New Comics Day 7.31.13

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. 
Ghost and Ruins  
Ghosts and Ruins
by Ben Catmull

84-page black & white 10.25" x 8.5" hardcover • $22.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-678-2

"an 84-page landscape-format hardcover wedding new illustrations of haunted houses to creepy blisters of background and trivia" -Joe McCulloch, The Comics Journal  

Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball
Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972
by Willard Mullin; edited by Hal Bock and Michael Powers

240-page black & white/color 9.25" x 12.25" hardcover • $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-60699-639-3

"student sports fans (in this case, baseball fans specifically) can leverage their outside-of-school literacies to comprehend and appreciate the sophisticated cartoons and high-level text in Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball." –Peter Gutierrez, School Library Journal

"…this Willard Mullin book has a lot of beautiful cartooning in it." –Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter

Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972
by Willard Mullin; edited by Hal Bock and Michael Powers

240-page black & white/color 9.25" x 12.25" hardcover • $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-60699-639-3

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