Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter is ongoing, and we're continuing to spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.)
Bomb Run and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)
by John Severin, Will Elder, Harvey Kurtzman, et al.
264-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $28.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-749-9
The team of Harvey Kurtzman and John Severin was one of the most fruitful collaborations in the history of comics. The work they did combines the taut emotional and psychological insights of Stephen Crane with a verisimilitude so gritty that it seems as if they are reporting from the scene. Together with inker and friend Will Elder, whose own obsession for detail perfectly heightened the impact of every line, they produced 34 war stories — emotionally draining and dramatically eloquent — in just under three years. This book collects them all. Settings include: the Roman empire; the Revolutionary War; the American-Indian Wars; the Alamo; the Civil War; World War I (in the trenches and in the air); World War II (in the Pacific and in Europe, including the D-Day invasion); and the Korean War.
Pre-order this book now for a Kickstarter pledge of $40 or more!
Jim
by Jim Woodring
224-page black & white/color 7.75" x 11" hardcover • $29.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-752-9
Frank is, as everyone knows, Jim Woodring's bestselling cartoon character. Jim, on the other hand, is Woodring's cartoon alter ego, the fictional doppelganger who has for 30 years inhabited Woodring's alternate universe where shifting, phantasmagoric landscapes, abrupt, hallucinatory visual revelations, and unexpected eruptions of uninhibited verbal self-flagellation are common- place. Jim is a mind-bending collection of all of Woodring's best non-Frank creative work — comics stories, prose stories, drawings, and paintings, with a new introduction and afterword by the man himself. Abounding in metaphors if you choose to see them and naked self-disclosure if you don't, this volume of comics, prose, and images — collected here for the first time and including an all-new 24-page story — is a bounty of Woodring's inspired artistry.
For a Kickstarter pledge of $40 or more, pre-order this book signed by Jim Woodring while supplies last! Or, for a pledge of $40 or more, get an exclusive Jim Woodring t-shirt! Or, for a pledge of $200 or more, get an exclusive signed Jim Woodring print! (Or increase your pledge to the sum of all the rewards you want!)