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Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Wake Up, Percy Gloom! by Cathy Malkasian 192-page two-color 8.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-638-6 See Previews / Order Now BARGAIN COMBO: Percy Gloom Gift Set Price: $47.94 $38.35 Cathy Malkasian's second Percy Gloom graphic novel is another fable that the author brings to vivid life through her lush and detailed pencil renderings, surreal humor, absurdist characters, breathtaking landscapes, and luminous storytelling. Kindhearted, Candide-esque Percy wakes up from a 200 year nap and finds himself in a strange new land. Searching for his mother, lamenting his long-lost love and soul-mate Miss…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  The End by Anders Nilsen 80-page two-color (with 16pp. full color) 7.25" x 10.5" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-635-5 See Previews / Order Now Assembled from work done in Anders Nilsen’s sketchbooks over the course of the year following the death of his fiancée in 2005, The End is a collection of short strips about loss, paralysis, waiting, and transformation. It is a concept album in different styles, a meditation on paying attention, an abstracted autobiography and a travelogue, reflecting the progress of his struggle to reconcile the great upheaval of a death, and finding…

The first, hardcover edition of No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics was a smash hit and sold out lickety-split. We've hustled back to press for a new softcover edition, still featuring tons of great comics by Alison Bechdel, Howard Cruse, Edie Fake, Ellen Forney, Roberta Gregory, Andy Hartzell, Ralf König, Ed Luce, Steve MacIsaac, MariNaomi, Trina Robbins, Eric Shanower, and dozens more, all under Maurice Vellekoop's candy-colored cover art. Nominated for both a Lambda Literary Award and an Eisner Award this year, the book will fortunately be back on shelves in about 3 months. Browse a 34-page PDF excerpt and…

Bread & Wine by Samuel R. Delany & Mia Wolff 64-page black & white 8.25" x 10.5" hardcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-632-4 Ships in: June 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Written by black, gay science-fiction writer, professor, and theorist Samuel R. Delany, and drawn by artist/martial arts instructor Mia Wolff, Bread & Wine is a graphic autobiography that flashes back to the unlikely story of how Delany befriended Dennis, and how they became an enduring couple — Delany, a professor at Philadelphia’s Temple University, Dennis, an intelligent man living on the streets. For casual readers and fans, Bread & Wine…

New School by Dash Shaw 340-page full-color 8.75" x 11.25" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-644-7 Ships in: June 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now   In this brand new graphic novel from the acclaimed author of Bottomless Belly Button and BodyWorld, Dash Shaw dramatizes the story of a boy moving to an exotic country and his infatuation with an unfamiliar culture that quickly shifts to disillusionment. A sense of "being different" grows to alienation, until he angrily blames this once-enchanting land for his feelings of isolation. All of this is told through the fantastical eyes of young Danny, a boy growing up in the…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Barnaby Vol. 1 by Crockett Johnson Edited by Eric Reynolds & Philip Nel; Introduction by Chris Ware; art direction by Daniel Clowes 320-page black & white (with some color) 11" x 6.75" hardcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-522-8 See Previews / Order Now Before authoring one of the most beloved children’s book series of all time — Harold and the Purple Crayon — cartoonist Crockett Johnson created the comic strip Barnaby for over ten years (1942 to 1952). Its subtle ironies and playful allusions never won a broad following, but the adventures of 5-year-old Barnaby Baxter…

YOU PEOPLE ARE AWESOME.  Our Memorial Day Mega-Blowout Sale is exceeding our wildest expectations! Unfortunately, what this means is that many sale items are already backordered — our current supply is depleted — and some are gone completely. We will be restocking and filling backorders just as soon as we figure out how many of each title we need, but please note that your order may be delayed in shipping up to 4 weeks. With that in mind, we advise you to NOT choose rush shipping when placing your order! Meanwhile the sale marches on with our biggest discount ever — 75% OFF!…

Land sakes we have a lot of books coming out this summer and we need to clear out space in our warehouse. Hence we are offering our biggest discount ever — 75% OFF! — on a huge assortment of over 250 items. Treat yourself to our first Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse box set for just $12.50! Get our big fancy Love and Rockets hardcovers Locas II and Luba for 10 bucks each! Recent collections of classic material by Roy Crane, Mort Meskin, Alex Toth, Bill Mauldin, Simon & Kirby and more are $10 and under! Pick up super-cheap books by…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust (translated by Kim Thompson) 464-page two-color 6.75" x 9" softcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-557-0 See Previews / Order Now Back in 1984, a rebellious, 17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive, and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece. Miraculously combining a perfect memory for…

We seem to have a habit of posting sneak peeks of this book right after deadly disasters. We promise it's not on purpose. Given the subject matter, calling our upcoming paperback collection of Charles Forsman's The End of the Fucking World "cute" seems a little weird, but it's partly the tension between wanting to put it in your pocket and being gripped by the harrowing story that gives the work its power. This highly-anticipated book drops in July (after debuting at CAKE in Chicago in mid-June). We have an excerpt of the first two chapters for you to read right here,…