JUST IN! A Copacetic Selection of New Arrivals

New for November 2025

Black Arms To Hold You Up

by Ben Passmore

Beginning with the first impression – the juxtaposition of the book’s title, “Black Arms to Hold You Up” and its accompanying cover illustration of large, looming black arm(ament)s against a background of skeletons, between which the human actors are running in fear – it is clear right from the start that we are being presented with a multivalent and irony-rich agitprop work. It will be equally clear by the end that it is also a work capable of constructing new meaning through a masterful synthesis of image and text. The phrase “to hold you up” in the title can have (at least) three possible meanings: 1) to physically hold you up, as in to keep you from falling; 2) to hold you up, as in to slow your progress; 3) and to hold you up in a robbery, as in “this is a hold up.” A key conundrum being posed here, at the outset, is the question of the relationship between the organic natural protection offered by the arms of family and community and the artificial, manufactured “protection” offered by fire arms. Black Arms opens with the protagonist/narrator stand-in for Passmore watching, on his phone, the video of Philando Castile’s murder by a police officer on July 6, 2016, to which the entire work may be seen as an eloquent response. Passmore then ventures into some of the lesser explored corners of (African-)American history and shines his light into the darkness of our national ignorance. Well over a century of historical terrain is covered – too much to really dig into here – beginning more-or-less at the conclusion of the American Civil War with a brief summation of the repeated organized White violence against Black efforts at self-determination in former slave-holding states in the wake of emancipation that is folded into an episode focusing on a specific instance of Black resistance fomented by the one-man army that was Robert Charles in the Louisiana of the first decade of the Twentieth Century. We then head to the post-WW II south with the rise of Robert F. Williams amidst the struggle of the NAACP against the violent oppression of the KKK, leading (somewhat indirectly) to the formation of 1960s Republic of New Afrika (RNA) which also involved Malcolm X’s widow, Betty Shabazz, Gaidi Obadele, and others, leading in turn (again, indirectly) to the advent of Assata Shakur (née JoAnne Chesimard), taking us into the 1970s and then on to 1980s with the infamous confrontation between MOVE and the City of Philadelphia before heading to the west coast for a look at “Monster” Kody (aka Sanyika Shakur) as an embodiment of L.A. gang culture, and then into the 21st century before, finally, looping back to the beginning with Micah Xavier Johnson’s killing of five Dallas police officers that was evidently triggered by Philando Castile’s murder the day before. As you would expect from foregoing, these illuminated episodes each intersect at some point with violence and the use of fire arms, and Passmore is unstinting in his probing examinations and postmortems. Ultimately, Black Arms to Hold You Up posits a better way, one that is grounded in the study of history in the service of building a secure and sustainable community through the self-empowerment that knowledge brings. The central narrative device that Passmore employs to explore his theme – that of a time-traveling narrator – is particularly successful. While other cartoonists presenting historical events in comics have employed the technique of vacillating between depictions of their present selves and the historical events they are recounting – notably Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco – Passmore’s technique of actually inserting himself into the historical setting, in the capacity of a (for the most part) passive actor, introduces a playful element that allows him to bring his wry skepticism and disarming humor into his representation of the series of historical events that make up the bulk of the narrative. Working to keep a contemporary perspective on past events present also avoids the pitfalls of presenting images of the past as self evident. Explicitly showing the presence of a contemporary perspective on past events avoids the illusion of their absence. This demonstrates how the process of discovering the ways in which the past is present in us – through the reading and exploration of history – necessarily involves the projecting of our present selves into that past. This further enables Black Arms to function simultaneously as history and memoir, creating a dialectic between the factual existence of the past and the personal interpretation of it in a manner that is brought into being by the formal qualities of the comics medium. The book concludes with a powerful coda asserting that the pen (which we comics readers know can draw as well as write) is mightier than the sword (read here as gun), followed by a substantial bibliography for further reading to help bolster the hermeneutic front of this ongoing struggle. To anyone who feels like getting a head start, we suggest Ida B. Wells’s 1893 speech, “Lynch Law in All Its Phases,” available in its entirety HERE.
retail price - $22.00 copacetic price - $18.75

The Complete C Comics

by Joe Brainard

The New York Review of Books publication of the complete collection of Joe Brainard's legendary C Comics has arrived! There were only two issues of C Comics published – in 1964 & 1965 – but that was still enough to create quite a splash. Unsurprisingly, given their unprecedented – and somewhat abstruse – conflation of comics and poetry, they had low print runs and have been quite hard to come by (not to mention expensive) for years. But no longer! This hefty, oversize hardcover – with the accent on the vertical, measuring 8 1/2" x 14" – replicates the original dimensions of the first issue (the second issue was published in the standard 8 1/2" x 11" size and is also reproduced here at its original size, bracketed with 1 1/2" gray bars at top and bottom). This edition also includes a foreword by Ron Padgett and an essay by comics historian Bill Kartalopolous, who details the creation (and creators) of C Comics. While the underground comix makers that emerged a few years later are, rightly, associated with deliberate transgression against status quo society, often employing explicit in-your-face imagery that was blatantly sexual, the work contained in C Comics can be seen as being equally (and precociously) transgressive, just differently so, its modus operandi more subtly encoded, relying primarily on the textual elements and their juxtaposition with specific imagery. Initiated by the then twenty-two year-old Brainard, C Comics works to fuse the energies of self-directed drawing with those of poetic composition – drawn from work of his friends in the poetry scene* – within the framework of comic book production to create a hybrid form of comics poetry, one that intriguingly evokes – and to some degree incorporates – then-current advertising line-art and advertising copy. Key to this modus operandi was a deliberate æstheticization of consumerism. Here in the pages of C Comics, the manufacture of desire that is advertising’s raison d'être is inserted into the comics text and manifested in the cartooned forms. Brainard’s comics bring cartooned characters into the advertising process and position them in such a way so as to leverage the detachment of the manufacture of desire from the goods and services that it was the designed function of the advertising to direct and/or entice the consumer towards – primarily through an adept use of irony. Doing so allows that detached desire to escape into the reader/recipient’s own control via the variety of adjacent cartooned imagery which were (are) more or less free floating, not attached to any specific good or service other than themselves. This process provided – and continues to provide – readers with an opportunity to repurpose, shape, and direct this freed desire as they see fit, enabling it to be incorporated into a the individual reader’s personal self-reflexivity, bringing a liberation from (some) dictates of capitalism. Notable among the cartooned characters so employed are Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy, but also Wonder Woman, and the eternal triangle of Archie, Betty and Veronica – occasionally in overtly sexual and/or sexualized ways – as well as cartooned works of fine art. C Comics was, of course published at the outset of the ascendancy of Pop Art and clearly overlaps in places with Warhol's – and others’ – concerns and strategies, but its key differentiating factor is that while other artists incorporated comics, comic books and the characters that populated them into their own art practices involving painting, sculpture, etc. designed for display in galleries and museums, the work that makes up C Comics was actually comics and published as such and so provided material that was – and continues to be – more useful to the comics form. Making its republication today a cause for celebration. | | | *Largely those associated with what has come to be known as The New York School, notably Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Peter Schjeldahl, Barbara Guest and Ron Padgett.
retail price - $45.00 copacetic price - $38.75

The Once and Future Riot

by Joe Sacco

Written and drawn by the undisputed master of comics journalism,The Once and Future Riot is a 135 page hardcover that takes a deep dive into the forces driving Hindu/Muslim sectarian violence in India. Sacco focuses on exploring the mechanics of mob behavior and in these pages he pushes his abilities to leverage the comics medium to do what it does best. Sacco's labor-intensive renderings of the scenes of mob violence are filled with heavily detailed drawings of individuals which together enable this work to demonstrate the physicality of mobs in ways that prose journalism simply can't – but also in ways that are more tangible than what can be accomplished by film or video documentaries. You'll come away from this work with a deeper appreciation of the volatility of human nature and the fundamental irrationality of much of human behavior, but also with a sense that while individual actions are often unpredictable, mob behavior is driven by underlying social/biological/chemical/physical forces that exist wholly outside of consciousness, and, as such, conditions for the advent of mob violence can be foreseen in ways analogous to natural disasters such as forest fires and the like, or forecast like a hurricane – but, alas, like them, also difficult, if not impossible, to prevent or control. There's a nice preview up at The New Yorker online, HERE. And we've posted a gallery of images from the book up on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE.
retail price - $27.99 copacetic price - $23.75

C-less

Comfortless

by Miguel Vila

And you thought you had it bad during the pandemic. Here in the pages of Miguel Vila's latest, we revisit those days of lockdown and more.... when Vila takes the ball and runs with it into a dark endzone where things just keep getting worse in this 200 page, full color, Swiftian satire of contemporary humanity fully fleshed out with Dantean gradations of character and set in the Po Valley region of northern Italy, in which Vila zooms in to focus his unflinching eye on the frail human foibles and failures of an interconnected cast of (largely 20-something) characters and then zooms out to show the consequences of these same failures writ large. Vila's expertly cartooned and precisely paced comics combine to create a rich portrait of contemporary society, but it is one that renders a harsh verdict that indicts us all. Translated from the Italian by Jamie Richards. Not to be missed.
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $16.75

TPIaGA

The Past Is a Grotesque Animal

by Tommi Parrish

The Past Is a Grotesque Animal (which is a great title, by the way – ed.) is a nicely put together compact hardcover that brings together over 200 pages of Tommi Parrish's work created over roughly a decade – in both black & white and full color, and in a variety of media – assembled in such a manner so as to provide a bit of a scrapbook feel while also providing a reading experience undergirded by a cohering narrative structure – of which the scrapbook is, in turn, an integral component (think Carol Tyler); a formal mirroring that does double duty in also adding a layer of psychological insight into the characters' apprehension of the reality of their surroundings and its interiorization, into which gender identities and sexual behaviors are folded and unfolded, constructed and deconstructed. Suffice it to say, Parrish fans will not be disappointed; also, great jumping on point for new readers interested in this terrain.
retail price - $29.99 copacetic price - $25.75

Rebirth #1

by Noah Van Sciver

Yes – it's an all-new Noah Van Sciver (autobio) comic book series! We join Noah in medias res at the Red Rocks Community College in Lakewood, Colorado where he divides his time between taking art classes, dreaming of life as a famous artist, and working at a bagel shop "next to Barnes & Noble," when he receives a phone call from his brother Ethan... What might from another artist have been simply another portrait of the artist as a young man, becomes here, in the capable artistic hands of Noah Van Sciver, gradually expanded to encompass a tale of the end of innocence and the extirpation of naivete – one that is also, at moments, laugh-out-loud funny. Concludes with a full-page pin-up of Galactus! ("after Kirby", natch') 28 digest-size black & white pages, with color cover.
retail price - $7.00 copacetic price - $6.75

DF1

Distant Flame #1

by Lane Milburn

Distant Flame is the latest project from Chicago-based, indie-comics stalwart, Lane Milburn. It's an ongoing series featuring all-new material. This premiere issue features the first installment ("Act 1") of "The Law of Contagion." The story focuses on a black metal band at the center of which are the dyad of Devin and Keith. Introverted and extroverted, respectively, they are two sides of the same coin, with Keith's dark, somewhat psychotic (and potentially violent) side more immediately apparent. Where will it all lead? This issue's 56 magazine-size pages, all crisply printed in black & white with gray tones will get you started down the road – driving late at night, somewhat under the influence...
retail price - $15.00 copacetic price - $13.75

KC84

King-Cat Comics & Stories #84

by John Porcellino

The latest – or, "this year's", if you prefer – King-Cat has arrived, and it's a great issue! 48 pages of unfiltered John Porcellino; bookended by heartfelt memorials to his mother and close friend. Comics & Stories, check: memories, Zen stories, anecdotes, epiphanies, pet tales and more. Dreams, check – maybe the best assortment yet. King-Cat Top Forty, check (although this time around, it's "Kinc-Gat Tarp Farty"!). Letters page, check (plenty!). Take your time savoring it, as it's likely going to be awhile until the next one... King-Cat! We've posted a gallery from the issue HERE.
retail price - $7.00 copacetic price - $6.50

MFC3

Monster Fan Club #3

by Jason T. Miles, Shaky Kane, Jane Kane, Jesse McManus, Bobby Madness, et al

It's the return of Monster Fan Club – just in time for Halloween 2025! This issue is, as expected, another 48-page, full color, jumbo-sized (8" x 12") mag, filled with great Shaky Kane comics scripted by Jason T. Miles – but it also has plenty more! Jesse McManus joins the team this issue with a dozen pantomime-bordering-on-abstract one-pagers that will put (at least some) readers in mind of Michael DeForge (channeling Mat Brinkman?). And there's also a short but sweet, nostalgic Bobby Madness story, "Way Way Way Way Back Inna Day." The big surprise is the host of amazing, color saturated, monsters-meet-1950s-suburbia photo collages – half-page, full-page, and double-page – by Jane Kane; they're fantastic!
retail price - $13.00 copacetic price - $11.75

This Is a Message to Persons Unknown: The Story of Poison Girls

written by Rich Cross; designed by Alec Dunn; edited by Erin Yanke

A labor of love and beautifully designed, This Is a Message to Persons Unknown: The Story of Poison Girls has been years in the making... and has at last arrived! Take a moment to view this gallery of spreads from the book, and you'll see what we mean. | | | 8" x 10" softcover | 320 pages | full color and black & white | | |
retail price - $34.95 copacetic price - $28.75

These items and more may also be found at our eCommerce site, HERE.

New for October 2025

Death in Trieste

by Jason

This black & white, 176 page hardcover, the latest from the Norwegian cartoonist (now living in France) known as Jason, is really a treat. Jason's pen & ink delineations are as sharp, crisp and spot on as ever and he is fully in his element here, with this trio of black & white tales, "The Magritte Affair", "Sweet Dreams", and the title track, "Death in Trieste", all of which revel in fatalistic romanticism in all its glory. Jason is the master of employing cultural figures from various strata of art, literature and music (and comics) and mixing them together despite their diverse eras – although often displaying a clear affinity for the 1920s. These particular tales are also notable for being linked – tangentially – through the figure of David Bowie. One way of looking at this recent work is that Jason is creating a self-portrait of the life of the mind – in this case, his. In a unique embodiment of the autobio genre, Jason shares with his readers the sources of his inspiration, as well as the relationships between them, as a way of revealing himself. In a variation on the famous adage, "you are what you eat," Jason posits the thesis, "your identity is what you culturally consume."
retail price - $24.99 copacetic price - $21.75

VP4

Void Packer #4

by Lale Westvind

Void Packer #4 has arrived! This issue features the fourth installment of Lale's ongoing saga, "Life and Limb", in which the story begins to expand, heading both sideways in space and backwards in time – and really starts to get interesting! This is then followed by the comics cri de cœur, "Tomorrow..." a story designed to serve as an antidote to our toxic times – and to lift the spirits of one all.
retail price - $10.00 copacetic price - $9.25

BAF1

Brownfield Action Family #1

by Ted May

.... (drum roll)... — > cymbal crash! < = > TED MAY IS BACK! It's been a minute since we last had a full length comic book from Ted May – as in a full decade since his last comic book, Men's Feelings #2 was published. For anyone wondering: this isn't just some cobbling together of odds 'n' ends. This is an entirely new project that Ted has obviously been working on for quite some time. Brownfield Action Family #1 is not only a whoppin' 57 pages of all new Ted May comics, but it's the first issue of an ongoing series, with the promise of plenty more to come. And, yes, he's still got the chops Take a look and you'll see what we're talking about; you won't be disappointed.
retail price - $7.99 copacetic price - $7.25

Magick Lantern

by Shaky Kane & Jinx

A brand new comic book by Shaky Kane! – scripted by Jinx, no less. This team of expert hands brings classic old school comic book tropes back to life by injecting them with a mutant strain of punk attitude and then splicing that with a deranged jumble of cultural and topical referents to create... something... different. Magick Lantern serves up a no-holds-barred, off-the-wall take on The Fly that delivers some solid insights into our current zeitgeist – and has plenty of fun while doing it! Full color; 24 pages on heavy, flat white stock; glossy cardstock cover.
retail price - $4.99 copacetic price - $4.50

Key Change

by Miles MacDiarmid

Key Change offers up 32 packed pages of 21st Century 20-something urban life, comics-style. There's plenty of attitude, irony, laughs and more. MacDiarmid knows his way around the comics language. These pages have a density that well embodies the up close and personal manner of urban living. Readers are able to get right up to speed even as they are plunged in medias res into obviously long running relationships with plenty of back story; not an easy trick to pull off. In addition to great pacing, there's a leveraging of the inherent qualities of the representational aspects of comics language, as when characters' physical attributes are employed as a shorthand for their personalities; and there are plenty of great characters here. This is the first of a promised three-issue series. It might be a minute before the next one arrives, but we'll be waiting.
retail price - $12.00 copacetic price - $10.75

Glaeolia #3

edited by emuh ruh & zhuchka

It took us awhile to finally get this one in stock, but it was worth the wait. Glaeolia 3 is the biggest – and best – issue yet in this series published by Glacier Bay Books. Its 400 pages bring together a wide range of great manga, largely from little seen artists, many new to us and unlikely to have been previously published in English. Edited by emuh ruh and zhuchka, it features deluxe soft-touch laminate covers and sewn binding. Offset printed Winter 2021 (like we said: it took us awhile). Here's the contributor list, to give you an idea: Fukitsu Reiji, Hadena Kangofu, Isao Yamada, Junichiro Saito, Komachiya Suzuka, Kondoh Akino, KOYUBI, Mitsuhashi Kotaro, Nishimura Tsuchika, oratnir, Oumi Konomi, Yagi Nagaharu and Yokoyama Yuichi! Translations by zhuchka, rkp, Anna Schnell, and Jocelyne Allen. Get a look at a bit of what's in store on this preview gallery on the CopaceticTumblr. > LIMITED SUPPLY <
retail price - $35.00 copacetic price - $35.00

Beautiful Monster

by Suehiro Maruo; edited and translated by Ryan Holmberg

WARNING: This book contains EXTREME CONTENT + DISTURBING IMAGERY *

Suehiro Maruo is a singular creator possessed of enormous – and disturbing – talent. His career spans five decades and he has amassed a large body of work in his native Japan, but his work has only been published sporadically in English translation, likely due to it being considered beyond the pale by most publishers outside of Japan. As recently as 2024 none of his work was in print in North America. That changed with this Bubbles Press release of Beautiful Monster in the spring of 2025 and Last Gasp’s subsequent softcover reissue of The Strange Tale of Panorama Island in the fall. In addition to appearing, right out of the gate, to be the product of a manga master, Maruo's work also incorporates drawing techniques, visual stylings and tropes from early 20th century illustration originating in America and Europe. Maruo’s aim of generating a sense of horror in the reader is not gratuitous nor solely employed for shock value, but is in turn in the service of other goals. Many of the 16 short pieces collected here are narratively structured along lines analogous to those of the classic EC horror comics that were created in America during the early 1950s. Those, usually eight-page, comics that EC produced employed horror motifs to critique social and cultural mores and norms, to show the rot and decay that dwelt beneath the gleaming surfaces of post-war American abundance. Thirty years later, in the early 1980s, Maruo created work similarly exposing rot and decay that went far deeper, into the ancient roots of Japanese society, where heretofore unsuspected skeletons lurked in closets and previously hidden spirits had been secretly haunting society’s margins, and which had festered becoming ever more putrid – along with those adjacent and associated skeletons and spirits from the Western world – revealing the dark and debased side of patriarchal rule and its support structures. Maruo’s work is visually riveting, serving to pull readers’ eyes further and deeper into the page… in order to assault them! His signature motif of a tongue to the eye can be interpreted as a potent symbol of this aim. In Beautiful Monster, Maruo’s depictions of the grotesque and perverse are unrestrained, and unparalleled in their particularity and detail, representing his pursuit of an obscene carnality – one that can be seen as the epitome of body horror, wherein horror is equated with the human body per se. This volume has been edited and translated by North America's foremost expert on underground horror manga, Ryan Holmberg and includes two short essays, one by Maruo, himself and the other by Michiro Endo. For those readers intrigued by Maruo’s artistry but preferring not to be subjected to his more extreme obsessions we recommend the recently reissued The Strange Tale of Panorama Island, an exquisitely rendered phantasmagoria in which Maruo’s impulses have been somewhat restrained as a result of it being a comics adaptation of a preexistent literary work. |•|•| * By way of illustration we’ll share the following anecdote. “In the early 00’s, a professional comics maker, whose work had been published adjacent to and within the world of underground comics, and so was already well acquainted with work containing strong imagery from the fringes of society, asked (roughly) “what’s new that would knock my socks off” and I recommended a then in-print collection of Maruo’s work that contained some of the same stories that are collected in Beautiful Monster, which he then purchased. When I next encountered him, I asked him what he thought of it. His response was, ‘I wish you had never showed me that book. It really messed with my head.’”
retail price - $24.99 copacetic price - $22.75

Saga de Xam

by Nicolas Devil, Jean Rollin, et al

Full-on, 1967 / Summer of Love psychedelia meets science fiction via Prince Valiant and Weird Tales in this period classic. Starting out as what was an unrealized science fiction film script by Jean Rollin, Saga de Xam was adapted by cartoonist provocateur, Nicolas Devil (née Deville) who, with the aide of some peers including Philippe Druillet, Barbara Girard, ran it through the psychedelic mixing bowl of the times to produce a work that, together with its bookends – Guy Peellaert's Adventures of Jodelle (1966) and Iris (1968) by Thé Tjong-Khing, Lo Hartog van Banda and Rudy Voorman – provides a sort of unoffical trilogy documenting the swinging-psychedelic-era of continental Europe, comics-style (And it's worth noting here that the titles of all three of these works* incorporate the name of their respective – and sexy [aka sexualized] – female protagonists; which points to the fact that thse comics – and so, by extension, this era – can be defined at least to some degree as men looking at women and thinking about (imagining) their bodies, and so worked to bring to the surface of critical consciousness the concept of "the male gaze"). This edition from Anthology is a nice – and hefty – oversize (10" x 13") hardcover that reproduces the complete original work in full color and black & white (as it originally appeared) and also includes a lengthy introduction by Christian Staebler. Amazingly, this is the FIRST ever English language translation of this work, courtesy Anna Bialostosky. Learn more about this work and this edition by heading over to TCJ.com and reading Joe McCulloch's in-depth review, HERE. Learn about its Lovecraftian elements – and get some peeks at the original 1967 edition – via Bobbie Derie's write-up, HERE. AND, we've posted a hefty gallery of spreads up on the Copacetic Tumblr that will give you a pretty good idea of what's in store, HERE. |•|•| *Contrary to what will be the immediate impression of most Anglophone readers, the "Saga" of the title refers not to a saga, in the sense of a story, but rather to the protagonist, Saga, a blue-skinned (alien) woman from the planet Xam.
retail price - $60.00 copacetic price - $50.00

DD-CapeQuack

Donald Duck: The Lonely Lighthouse on Cape Quack

by Carl Barks

As this is the 29th volume, it looks like we're getting close to the finish line of the Fantagraphics Complete Carl Barks Disney Library, however... While, when this series was first announced, it was stated that it would run 30 volumes in total, the fact that this volume does not yet reach the end of the Barks run of Donald Duck 10-pagers from Walt Disney Comics & Stories – along with the fact that there are over two dozen issues of the Barks issues of Uncle Scrooge yet to be collected – indicates that the series will extend several volumes beyond its initially stated length. So, lots more Barks still to come. Yay! The stories collectied here are entirely from the 1960s, and we experience the expiry of the long running Dell Comics imprint and see the emergence of its replacement, Gold Key Comics – but Barks just keeps on keeping on, here in thirteen more classic ten-pagers, including "The Master Wrecker," "Merry Ferry," "Movie Mad," "Raven Mad," the titular "Cape Quack" and more! These are then followed by a quartet of Junior Woodchuck tales scripted and laid out by Barks at some point after he had ceased to draw himself (likely the late 1960s and/or early 1970s; as of this writing we're not sure). The four tales collected here were re-drawn – in very Barksian fashion – at the dawn of the new millennium by Daan Jippes. Good stuff!
retail price - $39.99 copacetic price - $33.75

Keep an Eye on the Figs!

by Karen Lillis

Keep an Eye on the Figs! is the latest funky photography collection from Pittsburgh book maven, Karen Lillis. It is, as the sub-title states, "an ode to Pittsburgh's international grocers," and as such serves as a nice reminder of the great benefits on offer as a result of the wide diversity of Pittsburgh's communities. As the photos in this full color, 64-page, saddle-stitched volume illustrate, Pittsburghers can experience a wealth of global cultures without leaving their hometown! There's an appended list of the depicted grocers, but you'll have to connect the dots yourself to match the photo with the name (sounds to us like you could make a game of it; value add!). Furtherore, anyone inspired by this book to explore Pittsburgh's international grocers, will surely discover the existence of additional international and/or ethnically-themed grocers on their own, as practically every one of Pittsburgh's innumerable neighborhoods has one that they can call their own. And, yes, this makes a nice gift for Pittsburghers, both current and erstwhile. As the holidays are now just over the horizon we're offering an early bird special to those who already have someone in mind. We've posted a sneak preview of the book HERE. And, while we're at it, we should let you know that Karen has also released a second edition of Sense of Place, her nice gift box set of Pittsburgh postcards.
retail price - $25.00 copacetic special price - $15.75

These items and more may also be found at our eCommerce site, HERE.

New for September 2025

Cannon

by Lee Lai
Lee Lai's much anticipated follow up to Stone Fruit has at last arrived! Cannon's 300 pages of expertly nuanced comics communicate a wealth of personal insight into the relationship dynamics that pertain to and manifest in family, friendship, workplace and romance – and how all of these are in turn inextricably entangled. Lee Lai successfully navigates the complex terrain of 21st century living: gay/straight/bi sexuality; Asian-American (or Asian-Canadian, if you prefer) identity in a multicultural society; workplace hierarchies and power structures, including the potential for abuse inherent in ownership, as well as the corollary importance of worker solidarity. At the center of it all is a tour de force representation of repressed anger and its effects which is likely to be very cathartic for some readers, and illuminating to all. D & Q has posted a a very generous preview of it online, so you can get a good idea of what's in store, HERE.
retail price - $29.99 copacetic price - $25.75

Miss Ruki

by Fumiko Takano

Part of the original lineup of the Japanese magazine, Hanako when it debuted in June of 1988, "Miss Ruki" appeared roughly once a month through the end of 1992. These delightful full color comics – which have been collected in their entirety here – were created very much in the tradition of classic Sunday Comics pages in the USA, while fully retaining a Japanese character. They are very low key works relating the quotidian adventures of the quirky Miss Ruki along with a cast of supporting characters – most notably her (best) friend, and comedic foil, Ecchan – in page after page of cleanly drawn comics. Each of these strips run two columns to a page that are read vertically, from top to bottom, then right to left. With one or two exceptions, all of the strips are two pages – four columns – in length. Here, then, are 120 pages of relaxing and enjoyable bite-size works that are perfect for being read in snatches. Next time you feel yourself reaching for your phone, you can (once you have your copy) reach for this handy edition of Miss Ruki instead! Translated by Alexa Frank who also provides a seven-page "translator's note" – which is actually more akin to an introductory essay – that provides some context, history and insight. We've posted several strips along with some individual panels up on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE. Check it out. You'll be glad you did.
retail price - $19.99 copacetic price - $16.75

Roy1

Roy #1

by Gilbert & Natalia Hernandez

Roy, the classic old school comics enigma, is back – and there's and more! It's 26 pages of all new comics, plus covers, from Beto and Naty (aka Gilbert Hernandez and his daughter Natalia). Stream-of-consciousness surrealism and science fiction mix it up with Catholic ritual and mysticism in Beto's two tales of Roy, making for a heady experience of the kind that only comics can deliver, while Naty serves up a tale of aliens and a bit of benign abduction in "Call of the Cow" (as well as an ace back cover). The inside front and back covers are each classic Beto one-pagers where a glib surface fronts for profundities lurking within. Roy!
retail price - $4.99 copacetic price - $4.50

VV-ID

Valley Valley / Idella Dell

by Audra Stang

The latest from Audra Stang has arrived! Valley Valley / Idella Dell is a 48 page flip/double comic book (for those unfamiliar with the form: basically, it’s two 24-page comics together in once comic book, each with their own cover, that meet in the middle; you just flip it over to read the other side) that has been produced in a beautiful, hand-numbered risograph edition of 300 by Frog Farm, who did a fantastic job with this edition. Printed in Hunter Green, Brown, Medium Blue, Bright Red, Aqua, Violet, Sunflower and Light Lime, the colors pop on each page. Made up entirely of one-page strips, each drawn in a three-tier grid of three to six panels, Valley Valley / Idella Dell is filled with angst and ennui, by turns ironic and sarcastic, wistful and self-abnegating. Further, as the protagonists, Valley and Idella, are comics-making cousins, each side is a kind of inverted mirror of the other, so a perfect use of the form. We've posted a preview of it HERE. Nice!
retail price - $20.00 copacetic price - $18.75

Superspreader #3

by Nevyets , Taylor Chiu, Ronald Wimberly, Victor Cayro, Nate McDonough, Rachel Moss, Okell Lee, Mike Wright, et al

Edited and published in Columbus, OH by Taylor Chiu, Nevyets, Rachel Moss, Okell Lee, and Mike Wright, Superspreader #3 runs 86 full color, magazine-size pages. Squarebound and printed on heavy glossy stock, this anthology is filled with all sorts of material: straight up comics, yes; but also illustrations; computer graphics; collages of found items, photos and drawings; essays; stories; concrete poetry; and more. While beauty and horror intermingle, satire is dominant, and irony is rife throughout. Ronald Wimberly's twelve page contribution, in black and white and red, is a multi-leveled masterwork of compression in comics form and is worth the price of admission. You can get a good sense of what's in store by checking out the gallery of this issue that we've posted on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE.
retail price - $25.00 copacetic price - $21.75

Megaton Man: Multimensions

by Don Simpson

Don Simpson & Co. celebrate forty years of Megaton Man™ in this appropriately mega-sized softcover published by Cosmic Lion. In this 9" x 13" volume, readers will encounter 212 (almost entirely) full color pages of comix & stories featuring Don Simpson's Bizarre Heroes™ – first and foremost among them being, of course, Megaton Man – created by a team of (roughly) sixty creators, including Jim Rugg, Jared Catherine, Alan Davis, Matt Feazell, John Workman, Milton Knight, Jr., Amanda Stella Powers, Kate Workman, Scott Lost, Tom Powers, Trish Ellis, Grant Lankard, Larry Marder, Steve Bissette, Michael T. Gilbert, Ted Sikora, and, naturally enough, Don Simpson, himself! > This is almost entirely all-new material. < Also on hand are X-overs by other contemporary, creator owned characters as well as cameos by adjacent, 1980s indy comics characters such as The Tick™, Savage Dragon™, Cynical Man™, Mr. Monster™, The Rocketeer ™and more! – and then, from all the way back in the 1960s, Captain Action™, who has, apparently, somehow become part of the Bizarre Heroes Universe. Check out a wide-ranging gallery from the book up at the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE. Please note: We have only a VERY LIMITED SUPPLY here at Copacetic.
retail price - $40.00 copacetic price - $33.75

The Lexicon of Comicana

By Mort Walker, w/ Brian Walker & Chris Ware

Originally published in 1980 – and adapted from the 1974 exhibition of the same name – this legendary work has at last been brought back into print by New York Review Comics in a new edition complete with a new foreword by Chris Ware! Created by Mort Walker, the cartoonist responsible for the long(est?)-running (67 years!), nationally syndicated comic strip, Beetle Bailey, this 128 page black and white softcover is a one-of-a-kind visual dictionary of comics-specific terminology that NYRC calls "a joyously exhaustive cheat sheet to key comics visuals that has been referenced and treasured by generations of cartoonists." Now at last you can join them – and before long you will conversant with plewds, waftaroms, protusilation and much more...
retail price - $27.95 copacetic price - $23.75

Shiver

Atlas Comics Library No. 6: Shiver As You Read!
by Stan Lee & Co.
The latest oversize, full color, hardcover volume in the Atlas Comics Library being published by Fantagraphics collects ten complete issues from the early 1950s: Amazing Detective Cases #11-14 and Men’s Adventures #21-26. These comics offer up a potent mix of crime and horror and are chock full of what-goes-around-comes-around karmic payback tales in the grand EC tradition. Shiver As You Read! includes great work by Bill Everett, B. Krigstein, Russ Heath, Gene Colan, John Romita, George Tuska, Joe Sinnott, Dick Ayers and more – including some of Fred Kida's best stories. And while almost none of the stories have writing credits, it's a safe bet that many, if not most, of them are scripted by Stan Lee.
retail price - $44.99 copacetic price - $35.75

SMDD

Same Bed Different Dreams

by Ed Park
Instant Certified Copacetic Classic. Same Bad Different Dreams is one of the most successful forays into Pynchon Territory that we've ever encountered; also, highly PKD adjacent with hints of a Samuel Delaney vibe – but more multicultural, global, class conscious and feminist than either. Skeptical? You can dive right in and get started, HERE. The narrative builds momentum slowly, but surely and dramatically. RECOMMENDED
retail price - $19.00 copacetic price - $15.75

These items and more may also be found at our eCommerce site, HERE.

New for August 2025

LAAB #3 (THR33's COMPANY)

by Ronald Wimberly

Here's the fourth issue of LAAB (yes, we know it is numbered "#3"; they're messing with sequence here, and many other things besides – the longer and closer you look, the more you'll see). The theme is – more or less some form of – an eroticized spin on (a) philosophy (of comics) that readers are clued in on in Trad Moore's opening piece – and could be stated as a paraphrase of its key Kierkegaard quote. Something along the lines of: "Comics is a synthesis of form and content; LAAB #3 is not the relation of these, but is the relation's relating this instance of comics to comics; this relation is the positive third, and this is comics." Maybe. Regardless, there are plenty of comics, art/text and, yes, (apocryphal) classified ads, splashed across this broadsheet, with spreads measuring a whopping 23" x 32", designed by Chloe Scheffe and Natalie Shields. Edited by Ronald Wimberly and Josh O'Neill, it includes work by Anuj Shrestha, Audre Lorde, Bhanu Pratap, Celine Loup, E.S. Glenn, Hussein Adil, James Harvey, Jillian McManemin, Kelly Bjork, Lamar Abrams, Melek Zertal, Nevyets, Oliver Ono, Patrick McKeown, Shannon Wright, Vanessa Place, and Yahya Ashour along with the aforementioned Trad Moore and, of course, Wimberly himself. We've provided a taste of what's in store up on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE.
retail price - $20.00 copacetic price - $18.75

Nix

Society Is Nix

by Peter Maresca

And here's the alpha to LAAB's omega, the place where it all began, well over a century ago, in the pages of the giant, broadsheet Sunday funnies. This long out of print collection from the formidable and inimitable Sunday Press is now back in print at last in this new, expanded edition co-published by Sunday Press and Fantagraphics! In its 168, 13" x 17", full color pages, Society Is Nix presents the reader with over 200 classic strips by over 75 different cartoonists – including some of the earliest work by some best that ever put pen to paper, such as R. F. Outcault, George McManus, Winsor McCay, and George Herriman – most not seen in print for over 100 years! Also included are essays by some of the most respected comics historians, including Thierry Smolderen, Bill Kartalopoulos, Paul C. Tumey, Brian Walker, and Alfredo Castelli. Taken together Society Is Nix provides an amazing look at the origins of American comics. It's all here! And you don't have to take just our word for it: "A mind-blowing portable museum retrospective of the raw, tangled ferocity and frustration that went into the making of America." — Chris Ware "Never thought anything like this could exist outside my dream life." — Art Spiegelman

retail price -$100.00 copacetic price - $79.75

Hothhead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist

by Diane DiMassa

Most frequenters to this space are familiar with Alison Bechdel's epic, Dykes To Watch Out For, but there may be some who are unfamiliar with its less patient contemporary, Hothead Paisan, Diane DiMassa's cartoon channeling of lesbian anger into "homicidally terroristic" fantasies of revenge that manage the hat trick of venting that anger by transmuting it into laughter, with a dark sense of humor that happens to also be very, very funny. Running through the 1990s, Hothead Paisan originally appeared in the form of a comics zine (from Giant Ass Publishing, a [very] small [friend-of-the-creator] press) of the type that would be familiar to anyone who shopped at Copacetic, but a bit ahead of the curve. These comics were then collected, also during the 1990s, in two trade collections by Cleis Press (who had a PO Box in Wilkinsburg at the same time as BEM; wonder if we ever crossed paths...?), both of which have been out of print for, what, twenty years? But now, she's back! – arriving like the cavalry, right when she's needed most – in this very nicely put together, sure-to-be-definitive edition fron New York Review Comics, which includes an introduction by Sarah Schulman and an interview with DiMassa by Jay Graham, along with wonderful-to-see scans of the original Giant Ass comicszine covers and other rarities; 456 pages!
retail price -$34.99 copacetic price - $28.75

TE-MM

Terminal Exposure

by Michael McMillan

Also from New York Review Comics, it's... Michael McMIllan's Terminal Exposure! There's something for everyone here. McMillan produced a diverse ouevre that displays a native tendency towards omnivorous scavenging that and wide-ranging foraging in the forests of comics and art, and initially inspired by the classic Fleischer Brothers animation of Bimbo, Betty Boop & Co. We noticed hints of Kim Deitch, (a PG-Rated) S. Clay Wilson on the one hand, Basil Wolverton and C.C. Beck on another, a heaping helping of Hairy Who with sides of Philip Guston and Red Grooms, followed by a course of B. Kliban and Rick Geary, all thrown together in an original synthesis that shows his fine art tendencies mixing it up with his pop culture proclivities that led to a form of comics that presages the likes of Michael Kupperman, Eric Haven and Joan Cornellà, and informing plenty more, all while, of course, making for uniquely engaging reads in and of themselves. Edited and with an introduction by Dan Nadel. And here's what a couple of McMillan's fans have to say: "I am one of the people who has been waiting for this collection for a long, long time. I hope lots of us time travelers will find this book and enter Michael’s unique, entrancing, gently enfolding world.": —Gary Panter "He is the purest artist I’ve ever known." —Bill Griffith
retail price -$39.99 copacetic price - $33.75

The Pit

by Erik Kriek

It's been a minute, but Erik Kriek is back with a new – and haunting – graphic novel. The Pit is a full-size, 144 page hardcover, printed in a duotone palette made up of an array of pastel green and orange tones on flat white paperstock. Amsterdam-based Kriek is renowned for his moody, woodcut style comics, and he's in top form here in The Pit, a tale of coming to terms with personal loss set in the rural countryside of the Netherlands that takes some unexpeted twists and turns, leading into a psychological territory where things may not be what they seem... We've provided a taste of what's in store up at the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE.
retail price -$28.99 copacetic price - $22.75

Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold

by Carl Barks

It all starts here! At last, fourteen years into their series collecting the entirety of the work Carl Barks produced for Dell (and, later, Gold Key) Comics, under the aegis of the Walt Disney Company, after starting in the middle and then working its way out both forward and backward through time, Fantagraphics has at last made it all the way to the 1942 beginnings of Barks's classic run, with "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" and Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #31. Yowza! Also included are several super-obscure (and new to us) stories that were scripted – but not drawn – by Barks, including the epic, 50-page "Pluto Saves the Ship, with art by Bruce Bushman. Bonus! After this – unless Fanta has a trick up its sleeve – only the last two volumes on The Carl Barks Library remain to be published.
retail price -$39.99 copacetic price - $33.75

And how about some art? Here are a pair of great museum catalogues:

JY-MoMA

Jack Whitten: The Messenger

by Jack Whitten

For many, the art show of the summer was Jack Whitten: The Messenger at MoMa. The show has closed, but the catalogue lives on! You can read a bit about it and also scope out some of the works, HERE. The official exhibition page is PACKED with info, including a (YouTube) video and 131 images of the installation.
retail price -$75.00 copacetic price - $59.75

GA-CMA

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery

by Gertrude Abercrombie

The highlight of the Carnegie Museum of Art's 2025 schedule was their curation and exhibition of the work of Gertrude Abercrombie – we believe the largest and most complete to date – title The Whole World Is a Mystery. The show closed in June and has since moved on to the Colby College Museum of Art – but it lives on in this massive catalogue of the exhibition published by Carnegie Museum of Art and Colby College Museum of Art. Edited with text by Eric Crosby, Sarah Humphreville. Foreword by Eric Crosby, Jacqueline Terrassa. Text by Katie Anania, Donna Cassidy, John Corbett. Chronology by Cynthia Stucki. A lot of Abercrombie's work feels adjacent to old school single panel cartoons for the New Yorker, et al from back in the day; think Charles Addams.
retail price -$60.00 copacetic price - $49.75

These items and more may also be found at our eCommerce site, HERE.

New for July 2025

Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog
by Marc Torices
Want to read some great comics? Look no further! This full color, 384 page, 8” x 11” hardcover is packed with them. Marc Torices knows his way around comics – and how to make them. The "wretched dog," Cornelius is a self-conscious, cowardly bumbler and deluded procrastinator who functions as an anti-superman everyman. These characteristics work to impede over-identification on the part of the reader, performing double-duty as a distanciation device to reinforce the readers' focus on the formal experimentation with representational strategies, which are the real story here. Torices takes a Warholian approach to visual variations on a theme that incorporates a wide variety of artistic disciplines from commercial design to graffiti and applies it to an approach to comics making that is in part derived from Chris Ware's work, especially his insights into classic Sunday page comics, and incorporates an all-star slate of historical styles from Floyd Gottfredson through Hergé to Michael DeForge, along with drawing in a host of styles that are extraneous to comics... and then uses all of that to inform his own specific goals of exploring the modes of signification and representation with the aim of deconstructing the cartooned anthropomorphization of animals – most notably dogs, and also cats, but plenty more besides (including an obvious nod to Matt Furie's Pepe the Frog). The comics are then followed by a detailed, 20-page, addendum which takes the form of a satirically ironic history of Cornelius that is beyond apocryphal, situating Cornelius in such a way that the character can be construed as a calculated construction of a cartooned corporate brand, and so also, by extension, of a world assembled from and by such structures. It's been well over a century since corporations were – at least legally – granted personhood. Ah, but what kind of person might a corporation be? Comics Makers of prior generations have offered us naively fantastic examples such as Batman® and Iron Man® – to name only two. In Cornelius, Torices may have provided us with a more realistic – and apt – answer. Here's what a couple of copacetic comics makers have to add: “It seems that Cornelius, like an archetype or a myth, has always existed. This is a comic beyond time in the eternity of dogs, where Italo Calvino rides through Gasoline Alley, in a trolley car. Torices cartoon magically as a shape shifter.” – Matthew Thurber | “Using the breadth of comic strip history, Marc Torices builds a monument of irrationality by way of his stooge, Cornelius the Dog. Like many of us, he can’t help but gnaw off his own leg time and time again in the face of life's perplexities. Thankfully – for us and Cornelius – the world still turns.” – Charles Forsman. >> D & Q has posted a hi-rez PDF preview HERE. Check it out! AND, we've posted a hefty gallery of pages and spreads from the book HERE!
retail price - $39.95 copacetic price - $33.75

Hidden Islands

by Cameron Arthur; introduction by Bill Boichel

Hidden Islands has arrived! This 164-page, magazine-size, squarebound volume collects four of up-and-coming comics champ, Cameron Arthur's neo-classic comics tales along with a new one created specifically for this volume. Here's an excerpt from the introduction: Taking to heart some of the key approaches and primary guidelines undergirding the method of his comics mentor, Frank Santoro, Arthur builds his comics from the ground up. Employing gutterless panels laid out in a variety of tiered grids, each story’s layout is designed to both set the narrative pace and provide each aspect of the story with its proper weight. These narratives often feel pervaded by a sense of preordainment that can at times border on fatalism, and the characters in these tales bear the marks of lives emotionally flattened by the pressures of existence, yet each of them remains propelled forward by their own deliberate internal rhythm that moves to the beat inscribed within their beings. These artfully constructed comics work to æstheticize tales of adventure and domesticity, effectively providing insights into the forms as they are employing them. Within the vast ocean of contemporary comics, they are indeed akin to hidden islands and are well worth making the journey to discover. And, we've posted a gallery of choice bits from the book up on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE.

retail price - $22.99 copacetic price - $20.00

Raging Clouds

by Yudori

This 364 page black & white hardcover volume is the (print) graphic novel debut of Korean comic book artist, Yudori. A period drama, Raging Clouds is a tale set in the patriarchal society of 16th-century Holland that centers on an impoverished noblewoman married to an up and coming merchant who then further allies himself to an Asian mistress. This unlikely pair of women then in turn create an alliance through shared truth telling, and so manage to carve our a space that they can be for themselves within and despite the limitations imposed upon them by the patriarchy, and then use that to move history forward through science. These two central women are further enmeshed with a pair of servant women with whom they share household duties in a surprisingly egalitarian manner and whose efforts are also crucial to the drama. Yudori is a talented and skilled drawer with special strengths in rendering faces and figures. In Raging Clouds she plays to her strengths in advancing the drama through imagery and by doing so, embodies its central thesis that the power of personality holds sway over historical forces. We've posted a gallery of spreads on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE, to give you a taste of what's in store. And you can learn more about Yudori and Raging Clouds by reading this short interview with her at Publisher's Weekly, HERE.

retail price - $34.99 copacetic price - $28.75

MsU

Ms. Understood

by Juliette Collet

As capitalism ever further expands its boundaries, manifesting itself in ever more humanoid forms – AI / robots, et al – which are assuming ever more the roles, power and significance of human (re)production, our species' animal function feels ever more diminished and the physical energies of humanity ever more displaced. As these energies have to go somewhere, they are being transferred elsewhere, with one clearly evident destination that of being translated into the symbolic realm. Here, in the pages of Ms. Understood, Juliette Collet has chosen the particular corner of the symbolic realm occupied by the pornographic film industry, where it can be seen as a synecdoche for contemporary America. This aspect also serves to highlight and forefront the impact of the inscription of gender roles on the young women – and, in particular, on their bodies and body images – that predominate in its pages. Ms. Understood and her high spirited supporting cast of characters demonstrate great resilience as they gamely try to make the most of it – although not without sadness – here in these playful, colorful comics that portray a dual displacement of sex and work, with each becoming the other and neither existing independently, in a manner that is hinted at through its cleverly indeterminate, quantum-state title, where what is being shown both is and isn’t what is being said – and vice versa – until the arrival of a decisive moment… which need not necessarily ever arrive. Ms. Collet can be counted among the most productive young, independent comics makers in America, and this 96 page full color work amply demonstrates both her drive and abilities.
retail price - $22.00 copacetic price - $19.75

Misery of Love

Misery of Love

by Yvan Alagbe

This 232 page softcover from the creator of The Yellow Negro and Other Imaginary Creatures is hot off the press and now in stock at Copacetic. It is entirely composed in a series of two landscape-formatted panels per page – so, four per spread – rendered in lush ink washes in a vast multiplicity of tones from off white to black, showing just how much variety – and complexity – it is possible to produce using the opposition between black and white. Themes include trauma, change, intergenerational trauma, racism/colonialism, and, centrally, patriarchal attitudes and the sexism so engendered – and then how these all intersect and manifest in sexual relations. The work is largely visual, with limited dialogue and minimal textual interventions. The back cover blurb makes reference to Richard McGuire's Here, due to the narrative being constructed employing temporal shifts and spatial juxtapositions that largely (but not solely) transpire within a single structure. We would add that some of the aspects/elements of the visual presentation – the landscape panels, the uniform spread, the lush, painterly rendering – also bring to mind the work of Frank Santoro, particularly PIttsburgh and Pompeii. Also, it could be argued that the work is better served by it's original French title École de la misère (School of Misery), given both its thematic concerns and the strong focus on physical place and space, but it's probably a safe bet to say that books with "love" in the title sell better than those with "school" (at least here in the USA). Regardless, this is a rich, beautifully rendered work that will reward repeated readings

retail price - $29.95 copacetic price - $25.75

Womb Rider

by Emil Friis Ernst

Here's the latest from Danish cartooning powerhouse, Emil Friis Ernst: Womb Rider! What is it that drives men to race one another, desperate to get there first? Hmmm.... perhaps Ernst has provided us with the answer in the pages of this 32 page, magazine-size comic book, printed in fluorescent colors on heavy duty newsprint and cardstock cover, that focuses on one supremely focused "rider."
retail price - $12.00 copacetic price - $10.75

Big Pool

by Chris Harnan

Chris Harnan's Big Pool is another European creation that too employs a metaphoric theme, and one that can perhaps be seem as tangential to that of the above. Encoding a double-helix of visual information that is designed to evolve your consciousness as you turn the pages. Anyone looking to get out of their head for a bit – and away from linear thinking and cost/benefit analyses – might want to consider diving into this 224-page optical blast. It's safer than drugs – and cheaper in the long run, as a renewable resource that can be revisited as often as liked. The work is almost entirely textless; the minimal text present is employed more for effect than narrative purposes and is primarily in English, with the rest in French. We've posted a generous gallery from the book up on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE.
retail price - $34.99 copacetic price - $28.75

SW/WD

Sex Work / Working Dogs

by Bridget Trout

Bridget Trout’s Sex Work / Working Dogs is boldly cartooned satire of the American workplace that posits work as sex as work on the A-side, with a dogs as bosses role reversal on the flipside. Published by Neoglyphic, its double-sided, digest-sized, 69-format and color saturated artwork printed on newsprint is highly reminiscent – and a welcome revival – of the aesthetic of Ben Jones & Jessica Ciocci’s Cartoon Workshop / Pig Tales. This is a comic book that makes a mockery of the corporate workplace and has fun while doing it!
retail price - $14.00 copacetic price - $12.75

Belfaust #7

by David Sandlin

Break out the champagne! The seventh issue of Belfaust, David Sandlin's trans-Atlantic epic, the love, sex, booze and drugs-fueled masterpiece of sin and salvation (or, as it is here in the States "sell-vation), has arrived! As with all previous issues, this one is a hand printed, four color risograph by the hard working Cram Books – to whom the publishing baton has now also passed; 24 pages + 16-page mini-comic insert. Belfaust! | "In America, dreams become real." | Another great issue!
retail price - $25.00 copacetic price - $21.75

Existential Comics

Existential Comics

by R. Crumb; edited/curated by Dan Nadel

Existential Comics: Selected Stories 1979–2004 presents a collection of 25 of R. Crumb's comics from the 25 year span that ended in 2004 – along with a new, one-page comics foreword created specifically for this volume – that has been insightfully curated and introduced by Crumb's biographer, Dan Nadel. And what's more, this 180 page, full-size edition is both sturdy and handsome, printed on a slightly heavier version of the same cream colored paperstock chosen by Crumb for his Book of Genesis, with stitched signatures quality bound into a heavy duty hardcover designed for a lifetime of reading enjoyment. We've posted the table of contents along with a sneak preview of some choice panels and pages on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE.
retail price - $45.00 copacetic price - $38.75

These items and more may also be found at our eCommerce site, HERE.

ordering info