The Copacetic Comics Company

Featured Books

- Last Girl Standing
  
  Trina Robbins
  
  $16.75
  
  We had been selling this in the shop since it was published in 2017, but only now, with Trina's passing, did we realize that it wasn't listed here on the site. The Last Girl Standing is an amazing, mind-blowing memoir of...
- Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
  
  John Szwed
  
  $29.75
  
  Harry Smith is finally having hhis moment and getting his due. John Szwed's long in the works labor of love is a good place to learn about "The filmmkaer, folklorist, and Mystic who transformed American Art.' Named one of the...
- A Place Beyond Shame
  
  Ed Steck
  
  $25.75
  
  Ed Steck's latest traces a harrowing intersection between horror movies and horror life, with each overlapping the other, making for a blurry consciousness wherein nothing is clear, but, eventually leading to connections,...
- Self-Portraits
  
  Osamu Dazai
  
  $14.25
  
  Out of print for thirty years, Self-Portraits is once again available in this new edition from New Directions, who have this to say abou it: “Art dies the moment it acquires authority.” So said Japan’s quintessential rebel...
- Had To Be There
  
  Erik Bauer, Jason Pettigrew + 1 more
  
  $42.75
  
  It's here! Years – decades, really – in the making: Had To Be There: A Visual History of the Explosive Pittsburgh Underground (1979 - 1994) The first volume of photos from Erik Bauer’s extensive archive documenting Pittsburgh...
- Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
  
  Cookie Mueller
  
  $16.25
  
  At long last we have a definitive collection of the work that flowed from the pen of the actress – most closely associated with John Waters – adventurer, "East Village raconteur," and lifelong writer, Cookie Mueller that...
- The Apple in the Dark
  
  Clarice Lispector
  
  $17.75
  
  Clarice Lispector's famously intense allegorical mystery, The Apple in the Dark has at long last been translated into English, by Bejamin Moser, who also has this to say about it: "The Apple in the Dark is a retelling, a...
- The Philosophy of Modern Song
  
  Bob Dylan
  
  $29.75
  
  A new book by Bob Dylan! What is it? Well... our take on it is that, here in the era of the multiverse, one way to look at it is: this is the book penned by the Bob Dylan that, instead of becoming a legendary singer/songwriter,...
- Really the Blues
  
  Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe
  
  $20.00
  
  The definitive account of the early jazz scene -- and so much more... An unforgettable reading experience that opens new perspectives on American history and cultural life. Now, at last, back in print from New York Review...
- The Flowers of Buffoonery
  
  Osamu Dazai
  
  $13.75
  
  The back cover blurb pretty much says all that you need to know: "For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai's hilariously comic (!) and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human." ... but we'll throw these in for good measure:...
- Harry Smith: American Magus
  
  Harry Smith, Paola Igliori
  
  $17.77
  
  Now is the time to get hep to that enigmatic polymath connecting so much of mid-to-late 20th century avant garde counter culture. Out of print for over two decades, the still definitive single volume work on Harry Smith is now...
- Doughnut Economics
  
  Kate Raworth
  
  $15.00
  
  If you’re looking for a book to kick-start your brain and move it into a higher gear, a book that will set your thinking on a fresh path and that by doing so will help extricate us, as a society, together, out of our present...
- A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309
  
  Aaron Cometbus, Scott Satterwhite
  
  $16.75
  
  Documenting and celebrating 25 years (and more!) of the 309 Punkhouse in Pensacola, Florida in 152 pages, this softcover book was (thankfully) edited and coordniated by former Punkhouse residents Aaron Cometbus and Scott...
- You Can't Win
  
  Jack Black
  
  $16.25
  
  Finally, a new edition of the seminal novel,You Can't Winby Jack Black. Here's a book thatcan lay claim –if any can –to having launched the "outlaw" literary counterculture, way back in 1926. This edition sports an intense...
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
  
  Ibram X. Kendi
  
  $16.19
  
  Whilethis book has been enthusiastically soldin ourshop since shortly after its publication, we now feel thatitshould also be offeredhereas well. The single most important work of history to arrive at Copacetic during the...
- Smoketown
  
  Mark Whitaker
  
  $16.25
  
  Inspired by the Teenie Harris Archives at theCarnegie Museum of Art, renowned journalist and media executive, Mark Whitaker – whose grandparents were Pittsburghers during the Teenie Harris era –delveddeep into the history of...
- Seventeen Years of Media Consumption (2002 - 2018): The books; The recordings; The films
  
  John W. Fail
  
  $75.75
  
  Readers of this space are more likely than not to have their identity invested fairly heavily in media consumption. Who are we? How do we see ourselves? Where does this vision of ourselves originate? How is it formed?...
- American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassination
  
  Terrance Hayes
  
  $15.75
  
  The latest poetry collection by the National Book Award-winningMacArthur Fellow,Pittsburgh-based poet, Terrance Hayes features 70 poems sharing the same title, identical with that of the collection itself. Prepare to be...
- In the Swarm
  
  Byung-Chul Han
  
  $12.75
  
  In the Swarm presents a cogent response to the rising tide of internet inf(l)ected consciousness that is deeply rooted in the European – primarily German – philosophical tradition, but don't let that scare you off. This slim...
- Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
  
  Michael Tisserand
  
  $29.75
  
  Krazy Kat aficionados have long placed its creator, George Herriman at or near the center of the development of comics and cartooning. A prodigious talent, and true comics pioneer – possessed of an unquestionable genius – he...
- Bowie
  
  Simon Critchley
  
  $15.25
  
  This very personal,heartfelt,thoughtful, intelligent, conciselywrittenand thoroughly engaging tribute to the life, work and figure of David Bowie is agem of a book sure to be treasured by any Bowie Fan. Written shortly before...
- Jazz A B Z
  
  Paul Rogers, Wynton Marsalis + 1 more
  
  $19.95
  
  OK, this is not just the perfect gift book for the jazz fan on your list, it is also makes for an ideal gift to give to anyone -- of any age -- who has a love of words and pictures. This sumptuous hardcover volume has the...