New for June 2017
One More Year
by Simon Hanselmann
One More
Year is
just what you think it is: another year of craziness
with Megg, Mogg, Owl and Werewolf Jones & Sons.
Opening with the epic, 30 page, "Jobs," and followed by
over two dozen more tales ranging in length from a
handful of one-and two-pagers all the way back up
to "Heatwave," another 30-pager, before concluding
with the pièce de résitance, a full color rendition of
the classic "
Worst Behaviour," that had previously seen
print as a stand alone graphic novella from Pigeon Press.
Solid comics storytelling chops throughout.
Nine-panel grid rules!
retail price - $24.99 copacetic price - $21.75
On the Camino
by Jason
On the Camino is
Jason's first non-fiction work. Chronicling his
"pilgrimage" on el Camino, Jason takes his readers along
with him on his epic trek (taken to celebrate his 50th
birthday) to vicariously experience the challenges of making
the journey – along with the accompanying – and different –
challenges that an isolative cartoonist has of meeting
and mingling with people. As with all works by Jason, it
is filled with page after page of great cartooning, and makes
for a thoroughly engaging and enjoyable read.
retail price - $24.99 copacetic price - $21.75
The Complete Strange Growths: 1991 - 1997
by Jenny ZervakisSpit and Half's first book length publication, in at
last collecting the complete run of Strange Growths, the legendary 1990s
self-published comics zine by Jenny
Zervakis, realizes one of John Porcellino's long
cherished goals. It's all here – and more. In
addition to collecting all thirteen issues of Strange Growths, this 240 page softcover
volume includes additional work that originally appeared in
comics anthologies, an interview with small press comics
critc and scholar, Rob Clough, an introduction by Porcellino
and... an index! Tom Hart sez, "Strange Growths was the first comic to demonstrate that comics
needn't be about character and actions, but can be about
thought and mood. Somehow, these comics created their
own world. Somehow, Strange
Growths was
a place, above all – a place to contemplate and to
reflect and to be."
retail
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King-Cat Comics & Stories #77
by John Porcellino
And, speakiing of John
Porcellino, here's what he has to say about his latest
creation: "This All-Animals Issue features stories on
possums, dogs, cats, Midwestern mountain lions, moths, horses,
frogs, toads, and more! Plus Catcalls and Top 40 etc etc. A
winner. 40 digest pages, black and white throughout."
Cougar sitings!
retail price - $5.00 copacetic price - $5.00
Exorcism
by Theo Ellsworth
128
full color A6 sized pages in which Theo Ellsworth
conducts his own personal exorcism – in
comics! Spot gloss! Bookmark! Hold on...
we're going in! Woooaaaahhhh...
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My Son, Falcon Girl
by Marky Starr,
Nils
Balls &
Nate McDonough
It's here: MY SON, FALCON GIRL, a
made-in-Pennsylvania production by Starr, Balls &
McDonough that beats All Time Comics at their own game.
24 pages B & W.
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The Love Suicides
at Sonezaki
by Chieko
Kobayashi, Chikamatsu
Monzaemon
Love
Suicides is a sharply drawn, nicely printed,
32-page bilingual (Japanese/English) comics adaptation of
a classic piece of Bunraku theater from 1703.
Originally penned by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, it is
adapted here by Chieko Kobayashi, who rises to the
challenge of representing the oblique restrained
theatrical form in this comics narrative
with black and white artwork that combines clean
lines with solid blacks and patterns.
retail
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I Am an A.L.T.
by Ian McMurray
This
40 page digest-size risograph printed in black
and pink on newsprint chronicles the quotidian
adventures of an assistant language teacher (the A.L.T
of the title) in Japan. Educational,
informative and fun!
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The Life and TImes of Martha Washington in the
21st Century
by Frank Miller & Dave Gibbons
Perfect timing! Dark Horse has just
published The Life and TImes of Martha
Washington in the 21st Century, which
collects the complete Martha Washington saga by
Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons. Created over a period
of twenty years starting in the late 80s with Give Me Liberty, this
story is set in an early 21st century America that is
splitting at the seams and headed towards civil war.
Sound familiar? Now's your chance to see what today
looked like from the vantage point of a quarter
century (or so) back. All 560 pages of the saga are
here + a 40 page scrapbook of preliminary sketches,
thumbnail layouts, promo posters and more, making for
a 600 page collection that's value priced.
retail price - $29.99 copacetic price - $25.75
The Panic
Fables
by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Hold onto your hats - the complete
collection of The Panic Fables by
Alejandro Jodorowsky has arrived. All 284 strips,
originally created in 1967-1973, written AND drawn by
Jodorowsky, all translated into English for the first
time. This is it!
retail price -
$29.99 copacetic price - $26.75
Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus, Volume One
by Jack
Kirby &
Stan Lee,
w/Larry
LeiberWhat
came to be know as "The Marvel Age of Comics" begins
HERE in the "pre-superhero" Marvel comics created,
primarily by Jack Kirby and secondarily by Steve
Ditko (and tertiarily by Don Heck), with the inking
assists of Dick Ayers, George Bell and others,
and with Stan Lee and Larry Leiber filling out the
scripts. These comics provided form and color to the
unconscious cold war anxieties that lurked benearth
the surface of every sentient American during the years –
1957 - 1962 – that led up to the Cuban Missle Crisis,
allowing readers to finally face their fears, and,
eventually, after getting to know them through the comics
collected here, at last turn, confront and challenge
them in the pages of
Fantastic Four #1. The
872 pages of this collection – the first of two! – contain
many a great tale, and page after page (after page!) of
amazing art
all drawn by the
one and only Jack Kirby. The editors claim that
between this volume and the next the entirety of Kirby's
pre-superhero comics will be collected. These are
the comics that (may well have ) saved the
world! Get a more detailed breakdown of the
contents, along with a big bunch of preview pages,
here.
retail price - $100.00 copacetic price - $83.75
Hunger
by Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay's long
anticipated memoir linking trauma to need – among much else –
has finally arrived! Spend some time with her on this
NPR interview.
Theft By Finding: Diaries, 1977 - 2002
by David Sedaris
David Sedaris has selected
hundreds (doubtless out of thousands) of diary entries,
unrefined raw material, spanning 35 years, from boy to man
– and then some. In the pages of this 500+
page tome you'll encounter: life behind the scenes
at IHOP; family dramas from Raleigh, NC and Chicago,
IL; adventures in New York and Paris (and even, at
least for a day, Pittsburgh, PA); random interesting, unusual
and funny names from the phone book; more!
retail price - $28.00 copacetic price - $25.00
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New for May 2017
Boundless
by Jillian
Tamaki
Boundless is
a 248 assemblage composed of nine tales: World
Class City; Body Pods; The Clairfree
System; 1. Jenny; Half Life; Darla!; bedbug;
Sexcoven; Boundless. Each is possessed of its own
individual artistic personality, chosen to best visually
convey the character of the story: rough and
ready; smooth and
silky; precise; loose; colorful; stark.
Here in the pages of Boundless, the real story
is the way in which the tale is told; decision embodied
in line and composition. Each of the pieces, while
being a unique organic whole in and of itself, is part of a
greater whole as well; part of a tapestric unity.
These stories deal with individuals alone, together
and in groups. They explore the dynamics underlying
each and map their respective organizational structures. A
theme running through each of the pieces is the
struggle for connection, and the wide variety forms that
this struggle can take. In particular, these stories
are about the tendency of contemporary communications
media to mediate our lives – and,
increasingly, our relationships. These stories
expose ways in which our increasing “connectivity” via
electronic devices can paradoxically (or perhaps
not) result in alienating us from ourselves and each
other; virtual connection supplanting
actual connection. Also threading its way through
the stories are indications of how social organization
in fully developed (late) capitalistic societies tend
to essentialize human relations within a framework of
financial transactions, with profit and loss, winners
and losers, exploiters and exploited. From "Body
Pods," a tale of a life lived in the shadow of a hit
film, to "Sexcoven"’s meta-documentary take on an internet
based cult in which immersion in computer connectivity leads
to a dropping out of normative society, to "1. Jenny,"
which relates a quasi-literal loss of identity to
social media, personal relationships are disrupted and/or
deformed by interactions with media. In a tour de force of form
countervailing content, Tamaki penned
a narrative for "The Clairfree System" that
loosely and
impressionistically portrays a business model
– more or less Amway® meets Proactiv® – which locates
synergies between narcissism and the religious impulse in
forging a sales pitch touting improved social standing
(aka "happiness") through adherence to its tenets, and
then deliberately and completely undermines this
argument by applying such a high level
of attention to the artistry and aesthetics of its
visual representation – in a series of images that in
their relation to the narrative range from
directly representational to tangentially so,
from complementary to oppositional – that the readers'
attention is instead riveted on the craft embodied in the
work . This overpowers any seductive allure
that the narrative might have offered, and so posits –
perhaps – the power of craft and artistry to reconnect
us to our human selves away from technology and the
exploitative capitalistic relationships that technology
serves to support. Tamaki takes a
different approach to reconnecting our consciousness of
self with our physical bodies in "bedbugs", a tale
which embodies some elements of morality play. Amidst the
collection's overall story space being primarily
engaged in documenting the body's gradually disintegrating
connection to self in an ever more virtual world, we are
given a moment to contemplate the repercussions of this
disintegration. As our lives become ever more
rife with virtual parasites that consume ever larger
degrees of our energy and attention – leaving us with
diminished assets to devote to the actuality of ourselves
– we here find real, live insect parasites
surreptitiously insinuating a consciousness of the physical
human body. The title story is an irony that folds
back on itself in positing a reality completely bound
by irrevocable limits from which one may be
released only through a complete acceptance of and
submission to them. Boundless feels at times
to be delivering a thesis that all human
actions contain an element of struggle for
connection, and that the goal of the stories
in this collection is to locate that element in each action,
properly situate it – identify its psychological coordinates
– and then, working from there to reverse engineer the
design of their motivation and so provide readers with
insights that can deepen human connection in ways not
available to the ever more pervasive "connectivity"
proffered by technology. Lines on paper vs. dots
on a screen.
retail
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And, now it's time for...
KOYAMARAMA!
(Five new releases from Toronto-based
Koyama Press.)
You & A Bike & A Road
by Eleanor
Davis
The NEW Eleanor Davis, hot off the press! 172 pages of
crisp pencil drawings delineating, on the road, in the
moment, comics-journaling-style, her bike trip
from Tucson, AZ to Athens, GA. Davis's vivid lines
will carry you along on her journey. Moments and
feelings are brought vividly to life on the page.
Friendships are formed, challenges are met. The
journey is the destination, indeed.
retail
price - $12.00 copacetic price - $10.00
Crawl Space
by Jesse Jacobs
The experience of reading the 96 pages of mind bending
color intertwined with stark black and white that
constitute Crawl Space on the physical plane –
Jesse Jacobs's first in hardcover form – will serve
to pop open your third eye on the astral plane.
retail
price - $19.99 copacetic price - $16.75
Volcano Trash
by Ben Sears
120 pages of full color, kid friendly comic book
adventure! BUT, there's more: Sears takes a
dynamic approach to space, and rhythm – think Hergé +
Moebius – that will grab you by the eyeballs and
not let go, bringing the fictional world to life, and
make for a visually stimulating read.
retail
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Condo Heartbreak Disco
Eric Kostiuk-Williams
Here's a new twist on the super hero in which the
super villain is a wealthy real estate developer and the
heroes serve the needs of the communities at risk of
being displaced; kind of like an anti-Batman, if
you think about it...
retail
price - $10.00 copacetic price - $9.00
So Pretty / Very Rotten: Comics and Essays on Lolita
Fashion and Cute Culture
by Jane Mai
& An Nguyen
Here's a novel twist on comics criticism: a hybrid
form composed of text essays interspersed with original
comics created to illustrate authors' thesis that
there's more going on than meets the eye in the world of
Lolita-themed fashion, manga & anime (lolicon), and cute culture (kawaii) in general. Looks like
a solid match of form and content. 304 pages.
Hot off the press from Koyama!
retail
price - $18.00 copacetic price - $16.25
The Interview
by Manuele
Fior
Manuel Fior's latest graphic novel is a science
fiction exploration of social structures and their
relation to personal identity and sexual mores.
Penned and printed in a monochrome of black,
white and grey, Fior employs the science fiction trope of
inexplicable (and incomprehensible) alien communications to
force readers into a zone of doubt and then asks
them to examine their preconceptions of sexual and
social relationships while held in this stasis.
Needless to say, this work is beautifully rendered
with lush landscapes, cityscapes, and lots of great body
language (bonus points for identifying all the compositions
that reference Gustav Klimt works; clearly
an important motif in The Interview).
Check out this
substantial preview of the first dozen pages are
hosted on the AV Club, HERE.
retail price - $24.99 copacetic price - $21.75
Fante Bukowski 2
by Noah Van
Sciver
Bigger, better, badder and more bitter – Fante
Bukowski is back! FB2 is a 180 page, full color
graphic novel, cleverly presented in a Black Sparrow
Press facsimile edition that further follows our protagonist
along his tortured path of self-inflicted agonies.
PLUS: a stellar selection of bonus
pin-ups!
retail
price - $14.99 copacetic price - $12.75
Providence: Act 1
by Alan
Moore & Jacen Burrows
Anyone who discovered this series too late to grab the
early original issues need no longer fret as this hardcover
volume collects the first four issues – for the same price
you would have paid for the comics. Providence
is one of Alan Moore's (and Jacen Burrows's) most intriguing
and engrossing works. It's a complex riff on the life and
works of H.P. Lovecraft which effects a slow, very
(very) gradual reveal of the
the forces at work just out of sight of those who don't know
how –or where – to look. The series shows readers
one version of the events that are transpiring on the page,
while also relaying what the protagonist makes of them,
through his diary entries that appear as addendum in each
issue (It's all about producing in the reader that feeling
of, "Wait! Don't you see what you're getting yourself
into!! Stop, now, before it's too late!!!").
This tension between versions is the signature
accomplishment of this series, which – like Watchmen, with which it also
has other things in common – runs 12 issues, and so
will, presumably, continue in Act 2 and conclude
in Act 3.
retail
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Shit and Piss
by Tyler
Landry
Get ready for 104 pages of deftly delineated, black and
white – modulated with a grey tone – pen
and ink comics, arrayed throughout in
a 9-panel grid. The history of comics is filled
with examples of sewers being employed as a
metaphoric representations of repressed unconscious
drives and/or abandoned desires (see Frank Miller). Shit and Piss is different
is baldly confronting the biological underpinnings, and so
may then – perhaps – be profitably read as an
exploration of the enteric nervous system, wherein
cartooned neurotransmitters fight it out in our gut
for dominance of our moods, actions and state of being.
Suit up, head in and see for yourself what you make
of it all...
retail
price - $10.00 copacetic price - $9.00
What Is a Glacier?
by Sophie Yanow
It's
been awhile since we heard from Sophie Yanow in comic
book form, so it's nice to know she's still making new
work. What Is a
Glacier? links
heartbreak with glacier melt, climate change with
personal change; making links that might at first
seem counter-intuitive, but upon reflection can be
seen as linked by a shared anxiety at the
impending unknown of our implacable future.
retail
price - $6.00 copacetic price - $5.50
The Little Book of Life Hacks
by Yumi
Sakugawa
Ms. Sakugawa's most substantial work yet, The Little Book
of Life Hacks contains 200 pages of handy how-to tips done
up comics style and especially designed for those just
getting started and adjusting to living
independently. While this book is clearly geared
towards gals, many if not most of these life
hacks would be of value to guys as well. Those
of the male persuasion need simply to switch on their
gender neutralizers before reading. A preview of the
book is – as of this writing – available on Google
Books, HERE.
retail price -
$19.99 copacetic price - $17.77
The Academic Hour
by Keren
Katz
Anyone looking to be visually stimulated and
intellectually challenged need look no further, Keren
Katz's The Academic Hour is a highly idiosyncratic tale of
love and romance amidst an academy that is conjured as much
as represented, more subjective experience than
objective reality; interiorizations of external reality;
trying to show how it feels more than how it happened.
retail
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Godshaper #1
by Jonas Goonface
& Simon Spurrier
Pittsburgh-based Jonas Goonface (aka Jonas McLuggage)
makes his BOOM! Studios debut in this Simon Spurrier
penned series set in an alternate universe where, "In 1958,
the laws of physics went screwy" and the mechanical-energy
based economy was replaced by a synergistic relationship
between humans and their personal, unique "gods" that
supply their human with what they needed in
exchange for worship (sort of). In this world, also,
there are those that are "always hated; always needed":
the Godshapers. This is the story of one. What
can we say: Great art! Check it out.
retail
price - $3.99 copacetic price - $3.99
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