Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter is ongoing, and we're continuing to spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.) SuperTrash by Jacques Boyreau 220-page full-color 8" x 8" softcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-738-3 SuperTrash is the awaited, mutagenic sequel to Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002, Chronicle), the book that became a prophecy of the lasting influence of grindhouse and a model describing the shared evolution…
Spring-Summer 2014, part 5: The Prince and the Mouse
Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter is ongoing, and we're continuing to spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.) Prince Valiant Vol. 9: 1953-1954 by Hal Foster 112-page full-color 10.25" x 14" hardcover • $34.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-735-2 In our ninth volume, Arn tries his hand at being a warrior, Merlin is bewitched by Nimue, and Tillicum and Boltar have a son named Hatha — the first inter-racial baby "born" in…
Spring-Summer 2014, part 4: rediscovered comic book classics
Since we're asking you to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter (we're thisclose to our goal!), we thought we'd spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.) Young Romance 2: The Early Simon & Kirby Romance Comics by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby; edited by Michel Gagné 200-page full-color 7.75" x 10" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-732-1 From tears to soda fountains, from mobsters to pretty ingénues in freshly pressed dresses, the stories of…
Kickstarter print-a-rama
These beautiful prints by Tim Lane, Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez, and Drew Friedman just a few of the rewards in our Kickstarter campaign for our Spring-Summer 2014 season. Get ‘em before they’re gone!
Spring-Summer 2014, part 3: O say can you EC?
Since we're asking you to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter (and you're coming through in spades so far!), we thought we'd spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.) Judgment Day and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)by Joe Orlando, Al Feldstein, Ray Bradbury et al. 184-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-727-7 Joe Orlando was a mainstay at EC, especially on science fiction, and this collects 23…
Artists Authors Thinkers Directors by Paul Hornschemeier – Photoset Preview
"[Hornschemeier's] art encompass[es] many different styles, from richly layered classical surrealism to densely structured and primary color-heavy McSweeney's-style illustrations. But taken together, the work exhibits an instantly recognizable and distinctive panache." – Publishers Weekly "Hornschemeier's style is every style. …a formidable creative." – Byron Kerman, PLAYBACK:stl "Paul avoids the hammering sentimentality and labored connect-all-the-dots obviousness of too much contemporary work, in any media." – Jonathan Lethem Artists Authors Thinkers Directors by Paul Hornschemeier 112-page full-color 6" x 6.5" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-698-0 Due to arrive in about 2-4 weeks. Click the thumbnails for larger versions; get more info, see more previews…
Artists Authors Thinkers Directors by Paul Hornschemeier – Video/Photo Slideshow Preview
Artists Authors Thinkers Directors by Paul Hornschemeier 112-page full-color 6" x 6.5" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-698-0 Ships in: November 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now A self-portrait through one hundred portraits, Artists Authors Thinkers Directors explores cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier's sketchbook renderings of those who shaped his (and many others') artistic views. Culled from his drawing blog — The Daily Forlorn, one of Tumblr's featured illustration blogs — these portraits are as stylistically varied as the subjects they portray. A scrawled, single line drawing of Lenny Bruce shares space with a triangular Werner Heisenberg. A monochromatic, stippled Stanley Kubrick stares intently at…
Spring-Summer 2014, part 2: Buddy and Bunglers
Since we're asking you to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter (and you're coming through in spades so far!), we thought we'd spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.) Buddy Buys a Dump by Peter Bagge 144-page full-color 6" x 9" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-745-1 He’s back! Now in his 30s and married with child, onetime slacker hero Buddy Bradley gets a "real" job, shaves his head, dons an eyepatch, quits…
Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 by Trina Robbins – Now in Stock
Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 by Trina Robbins 180-page color/black & white 9" x 12" softcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-669-0 See Previews / Order Now In the 21st century, women cartoonists have more opportunities than ever before: graphic novels in bookstores and libraries, and comics on the Internet, have created audiences for influential books such as Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi), Fun Home (Alison Bechdel), What It Is (Lynda Barry), and Hark! A Vagrant (Kate Beaton). Trina Robbins’ lavishly illustrated Pretty in Ink shows that, although the comics field was dominated…
Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955 (Vol. 1) by Charles M. Schulz – Now in Stock
Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955 (Vol. 1) by Charles M. Schulz 224-page full-color 13.25" x 9.5" hardcover • $49.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-692-8 See Previews / Order Now This glorious compilation of Peanuts Every Sunday is the debut volume that collects, for the first time ever, all the Peanuts strips that ran in everyone’s newspaper on Sundays — each comic strip reproduced in vibrant, warm full color! In this luxurious hardcover reprinting the years 1952 through 1955, Charles Schulz introduces Schroeder, Lucy, and Linus to his archetypal Peanuts cast of Charlie Brown and Snoopy. "Charles Schulz…
