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Title	Creator	Publisher	Series	Price
Sundays #4	Lydia Conklin, Damien Jay, Max de Radigués, Mari Ahokoivu and more ...	Self-published	Sundays	$12.75 ($15.00 list)
Read more and comment...	It looked for awhile that we weren't going to be able to lay our hands on any of these, but thanks to trusty Tony Shenton, we snagged a handful before they went the way of the Dodo. Limited to 300 copies, this horizontally formatted anthology of super indy comics was printed and bound at The Center for Cartoon Studies and sports a hand pulled silk screen cover drawn by Damien Jay and pulled by Alex Kim and Joseph Lambert. Here's its contributor list: Mickey Z, Jeff Lok, Ed Piskor, Warren Craghead III, Aaron Cockle, Melissa Mendes, Joseph Lambert, Mark Burrier, Alex Kim, David Libens, Ariyana Suvarnasuddhi, Dane Martin, Julie Delporte, Michael DeForge, Sean Ford, Samuel C. Gaskin, Scott Longo, Jose-Luis Olivares, Mari Ahokoivu, Max de Radigués, Damien Jay, Lydia Conklin. Whew! Grab it before it's gone!
Wizzywig, Volume 3: Fugitive	Ed Piskor	Self-published	Wizzywig	$12.75 ($15.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Once again we head down the hallowed halls of hacker-dom in the form of the firm, pen & ink delineations of Pittsburgh's own Ed Piskor. Following the continuing adventures of the mythical Kevin "Boingthump" Phenicle, this time as he heads underground as a fugitive from "justice." Piskor provides readers with a wide-angle, -eye-view of creating and using a celebrity hacker to frame the debate over wild frontier of computing, as well as an inside, close-up view of what life is like for one so framed. Mr. Piskor continues to be supremely confident in the desirability of his product and so offers readers the opportunity to not only download a PDF containing the entirety of the first two volumes, but also the first half of this third volume as well!
American Splendor: Our Movie Year	Harvey Pekar , Mark Zingarelli, Ed Piskor		American Splendor	$14.40 ($16.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The first original book (as opposed to original comics, later collected in book form) since Our Cancer Year, Our Movie Year is all about exactly what you think: the experiences of Harvey and his wife, Joyce (who together make up the "Our" of the title) before, during and after the making of the American Splendor movie. But there's more: there are a bunch of strips dealing with Harvey's passions: classic jazz & blues, comics & collecting, and Cleveland. As for the artists this time around: there's the usual suspects along with a few new faces. Pittsburgh-based artists have their highest profile ever in a Pekar collection: Pittsburgh transplant, Mark Zingarelli starts the whole thing off with the title track, as it were, and also handed in the art chores on "Blackout," a thirteen-pager on the August 14 blackout. Pittsburgh's own Ed Piskor, a newcomer, closes out the collection with the 24-page (the longest piece in the book!) "Around the World and Back to Earth." Also contributing are long time American Splendor veterans R. Crumb (only two pages, tho'), Gary Dumm (who is the collection's major contributor), Gerry Shamray and Frank Stack. This is a great, well-rounded collection that is sure to be a hit with American Splendor fans, new and die-hard alike.
The Beats: A Graphic History	Harvey Pekar , Ed Piskor	Henry Holt		$20.00 ($22.00 list)
Read more and comment...	by Harvey Pekar & Ed Piskor with Paul Beuhle, Trina Robbins, Peter Kuper, Mary Fleener, Summer McClinton, et al The dynamic duo of historical comics, Harvey Pekar and Ed Piskor, are back with The Beats: A Graphic History. Yes, of course, the unholy trinity of Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg are here, front and center, but this anthological history of the beats ranges far and wide to include the likes of Michael McClure, Robert Duncan, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Charles Olsen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima, and many others. While the focus is on the 1950s we are taken back to the early days of the principal actors and up to the present with the reverberations of their work, actions and lives. It's hard to overstate the impact that these figures had on American culture. They were the prime movers in consciously breaking out of the conformity that the pressures of the Great Depression and the Second World War placed on Americans, of valuing the rights of the individual over the security of the nation, of the personal over the (re)public, and so inititated the frontline of the biggest battle of the culture wars that continue to rage to this day. Anyone interested in getting an easily assimilable introduction to the major players in this important cultural movement need look no further. The authors neglected to provide any sort of bibliography to help readers move on to the literature itself, so we'll help out by hooking you up with The Beat Page, the best spot on the web from which to start delving into this movement.
Mineshaft #21	R. Crumb, Mary Fleener, Ed Piskor	Self-published	Mineshaft	$6.25 ($6.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	A counter-culture zine of comics and more that is still going strong. This issue features a front cover and five sketchbook pages by R. Crumb, a swell 4-page comics-bio of that beatnikita, Diane di Prima by Harvey Pekar and Mary Fleener, a selection of fine pen and ink drawings along with commentary by their creator, William Crook, Jr., Bill Griffith's 3-panel revelation of "How I Got My Start in the Comics Business!!" a back cover and more by Cristoph Mueller, and a "Sunday" page by Jay Lynch and Pittsburgh's own Ed Piskor describing an afternoon with the one and only Chester Gould. Plus plenty more!
Deviant Funnies #2	Ed Piskor			$2.50 ($3.00 list)
Read more and comment...	These two issues are chock-a-block with serious old-school humor comics that have their roots in the glory days of EC and the original Mad. The level of diligence in the rendering and inking evident in these self-published comics is rarely seen at this end of the comic book spectrum. The content of the pages in Deviant Funnies run the gamut from birth to death -- filling in the space between with sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and a lot of laffs. Ed is a Pittsburgh local boy who is doing his all to make good. He recently handed in the longest story in Harvey Pekar's American Splendor: Our Movie Year; and, he did such a good job that Harvey has asked him to be the sole artist on his next project, due out late in 2006. Don't miss this chance to get your hands on these two mini-masterworks.
Deviant Funnies #1	Ed Piskor			$2.50 ($3.00 list)
Read more and comment...	These two issues are chock-a-block with serious old-school humor comics that have their roots in the glory days of EC and the original Mad. The level of diligence in the rendering and inking evident in these self-published comics is rarely seen at this end of the comic book spectrum. The content of the pages in Deviant Funnies run the gamut from birth to death -- filling in the space between with sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and a lot of laffs. Ed is a Pittsburgh local boy who is doing his all to make good. He recently handed in the longest story in Harvey Pekar's American Splendor: Our Movie Year; and, he did such a good job that Harvey has asked him to be the sole artist on his next project, due out late in 2006. Don't miss this chance to get your hands on these two mini-masterworks.
Wizzywig 2: Hacker	Ed Piskor			$12.75 ($15.00 list)
Read more and comment...	The youngest old schooler on the block, Pittsburgher Ed Piskor, is back with the second volume of his series chronicling the computer counterculture. Expect intrigue, suspense, moral dilemmas, crazy late night antics, intimations of drug use, a bunch of brainiacs engaging in anti-authoritarian behaviors and more, all sharply delineated with Piskor's patented persnickety penwork and laid out in his relentless quadruplicate grid. .
Wizzywig, Volume 1: Phreak	Ed Piskor	Self-published		$12.75 ($15.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Pittsburgh's own, Ed Piskor, heretofore best know for his work with Harvey Pekar (Our Movie Year, Macedonia), has now busted out on his own with his new self-published series, Wizzywig. This first 116-page square-format volume, Phreak, is dedicated to the exploits of those precursors to computer hackers, the phone phreaks. As Robert Frost once wrote, "there is something that does not love a wall." In the modern world, the definitive walls erected to protect private property are computer systems, specifically the codes that run them, and as such make for an irresistible target for that "something." But before the internet was a gleam in its daddies' eyes, Ma Bell ruled the roost, and those dedicated to "getting over" the walls erected to keep them out of messing with the system spent their time figuring out how to outsmart and/or break into the telephone switching systems. Ed Piskor tells their tale by agreggating various phreak legends into a single mythical figure in this engaging book of old school comics. Learn more about our pal, Ed, and check out some Phreak preview pages, here.
Macedonia	Ed Piskor, Heather Roberson, Harvey Pekar	Villard		$16.00 ($17.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Given the assignment to pencil and ink indy comics legend, Harvey Pekar's longest and most ambitious work to date (co-scripted by peace activist, Heather Robinson, whose life and work provided the inspiration for the book) Pittsburgh's own Ed Piskor hits it out of the park with this 152 page all new, original graphic novel. There's a lot of history and a lot of story crammed into this book, as Pekar applies his trademarked storytelling abilities to acquaint his readers with the sometimes harsh but always human realities of this conflicted corner of Europe that occupies lands in the former Yugoslavia that border the worn torn regions that have been eloquently explored in the comics of Joe Sacco. Piskor proves himself a stalwart creative partner in Macedonia. His work here carries a lot of information across to the reader and puts us in mind of a more prosaic Chester Brown. History and foreign policy, international affairs and affairs of the heart; all come together in this revealing tale of the global village where we all now live.

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