Don't forget! Tonight at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles Love and Rockets' Jaime Hernandez will be on a 7pm panel at Meltdown Comics with fellow cartoonists and animators Pendleton Ward, Bryan Lee O'Malley and Thompas Herpich. They will be interviewed by Inkstuds radio show host, Robin McConnell and cartoonist, Brandon Graham in what will be a packed room. After the panel, Jaime will be signing books INCLUDING the newest collection The Love Bunglers. There will be free tickets available at the door so you can still go loiter and hope to meet one of the cartoonists. It will also be broadcasted LIVE via MeltdownTV here. Pick…
Wandering Son Vol. 7 by Shimura Takako – Cover Uncovered
We didn't really change the cover art for Wandering Son Vol. 7 by Shimura Takako from the preliminary mockup before we sent it to press, but let's make it official anyway. Don't Takatsuki-san and Nitori-kun look adorable in their winter outfits? The book will be out in the dog days of summer, so this snowy scene will help you think cool thoughts. Zits, a ski trip, drama club, and just plain drama are in store for our gender-questioning teen heroes in this seventh installment of the beloved series. As always, be on the lookout for future previews, put in your…
The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 (Vol. 1) Softcover Edition by Charles M. Schulz – Photoset Preview
"Charles Schulz was an innovative genius of American comics and also the marathon man, drawing strip after strip, writing the storyboards for the TV specials, creating a fantasy world that connected kids as well as adults, and all based on powerful iconic characters who express deep feelings of loneliness and resentment and despair." — Garrison Keillor, from his introduction The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 (Vol. 1) – Paperback Ed.by Charles M. Schulz 298-page black & white 8.25" x 6.5" softcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-763-5 Due to arrive in about 2-3 weeks. Click the thumbnails for larger versions; get more info, see more…
Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture – Reduced Price!
Now: cheaper! Not a sale, but a permanent price reduction! Was: $49.99; now: $29.99! If you don't already have this must-have book… have at it! Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture – A Career Retrospectiveby Jack Davis 208-page full-color 10.25" x 13.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-447-4 See Previews / Order Now A gigantic, unparalleled art book retrospective, in which lies the greatest collection — in terms of both quantity and quality — of Jack Davis's work ever assembled! Comprising comics, sketches, commercial illustrations, and paintings for comic books, comic strips, magazines, LP covers, movie posters, bubblegum cards, and much more!…
Gast by Carol Swain – Cover Uncovered
Moody, atmospheric, finely observed, shot through with post-punk tension… Carol Swain's comics voice is singular, and has been lauded by Alan Moore, Time, The Guardian, Time Out, and Publishers Weekly. We're excited to be bringing out her first solo graphic novel in several years, Gast, this Summer. Part mystery, part character study, part magical-realist fable, told through her quietly bold, tactile pencil artwork, Gast is a book that only Swain could create. Look for our usual preview rollout over the weeks and months to come until the book's release in July or so; in the meantime, you can get in…
Unlovable Book 2 Issue 1 at comiXology
WINTER (BREAK) IS COMING Now being serialized at comiXology, Unlovable is the remarkable story of Tammy Pierce, as filtered through the pen of Los Angeles artist Esther Pearl Watson (loosely based on a teenager's diary from the 1980s found in a gas-station bathroom). This second and concluding volume picks up where the first volume left off (winter break) and finishes Tammy's tragicomic sophomore year of high school in 1985. In the epic saga that is Unlovable, Tammy finds herself dealing with: tampons, teasing, crushes, The Smiths, tube socks, facial hair, lice, celibacy, fantasy dream proms, gym showers, skid marks, a…
Judgment Day and Other Stories by Joe Orlando, Al Feldstein et al. – Photoset Preview
"All of these books are essential purchases for comics fans… These are the books that best show off how EC took genre stories seriously, striving to create comics that didn't treat readers as naive or ignorant." – Los Angeles Times "Fantagraphics' current series of handsome hardcovers makes familiar material fresh by focusing on individual artists… it's never been easier to appreciate the contributions of these iconic inkslingers." – Chicago Tribune "…I am not only appreciative…but also very impressed. [The books] are spectacular packages of their featured artist and their stories." – Al Feldstein "These collections show comics in a pure,…
Robert Pollard in Group Art Show in Phoenix, AZ!
We're thrilled to see Robert Pollard is still at it! We don't mean his band, Guided By Voices — the indie rock veterans released seven albums just last year, and have at least five new releases planned for 2014… No, we're thrilled to see that among touring and recording, he's still making his gorgeous collage-based artwork, as featured in our 2008 collection Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard! A few of his pieces are being featured in the exhibit, Chimerical, now on view at the Modified Arts gallery in Phoenix, Arizona — this group art show is…
Dash Shaw awarded 2014 Cullman Center Fellowship
April 22, 2014 – This just in! The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has picked its sixteenth class of Fellows: fifteen extraordinarily talented independent scholars, academics, and creative writers whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Chosen from a pool of 288 applicants from 24 countries, the 2014 class of Cullman Center Fellows Dash Shaw will be the David Ferriero Fellow. While at the Cullman Center he will work on a graphic novel about a Quaker during the American Civil War. "I…
Unlovable Vol. 3 by Esther Pearl Watson – Now in Stock
Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Unlovable Vol. 3by Esther Pearl Watson 412-page two-color 5.75" x 5.75" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-737-6 See Previews / Order Now BARGAIN COMBO: Unlovable Vols. 1-3 Gift Set Price: $68.98 $55.18 Summer vacation is here and Tammy Pierce is back with more sometimes ordinary, often humiliating, occasionally poignant, and usually hilarious exploits! Her hopes, dreams, agonies, and defeats are brought to vivid, comedic life by Watson's lovingly grotesque drawings, filled with all the eighties essentials — too much mascara, leg warmers with heels, and huge hair, etc. — as well as timeless…
