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New for June 2026

Cram #5

edited by Andrew Alexander,

It's here! The the latest issue of the always all new, all hand-printed comics anthology edited and published by Andrew Alexander – Cram! This time around, "Comics" has been appended to the title, so, evidently, this fifth issue is Cram Comics. And what comics! This issue feels like the best yet. From the literary approach, most notably embodied in the oblique, slow burning fuse of Cameron Arthur's "Sacred Heart" and the complex character construction of Anad's "The River Keeps on Flowing", to the personal comics flavored with expressionism along with a (fun) sense of the absurd, as we find, to varying degrees, in James Collier's "We're Here", Sam Szabo's "The Enlightened Transsexual in: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Testosterone Blocker" and Syd Madia's "All the Time Aquatics", to the anecdotal, insightful and humorous storytelling of Swayam Parekh's "Shabana, I Hate Tears" and Médar de la Cruz & Médar Serrata's "Fixing It", to Nate Doyle's impassioned, graphicly bold working through grief in comics form, "Earthling", to Michael Kennedy's masterclass in how to unlock the power of visual communication inherent in comics, "Jumbie's Muse", this issue of Cram Comics, which also features a wraparound cover by Lillian Ansell, has it all! And remember, it's a limited edition, hand-printed (on heavy flat white stock) risograph, in full color, duotone and black & white as per each work's requirements. Don't miss it! After spending time with this issue, one gets the feeling that of looking through a window at a comics road that stretches long into the future.
retail price - $20.00 copacetic price - $18.75

Caught Lookin'

by Andrew Alexander

And, there's more! Cram Books editor, publisher – and printer! – Andrew Alexander has at last stepped out from behind the curtain with this jam-packed 52-page hand-printed risograph collection of his own comics. After a brief introductory strip on the inside front cover, the issue opens with its longest piece, the 25 page "The Candidates". This complex, multi-level tale is, superficially, about the world of competitive chess, but in the depths beneath there lurk the stresses of family drama, and the anxieties so generated. Following that is "Curio Painter in: Peter Saul's Beckmann's a Hard Day's Night", which is not only this issue's only full color work, but it also employs a vertical spread, and so requires the book to be read at a 90° angle; this off-kilter tale involves the nexus of drinking, painting, and the televised screening of an alternate reality version of "A Hard Day's Night" in which The Beatles are cast as terrorists. "The Editor Is In" comes next, in which Alexander cleverly employs the diary comics form to present a roman à clef a screwball comedy version of a small press comics editor's life. Then a two page sketchbook comic on teaching leads to the issue's pièce de résistance, "The Game of Shame" in which America's national pastime – baseball – is employed like a map overlay to navigate the formation of American identity. The issue closes out with a fun, frantic, high energy stream of cartoon story-telling, "Friend of a Friend", which averages over 25 panels per page!

retail price - $20.00 copacetic price - $18.75

Heaven

Heaven

by Katie Skelly

The latest from Katie Skelly, Heaven is a 100 page, full color hardcover that does what comics does best. Translating trauma into fantasy, it takes a look (back) at high school senior year, capturing those first glimpses of the worldly mysteries that await just on the other side, in adulthood, along with those hopes that the past can be left behind... but, things are never what they seem, and the reality is often in the eye of the beholder; a little like heaven.

retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $16.75

AG + BW

Appleguy & Beefwood

by Cedar Van Tassel

This nicely done hardcover collection from Drawn and Quarterly presents 201 four-panel, black & white, pen & ink comicstrips from the mental landscape of Cedar Van Tassel. Whether they're reading, on the computer, drinking coffee, lounging at home, standing around, walking somewhere, on a road trip, or hanging around with friends like Ballnut and Tuber, Appleguy and Beefwood are talking, about this that or the other thing, all of which is weirdly engaging. A bit like an absurdist, information age take on The Odd Couple, Appleguy and Beefwood also reminds us a bit of Drew Lerman's Snake Creek, only with a diverging epistemological framework. Don't waste time, dive right in and make up your mind with this swell PDF preview courtesy D & Q. >> And here's what a pair of his peers have to say about it: "Van Tassel writes and draws like a prairie grass root system in the deep soil of weird America. Cosmic and funny and friendly and terrifying, like Cow Tools, or like a face in a tree trunk that blinks and says something. Katchor drives a Tuff-bilt. This book is killer, a triumph." –Kevin Huizenga, The River at Night ||| "I’ll be danged if these aren’t some of the best comics around right now… funny, literate, sensitive, weird, joyful... and Van Tassel has perfect cartoonist’s timing. These things are great!"–John Porcellino, King-Cat.
retail price - $22.00 copacetic price - $18.75

DE&EI

Declaration Illustrated / Emancipation Illustrated

by R. Sikoryak

Continuing along the path he set out upon with Constitution Illustrated, R. Sikoryak herein puts his drawing pens at work combining the texts of the Declaration of Independence, The Emancipation Proclamation and The Gettysburg Address with a panoply of comics "texts" – covers, splash pages, and panels taken from comics spanning a century of American comics history. Ranging from the iconic to the obscure – from Cliff Sterrett and Billy DeBeck to John Buscema and Gil Kane to Victor Moscoso and Gilbert Shelton to Mark Beyer and Peter Bagge to Robb Armstrong and Ray Billngsley to Mary Fleener and Dame Darcey to Kyle Baker and Ben Passmore, and many more! – these comics texts have here been adapted to specific sections of the texts of the documents they serve to both illustrate and illuminate. For comics nerds (like ourselves), there's the bonus game-like fun involved in identifying the artists and source of the comics, but all readers (including, of course, comics nerds themselves) will enjoy having the chance to revisit these foundational texts in the light of American comics history. Get a better idea by taking an online look HERE, courtesy of Drawn and Quarterly.
retail price - $15.00 copacetic price - $12.75

G73&74

Grixly #73 & 74 (two-pack)

by Nate McDonough

The latest Grixly double-header takes the ongoing Longboxes saga to the next level. The frame is, as usual, composed of Nate’s world of comic book back issue wheeling and dealing, yet the subject of the portrayals collected and sequenced in these pages is, more clearly than ever before, America itself, with the lid off. The anecdotes, vignettes and stories together provide a view that grants readers a glimpse of America from above, as it writhes through the current, waning stages of late-capitalism – which is revealed here as being less a benevolent, guiding, invisible hand than a malignant affliction manifesting ever more glaring symptoms throughout America's body politic. Through the fable-like tales that play out in these two issues’ densely packed 48 pages (combined), it is amply demonstrated that paying attention to details and learning from your mistakes can work to put things in perspective, providing insights that can be used to map the present and so find effective paths forward. Sacha Mardou’s model “diorama” reference-home that makes an appearance towards the end, serves, in this context, as an in situ synecdoche of the approach embodied by the whole. Grixly!
retail price - $6.00 copacetic price - $5.00

Y25

Yearly 2025

by Andrew White

We're a little late with this one, but this is certainly a case of better late than never. Yearly 2025 is the first all black & white issue of Andrew White's annually released title in a while. At 48, 6 3/4" x 10" pages, it is also the closest to standard comic book size; but it is anything but a standard comic book! Starting with a title font and cover color formatting that echoes that of Foreign Affairs magazine, its 48 pages are packed with a dazzling array of approaches to comics storytelling, from densely packed grids, to an integration with the musical notation staff, to multiple-exposure type overlays, and more, all working to explore ways to probe and describe consciousness.
retail price - $8.00 copacetic price - $7.25

I Won't Pretend These Missiles Are Stars: Life in Iran During the 12-Day War

by The Cartoonist Collective in Tehran

This is a collective account (from the point of view of Iranian citizens in Tehran) of last year's (2025) 12-day war (primarily) between Israel and Iran (with the US weighing in on Israel's side). It provides the perfect antidote to that all too common belief / feeling among Americans that Iranians are somehow "other" or "alien", and irreducibly opposed to "our way of life." As the works in this collection very clearly show, that belief can only have come about as the result of misinformation, disinformation and propaganda. The reality is something else all together. Iranians and Americans have so much common ground, are so similar in so many respects, and share an irreducible common humanity, that we can, and should, easily be able to not only get along, but also to be the best of friends. To learn more, check out Kevin Brown's TCJ review.
retail price - $22.99 copacetic price - $20.00

Driven By Lemons - softcover edition

by Joshua W Cotter

> BACK IN PRINT AT LAST! < Joshua W Cotter's classic is once again available in this self-published softcover. To all those who have been rueing missing its original (2009) incarnation as an AdHouse hardcover: rue no longer! As a (small) added bonus, this edition comes with a new (small) insert card featuring a new full color illustration on the front and text on the reverse. We've posted a gallery of spreads, HERE, that will go a long way towards showing how unique this work is. >> And here is our review of the original edition: This book took us quite by surprise, as it will anyone who has read or is even familiar with Cotter's previous and best known work, Skyscrapers of the Midwest. Skyscrapers, was a widely lauded work which originally appeared in a series of comic books before being collected as a hardcover graphic novel. It presented a relatively straightforward tale in which fantasy intertwined with reality that hewed closely to narrative norms. In other words, it is a work that in no way prepares any of its readers for the free flowing stream that is Driven By Lemons. Cotter, along with Adhouse Books publisher, Chris Pitzer, have here created a book that is, by all appearances, a facsimile of Cotter's 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" hardcover Moleskine sketchbook (while we originally thought it highly unlikely that it was actually a true facsimile, according to this interview [which comes complete with a lengthy manifesto-like preamble by Cotter] it actually is!). While some of the work it contains will be clearly recognizable to readers of Cotter's earlier work, most boldly charts new territory. In a nutshell, Driven By Lemons is a shining example of self-discovery through sketchbooking. Clearly, something has changed in Cotter's life since he completed Skyscrapers, and as he tried to adapt to his new environment – physical, emotional, psychological, or some combination of these – he kept a record of his travails in his sketchbook, tried to cohere it into some sort of narrative, and Driven By Lemons is the result. There is some truly adventurous comics work here; you can feel the inspiration. Make sure to crack this one open and take a look. (which you can do virtually by clicking on the link above. – ed.)
retail price - $15.00 copacetic price - $13.75

G+S

Goat + Sheep By The Well

by Joshua W Cotter

And, Mr. Cotter also has a new(-ish) work now available here at Copacetic. This 40-page, digest-size comic book takes a look at our current socioeconomic reality through the lens of a children's picture book story. It relates the dominant structural misalignment of resources that has produced The Great Wealth Disparity, and shows it to be the defining characteristic of our times. It is filled with simple black & white illustrations, enhanced with blue wash tones, and accompanied by a conversational narration with just enough text to get the information across, and printed on a fairly heavy flat white stock with cardstock cover. The irony here is that in employing the simplistic dialectic of a children's tale that works to resolve childhood issues, it effectively demonstrates that this manner or working is woefully inadequate to solve the global problems of adulthood, leading to an oppressive sense of gloom and all-pervading depression, thereby indicating that the pedagogical approach to instructing children may inadvertently lead to adult dysfunction and failure for those so instructed. This leads, in turn, to a takeaway that instructional methods need to evolve if the children of today are to meet the challenges of tomorrow, and, by so doing, Goat + Sheep shows that comics can play a part in the process.
retail price - $5.00 copacetic price - $5.00

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New for May 2026

30x30: Thirty Years of Conundrum Press

edited by Andy Brown with contributions by Joe Ollmann, Tyler Landry, Blaise Moritz, Rupert Bottenberg, Cole Degenstein, Kim Edgar, Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet, Xiaoxiao Li, Colin Upton, Billy Mavreas, OBOM , Alison McCreesh, Henriette Valium, Natalia Pendergast, Shea Proulx, Halie Finney, Cole Pauls, Brandon Hicks, Veronica Post, Mollie Cronin, D. McFadzean, Jonathan Dyck, Adam de Souza, Seth , Eleanor Hannon, Elisabeth Belliveau, Graeme Shorten Adams & Patrick Allaby

We've been looking forward to for this one for a while! When we first got wind of Conundrum's series of small squarebound-book-mini-comics of ± 100 pages each (@$10 per, in case you were wondering) – Conundrum 25 – we were hoping to be able to carry them in the shop... but it was not to be as they were only available direct from Conundrum. We were frustrated as we watched form a distance the release of five volumes per year over the course of five years... so were then very pleased to learn of this volume. 30 x 30 is a collection of selections from each and every one of the 25 books in the series that was edited and curated by Andy Brown to mark the 30th anniversary of Conundrum Press. It is also worth noting here that this 348 page oversize volume is of a significantly larger size (8" x 11.5") than the Conundrum 25 individual volumes (4.25" x 6.25"), and that the artwork has been reformatted – in a number of different ways, depending on the original – to allow multiple pages worth of comics (from the original volumes) per single page here. To celebrate it's release – and availability here at Copacetic – we're offering this book at a special price that works out to only $1 per artist. One way to look at it is that getting this book is (at least a little) like going to a Canadian Indie Comics Show and picking up 25 cool mini-comics all for only $1 each (and without incurring any lodging or travel costs). So: DEAL! And HERE'S a sample spread from each of the works in this collection up on the Copacetic Tumblr. We managed to squeeze them all in one post! Check it out!
retail price - $30.00 copacetic price - $25.00

Stop!! Hibari-Kun! #1

by Hisashi Eguchi

It took a minute – as in 40 years – to get an English language edition of this gender-bending story of high school hi-jinx – and romance – but now it's here, courtesy of the powers that be at Peow2, who've put together a very nice edition – the first of three! It is crisply printed in tankobon fashion, complete with obi-band, in (mostly) black & white, with duo-tone sections and occasional full color. Stop!! Hibari-Kun! may, to North American readers, at least, seem at first to be a kind of next-level Ramna 1/2 – except... it was serialized roughly five years before Ramna 1/2 began! Hibari is a (born) boy who for all intents and purposes is a girl – and not just any girl, but the most popular girl in their high school! The series opens when the series protagonist (and stand-in for the reader), Kohsaku Sakamoto's mother dies and he is sent to live with the family of a Yakuza boss (a mystery which is more or less explained early on) who has four children: three girls... and Hibari – who immediately falls for Kohsaku, who is, shall we say, conflicted, about the situation, and so the hi-jinx begin! And Eguchi's deft employment of manga's caricatural humor vocabulary – which includes frequent authorial intrusions – makes for a fairly riotous reading experience. Stop!! Hibari-Kun! was serialized in Shonen Jump, the best selling weekly manga anthology in Japan for teen boys, from 1981 to 1983 (and then concluded, after a long hiatus, in 2010). In other words, it was not some niche work, but rather a hugely popular series. So popular, in fact, that it was made into a television anime series that ran for 35(?) episodes. Take a moment to dive into the gender fluidity on hand here with Madeline Blondeau's exploration of the series on Paste, HERE. And then check out a gallery of images of the actual book, HERE.
retail price - $19.95 copacetic price - $17.75

APE #1

by Rich Tommaso

Long-suffering old-school comics fanatics, rejoice! Rich Tommaso's APE is a jolt of EC energy that is a rollicking homage to, of course, the original MAD as Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder & Co. conceived it. Printed in full, classic, old school-style color, on nice, off-white newsprint, with a semigloss cardstock cover, this is a comic book! Six short comic tales, an editorial, house ads and more make this a reading experience to savor. And – by today's standards, at least – bargain priced!
retail price - $6.00 copacetic price - $5.75

Brownfield Action Family #2

by Ted May

OK! The second issue of Ted May's all new series, Brownfield Action Family has arrived – and it's a doozy! This issue really delivers on the title's promise of action! And not just any action, but that real comic book action – peppered with humor – that real comics readers crave, with tough guys, hired goons, fighting snakes, martial arts moves, ghostly visions, inter-dimensional punches and more – 56 pages worth!
retail price - $9.99 copacetic price - $8.75

Monty

A Monty

by Zak Sally

This self-published, 24-page, digest-size, two-color risograph has been around for awhile, but has only now made its way to Copacetic. "A Monty" is a series of connected childhood memories translated into pitch perfect comics form. One that, in the process of so becoming, elicits a series of quiet – and not so quiet – moments, leading to an emerging awareness of heretofore hidden elements of existence, and, eventually, to lessons learned and, perhaps, ultimately, a moral philosophy of life.
retail price - $8.00 copacetic price - $7.50

Portraits

Portraits

by Connor Willumsen

>> WAREHOUSE FIND! << We got our hands on an original, sealed package of Connor Willumsen's Portraits, published here in Pittsburgh in 2016 by Comics Workbook. This sixteen-page, saddle-stitched magazine is entirely printed on stiff, offwhite cover stock, making for a solid, substantial feel. It's filled with a selection of uniquely-excellent, pencil-drawn portraits by Connor Willumsen. We've posted a small gallery to give you an idea, HERE. Needless to say (but, of course, we can't help saying it anyway): LIMITED SUPPLY!
copacetic price - $15.75

The Complete Charles Dana Gibson: A Widow and Her Friends, 1899 to 1901

by Charles Dana Gibson; edited by Sean Michael Robinson

Here's something we weren't expecting! The Complete Charles Dana Gibson: A Widow and Her Friends is a very nicely produced, Smyth-sewn bound, 224 page, horizontally-formatted, oversize (12" x 9") hardcover that is crisply printed (in China by Shanghai KS Printing, Inc.) on excellent paper stock – at such an attractive price that it makes it nigh on irresistible to anyone with more than a passing interest in Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the "Gibson Girl" and perhaps the most famous American illustrator at the dawn of the 20th century. It collects three works that were published, as the sub-title implies, between 1899 and 1901 – literally at the turn of the century – each of which is composed as a series of full page captioned drawings – balanced on the facing page by portrait drawings, largely of the featured characters – that – at least in the cases of The Education of Mr. Pipp and A Widow and Her Friends – gradually cohere into a comprehensible story, a now somewhat archaic form that dates from the 18th century (if not before) and that Gibson sharpened and polished with his laconic wit – and, of course – amazing drawing chops, for which he was, and continues to be, justly renowned. Americans Drawn by C.D. Gibson along with most of the rest of the book is devoted to full page drawings, most with witty captions and/or dialogue, some without. So, here's book rich in comics history and packed with high calibre illustrations, yet it a work that clearly grew out of an upper crust soil quite different from the earthy loam from whence sprung the hearty creations that form the primary lineage of comics. Gibson's comics here are – more or less – of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy, that, quite deliberately, stood apart from the rest, and, one suspects, looked down on them. Yet, it is intriguing to realize that the works contained in this volume were created at the same precise moment that comics were first materializing in the newspapers geared for the masses and that it was these newspaper comics that proved to have the far greater vitality and that went on to form the basis for the comics industry we have today, while the "higher quality" "higher class" comics by Gibson collected here left very little in the way of legacy – apart from the technical proficiency and stylistic idiosyncrasies of the work, and, of course, the objectification of female beauty that was embodied by "the Gibson girl." There is also a heavily illustrated introductory essay by series editor, Sean Michael Robinson. Yes, you heard that right: this is only the first of a multi-volume series; those for whom this book is a treat, have more to look forward to!
retail price - $29.95 copacetic price - $26.75

JimX

Wolverine: An Exploration

by Jim Rugg

Here's Jim Rugg on Barry Windsor-Smith's 1991 classic, Weapon X! This 192 page mass-market size paperback explores this Marvel classic featuring the "secret" origin of Wolverine. It is heavily illustrated in full color, and is driven by a powerful comics fan energy that is still present within Rugg's fully fledged professional self. It is packed with information and insights that only someone with the requisite combination of comics love, comics knowledge and comics-making experience (in other words, only Jim Rugg) would be capable of providing. A big chunk of the book is devoted to a close, chapter by chapter reading of the story and art, with the remainder delving into the history and legacy of both the character and the artist, and then the creative and production processes. All readers will come away from reading this with a deepened appreciation of Weapon X, Barry Windsor-Smith, and comics as a medium of communication.
retail price - $14.95 copacetic price - $13.75

Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905 - 1989

by Andrea Horbinski

Here in the 400+ pages of Manga's First Century, author Andrea Horbinski delivers an in-depth history of of manga that works to "counter essentialist myths" and focus on the actual documented history of the form as it emerged in Japan during the 20th century. PLEASE NOTE: This work of history is published by an academic press, and as such it is heavy on facts and their interpretation, and light on visual illustrations. Learn more on the publisher's page for it, HERE. Also: >>> 2026 Eisner Award Nominee for Best Academic/Scholarly Work!
retail price - $29.95 copacetic price - $25.25

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New for April 2026

How I Make Comics

by Kim Deitch

Here's a spiffy, embossed hardcover – sporting highlights in metallic blue ink, no less – arriving just in time for readers to celebrate the 82nd birthday (May 21) of this American comics master whose career spanned the dawn of underground comics to the advent of the graphic novel and then continued on down the comics highway, eschewing the heavily trafficked avenues and instead taking meandering side roads so as to better be able to discover – and share – lost tales full of equal measures of pathos and insight. For six full decades now, Kim Deitch has been creating a unique synthesis of American popular culture in comics form. Some well ripened fruits of which are on display here in this anecdote-filled overview of his life and comics-making career. It all starts with a(n apparently true) 1952 encounter with Little Donnie Trump™ on the set of an episode of The Howdy Doody Show™ that centers on an election, no less. The centerpiece of How I Make Comics is a custom mix of history and fantasy centering on another certain "little" – Anne – that is rooted in reality but then takes off on more than one flight of fancy as it weaves through the book, and in the process shows not only how Kim Deitch makes comics, but how comics as a form take root and grow, first in the mind, then in culture. Woven in are tales of a lonely elephant, the legend of a 40 year-old cat and much more, including a really nice piece of (up close and personal) popular culture history that we don't want to say too much about because we don't want to give anything away. Suffice it to say that this volume is chock-a-block with so many great stories that it helps to explain how Kim Deitch keeps going: these stories are simply too good to languish in a drawer – they must be shared! And there's no better way to share a good story than comics! So find a comfortable spot and get ready to enjoy!
retail price - $24.99 copacetic price - $21.75

ArabF1

The End of the Arab of the Future, Vol. 1: 1992-94

by Riad Sattouf

We are on record with saying that the English language translation of the final volume of Riad Sattouf’s epic Arab of the Future would “never” come out, after the original publisher of the series cancelled it several years ago (due, we presume, to declining sales). We are happy to announce that we have now been proved wrong! – and by Fantagraphics no less, who have picked up the torch to at last carry this work over the finish line. Not only that, what we assumed was the “final” volume will actually be published in two parts, of which this is the first. So, long suffering readers of this series may now rejoice! We last left off when Riad's father had absconded to his home in Syria with Riad's youngest brother, Fadi – much to his mother's distress. Now we find Riad starting the new year at high school, with hormones surging and imagination running wild – but also with a burgeoning art talent through which he begins to find status and hints of redemption...
retail price - $22.99 copacetic price - $18.75

CameraRoom

All the Cameras in the Room

by Michael DeForge

Prepare yourself for a descent into the maelstrom of hyper-connectivity where the concomitant centripetal disintegration of identity leads to the objectification of subjectivity and the outsourcing of the self as individual sexualities and variegated cultural mythologies are collapsed into a single pansexual consumerism; in other words, the latest from Michael DeForge. It's another spiffy hardcover collection of (almost) all new (one or two have appeared elsewhere) comics! There's a mix of black & white, monochrome, duotone and full color, each according to the dictates of the story, of which there are a dozen in all – plus a neat mini-comic that comes inserted in a pocket on the inside front cover! Here are the story titles, to give you a taste of what's in store: Bugged | This Call Is Being Monitored | All the Cameras in My Apartment | Holiday Special | Universal Studios Monsters | Gore | Medieval Times | Long Weekend | Attack Dog | Larry Seedyseed | Non-Profit | Boy Band | Librarian Simulator | The Organizer | The Spins | D & Q has also provided a nice PDF preview, HERE
retail price - $24.95 copacetic price - $19.75

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Love and Rockets #1 ("facsimile edition")

by Gilbert Hernandez & Jaime Hernandez

Yes, here's the issue that started it all... one more time! If you have not yet been able to get a copy of this historic issue due to "collector" prices, or if you're just looking for an excuse to read this issue again, it's now in stock here at Copacetic. This was/is billed by Fantagraphics as a "facsimile edition", and some of the early images released had it with the original $2.95 cover price (with, presumably, the correct/actual $7.99 price on the back cover by the UPC), but the copies we have received sport a $7.99 cover price. Also, just FYI, the inside front cover indicia states that this is the "Fifth printing", but it may actually(?) be the sixth. It does list "January 2026" as the publication date – and, of course, there's the $7.99 cover price – so there's no chance of it ever being confused with the an earlier printing, regardless. All that said, this includes Gary Groth's original inside front cover statement, and the printing, paper stock and presentation do a decent job of resembling the original, and so all in all this provides an experience that is pretty close to reading the original issue, giving that "you are there" frisson. BEM!
retail price - $7.99 copacetic price - $6.75

Spacehawk

Spacehawk (new edition)

by Basil Wolverton

And, speaking of reprints of hard-to-find out-of-print classics, here's one one of the most copacetic classic comic book compendiums ever produced. This new edition is nearly identical to the 2012 original. It too is printed from the same superbly produced full color files in an oversized flexicover that is nearly identical – the big difference being a new cover image and a slight design makeover with an emphasis on the color yellow. Wolverton began producing Spacehawk in the late 1930s, at the dawn of the comic book era. Its combination of weird science fiction with super heroics – all spectacularly drawn and employing Wolverton's intuitive rendering of unconscious drives, desires and fears – has had a huge, and continuing, impact on the development of comics books. Also, please note that this edition is published by Fantagraphics Underground, which means that it has a low print run (1000?). So, if you missed this the first time around, don't snooze on this edition.
retail price - $39.99 copacetic price - $34.75

CM1

Corto Maltese: Fable of Venice and Other Adventures

by Hugo Pratt

And here's one more classic reprint from Fantagraphics: If there's anyone reading this who has yet to experience any part of Hugo Pratt's magnum opus, Corto Maltese, they are, with this 132 page black & white volume, providing you with a budget-priced entry point to this world of comics high adventure that is the ne plus ultra of European heroic fantasy. And, by coincidence (or not) "Fable of Venice" happens to have been first published at roughly the same time as Fantagraphics was getting started, fifty years ago...
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $16.75

The Method #2

by Christina Lee

Here it is, the second issue of Christina Lee's single-creator anthology series, The Method! Like the first, it's an 8" x 10", 44-page, 5-color risograph comic book magazine. This time around we are presented with three short stories focused on relationships, objectification and self-image in a hand-numbered edition of 350 copies. We've posted a a few choice images from this issue along with some from the simultaneously published Alright Edition of Two Snakes HERE.
retail price - $15.00 copacetic price - $13.75

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Copacetic Comics Classics #1

by Ogden Whitney
Undiscovered by the Copacetic Comics Collector Archival Organization (CCCAO) at the time of the the publication of Return to Romance, the acquisition of this story created an earthquake in the Ogden Whitney Department, as it provides a key that unlocks access to the inner nature of the content of that extra layer of consciousness inserted into Whitney's stories: the dramatization, employing role playing, of the relationship between the social elements and formal qualities of gender construction, and the dynamic so engendered, articulated through comics. In the thirteen, masterfully executed, power-packed pages of “Comic Valentine” – reproduced here in digest-size (5 1/2" x 8 1/2") from high resolution scans of the original comic book – the symbolic world of Ogden Whitney is revealed; plus an amazing one-pager as a back cover bonus! We couldn’t have asked for a better work for the launch of Copacetic Comics Classics. Look for future issues… eventually.
retail price - $4.00 copacetic price - $4.00

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