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Lost Catby Jason; translated by Kim Thompson 160-page two-color 6" x 8.75" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-642-3 See More Previews / Order Now   A detective is walking down the street. It is raining. He sees a "Lost Cat" poster. A minute later he sees the cat from the photo. He picks it up and goes back to the poster. He calls the number. A woman answers. He turns up at her place and gives her the cat. She invites him in from the rain for a cup of coffee. They talk and find out they have a lot in common: both…

A landmark collection, The Daniel Clowes Reader features seventeen of the cartoonist’s award-winning comics, along with critical commentary exploring the complexities of Clowes’s art. The volume includes: Ghost World, the acclaimed graphic novel • “Art School Confidential,” “The Party,” “Blue Italian Shit,” and seven other short stories • Six never-before-reprinted comic strips • Modern Cartoonist, Clowes’s prose manifesto on the history of cartooning • Interviews with the cartoonist about his work and artistic process • Critical analysis of the collection’s comics • Essays on Clowes’s relationship with indie culture, Gen X, and advertising • Extensive annotations that illuminate Clowes’s sources and influences • A…

The Daniel Clowes Reader: A Critical Edition of Ghost World and Other Stories, with Essays, Interviews, and Annotations edited by Ken Parille 360-page color/black & white 6.25" x 9" softcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-589-1 See Previews / Order Now Read Ghost World and other Clowes classics in a whole new way! Ken Parille and a passel of great comics thinkers provide critical and contextual insight into the artist and his hugely influential work. News of this book prompted The Comics Reporter's Tom Spurgeon to comment, "Ken Parille's stuff is routinely pretty great… Count me in." It's a must for all Clowes fans…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  The Love and Rockets Companion: 30 Years (and Counting) edited by Marc Sobel & Kristy Valenti 368-page black & white/color 7.5" x 9.25" jacketed softcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-579-2 See Previews / Order Now The Love and Rockets Companion: 30 Years (and Counting) contains three incredibly in-depth and candid interviews with creators Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez: one conducted by writer Neil Gaiman (Coraline); one conducted some six years into the comic’s run by longtime L&R publisher Gary Groth; and one conducted by the book’s author, spanning Gilbert’s, Jaime’s and Mario’s careers,…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  The Daniel Clowes Reader: A Critical Edition of Ghost World and Other Stories, with Essays, Interviews, and Annotations edited by Ken Parille 360-page color/black & white 6.25" x 9" softcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-589-1 See Previews / Order Now This landmark collection features ten of Daniel Clowes's most influential graphic narratives, along with interviews in which he talks about his career and creative process, and twelve thought-provoking essays by contemporary scholars and critics. A wide-ranging introduction to the work of one of the most important living cartoonists, The Daniel Clowes Reader features…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley by Kim Deitch 176-page black & white 11.25" x 7.5" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-631-7 See Previews / Order Now A century ago in sleepy Lumberton, the moving pictures, with their daring heroines, were the most exciting thing to happen to young Katherine Whaley. When a movie production came to town, her life took a most unexpected turn. Decades later, Whaley recounted her wild, weird years in the company of the mysterious eccentric Charles Varnay and his uncannily intelligent dog Rousseau. Varnay aimed…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Lost Catby Jason; translated by Kim Thompson 160-page two-color 6" x 8.75" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-642-3 See Previews / Order Now   A detective is walking down the street. It is raining. He sees a "Lost Cat" poster. A minute later he sees the cat from the photo. He picks it up and goes back to the poster. He calls the number. A woman answers. He turns up at her place and gives her the cat. She invites him in from the rain for a cup of coffee. They talk and find…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Goddamn This War!by Jacques Tardi & Jean-Pierre Verney 140-page full-color 8.25" x 10.75" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-582-2 See Previews / Order Now BARGAIN COMBO: Goddamn This War! + It Was the War of the Trenches Price: $49.98 $39.98 Created 15 years after the completion of his Eisner Award-winning World War I masterwork It Was the War of the Trenches, Tardi's Goddamn This War! is no mere sequel or extension, but a brand new, wholly individual graphic novel that serves as a companion piece to Trenches but can be read entirely on…

Instead of spending your hard-earned money on ephemeral spark-shooting gewgaws, why not celebrate our nation's liberation from overseas oppression by investing in quality collections of classic entertainment that stands the test of time? Now through July 8, 2013 we're offering a swell assortment of titles at up to 40% off list price! Get great vintage work from some of The World's Greatest Cartoonists like Roy Crane, Jack Davis, Dan DeCarlo, Steve Ditko, Bill Everett, Hal Foster, Floyd Gottfredson, Fletcher Hanks, George Herriman, Crockett Johnson, Walt Kelly, Bill Mauldin, E.C. Segar, Gahan Wilson, Basil Wolverton and many more, all at a spiffy…

“Kim Deitch has created a private world as fully realized in its own way as Faulkner’s. He’s an American original, a spinner of yarns whose beautifully structured pages and intricate plots conjure up a haunting and haunted American past.” – Art Spiegelman "Maybe even more than fellow first-wave underground comics creator Crumb, Deitch has maintained his quality." – Ray Olson, Booklist "Deitch… retains an astonishing ability to tap into the deepest desires of pop-culture junkies, and to show how the satisfaction we seek from nostalgia can lead us to some dark corners of our collective showbiz past." – The A.V. Club…