Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Krazy & Ignatz 1916-1918: Love in a Kestle or Love in a Hut by George Herriman 160-page black & white/color 9" x 12" softcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-316-3 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews When Fantagraphics launched our collection of Krazy Kat Sunday strips back in 2002, we picked up with the 10th and 11th years of the legendary strip (1925-1926) because another publisher had already collected the first nine during the 1980s and 1990s. But now, with that publisher long gone and their Krazy Kat collections fetching record prices…
Now in stock: Hate Annual #8 by Peter Bagge
Recently arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Hate Annual #8 by Peter Bagge 32-page color/b&w 6.75" x 10.25" comic book • $4.95ISBN: 978-1-60699-373-6 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Hate Annual #8 features a whopping new 20 page Buddy Bradley story where Lisa (everyone’s favorite psycho!) makes her first foray into show biz and gets way more than she bargained for! This issue of P. Bagge’s annual Hate also features strips compiled from his Discover Magazine gig: 5 biographies of scientists you’ve never heard of! — other than maybe Walter Reed, who’s well known only for…
Now in stock: Our Gang Vol. 4 (1946-1947) by Walt Kelly
Recently arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Our Gang Vol. 4 (1946-1947) by Walt Kelly 112-page 7.25" x 9.5" full-color softcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-322-4 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews The Rascals are back in another 100-plus vintage full-color pages of rollicking comedy and high adventure. Created in 1946 and 1947, these stories show Walt Kelly refining the style that would serve him so well for his later masterpiece — Pogo. Much of this fourth volume is taken up with an extended four-part cycle of stories — almost a graphic novel, really! — in which Froggie…
Now in stock: Blazing Combat (Softcover Ed.)
Recently arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Blazing Combat (Softcover Edition) by Archie Goodwin & various artists 208-page black & white 8" x 10" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-366-8 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews THE LEGENDARY ANTI-WAR COMIC COLLECTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITS ENTIRETY, NOW IN A 2010 SOFTCOVER EDITION. Written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by such luminaries as Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, John Severin, Alex Toth, Al Williamson, Russ Heath, Reed Crandall, and Gene Colan, Blazing Combat was originally published by independent comics publisher James Warren in 1965 and ’66. Following in…
Now in stock: Abandoned Cars (Softcover Ed.) by Tim Lane
Recently arrived at our warehouse and ready to ship: Abandoned Cars (Softcover Edition) by Tim Lane 168-page black & white 7.5" x 9" softcover • $18.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-341-5 Click here to choose cover option & place order This item is available with two different cover designs. Please indicate your preference when ordering. THE ACCLAIMED 2008 DEBUT, BACK IN PRINT IN A 2010 SOFTCOVER! Abandoned Cars is Tim Lane’s first collection of graphic short stories, noir-ish narratives that are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters that populate its pages. Lane’s…
Esther Pearl Watson at Skylight Books in L.A., Weds. May 12 – Canceled
UPDATE: Regrettably, this event is canceled for now. Join Esther Pearl Watson at Skylight Books in Los Angeles this Wednesday at 7:30 PM for a signing and what is sure to be a hilarious and delightful discussion with "an awesome slideshow of inspiration, sketches and behind-the-scenes craziness" for Unlovable Vols. 1 & 2. More info here.
Weekend Webcomics: 5/9/10
Squeaking in under the wire yet again… Life during wartime in this week's The House of No by Derek Van Gieson… …an honest day's work in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan… …and the President gets the week off as Steven Weissman presents something a little different based on a print that's for sale at the Butter and Blood art show, with added dialogue by guest writer Charles Weissman.
Separated at birth?
Without the title on there I'd have thought that Alex Ross was doing Prison Pit fanfic.
The House of No by Derek Van Gieson – May 9, 2010
Rejected New Yorker cartoons by Mome contributor Derek Van Gieson, added weekly. Visit Derek’s website for more of his work, and look for his accepted strips and illustrations in the pages of the New Yorker. {mosimage}
GIANT sale on The Comics Journal back issues – one week only!
This is huge — EVERY issue of The Comics Journal is now on sale! All available issues through #287 are HALF OFF and #288-300 are 1/3 OFF! Plus, all Comics Journal Library books and Comics Journal Special Editions are also HALF OFF! In preparation for the sale we scoured our warehouse and discovered two classic old issues from deep in the past which were previously thought out of print: The landmark #38 from 1978, named a Top Ten Issue of TCJ by Love & Maggie and a personal favorite of Kim Thompson's, features coverage of DC Comics' cover-price increase,…
