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Abandoned Cars HC (2008) #1-1ST
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Aug 2008
Original cover price: $22.99
Number of pages: 170
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1st printing. By Tim Lane. Abandoned Cars is Tim Lane's first collection of graphic short stories, noir-ish narratives that are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters that populate its pages. Lane's characters exist on the margins of society-alienated, floating in the void between hope and despair, confused but introspective. Some of them are experiencing the aftermath of an existential car crash-those surreal moments after a car accident, when time slows down and you're trying to determine what just happened and how badly you're hurt. Others have gone off the deep end, or were never anywhere but the deep end. Some are ridiculous, others dignified in their efforts to struggle to make sense of, and cope with, the absurdities, outrages, ghosts, and poisons in their lives.
The writing is straightforward, the stories mainstream but told in a pulpy idiom with an existential edge, often in the first person, reminiscent of David Goodis's or Jim Thompson's prose or of films like Pick-Up on South Street or Out of the Past. Visually, Lane's drawing is in a realistic mode, reminiscent of Charles Burns, that heightens the tension in stories that veer between naturalism on the one hand and the comical, nightmarish, and hallucinatory on the other. Here, American culture is a thrift store and the characters are thrift store junkies living among the clutter. It's an America depicted as a subdued and haunted Coney Island, made up of lost characters-boozing, brawling, haplessly shooting themselves in the face, and hopping freight trains in search of Elvis.
Abandoned Cars is Tim Lane's first collection of graphic short stories, noir-ish narratives that are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters that populate its pages. Lane's characters exist on the margins of society-alienated, floating in the void between hope and despair, confused but introspective. Some of them are experiencing the aftermath of an existential car crash-those surreal moments after a car accident, when time slows down and you're trying to determine what just happened and how badly you're hurt. Others have gone off the deep end, or were never anywhere but the deep end. Some are ridiculous, others dignified in their efforts to struggle to make sense of, and cope with, the absurdities, outrages, ghosts, and poisons in their lives.
The writing is straightforward, the stories mainstream but told in a pulpy idiom with an existential edge, often in the first person, reminiscent of David Goodis's or Jim Thompson's prose or of films like Pick-Up on South Street or Out of the Past. Visually, Lane's drawing is in a realistic mode, reminiscent of Charles Burns, that heightens the tension in stories that veer between naturalism on the one hand and the comical, nightmarish, and hallucinatory on the other. Here, American culture is a thrift store and the characters are thrift store junkies living among the clutter. It's an America depicted as a subdued and haunted Coney Island, made up of lost characters-boozing, brawling, haplessly shooting themselves in the face, and hopping freight trains in search of Elvis. Abandoned Cars is an impressive debut of a major young American cartoonist. Hardcover, 170 pages, B&W. Mature Readers
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Abstract Comics The Anthology HC (2009) #1-1ST
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Aug 2009
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1st printing. "1967-2009!" Edited by Andrei Molotiu. Abstract comics? Don't all comics tell stories? How can a comic be abstract? Well, as it happens, beginning with the experiments of Saul Steinberg, through some of the more psychedelic creations of R. Crumb and Victor Moscoso, and with increasing frequency in recent years, cartoonists and other artists have played with the possibility of comics whose panels contain little to no representational imagery, and which tell no stories other than those that result from the transformation and interaction of shapes across the layout of a comic page. Reduced to the most basic elements of comics -the panel grid, brushstrokes, and sometimes colors- abstract comics highlight the formal mechanisms that underlie all comics, such as the graphic dynamism that leads the eye (and the mind) from panel to panel or the aesthetically rich interplay between sequentiality and page layout. Abstract Comics, edited by Andrei Molotiu, an art historian as well as one of the best-known contemporary abstract-comic creators, is the first collection devoted to this budding genre. It gathers the best abstract comics so far created, including early experiments in the form by cartoonists primarily known for other types of comics, such as Gary Panter, Moebius, Patrick McDonnell, or Lewis Trondheim, and pieces by little-known pioneers such as Benoit Joly, Bill Boichel and Jeff Zenick, as well as by recent creators who have devoted a good part of their output to perfecting the form, such as Ibn al Rabin, Billy Mavreas, Mark Staff Brandl, and many others. It also features first attempts, commissioned specifically for this anthology, by well-known cartoonists such as James Kochalka, Ivan Brunetti, J.R. Williams and Warren Craghead. Comprehensive in scope, Abstract Comics gathers work not only from North America, but also from France, Switzerland, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, showing the rise in popularity of the genre to be a true international phenomenon. In the process, the anthology highlights the wide variety of approaches taken to the combination of abstraction and sequential art - approaches resulting in work that is not only graphically bold, but also often proves to be surprisingly humorous or emotionally disturbing. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 10-in., PC/PB&W.
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Adastra in Africa HC (1999 Barry Windsor Smith) #1A-1ST
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Apr 1999
Original cover price: $15.00
Number of pages: 56
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1st printing. Story and art by Barry Windsor-Smith. A complete, beautifully rendered graphic story featuring the most popular member, Princess Adastra, of the Young Gods, from BWS' ground-breaking Storyteller series. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 56 pages, B&W.
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Adastra in Africa HC (1999 Barry Windsor Smith) #1B-1ST
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Apr 1999
Original cover price: $25.00
Number of pages: 56
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Signed by Barry Windsor-Smith - 1st printing. Story and art by Barry Windsor-Smith. A complete, beautifully rendered graphic story featuring the most popular member, Princess Adastra, of the Young Gods, from BWS' ground-breaking Storyteller series. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 56 pages, B&W.
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Alex TPB (2006) #1-1ST
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Mar 2006
Original cover price: $19.95
Number of pages: 264
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1st printing. Story and art by Mark Kalesniko. Alex is the story of failed dreams and the consequences faced by a man who discovers that accomplishing his career goals are no route to inner peace. It is a story about the redemptive power of art, and about how fleeting those chances for redemption can be in a society that emphasizes different values. This existential, 250-page exploration of depression and the healing power of art was originally published over ten years ago as a six-issue comic book series and is collected here as one book for the first time. Softcover, 264 pages, B&W.
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All and Sundry Uncollected Work 2004-2009 HC (2009) #1-1ST
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Sep 2009
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Number of pages: 210
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1st printing. A HEFTY VOLUME OF UNCOLLECTED WORK FROM THE ACCLAIMED CREATOR OF ThE ThREE PARAdoxEs
All and sundry: Uncollected Work 2004-2009 corrals Paul Hornschemeier's work from the last five years - work previously ungathered, and in many cases never before seen in print.
These works span the globe, from periodicals to museums, including: conceptual drawings and comics of Ulysses S. Grant created for an exhibit in Paris; an award-winning cover exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the seventeen-part serialized tale of divine intervention, non-linearity, and social webs "Huge Suit Visits the People" created for the celebrated German
newspaper Frankurter Allgemeine Zeitung; and comic strips for The Wall street Journal and CNN featuring the unlikely cartoon protagonists of Michael Jackson, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, and the "gray fox," Anderson Cooper. In addition to these oddities, All and sundry collects covers and designs from multiple foreign editions of Paul's books, ranging from Holland to Korea, as well as short, illustrated prose (thus far seen only in the pages of the anthology Mome).
The collection concludes with extensive selections from sketches and sketchbooks, providing an unusual glimpse at the chaotic world of Hornschemeier's work, before the polishing of lines and colors of the printed page. Here we see how works have developed and what the future holds for still gestating projects.
All and sundry, perhaps more than any previous collection of Hornschemeier's work, demonstrates the variety and depth of the artist's interests and pursuits, and invites an examination of the entirety of his process, from first fevered scrawl to final, pristine brush line.
PAUL HORNSCHEMEIER is the creator of Mother, Come home and The Three Paradoxes. He lives in Chicago, IL. Hardcover, 7 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in., 210 pages, PC/PB&W.
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American Presidents SC (2008) #1-1ST
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Oct 2008
Original cover price: $19.99
Number of pages: 128
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1st printing. By David Levine. "More than any other caricaturist, Levine has a fine eye for fraud. Let a statesman parade false affability, false humility, or false sorrow, and Levine will make it into a mask... Levine is a man of protest-passionate protest. And these drawings, more than anything else, are a social history of protest-especially as the artist felt it." - John Kenneth Galbraith
For more than a half century, David Levine has taken on the most powerful men of the free world with only his pen and a bottle of India ink. That pen has proved to be mightier than the sword as Levine skewered, illuminated, satirized and condemned every president of the 20th century, as well as the most significant presidents from colonial times and the Civil War era. His drawing of Lyndon Johnson revealing a scar in the shape of Vietnam is considered one of the most recognized (and most copied) of the Vietnam era. His devastating wit and delicately cross hatched drawing have exposed the venality of the Nixon administration, the phoniness of the Reagan years, the duplicity of the Clinton era, and the evil of the Bush cabal. Nine administrations have come and gone during Levine's tenure, and with a new one on the horizon, the artist remains, unbowed, unfazed, and unrelenting.
Now for the first time, the best of Levine's five decades of portraits of American Presidents and their administrations are gathered in a comprehensive and visually dynamic book. From John Adams to George Bush; from John Quincy Adams to George W. Bush; from the Great Emancipator to the Great Society, Levine has captured them all including present day candidates John McCain and Barack Obama.
David Levine is internationally renowned for his incisive caricatures of world figures in literature, politics, and the arts. For 45 years his work appeared in every issue of the New York Review of Books, and his drawings have been reproduced in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, Playboy, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Nation, and many other publications. Levine is perhaps the most influential caricaturists of the late twentieth century. Softcover, 8-in. x 9 1/2-in., 128 pages, B&W.
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Amor Y Cohetes TPB (2008 Love And Rockets) #1-1ST
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Mar 2008
Original cover price: $16.99
Number of pages: 286
Part 7 of Love and Rockets
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1st printing. By Los Bros Hernandez. The Love & Rockets library continues with this special volume! Amor y Cohetes is the seventh volume in the new Complete Love & Rockets series, collecting together in one convenient package all the non-Maggie and non-Palomar stories by all three Hernandez Brothers from that classic first, 50-issue Love & Rockets series, including Gilbert's original 40-page sci-fi epic "BEM" from 1981's very first issue of Love & Rockets, Jaime's charming "Rocky and Fumble" series starring a planet-hopping girl and her robot, stunning one-shots such as Gilbert's Frida Kahlo biography "Frida," the shocking autobiographical fantasia "My Love Book," and much more! Softcover, 286 pages, B&W. Mature Readers
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Arf Forum SC (2007) #1-1ST
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Apr 2007
Original cover price: $19.95
Number of pages: 120
Part 3 of Arf Book Series
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1st printing. Edited by Craig Yoe. The third volume of the popular Arf series, Arf Forum runs the gamut of Krazy Kat's kartoonist George Herriman to heartbreak rocker Elvis, Spider-Man's Stan Lee to New Yorker cartoonist Otto Soglow, Little Nemo's Winsor McCay to silent film star Charlie Chaplin, Nancy's Ernie Bushmiller to Surrealist Max Ernst. Softcover, 9-in. x 11 1/2-in., 120 pages, PC/PB&W.
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Arf Museum SC (2006) #1-1ST
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May 2006
Original cover price: $19.95
Part 2 of Arf Book Series
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1st printing. Edited by Craig Yoe. Arf Museum explores the unholy marriage of art and comics in a stunning array of rare masterpieces, guaranteed to make you "pop-eyed!" With 120 large format and colorful pages, Arf is a treat for the senses, encompassing a rich treasure trove of images spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. This iconoclastic tome showcases the gamut of artists, from celebrated innovators to forgotten geniuses. Softcover, 9-in. x 11 1/2-in., 120 pages, PC/PB&W.
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Art of Playboy's Eldon Dedini HC (2006) #1-1ST
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Sep 2006
Original cover price: $39.95
Number of pages: 242
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1st printing. "An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini!" Eldon Dedini has been one of Playboy's most recognizable full-page gag cartoonists. With a masterful watercolor technique that burlesques a broad range of subjects, from East and West Coast urban and suburban adult-hipster to classical Japanese erotic prints, Dedini's most personal cartoons rely on mythology and legend. They evoke a bucolic sexually-liberated paradise that leaves his readers lingering over the imagery long after the gag registers. The Art of Playboy's Eldon Dedini is the first retrospective collection of his work, and gathers in one volume the most sophisticated, elegant, and funny gag panels of the past six decades. Hardcover, 8 3/4-in. X 11 1/2-in., 242 pages, full color (some B&W). MATURE READERS
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Barry Windsor-Smith Opus HC (1999) #1-1ST
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Aug 1999
Original cover price: $39.95
Number of pages: 176
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Volume 1 - 1st printing. By Barry Windsor-Smith. These full-color, stunningly designed hardcover art books chronicle the life and works of one of the most acclaimed artists from the worlds of comics and Romantic Art. Each volume features hundreds of the artist's works from throughout his remarkable 30-year career as well as never-before-published paintings and drawings from the artist's personal collection. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 176 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Barry Windsor-Smith Opus HC (1999) #2-1ST
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Volume 2 - 1st printing. By Barry Windsor-Smith. These full-color, stunningly designed hardcover art books chronicle the life and works of one of the most acclaimed artists from the worlds of comics and Romantic Art. Each volume features hundreds of the artist's works from throughout his remarkable 30-year career as well as never-before-published paintings and drawings from the artist's personal collection. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 176 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Beasts HC (2006- 1st Edition) #1-1ST
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Dec 2006
Original cover price: $28.95
Number of pages: 200
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1st Edition - Volume 1 - 1st printing. Edited by Jacob Covey. Beasts is a classic mythological menagerie comprised of creatures that were thought at one time to actually exist, depicted by about a hundred of the most acclaimed artists and cartoonists coming from the most avant-garde ambits of the art world. The Beasts project has fired the imaginations of luminaries such as Craig Thompson, Souther Salazar, Jeff Soto, Glenn Barr, Dave Cooper, Tim Biskup, Seonna Hong, Jeremy Fish and Jay Ryan, who will present never-before-seen art completely original to this book, superbly laid out in breathtaking, full-color two-page spreads. Beasts collects many of the best visual artists from the world of comics, skateboarding, rock graphics, science-fiction, children's books, and commercial and fine art. The book is conceived and designed by Jacob Covey, lead art director for Fantagraphics, a well-regarded designer and artist in his own right in the Northwest rock and arts community. Other contributors include: Anders Nilsen, Art Chantry, Brian Chippendale, Brian Ralph, Bwana Spoons, Colleen Coover, Jason Miles, Jesse LeDoux, Johnny Ryan, Jordan Crane, Keith Shore, Kevin Scalzo, Marc Bell, Martin Cendreda, Mat Brinkman, R. Kikuo Johnson, Richard Sala, Sammy Harkham, Stan Sakai, S. Britt, Steven Weissman, Ted Jouflas, Tom Gauld and many more! Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 200 pages, full color.
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Beasts HC (2006- 1st Edition) #2-1ST
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Dec 2008
Original cover price: $34.99
Number of pages: 210
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1st Edition - Volume 2 - 1st printing. Edited by Jacob Covey. AN ALL-NEW BEASTS! WITH ALL-NEW ARTISTS! In the spirit of 2007's acclaimed Beasts!, editor/designer Jacob Covey has assembled an entirely new line-up of over 90 artists who did not appear in the first Beasts! volume. Like the first book, the deluxe collection will include a Who's Who of the contemporary art world, collectively crafting a menagerie of mythological creatures, monsters, beasts and things that go bump in the night, superbly laid out in breathtaking two-page spreads per beast. Featuring all-new work by over 90 artists including Al Columbia, Blex Bolex, Brian Chippendale, Craig Thompson, Dan Zettwoch, Dash Shaw, David B., Eleanor Davis, Ellen Forney, Femke Hiemstra, Gene Deitch, Jaime Hernandez, Travis Louie, Thomas Allen, Jon Vermilyea, Kim Deitch, Lilli Carré, Mark Todd, Olivier Schrauwen, Paul Hornschemeier, Peter Bagge, Ray Fenwick, Stephan Blanquet, Taylor McKimens, Tom Neely, Tomer Hanuka, Yuko Shimizu and dozens more. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 210 pages, full color.
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Beasts HC (2007 2nd Edition) #1-1ST
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May 2007
Original cover price: $28.95
Number of pages: 200
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2nd Edition - 1st printing. Edited by Jacob Covey. Beasts is a classic mythological menagerie comprised of creatures that were thought at one time to actually exist, depicted by about a hundred of the most acclaimed artists and cartoonists coming from the most avant-garde ambits of the art world. The Beasts project has fired the imaginations of luminaries such as Craig Thompson, Souther Salazar, Jeff Soto, Glenn Barr, Dave Cooper, Tim Biskup, Seonna Hong, Jeremy Fish and Jay Ryan, who will present never-before-seen art completely original to this book, superbly laid out in breathtaking, full-color two-page spreads. Beasts collects many of the best visual artists from the world of comics, skateboarding, rock graphics, science-fiction, children's books, and commercial and fine art. The book is conceived and designed by Jacob Covey, lead art director for Fantagraphics, a well-regarded designer and artist in his own right in the Northwest rock and arts community. Other contributors include: Anders Nilsen, Art Chantry, Brian Chippendale, Brian Ralph, Bwana Spoons, Colleen Coover, Jason Miles, Jesse LeDoux, Johnny Ryan, Jordan Crane, Keith Shore, Kevin Scalzo, Marc Bell, Martin Cendreda, Mat Brinkman, R. Kikuo Johnson, Richard Sala, Sammy Harkham, Stan Sakai, S. Britt, Steven Weissman, Ted Jouflas, Tom Gauld and many more! Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 200 pages, full color.
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Beasts SC (2008) #1-1ST
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Nov 2008
Original cover price: $24.95
Number of pages: 200
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Volume 1 - 1st printing. Edited by Jacob Covey. Beasts is a classic mythological menagerie comprised of creatures that were thought at one time to actually exist, depicted by about a hundred of the most acclaimed artists and cartoonists coming from the most avant-garde ambits of the art world. The Beasts project has fired the imaginations of luminaries such as Craig Thompson, Souther Salazar, Jeff Soto, Glenn Barr, Dave Cooper, Tim Biskup, Seonna Hong, Jeremy Fish and Jay Ryan, who will present never-before-seen art completely original to this book, superbly laid out in breathtaking, full-color two-page spreads. Beasts collects many of the best visual artists from the world of comics, skateboarding, rock graphics, science-fiction, children's books, and commercial and fine art. The book is conceived and designed by Jacob Covey, lead art director for Fantagraphics, a well-regarded designer and artist in his own right in the Northwest rock and arts community. Other contributors include: Anders Nilsen, Art Chantry, Brian Chippendale, Brian Ralph, Bwana Spoons, Colleen Coover, Jason Miles, Jesse LeDoux, Johnny Ryan, Jordan Crane, Keith Shore, Kevin Scalzo, Marc Bell, Martin Cendreda, Mat Brinkman, R. Kikuo Johnson, Richard Sala, Sammy Harkham, Stan Sakai, S. Britt, Steven Weissman, Ted Jouflas, Tom Gauld and many more! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 200 pages, full color.
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Best Comics of the Decade HC (1990) #1-1ST
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1990
Number of pages: 128
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Volume 1 - 1st printing. 1980-1990: The Best Comics of the Decade is a perfect introductioin to the facinating world of contemporary comics. Featuring selections from - RAW, Love and Rockets, American Splendor, Cerebus, R. Crumb, and many more! Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, B&W.
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Best Comics of the Decade HC (1990) #2-1ST
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Jul 1990
Number of pages: 128
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Volume 2 - 1st printing. 1980-1990: The Best Comics of the Decade is a perfect introductioin to the facinating world of contemporary comics. Featuring selections from - RAW, Love and Rockets, American Splendor, Cerebus, R. Crumb, and many more! Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, B&W.
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Best Comics of the Decade TPB (1990) #1-1ST
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1990
Number of pages: 128
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Volume 1 - 1st printing. 1980-1990: The Best Comics of the Decade is a perfect introductioin to the facinating world of contemporary comics. Featuring selections from - RAW, Love and Rockets, American Splendor, Cerebus, R. Crumb, and many more! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, B&W.
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Best Comics of the Decade TPB (1990) #2-1ST
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1990
Number of pages: 128
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Volume 2 - 1st printing. 1980-1990: The Best Comics of the Decade is a perfect introductioin to the facinating world of contemporary comics. Featuring selections from - RAW, Love and Rockets, American Splendor, Cerebus, R. Crumb, and many more! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, B&W.
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Betsy and Me GN (2007) #1-1ST
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Aug 2007
Original cover price: $14.95
Number of pages: 90
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1st printing. By Jack Cole. Having mastered comic books and gag cartoons, in 1958, nearly two decades after he unveiled Plastic Man to the world, Jack Cole set his sights on the cartoonist's pot of gold - a syndicated newspaper strip. He hit the bull's-eye with Betsy and Me, a breezy domestic farce focusing on a middle-class urban couple and their smart-aleck genius son. Betsy and Me was an instant success and newspapers were lining up to buy it. Then, with only two-and-a-half month's worth of strips completed, Cole purchased a .22 caliber pistol and ended his life. R.C. Harvey's insightful introduction serves as a biographical sketch, and sheds light on the circumstances surrounding Cole's suicide. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 8-in. x 5-in., 90 pages, B&W.
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Beyond Palomar TPB (2007 Love and Rockets) #1-1ST
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Dec 2007
Original cover price: $16.95
Part 6 of Love and Rockets
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1st printing. "PALOMAR: Part 3!" By Gilbert Hernandez. Beyond Palomar collected two of Hernandez's ground-breaking works about the Central American village in a single affordable book. "Poison River" traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother, all the way up to her eventual escape and arrival in Palomar. "Love and Rockets X" takes us from Beverly Hills to the dangerous east side and introduces us to a diverse cast of characters, including a lowlife rock 'n' roll band, a posse of black youths, a ditzy Hollywood mom and her spoiled son, a gay activist filmmaker and his rebellious, half-Iraqi daughter, and a group of racist thugs that set the story in motion. Softcover, B&W. Mature Readers
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Blackmark 30th Anniversary Edition TPB (2002) #1-1ST
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Feb 2002
Original cover price: $16.95
Number of pages: 250
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1st printing. Story and art by Gil Kane. Legendary comic artist Gil Kane tells an epic sci-fi fantasy tale in the same vein as Spartacus and Gladiator. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 250 pages, B&W
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Blazing Combat HC (2009 Fantagraphics) #1-1ST
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Apr 2009
Original cover price: $28.99
Number of pages: 208
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Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written and edited by Archie Goodwin. Art by Gene Colan, Frank Frazetta, John Severin, Alex Toth, Al Williamson, Russ Heath, Reed Crandall, and Wally Wood. Superb reproduction from the original printer's film negativeso Deluxe, hardcover edition featuring breathtaking art from several acknowledged masters of the form, and candid, revealing interviews with Blazing Combat publisher James Warren and writer/editor Archie Goodwin. Published by Warren Publishing from 1965 to 1966, Blazing Combat featured war stories in both contemporary and period settings, unified by a humanistic theme of the personal costs of war, rather than by traditional men's adventure motifs. As one letter writer in the third issue put it, 'Do you seriously expect to make money with a war magazine that publishes nothing but anti-war stories?' While most stories took place during World War II, they ranged in settings from the 18th century to the present-day. Some dealt with historical figures, such as Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold and his pre-traitorous victory at the Battle of Saratoga, while 'Foragers' focused on a fictitious soldier in General William T. Sherman's devastating March to the Sea during the American Civil War. 'Holding Action', set on the last day of the Korean War, ended with a gung-ho young soldier, unwilling to quit, being escorted over his protests into a medical vehicle. What proved to be the most controversial were stories set during the contemporary Vietnam War, particularly the classic short 'Landscape', which follows the thoughts of a Vietnamese peasant rice-farmer devoid of ideology, who nonetheless pays the ultimate price simply for living where he does. While writer Goodwin evenhandedly portrays the North Vietnamese Army brutal summary executions of village officials, and a well-meaning U.S. Army fatally bludgeoning its way through the village in a counterattack, the story caused key distributors to stop selling the title. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 208 pages, B&W. Mature Readers
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Boody The Bizare Comics of Boody Rogers TPB (2009) #1-1ST
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Feb 2009
Original cover price: $19.99
Number of pages: 192
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1st printing. You've met Fletcher Hanks. Now meet Boody Rogers. Bizarre, wacky, weird, wild and sexy -just a few adjectives describing the cartooning of Boody Rogers. It all begins with a career spanning fun and fascinating interview with the late Rogers, by editor Craig Yoe. Here at last is a single book devoted to this cult comics hero, collecting Roger's best Sparky Watts, Babe and Dudley stories, as well as much more. Softcover, 192 pages, full color.
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Book of Mr. Natural TPB (1995) #1-1ST
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Sep 1995
Number of pages: 128
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1st printing. By Robert Crumb. Robert Crumb's The Book of Mr. Natural is probably the most famous underground comix character of all time, recognizable even to "civilians." Don't miss this opportunity to snatch up this jam-packed collection of comics from one of the all-time masters! Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, BW. Mature Readers
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Book of Mr. Natural TPB (1995) #1-REP
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Feb 2005
Original cover price: $12.95
Number of pages: 128
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2nd and later printings. By Robert Crumb. Robert Crumb's The Book of Mr. Natural is probably the most famous underground comix character of all time, recognizable even to "civilians." Don't miss this opportunity to snatch up this jam-packed collection of comics from one of the all-time masters! Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 128 pages, BW. Mature Readers
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Bottomless Belly Button SC (2008) #1-1ST
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Nov 2008
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1st printing. By Dash Shaw. The Bottomless Belly Button is a 700-plus page comedy-drama that follows the dysfunctional adventures of the Loony Family. After 40-some years of marriage, Maggie and David Loony shock their children with their announcement of a planned divorce, which sparks a week-long Loony family reunion at Maggie and David's creepy - and possibly haunted - beach house. In a six-day period rich with atmospheric sequences, the family stumbles blindly around one another, often ignoring their surroundings and consumed by their own daily conflicts. If the controversial R.D. Laing wrote an episode of The Simpsons, it might read something like this, certain to be one of the major graphic novel releases of the year. Softcover, 6-in. x 8-in., B&W. Mature Readers
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Bradleys TPB (1989) #1-1ST
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May 1989
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1st printing. Story and art by Peter Bagge. Meet the Bradleys, America's most dysfunctional family! Created in the 1980s while Bagge was also editing R. Crumb's Weirdo magazine, this family for the ages has its roots firmly planted in All In the Family's Bunker family, punk rock anger, and MAD magazine. Softcover, 154 pages, B&W.
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Bradleys TPB (1989) #1-REP
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Dec 2004
Original cover price: $14.95
Number of pages: 154
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2nd and later printings. NOTE: Covers on reprints may vary. Story and art by Peter Bagge. Meet the Bradleys, America's most dysfunctional family! Created in the 1980s while Bagge was also editing R. Crumb's Weirdo magazine, this family for the ages has its roots firmly planted in All In the Family's Bunker family, punk rock anger, and MAD magazine. Softcover, 154 pages, B&W.
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Brinkley Girls Best of 1913-1940 HC (2009) #1-1ST
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May 2009
Original cover price: $29.99
Number of pages: 128
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1st printing. Collected by Trina Robbins. STEP ASIDE, GIBSON GIRLS, YOU'VE MET YOUR MATCH For over thirty years Nell Brinkley's beautiful girls pirouetted, waltzed, Charlestoned, vamped and shimmied their way through the pages of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers, captivating the American public with their innocent sexuality. In 1907, at the tender age of 22, Nell Brinkley came to New York to draw for the Hearst syndicate. Within a year, she had become a household name. Flo Ziegfeld dressed his dancers as 'Brinkley Girls,' in the Ziegfeld Follies. Three popular songs were written about her. Women, aspiring to the masses of curly hair with which Nell adorned her fetching and idealized creations, could buy Nell Brinkley Hair Curlers for ten cents a card. Young girls cut out and saved her drawings, copied them, colored them, and pasted them in scrapbooks. The Brinkley Girls took over from the Gibson Girls.Nell Brinkley widened her scope to include pen and ink depictions of working women. Brinkley used her fame to campaign for better working conditions and higher pay for women who had joined in the war effort, and who were suffering economic and social dislocation due to acting on their patriotism. Unlike most of her contemporaries, she drew women of different races and cultures.Today, except for a small group of avid collectors, she is unjustly forgotten. But no longer. The Art of Nell Brinkley collects Brinkley's exquisitely colored full page art from 1913 to 1940. Here are her earliest silent movie serial-inspired adventure series, 'Golden Eyes and Her Hero, Bill;' her almost too romantic series, 'Betty and Billy and Their Love Through the Ages;' her snappy flapper comics from the 1920s; her 1937 pulp magazine-inspired 'Heroines of Today.' Included are photos of Nell, reproductions of her hitherto unpublished paintings, and an informative introduction by the book's editor, Trina Robbins. Hardcover, 9 1/2-in. x 13-in., 128 pages, full-color.
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Caricature Nine Stories TPB (1998 Eightball) #1-1ST
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1998
Original cover price: $16.95
Number of pages: 104
Part of series Eightball TPB
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1st printing. Story and art by Daniel Clowes. The dramatic short stories included in this softcover edition of CARICATURE have drawn comparisons to Nabokov for their complex naturalism and sense of humor. Anchored by the title story, considered the first apotheosis of Clowes' seminal Eightball underground comic book series, CARICATURE also includes eight other stories, including "Green Eyeliner," a six-page full-color short story originally published in Esquire as the first work of comics to be featured in the magazine's fiction issue (and commissioned by then-editor Dave Eggers). Softcover, 104 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Caricature Nine Stories TPB (1998 Eightball) #1-REP
Fantagraphics:
Aug 2008
Original cover price: $16.95
Number of pages: 104
Part of series Eightball TPB
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2nd and later printings. Story and art by Daniel Clowes. The dramatic short stories included in this softcover edition of CARICATURE have drawn comparisons to Nabokov for their complex naturalism and sense of humor. Anchored by the title story, considered the first apotheosis of Clowes' seminal Eightball underground comic book series, CARICATURE also includes eight other stories, including "Green Eyeliner," a six-page full-color short story originally published in Esquire as the first work of comics to be featured in the magazine's fiction issue (and commissioned by then-editor Dave Eggers). Softcover, 104 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Castle Waiting HC (2006) #1-1ST
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May 2006
Original cover price: $29.95
Number of pages: 450
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1st printing. Story and art by Linda Medley. Introduction by Jane Yolen. This graphic novel tells the story of an isolated, abandoned castle, and the eccentric inhabitants who bring it back to life. A fable for modern times, Castle Waiting is a fairy tale that's not about rescuing the princess, saving the kingdom, or fighting the ultimate war between Good and Evil - but about being a hero in your own home. For the first time, Fantagraphics collects the entire Castle Waiting story into one mammoth volume - and includes the concluding chapter written and drawn especially for this volume. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 450 pages, B&W.
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Castle Waiting HC (2006) #1-REP
Fantagraphics:
Dec 2006
Original cover price: $29.95
Number of pages: 450
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2nd and later printings. Story and art by Linda Medley. Introduction by Jane Yolen. This graphic novel tells the story of an isolated, abandoned castle, and the eccentric inhabitants who bring it back to life. A fable for modern times, Castle Waiting is a fairy tale that's not about rescuing the princess, saving the kingdom, or fighting the ultimate war between Good and Evil - but about being a hero in your own home. For the first time, Fantagraphics collects the entire Castle Waiting story into one mammoth volume - and includes the concluding chapter written and drawn especially for this volume. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 450 pages, B&W.
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Chance in Hell HC (2007) #1-1ST
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Mar 2007
Original cover price: $16.95
Number of pages: 124
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1st printing. Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez. Gilbert Hernandez's first original graphic novel from Fantagraphics follows on the heels of his acclaimed graphic novel, Sloth, from DC's Vertigo Comics 2006. Chance in Hell tells the story about a little orphan girl who lives in the slums of the slums. Nobody knows who she is or where she's from, but her fellow shantytown inhabitants collectively look over her. The three-act story follows our heroine as she is adopted by a decent man who raises her well, and she eventually marries a kind, well-to-do man, only to discover that she can't relate to the good life and the comforts he provides. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 124 pages, B&W. Mature Readers
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Cheech Wizard TPB (1990 Fantagraphics) #1-1ST
Fantagraphics:
Dec 1990
Number of pages: 60
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Volume 1 - 1st printing. By Vaughn Bode. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 60 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Cheech Wizard TPB (1990 Fantagraphics) #1-REP
Fantagraphics:
Oct 2001
Original cover price: $12.95
Number of pages: 60
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Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. By Vaughn Bode. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 60 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Cheech Wizard TPB (1990 Fantagraphics) #2-1ST
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Volume 2 - 1st printing. By Vaughn Bode. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Cheech Wizard TPB (1990 Fantagraphics) #2-REP
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Volume 2 - 2nd and later printings. By Vaughn Bode. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., PC/PB&W. Mature Readers
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Chelo's Burden HC (1986) #1-1ST
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Jun 1986
Original cover price: $35.00
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See - LOVE AND ROCKETS HC (1985-1986) Vol. 2
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Clouds Above GN (2008) #1-1ST
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Apr 2008
Original cover price: $16.99
Number of pages: 120
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1st printing. Story and art by Jordan Crane. Jordan Crane's all-ages classic is in paperback for the first time! This gorgeously packaged, yet affordable, children's fantasy has become an instant classic since its original hardcover release in 2005, becoming a perennial bestseller for Fantagraphics in three hardcover printings. This paperback edition - the first - includes five new pages not included previously! The Clouds Above is a rip-roaring adventure about a kid named Simon, who skips school one day with his cat, Jack. This brilliant, full-color graphic novel doubles as a wondrous children's book, recalling such classics as Where the Wild Things Are, The Wizard of Oz and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 6-in., 120 pages, full color.
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Comic Arf SC (2008) #1-1ST
Fantagraphics:
May 2008
Original cover price: $19.99
Number of pages: 120
Part 4 of Arf Book Series
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1st printing. Another great Arf book for 2008, featuring one of the greatest cartoonists of all time - Milt Gross! The Gross-ness begins on the cover with a stunning painting by the Count of Cartoons depicting Uncle Sam as he grinds up a sea of immigrants into a parade of classic comic strip characters. During the 1920s Gross drew a comic strip that left the last panel blank for aspiring artists. Arf series editor Craig Yoe has drafted a Who's Who of contemporary cartoonists to complete Gross' unfinished masterpieces, among them Art Spiegelman, Patrick McDonnell, R. Crumb, Bil Keane, Johnny Ryan, Jaime Hernandez, Mike Mignola, and more! For the history buff, Comic Arf delivers with showcases of Dudley Fisher, Arch Dale, and a hard-hitting chapter entitled "The 15 Most Powerful Anti-War Cartoons of History." Softcover, 9-in. x 11 1/2-in., 120 pages, PC/PB&W.
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Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger SC (2007) #1-1ST
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Mar 2007
Original cover price: $16.95
Number of pages: 56
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1st printing. Featuring the Kin-Der-Kids, Wee Willie, Winkie's World and more! Softcover, 9 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 56 pages, full color.
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Comics are for Idiots GN (2008) #1-1ST
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Nov 2008
Original cover price: $11.99
Number of pages: 104
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1st printing. By Johnny Ryan. AMERICA'S STUPIDEST SECOND-GRADER IS BACK! Sure, she's smelly and gross, but she's got a heart of gold! This is the third collection of Johnny Ryan's weekly comic strip, Blecky Yuckerella, as seen in the pages of the Vice magazine and elsewhere. Blecky is a four-panel gag strip in the tradition of Underworld, Maakies, and Nancy, but with much more generous portions of bodily fluids and toilet humor. Blecky Yuckerella is the ugliest girl in the second grade, and the only one with three-day stubble. The strip's cast of characters also includes Blecky's Aunt Jiggles, her best friend Wedgie, Insanio the Cat, and many other absurdist goofballs, like Rich Bucksley (millionaire and "high class idiot"), Unitard (the last retarded unicorn), the pregnant babies ("we're guaranteed to blow your mind!"), and Quasimodo Rose (the hunchback porn star). This book collects over 100 strips for the first time, and his unmistakable blend of politically incorrect gags and social satire is as sharp as ever. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7-in., 104 pages, B&W. Mature Readers
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Comics Journal Library TPB (2002-2006) #1-1ST
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2002
Original cover price: $18.95
Number of pages: 120
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Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Jack Kirby!" This monumental book collects a variety of Kirby-related writings from The Comics Journal, with rare and full-color art, exclusive interviews, fascinating essays, and an overview of his long fight to get his original art back from Marvel Comics. Softcover, 12-in. x 12-in., 120 pages, PC/PB&W.
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Comics Journal Library TPB (2002-2006) #2-1ST
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May 2003
Original cover price: $18.95
Number of pages: 132
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Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Frank Miller!" Collected Frank Miller interviews from Comics Journal from 1981-2003. Softcover, 12-in. x 12-in., 132 pages, B&W.
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Comics Journal Library TPB (2002-2006) #3-1ST
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Mar 2004
Original cover price: $18.95
Number of pages: 120
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Volume 3 - 1st printing. "R. Crumb!" Collects four long-out-of-print interviews from the award-winning Comics Journal's archives in an oversized art-book format. These are the most comprehensive interviews ever conducted with the man, spanning his life, career, rejections and wide-ranging views! Also boasts essays by the Journal's sharpest critics, plus a color gallery of the artist's art and ephemera. Softcover, 12-in. x 12-in., 120 pages, B&W.
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Comics Journal Library TPB (2002-2006) #4-1ST
Fantagraphics:
Nov 2004
Original cover price: $22.95
Number of pages: 120
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Volume 4 - 1st printing. "Drawing the Line!" The fourth volume in TCJ Library's ongoing series of lavish coffee-table-book collections of interviews drawn from the Utne Award-winning magazine's archives, this volume gathers together the epic, exhaustive interviews with four of the sharpest social commentators of our times: Ralph Steadman, Jules Feiffer, Edward Sorel, and David Levine. Each definitive conversation will boast the generous amounts of illustration that TCJ Library readers have come to expect from each volume, as well as a full-color gallery of rarely seen work. Softcover, 12-in. x 12-in., 120 pages, B&W.
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