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.
Bill Griffith: Lost and Found – Comics 1969-2003
by Bill Griffith
392-page black & white/color 8" x 10" softcover • $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-60699-482-5
"My splurge this week would probably be Bill Griffith: Lost and Found, an 'odds and sodds' collection of work by the Zippy creator, mostly done prior to that strip’s creation. I’m not actually certain what’s included in this book, but a good deal of Griffith’s non-Zippy material is pretty great, even better than the strip in some cases." – Chris Mautner, Robot 6
"Fresh from the comics oven, @fantagraphics's fab collection of Bill Griffith comics… love 'em" – Forbidden Planet International
"Recommended – Bill Griffith's Lost and Found – Beautifully drawn underground humor from the creator of Zippy!" – Danger Room Comics
"I've always enjoyed Bill Griffith's not-Zippy work whenever I've encountered it, and actively sought some out when some of his underground comics were praised by various cartoonists back in the Fantagraphics office in the mid-1990s. This volume is a welcome surprise, and I hope it's not totally buried in the forthcoming year's worth of archival work ahead. For this week at least, it's the belle of the new comics ball." – Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter
"CONFLICT OF INTEREST RESERVOIR: I remember reading a Bill Griffith strip about Rory Hayes in the ’08 Hayes compilation Where Demented Wented and being really impressed by Griffith’s graphic style, something I’d only really had much exposure to in newspaper strip form via Zippy. Among its 392 pages, Bill Griffith: Lost And Found – Comics 1969-2003 aims to present many various comics, underground and otherwise, along with reflections from the artist and some added Zippy stuff, including an unfinished comics adaptation of Griffith’s screenplay to the never-produced movie of the character; $39.99."
UPDATE: Download an exclusive 5-page sneak peek at PREVIEWSworld!
