New for March 2018
X-Men: Grand Design (Marvel
Treasury Edition)
by Ed Piskor
With X-Men: Grand Design, Ed Piskor
may be the first creator in the history of Marvel Comics to
have completely created a comics series "from soup to
nuts." Piskor has written, pencilled, inked,
lettered, colored and designed this entire series
(not including, of course, the reprint of the original X-Men #1 by Jack
Kirby and Stan Lee [which he did re-color, however, in
PiskorColor™] which is included here as the
Official Treasury Edition Bonus). X-Men: Grand Design is a giant
connect-the-dots (metaphorically speaking) that creates a
single stand-alone portrait of the history of the X-Men.
It is a task for which Piskor – having honed his
chops on the four-volume Hip Hop Family Tree saga, published
over the last four years by Fantagraphics – is eminently
suited. And it is a task that he originated and
assigned himself (as, more or less, an existentialist
project) and then only subsequently brought to Marvel
for them to sign off on – or not. Of course, not being
fools, the powers that be at Marvel knew a good
thing when they saw it, and signed on to Piskor's project,
and the rest is history (still in-the-making!).
Here, in this Treasury Edition format, Piskor's
project is presented as it was meant to be seen. These
pages are bursting with energetic and innovative cartooning.
Piskor's decision to set the page/paper tone
as an off-white to cream newsprint enables the most
singular visual innovation of the series: the
use of white as a color, for dramatic effect.
Time and again, the reader feels the impact
of the white flashing out of the paper to
highlight a scene or, especially, illuminate a power's
action: Magneto's forcefield; Iceman's chill surfaces;
and other exhibitions of mutant power. The bright
white >pops< here on these pages in a way it hasn't
ever before, and accentuates the uncanny at the core of the
X-Men's appeal. And, best of all, this oversize
Treasury Edition – which is, clearly, how it is meant to be
read – is only the first of three, so there's plenty more to
look forward to!
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Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures
by Yvan
Alagbé
Born in Paris and spending part of his youth in West
Africa, Alagbé went on to become a
significant contributor to the French comics scene,
but has remained largely unknown in the USA – until now!
In addition to producing his graphically bold and
narratively original comics, Alagbé co-founded
– with Olivier Marboeuf – the influential
graphics/comics magazine Le Cheval sans Tête ("The
Headless Horse"), the publishing house Amok and the
publishing group Fréon. In addition to its titular
centerpiece, this collection presents five other original
tales, each with its own unique approach. Nice!
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From Lone Mountain
by John Porcellino
Finally, a new book collection of John Porcellino's
legendary King-Cat Comics & Stories.
From Lone Mountain collects King-Cat #s 62
through 68, in which readers will experience love,
married life, death, cats, travel and Zen –
among much else. Plus, there is plenty
of bonus material, including new short comics, sketches,
copious notes on the stories, and... an index of titles!
302 pages in all! Anyone unfamiliar with
John P.'s ouevre, should take a moment to take in the
PDF preview provided by this book's publisher – HERE.
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The
Prince and the Dressmaker
by Jen Wang
Jen Wang's lush linework, sumptuous colors and sweeping
layouts are out in full force in,The
Prince and the Dressmaker, her latest graphic
novel. A fun, fantasy filled historical
drama set in 19th century Paris, this smartly packaged 275
page work will engage all interested readers, but will
be found especially appealling by those in the tween and
early teen years. Check out a few spreads on this featurette at GirlsTweenFashion.
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Follow
the Leader #4
by Jonas
Goonface
HOT OFF THE PRESS! It's the fourth issue of life lived on
the streets and outside the law; kids vs. gangsters;
community vs. money. It all happens here. These
are great comics! Those who don't already know this
will quickly agree once they starting reading this series,
which you can do HERE!
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Not My
Small Diary #19
by Delaine
Derry Green
Not My Small Diary, for the uninitiated, is a long
running auto-bio/memoir comics anthology
that brings together a large host of small
press comics makers. Each issue focuses on a specific
theme. This 104 page digest size issue has as
its theme “Unexplained Events”. 43
creators* share their TRUE tales of the strange and
mysterious! There are UFOs, ghosts, curses,
superstitions, coincidences too strange to believe, and
more. *Here's the list: Carrie McNinch, Peter
Conrad, Noel Franklin, David Lasky, Jason Martin, Kelly
Froh, Jenny Zervakis, Donna Barr, Max Clotfelter, Andrew
Goldfarb, Colleen Frakes, Mark Campos, Rob Kirby, Ben Horak,
Joe Decie, Asher Craw, Missy Kulik, Misun Oh, Rachel Scheer,
Simon Mackie, Charles Brubaker, Graeme McNee, George Erling,
Elmore Buzzizyk, Chad Woody, Brad Foster, Lee J. Green,
Jason Young, Liz Prince, J.T. Yost, Andrew Willmore, Jim
Siergey, Patty Leidy, Pete Wentzell, James Burns, Fafá
Jaepelt, John Porcellino, Micah Liesenfeld, MariNaomi, Kevin
Van Hyning, Roberta Gregory, Mike Kraiger & Adam Pasion!
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Grixly #42
by Nate
McDonough
In the latest issue of Grixly, chef McDonough
serves up a piping hot plate piled high with comics
treats – over twenty different varieties of short
comics: talking to dad; going to Starbucks with mom;
(not) smoking weed; cucumbers; poison ivy; Marvel movies;
roommates; weddings; Jehovah's Witnesses; police; and, of
course, the horror of it all. In black & white,
with full color, foldout centerfold. Limited
to 200 pint-size copies. Still only
$2!
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We Ate Wonder Bread
by Nicole
Hollander
A hybrid prose/graphic/comics memoir of growing up in
Chicago in a bygone era unencumbered by dates (but we'd
say that it's roughly twenty years prior to Emil
Ferris's recently fictionalized Chicago
childhood), We Ate Wonder Bread will
transport readers back to their own childhoods, when
parents were larger than life, adults were mysteries,
the world was filled with wonder, and each day held a new
surprise.
Introduction by Alison Bechdel!
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Donald Duck: "The Lost Peg Leg Mine"
by Carl
Barks
Here we have Volume 18 in The Carl Barks
Library. Fantagraphics' 15-year project to collect
the entirety of Barks's Disney duck work in a 30-volume
matched set, is now just shy of the halfway mark, as,
while this is indeed Volume 18, it is only the 14th
volume Fantagraphics has published, as they have yet to
publish the first four volumes in the series, saving these
early classic volumes for when the time is right.
This volume is the second which is entirely taken up
by classic 10-pagers. The twist this time around is
that one of them, the titular "Lost Peg Leg Mine" in not from an issue
of Walt Disney Comics and Stories,
but rather an issue of Donald Duck (#52).
Was it originally slated for WDC&S and then
switched over to DD? Who knows! (This possibility is
not touched upon in the notes). Regardless, we have
17 consecutive Barks mini-masterworks here, all from 1956
& 1957. Hi-jinx, laughs and adventure await!
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"Cap"
Stubbs and Tippie
by Edwina
Dumm
Here's the
eleventh volume in the Library of American Comics
Essentials, an ongoing series collecting full year (or
more!) runs of classic daily comic strips, in stunning full back-in-the-day size
(meaning waaay bigger than daily strips are printed today),
on high quality newsprint; together making for the
perfect æsthetic reading experience. This 386
page, 4 1/2" x 11 1/2" hardcover collects the daily strips
of "Cap" Stubbs an Tippie than originally ran from
February 1, 1945 through April 4, 1946. The fun starts
with an in-depth 13-page illustrated introduction by none
other than Caitlin McGurk of the Billy Ireland Cartoon
Library & Museum, titled, "'My Land!': Edwina Dumm's
Pioneering Life in Comics."
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Is Diss a System?
by Milt
Gross
SALE!
This is a swellegant hardcover from New
York University Press – complete with translucent dust
jacket and 50 page introduction by Ari Kelman, an American
Studies prof at UC Davis. This book is mostly
composed of Gross's prose humor, replete with Yiddish
dialect (that will likely remind some readers of
Krazy Kat's – or "ket's" – dialogue) but
there are over a hundred cartoons
and/or comics scattered throughout this volumes 300
pages, making for a great introduction to this
multifaceted talent.
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New for February 2018
Why Art?
by Eleanor
Davis
In her Fantagraphics follow-up to How to Be Happy, Davis opts
for a similarly archly refractive title. Why Art? (Fourth
Edition) does not present an expository answer to the
question its title poses, but it does, like its forerunner,
embody a through-composed approach to its subject that
could be construed to do so. It is a highly personal
and idiosyncratic approach, savvy yet bittersweet, and
one that takes a surprising – and intriguing – twist that
longtime comics readers will recognize as a thematic
recapitulation of the late-'50s/early-'60s work of Steve
Ditko(!). The book's signal achievement is to present
an examination of Art from the perspective of
Comics. This tacking maneuver is hinted at right at
the start, in Davis's suggestive decision to employ an
inverse of the color scheme of the Greek urns
of classical antiquity (sandstone orange figures on
black, as opposed to the classical black figures on a
sandstone orange field). These urns can be
considered as ur comics due to their depictions of
sequential/narrative actions, thus bringing the
question of the relationship of Comics and Art to the dawn
of Western tradition. And this questioning continues
through the work's narrative of comics as art imitating life
imitating art imitating life, ad infinitum. After a
century in which the old world of Art colonized,
appropriated, co-opted and exploited the natural
resources of the world of Comics, Why Art? turns the
tables and, taking a distinctly new world (aka American)
stance, incorporates Art as
a key linguistic unit within an egalitarian
and democratic language system constituted by
Comics (while, in must be said, nevertheless also
maintaining an apocalyptic teleology largely derived
from Judeo-Christian tradition [see Steve
Ditko]). It's about time.
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Total Jazz
by Blutch
We were excited enough by this book's
publication that we ordered it – from France – in
it's original French language release (resulting in
us charging more than twice as much as we are for this
North American release!). While, of course, there
have been comics about jazz in the past – some of the best
of which, intriguingly, have also originated in
Europe – in Total Jazz, Blutch, comics
master that he is, has done more than most to bring the
spirit of jazz to its representation in comics
form; working towards translating the
jazz ethos of improvisation within formal
compositions into the language of comics. While many
of the short pieces collected here are brief anecdotes
with varying degrees of both sly and straightforward
humor, there is a variability in their representational
modes that, again, embodies the jazz spirit of
experimentation and risk taking. Taken together as a
whole, Total Jazz is a comics
milestone.
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Inside Moebius, Part 1
by Moebius
It's here! The North American debut – and the
first time in English – of Moebius's meta-comics work in
which he explores the realm of consciousness
through comics interactions with his own comics
creations. How are representational modes related
to forms of consciousness? It's time to find out,
with Moebius as our guide...
Compulsive Comics
by Eric
Haven
All Eric Haven's early, hard-to-find classics have at last
been collected in Compulsive Comics, just
released by Fantagraphics. In the pages of this 144 page
flexi-bound compendium readers will be treated to the
entirety of the first three issues of Tales To Demolish, The Aviatrix one-shot, the
ultra-rare Ultralone mini-comic and
the never-before-published "The Accuser"! These tales
are tailor made for long suffering old school comics readers
who want the joy of the form of the classic genre tales of
yore along with a knowing laugh at themselves for their
predilections.
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Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who
Rocked the World
by Pénélope
Bagieu; translated into English by Montana
Kane.
Pénélope Bagieu's Brazen is a collection
of 29 comics biographies originally created for the
French newspaper, Le Monde.
Employing a clear concise line and limited but
playful color palette, for the most part within a well
thought out nine-panel grid layout, Bagieu's work is
eminently readable, and one finishes this 300 page volume
ready for more. Each of these pithy bios is
informative and fun, pulling off the coveted
accomplishment of entertaining while educating. In
other words, they're great comics! And, as an added
bonus, each bio is topped off with a celebratory double-page
splash illustration. All wrapped up in a great package
for a great price! Among those rebel ladies whose
lives and achievments are featured are Tove Jansson,
Josephine Baker, Delia Akely, Betty Davis, Nelly Bly,
Hedy Lamarr, Temple Grandin, Las Mariposas, The
Shaggs(!), and twenty others who, while perhaps less
well known, have achievements and life-stories that are
every bit as engaging. The stories here are so
engaging that they will, in many instances, leave
readers curious to learn more about their subjects (which
particular subjects are likely to be different for each
reader). In fact, we fully expect these brief
bios to inspire more than one full-length comics
biography. Read a quickie interview with Bagieu on The
Nerdist, HERE.
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Red Colored Elegy
by Seiichi
Hayashi
Finally! A new – and very improved – edition of
Seiichi Hayashi's manga masterpiece of alienation has been
releasesd by Drawn and quarterly. This new edition has
a nice heft and feel, and the design has been slightly
tweaked for a mild aesthetic improvement, but the big change
is the addition of a 60 page, illustrated essay by
manga/gekiga/Garo scholar, Ryan Homberg. The inclusion
of this essay will enable all readers to better situate
Hayashi's work in manga history and better appreciate his
achievements. As Red Colored Elegy is over 45 years
old, and Hayashi's work is far from typical manga fare,
Holmberg's essay is a crucial improvement to this book,
which we reviewed upon its original release, HERE.
Recommended.
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Black Comix Returns
edited by
Damian Duffy & John Jennings
Black Comix Returns is a giant-size
celebration of black comics, primarily, if not wholly, made
in North America. This massive, oversized, full color, 200
page hardcover showcases an amazing variety of work ranging
from epic heroic fantasy to intimate personal reflection
that incorporates plenty of astute social observations and
savvy political commentary along the way. The
contributors to this volume are far too numerous to
list them all here, but include many artists whose
work Copacetic regulars will be familiar with, such as
Keith Knight, Ben Passmore, Whit Taylor and Ron
Wimberly, along with plenty of new talents to discover here
for the first time!
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New for January 2018
Angels and Magpies
by Jaime
Hernandez
Anyone who has yet to experience the masterpieces collected
in this hefty, budget-priced volume now has the chance to
start the new year off with a deepened appreciation of the
human condition – and the expressive capacities of
comics. Angels and Magpies, the
latest in the uniform softcover edition of Love and
Rockets, brings together the meta-comics masterwork, God and Science and the
unparalleled presentation of the processes of character
formation, fate and destiny that is The Love Bunglers,
in which readers are offered the opportunity to gaze into
their own souls through the mirror of Maggie Chascarrillo.
PLUS: the hard to find story, "La Maggie la Loca
/ Gold Diggers of 1969", from the long out of print Love and Rockets v.2
#20!
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Love
and Rockets: Volume IV #4
by Gilbert
& Jaime
Hernandez
And then, you can keep going strong and carry on with the
latest issue of the World's Greatest Comics Magazine, as
the new Love and Rockets is here! It's the
flashback issue as we head back into the halcyon days of
yore with Maggie & Hopey and Pipo and Carmen (and
Manuel and Luba and...). Plus more!
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The Green Hand and Other Stories
by Nicole
Claveloux; introduction by Daniel Clowes
Nicole Claveloux's amazing work has at long last been
collected stateside, in this full-size hardcover volume from
New York Review Comics. Long time comics readers
may be familiar with her work from the earlier issues
of Heavy Metal. Regardless
of whether you've ever seen her work or not (and we suspect
that for most, it's not) be prepared to have your socks
knocked off, as these pieces really make an
impact when taken all together here. This
power packed selection has been put together by Daniel
Clowes – who also designed the book and penned the
introduction (it's safe to say he is a fan).
We posted a few interior shots on Instagram, HERE.
Check it out!
Mister Morgen
by Igor
Hofbauer
Croatian comics superstar, Igor Hofbauer at last makes
it to North America, courtesy of Canadian comics publisher,
Conundrum. Soviet-era-inflected design and motifs
seamlessly integrate with with dreamlike, dystopian
narratives. Charles Burns meets Aleksandr
Rodchenko Check it out.
Now #2
by Eric
Reynolds, Dash Shaw, Fabio Zimbres, Ariel Lopez V., et
al
The second issue of Now has
arrived, poppin' full with a great variety of fresh comics!
Edited by Eric Reynolds, it includes a new story by
Dash Shaw along with South American cartoonists Ariel
Lopez V. and Fabio Zimbres; Spanish cartoonist Conxita
Herrero: Canadian artist and musician Nick Thorburn (of the
bands Unicorns and Islands); Finnish cartoonist Tommi
Musturi; Sammy Harkham, Joshua Cotter, Graham Chaffee,
Anuj Shrestha, Andrice Arp, and it all comes to a close
with a full color one-pager by Joseph Remnant that's an
instant classic!
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Dalston Monsterzz
by Dilraj
Mann
Dilraj Mann's Dalston Monsterzz is a
super snazzy A4 size full color hardcover published by
NoBrow press and printed on nice flat white FSC
stock in Latvia. Set in East London in the
not-too-distant future, it concerns age-old themes of
friendship, love, corruption, power and...
monsters! Definitely worth a look.
Imagine a young Paul Pope supplied with the latest in
comics making technology, and inspired after nightclubbing
in London, and you'll have an inkling as to what's going on
in this stylish, culturally savvy fantasy adventure.
We got our copies a bit ahead of schedule, and posted
a few pics on Instagram, HERE, so take a look.
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The Lie and How We Told It
by Tommi
Parrish
Tommi Parrish has been producing handmade, self-published
and small press comics and now here's their Fantagraphics
debut graphic novel. The work presented in this full
size hardcover takes an intriguing visual approach to
couching its narrative of relationships and social groups,
employing an alternating black & white "clear line"
presentation, with lush, fully painted color. Worth a
look. For now, check out this new interview with
Parrish, just up on TCJ, HERE.
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My
Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea - DVD
Directed by Dash Shaw
For anyone who has yet to hear, yes, it's true:
Dash Shaw has made a feature-length animation that
is now available on DVD – and it is now in stock at
Copacetic! (there is also a Blu-Ray, but we
don't have that as of yet). Here's the Guardian Review.
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Transformers
vs. G.I. Joe: The Quintessential Collection
by Tom
Scioli
Transformers and GI Joe each – and together – get a
mythic makeover in Tom Scioli's epic re-envisioning. This
massive hardcover collects all 13 issues of his IDW
series, including all covers and variants, PLUS the all
new Transformers vs. G. I. Joe: The
Movie Adaptation and
TONS of bonus material, to make it THE definitive edition
of this made-in-Pittsburgh mythos.
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The
Master Race and Other Stories
by Bernie
Krigstein
Finally, B. Krigstein gets the Fantagraphics EC auteur
treatment. This hardcover collection presents his
most significant work for EC, including the masterful and
immensely influential title story; all in black and
white.
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R.
Crumb: From the Underground to Genesis
by R.
Crumb, Todd
Hignite
In case anyone needs a reminder of R. CRUMB's genius,
here's an English language edition – essay by Todd Hignite
– of the catalogue of his recent exhibition at the Musée
d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. While acknowledging
that not all R. Crumb is for everyone and that some of his
work appears highly problematic in the light of today,
there is no disputing his genius. There are tons of
great reproductions of original art, including rarely – if
not never before – seen alternative covers, sketchbook
drawings, and more, in this oversize hardcover edition.
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