Pantheon comic books issue 1

2nd and later printings. Story and art by Craig Thompson. Habibi is a deeply romantic story that explores and celebrates the beauty and cruelty, the complexity and depths of the Islamic world. Craig's stunning artwork is matched by the haunting strories of his characters' lives. Set in a mythical Middle East, at once contemporary and timeless, Habibi is a parable about our relationship to the natural world, about the cultural divide between the First World and the Third World, and about the common heritage of Christianity and Islam. The magic of storytelling allows us to see the fragility embedded in cruelty, to understand how beauty can preserve us from destruction and how love can save us from loss of hope. Hardcover, 672 pages, B&W. Cover price $35.00.

Includes a Limited Edition signed bookplate - 1st printing. Story and art by Craig Thompson. Habibi is a deeply romantic story that explores and celebrates the beauty and cruelty, the complexity and depths of the Islamic world. Craig's stunning artwork is matched by the haunting strories of his characters' lives. Set in a mythical Middle East, at once contemporary and timeless, Habibi is a parable about our relationship to the natural world, about the cultural divide between the First World and the Third World, and about the common heritage of Christianity and Islam. The magic of storytelling allows us to see the fragility embedded in cruelty, to understand how beauty can preserve us from destruction and how love can save us from loss of hope. Hardcover, 672 pages, B&W. NOTE: Limited to 500. Cover price $35.00.

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1st printing. By Ben Katchor. Ben Katchor, a master at twisting mundane commodities into surreal objects of social significance, now takes on the many ways our property influences and reflects cultural values. Here are window-ledge pillows designed expressly for people-watching and a forest of artificial trees for sufferers of hay fever. With cutting wit Katchor reveals a world similar to our own - lives are defined by possessions, consumerism is a kind of spirituality - but also slightly, fabulously askew. Hardcover, 11-in. x 12-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $29.95.

1st printing. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $8.95.

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1st printing. Art Spiegelman defined the graphic novel memoir with his Pulitzer Prize-winning MAUS, which narrated his father's experiences in Auschwitz. Growing up with Holocaust survivor parents, he was taught that no place is truly safe. Spiegelman finally experienced that truth for himself on 9/11, as he and his wife raced to find their daughter, attending her first day of school two blocks away from the World Trade Center. The fragmented nature of the art and text reflect the scattered, painfully vivid thoughts that Spiegelman had both during and after those traumatic moments. The oversized, full-color spreads include panels drawn realistically, drawn MAUS-style (i.e., Spiegelman depicts himself as a mouse), and drawn in the style of early 20th century comics such as the Katzenjammer Kids and Bringing up Father. Those early comics were a comfort to Spiegelman during the terror and paranoia he felt (and still feels) post-9/11, and the book closes with a short history and reprints of those comics, which seem startlingly relevant to the current political situation. Hardcover, 10-in. x 14 1/2-in., 40 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.

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2nd and later printings. Art Spiegelman defined the graphic novel memoir with his Pulitzer Prize-winning MAUS, which narrated his father's experiences in Auschwitz. Growing up with Holocaust survivor parents, he was taught that no place is truly safe. Spiegelman finally experienced that truth for himself on 9/11, as he and his wife raced to find their daughter, attending her first day of school two blocks away from the World Trade Center. The fragmented nature of the art and text reflect the scattered, painfully vivid thoughts that Spiegelman had both during and after those traumatic moments. The oversized, full-color spreads include panels drawn realistically, drawn MAUS-style (i.e., Spiegelman depicts himself as a mouse), and drawn in the style of early 20th century comics such as the Katzenjammer Kids and Bringing up Father. Those early comics were a comfort to Spiegelman during the terror and paranoia he felt (and still feels) post-9/11, and the book closes with a short history and reprints of those comics, which seem startlingly relevant to the current political situation. Hardcover, 10-in. x 14 1/2-in., 40 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.

1st Edition - 1st printing. Collects Tales to Astonish (1994 One-Shot), The Incredible Hulk vs. Venom (1994), and The Incredible Hulk (1962-1999 1st Series) #420-435.

Written by Peter David. Art by John Estes, Jim Craig, Gary Frank, Liam Sharp, Terry Dodson, Justiniano and Al Milgrom. Cover by Gary Frank.

Hulk goes to Hel and back! First, Hulk and the Pantheon face a painful - and all too human - loss. But Hela herself soon claims the Hulk in an Asgardian underworld epic! Then, it's the end of an era as the Pantheon is torn apart from within! Agamemnon stands trial, one among them falls and the Hulk's rage transforms him into a savage...Bruce Banner?! While Doc Samson strives to save Bruce's mind, Betty battles for her life - and the stage is set for a new status quo. In hiding and struggling to remain calm, the Hulk takes on Man-Thing, the Abomination and the Punisher! Plus: Hulk shares a symbiotic showdown with Venom and joins Hank Pym and the Wasp in a true Tale to Astonish!

Softcover, 496 pages, full color.

NOTE: Book 21 of the Incredible Hulk Epic Collection - Years Covered: 1964-1967.

Cover price $39.99.

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1st printing. By Ben Katchor. In this long awaited collection of strange and strangely absorbing urban adventures, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, takes to the streets to discover a lost metropolis and its residents, summoning up half-forgotten yesterdays and celebrating the surreal substrate of the quotidian. Includes 90 stories, some a single strip, others many pages long never before published. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 108 pages, B&W. Cover price $22.00.

1st printing. Collects X'ed Out (2010 Pantheon), Hive (2012 Pantheon), and Sugar Skull (2014 Pantheon Books). Story and art by Charles Burns. A true graphic milestone: the epic trilogy that began with X'ed Out, continued in The Hive, and concluded in Sugar Skull, now in a single volume. The long strange trip of Doug in all its mind-bending, heartbreaking totality. The fragments of the past collide with the reality of the present, nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful reality, and when you finally find out where all of this has been going, and what it means. It will make you go right back to the first page and read it all again with new eyes. Just like Doug. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 176 pages, full color. Cover price $29.95.

2nd and later printings. Collects X'ed Out (2010 Pantheon), Hive (2012 Pantheon), and Sugar Skull (2014 Pantheon Books). Story and art by Charles Burns. A true graphic milestone: the epic trilogy that began with X'ed Out, continued in The Hive, and concluded in Sugar Skull, now in a single volume. The long strange trip of Doug in all its mind-bending, heartbreaking totality. The fragments of the past collide with the reality of the present, nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful reality, and when you finally find out where all of this has been going, and what it means. It will make you go right back to the first page and read it all again with new eyes. Just like Doug. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 176 pages, full color. Cover price $29.95.

Updated Edition (Gatefold Cover) - 1st printing. By Chip Kidd and Geoff Spear. Art and cover by Alex Ross. Introduction by M. Night Shyamalan. From Kingdom Come through JLA: Liberty and Justice, here are the most beloved characters in the world, as you've never seen them before: brought to life at the hands of one of the most astonishing artists working in the medium today, Alex Ross! This revised and updated edition of Mythology includes dozens of astonishing, never-before-seen drawings, paintings, and prototypes that Ross produced in the two years since the initial hardcover publication. This limited edition features previously unpublished art on the jacket, in a multi-paneled, fold-out binding. Hardcover (multi-paneled), 9-in. x 12-in., full color. Cover price $75.00.

1st printing. By Bill Willingham. Eisner Award-winning writer Bill Willingham (Fables, Robin) presents his original scripts for the comic book series, Pantheon, complete with running commentary by Willingham and Lone Star editor Bill Williams. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 560 pages, Text Only. Cover price $24.95.

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1st printing.

Story and art by Chris Ware.

A major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress.

Rusty Brown is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of three complete consciousnesses in the first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown literately and literally aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality.

From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.

Hardcover, 11-in. x 17-in., 352 pages, full color.

Cover price $35.00.

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1st printing. Based ont he novel by Philip K. Dick. A haunting graphic version of the best-selling novel, composed entirely of stills from the animated motion picture starring Keanu Reeves, scheduled for release in 2006. Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D - which Arctor takes in massive doses - gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 9-in. x 6-in., 192 pages, full color. Cover price $23.95.

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Add to cart Fine $3.30

Story, art and wraparound cover by Walter S. Crane IV. A one-shot guide to the world of Walter Cranes Sheba, Cleopatras cat who has been revived by Egyptian magic. Character profiles of the gods and mortals in Shebas world. Also, a look at some of Cranes earlier strips featuring Sheba. 24 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.50.

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1st printing. Story and art by Michael Cho. Corinna Park used to have big plans. In college, she imagined writing a best-selling novel and leading the idealized life of an author. After graduation, she moved to a big city and took a job at an advertising agency - just to pay off her student loans. Now she's worked in the same office for five years and the only thing she's written is copy. She feels numbed by the monotony of a life experienced through a series of screens. But whenever she shoplifts a magazine from the corner store near her apartment, she feels a little more alive. Yet Corinna knows there must be something more to life, and she faces the same question as does everyone of her generation: how to find it? Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 96 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. Collects Thor (1962-1996 1st Series Journey Into Mystery) #383-400.

Written by Tom DeFalco, Jim Shooter, Erik Larsen, Roger Stern, and Stan Lee. Art by by Ron Frenz, Brett Breeding, Erik Larsen, Vince Colletta, Al Milgrom, Bob Hall, Tony DeZuniga, Don Heck, Romeo Tanghal, and Joe Sinnott. Cover by Ron Frenz.

It's the beginning of a new era for the mighty Thor - but it just might be the end of the Norse gods! With Asgard adrift in space, Thor must sacrifice all when he finds himself in a losing battle to protect the planet Pangoria against the unimaginably powerful Celestials! But when Seth the Serpent God unleashes an all-out assault on Asgard, can the Norse gods defeat his ruthless army without their greatest warrior? Plus: Thor takes on the Hulk, clashes with the Celtic Lord of Lightning, battles Quicksand and tackles the maddening Mongoose alongside Spider-Man! Earth Force targets Hogun for death! A watershed moment for Captain America! Surtur makes his demonic return! And introducing Eric Masterson and the Thor of the 24th century!

Softcover, 472 pages, full color.

NOTE: Book 16 of the Mighty Thor Epic Collection - Years Covered: Sept 1987-Feb 1989.

Cover price $34.99.

1st printing. Collects Tongues (2018 Fantagraphics) #1-5. Story and art by Anders Nilson. Set in a version of modern Central Asia, Tongues is a retelling of the Greek myth of Prometheus. It follows the captive god's friendship with the eagle who carries out his daily sentence of torture and chronicles his pursuit of revenge on the god that has imprisoned him. Prometheus's story is entwined with that of an East African orphan on an errand of murder, and a young man with a teddy bear strapped to his back, wandering aimlessly into catastrophe (a character readers may recognize from Nilsen's Dogs and Water). The story is set against the backdrop of tensions between rival groups in an oil-rich wilderness. Tongues is both an adventure story and a meditation on human nature in our present fraught, historical moment. Hardcover, 8-in.x 11-in., 368 pages, full color. Cover price $35.00.

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Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $575.00 or Best Offer View scans Signed and remarked by Matt Groening (splash). Autographed copy sticker on cover. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

1st printing.

Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons and Futurama) takes a peculiar yet insightful look at the work place reveasling that there are 9 types of bosses, 81 types of employees, how to kill 8 hours without getting fired, and much more!. Collects comic strips from his other creation - Life in Hell. Groening used Life in Hell to explore a wide range of topics about love, sex, work, and death.

Softcover (Saddle-Stitched/Stapled), 9-in. x 9-in., 48 pages, B&W.

Cover price $5.95.

1st printing.

Written by Andrea Wulf. Art and cover by Lillian Melcher.

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, but his most revolutionary idea was a radical vision of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. His theories and ideas were profoundly influenced by a five-year exploration of South America.

This graphic novel brings his daring expedition to life, complete with excerpts from Humboldt's own diaries, atlases, and publications, offering a portrait of the man who predicted human-induced climate change and fashioned poetic narrative out of scientific observation.

Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 272 pages, full color.

Cover price $29.95.

1st printing. By Matt Groening. This runtish yet beefy combo-platter of a book contains dozens of flippy, dippy, downright depraved comic strips - many of which have you chuckling in your easy-chair or scowling in bafflement, depending on how "hep" you are. Softcover (Saddle-Stitched/Stapled), 8-in. x 8-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $6.95.

2nd and later printings. By Matt Groening. This runtish yet beefy combo-platter of a book contains dozens of flippy, dippy, downright depraved comic strips - many of which have you chuckling in your easy-chair or scowling in bafflement, depending on how "hep" you are. Softcover (Saddle-Stitched/Stapled), 8-in. x 8-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $6.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Mark Beyer. Introduction by Chip Kidd. Hardcover, 11-1/4" x 5", 288 pages, B&W. Cover price $21.00.

1st printing.

Based on the diary by Anne Frank. Adapted by Ari Folman. Art and cover by David Polonsky.

A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young readers and adults it continues to capture the remarkable spirit of Anne Frank, who for a time survived the worst horror the modern world has seen - and who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly human throughout her ordeal. Adapted by Ari Folman, illustrated by David Polonsky, and authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, this is the first graphic edition of The Diary and includes extensive quotation directly from the definitive edition. It remains faithful to the original, while the stunning illustrations interpret and add layers of visual meaning and immediacy to this classic work of Holocaust literature.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 160 pages, full color. Cover price $24.95.

2nd and later printings.

Based on the diary by Anne Frank. Adapted by Ari Folman. Art and cover by David Polonsky.

A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young readers and adults it continues to capture the remarkable spirit of Anne Frank, who for a time survived the worst horror the modern world has seen - and who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly human throughout her ordeal. Adapted by Ari Folman, illustrated by David Polonsky, and authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, this is the first graphic edition of The Diary and includes extensive quotation directly from the definitive edition. It remains faithful to the original, while the stunning illustrations interpret and add layers of visual meaning and immediacy to this classic work of Holocaust literature.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 160 pages, full color. Cover price $24.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Edward Koren.

An exploration, albeit humorous exploration, of the valleys and peaks of Love, from the beginnings of the relationship to the heated and passionate middle, tot he often times bitter endings.

Hardcover (Horizontal Format). 7-in. x 5-in., 48 pages, B&W.

Cover price $3.95.

1st printing. Edited by Chip Kidd. Translated by Anne Ishii. In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. Now, in this gorgeously produced book, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys. This is the Dynamic Duo as you've never seen them: with a distinctly Japanese, atomic-age twist as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and villains who won't stay dead! Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., PC. NOTE: This is a Japanese manga-style GN and is meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $60.00.

1st printing. COVER SLEEVE IS MISSING. Edited by Chip Kidd. Translated by Anne Ishii. In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. Now, in this gorgeously produced book, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys. This is the Dynamic Duo as you've never seen them: with a distinctly Japanese, atomic-age twist as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and villains who won't stay dead! Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., PC. NOTE: This is a Japanese manga-style GN and is meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $60.00.

1st printing. Edited by Chip Kidd. Translated by Anne Ishii. In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. Now, in this gorgeously produced book, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys. This is the Dynamic Duo as you've never seen them: with a distinctly Japanese, atomic-age twist as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and villains who won't stay dead! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 352 pages, PC. NOTE: This is a Japanese manga-style GN and is meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $29.95.

Slipcover NOT included - 1st printing. Edited by Chip Kidd. Translated by Anne Ishii. In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. Now, in this gorgeously produced book, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys. This is the Dynamic Duo as you've never seen them: with a distinctly Japanese, atomic-age twist as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and villains who won't stay dead! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 352 pages, PC. NOTE: This is a Japanese manga-style GN and is meant to be read right-to-left. Cover price $29.95.

1st printing. By Matt Groening and Cindy Vance. The creator of the Simpsons presents selections from his Life in Hell comic strip. A treasury-type collection that includes material from the Akbar & Jeffs Guide to Life and the Love Is…, Work Is…, School Is… and Childhood Is Hell books. Includes a highly entertaining index. Softcover, 10 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in. 170 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.60.

2nd and later printings. By Matt Groening and Cindy Vance. The creator of the Simpsons presents selections from his Life in Hell comic strip. A treasury-type collection that includes material from the Akbar & Jeffs Guide to Life and the Love Is…, Work Is…, School Is… and Childhood Is Hell books. Includes a highly entertaining index. Softcover, 10 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in. 170 pages, B&W. Cover price $20.00.

1st printing. Collects Black Hole (1995-2004 Kitchen Sink/Fantagraphics) #1-12.

Story and art by Charles Burns.

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. A strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact, that manifests in any number of ways - from the hideously grotesque to the subtle and concealable. What unfolds isn't the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it, or even to treat it. Instead, Black Hole paints a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself - the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape. As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Hole deftly explores a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it.

Hardcover, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $24.95.

2nd and later printings. Collects Black Hole (1995-2004 Kitchen Sink/Fantagraphics) #1-12.

Story and art by Charles Burns.

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. A strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact, that manifests in any number of ways - from the hideously grotesque to the subtle and concealable. What unfolds isn't the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it, or even to treat it. Instead, Black Hole paints a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself - the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape. As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Hole deftly explores a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it.

Hardcover, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. Storya nd art by Sammy Harkham. Set in and around 1971 in Los Angeles, BLOOD OF THE VIRGIN follows an immigrant film editor named Seymour who is desperate to make his own movies. Without money or clout, he has no choice but to spend his days slumming it for the worst and most exploitative production company in town. When Seymour is given the chance to make a film of his own, his unbending principles and relentless drive violently clash with an industry that rewards everything but these traits. As Seymour's blind ambition pushes the movie along, his home life grows increasingly fraught. Using the film's production as a means to spiral out into time and space, Harkham creates an epic novel that explores the intersection of parenthood, 20th-century America, sex, the immigrant experience, and the era of grindhouse movies. Like a kaleidoscope, BLOOD OF THE VIRGIN shifts and evolves with each frame, allowing the reader to zoom out and see that at its core, this book is about the making of a man. Hardcover, 8-in.x 11-in., 296 pages, PC. Cover price $30.00.

1st printing.

By Art Spiegelman.

The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form - and how it formed him!

This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son.

The second part presents a fascimile of Breakdowns, the long-sought-after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s. Breakdowns established the mode of formally sophisticated comics that transformed the medium, and includes the prototype for Maus. Pulling all this together is an illustrated essay that looks at the sixties as the artist pushes sixty, and explains the obsessions that brought these works into being.

Poignant, funny, complex, and innovative, Breakdowns alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.

Hardcover, 10-in. x 14-in., 72 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $27.50.

1st printing.

By Art Spiegelman.

Now in paperback from the creator of Maus, a completely original autobiography, the story of his life as a comix artist.

Breakdowns is the chronicle of Spiegelman's story, featuring vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped him. It is told in three ways-in 20 pages of comix that give us the story of his rebellious adolescence, a section on the work he did in the 1970s as an underground comix artist (this book brings back into circulation-and restores-the work of his first book, Breakdowns, out of print for 30 years), and an 8-page essay in which Art looks at the role of comics in the 1970s and how, in ways he didn't understand until much later, it was already coalescing into a medium whose resurgence now is evident everywhere.

Softcover, 10-in. x 14-in., 76 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $25.00.

1st printing. Story and art by Chris Ware. Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a 30-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple (possibly married) who wonder if they can bear each other's company for another minute; and finally, an elderly woman who never married and is the building's landlady. The scope, the ambition, the artistry and emotional heft of this project are beyond anything we have yet seen from this artist or in this medium. Hardcover, 224 pages, full color. NOTE: Includes 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. Cover price $50.00.

2nd and later printings. Story and art by Chris Ware. Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a 30-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple (possibly married) who wonder if they can bear each other's company for another minute; and finally, an elderly woman who never married and is the building's landlady. The scope, the ambition, the artistry and emotional heft of this project are beyond anything we have yet seen from this artist or in this medium. Hardcover, 224 pages, full color. NOTE: Includes 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. Cover price $50.00.

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Add to cart Near Mint $2.65

1st printing. By Marisa Acocella Marchetto. "What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds a lump in her breast?" That's the question that sets this poignant graphic memoir in motion. In vivid color and with a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer - from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between. Acclaimed as one of Time.com's top ten graphic novels of the year. Softcover, 8-in. x 8-in., 224 pages. Full Color. Cover price $16.95.

1st printing. Written by Robert Lekachman. Art by Borin Van Loon. The "...For Beginners" book series is a series of graphic guides to introduce to the reader key people in history and covers topics in philosophy, psychology, science, politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics and many other areas. These books are written by an expert in the field it covers and every page features B&W illustrations. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 176 pages, B&W.

2nd and later printings. Written by Robert Lekachman. Art by Borin Van Loon. The "...For Beginners" book series is a series of graphic guides to introduce to the reader key people in history and covers topics in philosophy, psychology, science, politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics and many other areas. These books are written by an expert in the field it covers and every page features B&W illustrations. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 176 pages, B&W. Cover price $6.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Marjane Satrapi. For the first time in hardcover, a stunning twentieth anniversary collected edition of "the most original coming-of-age story from the Middle East yet" (People), with a new introduction by the author that examines the Iranian political landscape in the context of global politics. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up. HSoftcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 352 pages, full color. Cover price $28.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $27.99

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2nd and later printings. Story and art by Marjane Satrapi. For the first time in hardcover, a stunning twentieth anniversary collected edition of "the most original coming-of-age story from the Middle East yet" (People), with a new introduction by the author that examines the Iranian political landscape in the context of global politics. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up. HSoftcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 352 pages, full color. Cover price $28.00.

1st printing. Story and art by Marjane Satrapi. For the first time in hardcover, a stunning twentieth anniversary collected edition of "the most original coming-of-age story from the Middle East yet" (People), with a new introduction by the author that examines the Iranian political landscape in the context of global politics. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecomingsweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 352 pages, full color. Cover price $35.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $34.99

Add to cart Near Mint $34.99

2nd and later printings. Story and art by Marjane Satrapi. For the first time in hardcover, a stunning twentieth anniversary collected edition of "the most original coming-of-age story from the Middle East yet" (People), with a new introduction by the author that examines the Iranian political landscape in the context of global politics. Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecomingsweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 352 pages, full color. Cover price $35.00.

1st printing. Written by Jonathan Miller. Art by Borin Van Loon. The "...For Beginners" book series is a series of graphic guides to introduce to the reader key people in history and covers topics in philosophy, psychology, science, politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics and many other areas. These books are written by an expert in the field it covers and every page features B&W illustrations. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 176 pages, B&W.

2nd and later printings. Written by Jonathan Miller. Art by Borin Van Loon. The "...For Beginners" book series is a series of graphic guides to introduce to the reader key people in history and covers topics in philosophy, psychology, science, politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics and many other areas. These books are written by an expert in the field it covers and every page features B&W illustrations. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 176 pages, B&W. Cover price $5.95.

New (2003) Edition - 1st printing. Written by Jonathan Miller. Art by Borin Van Loon. This book takes us through the upheaval in biological thought that made The Origin of Species possible. Meet Charles Darwin: a timid, anti-social, semi-invalid who was said to undermind the belief in God-the-creator. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 176 pages, B&W. Cover price $11.00.

1st printing. Story and art by Daniel Clowes. Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case, an orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder) the primal nature of humandkind will come inexorably to the fore. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 120 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers NOTE: "Boring finds love with a mysterious woman named Wanda, loses her and sort of finds her again. He also gets shot in the head (twice) and stranded on an island with his brutish family. Meanwhile, the world may or may not be ending soon. And did I mention that much of this is hilariously funny?" -- Time Cover price $21.95.