NEW
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A SELECTION OF RECENT ARRIVALS
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!
retail price - $18.00 copacetic price - $15.75
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.
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
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 .
retail price - $5.00 copacetic price - $5.00
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 .
retail price - $5.00 copacetic price - $5.00
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 habituι of the world of small press comics will find plenty to relate to here.
retail price - $5.00 copacetic price - $5.00
retail
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 habituι 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.
LIMIT:
ONE per customer.
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$60.00
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
These items and more may also be found at our eCommerce site, HERE.
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!
retail price - $24.99 copacetic price - $21.75
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 |
retail price - $29.99 copacetic price - $28.75
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 |
retail price - $29.99 copacetic price - $28.75
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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 voilΰ, 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.
retail price - $14.99 copacetic price - $12.75
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!
retail price - $7.00 copacetic price - $5.00
retail price - $19.95 copacetic price - $17.75
retail price - $14.99 copacetic price - $11.75
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. Its a real page-turner; youre unlikely to be able to put it down till youve turned all 272 of them! Full color throughout (in case you were wondering).
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $17.77
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 Wheelers moods, creating an unrelenting, at times discomfiting tension, that continues throughout the entirety of this full size hardcover's 178 pages.
retail price - $25.95 copacetic price - $22.75
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. Its a real page-turner; youre unlikely to be able to put it down till youve 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 Wheelers moods, creating an unrelenting, at times discomfiting tension, that continues throughout the entirety of this full size hardcover's 178 pages.
retail price - $25.95 copacetic price - $22.75
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 Rιvιlation an Angoulκme 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 Rιvιlation an Angoulκme 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.
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $16.75
Monk!
Thelonious Sphere Monk and Kathleen Annie
Pannonica de Koenigswarter (nιe 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 ιlan
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!
retail price - $24.99 copacetic price - $21.75
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.
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $16.75
Monk!retail price - $24.99 copacetic price - $21.75
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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