Comic World comic books issue 1

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Amazing World of Gumball (2014) #1-4. Written by Frank Gibson. Art by Tyson Hesse. Cover by Zachary Sterling. What's to Love: Based on the awardwinning animated series, The Amazing World of Gumball features a wacky cast of characters and a ton of heart, so we were delighted to bring Gumball Watterson and the town of Elmore to comics for the first time. What It Is: Gumball Watterson thinks he's the coolest kid in school, his little sister Anais begs to differ, and Darwin just wants to stay out of trouble! Anything can happen in the crazy town of Elmore, and Gumball is the master of causing all sorts of trouble with his crazy schemes. Softcover, 128 pages, full color. NOTE: "So much fun. Seriously. Every single issue is another journey into my own past as Gibson and Hesse tackle it with a hilarious spin." Coming Up Comics Cover price $14.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written by KamikazePotato. Art and cover by JIPO. At first, leveling up seems like the only good thing about the brutal fantasy world Robs suddenly found himself stuck in. Leveling ups euphoric. Addictive. It almost makes up for the fact that everyone here hates Humans. Until Rob discovers the why behind both: Leveling High, a curse unique to Humans that drives them closer to bloodthirsty madness. Can Rob survive and find his way home with his sanity intact? Or will he lose himself chasing the thrill of power? Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 320 pages, full color. Teen Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. During the Golden Age of comics publishers offered titles supporting the war effort presenting fighting men and their feminine counterparts, babes in arms! Comic books during this period featured US service-women fighting the Axis and gave noteworthy women artists of the era opportunities to create action-packed, adventure filled four color stories. Now, for the first time, renowned pop-culture historian Trina Robbins assembles comic book stories by artists Barbara Hall, Jill Elgin, Lilly Renee, and Fran Hopper together with insightful commentary and loads of documentary extras to create the definitive book chronicling the work of these important Golden Age artists. This magnificent art book offers page after page of good girl action! Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 304 pages, full color. Cover price $60.00.

1st printing. During the Golden Age of comics publishers offered titles supporting the war effort presenting fighting men and their feminine counterparts, babes in arms! Comic books during this period featured US service-women fighting the Axis and gave noteworthy women artists of the era opportunities to create action-packed, adventure filled four color stories. Now, for the first time, renowned pop-culture historian Trina Robbins assembles comic book stories by artists Barbara Hall, Jill Elgin, Lilly Renee, and Fran Hopper together with insightful commentary and loads of documentary extras to create the definitive book chronicling the work of these important Golden Age artists. This magnificent art book offers page after page of good girl action! Hardcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 304 pages, full color. Cover price $60.00.

1st printing.

Cover by Mike O'Brien.

A benefit edition of Bartkira that collects a narrative sequence of massive destruction from Akira re-interpreted through the bug-eyed lens of The Simpsons. Proceeds from this book are being split between two charities, OISCA Coastal Forest Restoration Project in Miyagi Prefecture and Save the Children. A Floating World production.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 12-in., 80 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.99.

1st printing.

Back in the early 1990s, when anime was still called Japanimation and The Simpsons still featured Phil Hartman, no one could have conceived of the concept of Bartkira. Yet 23 years later, in Neo-Britain, artist Ryan Humphrey gave life to the unimaginable. His pages for the mind-bending crossover comic ignited a fire in the mind of comic artist James Harvey, who proposed the impossible: Recreate every page of Akira using characters from The Simpsons.

It would take 768 artists, each contributing five pages, to redraw the full six volumes of Katsuhiro Otomos masterwork. A monumental group comic project unlike any other inspired working illustrators, comics professionals, and even some who had never drawn a comic in their lives. Now for the first time, the project that some have heralded as the greatest thing to ever happen to the Internet is here to destroy Floating World Comics. Floating World is proud to present an exhibition book collecting 80 pages from the Bartkira project as well as a 16 page full color gallery section. This exhibition book is only a small curated sampling of the larger project, and should not be confused as representative of the 6 volume project that James Harvey will be posting online in 2014-15.

Featuring contributions by 19 artists: James Harvey, Danny Hynes, Marcel OLeary, Michael Kim, Erica Henderson, Jacob Chabot, Cameron Stewart, Ben Ommundson, Brenton Barnes, Luke Novel, Richie Pope, Jon Huddleston, Jason Rainey, Cory Tran, Bodie Chewning, Alchemichael, Frans Boukas, Tyler Patrick Boss, and Ben Jelter. The full color gallery section includes illustrations by Wyatt Carroll, Jeremy Arambulo, Areil Vergez, Jaime Munoz, Alexandre Ghostthead, Rawn Gandy, Nick Sumida, and Ryan Humphrey. This exhibition book was curated by Frans Boukas with design assistance from Matt Deans.

Bartkira is intended to be a fan tribute to Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira and Matt Groening's The Simpsons. This project is not endorsed by, nor affiliated with, either creator and does not represent itself as an official publication of any kind. All characters and location depicted herein remain the trademarked possessions of Otomo and Groening.

Softcover, 96 pages, PC/PB&W.

Add to cart Near Mint $18.00

Volume 1 - 1st printing.

Story and Art by Tadao Tsuge.

Serialized between 1996 and 2000, Boat Life stars novelist Tsuda Kenta, a lightly veiled stand-in for the artist, Tsuge Tadao, himself, as he pursues a life of reprieve and reverie on a small, makeshift house boat on a river outside of Tokyo.

Based loosely on the artist's own daily life, this charming story follows the hapless protagonist on a series of magical absurdist quests, featuring a panoply of personable characters, including a drunkard fisherman, a pervy monk, a talking corpse, a senile hermit, and a half-supportive, half-doubtful wife and adult son!

Softcover, 6-in., x 8-in., 324 pages, B&W.

Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. Written by Laurent-Frederic Bollee and Didier Alcante. Art and cover by Denis Rodier. On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 in the morning, an explosive charge of more than 15 kilotons fell on the city of Hiroshima. Tens of thousands of people were pulverized, and everything within four square miles was instantly destroyed. A deluge of flames and ash had just caused Japan's greatest trauma and changed the course of modern warfare and life on Earth forever. The world was horrified by the existence of the bomb-the first weapon of mass destruction. But how could such an appalling tool be invented? In The Bomb, Didier Alcante, Laurent-Frédéric Bollée, and Denis Rodier have created an exhaustive and definitive work of nonfiction that details the stories of the unsung players as well as the remarkable men and women who are at the crux of its history and the events that followed. Hardcover, 464 pages, B&W. Cover price $29.99.

Add to cart Fine $2.65

Add to cart Fine $2.65

Story and Art by Lance Leslie. 24 pages, full color. Cover price $2.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Teddy Goldenberg.

City Crime Comics is Teddy Goldenberg's funny and nightmarish, 1950's Golden Age noir and romance style stories. The 21 stories take place in a strange city where people randomly disappear and reappear, become lost or confused, or turn into signs or statues.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 80 pages, full color.

Cover price $15.00.

1st printing.

Written by John Burns.

Read the thrilling story of "The Great War," known now as the First World War. Classics Illustrated traces the history of this devastating conflict from the catalytic political assassination that started it to its end, with victory for some, shame for others, and whole nations left in ruin!

Softcover, 100 pages, full color.

Cover price $19.95.

1st printing.

Written by John Burns. Art by Angelo Torres.

To mark the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day landings, Classic Comic Store's special issue of Classics Illustrated tells the astonishing and horrifying story of the Second World War in comic-strip format. Classics Illustrated traces the chronology of the most costly war in human history from its outbreak to its conclusion, with over 60 million dead, trials for crimes against humanity and a new, terrifying threat over the world: the atomic bomb! All major events in the war are covered.

Softcover, 100 pages, full color. Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. A catalog companion to the exhibition Comic Book Apocalypse at California State University, Northridge, Fall 2015. Featuring scholarly essays on the brilliance and diversity Jack Kirby brought to his work, as well as a rare opportunity to view an amazing selection of the Kirby art that was displayed at the exhibition. Essayists include Glen Alan Gold, Diana Schutz, Howard Chaykin, Carla Speed McNeil and others. Softcover, 8-in. x 12-in., 168 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $39.99.

1st printing. Edited by Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll. The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics is the first collection to explicitly examine the production, circulation, and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view. Taking the concept of a "comics world"-that is, the collection of people, roles, and institutions that "produce" comics as they are-as its organizing principle, the book asks readers to attend to the contexts that shape how comics move through societies and cultures. Through their research, contributors demonstrate some of the ways that people participate in comics worlds and how the relationships created in these spaces can provide different perspectives on comics and comics studies. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 268 pages, Text only. Cover price $30.00.

Retailer's Premium Embossed Blue Foil Edition. Collects Comics Greatest World VORTEX WEEK 4: #1-Division 13 #2-Hero Zero #3-King Tiger #4-Vortex Cover price $1.00.

1st printing. First in the new series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists, this edited volume explores Sacco's comics journalism, and features established and emerging scholars from comics studies, cultural studies, geography, literary studies, political science, and communication studies. The Comics of Joe Sacco addresses the range of his work, from his early comics stories as well as Palestine (1993), Safe Area to Gorade (2000), Footnotes in Gaza (2009) to his most recent book The Great War (2013), a graphic history of World War I. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 272 pages, Text (with B&W Illustrations and photos). Cover price $60.00.

1st printing. From cartoons to graphic novels, from humor to superheroes, comics are the world's most popular form of illustration. And, as in all forms of illustration, artists and designers experiment with visual ideas, image-and-word play, narrative sequencing, and stylistic flourishes through sketching. What we rarely see is the creative thinking - the doodling - that leads to fully formed visual ideas and stories. Comics Sketchbooks presents the private notebooks of eighty-two of the world's most inventive, innovative, and successful artists alongside new talents and emerging illustrators. Featuring: Sotos Anagnos, Chris Battle, Lou Beach, Kaye Blegvad, Peter Blegvad, Russ Braun, Steve Brodner, Charles Burns, Chris Capuozzo, Lilli Carre, Seymour Chwast, Colonel Moutarde, R. Crumb, John Cuneo, Vanessa Davis, Kim Deitch, Julie Delporte, Eric Drooker, Drew Friedman, Manuel Gomez Burns, Bill Griffith, Robert Grossman, Benoit Guillaume, Cyril Guru, David Heatley, Rian Hughes, Kevin Huizenga, Nathan Jurevicius, Ben Katchor, Denis Kitchen, Jakob Klemencic, Thomas Knowler, Matej Kocjan, Nora Krug, Olivier Kugler, Peter Kuper, Joseph Lambert, Brendan Leach, Etienne Lecroart, Matthias Lehmann, Martin Lemelman, David Libens, Sebastien Lumineau, Patrick McHale, Matt Madden, Javier Mariscal, David Mazzucchelli, Rutu Modan, Saxton Moore, Victor Moscoso, Joanna Neborsky, Josh Neufeld, Mark Newgarden, Vladan Nikolic, Gary Panter, Bill Plympton, Max De Radigues, Lauren Redniss, Arnold Roth, Marcel Ruijters, Johnny Ryan, David Sandlin, Seth, Peter De Seve, Robert Sikoryak, Posy Simmonds, Mark Alan Stamaty, Jim Steranko, James Sturm, Joost Swarte, Takeshi Tadatsu, Ann Telnaes, Simon Tofield, Jeremy Traum, Carol Tyler, Andres Vera Martinez, Lauren Weinstein, Tracy White, Signe Wilkinson, Run Wrake, Derek Yaniger, Danijel Zezelj. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 352 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $44.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $22.00

1st printing.

Story and art by Daria Tessler.

This exquisite and mostly-silent graphic novel takes place in a fantasy cityscape loosely inspired by German expressionist films. Cult of the Ibis tells the story of an occultist getaway-driver who, after escaping with the loot from a bank robbery gone wrong, orders a build-you-own-homunculus kit and goes on the lam. Steeped in architecture and atmosphere, Tessler's gorgeous cartooning fuels this strangely gripping yarn, which is packaged in a gorgeous hardcover design.

Softcover, 8-in.x 11-in., 212 pages, B&W.

Cover price $29.95.

1st printing.

Story and art by Jon-Michael Frank.

Esther, a body builder, and Mona, a butterfly, embark on a strange voyage for an elusive elixir to restore their lost powers. During their travels, they encounter a wide variety of characters, including a woman who is endlessly working to interpret the shape of the sun, a romantic creature named Poef who can't figure out how to make someone love them, a shapeshifting squire and a mysterious creature who steals their prized cache of essential oils. Frustratingly though, each character they meet introduces a new task for them to finish, further distancing them from their initial quest of seeking more elixir.

While the world they venture into is often surreal, it's always refreshingly relatable to anyone who struggles with the tragedies and comedies of their own screwball heart.

Softcover, 7-in. x 9-in., 104 pages, full color.

Cover price $17.95.

Add to cart Fine $11.00

Add to cart Very Good $7.00

Revised Edition - 1st printing.

By Robert Greenberger.

Every hero needs a villain. In fighting them, the extreme superiority of our heroes is revealed. The methods and morals of villains are usually the key difference between them and the heroes. Brilliant and sinister, calculating and rash, the most spectacular and horrifying moments of the villains in the DC Comics Universe are explored in DC Comics Super-Villains: 100 Greatest Moments. DC Comics has created some of the most twisted and complex villainous characters in the world of comics.

Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 304 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

Japanese Reprint Edition. Vol. 1 - First Printing. Collects the "Millionaire with a Mouth" storyline from Deadpool (2016 4th Series) #1-5. Cover by Tony Moore. Story by Gerry Duggan. Art by Mike Hawthorne and Terry Pallot. Squarebound with dust jacket. Japanese Language.

1st printing. Join Mal, Evie, Carlos, Jay, Ben and all-new characters as their stories unfold in Disney's Descendants Wicked World animated shorts. There's no shortage of magic, mystery, and mischief at Auradon Prep. Princess Audrey, daughter of Princess Aurora, opts for a new hairdo...or don't? Mal conjures some unforeseen trouble while cheering at Spirit Day. Jordan, The Genie's daughter, gets some unexpected company at her magic lamp, and more! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 240 pages, full color. Cover price $9.99.

Story and art by Bob Nunn.

Welcome to the bizarro world of Robert Nunn, a welder from Missouri whose 70s self-published comics Earthman & Torch have been rediscovered as outsider art. Born of wholesome comics strips by way of Satanic Panic tracts, this pairing mashes vampire space horror with the adventures of an evangelical scare-mongering superhero.

64 pages, full color.

Cover price $7.99.

The End of the Fucking World- Part 1 of 16. Series follows James and Alyssa, two teenagers living a seemingly typical teen experience as they face the fear of coming adulthood until the teenage experience takes a more nihilistic turn. Created by Charles Forsman. 4.5" x 5.5", 12 pages, b&w.

1st printing. Story and art by Carlos Gonzalez. Feel the groping confusion of heroes and villains alike as they navigate a detached and smog ridden future propagated by countless vapid hologram simulations. When a middle aged alcoholic stumbles upon a console that jacks him into a long shuttered digital swampscape, he sees a fragment of beauty in a vast bog of unknowns. Will he be able to hold on to it or be engulfed in chaos? You'll be able to smell the burning ozone and hear the low level hum of advanced cybernetics when you read Carlos Gonzalez's mind bending cyberpunk saga, Everglide! Softcover, 6-in.x 8-in., 344 pages, PC. Mature Readers Cover price $29.99.

2nd Edition - 1st printing. Collects Fantastic Four (1961-1996 1st Series) #1-18.

Written by Stan Lee. Art by Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Sol Brodsky, George Klein, Joe Sinnott, and Steve Ditko. Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. Back Cover by Jack Kirby and Al Hartley.

In 1961, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby lit the fuse of the greatest revolution in comic-book history - the Marvel Age of Comics - and it started right here, in the pages of FANTASTIC FOUR!

With the space race on, Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Sue Storm and Johnny Storm shoot for the stars - but after their craft is bombarded by cosmic rays, they return to Earth with the startling powers of the Fantastic Four! These weren't just any super heroes, though - the Fantastic Four were a realistic, relatable, bickering and loveable family that couldn't pay their rent and didn't always love their powers.

So crack open this Epic Collection and enjoy the beginning of the series that earned the name "The World's Greatest Comic Magazine!"

Softcover, 456 pages, full color.

NOTE: Book 1 of the Fantastic Four Epic Collection - Years Covered: 1961-1963.

Cover price $39.99.

1st printing. Collects Fantastic Four: The World's Greatest Comic Magazine (2001) #1-12.

Written by ERIK LARSEN, ERIC STEPHENSON, BRUCE TIMM, TOM DEFALCO, KURT BUSIEK, JEPH LOEB and STAN LEE. Art by ERIK LARSEN, BRUCE TIMM, KEITH GIFFEN, JORGE LUCAS, RON FRENZ, GORDON PURCELL, TOM SCIOLI, SHANNON DENTON, MIKE MANLEY, RICK VEITCH, GRAHAM NOLAN, BILL WRAY, PAUL RYAN, FRANK FOSCO, DAVE ROSS, AL MILGROM, STEVE RUDE and DAN JURGENS. Cover by ERIK LARSEN.

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's legendary run on Fantastic Four lasted more than one hundred issues - and ended all too soon! Now, witness the continuing adventures of Marvel's First Family - told like Stan and Jack never left the book by some of comics' most talented creators in this time-tossed tribute to the original Imaginauts! Featuring Dr. Doom, the X-Men, Daredevil, the Sub-Mariner, the Inhumans, M.O.D.O.K., the Hulk, Silver Surfer, Black Panther, the Avengers, Annihilus, Thor and more!

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 280 pages, full color.

Cover price $34.99.

1st printing. Collects Fantastic Four: The World's Greatest Comic Magazine (2001) #1-12.

Written by ERIK LARSEN, ERIC STEPHENSON, BRUCE TIMM, TOM DEFALCO, KURT BUSIEK, JEPH LOEB and STAN LEE. Art by ERIK LARSEN, BRUCE TIMM, KEITH GIFFEN, JORGE LUCAS, RON FRENZ, GORDON PURCELL, TOM SCIOLI, SHANNON DENTON, MIKE MANLEY, RICK VEITCH, GRAHAM NOLAN, BILL WRAY, PAUL RYAN, FRANK FOSCO, DAVE ROSS, AL MILGROM, STEVE RUDE and DAN JURGENS. Cover by ERIK LARSEN.

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's legendary run on FANTASTIC FOUR lasted more than one hundred issues - and ended all too soon! Now, witness the continuing adventures of Marvel's First Family, told as if Stan and Jack never left the book! Some of comics' most talented creators join forces in this time-tossed tribute to the original Imaginauts! Featuring Doctor Doom, the Avengers, the X-Men, Thor, the Hulk, Daredevil, Black Panther, the Inhumans, the Sub-Mariner, the Silver Surfer, M.O.D.O.K., Annihilus and more! It's an action-packed celebration of everything that made Stan and Jack's FANTASTIC FOUR truly the World's Greatest Comics Magazine!

Softcover, 280 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Fine $10.75

1st printing. Art and cover by Chris Cilla. FEAST OF GREASE is the latest collection of psychedelic comix artwork by cult cartoonist Chris Cajero Cilla. Including work from Kramers Ergot, Studygroup Comics, and Vision Quest, gathered together in these pages for an all-you-can-eat album of mind melting comics. Journey from outer space to the dumpster behind a liquor store! Spend time with funny animals, freaky humans, ghosts, dirty cops, and other creatures in a world full of chicken fat & junkyard poetry, cartoon daydreams and nightmares. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 112 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Edited by Tara Prescott and Aaron Drucker. This collection of new essays looks carefully at the broad spectrum of Neil Gaiman's work and how he interacts with feminism. Sixteen diverse essays from Gaiman scholars examine highlights from Gaiman's graphic novels, short stories, novels, poems and screenplays, and confront the difficult issues he raises, including femininity, the male gaze, issues of age discrimination, rape, and feminine agency. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 294 pages, Text only. Cover price $35.00.

1st printing.

Story and art by S Craig Zahler.

After three startling, award-winning movies that have played around the world and been added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, S. Craig Zahler wanted to return to his first artistic passion - illustration. He committed himself to writing, drawing, inking, and lettering his graphic novel debut, a full-length work of noir horror.

Homeless people are disappearing in New Bastion, and occasionally, a dismantled corpse turns up in a dumpster. These crimes are left alone, until the day a comatose woman named Lillian Driscoll is kidnapped from the hospital. Her brothers - a grumpy detective named Leo and a slick mobster named Tommy - seek answers that lead them to darkness, arcane medicine, and pain.

Softcover, 104 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $15.95.

Add to cart Fine $2.65

1st printing.

Written by Ian Rosenberg. Art and cover by Michael Cavallaro.

Freedom of speech is perhaps the most American of virtues. In a nation where everyone wants to speak and be heard, this First Amendment right is vital to our identity and our democracy. These rights have advanced by people who spoke out and fought in our nation's highest court, with each decision refining and reshaping what exactly "free speech" means.

In Free Speech Handbook, Ian Rosenberg and Mike Cavallaro trace this turbulent history across ten seminal Supreme Court cases while drawing parallels with more recent controversies.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 272 pages, full color.

Cover price $28.99.

Cover by Allen Ulmer. Stories and art by Seymour Pearlstein, Chu Hing, Allen Ulmer, Larz Bourne, Ben Thompson, H. S. Camp and Alvin Hollingsworth. Factual comics and fictional involving the frontiers of science and technology. Nonfiction features on then-new technologies, alternating with kids' adventure stories using the same tech. This issue features electrical fuses, radar, and atomic energy. What in the Future World; What's the Future Fuze?; Mercy Flight; How the Proximity Fuze Works; Jack Boyd and the Radar Rescue; Let's Look at Radar's Future; It's Patented!; How Radar Works; Bill Cosmo and the Plutonium Pile!; How Atomic Energy Works; They Did the Impossible; Your Future Needs the Army and the Army Needs You; Where is Atomic Energy Going? 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Story and art by Isabel Greenberg.

Glass Town is an original graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg that encompasses the eccentric childhoods of the four Brontë children - Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne.

In 1852, Maria and Elizabeth, the eldest siblings, die. In response to this loss, that the four remaining children set pen to paper and created the fictional world that became known as Glass Town. This world and its cast of characters would come to be the Brontës' escape from the realities of their lives. Within Glass Town the siblings experienced love, friendship, war, triumph, and heartbreak.

Readers will find themselves enraptured by this fascinating imaginary world.

Hardcover, 224 pages, full color.

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Josh Pettinger. GOITER is the first collection of short stories by Josh Pettinger. It explores the strange and unnerving experience of being a person. GOITER features a traveling ventriloquist accused of a horrible crime, the romantic adventures of a floating head fighting an interdimensional war, and a dystopian epic set in a distant-future online retail warehouse. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 224 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $25.00.

1st printing. Story and art by Lale Westvind. GRAND ELECTRIC THOUGHT POWER MOTHER collects six of Lale's past / omnipresent / futuristic minicomics. Previously printed in one-color Risograph, Lale has adapted these stories of woman & machine for juicy, three-color spot offset. In addition, find one new, never-before-seen story, writing from the artist, and more. Presented by Perfectly Acceptable Press. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10-in., 336 pages, PC. Cover price $40.00.

1st printing. By Marc Singer. One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres that dominate the American and British comics industries. In Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics, author Marc Singer examines how Morrison uses this fusion of styles to intervene in the major political, aesthetic, and intellectual challenges of our time. Softcover, 256 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations). Cover price $25.00.

(W) Sam Ashurst (A) Tony M. Clarke (CA) Tony M. Clarke I’d rather cut off my own ear than hear our song in his movie…’ When celebrity b-movie director Quentin Tarantino sets out to make his 10th and final film, there’s only one tune good enough to end his epic: Hanna and the Hells’ ‘New York Ripper'. Only trouble is, Hanna and her pals don’t want to hand over the rights. This sets in motion a widescreen conflict that sees the band travelling across the planet to call action on their very own rip-roaring rampage of revenge… Will QT survive, or is he going to be pretty far from okay? Find out by ordering Hanna and the Hells VS Quentin Tarantino today! Writer Sam Ashurst is a cartoonist, screenwriter and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. Artist Tony M Clarke is a ‘70s punk rocker turned ‘80s psychotronic store owner, based in London, England. Cover price $6.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $12.00

Add to cart Near Mint $12.00

1st printing. Story and art by Em Frank. Annie and Elise meet at a coffee shop in a part of town they are watching change for the worst. Despite the fact that Annie is leaving for Vietnam in a week, they decide to honor their instant connection for what it is: a little unhinged, possibly doomed but full of a weirdly familiar and addictive beauty they can't quite put their fingers on. A mix between Ghost World, Normal People and Linklater's The Before Trilogy, Heavenly Days is a deeply emotional trans love story about how some love can feel so life-affirming yet seemingly so hard to live through. Softcover, 7 1/4-in. x 8-in., 208 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Written by Scott Bukatman. Art and cover by Mike Mignola. Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality. Drawing upon other media - including children's books, sculpture, pulp fiction, cinema, graphic design, painting, and illuminated manuscripts - Bukatman reveals the mechanics of creating a world on the page. Monsters populate the world of Hellboy comics, but Bukatman argues that comics are themselves little monsters, unruly sites of sensory and cognitive pleasures that exist, happily, on the margins. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 280 pages, Text (with full color Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $26.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $8.95

1st printing. Written by Kate Hannigan. Art and cover by Josh Rosen. Turn back the clock with History Comics! When we think of war, we often focus on the battlefields. But the homefront contributes to the fight too! During the war years of 1941 to 1945, Americans did whatever they could to support the troops and defeat the Nazis. In this volume, learn how millions of Americans joined the fight by working assembly lines, growing vegetables, and collecting scrap metal during World War II! Four curious kids take us into factories, farms, and even kitchens to show what the fight on the homefront looks like up close! Softcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $12.99.

1st printing. Written by Arnaud de la Croix. Art and cover by Vicente Cifuente. A massive and lushly illustrated graphic novel on World War II that looks through the eyes of major players such as Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt In 20 captivating chapters, interspersed with informative chapter openers as well as a bibliography for further reading, The History of World War II unravels the complex dynamics of the conflict that transformed every corner of the globe into a theater of war. From fragile alliances tested to their limit, to long-simmering bitter rivalries, the root causes of the war immediately following the "war to end all wars" are unpacked and examined in a powerful narrative that illuminates the enduring legacy of this tumultuous period, asking the reader to reflect on the lessons it can offer for our time. Arnaud De La Croix and Vicente Cifuentes expertly weave together a compelling and vivid history of World War II, the scope of which has yet to be matched in graphic novel format. Hardcover. 8-in.x 12-in., 296 pages, full color. Teen+ Cover price $29.99.

1st printing.

Story and art by Emma Jon-Michael Frank.

In I'm Trying To Love You, the author vulnerably opens themselves up to exploring their bittersweet relationships and self with a rigorous and sloppy honesty. The result is a quirky and raw memoir that is felt by the reader as a kind of really funny and revealing therapy.

Softcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9-in., 216 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $24.99.

1st printing. Story and art by Emma Jon-Michael Frank. In I NEVER FOUND YOU, a queer birdwatcher finds something macabre and grisly in the woods entering him into a strange and desperate world. Part murder mystery, and part mystery of the self, I NEVER FOUND YOU is a story about belonging and love, in a world made increasingly hostile by dark human influence. Softcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 176 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.95.

1st printing.

Written by Leo Quievreux and Francois Vigneault. Art by Leo Quievreux.

The subconscious is the battlefield of the near future. "The Agency" seeks to recover a prototype of the EP-1 module, a frightening new weapon that harvests memories and reveals the unexplored subconscious. Freelance operative Anna Kiszczak is caught in a triangle of espionage where both conspirators and perception are suspect. Paranoia spreads as reality unravels and memory is no longer refuge.

Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. By Jeffery Klaehm. With the popularity of comic book properties at an all-time high, the time is right for a collection of essays and original interviews devoted to all things comic book. As well as essays on contemporary issues and trends associated with comic books and comic book culture, this diverse collection also features original interviews with top comic industry professionals. From visionary writers and artists, to award-winning editors and publishers, interviewees include: Joe Quesada, artist, writer, and Marvel Comics editor-in-chief; Victor Lucas, creator, producer, and co-host of the award-winning Electric Playground; Steve Englehart, acclaimed writer for Marvel Comics and DC Comics; John Romita, Sr., legendary Amazing Spiderman artist and Marvel Comics art director; Steve Niles, writer of 30 Days of Night, Dark Days, and Wake the Dead; Eric Searleman, Viz Media editor; Chris Warner, Dark Horse Comics senior editor; Scott Allie, writer and Dark Horse Comics Conan editor; and Norm Breyfogle, acclaimed Batman artist. Addressing the role comic books play in reflecting the mood of popular culture, essay topics include: comic book fan communities; comics in relation to cinema and video games; the issue of censorship, in particular, of horror comics; comic book content and social attitudes of the 1950s and 1960s; detective comics of the 1970s; and women collectors and the image of women in comic books, in general. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 260 pages, Text Only. Cover price $24.99.

Flip Book Ashcan. Limited to 500 copies. Preview and 1st appearance of Isabel, a creator owned character by the award-winning writer/artist team Tony Isabella and Eddy Newell. Also with Anastasia Heonis, Thom Zahler and Justin. Also, preview and 1st appearance of Nobody, a creator owned character by Tony Isabella and Bob Ingersoll. Also with Chris Jones, Mark Stegbauer, Thom Zahler and Justin. 20 pages, B&W.