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B'Gawrsh! It's another volume of rip-roarin', shoot-em-up, and time-travelin' Mickey Mouse adventures, penned by the masterful Floyd Gottfredson. Lost in Lands of Long Ago starts off with a six-page foreword by Thomas Andrae that's packed with original sketches and illustrations, followed by a full illustrated spread by Stephen de Stefano titled "I Sat at Floyd Gottfredson's Desk!" All of this, plus seven pages of comics, are included in our 22-page, 5.1 MB downloadable excerpt. Lost in Lands of Long Ago is available for pre-order now, which means you'll receive it on your doorstep, front porch, P.O Box, or via brontosaurus* in…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: The Seven Cities of Gold (The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 14)by Carl Barks 240-page full color 7.5" x 10.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-795-6 See Previews / Order Now Uncle Scrooge takes Donald and the nephews on a perilous trek in search of the fabled seven cities of gold! This is the Scrooge story famous for providing Steven Spielberg and George Lucas with inspiration for parts of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Speaking of gold and movies, James Bond fans might recognize in “The Mysterious Stone…

Can't get enough ZAP in your life?! Not only do we have our limited-edition, single printing five-volume box set of The Complete Zap Comix coming out in November, but we're also preparing companion book and Volume 9 of The Comics Journal Library—Zap: The Interviews, edited by Michael Dean and Gary Groth. This softcover collection holds all of the definitive Comics Journal interviews with the various Zap contributors and is a must-have for any Zap addic—er, fan. We've got the journal cover design here, and we'll have select previews coming soon!

To round off this season's gift box sets, we're packaging Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Outwits the Phantom Blot and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Lost in Lands of Long Ago into one well-designed, collectible, and extremely giftable slipcased set. We're proud to showcase these next two thrilling volumes of Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey adventures, due to come out alongside Lost in Lands of Long Ago in late November. The box set is available for pre-order now, at a price cheaper than the two individual volumes combined. Hard to beat that deal!

"Drew Weing’s beautiful art and masterful pacing are so pleasurable that Set To Sea stands up to multiple reads. It’s a catchy little tune that sounds better with each spin.” – The AV Club "The book contains very little dialogue, so it’s Weing’s images themselves that do the narrative work. And they’re a singular mix: in the foreground, bright, cartoony figures that look like they’re moonlighting from an E.C. Segar Popeye comic strip; in the background, densely crosshatched, painstakingly detailed seascapes." – NPR "With hints of The Odyssey, Moby Dick, Popeye and Treasure Island, Weing has created a modern classic…

This week's kale and acai berry energy smoothie of Online Commentaries and Diversions: Review: The Lonesome Go by Tim Lane "At times harsh, but always humane, The Lonesome Go hits you like a smack in the face. It’s a graphic novel in the truest sense, meant to be read as much as viewed. It’s a rich, substantial work by an artist and writer who is using the medium of comics to its fullest potential." – Harris Smith,comiXology Review: "Disfigured hobos lurch from panel to panel into fresh horrors. The vintage hairstyles of the ‘40s, nude bodies, a prescription-pill driven freak-out…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Walt Disney's Donald Duck Box Set: Lost in the Andes & Trail of the Unicorn (Carl Barks Library Vols. 7-8)by Carl Barks 472-page full color 7.75" x 10.5" hardcover • $49.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-796-3 See Previews / Order Now A double dose of Donald Duck! Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes and Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Trail of the Unicorn make up this special boxed set of two of our most popular Donald Duck albums exquisitely re-presenting the Duck stories of Carl Barks, one of the most brilliant cartoonists of the…

With its lightly textured cover and interior pages filled with Olivier Schrauwen's unique artwork, flipping through an advance copy of Arsène Schrauwen is both a tactile experience and visual treat. This first look shows just how varied the illustrations can be from page to page—and yet, it all ties together in a cogent, if surreal, biographical account of the artist's grandfather. Ollie Schrauwen's first full-length graphic novel is not to be missed. We'll have more previews coming up on the Flog, and the book is available for pre-order now!

"Peanuts was, is, and will continue to be the finest comic in the world. Bravo." – Ray Bradbury "The daily black-and-white comics were great but the full-color Sunday strips gave Schulz a big, beautiful canvas to let his expert pacing and amazing linework breathe in a rainbow of color…it’s really the entire mix of characters …and their mix of adult prickliness and childlike naiveté that made Charles Schulz’s iconic comics strips so timeless." – Evan Narcisse, Kotaku Peanuts Every Sunday: 1956-1960 (Vol. 2)by Charles M. Schulz 288-page full color 13.25" x 9.5" hardcover • $49.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-794-9 Due to arrive in…

Sock Monkey: Into the Deep Woodsby Matt Danner and Tony Millionaire 80-page color 6" x 9" hardcover • $16.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-746-8 Ships in: October 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now The precocious sock monkey Uncle Gabby, his innocent pal Mr. Crow, and their tiny doll-friend, Inches, are the heroes of this funny, unsettling, and all-new Sock Monkey storybook. Convinced that their human, Ann-Louise, has been kidnapped by a vicious monster dubbed the Amarok, our heroes bravely venture into the Haunted Woods to rescue her. The epic quest that follows takes them by sea, land, and air through many fantastic lands…