Blab! comic books issue 1

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $7.95.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 120 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $6.95.

1st printing. By Shag. Shag: A to Z presents, quite simply, 26 original paintings corresponding to the letters of the alphabet. Each painting is accompanied by a short verse extolling the pleasures of a hedonistic lifestyle and the virtues of overindulgence. Shag has spent the last decade creating a body of work based on his idiomatic aesthetic preferences, a world of mid-20th-century modern architecture and design, populated by hedonists, supplicants, and indifferent women. Hardcover, 10 1/2-in. x 10-in., 48 pages, full color. Cover price $14.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Cover by Ryan Heshka. BLAB!-the Harvey Award-winning anthology of cutting-edge comics, art, and culture-has returned to its comics roots with a stellar lineup of contributors. Noah Van Sciver depicts the tragic demise of Crime Does Not Pay editor Robert Wood. Ryan Heshka recounts the rise and fall of Superman creators Siegel and Shuster. Sasha Velour portrays the making of film director F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu. Children's book illustrator Giselle Potter examines Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter's passion as a naturalist. Illustrated articles include the history of the gorilla and a report on UFOs. All this and much more in Comics and Stories That Will Make You BLAB! o BLAB! is an eclectic mix of fiction and nonfiction presented in a variety of forms-comics, picture books, and illustrated essays-with a special emphasis on style and tone. o Harvey Award winner for Best Anthology. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 112 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Text by Monte Beauchamp. Blab World is the new incarnation of the celebrated art and comics annual Blab! The main feature, "Artpocalypse!" has several artists, including Mark Ryden and Joe Sorren, interpeting the end times. Blab World also presents a history of the skull motif on the covers of Pre-Code comics, pulps, and paperback books, lavishly illustrated throughout. "It's like the New Yorker for Mutants," proclaimed the Los Angeles Reader. Hardcover, 10-in. x 10-in., 128 pages, full color. Cover price $24.95.

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1st printing. Written by Mike Carey. Art by Aaron Alexovich. When Tasha's mom brings home an annoying hack novelist boyfriend, Jed, and his deadpan daughter, her dysfunctional family is headed for a complete mental meltdown. But Tasha has her blog, BLABBERMOUTH, as the ultimate weapon - and she's not afraid to use it. Especially when she starts to suspect that the obnoxious Jed has a guilty secret that goes far beyond his bad prose. Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 176 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.99.

1st printing. By Walter Minus. Darling Chéri is the sensually illustrated story of a young career woman who awakens one morning to not only the light of an early dawn but also to the realization that love has left her current relationship. Immediately she begins penning a brisk farewell note to her soundly sleeping boyfriend before pursuing the love that has since left. Celebrated throughout Europe for his captivating illustrations of fashionable and scantily clad females, Walter Minus' colorful work is featured in the third BLAB! Storybook, a series of graphic novels showcasing artists from Monte Beauchamp's annual BLAB! Anthology, presented in a faux-children's book format, though this volume is aimed at older readers. Hardcover, 10-in. x 10-in., 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $14.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Camille Rose Garcia. An original, first graphic novel from the acclaimed California painter Camille Rose Garcia (her work has been shown in Juxtapoz, Art Issues and Paper, and exhibited in galleries and museums up and down the west coast), the first of a proposed series set in the fantasyland of the Lost World of the Peppermint Islands. In The Magic Bottle, Lulu Blackenshoe lives in a gray world dominated by factories, landfills and giant corporations. Nature has all but disappeared in her world, but no one notices because of the antidepressants they're on. Lulu (who never takes her medicine) feels an increasing sense of dread and despair, until her fate changes one cold day when she finds a magic bottle containing a map. Drawn by pirates long ago, this map shows the way to the lost world of the Peppermint Islands, sunk to the bottom of the sea 400 years ago in the great battle between the pirates and the capitalists. Suddenly, Lulu has the chance to save the last remaining wild animals on earth, but she'll have to battle the Peppermint Man and the Great Trading Company in order to defeat the capitalist machine out to ruin the natural world. The Magic Bottle is presented in a faux-children's book format, though its aimed squarely at adults and young adults. Hardcover, 10-in. x 10-in., 48 pages, full color. Cover price $14.95.

2nd and later printings. Story and art by Camille Rose Garcia. An original, first graphic novel from the acclaimed California painter Camille Rose Garcia (her work has been shown in Juxtapoz, Art Issues and Paper, and exhibited in galleries and museums up and down the west coast), the first of a proposed series set in the fantasyland of the Lost World of the Peppermint Islands. In The Magic Bottle, Lulu Blackenshoe lives in a gray world dominated by factories, landfills and giant corporations. Nature has all but disappeared in her world, but no one notices because of the antidepressants they're on. Lulu (who never takes her medicine) feels an increasing sense of dread and despair, until her fate changes one cold day when she finds a magic bottle containing a map. Drawn by pirates long ago, this map shows the way to the lost world of the Peppermint Islands, sunk to the bottom of the sea 400 years ago in the great battle between the pirates and the capitalists. Suddenly, Lulu has the chance to save the last remaining wild animals on earth, but she'll have to battle the Peppermint Man and the Great Trading Company in order to defeat the capitalist machine out to ruin the natural world. The Magic Bottle is presented in a faux-children's book format, though its aimed squarely at adults and young adults. Hardcover, 10-in. x 10-in., 48 pages, full color. Cover price $14.95.

1st printing. Edited by Monte Beauchamp. BLAB! is the illustration and comics compendium that carries the proud tradition of unfettered graphic innovation into the future. New & Used BLAB! extends the agenda of the magazine, exploring and reinventing the world of illustration, further establishing its authority in contemporary visual culture. The "Used" side republishes the finest of BLAB!, including the work of such luminaries as Gary Baseman, Peter Kuper, and Christian Northeast, while the "New" side features never-before-seen work specially commissioned for this volume from the likes of Haley Johnson, Sue Coe, Jonathon Rosen, and Spain, complete with an introduction by neoDada pop star Mark Mothersblaugh. Softcover, 9-in. x 9-in., 192 pages, full color. Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. Written by Sue Coe and Judith Brody. Art by Sue Coe. Sheep Of Fools describes the desperate and cruel economic phenomenon of "live transport" (sheep being transported across oceans to be slaughtered). Illustrated by Sue Coe's powerful images, her true 'yarn' harkens back to the beginning of the "Wool Mart", through which the British refined their Parliamentary system, its rules, and dispersal of power. Hardcover, 10-in. x 10-in., 32 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $14.95.

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1st printing. By Bob Staake. Staake lavishly adapts and illustrates a German fairy tale from 1845 and gives it a modernized flair. Hardcover, 10 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in., 40 pages, full color. Cover price $14.95.