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New for March 2021


RBR1
Rust Belt Review #1

edited by Sean Knickerbocker w/Audra Stang, Juan Fernandez, Caleb Orecchio, M.S. Harkness, Andrew Greenstone
The Rust Belt Review
 is an all new anthology, edited and published by Sean Knickerbocker, featuring comics from – yes, you guessed it – the rust belt, of which, of course, Pittsburgh was long a prominent component – but no more, as it has now, economically if not culturally, successfully transitioned to a biomedical/technology island of prosperity amidst the sea of surrounding decline.  Here in 72 big 9" x 12" pages, excellently printed by Bookmobile printers we have six great comics pieces by six regional artists:  Andrew Greenstone, Caleb Orecchio, M.S. Harkness, Juan Fernandez and Audra Stang, as well as Knickerbocker himself (who also provided this issue's cover art).  These works range far and wide, from the gritty urban SF of Andrew Greenstone, to Audra Stang's teen soap opera, from the philosophically reflective digital musings of Juan Fernandez to the apogean satire of M.S. Harkness, and from Caleb Orecchio's slapstick humor to Knickerbocker's rustbelt noir.  An unexpected and rewarding mix.  Check it out!
retail price - $10.00  copacetic price - $8.75








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Lemon Grass
by Thomas Davidson
New Zealander cartoonist, Thomas Davidson’s graphic novel (debut?), Lemon Grass gives voice to the melancholy of contingency.  Employing the tool kit developed by Frank Santoro for Storeyville, and, seasoning it with a pinch of Aidan Koch and Andrew White, Davidson delves into the lives of a trio of young denizens of the USA’s floating world, whom we encounter in medias res as they allow themselves to be carried along by its currents to see where they lead.  Davidson’s strengths are in characterisation and his comfortable embrace of sexualities and sexual activities, in the depictions of which he extends the aforementioned artists’ approaches into this realm and demonstrates their effectiveness.  Worth noting: This work has been produced in an edition of 100.

copacetic price - $15.00





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Heaven No Hell
by Michael DeForge
The latest collection from the creative comics powerhouse that is Michael DeForge is here!  Heaven No Hell is a 228 page, full color hardcover collection of new short form works of varying lengths and styles.  DeForge continues to forge ahead into the comics wilderness, discovering and mapping new territories.  Take a peek yourself, courtesy this generous preview hosted by Drawn and Quarterly!

retail price - $21.99  copacetic price - $18.75






ExMag3


Ex.Mag - "Dark Fantasy" #3
edited by Wren McDonald w/ Linnea Sterte, Jake Terrell, Patrick Crotty, Al Gofa, Geov Chouteau, Hanna K, Valentin Seiche, Delfina Perez Adan, Tarmasz
Here it is: the third, and final (at least for now) volume of Ex.Mag, from Sweden-based PEOW Studio.  As with the first two volumes, this was edited by Wren McDonald under the aegis of PEOW, and they have assembled another great team of contributors.  This time around we are treated to all new works by Linnea Sterte, Al Gofa, Delfina Pérez Adán, Tarmasz, Geov Chouteau, Hanna K, Valentin Seiche, Jake Terrell, and PEOW Publisher, Patrick Crotty!  Quite a wide variety of work is on hand here.  188 duo-tone (red and brown; in various intensities) pages.

copacetic price - $15.00
 






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Epoxy #6
by John Pham
The wait is over!  Epoxy 6 is another hand printed wonder from the Certified Master of the Risogrpah, John Pham.  An æsthetic delight, in addition to its sumptuous printing, it features fold-outs and inserts – including an "animation cel" with background color.  Pham is truly in a league of his own here.  Included in this 8" x 10 1/2" magazine is a 5" x 7", 32-page J & K fold-out insert, a 16" x 10" fold-out autobio cum meditation on Life in these United States, and the centerpiece, another 16-page installment of the "Deep Space" saga.  Don't miss it!
retail price - $22.00  copacetic price - $20.00 








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Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise
by Gary Panter
Available again at last, courtesy New York Review Comics (thanks!), after being out of print for decades, Gary Panter's Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise originally exploded on the comics scene in 1988 and forever changed the landscape.  It is arguable that more formal innovation is contained in this work than in any other single work of comics.  Jimbo open up vast new territories for comics, territories that have been avidly explored ever since by a host of innovative artists that have followed the trail that Panter blazed here (and elsewhere, of course; but this is the motherlode).  Now, a new generation of readers, including the artists among them, can discover this amazing work for themselves and follow Gary into the vast, barely explored wilderness... of comics!  Also includes an illustrated ten-page afterword by Nicole Rudick which includes art, sketches, clippings and photographs (including one of the artist as a young punk rocker).
retail price - $29.99  copacetic price - $25.75





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New for February 2021


RohnerRohner
by Max Baitinger
“Hell is other people.” – Jean-Paul Sartre 
What should North American readers expect when they crack the cover of Röhner, the first English language publication of German comics maker, Max Baitinger’s work?  Well… maybe something along the lines of a mash-up of Chris Ware and Patrick Kyle (Michael DeForge and Jason)?  The formal focus here is on the clear line, while the content is the involuted nature of interpersonal relations.  And coffee plays a central role, always a plus (the title page image is an exploded view of an electric coffee percolator and the line of text that starts the book off is ”I get up and prepare coffee”).  The story centers on the character of Röhner, a somewhat obtuse house guest whose mere presence disturbs the strictly ordered life of his host, the protagonist/narrator.  The fact that the personality of this protagonist/narrator is expressed through the artwork conveying the story makes for a successful marriage of form and content and is this work’s particular mark of distinction (which is further strengthened by the nice package it arrives in courtesy it's American publisher, 2dcloud).  Sound interesting?  Here’s Max’s website, and here’s a brief preview of Röhner
retail price - $19.99  copacetic price - $17.75


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King-Cat Comics and Stories #80
by John Porcellino
Start 2021 by catching up with the one and only John Porcellino, who here, in the 40 pages of this, 80th issue of King-Cat Comics and Stories shares his experiences of 2020 and more.  In addition to the fine John P. comics on offer, this issue includes:  fresh installments of "Catcalls" and "Top o' the Forty"; "List of Birds Spotted in Our Yard (in Taxonomic Order)"; and three pages of dreams! Enjoy!
retail price - $5.00  copacetic price - $4.75




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Ginseng Roots #8

by Craig Thompson
It's here, hot off the press and right on schedule, the new issue of Ginseng Roots, wherein Craig Thompson continues to unearth more details as he digs deeper into the fascinating nexus of biology, history, politics and culture that is embodied by this humble plant.  The focus of this issue is the intercontinental biography of Hmong ginseng farmers who left their native Laos for a new life in Wisconsin... growing ginseng. 
retail price - $6.00  copacetic price - $5.50






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The Grande Odalisque
by Florent Ruppert, Jerome Mulot & Bastien Vives; translated from the original French by Montana Kane
Here in the 124 full color, full size pages of this hardcover, English Language edition of The Grande Odalisque just released in North America by Fantagraphics, Ruppert and Mulot team up with Bastien Vives for a rock ‘em, sock ‘em (art) heist caper in which partners in crime, Alex and Carole team up with Clarence, the arms dealer, and then Sam, the stunt motorcyclist and boxer, and then… well, anyone familiar with the work Ruppert, Mulot and Vives should have a pretty good idea by now of what’s in store, but anyone wanting to learn more can head over to The Comics Beat and check out John Seven’s review that includes a few choice pages, HERE.
retail price - $24.99  copacetic price - $22.50





HypnoHypnotwist / Scarlet by Starlight
by Gilbert Hernandez
Hot off the press, it's the latest addition to the canon of Gilbert Hernandez's series of hardcover "movies" that have been "shot" within the Love and Rockets universe, and "starring" characters –  most notably, Fritz – who live there.   This time around we have... a double feature!  Packaged like the Ace Doubles of yore – with two front covers and no back covers, as soon as you've finished one, you can flip it over and read the other – or savor the moment and save it for another day, the choice is yours.  If either of these stories looks or sounds familiar to long time Love and Rockets readers, that is because they each appeared around ten years back:  Hypnotwist – a surreal, dreamlike (and entirely wordless!) tale – in Love and Rockets: New Stories (V3) #2 (in, however, a significantly shorter version; roughly 2/3 the length of what is here); and Scarlet by Starlight  – a science fiction tale set on an alien world, that, we should warn you, uses this alien world as a stage set and pulls back the curtain on some of the darker primal drives lurking below the surface of  human civilization – in Love and Rockets: New Stories (V3) #3.  Now, at last, each of these worthy tales have been given a permanent home.  (And, yes, those round yellow stickers do peel off, just take your time and peel slowly...)
retail price - $24.99  copacetic price - $21.75


Peepers
Peepers
by Patrick Keck
Patrick Keck's years-in-the-making scopophilic epic – that was largely, but not completely, serialized on Study Group – has at last now touched down in our physical reality in this hefty hardcover volume, published in a limited number by Fantagraphics Underground.  Weighing in at well over a kilogram, this volume delivers over 200, eye-popping 9" x 11" pages of full color comics designed to stimulate optic nerves.  Anyone who has yet to do so, should carve at least a few minutes out of their schedule to check it out in its online form, HERE.  And for those who like what they see (or already know), we're offering a limited-time introductory special, to get the ball rolling...
retail price - $39.99  copacetic price - $29.75





PEOWP.E.O.W. : Painfully Embarrassing Otaku Weekend
by Jane Mai
P.E.O.W. : Painfully Embarrassing Otaku Weekend
 is a playful if masochistic romp through the life of a comics-making fangirl / manga-making otaku, Jane Mai (the title is also a pun on / homage to the book's publisher, PEOW).  This book is actually two books in one.  The first, making up slightly more than half the page count, is a tour diary made up of a series of short strips “drawn on Staples paper with whatever pen was close by.”   Randomness, absurdity and chaos mix it up in these rough and ready comics made on the fly as Ms. Mai traveled with PEOW to various comics expos and the like.  The second is a polished work of autobio comics/manga – that also features “great demon lord Tante”, a fantastic ideation embodying “fear, anxiety and terrible unease” that accompanies Jane on her “painfully embarrassing otaku weekend” in Toronto.  The entire 116 page, 5” x 7” dust-jacketed, softcover book is printed in black and white with pink tones throughout.  Taken together these two approaches  to work to convey the differences between how events are experienced in the present, and the how they are organized and evaluated in memory.  They also make for a really fun read!  And, finally, we couldn’t help but notice that the cover sports a “Book 1” on it, but not the copyright page.  So, it may just be an in-joke about the serial nature of the form, but… it may not!   Suffice it to say, if there ever is a Book 2, we’ll get it in here at Copacetic.
retail price - $15.00  copacetic price - $13.75



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New for January 2021


Y2020Yearly 2020
by Andrew White
This year, instead of one 8 1/2” x 11” color magazine, Yearly takes the form of three separate pieces held together with a belly band, which is itself a modest work of comics: Drowned River is a 94 page, 6” x 9”, B & W, squarebound graphic novella that intermixes long stretches of purely visual comics, all arrayed in a gutterless, six-panel grid, to tell the story of a relationship struggling amidst a flood; a flood that is at once literal, figurative and symbolic, and that makes for an immersive reading experience.  (You can actually read it online, in its entirety, HERE).  Everything Is Always, is an 80-page, 4 1/2” x 6 1/2”, philosophical comics poem that, while reproduced in full color, is largely rendered entirely in black ink, white gouache and pencil on a series of brown surfaces – mostly corrugated cardboard, but also brown wrapping paper and uncorrugated board.  It too can be read in its entirety, HERE This Is an Empty Room is a 16-page, digest-seize, B & W pamphlet that imposes a six-panel grid filled with minimal drawings, text and symbols over a series of grey-screened, black & white photographs of a forest.  This combination could be read in a number ways: as someone sitting at home thinking, while remembering and/or reflecting on a recent walk through the woods; as someone walking through the woods, but distracted by thoughts and memories, or… as interchangeable quantum states, both at once!  Each copy of This Is an Empty Room also includes a small, one-of-a-kind original colored pencil drawing on the inside front cover!  Yearly was prepared to be released, as usual, for SPX, even in SPX's absence this year, making the event a spectral presence hovering over our reading of it. So, for anyone still feeling the lack of SPX, Yearly 2020 might help to fill that particular void...
retail price - $25.00  copacetic price - $21.75



SoRStages of Rot
by Linnea Sterte
Stages of Rot 
is a unique work of anthro-bio-zoological speculative fantasy, and, furthermore, is one that could really only succeed on its own terms in comics form.  Here we have a French-flapped softcover containing page after page of lush, full (but muted) color comics, beautifully printed (in Poland) on flat, off-white paper stock, presenting comics inspired by a mix of (mostly) Moebius, Miyazaki and Ernst Haeckel that as often as not is reminiscent of biological, zoological and anthropological illustration.  The central visual ploy here is that we are presented with a world in which a splendid array of aquatic animals – whales, dolphins, jellyfish, etc. –  populate the skies, together with those, such as birds and insects, that are “normally” airborne.  This world is different in other ways, but we are meant to recognize ourselves in its contours.  The effect of reading Stages of Rot is of visiting a world that is a strange mirror of our own, reflecting our lives back at us in such a manner as, through the specific differences, we see how our world is arranged in a way that is only one of the many (infinite?) ways it could have been, and how it is that what we take as given in our lives has, in actuality, been “given” to us by… the universe, nature, evolution – god? – that, ultimately, we populate a world not of our own making.  Stages of Rot jars us out of our complacency and pushes us to see the inherent strangeness of existence and recognize that the underlying patterns and connections that make the web of life have come to be as they are now through a complex web of circumstance, and that this web is dynamic, not static; that everything is always in a state of flux and change, and that, all in all, life is an endless mystery...
retail price - $23.00  copacetic price - $21.75



DPDesperate Pleasures
by M.S. Harkness
An epic journey of self discovery that takes readers along for the (roller coaster) ride, Desperate Pleasures is M.S. Harkness’s most accomplished work to date, as she shows herself moving away from her earlier short pieces which tended to function in a more humorous vein, exploiting pathos for laughs.  In its 200+ pages  of crisp black and white comics, Harkness probes her psyche and unpacks some trauma while sharing an affecting tale of making a go of making a life, and in the process provides ample evidence that her developing cartooning abilities are in the midst of a “growth spurt”. Relationships lie at the core of the work.  The difficulties in understanding them, establishing them and maintaining them.  Desperate Pleasures also provides insights into how memory structures experience. Readers could be forgiven if they came away with the impression that she spends the bulk of her life in gyms and bars, on a bike or in bed – always accompanied by her mobile phone, of course.  Harkness presents her life as one driven by abreactive impulse, skirting the abyss ever in motion towards a goal that occasionally appears almost at hand yet continues to remain at the horizon.  The “desperate pleasures” of the title are revealed, through the course of the work, as a cloak for the underlying quest for security and stability – not so much economic as emotional.  Her quest is close to universal and one that her readers, while perhaps unlikely to share her methods will nevertheless share her goals and so be able to benefit from some of the hard won insights delineated in these pages.
retail price - $16.99  copacetic price - $15.25


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Copy Kitty
by Kyung Me
In Copy Kitty, Kyung Me presents readers with a surreal fairytale romance between a prince/ss and their feline paramour. It is set in an intriguing mash up of the topographical, biological and zoological with the technologies of domesticity, all conveyed in a book-length series of full-page tableaus, all in detailed grey-toned pencils.  Birds, and plenty of them, mix it up in jungles, mountains, oceans and beaches along with houses (some of which might be better described as castles) and swimming pools, theatres and restaurants, highways and high tension wires.  Dressing up, role playing and travel – literal, figurative and symbolic – weave the images together in a dreamlike fashion, moving the narrative forward, providing the “action”, such as it is.  Not sure what all this adds up to?  No problem.  You can actually check it (all?) out HERE and see it for yourself.
retail price - $19.99  copacetic price - $17.75




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Maids
by Katie Skelly
We sold out of this in the shop in the blink of an eye when it was initially released, and so didn't get the chance to list it here.  Now that the second print has arrived, we can!  Katie Skelly's take on the Papin sisters case twins the themes of oppression and repression in this understated, slow boil graphic novel that finally gets to the climax that was bound to come.  If you have a few minutes to spare, spend them giving Etelka Lehoczky's excellent review on NPR the once over.

retail price - $19.99  copacetic price - $16.75






H5

Happiness #5
edited by Leah Wishnia
And here's one that we've been sellling this in the shop for awhile, but only recently realized that we had neglected to list it here.  Easily rectified!  Happiness #5 is the fifth installment of Leah Wishnia's exploratory comics anthology. With this, the fifth issue, Leah has teamed up with Perfectly Acceptable Press to produce a full color risograph edition that is unquestionably the most sumptuous issue yet!  The unifying theme for this issue is... alchemy!  Check out the contributor list:  Aidan Koch, Andrea Lukic, Anya Davidson, Barkev Gulesserian, Brie Moreno, Carlos Gonzalez, Char Esme, Daria Tessler, Daryl Seitchik, Disa Wallander, Faye Coral Johnson, Jack Reese, Juli Majer, Juliana Neufeld, Kendra Yee, Lauren Poor, Maren Jensen, Matthew Thurber, Mike S. Redmond, Nick Norman, Roya Haroun, Sam Ryser, Sarah Lammer & Tara Booth.  Screenprinted cover by Leif Goldberg!  114 pages | 7" x 10" | Edition of 1000
retail price - $30.00  copacetic price - $26.75




DEDoughnut Economics
by Kate Raworth
If you’re looking for a book to start off 2021 with, a book that will set your thinking on a fresh path and that by doing so will help extricate us, as a society, together, out of our present dark morass, and to provide a strong, sensible, workable basis on which to build a better tomorrow, then look no further – Doughnut Economics is that book.  Kate Raworth is an educator, researcher and activist currently based at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute who is both smart enough and strong to recognize and identify the errors in the reigning economic theories that underpin the global capitalist systems and how they have led to the glaring inequities that are destabilizing the system and where they are the root cause of so much suffering.  Raworth illustrates how these inequities and suffering are both unnecessary, the result of intellectual failures as well as moral ones.  A key to her success – and to her appeal to us here at The Copacetic Comics Company – is that Raworth is a keen and perceptive visual thinker.  She understands how pictures, in addition to being "worth a thousand words”, often form the basis for entire schools of thought.  She employs these insights in dexterous deconstructions of some of the key diagrams and charts that underpin textbook economics and points out where they go wrong and/or what they’re missing.  More to the point, she has created a series of incisive and inclusive diagrams of her own, none more important than – yes, you guessed it – The Doughnut, which lies at the center of this work, and, in fact preceded and inspired it.  Even should you have no prior interest in economics or economics theory, this may be the book that changes your mind, for part of its remit is to show that, indeed, just as you suspected, much economic theory is simply ex post facto justification of the historical hierarchies of class, gender and race, and, not only that, but in addition, that too much of the theory that seeks to overturn "the establishment" partakes in many of the same fallacies as the traditional economic theory it is opposing, simply occupying the opposite side of the argument. Doughnut Economics seeks to forge an entirely new paradigm employing a new way of seeing and, crucially, a new way of organizing economics around the needs of people and the planet, rather than the needs of the holders of capital assets. >>> Highly Recommended! <<<  If you’re interested enough to explore this a bit further to see whether or not this book’s going to be worth your while, then take a chance on spending a few minutes with this BBC video that features Raworth and The Doughnut.  And, finally, Doughnut Economics is more than just a book, it’s now also an organization, The Doughnut Economics Action Lab.
retail price - $17.95  copacetic price - $15.00



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