Comic books in 'Slice of Life/Urban Angst'

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1st printing. Story and art by Jonah Newman. A nerdy gay teenager jumps headfirst into the bro-y world of high school baseball in this semi-autobiographical LGBTQ+ graphic novel. Ninth-grader Jonah is not a jock. On the contrary, he loves history class and nerdy movies, and his athletic ineptitude verges on tragic. So, what's he doing signing up for the baseball team? Could it have something to do with the cute shortstop, Elliot? For the rest of high school, Jonah faces challenges on and off the baseball field, from heteronormative social pressure to thrilling romance. Realizing who his real friends are, he figures out what really matters and finally recognizes and embraces his gay identity. Based on debut author-illustrator Jonah Newman's coming-of-age experiences, Out of Left Field is a big-hearted and funny YA graphic novel about learning to be yourself. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 304 pages, full color. Cover price $21.99.

1st printing. In this vibrant and affirming comics anthology, 29 trans & nonbinary comic artists share their personal journeys of self-discovery and acceptance. Equal parts encouraging, comforting, and life-affirming, The Out Side is a love letter to the trans and nonbinary community, designed to inspire anyone who may be struggling with their own identity and to help educate those who seek greater understanding. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 176 pages, full color. Cover price $16.99.

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Vol. 1 #1, 1987 - Photos, art and poetry by Steve Beaupre. 7" x 10.25", 24 pages, B&W.

Issue 5 - "Land of the Quetzal" by Michael Fraenkel. Softcover, 5" x 8", 36 pages, B&W, Text Only. Cover price $1.00.

1st printing.

Story and art by Yuichi Yokoyama.

Yokoyama Yuichi, critically acclaimed for his gekiga ('dramatic pictures') comics furtherpushes the boundaries of what comics can do with Outdoors. The acclaimed artist has a clear fixation with sound and time and an unbelievable eye for bringing such abstract concepts to life in panel form. Yokoyama uncannily shows the passing of time, suggesting that we should simply see things without labelling them. If he were a musician, he would be John Cage.

Softcover (with Dust Jacket), 6-in. x 8-in., 128 pages, full color.

Cover price $22.50.

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1st printing. Story and art by Mimi Pond. A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the late 70s. After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret takes a waitressing job at local Oakland fixture: the Imperial Café. Here an impressionable young woman transforms into the worldly Madge as she is introduced to the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-binging cooks, dishwashers, and waitstaff in her new life. Over Easy is equal parts time capsule of late 1970s life in California—with its deadheads, punks, disco rollers, casual sex, and drug use—and bildungsroman of a young woman who grows from a naïve, sexually inexperienced art-school dropout into a self-aware, self-confident artist. Softcover, 6-in. x 8 1/4-in., 272 pages, PC. Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Mimi Pond. A fast-paced memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970s. Over Easy is equal parts time capsule of late 1970s life in California - with its deadheads, punks, disco rollers, casual sex and drug use - and bildungsroman of a young woman from naïve, sexually inexperienced art-school dropout to self-aware, self-confident artist. Mimi Pond's chatty, slyly observant anecdotes create a compelling portrait of a distinct moment in time. Over Easy is an immediate, limber, and precise memoir narrated with an eye for the humor in every situation. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 272 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $24.95.

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(W/A/CA) Andy Runton. All Owly wants is a friend... Owly is a good-natured little owl, and he's always helping those around him. But despite his kindness, he seems to frighten would-be friends away before they even give him a chance, just because he's an owl. That all changes, though, once Owly meets Wormy. Like Owly, Wormy is in need of a good friend, too - someone who can be counted on for a helping hand, a good laugh, and a great adventure! Through a unique blend of words and symbols, Owly can be read by the youngest readers, and is a great introduction to graphic novels! Rating: All-Ages

1st Printing - Does Not Include Record - It's a beautiful day in Pac-Land persuading Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man to enjoy a nice picnic, but a group of ghosts have another idea... Softcover, 7" x 7", 16 pages, B&W.

1st Printing - Includes Record - It's a beautiful day in Pac-Land persuading Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man to enjoy a nice picnic, but a group of ghosts have another idea... Softcover, 7" x 7", 16 pages, B&W.

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1st printing. By Laura Lee Gulledge. Paige Turner has just moved to New York with her family, and she's having some trouble adjusting to the big city. In the pages of her sketchbook, she tries to make sense of her new life, including trying out her secret identity: artist. As she makes friends and starts to explore the city, she slowly brings her secret identity out into the open, a process that is equal parts terrifying and rewarding. Laura Lee Gulledge crafts stories and panels with images that are thought-provoking, funny, and emotionally resonant. Teens struggling to find their place can see themselves in Paige's honest, heartfelt story. 192 pages, Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9-in., B/W. Cover price $9.95.

2nd and later printings. By Laura Lee Gulledge. Paige Turner has just moved to New York with her family, and she's having some trouble adjusting to the big city. In the pages of her sketchbook, she tries to make sense of her new life, including trying out her secret identity: artist. As she makes friends and starts to explore the city, she slowly brings her secret identity out into the open, a process that is equal parts terrifying and rewarding. Laura Lee Gulledge crafts stories and panels with images that are thought-provoking, funny, and emotionally resonant. Teens struggling to find their place can see themselves in Paige's honest, heartfelt story. 192 pages, Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9-in., B/W. Cover price $9.95.

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Add to cart Very Fine $9.49

1st printing. Written by M. K. Reed. Art and cover by Farel Dalrymple. Everyone hates Dwayne, the firebug, the bad boy trouble follows everywhere. Holly finds a warmth to Dwayne, a spark everyone's missing. Holly knows what she's doing, but after tonight's fireworks, she'll find out who knows best. Can Holly play with fire without getting burned? Palefire, the first collaboration between writer MK Reed and artist Farel Dalrymple, takes us back to high school for a hot date to the party of the year. The road to hell may be paved with good intentions, but everyone deserves a second chance - even if it goes up in flames. Softcover, 68 pages, B&W. Cover price $11.95.

Story and Art by Seth. 2001 marks the 10th anniversary of Seth's landmark comic book series. In this new issue, Seth concludes Part 2 of "Clyde Fans" in a small Ontario town circa 1958. Simon, the timid brother and would-be salesman, wraps up his final and ultimately disastrous journey as a traveling salesman. While staying at a hotel, Simon has a strange hallucination, which gives us a glimpse into his troubled personality. 24 pages, four-color. Mature Readers. Cover price $3.75.

Story and Art by Seth. Palookaville begins its second decade with this new issue! Seth continues with Part 3 of "Clyde Fans," his epic story covering a 40-year period in the lives of two brothers and their failed fan manufacturing company. The story here moves to the 1960's: Simon's disastrous career as a salesman is over and Abe struggles to maintain the business. 24 pages, four-color. Mature Readers. Cover price $4.95.

Story and Art by Seth. Seth has been slowly building up the "Clyde Fans" storyline for several years into what promises to be one of the most ambitious graphic novels ever. In this new installment, it is 1966 and Seth peers further into the life of Simon Matchcard. Simon, by now a failed salesman, loses what was at best a tenuous grip on reality and begins a painful descent into paranoia and delusion. 24 pages, four-color. Mature Readers. Cover price $4.95.

Story and Art by Seth. In this installment, Simon waits nervously while the fate of his aged mother is determined by Abraham and the doctor. In this long sequence, we enter Simon's mind and experience an interior monologue showing his rambling thought processes as he ponders his complicated relationship with time and identity. Did he lose some part of himself inside the wall last issue? As his mind wanders, we follow him into his interior landscape. 24 pages, four-color. Mature Readers. Cover price $4.95.

Story and Art by Seth. Simon Matchcard haunts the upper stories of his family's failing business, caring for his mentally ailing mother and refining a "special brand of loneliness...something so long and so wide that it ceases to be defined as merely loneliness." His solitude and melancholia develop into hallucinations in which he inhabits a past constructed of his own memories and a desperate nostalgia for a time that never was, in which he imagines his mother as a vibrant young woman. Simon struggles to fabricate a fulfilling past for his mother to atone for being bullied by his overbearing brother into committing her to a rest home. 24 pages, four-color. Mature Readers. Cover price $4.95.

I Should'a Ran - Story and Art by Seth. April 2001 marks the 10th anniversary of the debut of Seth's remarkable series! To help commemorate this event, D&Q is publishing a special deluxe edition of the long-out-of-print Palookaville (1991) #1. Here, for the first time ever, the interiors will be published in two colors on fine ivory paper (unlike the original edition, which was published in black and white on newsprint). The self-contained story presented here relates a terrifying encounter with a gang of gay-bashers on a subway train. A rare glimpse of Seth's early cartooning work! 24 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $3.75.

For Vol. 1-19 see Palooka Ville (1991).

Volume 20 - 1st printing. By Seth. Palookaville Volume 20 is the first volume of the seminal comic book series to be published in book form. The expansion into hardcover from pamphlet is a parallel that illustrates Seth's growth into an award-winning cartoonist, book designer, hobbyist, editor, essayist, and installation artist. Part comic book with the ongoing serialization of Clyde Fans, part sketchbook, and part documentation of Seth's fictional town of Dominion City, this visual compendium will showcase Seth's varied creative passions. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 88 pages, PC/PB&W. NOTE: May or may NOT include cover sash. NOTE: For Vol. 1-19 see Palooka Ville (1991). Cover price $19.95.

For Vol. 1-19 see Palooka Ville (1991).

Volume 21 - 1st printing. By Seth. Continuing the new semiannual hardcover format for Palookaville in Volume 21, Seth presents two very different autobiographical pieces, and the continuation of Part Four of the ongoing Clyde Fans serial. In the latest dispatch from the beautifully crafted Clyde Fans, Abraham muses further on the ruins of his life. Then, in the first sustained sequence of the two Matchcard brothers, Abraham and Simon finally sit down together and begin to talk. "Nothing Lasts" is the first half of a sketchbook memoir about Seth's childhood and adolescence in small-town Ontario. It is a wryly self-conscious, often moving visit to the attic of Seth's memories: from his first attempts at cartooning to the last time he kissed his mother good night, "Nothing Lasts" is a masterpiece of the graphic short story. Finally, the third section of this volume consists of entries from the comic-strip diary Seth has been keeping for almost a decade. He employs a mixture of hand-drawn panels and rubber stamps of his own work to tell anecdotes about moments from his life. Nothing from this diary has ever been made public before. This lushly designed collection of stories comprises an anthology of the different types of cartooning work Seth has done over his two-decade-long career. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 88 pages, PC/PB&W. NOTE: For Vol. 1-19 see Palooka Ville (1991). Cover price $21.95.

For Vol. 1-19 see Palooka Ville (1991).

Volume 22 - 1st printing. By Seth. This installment of Seth's critically acclaimed one-man anthology features an autobiographical comic about Seth's childhood, part four of his long-running Clyde Fans serial, a photo essay about a barbershop he designed, and a comic strip about the art of barbering. "Nothing Lasts" revisits Seth's childhood in 1960s Ontario, with a special focus on the salvation that he found in library books and drug-store comics. The Clyde Fans chapter included here shows the conclusion of brothers Abe and Simon Matchcard's first lengthy conversation, and Abe's pensive, self-questioning mood as he drives back to Dominion to meet up with his old flame, Alice. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, PC/PB&W. NOTE: For Vol. 1-19 see Palooka Ville (1991). Cover price $22.95.

For Vol. 1-19 see Palooka Ville (1991).

Volume 23 - 1st printing. By Seth. Palookaville 23 marks the culmination of twenty years of serialization: here, Clyde Fans comes to a conclusion. In this final chapter, we return to Simon Matchcard and the year 1957, exactly where we left off at the end of the first Clyde Fans volume. After his disastrous attempt at sales in the city of Dominion, we witness the out of body experience and ecstatic "vision" that sets Simon on his path of lonely isolation in the years to come. But of course that's not all; the next installment in Seth's memoir, Nothing Lasts, follows him from late childhood to his high school years, from innocent crushes to adolescent brooding, all told with what has become Seth's signature anecdotal approach to autobiography. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 88 pages, PC/PB&W. NOTE: For Vol. 1-19 see Palooka Ville (1991). Cover price $22.95.

For Vol. 1-19 see Palooka Ville (1991).

Volume 24 - 1st printing. By Seth. Palookaville 24 marks the long-awaited return of Seth's beloved series, which offers readers an invitation into the world and varied artistic practice of the iconic cartoonist. An intriguing visual feast, "The Apology of Albert Batch" is the culmination of ten years of collaboration between director Luc Chamberlane and Seth-a short film documenting Seth's venture into puppetry. An extensive photo essay detailing the making of the film accompanies a DVD. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 112 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $29.99.

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Stories, Art, and Cover by Lyn Chevely (aka Chin Lyvely), and Joyce Sutton. A collection of several short stories by Chevely and Sutton, featuring the Peters Sisters, parodies of famous newspaper daily "Love Is.." and the "American Dream" 36 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $0.50.

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Written by Christopher Sebela. Art and Cover by David Stoll. Haley and her brother, Max, are alone after their mother's death and are sent to Wayfair Academy, a special needs boarding school. Eventually, they find family amongst other deaf children. One night the group decides to dip their toes into crime… the thrill is too much to leave behind. They soon find out that stealing from the wrong person, has its consequences. With no one to turn to but each other, they must make a choice, one where no one comes out the same. 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

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Written by Christopher Sebela. Art and Cover by David Stoll. The Manager has broken into the lives of our teen criminals and pulls them further into the darkness. Giving them a crook's playground to train their skills to send them out on jobs for him. Can the kids get out before it's too late, or will The Manager swallow them up? 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

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Written by Christopher Sebela. Art and Cover by David Stoll. Our kid thieves have been under the boot of the Manager for too long, and finally, the table is set to fire him. Can they succeed in breaking the cycle, or will the Manager make good on his promise? 28 pages, full color. Teen+ Cover price $3.99.

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Written by Christopher Sebela. Art and Cover by David Stoll. Years pass. Kids grow up. Lives move on. But it's hard to move on from your dark past when it's still so much fun. Our teen criminals have scattered since graduating from Wayfair, trying to find their way as young adults, but they still come together for summers filled with crime. They haven't been close to getting caught, but how long will that last? 28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

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Written by Christopher Sebela. Art and Cover by David Stoll. Waiting on the porch after a heist gone wrong is the last person our young thieves ever expected. Now they have to figure out how to escape the nightmare for a second time. The past has caught up to them, and this time, it brought a gun. 28 pages, full color. Rated T+ Cover price $3.99.

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Written by Christopher Sebela. Art and Cover by David Stoll. The impossible has happened, one of our young theives has gotten caught and Haley is determined for that to be her last mistake. How long until the cops catch up to them, and how long until The Manager cuts his loses? The griping finale is here! 28 pages, full color. Teen+ Cover price $3.99.

Written and illustrated by Ronnie Del Carmen. An illustrated short story that takes place between Paper Biscuit 1 & 2. 48 pages, 5.75" X 4.25", black and white Cover price $5.00.

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Advanced Reader Copy - Sneak Preview Edition. Story by Jennie Wood. Art by Dozerdraws. Cover by Dozerdraws. Ashcan sized preview of Paper Planes GN (2023 Mad Cave) #1. 6" X 8 1/2". 32 pages. Full Color.

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1st printing. Written by Jennie Wood. Art and cover by Dozerdraws. Former best friends Dylan Render and Leighton Worthington attempt to successfully navigate their way through a summer camp for troubled youth. They both need a good evaluation at the camp. Otherwise, they'll be sent away, unable to attend high school with their friends. While participating in camp activities and chores, Dylan and Leighton rexamine the events that led up to the incident that sent them to camp, the incident that threatens their futures and their friendship with each other. Softcover, 6-in. x 8 1/2-in., 224 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99.

Issue 6. New York based mini-comic by John Mejias, public school art teacher who has worked in the Bronx and Long Island. Cover is a trimmed manila folder with hand-silkscreened designs. 9" x 9.5". 48 pages. Black and white. Cover price $3.00.

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Add to cart Near Mint $8.95

1st printing. Story and art by Betty Tang.Feng-Li can't wait to discover America with her family! But after an action-packed vacation, her parents deliver shocking news: They are returning to Taiwan and leaving Feng-Li and her older siblings in California on their own. Suddenly, the three kids must fend for themselves in a strange new world-and get along. Starting a new school, learning a new language, and trying to make new friends while managing a household is hard enough, but Bro and Sis's constant bickering makes everything worse. Thankfully, there are some hilarious moments to balance the stress and loneliness. But as tensions escalate-and all three kids get tangled in a web of bad choices-can Feng-Li keep her family together? Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 288 pages, full color. Cover price $12.99.