JUST IN! A Copacetic Selection of New Arrivals

New for September 2026

Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories

by Gilbert Hernandez

Palomar... the mystical land from whence a new way doing comics first emerged, materializing in the pages of Love and Rockets, during the 1980s. The level of characterization achieved in comics form within these pages was unprecedented then and remains unmatched now. As the sub-title intimates, it is the "Heartbreak Soup" stories – those which initially introduced readers to Palomar – that are collected here, all taken from the original 50-issue run. If there is anyone reading this who has yet to experience the wonder on offer in these stories, here is an ideal opportunity to do so. ||| ALSO: This hefty 528-page hardcover edition has been formatted to match Jaime's Locas published earlier this year, and so will serve as an ideal shelf companion. ||| ¡Viva Palomar!
retail price - $49.99 copacetic price - $39.75

Tom Reynolds

The Art of Tom Reynolds

by Tom Reynolds

Tom Reynolds was a gifted and talented comics artist and illustrator who played a vital part in the Pittsburgh comics and music scene for the four decades prior to his untimely 2025 passing. He published a number of comic book works, most notably (as “Tommy Gunn”) The Black Lion, in 1997. The amount of unpublished work, however is significantly greater. This 52 page, black & white, magazine size collection with a full color cardstock cover and print insert, collects both sketches and finished work. It represents only a fraction of his extant unpublished work, and is entirely taken from work created over the past ten years, much from projects he was working on at the time of his death and is an important piece of Pittsburgh comics history. To give you a sense of Tom's talent, we've posted a modest gallery of images from the collection, HERE.
retail price - $8.00 copacetic price - $7.25

The Mess

The Mess

by Noah Van Sciver

An all new, 160 page, full color hardcover graphic novel from Noah Van Sciver for under $20. What more do you need to know? Well, for those who want to know more, we can say that Noah Van Sciver's latest is a subtly layered work that is his most complex and satisfying (fictional) graphic novel yet. At its core is, literally, the mess left by the father/grandfather of the mother/son dyad that serve as the work's dual central protagonists and whose job is to clear it out – while looking for something(s) that will make it worth their while to do so. But that is more or less just the prompt; there is much more. At times it feels as though Noah had (has) been collecting a bunch of remembrances, ideas, things, behaviors, events, tropes, odds and ends and cultural oddities that he wanted to put in a book and then managed to assemble them together into a coherent and cogent narrative (which could perhaps be the autobiographical layer of "the mess"). We don't want to give too much away here, as watching the story unwind and experiencing the series of surprises as all the pieces come together is a large part of where, in this particular instance, the proverbial pleasure of the text resides. The Mess makes for a great read. Here are a few sample pages to help give you an idea of what's in store.
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $17.75

Like Swimmers

Like Swimmers

by Dash Shaw

Like Swimmers, the latest from the ever productive Dash Shaw, is a 128 page, full size hardcover edition of a full color graphic novel – his third from New York Review Comics (but the first in color) – presenting a Rashomon-esque, magical realist murder mystery set in Richmond, VA during the Covid pandemic. Its drama is made up of a relatively small cast of characters and features the intersecting worlds of art and academia along with the adjacent communities, and their respective relationships to popular culture, that is embodied in the relationship between a brother and sister and a wife and husband, and pivots on class and social status. So, plenty of food for thought to go along with the clues. Once again, we don't want to say too much more here. It's murder mystery! Check out NYRC's Like Swimmers page, where you can get hep and preview some pages.
retail price - $32.95 copacetic price - $28.75

Requiem

Requiem for Gaza

by Joe Sacco and Chris Hedges

In the spring of 2025 Joe Sacco and Chris Hedges – who previously teamed up a decade ago on Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt – traveled to Cairo, Egypt and interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had recently left Gaza. Requiem for Gaza is the result. This 142 page hardcover transcribes these interviews into a synthesis of reportage and portrait that is roughly 1/3 comics and illustrations by Sacco and 2/3 text by Hedges (which has been heavily annotated and footnoted for verification and source mapping). Taken together, Requiem for Gaza provides a detailed – and visceral – up close and personal record of the horrific costs that have been borne by Palestinian civilians of Gaza as a result of the overwhelming, savage, and continual Israeli reprisal attacks in the wake of the brutal fall 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. A preview (of Sacco's comics) is available from The Believer Magazine, HERE. Check it out.
retail price - $24.99 copacetic price - $21.75

Limbo

Limbo

by Ferry Gouw

Limbo shares a murky, and symbol-laden tale of art, capitalism (or, if you prefer, colonialism) and political unrest in an unnamed Southeast Asian country (that seems, more or less, like a stand-in for Myanmar) that is rendered in an appropriate and appealing style that really captures the vibe. || “Super weird like a crazy fever dream. I liked it and it stuck with me.”- Zadie Smith || Published by Breakdown Press; 150 × 210mm; 68 pages; softcover.
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $17.75

Peepshow (Complete Collected)

by Joe Matt

Wow! Fantagraphics really did Joe right with this edition of the complete collected Peepshow. This 464 page hardcover collecting all 15 issues of the comic book series is crisply printed on the perfect paper stock, with covers matching their original glossy stock on the earlier issues, and cardstock on the later issues. Then it finishes up with an afterword by Diana Schutz that is just what the collection needed for an appropriate closure: a personal recollection that is equal parts historically informative, intellectually incisive and heartflelt. This collection literally couldn't be any better. Kudos to Designer C Hwang, the production head Ben Horak, and editors Sammy Harkham and Eric Reynolds. All that is said presuming a familiarity with this series and Joe Matt, the long time cartoonist and member – along with Chester Brown and Seth – of the Torontoninan Three Mustketeers of Comics and Cartooning™, each of whom depicted the others in their comics beginning in the late 1980s and then through the 1990s (more or less). For those unfamiliar with Joe Matt's work, Peepshow, as the title suggests, maintains a special focus on Matt's pornographically-inspired sexual fantasies (highly inappropriate, largely politically incorrect – especially by today's standards – and uncontrollable [by him, at least]), and the unfortunate impacts these had on his life, and on those close to him, as well. It's pretty unflinching, and more importantly, it's great cartooning that stands the test of time; but, it's definitely problematic work, and certainly not for everyone. Joe Matt's physical form left our earthly realm in 2023, but this collection ensures that his pen and ink self will be around for a long while to come. We've now posted a preview gallery up on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE.
retail price - $49.99 copacetic price - $41.75

Queen of the Cosmos Comix

by Barbara "Willy" Mendes

Underground comics legend Barbara Mendes – better known back in the day as Willy Mendes – steps into the spotlight with this superdeluxe hardcover volume collecting her long-in-the-works epic, the Queen of the Cosmos Comix trilogy, herein collected in its entirety! This is a massive 10 1/2" x 12 1/2" hardcover volume running 236 pages, with, roughly, the first third (i.e., Book One of the trilogy) in black & white and the subsequent two thirds (i.e., Books Two and Three of the trilogy) in blazing, brilliant full color. Get ready! To help prepare you for what's in store, we've posted a gallery of pages from all three parts up on the Copactic Tumblr, HERE.
retail price - $40.00 copacetic price - $33.75

Who Needs Donuts? (2026)

by Mark Alan Stamaty

Who Needs Donuts has found its way back to civilization! After a relatively brief hiatus out in the wilderness of "out of print status", Mark Alan Stamaty's sui generis work, originally published way back in 1973, and then reissued in 2004, has returned to the fold and is now once again back in print, in this new, faithfully reproduced hardcover edition from D & Q. Yay!
Here's our write up for the earlier, 2004 reissue:
Stamaty’s cult masterpiece is now back in print after a thirty year hiatus, in a beautifully produced hardcover edition. Once you start looking at this book, it's really hard to stop. You just get sucked in. The appeal of this book lies in the neural connections between the eyes and the brain and the hand that draws, it’s pretty hard to explain... but those who are already familiar with Stamaty’s work from his many-year run on Washingtoons in the Village Voice, and, more recently, his endpage strip in the New York Times Book Review, Boox, will know what we’re talking about. This is technically a kids’ book -- and kids will dig it, especially those hyper-brainy types (this is the perfect book to save them from a life of video-game addiction before it’s too late), and was more than likely an inspiration to Martin Handford, the creator of the Where’s Waldo series as well as the team responsible for the I Spy book series -- but it will, perhaps, be most appreciated by obsessive-compulsive adults -- you can be sure that Ben Katchor has this book in his personal library. The level of detail in the drawings that fill this book has to be seen to be believed. Furthermore, it is not just detail, but detail with an agenda, and that agenda can perhaps best be summed up in the phrase, "reality is what you make it." Reality as Stamaty makes it, is, more than likely, not reality as seen by you or I, but Who Needs Donuts makes us realize that it doesn't have to be that way, that the possibilities are only limited by our imaginations. We really recommend this one!
>>> And if you're not already familiar with this classic, then do yourself a favor and feast your eyes on this PDF preview provided by D & Q.

retail price - $18.00 copacetic price - $15.75

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New for August 2026

The Dissidents

by Derf Backderf

Derf definitely picked an appropriate historical juncture at which to turn back the clock and delve into the head-on collision that took place between the ideals of democracy and Federal policy under the administration of Woodrow Wilson, a collision that took place within the overarching ongoing conflict between capital and labor on the eve of the United States' entry into the First World War, over 100 years ago. At the center of this collision is the battle of and for the freedom of the press, and at the center of this particular presentation of events there is the power – and artistry – of political cartooning. The Dissidents, is a 300+ page heavy-duty hardcover that's been in the works since Derf's last major work, Kent State arrived during the pandemic. It provides a very up close and personal portrait of the actual historical personages – most notably the cartoonists – behind the premiere modernist magazine of resistance: The Masses, which was published from 1911 through its forced (by agents of the Wilson administration) closure near the end of 1917, as the Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution shook the western powers and the US entered the War. To provide narrative propulsion and so save readers from floundering amidst the overwhelming historical forces, Derf has taken the liberty of creating a fictional lead protagonist that is more or less a stand in for his own subjective point of view – a cartoonist, of course – and inserting him at the center of the action. And plenty of action there is. Readers won't be able to help noticing, and feeling, many (many) strong parallels to current events, and most will empathize with Derf's portrayals of the feelings and responses of the leading players – the titular dissidents – to the circumstances in which they find themselves, and respect – or at least understand – their decisions when imagining themselves in their place (which isn't hard to do, given the numerous parallels to the present). The volume concludes with copious historical, biographical and bibliographical notes (as in, 38 pages worth) that will go a long way towards filling in any gaps in readers' knowledge regarding the period, cast and setting. Also, just FYI: to anyone inspired by The Dissidents to delve deeper into The Masses – the magazine at its center – please know that full-issue scans of the entire run are available online HERE. Amazing! Check it out! Also amazingly available in its entirety, also in high-resolution scans – if in a slightly more clunky reading set-up – is its successor, The Liberator, HERE! (And, both runs are available at these linked-to locations as high resolution PDF downloads, as well!)
retail price - $29.95 copacetic price - $25.75

The Infinite Prison

by Matt Seneca

The Infinite Prison is Matt Seneca’s most ambitious and substantial work to date. Intricately plotted and lushly colored, this long-in-the-works 184 page full size perfect bound softcover graphic novel makes for an absorbing, powerful, and disturbing read. Nominally science fiction – it is set in a post-apocalypse Poland (so it seems safe to assume that Stanislaw Lem is somewhere in the thematic mix here?), a number of years after a nuclear war which wiped out a large chunk (perhaps most?) of humanity, where technology has, somewhat counterintuitively, continued to advance in novel ways – The Infinite Prison also incorporates into the mix aspects of superhero mythologies, particularly those involving genetic mutations leading to enhanced states of being, and their concomitant identity issues, plus a bit of (Polish-inflected) religio-nationalism in the form of a priestly agent of the nation who knits the narrative together. So, suffice it to say: plenty going on here. The work’s central theme is, as the title implies, that of presenting a confrontation with the sense of unending, ineluctable imprisonment, specifically that engendered by being trapped in the flesh of sexually reproducing beings – the inevitable flipside of which is a yearning for escape. Self-annihilation – whether through nuclear armageddon or personal suicide – is one sure route… but is there another? Seneca here posits the possibility of a path to transcendence and then goes on to chart its course. For those who prioritize the visual elements and find themselves intrigued – but are wholly unfamiliar with Seneca’s artistic sensibilities – we’d say by way of suggestion (but not diagnosis) that the art is something along the lines of Frank Quitely grafted onto early Michael Kaluta (again, this is just to give unfamiliar readers a sense of what to expect, not a stylistic interpretation). Also, fans of Anders Nilsen’s Tongues may find themselves on somewhat similar terrain – but less Greek, more Christian-adjacent, and also worth noting here: Seneca’s themes are darker, the action is more visceral and the visuals more graphically violent and sexual.
retail price - $24.95 copacetic price - $21.75

Pacification

by Matt Seneca

The funky three-color (black, orange & green) hand-printing on the guts of this self-published, 40-page, magazine-size comic book – wrapped in a full-color glossy cover – provides an added layer of æsthetic frisson to this tale of the inescapable corruptions and inevitable inequities produced by the procurement of individual wealth, and the repressive violences to mind and body that are required to maintain it. The narrative centers on a highly gendered tale contrasting a masculine solidity of (type-)written words and hand-made art with a seductive feminine immateriality of computer communications – along with their respective interactions with the capitalistic envelope of society – and incorporates a somewhat opaque morality play on Christian legacies. Plenty of food for thought amidst the comics splendor.
retail price - $10.00 copacetic price - $8.75

KC 85

King-Cat Comix & Stories #85

by John Porcellino

King-Cat #85 is the Dream Issue. 44 pages of comics and stories with a special focus on dreams and dreaming – but also a whole lot more. John P. certainly is a dreamer, and in more ways than one, as this issue demonstrates. Dreams are described, depicted and shared here; there's a lot! That dreams are a particular focus of this particular publication should come as no surprise, as once you zoom out and take the long view, you can see that the entire King-Cat enterprise is a dream realized. This issue's adaptations – or, if your prefer, translations (from text into comics) – of classic Japanese poetry are particularly adept and reveal his strong kinship to the form – which he then embodies in an original piece of his own, "Juncos", that successfully embodies this tradition. King-Cat!
retail price - $7.00 copacetic price - $6.25

Tsunami of Death

Mini-Kus #146: 'Tsunami of Death'

by Anand

Here's an all new, 24-page, FULL COLOR comics work by Anand, who squeezes a lot into this long-running mini-comic format; he really makes the most of it. The narrative features an avid adolescent reader of heroic detective stories who gets the chance to meet his idol, a particularly popular penman of these aforesaid tales of heroism and detectiion. "Tsunami of Death" is a highly potent distillation of the experience of going through the looking glass of pulp fiction to experience the flesh and blood behind the fantasy, and coming out the other side. It's also very funny.
retail price - $6.00 copacetic price - $5.75

Don

Conversations with Don DeLillo

by Drew Lerman

In these 48 one-page strips, printed digest-size for easy portability, we are provided with a peek at the imaginings of the author as he fearlessly holds forth with his literary idols – most notably among them, the titular Don DeLillo – and peers, as well as his own cartoon creations, fabulating his place in the literary landscape and by so doing holding up a mirror to his readers – while poking fun at himself – many of whom are likely to have engaged in similar (or at least analogous) fantasies themselves at some point. This hand-printed risograph edition from Cram features Raspberry Red & Teal interiors and CMYK covers.
retail price - $10.00 copacetic price - $9.75

Lunatic Lover's

by Suehiro Maruo

<< • >> WARNING: This book contains EXTREME CONTENT + DISTURBING IMAGERY << • >> Here in the 212 pages of Bubbles Press's follow-up to their premiere Maruo collection, Beautiful Monster, we are given another dose of the inimitable Maruo Suehiro's penetrating manga tales of trauma. Drilling deep into the darkness of the unconscious, where dwell the demons spawned by guilt and shame, experiences subjected to, family histories inherited, actions taken and regretted (or not). All created in the half decade spanning 1988 to 1993, five of these six tales focus on individual, family and peer group trauma and their after-effects through shifting combinations of allegory, symbolism, and more or less straightforward biographical and historical storytelling. Infant murder, adolescent insanity, curses, self-extinguishing entitlement, and family corruption are among the themes explored, each tale occupying a place on the sadomasochism spectrum. The collection’s final, novella-length piece, “Nonresistance City” pulls out all the stops to present the national trauma experienced by Japan in the wake of its defeat and surrender that concluded the Second World War. Focusing on the dire poverty of a (likely widowed) mother and son just barely eking out a subsistence level existence in a shanty town, and an exploitative stranger (who happens to be a dwarf), the story careens through a pervasive – and surreal – sense of the carnivalesque absurd while the level of victimization experienced by the protagonists inexorably ratchets up to unbearable levels. This is most emphatically not a story for sensitive souls or the weak-hearted. You have been warned.
retail price - $24.95 copacetic price - $21.75

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New for July 2026

Depressed

The Depressed Hunter

by Moebius

At last! This late Moebius work – originally published in 2008 – is now available in an English language edition – accompanied by extensive engaging and highly informative notes by translator Diana Schutz that enables Anglophone readers a deeper appreciation of the text, and, ultimately, the work as a whole.

Despite being a relatively slim volume, this 88-page 8 1/2" x 11" hardcover volume featuring Major Grubert – one of Moebius's greatest characters, some would say his alter ego – contains so much fantastic art to experience, with so many layers of meaning to explore, that it makes for a quite substantial work, one that will be hugely satisfying to lifelong Moebius fans and certainly worth a look to one and all. RECOMMENDED!

retail price - $24.95 copacetic price - $21.75

Redbird CC

Special Full Color Redbird Extra: Cardinal Cannonball

by Dan Zettwoch

Dan Zettwoch is a man of many enthusiasms. While you may not necessarily always share in all his particular enthusiasms – in this case, University of Louisville (KY) basketball players from the 1980s, along with adjacent basketball lore, mix-tapes of yore, nostalgic teen memories ... and Louisville's legendary laser-tag champ, Megatron! – you cannot help but come away from any Dan Z. production buzzing with the infectious energy which inhabits his comics, and none moreso than the 40-pages of non-stop Special Full-Color Redbird Extra that is Cardinal Cannonball! The inimitable value-add of this reading experience is that you will be fully charged up to do something creative with your own enthusiasms. Cover hand screened in red and black on orange cardstock; full color interiors w/ B & W endpapers. Nice! Hand-numbered, -dated and -initialed edition of 100. Don't miss it!!!
retail price - $10.00 copacetic price - $9.00

Quacky

by Jim Woodring

Big Little Book fans, rejoice! Here, at long last, in this 296-page, 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" Little Giant Book, is a truly worthy descendant. Jim Woodring's Quacky is the first (and possibly only, for all we know, but we hope someone else steps up*) in a series that "gets" the format's unique æsthetic appeal, and even tweaks it somewhat with a smyth-sewn binding and semi-stiff cover that is halfway between the original hardcover and the later softcover Big Little Books. The paper here is a thick and toothy cream colored stock that provides a similar tactility to the originals but allows for better reproduction, and the font is spot on. So, get ready for a rollicking ride back in time to the center of your mind, with Quacky – and Cunningham, the bonus back-up feature! And, it's not just the format. The content here provides an eerie look at a metaphysics that can be considered to have derived from the historical reality represented by Big Little Books; yielding a sort of BLB Consciousness. It is as though the BLB universe had been evolving along with our own all these years, but in a parallel dimension that we were unable to access... until now. Frank, Pushpaw and Pupshaw's adventures with the enigmatic philosopher king, Quacky burrow deeper and deeper into the subconscious reality that underlies our physical universe (currently situated within a capitalistic frame), leading readers deep into an existential angst – in a manner somewhat akin to that of Steven Millhauser – and then back out again. The back-up feature, Cunningham, reveals the rich tradition of hi-jinx funny animal antics in a harsher, contemporary (black) light. An object of dark veneration.
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $16.75

Bimbo Agitprop

by Raquelle Jac

We last heard from Raquelle Jac six years ago via her much talked about debut feature in NOW #9. It had been long enough that it seemed like, maybe that was it...? But no! It turns out that Ms. Jac(queline) had actually been struggling to bring forth this very work. Bimbo Agitprop is a 360 page behemoth of an autobio confessional wherein self-consciousness runs amok and the forging of identity is explored. Lean more about what went into this work by checking out Rae Whitlock's interview with Racquelle just posted up on TCJ, HERE.
retail price - $34.99 copacetic price - $28.75

The Children of Light

by Jean Pleyers

Actually a co-production of New York Review Comics and London's Breakdown Press – whose co-director, Tom Oldham provides both an afterword and interview with Pleyers – The Children of Light is herein collected into a single volume and – at last! – translated into English, by Luke Burns. The Children of Light was originally published in France during the early 1980s as Les Êtres de Lumière. It is filled with page after page of detailed Euro-style comics art presenting classic, old school science fiction tropes that are weaved together in a highly complex plot that is part space opera part political sociology. This edition is a full-size, full color, softcover volume that runs just over 100 pages including extras. If there is one creator whose opinion (of a work in this vein) is worth listening to, it is Moebius. Here's what he had to say about it in a personal communication with Pleyers: "I was deeply struck by your book for many reasons, of course for its intrinsic qualities of strangeness, almost of madness – how should I put it? – reasonable madness, the madness of one who acts without regard for convention, but who, with confidence, takes their self-expression to the limits, and sows their seed, without knowing if it will blossom." We've posted a set of spreads up on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE. Check it out!

retail price - $29.95 copacetic price - $25.75

Total THB, Volume 2

by Paul Pope

Paul Pope starts hitting his stride here in the second volume – of three – in the 23rd Street Books representation of this 1990s classic series that announced Paul Pope's talent to the comics world. His art really explodes on the page with some of the most outstanding inking in the biz. 232 pages. We've posted a some choice spreads on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE. Check it out.

retail price - $24.99 copacetic price - $21.75

Charity & Sylvia

by Tillie Walden

Yes, believe it or not, here's another major work from Tillie Walden to add to her already copious opus, which she wrapped up in time for her 30th birthday; how?! This is her first work for Drawn & Quarterly, who have provided a worthy edition that well complements Walden's work here. Charity & Sylvia is a very nicely produced, embossed, smyth-sewn hardcover, printed in duo-tone and running 264 pages. Walden sticks largely to a 12-panel grid throughout, which works well to communicate the unrelenting demands put upon the protagonists and results in a rich comics tapestry of interactions between environment, society and character that embodies a unique and personal herstory. You can jump right in and see what you think by reading this generous PDF preview provided by D & Q. And here's what a pair of her peers have to say about it: "In Charity and Sylvia, the preternaturally gifted Tillie Walden surpasses herself. She relates this true story of two women living as a couple in early 19th century Vermont with a pitch-perfect blend of modern sensibility and richly textured archival detail. Her irrepressible drawings are crowded with large families in small candlelit houses, the tackle and trim of daily chores, moody landscapes, and shifting weather. As the scenes of life in a New England village unspool, time seems to slow and lengthen to a pre-industrial pace, with plenty of room for contemplation. Charity and Sylvia ply their needles with a patience and dedication that seem almost inconceivable to us today, but Walden’s unstinting pen gives them a run for their money." —Alison Bechdel, Fun Home || "A fascinating and moving story that’s told perfectly with compassion, grace, and a beautiful drawing style."—Chester Brown, Paying For It
retail price - $30.00 copacetic price - $25.75

Nancy FAS

Nancy for All Seasons

by Ernie Bushmiller

More Nancy! In this, the follow-up volume to Fantagraphics' relaunch of the (complete?) collected Nancy, you will have the opportunity to experience 300 (consecutive?) comicstrips by the one and only Ernie Bushmiller from the years 1951-1952, all in a spiffy softcover edition that matches the size and format of Nancy Wears Hats for a price that works out to well less than a dime a strip!
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