NEW
STUFF
A SELECTION OF RECENT ARRIVALS
New for March 2019
Andy: The Life and Times of
Andy Warholby Typex
Typex's Andy: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol is a tour de force of comics biography. It's 562 (silver-edged!) pages delve deeply into the life and times of its subject. The work's central organizing principle is that each of its 10 chapters is conceived and designed as an individual issue of a comic book series, titled Andy®, complete with it's own front and back covers (and, as an added bonus, each also comes with its own uncut sheet of collector trading cards!). The chapters are chronologically arranged, with each tackling a particular arc of Warhol’s life and work. Each of the “issues" in this series has been conceived and executed by Typex as a self-contained whole, intended to read one at a time. Striving to provide readers with an immersive experience, each issue is drawn in a style and designed in a manner that work together to capture the feel of the period it covers, as well as the mindset of Warhol's artistic mode during that time. Quite a trick! Beginning with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow: 1932-1946" (set right here in Pittsburgh) and ending with "New York, New York: 1987", Andy (which has the sub-subtitle, "A Factual Fairytale") is a heavily researched work that provides plenty of historical detail and psychological insight at the same time that it makes for a highly engaging read. The primary focus of Andy is on Warhol as a social animal. The book’s thesis – if there is one – is that it was the people he surrounded himself with that largely determined the nature of the work he produced, and that his particular genius was in forging an artistic process that focused on his social-scene-building abilities in a way that incorporated and formalized the channeling of the energies generated by these “scenes" into significant, lasting and, crucially, marketable works of art. The publisher has provided an all-too-brief preview HERE that will at least provide some idea of what's in store, but just barely.
retail price - $34.95 copacetic price - $29.75
Is This How You See Me?by Jaime Hernandez
Jaime whips readers back and forth across four decades in this long awaited tale of Maggie and Hopey's reconnection at a punk rock reunion, and in the process asks – and answers – the question, "What are we today, but all our yesterdays?" While Macbeth was cursed by fate and living on borrowed time, and so understandably down in the mouth, Maggie and Hopey are ever in the present, ever linking the past to the future, and carrying us, their followers on the other side of the veil, along with them, and so are much more than the sum of what has gone before. We are well aware that most Copacetic customers were reading this saga as it was originally serialized in the pages of Love and Rockets (vol. 3 #7 & 8 + vol. 4 #1 - 5), but for those who have yet to experience this, the latest classic from the mighty pen of Jaime Hernandez – and those who, while having already read it (perhaps more than once) nevertheless want to enshrine this tale in its own standalone, deluxe, debossed hardcover volume – here it is! Catch up with Jaime in his latest TCJ interview, conducted by fellow Fantagraphics cartoonist, Katie Skelly, HERE.
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $15.99
retail price - $29.99 copacetic price - $25.75
MacDoodle St.
by Mark Alan Stamaty
It's been almost 40 years, but worth the wait. Mark Alan Stamaty's legendary, Village Voice strip, MacDoodle St. is back! The looooong out of print (paperback only) collection has now been reissued by New York Review Comics in a spiffy hardcover edition that includes seven installations of the precursor strip, "Garble Dee Goo" along with an all new, 18 page addendum, to boot! Mark Alan Stamaty's comics evince a distractibility that borders on anarchy and leads to mayhem and even chaos, yes, but attention deficit, no! Stamaty focuses on the details at the same time as his mind wanders all over creation (well, all over New York City) producing some completely original, highly engaging and hugely entertaining comics in the process. Fans of Ben Katchor might find themselves feeling a familiar something now and again as they make their way through MacDoodle St. as that approach to the quotidian that is permeated by an effervescent, off-kilter and unpindownable sensation is present here as well, albeit in a much more frenetic form. Don't miss this gem. We posted a quickie preview on Instagram, HERE.
retail price - $24.95 copacetic price - $22.22
retail price - $24.95 copacetic price - $21.75
Leaving Richard's Valley
by Michael DeForge
Leaving Richard's Valley collects all 475 installments of Michael DeForge's Instagram serial in a chunky, square, mirror-chrome-finished hardcover volume. Leaving is an epic comics allegory that puts us in the mind of Anders Nilsen’s epic comics allegory, Big Questions – but only up to a point. While both are lengthy meditations on a quest for meaning in life, and both involve a cast of sentient (and chatty!) animals as well as humans, and both take place primarily outdoors, in natural settings, there the similarities end. Intriguingly, it is the shift in periodical comics delivery that is, at least in part, responsible for, at least some of, the differences (Tracing the links between the original formats of these two series and their respective themes could be a fruitful endeavor, but too much of one to pursue here.). When Big Questions was first created, the best available approach to serialization was in a series of individual comics, of which there were 15 (although the first two were more or less warm ups and not directly related to the narrative, and were collected only as the bonus section of the hardcover edition). When DeForge set out on his journey of creation for Leaving Richard’s Valley, roughly a decade and a half later, he decided to serialize it as a series of daily Instagram posts, thus the square format of this book. The posts/pages are primarily composed of four square panels, with regularly interspersed single-panel, full-page splashes. For this hardcover edition, these posts have been “remastered” for print, to interesting effect. DeForge is always up for a formal challenge, and serializing a lengthy graphic novel on Instagram was certainly a challenge! With Leaving Richard’s Valley, DeForge has blazed yet another trail through the wilderness of comics. And, of course, the focus and concerns of Leaving Richard’s Valley are entirely DeForge’s, having only nominal overlap with Nilsen’s in Big Questions. DeForge here confronts – and ultimately demolishes – conceptions and perceptions of the independence of individual identity, demonstrating that all identities are interdependent and contain underlying family (parent/child/sibling/etc.) dynamics and that these dynamics will continually reassert themselves in any given situation; there is no escaping them. Amongst these, there is the obvious, special focus on the tendency, in patriarchal societies, to revert to reliance on a paternal / “Big Brother” figure, embodied here in the titular Richard. But, while DeForge asserts that there is no such thing as a self-contained individual identity that exists in isolation, he additionally asserts that no identities are permanently fixed, that while each of us posses physical, mental and psychological characteristics that are to varying degrees fixed, as our relationships shift and morph, so can – and will – our identities. However, in our current consumer society, the variables in our identities tend to be sourced from the media and the marketplace, and as such are often designed with consumer exploitation in mind, engendering imbalanced power relationships and leading to the secondary, parallel theme of the work, namely, the difficulties, if not the outright impossibility, of attaining/achieving/embodying authenticity in our contemporary society, as currently constituted in a world of appearances largely derived from profit oriented enterprises. In other words, there's plenty to chew on here.
retail price - $32.95 copacetic price - $28.75
These items and more may also be found at our eCommerce site, HERE.
by Mark Alan Stamaty
It's been almost 40 years, but worth the wait. Mark Alan Stamaty's legendary, Village Voice strip, MacDoodle St. is back! The looooong out of print (paperback only) collection has now been reissued by New York Review Comics in a spiffy hardcover edition that includes seven installations of the precursor strip, "Garble Dee Goo" along with an all new, 18 page addendum, to boot! Mark Alan Stamaty's comics evince a distractibility that borders on anarchy and leads to mayhem and even chaos, yes, but attention deficit, no! Stamaty focuses on the details at the same time as his mind wanders all over creation (well, all over New York City) producing some completely original, highly engaging and hugely entertaining comics in the process. Fans of Ben Katchor might find themselves feeling a familiar something now and again as they make their way through MacDoodle St. as that approach to the quotidian that is permeated by an effervescent, off-kilter and unpindownable sensation is present here as well, albeit in a much more frenetic form. Don't miss this gem. We posted a quickie preview on Instagram, HERE.
retail price - $24.95 copacetic price - $22.22
retail price - $24.95 copacetic price - $21.75
Leaving Richard's Valleyby Michael DeForge
Leaving Richard's Valley collects all 475 installments of Michael DeForge's Instagram serial in a chunky, square, mirror-chrome-finished hardcover volume. Leaving is an epic comics allegory that puts us in the mind of Anders Nilsen’s epic comics allegory, Big Questions – but only up to a point. While both are lengthy meditations on a quest for meaning in life, and both involve a cast of sentient (and chatty!) animals as well as humans, and both take place primarily outdoors, in natural settings, there the similarities end. Intriguingly, it is the shift in periodical comics delivery that is, at least in part, responsible for, at least some of, the differences (Tracing the links between the original formats of these two series and their respective themes could be a fruitful endeavor, but too much of one to pursue here.). When Big Questions was first created, the best available approach to serialization was in a series of individual comics, of which there were 15 (although the first two were more or less warm ups and not directly related to the narrative, and were collected only as the bonus section of the hardcover edition). When DeForge set out on his journey of creation for Leaving Richard’s Valley, roughly a decade and a half later, he decided to serialize it as a series of daily Instagram posts, thus the square format of this book. The posts/pages are primarily composed of four square panels, with regularly interspersed single-panel, full-page splashes. For this hardcover edition, these posts have been “remastered” for print, to interesting effect. DeForge is always up for a formal challenge, and serializing a lengthy graphic novel on Instagram was certainly a challenge! With Leaving Richard’s Valley, DeForge has blazed yet another trail through the wilderness of comics. And, of course, the focus and concerns of Leaving Richard’s Valley are entirely DeForge’s, having only nominal overlap with Nilsen’s in Big Questions. DeForge here confronts – and ultimately demolishes – conceptions and perceptions of the independence of individual identity, demonstrating that all identities are interdependent and contain underlying family (parent/child/sibling/etc.) dynamics and that these dynamics will continually reassert themselves in any given situation; there is no escaping them. Amongst these, there is the obvious, special focus on the tendency, in patriarchal societies, to revert to reliance on a paternal / “Big Brother” figure, embodied here in the titular Richard. But, while DeForge asserts that there is no such thing as a self-contained individual identity that exists in isolation, he additionally asserts that no identities are permanently fixed, that while each of us posses physical, mental and psychological characteristics that are to varying degrees fixed, as our relationships shift and morph, so can – and will – our identities. However, in our current consumer society, the variables in our identities tend to be sourced from the media and the marketplace, and as such are often designed with consumer exploitation in mind, engendering imbalanced power relationships and leading to the secondary, parallel theme of the work, namely, the difficulties, if not the outright impossibility, of attaining/achieving/embodying authenticity in our contemporary society, as currently constituted in a world of appearances largely derived from profit oriented enterprises. In other words, there's plenty to chew on here.
retail price - $32.95 copacetic price - $28.75
These items and more may also be found at our eCommerce site, HERE.
New for February 2019
Worn Tuff Elbow #2by Marc Bell
Marc Bell is back! It’s the long awaited return of Worn Tuff Elbow! Actually, to be honest, given that the last issue (which was also the first) came out over 14 years ago, the truth of the matter is that we had given up waiting and had long ago been resigned to there being only the one issue. So, it was all, “Lo! and Behold!” here at Copacetic when we caught sight of this second issue. Seeing as 14 years is quite a stretch, we’re figuring that many, if not most, of the current readers of this space were heretofore entirely unaware of (what we can now correctly refer to as) this comic book series. We trust, however that most are aware of WTE-creator, Marc Bell as it has only been a handful of years since our last fresh delivery of Mr. Bell’s idiosyncratic inkings in the form of his amazing masterpiece, Stroppy. Worn Tuff Elbow #2 is a fine-tuned, hand-crafted grab-bag, an anarchic assemblage of pent-up pen & ink mayhem. This plus-size comic book runs 36 pages, with a heavy cardstock cover, all crisply printed in Canada. It starts in black & white, but, unusually, gradually transitions to intermittent spot color and then through increasingly colorful pages on to full color – and then back again to black & white! Along the way we are treated to “Coffee Shop Comics”, “Tinkle Test”, "Bologna Buffet”, “The Ten Eyed One Visits an Art Gallery”, “The Free Lunch”, "Monsieur Moustache and the Tale of the Bologna”, “Topless DaDa End of the World Comics” and more! We will also get the chance to experience the full range of comic book accoutrements, including introductory acknowledgements, table of contents, shout-out page, and a letters page – although, in a surprise twist, the letters here are all from Marc Bell, preemptive responses to letters he imagines having received (Bonus fun fact: the longest off these is to Pittsburgh-Based, cartoonist extraordinaire, Frank Santoro). It’s the return of Worn Tuff Elbow!
retail price - $8.00 copacetic price - $8.00
Off Seasonby James Sturm
James Sturm’s latest graphic novel takes on the challenge of crafting a social realist narrative that is solidly set in the mainstream of the American novelistic tradition, and welding it to the visually expressive capacities of comics. Centered on a married couple and extending out to include their school-age children, parents, siblings, peers, and then on to the community at large, Off Season provides a unique portrait of our times. The classic American novelistic form provides opportunities to structurally integrate observations and commentaries on the interplay of forces that connect individual lives to the containing and sustaining society in which they take place, allowing each to be revealed in the other. The primary axis of reflection here is of the Trump/Hillary split in the American psyche reflecting/reinforcing/extending national attitudes down into – or is up out of? – the marriage at the novel’s center. The first thing that will strike the reader upon opening the book is, of course, Sturm’s decision to render all the characters in the book as anthropomorphic dogs. The metaphorics of this decision are hinted at in the narrative arc of the marriage being connected to the husband and wife’s shared hallucinogenic experiences. Given the capacity of acid to transform one’s experience of normative/consensus/objective reality into a radically subjective/contingent sense of being, and then how this in turn reveals the fundamental mutability of our intellects’ processing and interpretation of sensory input – how something that at first seems strange and outlandish can quickly become accepted as normal – it might not be much of a leap to go from identifying yourself as a dog-person to becoming an actual dog-person, and then seeing the world around you as likewise populated. The key here is not the fact that the people are dogs, but that what constitutes human identity is highly mutable and in a constant state of flux. Representing the alterations of consciousness effected by technological advances and shifts in the political landscape is a very difficult task. The radical step of having people represented as dogs immediately signals to the reader that we are in a metaphorical space. This shorthand is a big part of what comics is all about, and highlights the fact that there are expressive options available to the creators of graphic novels that are not there for traditional prose works. Sturm, the founder and director of The Center for Cartoon Studies, knows this well, and in the pages of Off Season he provides an ample demonstration of some key advantages that inhere in his chosen form.
Angel Clawsby Moebius & Alejandro Jodorowsky
Take a disturbing trip through the psycho-sexual side of Moebius, with Jodorowsky as your guide, in this fairly decadent, very European take on embodying masculine fantasies in feminine form – if you dare! The black and white, pen and ink drawings that make up this volume were, for the most part at least, originally executed between 1992 and 1994. Here, the process of composition was initiated by the drawings alone, which were done by Moebius in isolation. He then shared them with Jodorowsky, who took up the challenge of forging a linking narrative (and likely provided the title); it's up to the reader to decide how successful he was. While the work as a whole more or less falls into the category of Eurotica, Moebius is such an exceedingly talented artist that he has endowed the drawings with a hypnotic quality that hold the viewer's attention and demand that their significance be contemplated, which, we feel obligated to state, is not altogether without danger, as there are obsessive/compulsive and sado-masochistic elements present throughout. According to the afterword by Pablo Picasso's grand-daughter (!), Diana Widmaier-Picasso, Moebius burned all the original pages after the completion of this work, indicating that he was trying to purge this aspect of his being and thereby implying that he thought they were unhealthy or harmful. You have been warned. Please Note: contains graphic sexual imagery; adults only. Also: will likely be considered highly sexist and extremely patriarchal by some, perhaps many. Thus: this work may perhaps most profitably be read in the spirit of researching European male sexuality. The level of artistry displayed by Moebius here is spectacular, regardless of the problematics of the images thereby created. The nature of the connection between the form and the content is the ultimate mystery it presents.
retail price - $29.99 copacetic price - $26.75
retail price - $15.95 copacetic price - $13.75
Bubbles #1Mr. Bubbles
Wow! Bubbles is an honest-to-goodness, true-blue, old-school, comics-(and-manga)-fanzine. Running 32 magazine-size pages – with a 16-page, digest-size insert – Bubbles is a materialization of its creator's (creators') enthusiasm, clearly (a) serious fan(s). Their self-effacing dedication is evident in the fact that they neglected to credit themselves anywhere in the publication (that we could find)! Here's what's in store in the first, jam-packed issue:
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In depth look at late 80s/early 90s alternative manga
publisher Blast Books
- Interview with Hiroo Yamagata (Translator of Hideshi
Hino's Hell Baby)
- Brief interview with Laura Lindgren (Founder of Blast
Books)
- Interview with James Hudnall (Translation assistant of
Mai, The Psychic Girl)
- Music From Nancy*** a retrospective, interviews with
all 3 creators, Jesse Poimboeuf, Steve Sweet, Steve
Cunningham, w/ 16 page insert of a Program for Music From Nancy!
- Interview with Shades7000 (Creator of the Scanlation
Group 'You're Welcome')
- Short essays on comic book artifacts found on
Ebay
- Comics you should read (reviews of contemporary
comics)
- Translation of The Road Home by Kuniko Tsurita (from
Garo #213)
***(watch HERE).
retail
price - $6.00 copacetic price - $6.00
Comics
Underground Japanedited by Kevin Quigley,
Originally published by Blast Books in 1996, Comics Underground Japan was – and still is – a trailblazing anthology that provided most American readers a first look at the powerful creative ferment bubbling under the surface of the massive Japanese manga scene, many of which appeared in English here for the first time (and a few for the only time!). In this anthology's 200+ pages, a dozen creators unleash their personal visions in a wide variety of graphic styles, ranging from brutally stripped down and simplified to painstakingly detailed, relating tales of humor, sexuality and violence, employing fantasy, grotesquerie and satire – sometimes all at once! Gaining plaudits from the like of S. Clay Wilson, Gary Panter and Joe Coleman, Comics Underground Japan remains one of the best single-volume anthologies of alternative/underground manga in English translation. Now, back in print! Here's what – and who – you'll find: "Hell's Angel" by Yoshikaze Ebisu, "It's All Right if You Don't Understand" by Yoshikaze Ebisu, "Steel Pipe Melancholia" by Masakazu Toma, "Future Sperm Brazil" by Takashi Nemoto, "A Love Like Lemons" by Carol Shimoda, "Selfish Carol's Summer, "Don Quixote #1 & #2" by Yasuji Tanioka, "Planet of the Jap" by Suehiro Maruo, "Mary’s Asshole" by Hanako Yamada, "Volvox” by, "Bigger and Better" by Muddy Wehara, "Laughing Ball" by Hideshi Hino & "Cat Noodle Soup" by Hajime Yamano & Nekojiro. Also, worth noting is the fact that while the cover is oriented in the western fashion, the contents are "unflipped" and read right to left – a forward looking compromise for 1996!
retail price - $14.99 copacetic price - $13.75
The
Perineum Technique
by Florent Ruppert & Jerome Mulot
The latest from the renowned French comics team of Ruppert & Mulot is, according to Fanta, "a contemporary meditation on seduction and intimacy in our era of hyperconnectivity. Playing skillfully with visual metaphor in lieu of sexual explicitness, Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot invite you to follow them into a charged maze of emotional head games, as experienced through the subconscious of young romance." | Full Color (with color by Isabelle Merlet) | Hardcover | 8 1/2" x 11" | 104 pages
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $16.75
Billie the Bee
by Mary Fleener
It's hard to believe, given the length of her career, how much work she's produced, and how influential she has been, but Billie the Bee is Mary Fleener's first "graphic novel"! So, now's your chance to spend 120 pages in the company of an anthropomorphized animal kingdom as they romp through a continuous, single, novel-length comics narrative!
retail price - $14.99 copacetic price - $12.75
by Florent Ruppert & Jerome Mulot
The latest from the renowned French comics team of Ruppert & Mulot is, according to Fanta, "a contemporary meditation on seduction and intimacy in our era of hyperconnectivity. Playing skillfully with visual metaphor in lieu of sexual explicitness, Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot invite you to follow them into a charged maze of emotional head games, as experienced through the subconscious of young romance." | Full Color (with color by Isabelle Merlet) | Hardcover | 8 1/2" x 11" | 104 pages
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $16.75
Billie the Bee
by Mary Fleener
It's hard to believe, given the length of her career, how much work she's produced, and how influential she has been, but Billie the Bee is Mary Fleener's first "graphic novel"! So, now's your chance to spend 120 pages in the company of an anthropomorphized animal kingdom as they romp through a continuous, single, novel-length comics narrative!
retail price - $14.99 copacetic price - $12.75
Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work
of Julie Doucetby Anne Elizabeth Moore
By far the most substantial entry yet published under the Critical Cartoons imprint, Uncivilized Book's series of comics analysis, Elizabeth Anne Moore's Sweet Little Cunt provides fresh perspectives and important insight's into the life and work of Julie Doucet, the most significant North American female comics creator of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Doucet's hard won, highly imaginative, idiosyncratic, absorbing, labor intensive, trailblazing, gender-bending comics for her personal (single-creator) anthology series, Dirty Plotte (Note: for those unaware, plotte is French for cunt, allowing Doucet's series to slide under the Anglophone radar – and thus the title of Moore's book) were game changers in more ways than one. Her imagination, degree of craft, size of output, and artistic fearlessness put her creative talent on par with the best comics being done during that time and conclusively cracked the alternative/independent comics boys' club. A true original, Doucet explored – and contested – definitions of gender and mental health in ways at once humorous and scary, but ultimately empowering. Anyone looking for an intellectual framework within which to better appreciate her work need look no further: this is it.
retail price - $14.95 copacetic price - $13.75
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New for January 2019
Thee Collected Cyanide
Milkshakeby Liz Suburbia
We're starting the year off with a double-dose of Liz Suburbia comics! Punk comics don't get any punker – or better – than Liz Suburbia's Cyanide Milkshake. Small press publisher, Gimme Action has now brought the entire run* together in this spiffy 176 page softcover collection. These are true comics. Funny, sexy, insightful, energizing – and excellent! The comics that make up Cyanide Milkshake – and all of Liz Suburbia's work – amply demonstrate her strong drawing abilities and firm grasp of the comics form. Unabashed, raw energy powers strong confident lines in the service of well composed pages that flow together like a great mix-tape. Born not long after Love and Rockets made it's debut, her work shows her to be an authentic heir – both stylistically and philosophically – of the original punk comics greats, the Hernandez brothers, extending their legacy into the next generation. And while her work naturally shows the stamp of her artistic forebears, the uses she puts it to, and her artistic voice, are all her own. RECOMMENDED! (( *The story behind which is detailed in the all new 5-page comics-introduction that starts off the book. ))
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $17.77
Egg Cream #1
by Liz Suburbia
Wow! The first issue of Liz Suburbia's new series, Egg Cream, is a knockout! Her crisp, confident line in combination with artfully balanced blackspotting creates comics that come alive in smartly arranged panels filling one well-composed page after another – 96 pages in all – in this squarebound volume of all new comics work, printed just right in black and white on newsprint with cardstock covers, which we have been led to understand will be an annual publication. Starting off with a hefty installment of the follow up, second volume of Sacred Heart, and concluding with the graphically advenutrous "Goth Ex GF," Egg Cream is easily the best new series yet seen in 2019! Anyone unfamiliar with Liz Suburbia can get an idea not only of where she's coming from, but also that she is as strong and articulate in conversation as she is in her comics, by heading over to read this 2016 interview with her on Razorcake, HERE.
retail price - $12.99 copacetic price - $11.75
Yearly 2018
by Andrew White
And, speaking of annuals, Yearly 2018 is the debut issue of Andrew White's projected ongoing series of comics annuals. Weighing in at 72, full color, magazine-size (8 1/2" x 11") pages, it offers a substantial chunk of comics that will lead the reader through an engaging exploration of a significant amount of comics terrain. The cover image, of a figure hovering, dreamlike, just above the ground amid a dune-like clearing with ruins silhouetted in the background, reaching down to the ground and touching it with a finger tip, suggests itself as a symbolic representation of White's approach to the comics that follow. The grid is in (nearly) full-effect here, with stories laid out in regular rhythms ranging from two to twenty panels per page. The issue contains five major pieces along with a sizable assortment of minor, short pieces. The centerpiece is the tripartate "Ghosts," which takes up about half the issue. This rumination on the presence of absence brought about by death as well as by the loss of abilities is the central statement of White's thesis as he weaves together a number of techniques while modulating their interactions: a light black-line over strong color fields, the latter registering emotional temperature, which pivots back and forth along the scale by varying levels of yellow or blue being combined an omnipresent red, while, taken together, the interplay between line and color serves additionally to express the sense of spatial clarity experienced by the characters, which in turn serves to express the presence of absence; all this is overlaid by the grid, which shifts from 20-panel to 16-panel before dramatically shifting to 2-panel at the same time eliminating the black line. In "Earth," the absent presence of telephone conversations is revealed through an ingenious graphic device, along with the ramifications of not being fully "there." "Larsen C" attempts to open up a new mental space for imagining global warming by manipulating its temporal and spatial coordinates. An excerpt from James Baldwin's novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain is provided with an intriguing visual adaptation. Employing an eight panel grid throughout, with an almost complete lack of text, White has chosen to tackle visualizing a "vision." The representation of the external physical reality in which the vision transpires is set apart from the vision itself by the panels having lined borders, while those depticting the vision itself, are, fittingly, open. On the narrative side, both the opening tale, "Ten Thoughts," and the closing 20-panel back cover piece, "Compiled," have a notably Borgesian air about them, perhaps indicating a future direction for the series. On the visual side, while White's art has a host of precursors, incorporating numerous influences, as in much of his previous work, certain of Cezanne's techniques show through here. Techniques and ideas employed by Frank Santoro, Dash Shaw and Warren Craghead are also in evidence, making for an interesting mix. Here's to Yearly being indeed yearly for years to come!
retail price - $18.00 copacetic price - $15.75
Voyage to the Deep
by Sam Glanzman; introduction bv Stephen Bissette
This classic of the Cold War era has just been reissued by IDW in this 176 page full coilor hardcover. Originally published in 1962-1963 by Dell Comics, in a series of four 12¢ comics books, Voyage to the Deep presents a science fiction of tale of man-made climate catastrophe, which, in the context of the Cold War, is represented as originating as a commie plot from which a group of heroic American submariners must save us! As Steve Bissette's in-depth, illustrated introduction explains, this particular theme was rooted in the then-widespread fascination with the nuclear submarines that also provided the impetus for movies such as The Atomic Submarine, and most germane to this comic book, the televsion series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. What sets Voyage to the Deep apart, is the riveting art by Sam Glanzman, whose spectacular depictions of catastrophic flooding are visually conflated with the end of civilization(s) to make for a unique reading experience.
retail price - $24.99 copacetic price - $21.75
Daygloayhole #1
by Ben Passmore
We've been carrying this series – which is now on its third issue – in the shop for awhile, but perseveratewd about getting up here on the site. But no more! Daygloayhole is Ben Passmore's one-man show (with a little help from his friends and fans). This first issue plunges us into the mire of a Nawlins-inflected, (post-)apocolyptic state of mind. 32 full (dayglow) color pages, with cardstock cover. Letters page! If you enjoy well drawn, irony-drenched, saracsm-packed, humorious action comics, then look no further – this is it!
retail price - $6.00 copacetic price - $5.40
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
by Marlon James
This just released fantasy adventure novel, the first of a projected trilogy, by the Booker Prize winning author, Marlon James, is getting a lot of attention and seems likely to be of interest to some Copacetic customers. James himself is an avid literary ecumenicist who views many academic categories dividing types of literature as promoting artificial distinctions between works that have more to do with their origins than functions. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf he provides a demonstration of principles in a work that defies categorization. Anyone who finds themselves intrigued by the above should take a moment to check out his far ranging comments in this recent installment of "By the Book" at the New York Times, and then, Michiko Kakutani's review of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, also at the NY Times.
retail price - $30.00 copacetic price - $25.75
by Andrew White
And, speaking of annuals, Yearly 2018 is the debut issue of Andrew White's projected ongoing series of comics annuals. Weighing in at 72, full color, magazine-size (8 1/2" x 11") pages, it offers a substantial chunk of comics that will lead the reader through an engaging exploration of a significant amount of comics terrain. The cover image, of a figure hovering, dreamlike, just above the ground amid a dune-like clearing with ruins silhouetted in the background, reaching down to the ground and touching it with a finger tip, suggests itself as a symbolic representation of White's approach to the comics that follow. The grid is in (nearly) full-effect here, with stories laid out in regular rhythms ranging from two to twenty panels per page. The issue contains five major pieces along with a sizable assortment of minor, short pieces. The centerpiece is the tripartate "Ghosts," which takes up about half the issue. This rumination on the presence of absence brought about by death as well as by the loss of abilities is the central statement of White's thesis as he weaves together a number of techniques while modulating their interactions: a light black-line over strong color fields, the latter registering emotional temperature, which pivots back and forth along the scale by varying levels of yellow or blue being combined an omnipresent red, while, taken together, the interplay between line and color serves additionally to express the sense of spatial clarity experienced by the characters, which in turn serves to express the presence of absence; all this is overlaid by the grid, which shifts from 20-panel to 16-panel before dramatically shifting to 2-panel at the same time eliminating the black line. In "Earth," the absent presence of telephone conversations is revealed through an ingenious graphic device, along with the ramifications of not being fully "there." "Larsen C" attempts to open up a new mental space for imagining global warming by manipulating its temporal and spatial coordinates. An excerpt from James Baldwin's novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain is provided with an intriguing visual adaptation. Employing an eight panel grid throughout, with an almost complete lack of text, White has chosen to tackle visualizing a "vision." The representation of the external physical reality in which the vision transpires is set apart from the vision itself by the panels having lined borders, while those depticting the vision itself, are, fittingly, open. On the narrative side, both the opening tale, "Ten Thoughts," and the closing 20-panel back cover piece, "Compiled," have a notably Borgesian air about them, perhaps indicating a future direction for the series. On the visual side, while White's art has a host of precursors, incorporating numerous influences, as in much of his previous work, certain of Cezanne's techniques show through here. Techniques and ideas employed by Frank Santoro, Dash Shaw and Warren Craghead are also in evidence, making for an interesting mix. Here's to Yearly being indeed yearly for years to come!
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Voyage to the Deepby Sam Glanzman; introduction bv Stephen Bissette
This classic of the Cold War era has just been reissued by IDW in this 176 page full coilor hardcover. Originally published in 1962-1963 by Dell Comics, in a series of four 12¢ comics books, Voyage to the Deep presents a science fiction of tale of man-made climate catastrophe, which, in the context of the Cold War, is represented as originating as a commie plot from which a group of heroic American submariners must save us! As Steve Bissette's in-depth, illustrated introduction explains, this particular theme was rooted in the then-widespread fascination with the nuclear submarines that also provided the impetus for movies such as The Atomic Submarine, and most germane to this comic book, the televsion series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. What sets Voyage to the Deep apart, is the riveting art by Sam Glanzman, whose spectacular depictions of catastrophic flooding are visually conflated with the end of civilization(s) to make for a unique reading experience.
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Daygloayhole #1
by Ben Passmore
We've been carrying this series – which is now on its third issue – in the shop for awhile, but perseveratewd about getting up here on the site. But no more! Daygloayhole is Ben Passmore's one-man show (with a little help from his friends and fans). This first issue plunges us into the mire of a Nawlins-inflected, (post-)apocolyptic state of mind. 32 full (dayglow) color pages, with cardstock cover. Letters page! If you enjoy well drawn, irony-drenched, saracsm-packed, humorious action comics, then look no further – this is it!
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Ellipsis
by Cole Johnson
Spare, evocative, poetic, slice of life comics fill this 32-page, black and white, plus-size digest. Cole Johnson has a fully formed comics voice that combines a concise line, an understanding of the space of a page, and, crucially, a strong, organic sense of pacing. These comics are a joy to read. Check some (different ones) out online at http://johnsoncole.com .
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TRUTH ZONE -
Thee "Official" Complete Bootleg
by Simon Hanselmann
We have got a hold of a small number of these hand-assembled collections. Each is stored in a one-of-a-kind hand-lettered box, depicted on lower left in the photo. Each box set contains all 91 Truth Zone strips that appeared on Comics Workbook in 2012 and 2013. These caustic – and hilarious – one-page strips are the comics that introduced Simon Hanselmann – along with Megg, Mogg, Owl and Werewolf Jones – to his American audience. These one-page strips are collected on individual, unbound plates, portfolio style. Each box set also includes a booklet prepared especially (and exclusively) for this edition by Mr. Hanselmann, in which he offers his own commentary on each of the strips. All are stored together in a unique hand-lettered, snap-close, vinyl portfolio envelope, depicted on the upper right, which fits snugly inside the box.
by Cole Johnson
Spare, evocative, poetic, slice of life comics fill this 32-page, black and white, plus-size digest. Cole Johnson has a fully formed comics voice that combines a concise line, an understanding of the space of a page, and, crucially, a strong, organic sense of pacing. These comics are a joy to read. Check some (different ones) out online at http://johnsoncole.com .
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Rookie Moves
by November Garcia
Rookie Moves by November Garcia is a 20-page, digest-size comic book (with cardstock covers) that provides a window on the soul of the small press, self-publishing comics scene. In these pages we are provided with a look at some of the social aspects of the scene in general, and an example of an instince of crossing the divide from consumer to producer, in particular. All comics creators are first comics readers. Many, including one November Garcia, are so inspired by the comics they encounter that they are led to aspire to become a comics creator themselves, naturally grvitating towards the ranks of those creators whose work most inpired them. While this process/cycle holds true in practically all artistic endeavors, in the world of small press and self-published comics, the border between reader and maker is among the most porous, where readers who so desire will encounter little resistance, with people continually crossing back and forth. In oither words, any habitué of the world of small press comics will find plenty to relate to here.
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price - $12.00 copacetic price - $12.00by November Garcia
Rookie Moves by November Garcia is a 20-page, digest-size comic book (with cardstock covers) that provides a window on the soul of the small press, self-publishing comics scene. In these pages we are provided with a look at some of the social aspects of the scene in general, and an example of an instince of crossing the divide from consumer to producer, in particular. All comics creators are first comics readers. Many, including one November Garcia, are so inspired by the comics they encounter that they are led to aspire to become a comics creator themselves, naturally grvitating towards the ranks of those creators whose work most inpired them. While this process/cycle holds true in practically all artistic endeavors, in the world of small press and self-published comics, the border between reader and maker is among the most porous, where readers who so desire will encounter little resistance, with people continually crossing back and forth. In oither words, any habitué of the world of small press comics will find plenty to relate to here.
retail price - $5.00 copacetic price - $5.00
TRUTH ZONE -
Thee "Official" Complete Bootlegby Simon Hanselmann
We have got a hold of a small number of these hand-assembled collections. Each is stored in a one-of-a-kind hand-lettered box, depicted on lower left in the photo. Each box set contains all 91 Truth Zone strips that appeared on Comics Workbook in 2012 and 2013. These caustic – and hilarious – one-page strips are the comics that introduced Simon Hanselmann – along with Megg, Mogg, Owl and Werewolf Jones – to his American audience. These one-page strips are collected on individual, unbound plates, portfolio style. Each box set also includes a booklet prepared especially (and exclusively) for this edition by Mr. Hanselmann, in which he offers his own commentary on each of the strips. All are stored together in a unique hand-lettered, snap-close, vinyl portfolio envelope, depicted on the upper right, which fits snugly inside the box.
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf
by Marlon James
This just released fantasy adventure novel, the first of a projected trilogy, by the Booker Prize winning author, Marlon James, is getting a lot of attention and seems likely to be of interest to some Copacetic customers. James himself is an avid literary ecumenicist who views many academic categories dividing types of literature as promoting artificial distinctions between works that have more to do with their origins than functions. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf he provides a demonstration of principles in a work that defies categorization. Anyone who finds themselves intrigued by the above should take a moment to check out his far ranging comments in this recent installment of "By the Book" at the New York Times, and then, Michiko Kakutani's review of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, also at the NY Times.
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New for December 2018
Parallel Livesby Olivier Schrauwen
Yes! The new Olivier Schrauwen collection has arrived, hot off the press. Featuring the long out of print cult classic, "Greys" – which is a strong contender for the crown of greatest alien abduction story ever produced, in any medium – along with five, new science fiction stories, which have either not ever been published in English, or only in extremely limited edition (and now very expensive) anthologies from Lagon. The stories range in length from the two page, "Mister Yellow," (although each page is made up of seventy panels!) up through the 66-page epic, "Space Bodies." The stories are all first-person narratives, with the lead in each story presenting some, gender-fluid variation of O. Schrauwen, whose identity extends though time and space in a fourth-wall-breaking, self-consciously literary device. There are also a couple appearances of one A. Schrauwen (Armand; apparently the artist's father). "Cartoonify" ingeniously imagines comics/cartooning as an "app", demonstrating that technological enhancements of consciousness are primarily conposed of words and pictures, and these have perhaps been most successfully created using pen and paper (and don't forget the that the root of tech is the Greek for art). This 128 page, flexi-cover collection is a must!
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Windowpane
by Joe Kessler
Here it is, the long promised book edition of Joe Kessler's Windowpane! Vibrant colors block out spatial coordinates and chart a course to the otherside of the glass... Windowpane is a one-man-anthology of critically acclaimed narrative and experimental comics by London based artist, Joe Kessler. The book contains new work, and reprints Windowpane 3 and Windowpane 4. | 135 x 187mm -- 272 pages -- offset printed -- softcover | import |
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by Joe Kessler
Here it is, the long promised book edition of Joe Kessler's Windowpane! Vibrant colors block out spatial coordinates and chart a course to the otherside of the glass... Windowpane is a one-man-anthology of critically acclaimed narrative and experimental comics by London based artist, Joe Kessler. The book contains new work, and reprints Windowpane 3 and Windowpane 4. | 135 x 187mm -- 272 pages -- offset printed -- softcover | import |
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New for November 2018
Fielder #1by Kevin Huizenga
Vanishing Actby Roman Muradov
What readers are presented with here is a more or less mundane, ordinary evening amongst a given social set. The real action is in how it is presented. Vanishing Act is – or, at least, may be – an attempt at a cubist graphic novel. It presents a cast of 19 inter-related characters (3 of which are non-human) in 13 scenes transpiring over 140 minutes, each in a unique location, each with a unique combination of characters, and each rendered in a distinct style. Furthermore, each of the scenes chronologically overlaps the previous and subsequent scenes (with the obvious exceptions of the first and last scenes, which only overlap the subsequent and previous, respectively). Are you following? This is where the cubistic aspect comes in: As comics are a temporal based medium – as opposed to single image paintings, which is what we most closely associate with cubism – Muradov is expressing the cubist impulse through the simultaneous overlappings of character, scene and place, through style, allowing one to view the passage of time through person and place from simultaneous multiple points of view – et voilà, cubism! (well, sort of) Anyway, it's certainly makes for an intriguing reading experience. And, for anyone worried about being able to follow it all, Muradov has anticipated this, and has helpfully supplied both spacial and temporal maps, along with a cast of characters that graphs their scenes.
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What the Actual #1by Jai Granofsky
In this first 40-page, magazine-size issue of What the Actual, Jai Granofsky continues in the tradition inaugurated by the young R. Crumb (and Justin Green) – and to our eyes, most directly in the lineage of the young Chester Brown – of letting one's inner demons loose on the page to battle it out amongst themselves. Anxieties and fears mix it up with mangled memories and deliberate absurdities to forge a comics portrait of Granofsky's psychic state, which, naturally, reflects the era and culture of his upbringing and so partakes in realities that we all share to varying degrees and thus provides its readers with a portraits of parts of their own psychic states; and there lies its value. While clearly the work of someone who is still trying to find their voice, this issue shows promise (which is also explicitly stated in the opening creator's note, when Granofsky writes, "I plan on making this a regular thing."). Comics readers who are on the lookout for the next Eightball or Yummy Fur should take a chance and check this out... and then keep their fingers crossed while waiting for the next issue, which we hope is in the works, as planned. Black and white interiors, with full color covers (and inside covers!). Special introductory price!
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Now #5
edited by Eric Reynolds and featuring the work of D W, Theo Ellsworth, Maggie Umber, Eroyn Franklin, Roman Muradov, Ana Galvin, Jose Quintanar, Walt Holcombe, Walker Tate, Keren Katz, Darin Shuler, Jesse Reklaw, Nick Thorburn, Stephane Blanquet & DRT
Yes, it's the new Now! Another 128 page anthology of short comics edited by Eric Reynolds. Quite a wide variety of approaches are on hand this issue. You might not like every story, but every issue of Now presents a wide-ranging mix of talent that includes some of today's top names side-by-side with relative unkonwns, all taking artistic chances and working to explore the expressive terrain of comics.
Baron Bean, 1918: The
Complete Third Yearby George Herriman
Huzzah! Here it is: the third – and final (>sob<) – year of Herriman's inventive, insightful, and very funny strip – which wrapped up pretty much exactly a century ago! – that he drew concurrently with Krazy Kat! Starting off with another fine introduction by Jared Gardner, this volume takes us all the way to the end of the strip's run which actually results in us getting a bit more that a year's worth this time around, as it ran through to January 18, 1919. Baron Bean is, for our money, Herriman's finest work outside of Krazy Kat, and IDW's Library of American Comics has done an outstanding job of presenting crisp, full size reproductions of all these strips, and printed on newsprint, no less. Huzzah!
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New for October 2018
Tongues #2
Upgrade Soul
by Ezra Claytan Daniels
Upgrade Soul, the long-in-the-works graphic novel by Ezra Clayton Daniels is now available. This highly engaging work is a densely layered meditation on the intersections of science and hubris, physical appearance and identity, money and power, love and death – and the connections between them all. The work centers on a science fiction theme, but there is more to it that. It is in good company, with with distinct echoes of works as diverse as Flowers for Algernon, We3, Never Let Me Go and Bodyworld, to name a few. It’s a real page-turner; you’re unlikely to be able to put it down till you’ve turned all 272 of them! Full color throughout (in case you were wondering).
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Tumult
by John Harris Dunning & Michael Kennedy
The aptly titled Tumult is a psychological thriller which works to represent the inner state of its central – male – character, who finds himself ineluctably caught up in a world of intrigue – of his own making – surrounding a mysterious woman, in this graphic novel contribution to the noir tradition of the femme fatale that, more clearly than most, demonstrates the fatale aspect of the femme arising from masculine constructions and projections. The script, by John Harris Dunning, creates a gradually unfolding, swirling, chaotic confusion triggered by the impulsive dissatisfaction of its protagonist, Adam Wheeler. This is, in turn, coolly contained by Michael Kennedy's metronomic layouts, primarily executed in a three-tier – mostly six-panel – grid, punctuated by brief forays into four- and eight-panel grids; then, in a twist, the coolness of these grids is blown out by a vibrant color scheme that reflects/projects Wheeler’s moods, creating an unrelenting, at times discomfiting tension, that continues throughout the entirety of this full size hardcover's 178 pages.
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Bad Friends
Upgrade Soul, the long-in-the-works graphic novel by Ezra Clayton Daniels is now available. This highly engaging work is a densely layered meditation on the intersections of science and hubris, physical appearance and identity, money and power, love and death – and the connections between them all. The work centers on a science fiction theme, but there is more to it that. It is in good company, with with distinct echoes of works as diverse as Flowers for Algernon, We3, Never Let Me Go and Bodyworld, to name a few. It’s a real page-turner; you’re unlikely to be able to put it down till you’ve turned all 272 of them! Full color throughout (in case you were wondering).
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $17.77
Tumult The aptly titled Tumult is a psychological thriller which works to represent the inner state of its central – male – character, who finds himself ineluctably caught up in a world of intrigue – of his own making – surrounding a mysterious woman, in this graphic novel contribution to the noir tradition of the femme fatale that, more clearly than most, demonstrates the fatale aspect of the femme arising from masculine constructions and projections. The script, by John Harris Dunning, creates a gradually unfolding, swirling, chaotic confusion triggered by the impulsive dissatisfaction of its protagonist, Adam Wheeler. This is, in turn, coolly contained by Michael Kennedy's metronomic layouts, primarily executed in a three-tier – mostly six-panel – grid, punctuated by brief forays into four- and eight-panel grids; then, in a twist, the coolness of these grids is blown out by a vibrant color scheme that reflects/projects Wheeler’s moods, creating an unrelenting, at times discomfiting tension, that continues throughout the entirety of this full size hardcover's 178 pages.
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Bad Friends
by Ancco
Bad Friends presents an unflinching look at growing up rough in metropolitan Seoul, South Korea, in an environment in which "bad" friends may be the best kind... Ancco was born just outside of Seoul in 1983, and began producing diary comics in 2002. Bad Friends was originally published in South Korea in 2012, and was previously translated into French in 2016, and when on to win the Prix Révélation an Angoulême that year. It has now been translated into English by Janet Hong for this D & Q edition. Check out this preview provided by D & Q and see what you think.
Bad Friends presents an unflinching look at growing up rough in metropolitan Seoul, South Korea, in an environment in which "bad" friends may be the best kind... Ancco was born just outside of Seoul in 1983, and began producing diary comics in 2002. Bad Friends was originally published in South Korea in 2012, and was previously translated into French in 2016, and when on to win the Prix Révélation an Angoulême that year. It has now been translated into English by Janet Hong for this D & Q edition. Check out this preview provided by D & Q and see what you think.
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One Dirty Tree
One Dirty Tree
by Noah Van Sciver
Noah's meandering memoir of childhood adventures – and traumas – and then connecting the dots between these childhood events and his later, adult preoccupations and the process of personality formation. Growing up in a (Mormon) family of eleven(!) – mom, dad, eight siblings and himself (although the oldest sibling is not present here, having married young and gotten out of there) – certainly colors his childhood experiences with an outlier status, at least when situated among his fellow comics makers (excepting, of course, his older brother, Ethan), and likely most comics readers as well. One Dirty Tree is a 116 page, full color, hardcover that contains over 100 pages of insightful, engaging and entertaining comics storytelling, for the most part using the six-panel grid; yet another fine Noah Van Sciver production.
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Monk!
Thelonious Sphere Monk and Kathleen Annie
Pannonica de Koenigswarter (née Rothschild) had
one of the most unique friendships in the
history of jazz music, and it is the center
around which this graphic novel is woven.
While Monk's career began over a decade before
he met de Koenigswarter – at which point he had
already recorded his most important compositions
– their relationship spanned the final
three decades of Monk's life and career, and
makes a great story. And that story is,
while greatly simplified here, told with an élan
which evinces an obvious passion for the
material on the part of its creator, Youssef
Daoudi. There are more great comics
sequences of jazz performance between two covers
than any other work we can think of. In
addition to the innumerable portraits of Monk at
rest, dancing to the music of the spheres, and
in performance, there are portraits – mostly in
performance – of a vast swath of his cohorts,
including Bird, Diz, Miles, Trane and many
others. And, reading this will
have you pulling out your Monk discs and giving
them yet another listen (or two, or three...),
which in and of itself is enough to recommend
it. Monk!
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Noah's meandering memoir of childhood adventures – and traumas – and then connecting the dots between these childhood events and his later, adult preoccupations and the process of personality formation. Growing up in a (Mormon) family of eleven(!) – mom, dad, eight siblings and himself (although the oldest sibling is not present here, having married young and gotten out of there) – certainly colors his childhood experiences with an outlier status, at least when situated among his fellow comics makers (excepting, of course, his older brother, Ethan), and likely most comics readers as well. One Dirty Tree is a 116 page, full color, hardcover that contains over 100 pages of insightful, engaging and entertaining comics storytelling, for the most part using the six-panel grid; yet another fine Noah Van Sciver production.
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X-Men: Grand
Design - Second Genesis
by Ed Piskor
Hot off the press, Ed Piskor's X-Men: Grand Design - Second Genesis is here! This time around, the New X-Men get the Piskor treatment, as they are herein folded into the Grand Design. Here's where Nightcrawler, Colossus, Thunderbird, Storm, and, of course, Wolverine join the X-Men and form the core of the new team. Here we have the saga of the Phoenix through the Dark Phoenix all the way up through the introduction of Madeline Pryor. Along the way, we'll encounter the Hellfire Club, the Shi-ar, the Morlocks, the Brood, join the X-Men in their travels to Krakoa, Japan and the far flung realms of deep space, and much, much more! All in this giant, oversize, flexicover Marvel Treasury Edition scripted, pencilled, inked, lettered, colored and designed by Ed Piskor.
Hot off the press, Ed Piskor's X-Men: Grand Design - Second Genesis is here! This time around, the New X-Men get the Piskor treatment, as they are herein folded into the Grand Design. Here's where Nightcrawler, Colossus, Thunderbird, Storm, and, of course, Wolverine join the X-Men and form the core of the new team. Here we have the saga of the Phoenix through the Dark Phoenix all the way up through the introduction of Madeline Pryor. Along the way, we'll encounter the Hellfire Club, the Shi-ar, the Morlocks, the Brood, join the X-Men in their travels to Krakoa, Japan and the far flung realms of deep space, and much, much more! All in this giant, oversize, flexicover Marvel Treasury Edition scripted, pencilled, inked, lettered, colored and designed by Ed Piskor.
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Inside Moebius: Part 3
Inside Moebius: Part 3
by Moebius
The third – and final – volume of the Inside Moebius series is here. WIthin these pages, Jean Giraud continues his comics explorations of his own psyche – through the medium of the creations he penned as "Moebius." Here he continues, and concludes, his pen and ink – and color – trip through the comics looking glass where he strives to untangle the inner workings of his imagination.
The third – and final – volume of the Inside Moebius series is here. WIthin these pages, Jean Giraud continues his comics explorations of his own psyche – through the medium of the creations he penned as "Moebius." Here he continues, and concludes, his pen and ink – and color – trip through the comics looking glass where he strives to untangle the inner workings of his imagination.
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein
by Junji Ito
The Halloween season can now be said to have offically begun here at Copacetic, with this arrival of a new Junji Ito collection. Frankenstein is a 400 page hardcover that brings readers the entirety of Ito's 184 page adaptation of Mary Shelly's iconic tale of man playing God. In addition to being one of the great works of English literature, Frankenstein was also arguably the first science fiction novel – and is 200 years old this year (a bicentennial that is being celebrated worldwide)! But, that's not all! Between the covers of this collection, there are also ten – count 'em! – addtional short tales of horror from the pen of Junji Ito, the reigning (at least here in the USA) master of horror manga. Happy Halloween!
The Halloween season can now be said to have offically begun here at Copacetic, with this arrival of a new Junji Ito collection. Frankenstein is a 400 page hardcover that brings readers the entirety of Ito's 184 page adaptation of Mary Shelly's iconic tale of man playing God. In addition to being one of the great works of English literature, Frankenstein was also arguably the first science fiction novel – and is 200 years old this year (a bicentennial that is being celebrated worldwide)! But, that's not all! Between the covers of this collection, there are also ten – count 'em! – addtional short tales of horror from the pen of Junji Ito, the reigning (at least here in the USA) master of horror manga. Happy Halloween!
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The Unsinkable Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon
The Unsinkable Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon
by Aaron Renier
It's here, after what, for a younger reader, must seem an eternity, the second adventure of the "unsinkable" Walker Bean has at last arrived. Weighing in at 288 lushly drawn, action-packed, full color pages – over a third longer than the original – The Unsinkable Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon is Aaron Renier's biggest adventure tale yet! Check out this preview, for a slice of this new work.
Is Capitalism Working? A Primer for the 21st Century by Jacob Field
It's here, after what, for a younger reader, must seem an eternity, the second adventure of the "unsinkable" Walker Bean has at last arrived. Weighing in at 288 lushly drawn, action-packed, full color pages – over a third longer than the original – The Unsinkable Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon is Aaron Renier's biggest adventure tale yet! Check out this preview, for a slice of this new work.
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THE BIG IDEA SERIES
THE BIG IDEA SERIES
The Big Idea
series, from Thames & Hudson in
the UK, provides a visually enticing
format that combines well chosen
photographs and other graphics with
(relatively*) brief arguments
concisely articulating points of
view that together provide readers
with an engaging avenue by way of
which to (relatively*) quickly get
up to speed with the complex
challenges facing us in the 21st
century.
*Compared to, say, a textbook or
other more traditional narrative
approach to the topic.
Is Capitalism Working? A Primer for the 21st Century by Jacob Field
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