Education
by John Hankiewicz
A t
our de force of comics
formalism, John Hankiewicz's graphic novel,
Education is
a bolt from the blue. Hankiewicz's comics work is
perilously difficult to describe, but we're going to take
a moment to get our thoughts in order here at Copacetic...
and make an attempt to back up our
encouragement to any and all takers to tackle the
challenge proffered by
Education, through highlighting
its artistic virtues, as it is a work that will offer
rewards more than commensurate with the efforts made to
come to terms with it. On the purely ζsthetic level of
the drawing and, especially, the composition, each page is a
gem of fine craftsmanship. On the level of
narrative, it is a thoughtful, complex and multi-layered work.
It is, however, in the formal interplay between drawing,
composition and narrative, that Hankiewicz's star shines most
brightly. While the diegesis makes/takes large temporal
leaps back and forth, spanning a generation, the comics
apparatus by and through which Hankiewicz conveys and
contains these leaps is, conversely, composed of an
intricate structure of moments that transpire on the temporal
axis in minute increments. This
strategy creates a tension within the reader.
This tension is then further heightened
by the repetition of absurd minutiae, frustrating the
reader's need for linear narrative advancement; but this is a
fruitful frustration. The frustration of narrative
expectation allows Hankeiwicz to keep many "balls"
(ideas/concepts) in the air at once, and it demands the
reader's attention to keep them there. More than this
though, is that this dual attack of temporal tension combined
with a frustration of narrative expectation corrals the
reader's attention to the underlying rhythms that normally lie
hidden beneath the comics reading experience. It is
communicating the existence and form of these rhythms
that are Hankiewicz's primary concern. Over the course
of the roughly twenty years that Hankiewicz has been creating
comics, he has developed a visual rhyming scheme, one that,
while highly idiosyncratic in its particulars, nevertheless
contains a deep structure which can and has been used to
successfully undergird concerns and particulars of other
comics makers who might be interested in pursuing this avenue
of comics poetics (please see his collection,
Asthma for the key texts
in this development). As one makes their way through the
reading of
Education, a
visual rhythmic meter
begins to be felt before it appears; even then it
will take multiple run throughs of the
material before this meter can actually begin
evanescently to be apprehended. This is the
genius of John Hankiewicz, a genius that is fully on display
in the pages of this work, the reading of which convey
and provide quite an education, indeed.
retail price - $30.00 copacetic price - $23.75
Spinning
by Tillie Walden
Tillie Walden's long in the works and hotly anticipated
coming of age story has arrived. In the pages of
Spinning, Tillie Walden
provides a first person window into the world of competitive
figure skating. One of the western world's many
subcultures, figure skating is like the proverbial
iceberg which is carried along by the ocean of the
dominant culture: all that most of us see is the
tippy top that appears on television during national and
international competitions, while 9/10 is submerged and
hidden from site to all but those directly involved until
now. It is a world populated largely by
girls. Many of whom, as revealed here,
enter it at the same time as
kindergarten. And in which it takes
discipline and focus to survive and a strong, almost
instinctual competitive drive in order to get ahead and
work through the ranks. These are not qualities that
are commonly associated with the population group to which
they adhere in this milieu until now. As with other
tightly focused and disciplined groups, a sense of family
emerges. It is often an unfulfilled emotional need
that provides the impetus towards submerging one's identity
in the group, and the strength of this impetus is
generally directly proportional to the degree to which this
need is unmet elsewhere. This is hinted at here in Ms.
Walden's depiction of her relationship with her mother.
There is more to the story, of course, as during the
course of its 400 pages it is revealed that there are
other needs that the world of ice skating cannot
meet. The complex drama employs metaphors of skating
forms to organize its narrative and a connection between
these skating forms and those of comics is tentatively
suggested. Ultimately, the self portrait created in
these pages goes a long way towards providing the
comics community with an understanding of how Tillie
Walden developed such a startling level of productivity
at such a high level of sophistication and artistic
achievement so young and so quickly bloomed into a major
talent upon exiting the world of skating and entering
The
Center for Cartoon Studies.
Available in both hardcover and softcover editions.
hardcover - retail price -
$22.95 copacetic price - $20.00
softcover - retail price - $17.95 copacetic price - $15.75
Tongues
by Anders
Nilsen
Hold onto your hats! We
have received an all new, 48 page, full color,
French-flapped, oversized, self-published comic book
by Anders Nilsen, the first in a new series:
Tongues. A blend of
classical mythology, current events and science fiction,
the three segments/chapters that make up this first
issue also continue to confront philosophical
and ethical concerns addressed by
Big Questions and
Dogs and Water, and as such
the series appears thus far
to constitute an extension of the themes
present these works. And, here's a little bit about
it along with some preview images:
https://www.andersbrekhusnilsen.com/blog/2017/5/24/tongues
retail price - $15.00 copacetic price - $13.75
Morton: A Cross-Country Rail Journey
by David
Collier
It's time to let the good times roll - with MORTON! Let's
all join David Collier on a cross country (in this case,
Canada) rail journey and experience old school reality
before it slips into the history books. We will be
conveyed along our journey by train, the most civilized
form of travel. We will experience the journey via comics,
the most suitable form through which to communicate such
an undertaking. And our pen & ink guide will be David
Collier, who intuits the precise perspective
retail price - $20.00 copacetic price - $17.75
Venice
by Jiro
Taniguchi
Jiro Taniguchi's VENICE is an amazing comics
travelogue that is among this master's final - and finest
- works. Taniguchi passed away earlier this year, but has
left an amazing and voluminous legacy of manga
(comics by any other name is still comics) that will
continue to be an inspiration to all who follow. His
meditation on space and in particular on architecture
as the embodiment of human history and culture will
slowly seep into readers consciousnesses as they read
this work and pore over these pages...
retail price - $25.00 copacetic price - $22.75
Anti-Gone
by Connor
Willumsen
Hot off the press! An all-new work by Connor
Willumsen! Sayeth Koyama (but we suspect Connor had
a hand in this): "
Join an
oneiric odyssey through a slacker second life. Realitys
grip is loosened as Spyda and Lynxa explore a potentially
constructed environment that shifts between dystopic
future and constructed virtual present. Like a form of
multistable perceptual phenomena,
Anti-Gone exists in
ambiguity." Scanned from the originals drawn on
vellum, these pages have the uncanny feel of being printed
on vellum as well, which amps up the oneiric
effect. 8.5 x 11 | 120 pages, B&W
| trade paper
retail price - $18.00 copacetic price - $15.75
Everywhere
Disappeared
by Patrick
Kyle
Everywhere Disappeared colllects
Patrick Kyle's recent works in a 208 page softcover,
sharply printed in crisp black and white on nice
newsprint.. Dramatically drawn and exquisitely
rendered, these pieces are variously located at a
shifting point on a line connecting Michael DeForge
and Ben Jones with Willem De Kooning and Robert
Motherwell in presenting an inside out view of things as
they are.
retail price - $15.00 copacetic price - $13.75
Old Ground
by Noel
Freibert
The dead meet the dying and all hell breaks loose
in Noel Freibert's first graphic novel, Old Ground!
retail price - $18.00 copacetic price - $15.75
I'm Not Here
by GG
Mysterious Canadian comics creator, GG gets the Koyama
treatment in this nicely produced, 100 page, French-flapped
graphic novel that confronts the mystery of identity in
a work of great skill and even greater restraint;
less really is more and composition has the last word.
One potentially productive way to read this is as a first
person accounting of the protagonist of the
classic Zombies single,
"She's Not There". (consider listening
to Neko Case and NIck Cave's version while reading
I'm Not Here.)
retail price - $12.00 copacetic price - $10.75
A Castle in England
By Jamie
Rhodes, Isabel Greenberg, Will Exley, Briony May Smith, Isaac Lenkiewicz, Becky Palmer
Inspired by Scotney Castle in Kent, the five tales that make
up this volume are each drawn by a different artist, and
each cover a different era in the castle's history.
Each of the stories is complemented by an
historical essay that provides a factual backdrop for
context and backgroun. A clothbound edition printed in
Latvia on quality flatwhite FSC paper, in an appealing
duotone of peach/orange and brown, this book is a treat.
retail price - $19.95 copacetic price - $16.75
Pantheon: The True
Story of the Egyptian Deities
by Hamish
Steele
In his first graphic novel, Hamish Steele tackles
some of the oldest stories there are. Pantheon is a
comics amalgamation of Ancient Egyptian myth of
Osiris, featuring Horus, Isis, Set, et al.
Lots of fun-filled drawing from Steele
and great production values from
his publisher, NoBrow, according to
whom, "Pantheon contains: incest, decapitation,
suspicious salad, fighting hippos, flying cows, a boat race,
resurrections, lots of scorpions and a golden willy."
You have been warned.
retail price - $22.95 copacetic price - $20.00
Marx, Freud &
Einstein
by Corinne
Maier & Anne Simon
The big three are now all together under one cover. Corinne
Maier and Anne Simon's comics biographies of MARX, FREUD
& EINSTEIN were each originally released as stand alone
hardcover volumes. Now you can get all three together in
this excellent NoBrow omnibus volume for LESS than the price
of ONE of the hardcovers. 'Nuff said.
retail price - $18.99 copacetic price - $17.00
Providence: Act 3
by Alan
Moore &
Jacen Burrows
Here it is, a conclusion which for once can be called
cataclysmic without succumbing to hyperbole. This will
leave you questioning the nature of reality in ways
that no other work of fiction has, at least since that
of Philip K Dick's...
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
(this aspect of the series is subjected to some shifts here,
in this concluding volume, but we can't tell you any
more...). 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, of which
this volume collects the final four (#9 - #12).
retail price - $21.99 copacetic price - $19.75
Hardboiled
by Geoff
Dyer, Frank Miller
& Dave Stewart
Hardboiled put
Geoff Darrow on the comics map. This collaboration with
Frank Miller is totally over the top and has influenced
every artist working in this territory/vein ever since. Both
at the level of detail and the level of violence, Hardboiled is completely
bonkers. Together these aspects combine to create a truly
biting satire of America. Now collected in hardcover for the
first time (in North America). Another timely re-release
from Dark Horse. This edition has been entirely
recolored by Dave Stewart, whose went for a somewhat
darker/subdued look and the color more modulated/nuanced as
compared to the original, bolder coloring by Claude
Legris. Some will prefer this version, others will
prefer the original, but they're both good!
retail price -
$19.99 copacetic price - $16.75
Cometbus #58:
Zimmerwald
by Aaron Cometbus
The new Cometbus has arrived! No need to think twice.
retail price - $3.00 copacetic price - $3.00
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Love and Rockets: Volume IV #3
by Gilbert Hernandez
&
Jaime Hernandez
Yes, the new issue of
Love and
Rockets has
arrived! We're enjoying staring at the cover so
much that we have yet to open it to see what's inside, but
didn't want to let that stop us from offering it for sale, as
we have a big stack of them. We'll give you a bit more
detail once we crack the issue, but, really, what more do you
need to know? It's
Love and Rockets...
retail price - $4.99 copacetic price - $4.44
My Pretty Vampire
by Katie
Skelly
Released more or less to coincide with the new Love and Rockets, it's the
first Fantagraphics book by one of Jaime's favorite
comics creators. Katie Skelly's clean, sexy
minimilism shines in this oversize hardcover that's a fun
romp.
retail price -
$19.99 copacetic price - $16.75
Street Angel : The Street Angel Gang
by Jim Rugg
&
Brian Maruca
The second in the series of Image Comics hardcover
editions of original Street Angel stories is already here!
The Street Angel Gang
is chock-a-block with rock-em-sock-em action with a
twist. The central narrative thrust -- a tough
gang holds an open call for new members; has the Orphan
Avenger finally found a family? -- has been layered
with a
Brechtian bracket of apocryphal trading
cards that serves to simultaneously amp up the satire and
situate the narrative firmly in the boyish realm of sports
and games. In addition, Rugg employs a stripped down
style here, which does double duty of keeping the action
moving and keeping the reader focused on the technique.
In other words,
The Street
Angel Gang is twofer: a rollicking action
comic book that is also a self-aware critique of the genre;
you can have your cake, and eat it too. Plus bonus
extras! How can you go wrong?
retail price -
$19.99 copacetic price - $16.75
Paradise Lost
by Pablo
Auladell
Seven years in the making, this 300 page hardcover edition
of Pablo Auladell's magnificent - and Blakean -
adaptation of (the first four cantos of) John Milton's
Paradise Lost is a feast for
the eyes and quite reasonably priced. We've posted
four spreads on Instagram,
HERE. Take a look; they'll
knock your socks off!
retail price -
$25.95 copacetic price - $22.75
Songy of Paradise
by Gary Panter
And, now for something completely different... here's Gary
Panter's take on Milton's
Paradise Regained, in which Jesus has been
replaced by Songy, a hillbilly on a vision quest. This
is America, baby; anything goes.
Here's an
interview with Gary Panter conducted by Francoise Mouly, that
appeared in
The New Yorker. At it's conclusion
there are quite a few sample pages from the book, so make sure
to check it out.
retail price - $34.99 copacetic price - $29.75
Alack Sinner: The Age of Innocence
by Jose
Munoz &
Carlos Sampayo
Back in print at last! And Eclipse/IDW did it right in this
fantastic 392-page collection of thse Munoz &
Sampayo classics the first of two! This
full-size edition is crisply printed on heavy newsprint
and quite reasonably priced. These works were quite
influential at the time of their initial release thirty-some
years ago, and once you start digging into this volume it's
easy to see why.
retail price -
$29.99 copacetic price - $25.75
Here's the latest pair from
Retrofit/BigPlanet:
Iceland
by Yuichi
Yokoyama
NEW Yokoyama! This one looks
AMAZING! 92
black & white pages, 5.75" x 8.25"
retail
price - $15.00 copacetic price - $13.75
How To Be Alive
by Tara
Booth
A collection of single page painted comics and
illustrations from the one and only Tara Booth. 40
color pages, 7x10 inches (17.8x25.4 cm), stapled comic
book
retail
price - $8.00 copacetic price - $7.25
Comics Skool USA #6 & #7
by Kevin Huizenga
The pen & ink master of space and time has returned
with new lessons for his disciples. Fresh from the
MCAD Spring 2017 semester.
retail
price - $5.00 copacetic price - $4.50
In the Pines
by Erik
Kriek
In the Pines by
Erik Kriek adapts five "murder ballads": one traditional
"Pretty Polly (And The Ships
Carpenter)", which has its murky origins
somewhere in the early 18th century and four
composed in the latter half of the 20th century:
"The Long Black Veil" by Danny Dill & Marijohn
Wilkin; "Taneytown" by Steve Earle; Gillian
Welch's haunting "Caleb
Meyer"; and concluding with "Where the WIld
Roses Grow" by Nick Cave. Printed in duotone throughout,
with a different tone for each piece. Lyric darkness
delineated.
retail
price - $24.99 copacetic price - $21.75
Taddle Creek #36
by Noah
Van Sciver,
David
Collier,
Joe
Ollmann,
Maurice
Vellekoop,
Nick
Maandag, et al Color and B & W comics by
Noah Van Sciver, David Collier, Joe Ollmann, Maurice
Vellekoop and Nick Maandag. Just a few of the great
(mostly Canadian) cartoonists in the new issue of
Taddle Creek! Learn
more about this swell mag, now entering its 20th year of
publication,
HERE. Who
knew?
retail
price - $5.95 copacetic price - $5.75
Pope Hats #5
by Ethan
Rilly
Wow, talk about a long wait: it's been five years
since we last heard from Frances Scarland and her
pals, and had been starting to wonder if we ever would
again. But Mr. Rilly hasn't let us down. The
fifth issue of Pope Hats is the
biggest yet, weighing in at a hefty 64 pages. We're
looking forward to digging in and see what's been going on
all this time. SPECIAL NOTE: AdHouse has
managed to finally do a small second printing of Pope Hats
#2, and we managed to snag a few copies of the
first issue, so, for the first time in quite awhile, all
five issues of Pope Hats are in stock
here at Copacetic, so anyone who's been wanting to get the
whole run now can... but not for long!
retail price - $9.95 copacetic price - $9.00
Uncomfortably Happily
by Yeon-Sik
Hong
Here at Copacetic, we're looking forward to digging into all
572 pages of Yeon-Sik Hong's manhwa masterpiece, Uncomfortably Happily,
recently published in North America by D & Q.
We'll have something more to say about it here, once
we do. Translated from the original Korean by Hellen
Jo!
retail price -
$29.99 copacetic price - $25.75
Garbage Night
by Jen Lee
Known, perhaps, more for her work on Nickelodeon and Boom!
Studios, Jen Lee gets a chance to really shine here in this
beautifully produced NoBrow edition. Perfectly printed
on flat white, lightly textured stock, bound in a flat,
heavy stock, French-flap jacket with spot
gloss! this 100 page volume brings together the
70 page "Garbage Night" with its prequel, the 28 page
"Vacancy, which was originally released as part of
NoBrow's 17 x 23 (centimeters) comic book
series. A dog, a deer and a raccoon hang
tight in a post-apocolyptic supermarket parking lot. A
post-apocalypse / funny animal genre mash-up!
retail price -
$18.95 copacetic price - $17.00
Palookaville #23
by Seth
This is it: twenty years in the making, the
denouement of Clyde Fans! And more: there is the
third installation of his ongoing sketchbook comic auto-bio,
"Nothing Lasts". This time around it's High School
with Seth. In case you wondering: not a good
time.
Palookaville, a comic
institution.
retail price -
$22.95 copacetic price - $20.00
Tarantula
by Alexis
Ziritt,
Fabian
Rangel, Jr. &
Evelyn
Rangel
Space Riders fans
are in for a treat: an all new 96 page full cover
hardcover nicely designed and printed on flat, offwhite
paper by AdHouse Books from the team of Alexis
Ziritt & Fabian Rangel, Jr. with lettering by
Evelyn Rangel! Feast your eyes on an eye-poppin'
preview,
HERE.
retail
price - $14.95
copacetic price - $13.75
Sound of Snow Falling
by Maggie
Umber
2dCloud co-founder, Maggie Umber steps out of the shadows
with this sombre, beautiful meditation on nature in winter
with a special focus on owls. Fully painted
throughout, Umber invites readers to draw her
depictions of the natural world into themselves and let them
linger there, and reflect upon the spiritual aspects
that thereby are revealed.
retail price -
$22.95 copacetic price - $19.75
Yours
by Sarah
Ferrick
In the pages of
Yours, Sarah Ferrick
successfully channels Gertrude Stein's driving
impetuosity of rhythmic locution and welds it firmly
to a similarly vigorous approach to drawing.
The result is an integrated comics
formalism in the service of the expression of explicitly
sexual desire. Elizabeth Hardwick said
of Gertrude Stein, "Her work, unlike the resonating
silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its
loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the
minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and
placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of
Philip Glass." To this comparison, we can now
add the comics of Sarah Ferrick.
retail
price - $23.95 copacetic price - $21.75
Mirror Mirror II
by Noel Freibert, Lala
Albert, Mou , Uno
Morales, Aidan
Koch, Sean
Christensen, Sean T
Collins, Julia
Gfrφrer, Simon
Hanselmann, Jonny
Negron, Al
Columbia, Carol
Swain, Josh
Simmons, et al
Here, in its second iteration, 2dCloud's flagship
anthology, Mirror Mirror, powered by
a truly amazing compendium of comics
creators assembled by editors, Sean T. Collins and
Julia Gfrφrer, delves deep into reflections of
contemporary sexuality to explore the buried nooks
and crannies of the psyche that other mediums are unable
to expose. This is a collection to
which readers will find themselves compelled to
return.
retail
price - $39.99 copacetic price - $33.75
My Dead Mother
by Clara
Jetsmark
Think Michael DeForge and Jesse Marsh team up to do the
art chores on a Dan Clowes adaptation of a Gaugin
painting of a big head Flash x-over into a post-modern
jungle comic fable: a wacky romp with great art! Rob
Clough has penned a brief yet pithy review,
here. |6.25 x
8 in pamphlet | 2-color offset Cover | 24 pages, 2-color
throughout
retail price - $6.00 copacetic price - $5.50
Souvenirs
by Summer
Pierre
A well-observed and engaging travel diary comic book of a
trip to The Hague, Amsterdam and Paris, taken in October
2015 by Summer Pierre. 52 pages,
saddle-stitched.
retail price - $8.00 copacetic price - $7.25
Fog Over Tolbaic Bridge
by Jacques
Tardi
Tardi's classic adaptation of the legendary (well, in
France, maybe) French crime writer, Lιo Malets
original
Nestor Burma novel
is at last back in print in English in this new hardcover
edition.
retail price -
$19.99 copacetic price - $16.75
Uncle Scrooge, "The
Lost Crown of Ghengis Khan!"
by Carl
Barks
The latest (and late) volume in
The Carl
Barks Library has finally
arrived.
Uncle Scrooge, "The Lost Crown of
Ghengis Khan!" is
packed cover to cover with classics like "Land Beneath the
Ground", "The Second Richest Duck", "Back to Long Ago",
"Land of the Pygmy Indians", and, of course, the title
track. Plus a peck of one-pagers and other shorts, along
with the now standard cover images, notes and bonus
extras. Readers will laugh while they learn about
the capitalist mindset at the heart of America that is
personified in Uncle Scrooge and his relationships with
extended family, who function as stand ins for the
everyman (i.e. the rest of us). We've posted a bunch of
spreads on Instagram,
HERE.
(in case you aren't hep: click on the tiny encircled arrow
at the center right of the cover image to advance
through the posted images). Check 'em out and
experience some of the best comics storytelling there
is And, in keeping with Scrooge's capitalist ethos,
we're offering an enticing limited-time special price on
this one.
retail
price - $29.99 copacetic price - $22.22
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Zanardi
by Andrea Pazienza
Pazienza was Italy's leading "underground" cartoonist / comics
maker. Influenced in equal measure by European fine art,
bande dessinee and American comics especially those of the
underground variety he forged a unique synthesis
on the narrative as well as the pictorial plane, and
in the process opened up new avenues for the up and
coming generation of European comics makers that followed him.
Zanardi was his most famous creation, and this volume
collects it's blurred, frantic, often violent, and
occasionally highly problematic representations of
femininity, masculinity and their respsective
interplay in its entirety.
retail
price - $29.99 copacetic price - $25.75
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness
by Nagata
Kabi
And you thought you had it bad? Nagata Kabi's
My Lesbian Experience with
Loneliness captures the feelings of extreme isolation
that result from identity confusion and reveals comics
(manga) as providing a key to connect with others and so
escape the trap of loneliness. Here, in 144 pages of
duo-tone (black & white w/pink) manga, Kabi records her
struggle to overcome society and her family's expectations
and find a way of active becoming that is navigable by her
latent being.
retail
price - $13.99 copacetic price - $11.75
Sunburning
by Keiler
Roberts
Slice of life comics about simple day to day life of
managing family life: working, living and raising
kids; straight up, down to earth, insightful.
Here's a
good interview with Roberts, conducted by Alex Dueben
for SmashPages, to get you up to speed. Great price!
retail
price - $12.00 copacetic price - $10.75
Vague Tales
by Eric
Haven
Vague Tales is
an all new, full color, hardcover collection cum graphic
novella of the one and only Eric Haven's
difficult-if-not-impossible to classify comics.
Featuring a cast of mythic figures Psylicon,
Ruin, Pulsar, Sorceress and the unnamed
Man-at-Home-Wearing-Red-Shirt upon whom all the tales
converge the tales that make up this collection morph
into one another in such a way that they merge together to
form a, yes, vaguely organic whole. Haven's work is
an acquired taste, probably best appreciated by lifelong
comics fans who grew up reading the highly
imaginative and fantastic comics of yore, but their
quirkiness has the potential to appeal to
almost anyone, so don't be afraid to
take a
look.
retail
price - $16.99 copacetic price - $15.00
Pop Gun War,
Volume 2: Chain Letter
by Farel Dalrymple
Farel Dalrymple caught a lot of eyes and turned plenty
of heads with his creation of
Pop Gun War, roughly a
decade and a half ago. Now, he's back with a
follow up volume that we had all but given up hoping
for. Rendered in a complex, multi-faceted fashion
that combines the classic black & white,
pen & ink work of the original
Pop Gun War with the
lush-but-subdued painterly style he developed for
Wrenchies, and then sews
it all together with several intermediary approaches to
the comics page. Don't miss it!
retail
price - $19.99 copacetic price - $17.77
Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie
by Nejib
This full color, 144 page hardcover presents a whimsical
account of the critical years (October 1969 to May
1972) David Bowie spent at (the since
demolished) Haddon Hall, located in Bromley just south
of London. The conceit here is that the narrator is
Haddon Hall itself, recollecting those years. In
addition to Bowie, the cast of characters prominently
feature his wife Angie, his brother Terry, Mark Bolan
(of T. Rex fame), his producer Tony Visconti and his
(then new) manager, Tony DeFries. This work was
originally published in France by Gallimard, in 2012.
It has been translated from the French by Edward
Gauvin.
retail price -
$22.95 copacetic price - $18.75
Snow Brigade
by Jonas
Goonface
Here's a cold blast of winter in comic book form that may
be best appreciated amidst the heat of summer. Snow
Brigade is an intriguing 24-page duo-tone comic
book made here in Pittsburgh in which the alternating
color schemes a cold blue and a warm brown are key to
the unfolding drama and its repercussions as the
central event occurs and recurs, first in the memory and
then in abreactive action.
retail
price - $6.00 copacetic price - $5.00
Henry &
Glenn: Forever + Ever (The Completely Ridiculous
Edition)
by Tom Neely,
et al
Quest's End. Here it is, the complete HENRY & GLENN
- 320 pages! - in this spiffy hardcover collection,
which the editors wisely chose to grace with
the definitive Henry & Glenn illustration by
Pittsburgh's own Jim Rugg. Includes "16
never-before published pages". In stock and
available NOW at Copacetic - ahead of schedule.
retail
price - $25.95 copacetic price - $23.75
Too Much Coffee Man
Omnibus Plus
by Shannon
Wheeler
Is it possible to have too much TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN?
Anyone up for the challenge will discover the answer here
in pages of the insane-o-size Omnibus Plus hardcover
collection of the adventures of Shannon Wheeler's
over-the-top character. This massive, 600
(oversize) page tome weighs in at a bag-busting
six pounds, so get ready for a workout. Might be
time to put on a fresh pot...
retail
price - $29.99 copacetic price - $25.75
Lead Poisoning: The Pencil Art of Geof Darrow
by Geof
Darrow
Attention pencillers: Darrow is an artist worthy of
study, and here's your chance, in the 128
oversize pages of Darrow's unstoppable pulse-pounding
panoptical pencil productions, pervasively propounding
premonitions projecting pronounced predatory predilections
persistently predicting permanent panic permeating
professional pursuits, passim.
retail
price - $34.95 copacetic price - $29.75
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