We know you've really been wondering what the interior of Love and Rockets: The Covers looks like… how it's laid out, what the recoloring looks like, what it includes. This PDF excerpt should answer your questions, particularly the Editor's Note: It's a spectacular and dee-luxe production and we want to be sure we're getting everything just right at the printer, so we're taking a little extra time with it and it's now scheduled for September release. Here's a sample of the clear overlay that wraps around the front cover:
In Case We Die by Danny Bland – Free Excerpt
Read the first three chapters of In Case We Die by Danny Bland below or here. (Note that there is NSFW material.) We'll wait… OK, now that you're hooked, pre-order the book. First taste is free. (You'll also get a free download of the full audiobook when it's released, as a bonus for ordering direct from us. Details TK.)
Cathy Malkasian and Dash Shaw at the California College of the Arts San Francisco!
In celebration of the arrival of the inaugural class of MFA in Comics graduate students, the California College of the Arts in San Francisco will host a summer guest speaker series featuring some of comics' most talented creators. On Friday, July 5th, CCA kicks off the series with a bang, with special guest Cathy Malkasian! Cathy will be discussing her work in the animation industry, as well as her most recent book, Wake Up, Percy Gloom! This lecture will take place on CCA's San Francisco campus in the Graduate Writers Studio at 195 De Haro Street. And then on Friday,…
Tony Millionaire on Funny or Die
The Edge Of Allegiance – Episode 1: Immigration! – watch more funny videos Maakies and Sock Monkey cartonist, Tony Millionaire, continues to be funnier than you on paper, in person and on film. This weekend Funny or Die released the video The Edge of Alligiance featuring Millionaire as George Washington on Mount Rushmore. If this made you spit out your cuppa joe, check out the older Fun With God where Millionaire plays who else but God? Keep your eyes peeled for our San Diego announcements so you know when Tony Millionaire will be signing books at our booth!
Cover Uncovered: Barracuda in the Attic by Kipp Friedman
It's our great pleasure to add another member of the fabulous Friedman family to our roster. Kipp Friedman's forthcoming memoir Barracuda in the Attic boasts this loving portrait by Kipp's big brother Drew (with hand-lettering by our own Jacob Covey), a foreword by father Bruce Jay and an afterword by brother Josh. In the book's pages you'll find true tales of the colorful clan's hijinks from New York to Hollywood and beyond, hobnobbing with the literati, mobsters, and at least one Marx brother. We're taking pre-orders now; look for the book to hit shelves in early Fall, and if you know us you know we…
First Look: In Case We Die by Danny Bland
Danny Bland's debut novel In Case We Die hits shelves in September. The book and jacket were designed by our guru Jacob Covey. Dig those silver & day-glo inks. Some of Danny's music-scene compadres have already read the book and had this to say about it: "Our anti-hero is floating in a tiny lifeboat made of heroin, graveyard shifts & rock music. His companions are two fabulous women; a bombshell who robs banks & a beautifully pale rock violinist who can barely dodge suicide. ICWD is much funnier & more satisfying than any other junkie rock'n'roll tragedy." – John Doe (X) "Bland is…
Zippy: The Dingburg Diaries by Bill Griffith – Now in Stock
Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Zippy: The Dingburg Diaries by Bill Griffith 232-page black & white/color 8" x 10" softcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-641-6 See Previews / Order Now Comprising a full two and a half years' worth of dailies and full-color Sundays, The Dingburg Diaries is the third Zippy book featuring tales of "Dingburg, the City Inhabited Entirely by Pinheads" — Zippy’s home town. There’s even a long series of "Historical Dingburg" strips, chronicling the pinhead population through the years, from 1840, when Dingburg’s "Town Fool" accidentally invented disco, to 1958 when Dingburg Beatniks flourished in the…
New School by Dash Shaw – Now in Stock
Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: New School by Dash Shaw 340-page full-color 8.75" x 11.25" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-644-7 See Previews / Order Now In this brand new graphic novel from the acclaimed author of Bottomless Belly Button and BodyWorld, Dash Shaw dramatizes the story of a boy moving to an exotic country and his infatuation with an unfamiliar culture that quickly shifts to disillusionment. A sense of "being different" grows to alienation, until he angrily blames this once-enchanting land for his feelings of isolation. All of this is told through the fantastical eyes of young Danny, a…
First Look: His Wife Leaves Him by Stephen Dixon
Listen up, lit lovers. Two-time National Book Award nominee and multiple literary prize recipient Stephen Dixon's brand new novel, His Wife Leaves Him, is due in about 2 months and we have advance copies to show off to you. With no chapter breaks and very few paragraph breaks (not even for dialogue) to interrupt the flow of words on the page, you're getting maybe 500 pages worth of words in the space of just over 400 pages. What a value for your book-buying dollar! Of course, none of that would matter if the words didn't coalesce into such a complex, ambitious, tender,…
Cover & Excerpt: Fran by Jim Woodring
Frank & Fran are back for more frolic & fear in Jim Woodring's follow-up sequel/prequel to the acclaimed Congress of the Animals, due in late September. Jim calls Fran "one of the most messed-up things I've ever done," and if you know Jim's work, you know that's saying something. You'll be delighted, appalled, and amazed by the wordless proceedings and find yourself taking multiple journeys through the pages in order to unravel the mysteries therein. Where to start with a story that has no beginning and no end? We offer a 10-page excerpt and a button to pre-order your copy right here.
