
conscious Mary, a hybrid-being the likes of which we
have not seen before (think Mike Mulligan and Mary Ann,
maybe?). Similarly inspirited individuals – wholesome,
yet (and so?) subversive – become
aware of the actions taken by The Team and sense their
strength. A movement begins! The
Team grows! Impulsively coalescing
around Joan and
Mary, joining in the struggle to Give Peace a Chance
in a World Addicted to War – a
Storming of Heaven!
retail price - $6.00 copacetic price - $6.00
Grixly #38
Nate McDonough
published by Self-published
PIX Premiere. Sub-titled, "The Breakup Issue," Grixly #38 is also
about the stunning rise up to the vistas of
a relationship before the crushing fall
down that leads to the break-up. Most of
all it is about identifying and releasing the
bittersweet emotions trapped in the amber of memory; about
re-inhabiting a former self and re-experiencing moments
and decisions in one's own personal past and
connecting them to one's own personal present – and,
implicitly, future, as well. In the pages of Grixly
#38 – which contain, along with some full color
pages, a tentative but nonetheless intriguing
first-time use of spot coloring – you will ride the
roller coaster of a first love that coincides with the
first steps of independent young adulthood and witness
the mix of contingency with immaturity which
is perhaps its defining characteristic. All for
$2!
retail price - $2.00 copacetic price - $2.00
Cut-Away Comics #3
by Dan Zettwoch
PIX
Premiere. Hold
onto your hats! The looooong awaited third and final issue
of Dan Zettwoch's CUT-AWAY COMICS has arrived - along
with restocks of the first two issues! So, anyone late to
the party can celebrate the conclusion of this
adventure-filled episode in the annals of John James
Audubon's birding career along with the rest of us. All
issues are only $1@: Another spectacular Zettwoch
Industries value!
retail price - $1.00 copacetic price - $1.00

Street Angel:
After School Kung Fu Special
by Jim Rugg & Brian Maruca
PIX Premiere.
Long rumored, the official release of the
first all-new Street Angel adventure in years has at
last touched down on the Copacetic new arrivals
table: Street
Angel: After School Kung Fu Special is a
deluxe hardcover edition complete with
endpapers and special features, amply demonstrating
that the Maruca-Rugg dynamo is still in full
effect. Dexterously interweaving wry humor with
ingeniously rendered eye-popping action
sequences, they together forge a highly
entertaining and uniquely
insightful portrait of the refusals, denials
and elisions that constitute high school
romance.
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $17.77
Japanese Notebooks: A Journey to the
Empire of Signs
by Igort
Written and drawn – and
designed – by the Italian artist, Igort (translated into
English by Jamie RIchards) and printed in Italy, Japanese Notebooks is a
sumptuous visual feast. It is also, of course, much
more. It is: an investigation of the personal
forces that drive artists to create in general and to
pursue the particular paths they do; an exploration
of how their imaginations come to be possessed
by specific images; a memoir of one particular
artist's journey; and much else. Igort is one of the
most accomplished comics makers currently working, and Japanese Notebooks is
likely his most personal work yet, one that is apt to
hold a particular appeal to othwer comics makers, as
these two testimonials attest: "As a graphic novelist, I
obviously can't get enough of books about what it feels
like to be a cartoonist, and this is a high point
in that pantheon. Igort's memoir is a rich,
complicated meditation on art, cultural infatuation and
the seen versus the remembered. All told in a
collage of words, images, diagrams, photographs,
history, ideas, feelings – and most surprisingly – of
conflict." –
Chris Ware "With evident
enthusiasm, Japanese
Notebooks describes
an artist's journey to Japan, from Igort's arrival
in 1991 with the preconceptions of an outsider to his
discoveries both artistic and personal over many return
encounters." –
David Mazzucchelli
retail price -
$29.99 copacetic price - $26.75

Imagine Wanting Only This
by Kristen
Radtke
Kristen Radtke's massive meditation on impermanence,
Imagine Wanting Only This is paradoxical in
that it is a deeply felt work conveyed through
superficial artifice; a dichotomy which undergirds
its significance.
retail price - $29.99 copacetic special
price -
$22.22

S! #27: The BFF Issue
Cover: Hironori Kikuchi (Japan)
Contributors: BloodBros (New
Zealand), deadtheduck (India), Derrengueta
(Spain), Émilie Gleason
(Mexico), Erlend Peder Kvam (Norway),
Gareth Brookes (UK), Gonçalo Duarte
(Portugal), Hironori Kikuchi (Japan),
König Lü. Q. (Switzerland), Krystal
DiFronzo (USA), Līva Piterāne (Latvia),
Louise Aleksiejew (France), Lucas Souza
Teixeira (Brazil), Lukas Weidinger
(Austria), Marie Weber (France), Melek
Zertal (Algeria), Shawn Eisenach (USA),
Shee Phon (China), Till Lukat (Germany),
Tor Brandt (Denmark).
Support: Latvian State Culture
Capital Foundation Format: A6,
164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, high
quality and environmentally friendly
Munken paper.
retail price - $12.00 copacetic price - $12.00

Otomo: A Global
Tribute to the Mind Behind Akira
by Katsuhiro
Otomo
This is a massive, oversize, hardcover filled with full
page, full color tribute illustrations. 80 fine
artists, illustrators, and comics and manga legends from
Japan, North American and Europe – including Jiro
Taniguchi, Tomer and Asaf Hanuka, Masashi Kishimoto, Shirow
Masumune, Stan Saki, Boulet, Juan Gimenez and many others – pay tribute
to one of the greatest works in the field, each giving their
own, heartfelt interpretation of one personally important
element of this intricate and far reaching saga.
retail price - $29.99 copacetic price - $25.75
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New for February 2017

PIX Picks #2
The second power-packed issue of PIX Picks has arrived.
40 full color pages of comics and features
revolving around the special guests and exhibitors at PIX
2017 – including Dan Zettwoch, Conor Willumsen, Lale
Westvind, Carol Tyler, Ed Piskor, Lane Milburn and Anya
Davidson! PIX 2017 will be held on Sunday, April 9,
2017 at the August Wilson Center, located at 980 Liberty
Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh (15222). Programs will
be across the street at the Toonseum – and Comics Workbook
will be holding workshops at the Greater Pittsburgh Arts
Council two blocks away at 810 Penn Ave. Everything is
FREE and open to the public – including PIX Picks!
More info <HERE>.
copacetic
price -
FREE

SET: Comics School / Comics Skool / Comix Skool USA
#1-5
by Kevin Huizenga
Learn from the master of comics space and time for mere
pennies, in this complete set of all five issues of his
pedagogical zine! Each of these issues is a jam-packed
32 pages filled with hard won insights, making for 160 pages
of major league DIY comics instruction that will take you
straight into the heart of the ComixZone™. Now with
bonus hand color-coding on the covers by Mr. H!
copacetic price - $20.00
What Parsifal Saw
bv Ron Regé, Jr.
Ron Regé, Jr. strikes
again! What Parsifal Saw collects Regé's
work since The Cartoon Utopia. The two
key pieces here are "Cosmogenesis," illustrating
the "secret doctrine" of Madame Helena Blavatsky, the
key figure in the history of Theosophy (which had a
significant influence on the first generation of
modernist artists, notably Piet Mondrian and
Wassily Kandinsky), and "Diana," Regé's
unique spin on W*nder W*man; both originally appeared in
(now
out-of-print) self-published micro-editions.
Also included are: "Pythagoras," which first
appeared in The Pitchfork Review (and later
in Best American Comics 2015!); Regé's
brilliant use of Alex Schubert's Blobby Boys in
a scathing critique of contemporary culture and
society, all accomplished in a power-packed two-page
spread that originally ran on Vice; several
one-pagers; a bunch of bonus
illustrations; new front and back cover
illustrations; and more! All in a nicely put
together and printed softcover volume for quite a
reasonable price. Ron Regé, Jr. has been striving
conscientiously to forge a visual language to
channel spiritual forces through comics,
continuously evolving his approach, and in the process
creating a singular and highly rewarding body of
work. Recommended!
retail
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PLUS! In tandem with their release of What Parsifal
Saw, Fantagraphics has at last issued the
long-awaited softcover edition of Regé's The Cartoon Utopia!
Sticks Angelica, Folk
Hero
by Michael DeForge
Michael DeForge's latest is a collection of
horizontally-formatted single-page strips that cohere
into a single work. It appears that DeForge gave
himself the challenge to work in the mode of the old
school newspaper comics strip makers, producing a
"Sunday page" every week, only now, of course, instead
of appearing in the newspaper, it was posted online.
The simple pleases of the format, such as the
largely repetitive grid, and including the treasured,
unique header titles for each and every strip, make this
an æsthetic treat; but one that is always at a
remove on the screen. Fortunately, it has
now been collected in this fine hardcover edition from
Drawn & Quarterly. Fiendishly arch in its
narrative discourse, while simultaneously completely
sincere in its artistic aims and formal devotions, Sticks
Angelica plots a course to navigate through our
troubled times.
retail
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Starseeds
by Charles Glaubitz
Having begun life as a series of paintings over a decade
ago, Starseeds at last takes full form in this 240 page
hardcover graphic novel from Fantagraphics.
Sumptuously printed in navy blue and golden yellow
on a nice, lightly textured, flat, off-white stock,
readers will experience a multi-dimensional tale full of
spectacular art leading through jarring shifts in
mode and perspective. Filled with aliens and
strangers, cyphers for the experiences of
alienation, discontinuity and commodification,
readers are provided a chance to see the
strangeness in the accepted normalcy.
retail
price - $29.99 copacetic price - $25.75

Little Angels
by Aidan Koch
A tidy 32 page, full color, saddle-stitched work
that is part of the MoMA PS 1 series of artist
monographs.
retail
price - $10.00 copacetic price - $10.00

Pretending Is Lying
by Dominique Goblet
Widely acclaimed in European comics, the
work of Dominique Goblet, a francophone native of Brussels,
at last receives an English language translation by Sophie
Yanow in this beautifully produced New York Review
Comics edition of Pretending Is Lying.
Produced over a period of roughly a decade, the
artwork is highly expressive, deeply personal and embodies a
variety of techniques and materials that indicate the
passage of time, shifts in perspective and consequent
changes in approach. Pretending Is Lying is a
work that you not just simply read, but
experience. Check out its NYRC page for six preview
pages and more.
retail price - $24.95 copacetic price - $21.75
Another
Pair of Retrofit Releases:
Canopy
by
Karine Bernadou
80 fun-filled pages! Printed in
black, white and red, Canopy (Retrofit 57)
collects a heaping helping of Karine Bernadou's playful
pantomime comics wherein and through she releases
her inner child and lets her lead her cartoon
avatar through a fable-filled Flower Child's
Progress (of sorts). Reflective, enjoyable
and energizing!
Babybel Wax Bodysuit
by Eric
Kostiuk-Williams
The comics in Babybel Wax Bodysuit jump off the
page. Inventive, layered, colorful and complex, the
seven short comics pieces that make up this 24 page
compendium tackle a variety of pop culture icons and
demonstrate how they can be – and are – integrated into
personal identity; simultaneously
demonstrating the deconstructive abilities
and savvy of their creator; entertaining and
educational.
Canopy - retail
price - $15.00 copacetic price - $12.75
Babybel Wax Bobysuit - retail price - $6.00 copacetic price - $5.00

Terms and Conditions: The Unabridged Graphic Adaptation
- Complete Edition
by R. Sikoryak
Now in full color and in a single
volume the COMPLETE iTunes Terms and Conditions – all 20,000+
words of it adapted to comics in a weird and wonderful fashion
as only R. Sikoryak could manage! Read more in our
original review for the self-published version, here. We encourage
anyone having no idea what the heck this is all about to check
out this preview of the first several pages, HERE.
retail
price - $14.95 copacetic price -
$12.75

Inkbrick #5
edited by Alexander Rothman
The latest issue
of Ink Brick is the most jam-packed yet!
80 full color pages and 29 creators – here's the
list: Louise Aleksiejew Kurt Ankeny,
Nicky Arscott, Colleen Louise Barry, Aaron Cockle, Letisia
Cruz, Allie Doersch, Shawn Eisenach, Winnie T. Frick, Mike
Getsiv, Dina Hardy, CB Hart, Jason Hart, Aurélien, Leif,
Courtney Loberg, Maxine Marie, Antoine Medes, Laurence
Musgrove, Myra Musgrove, M. A. Noreña, Thilini Perera, Ellis
Rosen, Sam Ross , Alexander Rothman, Samplerman, Alexey
Sokolin, Deshan Tennekoon, Paul K. Tunis and Jenny Zervakis.
retail
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$10.75

Tarzan, The Jesse Marsh Years Omnibus – Volume One
by Jesse
Marsh and Gaylord DuBois
Wow! Dark Horse really did it right
this time and has produced a book worthy of the great Jesse
Marsh art it contains. Their first Tarzan Omnibus is a joy to
behold. Collecting just shy of 700 pages of spectacular full
color comics by the great Jesse Marsh and employing pitch
perfect production throughout, this book is an instant
Certified Copacetic Classic! Reproduction featuring deep
rich, solid blacks with clean crisp flat colors printed on
heavy, off white, non-reflective newsprint make are the
perfect match for Marsh's spare, lean yet muscular linework
which immerse readers in a world of adventure, intrigue,
alien-yet-familiar social dynamics, the mysteries of the
animal kingdom, forgotten, lost and unknown kingdoms, natural
wonders and beauties and more; in short, the world of Tarzan.
retail
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$25.75

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Items
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2017 listings
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New for January 2017
Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in
Black and White
by Michael
Tisserand
Krazy Kat aficionados have long placed
its creator, George Herriman at or near the center of the
development of comics and cartooning. A prodigious
talent, and true comics pioneer – possessed of an
unquestionable genius – he produced comics of startling
fluidity; words, images and design each blending seamlessly,
each reinforcing and supporting the other to
create works of lasting strength and beauty. The
concept of the intelligent vocalizing cartoon animal
– the “funny animal” – that gave rise to Felix the Cat,
Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Donald and Daffy Ducks and
countless others was more or less forged by Herriman, who in
the process opened up a rich vein in the American psyche
which is still being mined today. Here, in Krazy:
George Herriman, a Life in Black and White, author
Michael Tisserand broadens the context of Herriman’s life
further, to encompass large swaths of American history,
society and culture, and in the process places
Herriman’s life not only at the center of the history of
comics, but at the crossroads of America itself at the
dawn of the 20th century. While it has long been known
that Herriman was born in New Orleans of mixed “Creole”
heritage, with African as well as European forebears, the
specifics had always been murky, at best – but no
more! Tisserand, much of whose earlier writing focused
on New Orleans, and who evidently knows his way around a
variety of New Orleans archives, leveraged his preexistent
knowledge, rolled up his sleeves and dug deep, tracing
Herriman’s roots back to the 18th century as well as
outlining much of his extended family history. The
story includes telling details of much of what transpired in
post Civil War New Orleans in order to set the stage for
Herriman pere’s decision to uproot the family, move to Los
Angeles and “pass” (as white), at which point the book’s
subtitle, “a life in black and white” becomes eminently
clear. And that’s only the beginning! It’s
always instructive to be reminded just how big a force
comics were in their early days at the dawn of the 20th
century. Before the movies really began to make their
mark on the American scene, before radio, comics – appearing
everyday in the majority of the country’s newspapers – were
arguably the first mass entertainment, and as such made a
tremendous, lasting impact in the popular imagination, and
Herriman was there, almost from the very start.
Herriman had been creating and drawing numerous
illustrations, sports cartoons and comics strips for well
over a decade before coming up with his most famous
creation, having seen his first drawings published at the
close of the 19th century. Krazy traces the
highs and lows and ins and outs of Herriman’s extraordinary
life, uncovering many heretofore undisseminated facts while
also debunking some of the myths and legends that had sprung
up to fill various lacunae in his life story. Not
every mystery is solved, to be sure. Plenty remains
for future Herriman researchers to strive to discover.
And Tisserand may be among them, as he is reported to
be paying attention to the responses he has been receiving
to this work, perhaps for a future work, or revised
edition. But don’t sit on your hands waiting for that
day (that may or may not arrive). Krazy is
an essential work of scholarship that will leave you with an
increased understanding – and appreciation – of America ,
its culture and the central, formative role of comics in it
all. Recommended! >> ALSO: If you've read
this far, we can all but guarantee that – if you haven't
already – you'll want to read Chris Ware's incisive
essay on George Herriman written on the occasion of the
publication of Tisserand's biography, HERE.
retail
price - $35.00 copacetic price - $31.75

The End of Summer
A City Inside
I Love This Part
by Tillie Walden
The End of Summer was the first book by wunderkind Tillie
Walden's. Published by the UK's Avery Hill Publishing,
it was started (and finished?) while Ms.
Walden was still a student at the Center for Cartoon
Studies, and has been turning heads with its polished
professional poise, despite its creator's tender years: Born
in 1996, Ms. Walden was the top Ignatz award-winner at
this year's SPX. Get a taste of what she's (been) up
to at tilliewalden.com. You're sure to
be impressed. Her next work, A City Inside,
takes a searching look through the dense forest of
life, down one particular path,
revealing... days of (one potential) future past?
An eloquent embodiment of "the journey is the
destination"? A preternaturally talented 19 year-old's
Miyazaki-inflected self-examination in comics form? An
extended visual riff on the relationships between urban
and suburban spaces and identity? Yes. And
her third book, an early 21st century high school romance
told in a neoclassical hybrid that incorporates early 20th
century comics language into a post-modern sense of space
and time, I Love This Part is composed of a
series of 64 one-page tableaus through which the
protagonists move – almost float – and in which the figures
occupy masses and spaces within each of the
many land and cityscapes which wildly vary
in relation to the presupposed respective spatial
relationships they occupy in our memory maps of reality -
but perhaps not, Ms. Walden hints here - in our imaginations
(Ms. Walden is likely taking her cue here from Winsor
McCay, as she did in other ways in her first Avery Hill
work, The End of Summer, and by so
doing reinvigorating the century old
tradition of this artist who did so much to shape the
history of comics, returning to the source to
renew the form). Most readers of this effecting work
will, of course, be too engrossed by the
detailed delineations of affections exchanged and the
consequential quandaries that follow to be
paying much attention to the formal qualities outlined
above. It's a winning combination, either way.
The End of Summer - copacetic price - $17.75
A City Inside - copacetic price - $11.75
I Love This Part - copacetic price - $11.75
Black History in Its Own Words
by Ronald Wimberly
Between the hardback covers
of Black History in Its Own Words,
celebrated comics creator Ron Wimberly has selected and
illustrated 39 quotes "ranging from the casual
to the profound, from luminaries past and present."
The comics portraits assembled here range in
style from Pop Art to European portraiture to manga and,
of course, straight up comic book, the mode of
representation in each case chosen to effectively
represent the speaker and match up with the quote.
Part of the fun of this collection is seeing who
Wimberly chose to represent, which quote he picked and how
he went about it representing it, so we're not going to
spoil things by giving it all away here, but will suffice
it to say that the range – from Sojourner Truth to
Ice-Cube – is wide, and includes plenty of surprises, and
will demonstrate to just about every reader that
there's still plenty to learn about black history.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Copacetic will host Ronald
Wimberly – creator of Black History in Its Own
Words – on Wednesday, February 22, from 6:00-pm
to 8:00pm. See you there!
retail price - $17.99
copacetic price - $15.00
Overgrowth and Underbrush
by Nate Taylor,
Nate McDonough, Jonas McLuggage, Cynthia Lee, Greg Lyons,
Sean Coxen, Mark Hartman, Monika Foglia, Christopher
Boring, Joe Mruk, Abby Diamond, Jeff Brunner
This
Made-in-Pittsburgh anthology immerses readers in nautre
in presenting an even dozen artists, each of
whom has created an intimate piece of comics work
relating to their own personal connections to the forests
of western Pennsylvania. The pieces take many forms
– reminiscence, anecdote, fantasy, fable,
meditation, polemic as well as combinations of
these – and their respective
tones range from whimsical to dark. 140
pages in all; squarebound; black & white interiors.
retail price - $12.00
copacetic price
- $12.00

Zonzo
by Joan
Cornella
48 more of Joan
Cornellá's pantomime cartoon paintings that
mix absurdity and bad taste in another pert,
finely crafted, hardcover volume. Each work
an indefinable concoction
of egregious juxtapositions that seems, if only
for a fleeting instant, to capture the craziness of our
world.
retail
price - $14.99 copacetic price - $13.75

Cyanide
Milkshake #8
by Liz Suburbia
The (tearful)
Farewell Issue of CM. Liz Suburbia reflects on
her life – choices, directions, ideas, the implausibility
of it all, etc – in 24 pages filled
with her sharp(ie), cleaner-than-clean line
comics. Sexy, fun, deep and silly all at once,
Cyanide Milkshake has made for a unique
reading experience. The issue's conclusion included
an intimation of a future collection of the entire series,
which will give those mourning its end something to
look forward to. Let's hope there will be more
comics making in her future!
retail
price - $3.00 copacetic price - $3.00

The
Unquotable Trump
by R. Sikoryak
Hot off the
press, it's R. Sikoryak's The Unquotable Trump.
Seventeen classic comic book covers and one Hostess
Twinkies ad are re-imagined for the age of Trump, in
inimitable R. Sikoryak fashion. All dialogue sourced
and referenced.
retail price - $4.00
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Rumbling, Chapter 1
by Kevin
Huizenga
With things
going as they are, Mr. Huizenga has, evidently,
decided that it was a good idea to reissue the
long out of print first chapter of "Rumbling,"
which first appeared in Or Else #5, way back
in 2008, to remind us that things can still go
quite a bit further south. Here's a bit of what we
had to say about it back in our original review of that
issue: ...the 24-page "Rumbling," which is,
according to the credits, "adapted" from the 44th of
the 100 Ouroboric (very short) Novels that make up Centuria by
Giorgio Manganelli (translated by Henry Martin)
– but it is probably more accurate to say
that is "inspired" by it. This story "stars"
Glenn Ganges and imagines a religious war -- something
along the lines of the current Sunni-Shiite conflict
raging (then... and still) in Iraq -- taking place
here in the good ol' USA. This issue also
includes a 5-page bonus story, "Spiders Around the
House", which, along with covers and title page rounds
this mini-comic out to a full 32 pages. PLEASE
NOTE: We have also received a simultaneous restock of Rumbling, Chapter 2, so
Now Is the Time ...
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Grixly #37
by Nate
McDonough
The latest
issue of Grixly has arrived. This time
around, Nate McDonough's comics compendium of personal
observations, philosophical musings, relationship
reflections and just straight up cartooning takes the
form of a pint-sized edition composed of 28
black and white interior pages wrapped in a
one-two punch, full color, hi<=>lo
concept cover. Includes collaborations with
Emilernst and Marolon Battad. Printed in
a limited edition of 200 copies it is paradoxically
ultra-low priced at a mere $2.00. Made in
Pittsburgh! What are you waiting for?
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Madwoman of the Sacred Heart
by Moebius
& Alejandro Jodorowsky
Moebius
& Jodorowsky's Madwoman is, perhaps, the
screwball comedy to end all screwball comedies.
Opening on a French college campus, it
starts out slow with what seems at first to be
the beginnings of a fairly typical professorial
indiscretion with an attractive younger student,
but.... Well, we don't want to ruin it for you, as the
primary pleasures of this work – after, of course,
that provided by simply enjoying Moebius's splendid
artwork – are the rapidly multiplying plot twists that
make up this roller coaster ride of a book. It
seems germane to point out at that, yes, the
superficial characterizations on display here lean
towards the stereotypical and, oh boy, yes, sexism is
the order of the day – but, the outrageous plot
has been concocted to turn these clichés inside out
and point out the inherent folly in building a society
based on such conventionalities (i.e., a patriarchal
one), before, finally, setting everything back to
right with what may very well be the definitive deux
ex machina conclusion. So, buckle up and
get ready for quite the ride.
retail price - $29.99
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Total Chaos
by Iggy Pop
and Jeff Gold
And we'll
wrap things up this month with the Stooges book to end
all Stooges books. WIth a text primarily
comprised of transcriptions of Iggy Pop's
reminiscences, starting with a heaping helping of
his early days when he still faced the world as James
Osterberg, this heavyweight hardcover volume goes on
to chronicle the lives and times of The Stooges in all
their glory and decrepitude. It is packed with
ultra-rare photos of band members, early haunts,
little known peripheral players,
famous. not-so-famous, and nearly unknown
performances and concerts – both early and late
– rare artifacts and much else that
will have longtime Stooges fans eyes bulging out of
their sockets. Essential.
retail price - $49.99
copacetic price - $44.44
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