Clover comic books issue 1

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1st printing. Edited and Introduction by Craig Yoe. This hardcover collection celebrates the incredible art of Popeye and his pals, illustrated by scores of artists over the years, with a special focus on the Popeye's Cartoon Club by King Features Syndicate. Also included are highlights from The National Cartoonists Society's celebration of Popeye's 90th year, and a collection of rare cover illustrations by popular counter-culture artists done for Popeye comics. This is a must have collection for any Popeye afficionado! Includes Pin-Ups and Comic Strips by Jeffrey Brown, John Byrne, Roz Chast, Len Danovich, Shawn Dickinson, Jules Feiffer, Jorge Gutierrez, Dean Haspiel, Bill Holbrook, Al Jaffee, Roger Langridge, Patrick McDonnell, Jack Mendelsohn, Tony Millionaire, Luna Ouyang, Stan Sakai, E.C. Segar, Bill Sienliewicz, Dave Sim, and Shing Yin Khor. Hardcover, 10-in. x 10-in., 136 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $39.99.

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1st printing. Ray Trolls new book Spawn Till You Die: The Fin Art of Ray Troll is an exuberant plunge into the fantastic realities of sea creatures and prehistoric animals that come alive with scientific realism and his quirky sense of humor. For more than four decades, this celebrated Alaskan artist has been luring, hooking, and landing fans around the world with his mesmerizing renditions of the inhabitants of Planet Ocean, past and present. His art is featured in the nations major natural history museums including the Smithsonian, in galleries, and in books, as well as on immensely popular T-shirts. Part natural history adventure and part underground comic, his work depicts beautiful and accurately drawn fish of all kinds, Northwest Coast totems, Freud and Darwin, fossils, resurrections of extinct animals, and much more. Trolls art is deeply thought provoking (pun intended) but also simply fun to experience and never far from an inside joke he seems to be sharing with everyone. Some of his pieces are amusingly tongue-in-cheek, others are beautifully surrealistic and evocative of the interconnectedness of life on Earth, and his grandly composed major pieces are brilliant, inspiring panoramas of the natural world. His whimsy and attention to detail in his renderings of fish and other aquatic creatures has earned him a devoted following of scientists, anglers, and people who just like a good laugh. Welcome to the fishy, funny, inspiring art of Ray Troll. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 232 pages, full color. Teen Cover price $59.99.

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Add to cart Very Fine $10.50

1st printing.

Written by Christophe Bec. Art and cover by Bernard Khattou.

At the bottom of a chasm, no one can hear you scream.

Three young friends, Kevin, Caro, and Eva, who are passionate about caving, decide to explore the ruins of an abandoned mine. They discover, bathed in the light of dawn, a surreal setting to explore. As soon as they enter, they take a dizzying fall through a poorly sealed well. Now trapped at the bottom of an abyss where not a ray of light reaches, they have only one thing to do: wait for help and survive.

Victims of their anxiety, they begin to lose their bearings. Fear and madness set in, making it impossible to discern reality from illusion.

Sunlight tells an agonizing survival story penned by French screenwriter Christophe Bec and illustrated by Bernard Khattou.

Hardcover, 160 pages, B&W.

Cover price $24.99.

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1st printing.

Story and art by Meghan Parker. Foreword by Nick Sousanis.

Teaching Artfully charmingly chronicles Meghan Parker's explorations as a new art teacher in a public high school. Parker struggles with engaging her students with art and why it's an important part of education. A lesson, in comic-form, we can all learn from.

Created as a groundbreaking Master of Arts thesis in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Teaching Artfully celebrates the role of the arts and emphasizes the importance of personal connection in education. Meghan Parker's debut and insightful graphic novel captures the educator's inquiries, experiences, and challenges. Ultimately Teaching Artfully captivates, inspires, and motivates the reader-all with endearing humor!

Softcover, 7-in. x 7-in., 240 pages, full color. All Ages

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"I can't imagine a better catalyst for creativity! I would recommend this to anyone!" - Emil Ferris, Author of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, multiple Eisner Award winner

"In an era where the arts are often eliminated from K-12 schools and standardized tests along with other impersonal metrics are the measures of student success, Meghan Parker's inquiry into what it means to teach art demonstrates the extraordinary ways art education transforms, connects, and shapes us. Parker brilliantly uses comics as the medium for this self-reflexive examination of how art works and why art education matters. This accessible and engaging book is a welcome addition to the growing body of comics as a mode of scholarly inquiry." - Prof. Carol Tilley, Ph.D. Comics historian, library educator, former high school teacher, and past president of the Comics Studies Society

Cover price $24.99.

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Add to cart Fine $7.80

1st printing.

Story and art by Matt Bors. Introduction by Tom Tomorrow.

Matt Bors makes the bold declaration that We Should Improve Society Somewhat in this collection of comics from The Nib's Editor and Publisher, Matt Bors. Bors has been working as a cartoonist for more than a decade, and this new collection captures a mix of his timely strips based on today's incredibly politically-divided environment, along with a curated selection of his timelessly funny earlier strips.

Softcover, 8-in. x 9-in., 184 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.