In Love comic books issue 1

Written by Christian Beranek and Tony Digerolamo, art by Alfa Robbi. Originally published on the web. 6-in. x 9-in., 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $4.99.

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1st printing. Story and art by Laura Gao. Kirby Tan is in free fall. It's bad enough that she breaks her arm at the rock-climbing invitationals, sidelining her for the season. Now she's forced to join the newspaper club for some desperately needed extra credit. Worse, she's recruited by crystal-wearing, tarot-reading Bex Santos for her astrology-based love advice column. As Kirby reluctantly agrees to orchestrate "matches made in heaven" with Bex, she begins to wonder if their own planets could be aligned. But it's not so easy for Kirby to embrace her queer identity, not when she owes so much to her family and their church community. What would it be like to believe your fate is written in the stars? Can Kirby learn to trust that love will catch you when you fall...? Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 304 pages, PC. Cover price $18.99.

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1st printing. Story and art by Laura Gao. Kirby Tan is in free fall. It's bad enough that she breaks her arm at the rock-climbing invitationals, sidelining her for the season. Now she's forced to join the newspaper club for some desperately needed extra credit. Worse, she's recruited by crystal-wearing, tarot-reading Bex Santos for her astrology-based love advice column. As Kirby reluctantly agrees to orchestrate "matches made in heaven" with Bex, she begins to wonder if their own planets could be aligned. But it's not so easy for Kirby to embrace her queer identity, not when she owes so much to her family and their church community. What would it be like to believe your fate is written in the stars? Can Kirby learn to trust that love will catch you when you fall...? Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 304 pages, PC. Cover price $26.99.

1st printing. When Fantagraphics launched its collection of Krazy Kat Sunday strips back in 2002, we picked up with the 10th and 11th years of the legendary strip (1925-1926) because another publisher had already collected the first nine during the 1980s and 1990s. But now, with that publisher long gone and their Krazy Kat collections fetching record prices (some over $100!) among collectors, it's time to go back and get every one of these masterpieces back in print - re-scanned and re-retouched from original tearsheets, using 21st century digital resources. Fantagraphics will be collecting these first nine years of Sundays into three volumes comprising three years apiece, starting with the very first Sundays from 1916 through 1918, and incorporating all the added features from the first edition. Krazy Kat, with its eternally beguiling love triangle of kat/dog/mouse, its fantastically inventive language, and its haunting, minimalist desert décor, has consistently been rated the best comic strip ever created. Krazy and Ignatz 1916-1918, the 11th of a projected 13 volumes collecting the entirety of the Sundays, brings us within a brick's throw of finishing "The Komplete Kat Sundays" once and for all! Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 176 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

1st printing.

Story and art by Margreet de Heer.

How to describe love? Is love passion, stability, friendship, or all of the above? In this comics exploration, de Heer investigates different questions about love. Is there really such a thing as finding The One? What happens in the brain when we fall in love? How can we keep long-term love? What to do about a broken heart? Margreet herself seems to have found her ideal partner in Yiri, but after so many years of marriage, how about that Seven Year Itch? This book deals with many aspects of love, sex, and relationships in a lighthearted, playful, and thought-provoking manner.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 8-in., 128 pages, full color.

Cover price $18.99.

1st printing. Written by Jay Lake. Markus Selvage has been bent by life, ground up and spit out again. In San Francisco's darkest sexual underground, he is a perpetual innocent, looking within bodies - his own and others' - for the lost secrets of satisfaction. But extreme body modification is only the beginning of where he will go before he's finished. Hardcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 96 pages Text Only. Cover price $25.00.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Uoyama. Translated by Nova Skipper. Morio Kurokawa is the toughest-looking tough guy around. Yukiko Akaza is a self-possessed girl with a vision impairment attending a school for the blind. The whole city fears Morio, but Yukiko sees the real him-he's a soft sweetheart who's just searching for his place in the world! Softcover, 208 pages, B&W. For teen audiences. Cover price $9.99.

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1st printing. Story and art by Anya Davidson. "You're pretty optimistic for a guy who's been shot in the back." In 1975 New York City, the heroin epidemic is in full swing. An art-dealing dope pusher and his deadly drug mule, two Vietnam veterans turned hit-men, an optimistic undercover cop and a renegade reporter with a nasty drinking problem all collide in the naked city. But who will come out on top after everyone's hit rock bottom? Softcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 64 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $10.00.

Love and Rockets: Book 19 - The Luba Trilogy: Book 1 of 3 - 1st printing. By Los Bros Hernandez. The first volume depicting Luba's post-Palomar life and times, this book takes the sometimes confusing strands of Gilbert's stories and weaves them into a satisfying thematic whole, as Luba tries to make sense of her family's lives in America. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 224 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $19.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written by by George L. Chieffet and Stephen DeStefano. Art by Stephen DeStefano. "I was fifteen in 1942, and I was five foot three, which is the tallest I ever was. I had jet black hair and a smile as big as day." Readers and moviegoers have read and seen many growing-up-in-the-big-city-then-being-drafted-into-World-War-II tales, both real and fictional, but none with the visual pizzazz and feisty humor of Lucky in Love. Co-created by George L. Chieffet (script) and veteran cartoonist and animator Stephen DeStefano (plot and art), Lucky in Love is almost the flipside to dramatic works on the same theme such as Alan's War and You'll Never Know. Elegantly drawn in a supremely confident, lively, cartoony black-and-white style that recalls Milt Gross as well as classic Disney animation and comics, Lucky in Love is a unique coming-of-age story that follows its lovable eponymous hero Lucky Testatuda from his rascally teen years in Hoboken, New Jersey's Little Italy to his induction into the air force and subsequent wartime experiences. Lucky in Love shows what happens when a feisty young man merges his erotic fantasies with 1940s film myths: Moving from the '40s to present day (from which an aged, present-day Lucky looks back on his life), the book contrasts Lucky's vivid fantasy life with the darker reality of World War II (including a masterful set-piece sequence that echoes Harvey Kurtzman's classic EC war comics) as well as his first fumbling, cash-on-the-barrelhead sexual experiences. Ultimately the poignant discoveries Lucky makes on his way to adulthood bestow upon him a very different kind of heroism than that of which he had dreamed... The second and concluding volume, Lucky in Love: Lucky for Life will be released in 2013. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.99.

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1st printing.

Story and art by Tiitu Takalo.

Based on a true story, Me, Mikko, and Annikki masterfully interweaves tales of Annikki's rich history, the author/illustrator's own autobiographical love story with the friend who would become her partner, and their part in the legal battle to save Annikki from demolition and the community effort to restore this unique place. From the formation of the landscape by prehistoric glaciers to the stories of the women laborers who once inhabited Annikki.

Softcover, 8-in. x 8-in., 248 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. By Tove Jansson. Moominvalley is flooded, so Snorkmaiden and Moomin head out to rescue anyone stranded in the deluge. They bring home Miss La Goona, the leading lady of the visiting circus, who turns out to be quite a demanding houseguest. Nonetheless, Moomin, having read a few too many romantic novels, falls head over heels in love with her, and chaos ensues! Softcover (Horizontal Format), 8-in. x6 1/2-in., 56 pages, full color. Cover price $9.95.

1st printing.

Based on the story by Marcel Proust. Adapted by Stephane Heuet.

Swann is a frequent guest at high society soirees at the end of the 19th century, which is where he first encounters Odette de Crecy; at first, he feels no attraction to this seemingly superficial young woman, but soon, her charms become apparent.

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, full color.

Cover price $16.95.

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1st printing.

Based on the story by Marcel Proust. Adapted by Stephane Heuet.

Swann is a frequent guest at high society soirees at the end of the 19th century, which is where he first encounters Odette de Crecy; at first, he feels no attraction to this seemingly superficial young woman, but soon, her charms become apparent. 

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, full color.

Cover price $10.95.

1st printing. Written by Tom Batiuk. Art and cover by Chuck Ayers. Since its debut in 1987, Crankshaft has engendered reader loyalty and affection with its wry wit, engaging storylines, and identifiable characters. Roses in December is a touching collection of two Crankshaft storylines with characters who find themselves dealing with the incurable condition of Alzheimer's disease. First, Ed Crankshaft's best friend Ralph is confronted with the trauma of his wife Helen's worsening Alzheimer's, and their love story unfolds with humor and heartbreak. In the second story arc, Crankshaft's neighbor Lucy McKenzie also exhibits symptoms of Alzheimer's and eventually is moved to Sunny Days Nursing Home by her sister Lillian. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 10-in. x 8-in., 272 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $24.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $2.50

Add to cart Near Mint $2.50

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Sasquatch in Love (2020 Action Lab) #1-4.

Written by Jason Nutt . Art and cover by Alexis Vivallo.

An unlikely romantic triangle forms between lonely Holden, the world's last Sasquatch; Grace, the documentary filmmaker who comes to a small town in rural Oregon to expose him; and Holden's love-scarred best friend Felix, the town veterinarian.

Collecting the four-issue comedy about longing, belonging, and Bigfoot.

Softcover, 128 pages, full color.

Cover price $14.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

1st printing.

By Amy Richau.

Say "I love you" to the Star Wars fan in your life with this collection of lessons in love and friendship from a galaxy far, far away.

Relationships can be complex - your dad could have turned to the dark side, your partner could be a princess, or your best friend might speak in more than 7 million forms of communication and never stop talking!

This book shares some wise advice for romances, friendships, and family relationships from fan-favorite characters such as Han and Leia, Rey and Kylo Ren, and Finn and Poe.

Hardcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 64 pages, PC.

Cover price $9.99.

1st printing. Written by Barton Levi St. Armand. Art by Richard Powers. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 104 Pages. Text (with B&W Photos)

Volume 1-2 - 1st printing.

Written by Saki Hasemi. Art and cover by Kentaro Yabuki.

Yuuki Rito is your average high school student-awkward, shy, and hopeless when it comes to confessing his feelings to the girl of his dreams. But one day, a beautiful woman suddenly materializes in his bathtub! Her name is Lala Deviluke, an alien princess on the run from an intergalactic empire. After Rito gets unwittingly engaged to Lala, he soon finds himself sucked into a battle for Lala's affections, as alien suitors from across the galaxy vie for her hand in marriage. Rito's troubles have only just begun!

Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 400 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

NOTE: These are Japanese manga-style GNs and are meant to be read right-to-left.

Cover price $19.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. By Hinako Takanaga. Being in love with your straight senpai hard enough... so imagine being in love with your straight and homophobic AND tyrannical senpai! Tetsuhiro Morinaga can tell you all about that - now that he had a taste of the forbidden fruit...! Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $12.95.

1st printing. Cover by John Rosenberger. Guilty pleasures abound in this cult hit! Read these lurid, sleaze comics: "Fast Girl," "They Called Me Tramp!," "My Kisses Brought Death," "It's Like Love Pussycat," "Siren of the Tropics," "My Love Was Auctioned Off!," and many more. Includes the bizarro tale that you're sure to relate to: "Beauty Is A Curse!" Hardcover, 160 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99.

Women find love threatened by the sins of the past. Jilted by a daredevil pilot, Agnes develops a taste for danger herself; A woman feels guilt over the actions of the past; A bad breakup leaves a woman wondering if she can ever love again. Plus love advice to readers. Danger Called Me; Here Is My Sin; Dangerous Crossroad; Sweetheart's Corner; Let's Talk It Over; My Heartbreak. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Story by Steven Jones, based on the H.P. Lovecraft story. Art and cover by Rob Davis. Calibers classics imprint Tome Press presents the chilling horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. A visitor to the remote backcountry of New England meets a hideous old man who says hes hungry …Fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy. 32 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $2.95.

1st printing. By Charles M. Schulz. It is late spring and school is about to let out for summer vacation, but Charlie Brown is upset about everything. On the way to school, he meets Linus and tells him he is frustrated that he cannot enjoy himself like all the other kids at school. But when he notices the Little Red-Haired Girl sitting on a passing bus, Linus immediately realizes that Charlie Brown is in love. Softcover, 8-in. x 8-in., 48 pages, Text (with Color Illustrations) Cover price $1.29.

1st printing.

Written by David M. Booher, Terry Blas, Anthony Oliveira, Paul Allor, Charles Pulliam-Moore, Rich Douek, Jarrett Melendez, and Dave Ebersole. Art by Sina Grace, Chris Shehan, Nick Robles, Jacoby Salcedo, Dennis Yatras, Josh Cornillon, Bradley Clayton, and Ian McGinty. Cover by Kevin Wada.

Haphazard pirates, wayward ghosts, dashing knights, rampaging kaiju (and down-to-earth regular joes!) are all assembled here to amaze and delight you in a wildly unique anthology celebrating love between men, from an astounding array of comics creators who know exactly how it feels.

Young Men in Love is a heartwarming, uplifting, and vibrant return to the glory days of romance comics!

Softcover, 200 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Mark Tatulli. Emmy Award-winning artist Mark Tatulli's comic strip, Lio, is dark, twisted, visually stunning, and totally irresistible. The main character, Lio, is a small boy with a penchant for befriending squids, monsters, and aliens. Lio is a curious scientist, a comic-book fan, defender of the defenseless and creator of an army of zombie bunnies. All without saying a word. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 9-in., 128 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $12.99.