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Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Michael Jordan: Bull on Paradeby Wilfred Santiago 200-page full color 5.75" x 7.5" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-711-6 See Previews / Order Now A thrilling, kinetic bio-epic about Michael "Air" Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time and most influential athlete in history, from the creator of the acclaimed and best-selling 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente. This tour de force explores Jordan's public successes and private struggles, with the depth of Santiago's passion for his subject shining through on every full-color page. Jordan became a national celebrity at the age…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Sam Zabel and the Magic Penby Dylan Horrocks 228-page full color 7" x 10" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-790-1 See Previews / Order Now Acclaimed cartoonist Dylan Horrocks returns with a long-awaited new graphic novel, the first since his perennial classic, 1998's Hicksville (new edition, VUP 2010). Cartoonist Sam Zabel hasn't drawn a comic in years. Stuck in a nightmare of creative block and despair, Sam spends his days writing superhero stories for a large American comics publisher and staring at a blank piece of paper, unable to draw a single line….

Today's January Book-A-Day Sale brings us back to beloved Norwegian cartoonist Jason's work. This time, we're offering the unique graphic novel The Left Bank Gang for 45% off! Starring four literary giants—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce—The Left Bank Gang is a deliciously inventive re-imagining of these four characters as not only typical Jason anthropomorphics, but…graphic novelists! Yes, in Jason's warped world, cartooning is the dominant form of fiction, and not only do these four work literary giants work in the comics medium but they get together to discuss pen vs. brush, chat about the latest graphic novels…

In our next half-size, kid-friendly Donald Duck book, our feathered protagonist is determined to catch a gang of cattle rustlers that have been terrorizing the ranchers of Bullet Valley. Using his knowledge from watching Western movies, Donald sets out to catch the no-gooders red-handed. Our nine-page downloadable excerpt sets the stage for the book's titular storyline, with Donald convincing the sheriff that he has what it takes to take down these baddies with a string of Western movie plotlines. The foreshadowing is complete when he orders his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, to stay behind at a hotel. Will Donald's vast…

Hurricane Isle and Other Adventures: The Best of Captain Easy and Wash Tubbsby Roy Crane 320-page black & white 10.5" x 8.5" hardcover$39.99 | 978-1-60699-809-0 Ships in: February 2015 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Sate your wanderlust with a brick of slam-bang action, boisterous humor, dangerous villains, even more dangerous women, and the promised treasure in this collection of Roy Crane's classic Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy. Following our Eisner Award-nominated series of Roy Crane's Captain Easy Sunday strip collections, we have selected the very best of the indispensable daily comic strip adventures of Easy and Tubbs. Featuring Wash…

Today's January Book-A-Day Sale features the beautiful work of Italian cartoonist Igort. This second issue of Baobab tells the story of two aspiring cartoonists who vow to create amazing works of fantasy and magic, even talking a retired local newspaper publisher into reviving his paper just for them. But just as he sees his big break and gets ready to launch what will eventually become his signature character, "Morvo," Celestine falls terribly ill, and even his doting sister's help can't get him back on track… In the Baobab series, Igort traces an alternate history of the very beginnings of the comic strip artform, with…

Today's Book-A-Day sale title comes from Montreal, where two Canadian artists Marc Tessier and Alexandre Lafleur collaborated on this debut graphic novel telling four striking stories. "The Sleeping Heart," "The Theatre of Cruelty," "The Lovers," and "To Chandra from Surya" filter autobiographical fragments through the dream world, plumbing the depths of the psyche, mining the mythology of our collective unconscious. Written and drawn over a five-year period, each tale in The Theatre of Cruelty is a rollercoaster ride through hell and heaven, fueled by a quest to capture the truth through the power of imagination. And, for today only, grab a copy…

In this, our twenty-third volume of the highly praised, award-winning series collecting The Complete Peanuts, we've got a sweet introduction by RiffTrax writers Conor Lastowka and Sean Thomason and, for the first time ever, a few pages of riffed Peanuts strips following the introduction! We'll have those previews up soon, but in the meantime, you can pre-order your copy of The Complete Peanuts 1995-1996 (Vol. 23) now!

The scent of freshly printed advance books is second only to coffee in its ability to perk us up and get our heartrate going! This morning, we've got a first glimpse at Willard Mullin's Casey at the Bat and Other Diamond Tales. Check out that beautiful cloth binding, the lush colors popping off each page, and the simple design allowing Mullin's illustrations to shine. Casey at the Bat is slated to arrive in bookstores in March, but you can make it an easy catch by pre-ordering the book here!

Today's January Book-A-Day is a three-fer! Shimura Takako's beloved manga series, Wandering Son, has been hailed as a sophisticated work of storytelling, in which a group of fifth grade characters must navigate their budding puberty, and some of them find themselves dealing with the additional complications of gender dysphoria. Today, we're pleased to offer Volumes 4, 5, and 6 as a bundle at 45% off!