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New for March 2018


GD1X-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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YN


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!
retail price - $22.99  copacetic price - $20.00


FLM


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.
retail price - $22.95  copacetic price - $20.00




PD


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.
retail price - $16.99  copacetic price - $15.25



FtL4



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!
retail price - $8.00  copacetic price - $7.00







NMSD19
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!
retail price - $7.00  copacetic price - $7.00





G42



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!
retail price - $2.00  copacetic price - $2.00


WAWB


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
retail price - $22.99  copacetic price - $20.00




DDP

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!
retail price - $29.99  copacetic price - $25.75





"Cap" Stubbs and Tippie
by Edwina Dumm
TippieHere'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."
retail price - $29.99  copacetic price - $26.75


IDaS


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.
retail price - $35.00  copacetic price - $11.75







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New for February 2018


WhyWhy 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.

retail price - $14.99  copacetic price - $12.75




JazzTotal 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.
retail price - $19.99  copacetic price - $17.75


Moebius


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...
retail price - $34.95  copacetic price - $29.75






Comp

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. 
retail price - $19.99  copacetic price - $17.75






BrazenBrazen: 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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tail price - $17.95  copacetic price - $15.75




Red
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.
retail price - $22.95  copacetic price - $20.00




BCR
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


A&M
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! 
retail price - $19.99  copacetic price - $15.99


LR4


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!
retail price - $4.99  copacetic price - $4.44





GH

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!
retail price - $24.95  copacetic price - $21.75



MM



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.
retail price - $24.95  copacetic price - $21.75




NOW2

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!
retail price - $9.99  copacetic price - $8.75






HDB4Hot Dog Beach #4
by Lale Westvind
They're back!  Mop & Fuzz, along with Mr. Biznass, Wendy and Jazzy Milkman have returned for a 25 page, high-octane epic of wo/man and ma/chine.  These are highly kinetic comics that leap straight off the page.  Designed to discombobulate your langauge processors, the lines on paper that make up Hot Dog Beach will hotwire your brain, pry it away from your internet-connected devices and plug it right back into your body where it belongs.  Feel the vibrations.... Don't miss it!
retail price - $6.00  copacetic price - $5.00


CS10


Comix Skool USA #10

by Kevin Huizenga
#10 is the food issue... Just kidding!  This sumptuous image gracing this full color cover printed on cardstock is more likely meant to symbolize the multi-course feast of comics knowledge that awaits readers within. There's plenty of intellectually nutritious food for thought in these 32 pages that are chock full of instructive images & texts.  Dig in!
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tail price - $5.00  copacetic price - $5.00






NBW


No Better Words
by Carolyn Nowak
Here's a super-sexy 28 page full color comic book created with consummate cartooning craft that provides a full-bodied expression of unapologetic female desire, and its navigation in the era of smart phones and Uber (but some things never change...).
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tail price - $5.00  copacetic price - $4.50




DM

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.
retail price - $19.99  copacetic price - $17.75




TheLie


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.
retail price - $24.99  copacetic price - $21.75




HSS


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.
retail price - $16.99  copacetic price - $13.75
 





TGI


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.
retail price - $49.99  copacetic price - $42.75


MR


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.
retail price - $29.99  copacetic price - $25.75






RC


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.
retail price - $49.99  copacetic price - $42.75



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