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The Heart of Thomas (トーマの心臓 / Thomas no Shinzō) by Moto Hagio 528-page black & white (with some color) 7" x 9.5" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-551-8 Ships in: December 2012 (subject to change) – Pre-Order Now BARGAIN COMBO: The Heart of Thomas + A Drunken Dream Gift Set Price: $64.98 $51.98 The setting: A boys' boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th Century. One winter day, fourteen year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after sending a single, brief letter to another boy at the school: To Juli, one last time. This is…

Hello, loyal mail-order customers! Just a friendly reminder that in order for your shipment to be delivered in time for the Christmas holiday, we must receive your order before 5 PM Pacific time on the following dates (note that these are guidelines and not a guarantee of delivery): International – Global Mail: Tuesday, November 27 International – Airmail: Monday, December 10 Domestic – Media Rate/UPS Ground: Friday, December 14 Domestic – Priority Mail: Monday, December 17 Domestic – 2nd Day UPS: Thursday, December 20 See our Shipping Charges & Information page for more general information on shipping methods, rates and…

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new title. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about it (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the link, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. Castle Waiting Vol. II #18 by Linda Medley 24-page black & white 6.75" x 10.25" comic book • $3.95 "I do believe Castle Waiting Vol. II #18 wraps up the current storyline for Linda Medley’s long-running fantasy comic…" – Joe McCulloch, The Comics Journal "If I had $15, I’d keep…

Let's face it, if you're reading our new hardcover collections of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant, you know that every volume is a must-have, but our latest, Vol. 6, is a particular can't-miss. In it, Val and his new bride Aleta travel the New World (beating Columbus, and even Leif Ericson, by centuries) from Newfoundland to Niagara Falls and are joined by a bouncing baby Prince — that's right, it's the birth of Arn! This volume also features some of our most spectacular bonus features ever, including a double-sized fold-out of a strip hand-colored by Foster. You can get it in…

Shipping from our mail-order department and arriving in comic shops tomorrow: Castle Waiting Vol. II #18 by Linda Medley 24-page black & white 6.75" x 10.25" comic book • $3.95 The conclusion to Castle Waiting Volume II! The castle folk prepare for winter as Dr. Fell surprises everyone with a previously hidden talent, and the exasperated poltersprites move to claim the Keep as their own. "Castle Waiting creates a vibrant fantasy world not unlike The Lord of the Rings' Middle-earth but with a focus on the lives of women…. Fun to read and look at, Castle Waiting will enthrall fantasy…

Weird Horrors & Daring Adventures: The Joe Kubert Archives Vol. 1 by Joe Kubert; edited by Bill Schelly 240-page full-color 7.5" x 10.75" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-581-5 Ships in: December 2012 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Joe Kubert sealed his reputation as one of the greatest American comicbook cartoonists of all time with the four-color adventures of Sgt. Rock of Easy Company, Enemy Ace, and Tarzan, all done for DC Comics during the 1960s and 1970s (themselves already the subject of archival editions)… but he had been working in comics since the 1940s. In fact, young Kubert produced an…

Don your finest potato sack, put the nearest container on your head and get ready for the January arrival of Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 2, the second hardcover collection of Michael Kupperman's cult-smash humor comic! Join Snake 'n' Bacon, Twain & Einstein, Quincy M.E., Jungle Princess and a cast of dozens more on an absurd journey through history, to the moon and into your dreams! This volume collects issues 5-8, plus a full issue's worth of brand-new never-before-seen material. See for yourself why Conan O'Brien says Kupperman has "one of the best comedy brains on the planet right now."…

Nobody can ever accuse Johnny Ryan of slacking. Prison Pit Book 4 is still warm on the shelves and already Johnny has turned in the cover art for Book 5, which won't be out until Fall of next year. What is that floating death head tank thing? Who are those guys? What kind of crazy shit is gonna happen in this one? WHAT KIND???

Uncle Jim takes you on a narrated tour through his upcoming book Problematic: Sketchbook Drawings 2004-2012 (due next month) and shows off a few of the original Moleskine notebooks from which the drawings in the book were taken, describing it all in his inimitable style. Hey, this means I don't have to shoot the usual preview video of the book — although in a bit of a switcheroo, Jim has loaned us 4 of his sketchbooks for us to shoot and upload video of those (they're just sitting around in my living room right now, no big deal, PLOTZ), so…

Jaxon – drawn to the task from Telebob on Vimeo. If you'd like to know more about Jack Jackson before digging in to our forthcoming volume Jack Jackson's American History: Los Tejanos & Lost Cause, this short video documentary created by Bob Simmons is an excellent primer. (Hat tip to Patrick Rosenkranz for pointing it out to us a ways back.)