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Bringing Up Father: From Sea to Shining Sea by George McManus McManus is a Copacetic Favorite and one of the all time greats, the founder of the (co-opted by the Europeans) Ligne Claré (clear line to us Yanks) school of art now most closely associated with Hergé. All hail the Library of American Comics series currently being published by IDW for not only bringing this classic strip to a new generation of readers, but for producing in the process what might very well be the best single collection of the work of George McManus ever released! This collection presents several distinct continuities – including what may be the single most famous, … Read more ... |
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Gary Panter by Gary Panter NOW ON SALE FOR OVER 70% OFF!!! While we certainly had some sympathy for those who felt that this amazing volume was simply too dear, there's no longer any excuse. The definitive career-spanning collection of the one and only Gary Panter is now available for a price so low that the mind simply boggles. Now's your chance to experience the first and foremost fomenter of the fine-art/comics nexus in all his glory in this massive, oversized, two-volume hardcover for less than the price of a fistful of new comics. This book is so well designed that it is practically a … Read more ... |
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John Carter of Mars: The Jesse Marsh Years by Jesse Marsh One of the great masters of comic book art, Jesse Marsh is best remembered as the long-running artist on Dell's Tarzan comics (Marsh drew the first 153 issues, one of the longest unbroken runs in the history of comics). Here at Copacetic, while we do, of course, have a great and abiding respect for Marsh's work on Tarzan, it is his modest three-issue run on that other Edgar Rice Burroughs creation, John Carter of Mars, that has long been our favorite of his works. Marsh really shines here, with page after stunning page of fabulous work. He manages to combine … Read more ... |
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Krazy & Ignatz 1916 - 1918 by George Herriman This month we have an embarrassment of riches in the comics classics department, and the lead off can be none other than this absolutely essential volume. Here it is: the first three years of George Herriman's splendiferous Sunday pages for the one and only Krazy Kat! With this volume, Fantagraphics launches its third and final leg of collecting the entirety of Krazy Kat Sunday pages. Due to the fact that the first nine years of the run had been collected in a series of nine volumes jointly published by Eclipse Books and Turtle Island Press roughly twenty years ago, Fantagraphics … Read more ... |
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King: The Special Edition by Ho Che Anderson ¡SPECIAL! Now on sale for over 40% off! Here it is at last, the complete work, how it was meant to be read. This 312 page oversize hardcover volume contains the entirety of Anderson's comics biography of King. A 10-year-long project, Anderson's goal was to deliver a portrait of MLK that is one of a complex, multi-layered, flesh and blood human being, a task for which comics are ideally suited. Employing a host of styles, techniques, devices and processes, Anderson has striven to match the method to the mood and the moment, and thereby enhance the reader's engagement with the … Read more ... |
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Market Day by James Sturm The founder and director of The Center for Cartoon Studies puts on his other hat to present us with his first solo graphic novel in nearly a decade, since 2001's The Golem's Mighty Swing. That's not to say Sturm hasn't been busy, as quite the opposite is in fact the case. In the intervening hears, in addition to founding and running CCS, he has co-authored Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules, Satchel Paige and Adventures in Cartooning. With Market Day, however, we get a solid dose of pure unadulterated Sturm, and it's a heavy load he drops … Read more ... |
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High Soft Lisp by Gilbert Hernandez And for any Love and Rockets fans who thought things were getting a little too Jaime-centric there, we now present the latest in the original series of trade paperback volumes collecting the work that originally appeared in comic book form. High Soft Lisp collects work that originally appeared in both the second volume of Love and Rockets, as well as from Gilbert's solo title, Luba's Comics and Stories. Collectors should take note of the fact that the indicia states that "a few pages have been added, and some have been altered" in the service of creating a more unified feel. … Read more ... |
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Penny Century by Jaime Hernandez 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 … Read more ... |
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GoGo Monster by Taiyo Matsumoto Here's a lushly produced 455 page hardcover graphic novel of the inner life of an introverted elementary school child whose life as depicted in these pages is filled with the compulsive fantasies (or are they just fantasies? perhaps they're something more... [see below]) that have, in many cases (perhaps Matsumoto's own), led in their turn to the compulsion to draw and bring them to life that has launched many a cartoonist's career. Looked at from another angle, it can be seen as a childhood take on the Philip K. Dick paradigm that pits an atypical personal/subjective reality against consensus/objective reality, … Read more ... |
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The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. by Dash Shaw The wunderkind of comics strikes again with this unique book that is as visually intriguing as it is intellectually challenging. It intermeshes comics – most of what is collected here originally appeared in the pages of MOME – with storyboards and production sketches for some animations that Shaw produced, in collaboration with Jane Samborski, for IFC. Starting with the animation-cell-like dustjacket that overlays an illustrated cloth hardcover, and proceeding through a variety of paper stocks, this full color collection by the author of the much heralded Bottomless Belly Button will take you on a ride that … Read more ... |
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The Book of Genesis, Illustrated by R. Crumb Yes, here it is: the most talked about book in comics. Five years at the drawing board hath wrought Crumb's own pen & ink rendering of the West's origin myth. Crumb, as he warned and as we would naturally expect, hasn't pulled any punches and has illustrated this tale as written, warts and all. Crumb says it best himself in his introduction: "I, R. Crumb, the illustrator of this book, have, to the best of my ability, faithfully reproduced every word of the original text... Every other comic book version of The Bible that I've seen contains passages of completely … Read more ... |
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The Complete Jack Survives by Jerry Moriarty Begun thirty years ago, Jack has at last found a permanent luxury dwelling in this sumptuously produced (by Buenaventura Press) oversized hardcover book that will be treasured by comics aesthetes everywhere. Jerry Moriarty, who has the courage to admit that, "When I started out, I didn't know what I was doing," took a chance and headed into unknown territory, taking a painterly sensibility rooted in the depression-era painting of Hopper, Sheeler and Burchfield, and grafting it straight onto his own hardwired, homegrown comics sensibility. Without taking the time to worry what it all meant or where he was going, he just … Read more ... |
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Masterpiece Comics by R. Sikoryak Literally two decades in the making, here is a book that lives up to its name! There are levels of irony upon irony and then within and in between these there lurks hints and glimmers of more. There is militant subversion and blatant transgression of the exact same material for which is simultaneously exhibited the deepest respect and greatest empathy. R. Sikoryak is a truly singular master of comics who knows its classical forms and major practitioners inside out to a degree that is simply unparalleled. His work contained here will trigger a panoply of associations to anyone devoted to … Read more ... |
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