New for June 2018
Pittsburgh
by Frank
Santoro
OK, all you comics aficionados and connoisseurs exhausting
yourselves searching high and low for a comics work that
will push the boundaries of the medium while
stunning your senses and remaking your conception(s) of
self, for a work that you can really sink
your æsthetic, emotional and intellectual teeth
into – you have reached quest’s end… almost. Frank
Santoro’s Pittsburgh is a 224 page,
beautifully printed and bound (by master printers in
Latvia), full color (and what color!) hardcover
published by Éditions çà
et là in Paris, France (et, oui, c'est
en français*). This book is comics like you’ve never
seen them before. Each spread in this work is a fully
realized composition in-and-of-itself, and each is then
carefully woven into a tapestric, non-linear narrative that
manifests an intuitive mimesis of the emotional states
triggered by memories, and – crucially – by the memories of
others as they are shared and represented in turn, some of
which are being recalled and recreated from second- and
third-hand sources, showing how memories of others memories,
and of yet others’ memories, are
all located in adjoining spaces in one's own memory and
when recalled come alive together in recreating and
representing our subjective reality, aka life as we live it.
This is painting/drawing as comics as
drawing/painting, a singular work, years in the making
and a lifetime in the gestating. Will there be an English
language edition? Yes, certainly, but when, we do not
know, and it is hard to imagine any edition surpassing this
one in its production values.
*(Translation:
and, yes, this book is in French [not English])
retail
price - €28.00 copacetic
price - $32.75
The
Weaver Festival Phenomenon
by Ron Rege
The new Ron Rege, Jr. has arrived! The Weaver Festival Phenomenon is a 64 page,
full color, limited-edition hardcover graphic novella that
shares a story of love, loss, recovery and the uncanny
strangeness of being, in the inimitable Rege fashion.
The emotional volume is turned up to ten, and even silent,
still moments are fraught with the sense of potential
energies on the verge of kinetic conversion. Life in
the Rege-verse is lived in a state of constant becoming.
retail price - $20.00 copacetic price - $15.75
Love and Rockets: Volume IV #5
by Gilbert
& Jaime
Hernandez
It's
here! Concluding chapter to the Maggie and Hopey
reunion saga! Flashbacks! More mediated
multi-generational meta-fictional family
saga! 'Nuff said.
retail price - $4.99 copacetic price - $4.44
Grip #1
by Lale
Westvind
Lale Westvind's latest – her first work done in
collaboration with the fine folks at Perfectly
Acceptable Press in
Chicago – is a wow! An amazing 68-page risograph
extravaganza – with a 3-color, screen-printed cover – Grip is a pantomime
graphic novel, of which this is the first part.
One work at a time, Westvind has been
painstakingly developing a unique, personal and highly
effective cartoon language, and Grip is a particularly
outstanding instance. Perceptions, emotions,
fantasies and realities bend and blur and merge in
Westvind's accomplished hands. Taken together, it's
all about the ways in which we "get a grip." This is
an edition of 600 copies. Don't miss it!
retail
price - $25.00 copacetic price - $23.75
Poochytown
by Jim
Woodring
Another impeccably surreal pantomime graphic novel from
the unparalleled pen of Jim Woodring that takes
us once again to the uncanny world of Frank,
Fran, Weathercraft and the Congress of the
Animals. Written, illustrated and designed by
Woodring, this hardcover edition of Poochytown is
a sensual delight, while the work it transmits is an
enlightening entertainment.
retail
price - $19.99 copacetic price - $17.75
Copra: Round Five
by Michel Fiffe
Finally! Round Five collects issues 26 through 31
of Michel Fiffe's epic revisioning of the superhero
team. NOTE:
We simultaneously received a restock of
all four prior collections. So, any latecomers to
the Copra saga can now start at the beginning and take
it from there (while supplies last!).
retail price -
$21.95 copacetic price - $18.75
NoBrow
#10
edited by Sam Arthur & Alex
Spiro
NoBrow is back! Volume 10 is subtitled Studio
Dreams, and does double duty in also celebrating the
publisher's tenth anniversary. An international
assemblage of 70 artists have delivered up their
dreams, and they are all sumptuously printed here in
full color, oversize, double page spreads in the
trademarked NoBrow fashion. Make sure to take a look
when you're in the shop!
retail
price - $24.00 copacetic price - $21.75
Inside
Moebius, Part 2
by Moebius
Another 250+ pages
of full color meta-Moebius comics as he continues his
self-examination through comics. First time in
English!
retail
price - $39.95 copacetic price - $33.75
The Hookah Girl, and Other True Stories
by
Marguerite Dabaie
The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories collects
17 comics anecdotes relating to the life and thought
of its author, a nus-nus (you'll learn
what that is once you've read "The Stealth Arab")
Palestinian-American Woman who grew up in the San
Francisco Bay area. Family, culture, history and
identity are at the core of this engaging work, which is
concisely written, smartly laid out and well drawn in a
variety of modes and styles, that provide a refreshing
diversity. Readers will emerge from this alluringly
priced collection with a broader understanding and
deeper appreciation of Palestinian culture and,
especially, the Palestinian-American experience.
Check it out!
retail
price - $6.95 copacetic price - $6.75
2001
by Blaise Larmee
2001 is a
graphic novel that questions the validity of the form
and probes its claims to narrative cohesion by breaking
down the form of comics representation into its
component parts of line and color, text, figuration,
perspective. The methods of presentation are
unpacked: printing, scanning, copying, screen vs.
page. The question of authorship is explored
through the intermingling of found objects, found texts,
found images, screen shots, image searches. Other
aims adhere to these formal concerns. Most obviously is
the question of how can the experience of self be most
effectively communicated in our current historical
moment, and in which of the modes do these visual
representations of experience most successfully cohere.
Ultimately, cultural norms and their relation to
identity are interrogated: when is a child an
adult? can an adult simultaneously be a child? Can a
parent also be a peer? All these answers are expected to
be supplied by readers themselves. The book is
intended to provide a framework that facilitates a
receptive state of mind. Finally, 2001 constitutes
a diffusion of consciousness at the intersection of
technology and pharmacology.
retail price -
$24.95 copacetic price - $21.75
Calypso
by David Sedaris
The new David Sedaris collection is here. Calypso is yet
another compendium of essays (21 by our count)
filled with his trademarked wit and wisdom.
We will say that the wit has a
distinct bittersweet flavor this time around, but
is no less enjoyable a read because of it.
retail
price - $28.00 copacetic price - $23.75
Barracoon
by Zora
Neal Hurston
We'd heard tell that Hurston had something like this
in her unpublished papers. Now, at
last, 90 years after these notes were first set down
on paper, Hurston scholar, Deborah G. Plant has
assembled them into this volume. Barracoon is, as
it's subtitle states, the story of the last "black cargo."
We'll let the jacket notes take it from here: In
1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Plateau, Alabama,
to visit eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a survivor of
the Clotilda,
the last slaver known to have made the transatlantic
journey. Illegally brought to the United States,
Cudjo was enslaved fifty years after the slave trade was
outlawed. At the time, Cudjo was the only person
alive who could recount this integral part of the
nation's history. As a cultural anthropologist,
Hurston was eager to hear about these experiences
firsthand. But the reticent elder didn't always
speak when she came to visit. Sometimes he would
tend his garden, repair his fence, or appear lost in his
thoughts. Hurston persisted, though, and
during an intense three-month period, she and Cudjo
communed over her gifts of peaches and watermelon and
gradually Cudjo, a poetic storyteller, began to share
heartrending memories of his childhood in Africa; the
attack by female warriors who slaughtered his
townspeople; the terrors of being captured and held in
the barracoons of Ouidah for selection by American
traders; the harrowing ordeal of the Middle Passage
aboard the Clotilda as
"cargo" with more than one hundred other souls; the
years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil
War; and finally his role in the founding of Africatown.
retail
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New for May 2018
LAAB Magazine #0
by Ronald
Wimberly, et al
Ronald Wimberly & Co.'s LAAB Magazine is here! This
GIGANTIC broadsheet – spreads measure a whopping 23" x
32"! and it is divided into three sections, just like
a newspaper – unlocks social strictures and unpacks social
structures employing Black/ness and (its)
representation as key and signifier. This issue
presents readers with the LAAB manifesto and includes
interviews with Alexandra Bell, Trenton Doyle Hancock
and Saul Williams. Then there are some excellent
illuminated essays – primarily by Wimberly –
that are both eye-opening and consciousness-expanding
(don't allow yourself to be intimidated by the
giant expanses of type; these essays are well worth your time
and all efforts expended in their absorption will be amply
rewarded). And, last but far from least, a big
pile of amazing GIANT-SIZE
comics by Ron Wimberly! RECOMMENDED!
retail
price - $17.00 copacetic price - $15.25
Sabrina
by Nick
Drnaso
The most critically lauded graphic novel of the year has
arrived! It's garnered so much praise from so much top
talent, anything we might have to add would seem
superfluous. Chris Ware: "Some
middle-aged colleagues and I believe literary comics fiction
is possible without resorting to fantastical heroics,
however, and the youngest and finest exemplar, 28-year-old
Nick Drnaso, offers a new book to possibly top us all: Sabrina, about a missing
woman, a video and the unspeakable possibilities of our
contemporary mitigated reality." Zadie
Smith: "Nick Drnaso's Sabrina is the best
book – in any medium – I have read about our current moment.
It is a masterpiece, beautifully written and drawn,
possessing all the political power of polemic and yet
simultaneously all the delicacy of truly great art. It
scared me, I loved it." Adrian Tomine:
"Nick Drnaso is one the most ambitious singular
cartoonists to emerge in recent years, and his dedication to
novelistic fiction is an inspiration. Incisive,
chilling, and completely unpredictable, Sabrina demonstrates
the inexplicable power of comics at their best." Jonathan
Lethem: "Sabrina is startling.
Drnaso's formal ingenuity and confidence is matched by the
acuity and depth of the story's awareness of who and where
we are right now." 'Nuff said.
retail
price - $27.95 copacetic price - $25.00
A Western World
by Michael
DeForge
A Western World is
the latest collection from the unstoppable, indefatigable
Michael DeForge that collects fifteen short
comics, some of which previously appeared in recent
issues of his one-man anthology, Lose and in Breakdown
Press's two (instantly sold out) issues of On Topics, some in
anthologies like Kramers Ergot and Island, some were
self-published minis, and a few appear here for the first
time (right?). DeForge continues to explore his
concerns with the Western paradigm that takes as a
given the technological domination of nature.
These explorations are effected through a series of
choreographed collisions between biological functions
and scientific consciousness, alongside those between animal
desires and political constructs – with human sexuality
employed as the proscenium stage cum primary
battlefield. The work collected in this volume forges
a comics consciousness for our times.
retail
price - $22.95 copacetic price - $20.00
XTC69
by Jessica
Campbell
The creator of the witty (and popular! and fun!) Hot or Not returns with an
equally witty (and fun!) 120 page saga of self discovery
disguised as space exploration that we hope will turn out to
be every bit as popular.
retail
price - $12.00 copacetic price - $10.75
Soft X-Ray Mindhunters
by A.
Degen
Finally, the massive oversize full color science fiction
adventure by A. Degen that we've all been waiting
for! Soft X-Ray Mindhunters will knock your
socks off with it's page after page (392 in
all!) of open, free-flowing, vibrantly
colored comics that will take readers on
a journey to the center of the mind. And this
is only part one! Here's the lowdown from the
publisher, Koyama Press: "The Mindhunters release
prisoners from the shackles of others’
dreams. The servants confined to the virtual
mind palaces of despotic dreamers have found their furies
in the form of the Mindhunters: masked vigilantes who
burgle brainpower. Pop and ancient culture collide in
searing colour in this melange of Astro Boy and Attic
tragedy."
retail
price - $29.95 copacetic price - $25.75
Somnambulance
by Fiona
Smyth
Somnabulance is
a massive 368 page tome collecting over thirty year's
worth of Fiona Smyth's unique, sexy, and
hallucinatory comics ouevre. Going all the way
back to her days at the Ontario College of Art, through her
'80s and '90s work published by Vortex and Drawn and
Quarterly, in anthologies like D& Q's flagship title,
jam-books like Diva with Ellen
Forney and Dame Darcy, and Fabulous Babes with Maurice
Vellekoop and Roxana Bikadoroff, and, of course, her
solo title, Nocturnal Emissions. But
it doesn't stop there! Somnabulance
continues on through to the present, collecting plenty of
new work, including some that even the Copacetic cognoscenti
had never seen before! Make sure to give this one the
once over next time you're in the shop.
retail
price - $29.95 copacetic price - $25.75
Winter's Cosmos
by Michael
Comeau
Winter's Cosmos is
a 300 page experimental hybrid work
of photo-collage/comics. It integrates a
dizzying series of collages composed of posed,
original photographs, found photos,
historical/public domain book
illustrations and newspaper and magazine
clippings of all sorts into a hand drawn comics narrative
complete with word balloons and narration employing a wide
variety of mechanical fonts along with hand lettering.
In sort, this isn't your father's comic book.
As for the narrative it presents, Koyama states: "In
the tradition of 2001: A Space
Odyssey and Silent
Running, this genre-bending photo and comics hybrid
presents the final years of a mission to seed a planet in
a distant constellation and the failings of both human and
artificial psyches in the face of the vastness of space."
retail
price - $20.00 copacetic price - $16.75
The
Ideal Copy
by Ben Sears
Another Double+ Adventure from Ben Sears! The Ideal Copy is an 88
page, full color, budget priced, all-ages romp in
the tradition of TinTin: "The fix
is in as the Double+ gang try to counter crooked
counterfeiters from the inside! Plus Man and Hank
have been blacklisted and have replaced treasure hunting
with job-hunting, before landing a catering job at a swank
hotel. But trouble doesn’t wait for hors d’oeuvres as the
boys find themselves with a main course of counterfeiting
crooks to crack!"
retail
price - $12.00 copacetic price - $10.75
Akissi: Tales of Mischief
by
Marguerite Abouet & Mathieu Sapin
The sub-title does not lie: this book is indeed
chock full of tales of mischief. In fact, there
are 21 full color 6 page comics featuring Akissi &
Co. getting into all sorts of trouble, both in their home
stomping grounds in the Yopougon neighborhood of
Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and out in the
country at Akissi's nan and granpap's rural digs, where the
natural world plays a larger part in the shenanigans.
These are kids comics par excellence; think Dennis the
Menace without the hyperbole. In Akissi, the world of childhood
comes alive on the page: the zany antics, the
interactions of children with their parents and peers, the
leaps of both faith and logic.
The childhood experiences represented
here – while full of wonderful details specific
to time and place – is universal in its core
essence. RECOMMENDED! (It is worth
noting here that while this book is indeed "kid friendly"
and the general tone and mode are entirely appropriate for
children, the specifics of the childhood on display – which
occasionally involve bodily parasites, children putting
themselves in potentially dangerous situations, and at times
seemingly lax parental oversight – may strike some parents
as worrisome. But, thinking back to the
adventures of Dennis the Menace and, say, Huey, Dewey
and Louie Duck, when kids roamed wild and occasionally
entirely free of parental supervision, will remind readers
that while the specifics of childhood vary both over
time and from place to place, kids will be kids!
retail
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Mean Girls Club: Pink Dawn
by Ryan
Heshka
Get out your nail polish, the Mean Girls Club graphic
novel has arrived!
Pink Dawn is a 100 page
hardcover (debossed, no less) printed (in Poland) in black
and white and shocking pink (naturellement!), on
flat off-white stock. Hold onto your hats – it's
going to be a wild ride.
retail
price - $20.95 copacetic price - $17.75
Alack Sinner: The Age of
Disenchantment
by Jose Munoz & Carlos
Sampayo
It doesn't get any better than this, folks. Over 300
pages of black and white comics intensity courtesy of the
one-of-a-kind-pair of Argentines-in-exile, José Muñoz
and Carolos Sampayo. To the best of our knowledge,
the stories that populate this volume had not
been translated into English before
appearing here; almost certainly not the two 21st century
stories, the existence of which we were not even aware.
Alack Sinner: The Age of
Disenchantment offers valuable perspectives on
the United States, social, political and
psychological, that you'll be hard pressed to find
elsewhere in comics. And we don't even know where to
begin on singing the praises of the art of José Muñoz, but
we will say that the 300+ pages you'll find here
include some of the very best work of his
career. Basically: buy this
book!
retail
price - $29.99 copacetic price - $25.00
The New World: Comics from Mauretania
by Chris
Reynolds
The comics that the Welsh-born, England-based
cartoonist, Chris Reynolds has been publishing,
beginning in the mid-80s, as/in Mauretania Comics are a primary
source of the rich but obscure tributary
of self-consciously enigmatic work. Stateside
readers of the early issues of Eric Haven's Tales to Demolish and well
as Michael Kupperberg's Tales to Thrizzle will
immediately sense a kindred spirit when they encounter
Reynolds's work in these pages, which
predates most if not all of Haven and Kupperberg's
comics work. Now, at long last North American
readers have an easily accessible – and sumptuously
produced and designed (by Seth, no less) – hardcover
collection of the key texts of the Reynolds oevure.
Ed Park (co-founder of Believer Magazine) gets
readers up to speed with his perspicacious introductory
essay. Another fine volume from New York Review
Comics!
retail
price - $34.95 copacetic price - $29.75
And, here are a
couple of potential summer reads...
Smoketown
by Mark
Whitaker
Inspired by his discovery of the Teenie Harris Archives at
the Carnegie Museum of Art, renowned journalist and
media executive, Mark Whitaker – whose grandparents were
Pittsburghers during the Teenie Harris era
– delved deep into the history of Black
Pittsburgh, and Smoketown is the
result. Get an idea of what to expect from the
preface, available online here,
courtesy of The Paris Review.
retail
price - $30.00 copacetic price - $26.75
Theory of Bastards
by Audrey Schulman
The Kirkus Reviews quote
was enough to pique our interest: "Theory of Bastards is a deeply
unusual, psychologically astute novel about technology
and survival, sex and love, If Philip K. Dick
and Ann Patchett wrote a collaborative novel it might
look like this. Beguiling, irreverent, and full of
heart." Need more? Here's
Michael Dirda's review from The Washington Post.
retail
price - $18.00 copacetic price - $15.75
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New for April 2018
The Dragon Slayer: Folktales
from Latin America
by Jaime Hernandez
In the 40 full-color pages of The Dragon Slayer, Jaime
Hernandez puts his finely honed comics-making chops
into service on behalf of transmitting three classic Latin
American folktales to comics readers of all ages. Within
these pages the reader will encounter a king, a prince, a
mysterious old woman, a dragon, a giant, magic talismans,
romantically inclined talking animals, a sleepy but clever
boy, hard working ants, and, especially, smart, strong and
savvy women (along with a few not so). Together, these
various casts of characters provide a window onto the
wider world(s) of folktales and impart easily
grasped moral lessons on the value of kindness,
steadfastness, diligence, and cleverness (and more!) along
with exposing the risks of vanity and literal mindedness
(among others). Something about the light airy
drawings and full vibrant colors (along with the occasional
talking animal) is reminiscent of classic cartoons of the
1940s and '50s. ToonBooks has posted a nice preview on their
page for this book, HERE, so you can get an idea
of what we're talking about. Available in both
hardcover and softcover editions. The editions are
identical in content; the only differences are slightly
different cover designs (the all yellow is the softcover),
and the fact that the hardcover edition is sturdily
constructed for years of use, and includes vibrant
endpapers based on Aztec designs. Either way, it's an
all-new collection of comics by Jaime Hernandez! What
more do you need to know? Let's hope that there's
more to come!
hardcover - retail
price - $16.99 copacetic price - $15.00
softcover - retail
price - $9.99 copacetic price - $9.50
Street Angel Mega-Pack-Special
by Jim
Rugg & Brian
Maruca
The first week in May brings a big FOUR Street Angel
publications* by Rugg & Maruca, and we're selling them
together as a single package – at a great price! Street Angel Goes to Juvie hardcover
original graphic novel ($19.99 retail price) <•> Image Firsts: Street
Angel – After School Kung-Fu Special (signed
copies!) <•> Image FCBD
: Street Angel's Dog (all new –
and, oh yeah: these will be signed copies) <•> Street Angel, Vol. 2
#1, Lineart Draft 01 - 01/02/15; 2nd Edition
(2018) - exclusive! (and also signed!)
||| This Street Angel Mega-Pack includes all four of the above,
including the exclusive, Jim Rugg produced limited
edition Lineart Draft. All for one
amazing price! We've created a Mega-Pack Showcase
Page HERE.
Check it out! PLEASE
NOTE: There are only a limited number of these
Mega-Packs available. * (items are NOT
shown at scale in the listing photo, where we gave extra
emphasis to the Lineart Draft edition,
which is, in actuality, roughly the same size as the
FCBD comic book, which it was the first draft for.)
copacetic price - $28.75
Young Frances
by Hartley
Lin (Ethan Rillly)
At long last, a book edition – and a swell hardcover, no
less – collecting Ethan Rilly's excellent Pope Hats series.
Only, it turns out, Ethan Rilly is really... Hartley Lin*!
So, now we have Young Frances by Hartley
Lin. A finely crafted tale of young urbanites
navigating the worlds of work and life as they come of age
in 21st century North America. Recommended.
Don't want to take our word for it? Then how about
these words from someone whose opinion is worth
paying attention to: "Young
Frances is a
meditation on work and meaning. Its depiction of
corporate culture and the finesse required to exist
within it feels unlike anything I've read in comics." – Jillian
Tamaki • Still not convinced? Then make your
own mind up by checking out this PDF preview.
|| *(of which, Ethan Rilly is an anagram)
retail
price - $19.99 copacetic price - $16.75
The Dangerous Journey
by Tove
Jansson
Tove Jansson's 1970 picture book, The Dangerous Journey is
back in print, courtesy of D & Q. In a departure,
Jansson executed this work entirely in watercolor, not her
accustomed medium. Perhaps deciding to make the creation
of this particular work a bit of a dangerous (or, at
least, challenging) journey for herself, as an artist, and
so match form and content.
retail
price - $16.99 copacetic price - $15.00
Moebius Library: The Art of Edena
by Moebius
This 200 page, full size hardcover volume is primarily
what the title indicates. From thumbnail
breakdowns to idea sketches and on through to
profoundly beautiful fully realized illustrations of
related to the themes and characters of the Edena Cycle,
this book is filled with amazing art. But there's
more: there are also comics that were not included
in The World of Edena. Some are variations on
sequences that you've seen before (presuming that you've
already read the aforementioned World of Edna [if not,
what are you waiting for?]), others are new, and only
tangentially related – but from the same period – such
as two pieces related to visiting Naples. Suffice
it to say, if you're a Moebius fan, this is essential;
if you're a fan of imaginative comics and
illustration, this is recommended. Jean Giraud – aka
Moebius – was in a class by himself.
retail price -
$34.99 copacetic price - $29.75
Blackbird
Days
by Manuele Fior
Blackbird Days presents
readers with ten short comics by Manuele Fior,
reproduced full up in this 9" x 12" hardcover,
translated into English (from the Italian original, by
Jaime RIchards), and published for the first time
in North America. Fior dazzles with a virtuoso
display of his talents in the wide range of
styles and mediums that are on display here.
retail
price - $22.99 copacetic price - $18.75
Now #3
edited by Eric Reynolds;
contributions by Noah Van
Sciver, Ben
Passmore, Dash
Shaw, Eleanor
Davis, Anne
Simon, Jason T.
Miles, Marcello
Quintanilha, Anna
Haifisch, Keren
Katz, Roberta
Scomparsa, et al
The latest Now is here and
it looks like another winner! 120 pages of great
comics from North America and Europe – and
perhaps elsewhere, as well (not sure) – all making their
North American debuts, regardless.
Arguably the greatest value in comics going.
The fact that both of the first two issues have
sold out is certainly a strong point in favor of this
argument. Don't miss out on this one!
retail
price - $9.99 copacetic price - $8.75
Drew Friedman's Chosen People
by Drew Friedman
Drew Friedman's Chosen People has at last
arrived! Over 100 finely rendered new portraits by the
master. The alphabetized arrangement of the portraits
makes for some interesting juxtapositions! "Drew
Friedman is the unchallenged living master of the art of
caricature, pushing it far beyond the centuries-old trick
of clever physiognomic exaggeration and social skewering
into a new, almost biological realm; his portraits and
drawings have a lucidity that's unsettlingly scientific,
as if Honoré Daumier, Ivan Albright, and a forensic doctor
were all guiding his hand." –– Chris Ware.
retail
price - $19.99 copacetic price - $16.75
The Idiot
by Sami
Alwani
When despair hits, when ennui gets you down, it's art to
the rescue... or not. Drawn employing an
extreme clear line style throughout, in an unvarying
12-square-panel grid, in The Idiot it is
the art itself that is the
ultimate embodiment (reflection?) of the
central theme of the work, that of
a detached, machine-like process of art creation.
Alwani, in so doing, has created a comics
fable of Marx's dictum of the worker being alienated
from their own labor under capitalism.
Alwani's protagonist artist struggles to reclaim his
connection to his self and to regain control of the
direction of his being... but is this even possible?
Yes, you can read this entire work online (here,
if you must know), but that's not really the same, is it?
And won't doing so further the reader's (you, perhaps, in
this instance) alienation from their own self, by
submitting to the über-capitalism of the increasingly
omnipotent digital realm? Whereas, by
purchasing the physical work, the reader (again, perhaps,
you) connects with the artist (by a mere
one degree of separation, should you purchase it from
Copacetic, as we received our copies directly from
Alwani) and the physical world you both
inhabit? Think about it... and decide for
yourself.
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price - $8.00 copacetic price - $8.00
Be Prepared
by Vera
Brosgol
Finally, something new from Vera Brosgol! Her Anya's Ghost has been a
mainstay of the Copacetic comics for younger readers shelf
since its 2011 release. Now we have Be Prepared, her memoir of
being nine (almost ten!) years old at (a Russian Orthodox)
summer camp. 256 duo-toned (in green,
naturally; by Alec Longstreth, no less) pages filled
with the challenges that come with the territory
of being different – and thus often excluded;
of being an immigrant transplant in
America. Readers will bond with Vera as
she works to overcome obstacles as well
as her feelings of awkwardness and assert
herself and her talents. Just in time for
summer!
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price - $12.99 copacetic price - $11.75
The King of Birds
by
Alexander Utkin
The King of Birds is the first
in what we hope will be a long running series of
Gamayun Tales, based on traditional Russian Folk Tales.
Gamayun is a figure from Slavic mythology that
embodies wisdom and knowledge, traditionally represented
as a giant bird with a woman's head. The King of Birds contains six
interconnected tales, introduced by Gamayun in the mode of
The Crypt Keeper – just more wise, less scary.
Alexander Utkin's full color art is a wonder, and
makes every page a pleasure to behold. This is a
volume that can – and will – be enjoyed by all ages.
retail
price - $16.99 copacetic price - $15.00
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
by Denis
Johnson
The final collection of stories from the literary champion
of the down-and-out-but-still-worth-your-while. Here's
a Guardian review – by
fellow traveler, Geoff Dyer, no less. And, here's
the title story, from its original appearance in The New Yorker.
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