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GLUMBA SKZX Ex Elettrofonica, RomeJanuary 13th – March 7th, 2015 Curated by Ben Crothers Currently on display at Ex Elettrofonica, you'll find some seemingly insignificant objects, concepts and situations are challenged and disrupted in GLUMBA SKZX, through which the chance encounter is celebrated and the purposeless, banal and irrelevant are re-presented in highly imaginative ways. The exhibiting artists reinterpret and re-evaluate pre-existing material and explore elements of everyday life which may often be overlooked: reimagining water as a luxurious, decadent beauty product (Adham Faramawy); purposefully enacting a series of common mistakes (Michael Hanna); video-recording a small wooden crate's journey through…

In Solidarity — Frank Stack

In Solidarity — Frank Stack

In Solidarity — Johnny Ryan

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Prince Valiant Vol. 10: 1955-1956by Hal Foster 112-page full color 10.25" x 14" hardcover$35.00 | 978-1-60699-800-7 See Previews / Order Now Our tenth volume finds our band of heroes making their way back to the Kingdom of Thule by way of Constantinople and Eastern Russia. Soon they are attacked by a tribe of barbarians who kidnap Aleta for the great Dragada Khan who wants to make her one of his wives. After nearly being killed in battle, Valiant returns to his homeland only to find the threat of hunger hovers over…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Love and Rockets: New Stories #7by Los Bros Hernandez 100-page black & white 7.25" x 10.5" softcover$14.99 | 978-1-60699-770-3 See Previews / Order Now The seventh annual volume of Love and Rockets: New Stories, the most important and enduring alternative comics series in the history of the medium, finds Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez writing and drawing at the top of their game. In Jaime's stories, Maggie and Hopey take a road trip and much-needed break from their humdrum domestic lives and travel to visit a "sick friend." And, when the cat's away,…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Treasury of Mini Comics Vol. 2edited by Michael Dowers 848-page black & white with color 5" x 6.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-807-6 See Previews / Order Now For everyone interested in the history of underground and alternative comics, Treasury of Mini Comics Volume Two gathers prime examples—more than 800 pages' worth—from a quintessential self-publishing format in this compact but hefty hardcover. Previously only seen in limited-run pamphlets, these comics are startling, visionary, hilarious, profane, and profound. This volume also takes a look back at the wild 8-page sex comics called "Tijuana…

Friday, March 20th Austin, TX – SXSW is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year by bringing the biggest and best names from the worlds of music, film, and interactive media and entertainment. With concerts, panels and performances SXSW has earned a reputation of good business and good times. If you're heading out this March for the Texas capitol, make sure one of your stops is at the music panel, "Books are the New Vinyl", beginning Friday, March 20th at 5 pm.  As most of the media that we consume migrates from our shelves and into our digital devices, what are…

In Solidarity — Al Jaffee

For those of you watching FXX's Man Seeking Woman, you were probably pleasantly surprised when a nightstand featured some of our newest comics: Buddy Buys a Dump by Peter Bagge, Megahex by Simon Hanselmann, Cosplayers by Dash Shaw. Until they were replaced by a copy of Infinite Jest in an attempt to "seem cooler". Don't they know?! DON'T THEY KNOW COMICS ARE THE COOLEST?! Thanks to Noah Kuttler and Robin McConnell for the heads-up.