
<<•>> WAREHOUSE FIND <<•>> Much to our amazement, a heretofore unknown secret stash of the original 1995 newspaper edition of Storeyville has been unearthed! Each copy had been sealed in a polypropylene bag and the entire box had been taped up and stored away in a corner where it was eventually forgotten... until now! We haven't seen a copy of this for sale anywhere for years (except for one that was on sale on Amazon for $1000!) so, if this is something you've been thinking about, don't debate about it too long, as there's only this one box, and when it's empty, that's it! A perfect match of form and content, ...

Move over, Dennis the Menace – Akissi is back! Here, in the frantic, fun-filled, full color pages of More Tales of Mischief, Akissi romps through 20 all-new tales, all created on a standard template of splash page followed by five pages each laid out using a six panel grid – except for two Double-Size Specials that run for twelve pages total. Here we have vital tales of growing up in Côte d'Ivoire (that's the Ivory Coast, located in west Africa, for all you Anglophones out there) – that are more or less based on the childhood experiences of Marguerite Abouet – that really capture the zaniness of a kids perspective on the world that – as...

How's this for value: the complete 360 page graphic novel in hardcover for the same price as the 160 page Book One in softcover issued by Fantagraphics a couple years back? Not only that, but this edition completes Kim Thompson's excellent translation that he started for Book One. Originally published in six volumes in France between 1996 and 2004, this edition represents the first time the complete story has appeared in English. As readers of David B.'s recently released Babel already know, he is a formidable graphic stylist with a strong and sure line and a great sense of how to use blacks to create a balanced page. Epileptic is the...

It's here! It looks... AMAZING!!! Featuring the work of many of today's most adventurous comickers and cartoonists, the ninth volume in this epoch-making anthology harkens back to the look, feel and heft of the fourth, which was the volume that put Kramers on the map, and is still the sentimental favorite at Copacetic. Here we have a highly informed selection of 288 pages of comics that draws on Harkham's knowledge of and connections with the contemporary comics making community. The work he has assembled here displays a full spectrum of the amazing variety of what the form is capable of expressing. Miss at your own peril!
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Year of the Rabbit is an effective and affecting memoir of life in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge during the years 1975 to 1980. While most North Americans who were alive during the Vietnam War are at least dimly aware that something bad happened in Cambodia after American forces largely left Southeast Asia at the conclusion of the Vietnam War, few are aware of the details, or have an understanding of what life was like for Cambodians themselves after the Communist Party of Cambodia – the Khmer Rouge – or, as readers of this book will learn, Angkar, which is how the Khmer Rouge referred to themselves during the early years of their rule –...

Finally!!! This has been in the works for – literally – over a quarter-century (the project goes at least as far back as 1988, as you can see [if you squint] by the copyright date of this poorly formatted scan of an early installment of the text posted HERE). After repeated cancellations and seemingly interminable delays, How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels, Mark Newgarden & Paul Karasik's definitive deconstruction of Ernie Bushmiller's iconic Nancystrip - and, by extension, all of comics - has at long last been published and has touched down at Copacetic. Finally!!!
Learn more by reading Dan Nadel's...

FROM THE ARCHIVES
ONE, NICE FIRST PRINT (2011) copy, with back cover band still intact.
Currently in print at $45.00
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Love and Rockets is the series that started it all, the ink and paper container for the comics without which The Copacetic Comics Company would not exist. Beginning with an ending – BEM, the definitive deconstruction of what was holding back the medium of comics, preventing it from realizing its full potential – and then... 40 years of demonstrating the tremendous capacity of comics as a form of personal expression, being the primary driver of the establishing the strong, long term bonds between the alternative comics and alternative music scenes – and so much more – and in the process transforming the medium.
Here, in this 40th...

Pénélope Bagieu's Brazen is a collection of 29 comics biographies originally created for the Frenchnewspaper, Le Monde. Employing a clear concise line and limited but playfulcolor palette, for the most part within a well thought out nine-panel grid layout, Bagieu's work is eminently readable, and one finishes this 300 page volume ready for more.
Each of these pithy bios is informative and fun,pullingoff the coveted accomplishment of entertaining while educating. In other words, they're great comics! And, as an added bonus, each bio is topped off with a celebratory double-page splash illustration. All wrapped up in a great package for a...

Well, talk about an embarassment of riches! Not only have we been treated to the long awaited Art of Jaime, but now we also have the latest in the splendiferous series of trade paperback volumes that, since 2007, have been repackaging the classic work of both Jaime and Beto. Penny Century is the fourth Jaime volume and the first to present his work that appeared after the conclusion of the initial seminal run of Love and Rockets. The book opens with the one of kind classic of comics choreography that is Whoa Nellie!, Jaime's 68 page ode to women's wrestling. Then we are treated to the super fabuous experience of the Maggie and Hopey Color...
For anyone feeling helpless about the current situation in America, here's an opportunity to DO something that has the added bonus of being creative and constructive. The Million Postcard Protest aims to show our elected and appointed representatives that there are a LOT of people in America who care about the country and are very concerned (to put it mildly) about its current direction. The site (at the link above) provides a handy guide of who/when/where/how.
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