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David Sandlin

Title	Creator	Publisher	Series	Price
The Best American Comics 2009	Dash Shaw, Koren Shadmi, David Sandlin, Ron Regé and more ...	Houghton Mifflin	Best American	$20.00 ($22.95 list)
Read more and comment...	edited by Charles Burns Well, Crumb is a tough act to follow, but we'll give it a shot with this star-studded anthology filled with the best and the brightest from the last twelve months of comics, as judged by Charles Burns. In a book like this, we feel that the contributor list says it best: Doug Allen, Peter Bagge, Gabrielle Bell, Matt Broersma, Daniel Clowes, Al Columbia, Robert Dennis Crumb, Sammy Harkham, Tim Hensley, Gilbert Hernandez, Kevin Huizenga, Ben Katchor, Kaz, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Michael Kupperman, Jason Lutes, Tony Millionaire, Jerry Moriarty, Anders Nilsen, Gary Panter, Laura Park, Mimi Pond, Ron Regé, David Sandlin, Koren Shadmi, Dash Shaw, Art Spiegelman, Ted Stearn, Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Dan Zettwoch. 'Nuff said. Well, actually, we can't help but add that while the material contained in this anthology is absolutely fabulous, the quality of its reproduction is, mysteriously, not up to the same standard as the three previous volumes in this series, which were excellent in that department. This shouldn't stop anyone from picking up this fine volume, but it is worrisome. Let's hope that this was a one time aberration and that next year we'll find the fine folks at Houghton Mifflin have figured out what went wrong and put things in the production department back on track.
The Ganzfeld #4	C. F., Paper Rad, David Sandlin, Frank Santoro and more ...	PictureBox	The Ganzfeld	$25.00 ($29.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The Ganzfeld No. 4: Art History? Two years in the making, the latest issue of the Ganzfeld is finally on our shelves! It starts out with a wraparound cover and end papers by the high priestess of Canadian comics, Julie Doucet, and doesn't let up . After the lead off introductions by editor, Dan Nadel and artist extraordinaire, Peter Blegvad, the book is divided up into four sections of approximately equal length. In the first, Art History, you'll discover a lot that you hadn't know that you needed to know but will be glad to learn, including the secret history of the enigmatic cover art for Led Zeppelin's Presence that's always been a nagging question mark lurking in a back alley of your consciousness ever since you first saw it back in 1976. Next up is Drawings, by the recognized hepsters Gary Panter and Mark Newgarden, as well as others whose art you are far less likely to have previously come into contact with; but now will! Artists on Art is an intriguing, highly engaging and fairly unique feature which presents artists on art in art: David Sandlin's 18-page, lushly colored piece on H.C. Westermann is a tour de force of admiration, while Marc Bell's Ph.D.-thesis-in-comics-form provides a fresh, delightful and direct access to the work of Philip Guston that will be much appreciated by many. And then, finally, there's the Comics. This section starts off, semi-miraculously, with a six-page walking tour of Pittsburgh, both real and dreamed -- as a place on the map and as a state of mind -- by peripatetic former resident, Frank Santoro, and continues with fine work by Paper Rad, Leif Goldberg, Ted Stearn, Matthew Thurber, Jim Drain, Mark Newgarden, and a wild and wooly journey to the center of the mind by "C.F." The centerpiece is the amazing 22-page, "Ganmodoki," a piece from the late, surrealist period of Japanese manga legend, Shigeru Sugiura. And there you have it.
Rabid Rabbit #8	David Sandlin			$5.00 ($6.00 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	This is a nice anthology series out of New York City that we somehow missed out on, until now. We suspect the contributor list is populated in part by current and former students of SVA (as well as at least one instructor, David Sandlin). This is a good thing. The comics here, while generally focused on urban themes, are diverse in their styles and approaches. Each of these issues is devoted to a specific theme, to wit: #4 - Trash; #5 - Alphabet City; #5 - The Future; #7 - Pornography (18+ only, natch'); and #8 -- The Beatles! Issues #4 - #7 are digest size and are 36, 32, 40 & 48 pages respectively; #8 is 8 1/2" square -- and squarebound -- (to resemble a record jacket -- The White Album, in this case) and runs a big 64 pages. Learn more at: http://www.rabidrabbit.org
Rabid Rabbit #7	David Sandlin			$2.75 ($3.00 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	This is a nice anthology series out of New York City that we somehow missed out on, until now. We suspect the contributor list is populated in part by current and former students of SVA (as well as at least one instructor, David Sandlin). This is a good thing. The comics here, while generally focused on urban themes, are diverse in their styles and approaches. Each of these issues is devoted to a specific theme, to wit: #4 - Trash; #5 - Alphabet City; #5 - The Future; #7 - Pornography (18+ only, natch'); and #8 -- The Beatles! Issues #4 - #7 are digest size and are 36, 32, 40 & 48 pages respectively; #8 is 8 1/2" square -- and squarebound -- (to resemble a record jacket -- The White Album, in this case) and runs a big 64 pages. Learn more at: http://www.rabidrabbit.org
Rabid Rabbit #6	David Sandlin			$2.75 ($3.00 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	This is a nice anthology series out of New York City that we somehow missed out on, until now. We suspect the contributor list is populated in part by current and former students of SVA (as well as at least one instructor, David Sandlin). This is a good thing. The comics here, while generally focused on urban themes, are diverse in their styles and approaches. Each of these issues is devoted to a specific theme, to wit: #4 - Trash; #5 - Alphabet City; #5 - The Future; #7 - Pornography (18+ only, natch'); and #8 -- The Beatles! Issues #4 - #7 are digest size and are 36, 32, 40 & 48 pages respectively; #8 is 8 1/2" square -- and squarebound -- (to resemble a record jacket -- The White Album, in this case) and runs a big 64 pages. Learn more at: http://www.rabidrabbit.org
Rabid Rabbit #5	David Sandlin			$2.75 ($3.00 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	This is a nice anthology series out of New York City that we somehow missed out on, until now. We suspect the contributor list is populated in part by current and former students of SVA (as well as at least one instructor, David Sandlin). This is a good thing. The comics here, while generally focused on urban themes, are diverse in their styles and approaches. Each of these issues is devoted to a specific theme, to wit: #4 - Trash; #5 - Alphabet City; #5 - The Future; #7 - Pornography (18+ only, natch'); and #8 -- The Beatles! Issues #4 - #7 are digest size and are 36, 32, 40 & 48 pages respectively; #8 is 8 1/2" square -- and squarebound -- (to resemble a record jacket -- The White Album, in this case) and runs a big 64 pages. Learn more at: http://www.rabidrabbit.org
Rabid Rabbit #4	David Sandlin			$2.75 ($3.00 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	This is a nice anthology series out of New York City that we somehow missed out on, until now. We suspect the contributor list is populated in part by current and former students of SVA (as well as at least one instructor, David Sandlin). This is a good thing. The comics here, while generally focused on urban themes, are diverse in their styles and approaches. Each of these issues is devoted to a specific theme, to wit: #4 - Trash; #5 - Alphabet City; #5 - The Future; #7 - Pornography (18+ only, natch'); and #8 -- The Beatles! Issues #4 - #7 are digest size and are 36, 32, 40 & 48 pages respectively; #8 is 8 1/2" square -- and squarebound -- (to resemble a record jacket -- The White Album, in this case) and runs a big 64 pages. Learn more at: http://www.rabidrabbit.org
Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality	David Sandlin			$12.70 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	There may be a quite of few copacetic customers who aren't familiar with David Sandlin, as his work has not generally been widely distrbuted since the 1980s, although many of you may have caught his amazing piece in Ganzfeld #4. Here's your chance to discover what you've been missing: An artistic sensibility that masterfully balance form and content, composition and coloring, inking and obsessions, along with decadence and delight. If you're in the market for some sweaty sin that's oozing with booze and rife with regret -- all held together with an alphabetical alliteration that gives the phrase "learning your ABCs" a whole new meaning -- well, all we have to say is look no further than this salacious squarebound "picto-novelette." (note: image at right is not actual cover, which is actually quite a bit more sweaty)
Hotwire #2	David Sandlin, Ivan Brunetti, Lauren Weinstein, Mary Fleener and more ...	Fantagraphics		$19.55 ($22.99 list)
Read more and comment...	edited by Glenn Head It took awhile to get this second volume together, but it just goes to show that you can't rush quality. This second 136 page oversize softcover is packed to the gills with comics work from the wrong side of the tracks. Included this time around are extended pieces by Tim Lane, Mary Fleener, Mack White, series editor, Glenn Head, Carol Swain and Dutch artist Tobias Tak. Also on hand are shorter pieces by the likes of David Sandlin, Jonathon Rosen, Stephane Blanquet, Craig Yoe, Christian Northeast, and Mike Wartella. There are also hot new strips by David Lasky, Rick Altergott, Lauren Weinstein, Matti Hagelberg, Danny Hellman, Bob Sikoryak, Michael Kupperman and Chadwick Whitehead and others. And Hotwire delivers in the humor department as well, with a pile o' gag pages by Ivan Brunetti, Johnny Ryan, Doug Allen, Gary Lieb and Sam Henderson. To learn more check out the official Hotwire site. on the lower right hand corner of which you can click onto a nice set of preview pages and so get an idea of what you're in for.
Swamp Preacher	David Sandlin	Fantagraphics		$5.95 ($5.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	1980s art comic pioneer, David Sandlin reveals the terrible secret of Carl Bob, "The Swamp Preacher," in this mind-blowing 40-page comic book that will have you thinking heretofore unthinkable thoughts about the nature of America, its people and its practices. Printed entirely (except for the amazing full color wraparound front and inside front covers) in lurid mauve and green, Swamp Preacher is -- at least for now* -- a one of a kind experience and and instant classic! *The indicia states that this is "#1" and the inside back cover mentions "future issues." We can only pray that this is all true and that we can continue to follow the incredible tale of Carl Bob and be born again in the spirit of our age.
Wonderfool World	David Sandlin	Butler Gallery		$22.22 ($24.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Published by the Butler Gallery of Kilkenny, Ireland, in conjunction with Sandlin's recent exhibit there, this 160-page full colour catalogue is now available stateside, here at Copacetic.A treasure trove of visionary art, Wonderfool World delves deep down into the primordial ooze seeping out of and dripping into the bottomless underworld of sin while simultaneously revealing that it lies just below the surface of the eternal infinity of salvation.Shopping, shooting, drinking, driving, war and sex are, for Sandlin, inexorably joined with beauty, innocence, hope, peace and love as two sides of the coin of the realm of our contemporary DreAmerican "land"-scape.David Sandlin is a true original, a pioneer exploring unmapped terrains of America's unconscious. This book holds the rich, ripe and totally unique fruit of a thirty year career spent intermingling fine arts and comics. While quite a few artists have, in recent years, headed out to explore this terrain for themselves, only Robert Williams and, maybe, Joe Coleman have been at it as long and have as impressive a body of work; Sandlin's vision is, however, without a doubt the one that speaks to us most directly. It is the single most cogently formulated contemporary expression of an America caught in the vise of sin and redemption that we have come across.Included in this volume -- beautifully designed by Fabio Soletti -- are introductory essays by John Carlin and Carlo McCormick, as well as conversations with the artist conducted by Carlin and Dan "Picturebox" Nadel. Make sure you give this one the once over when you're in the shop, and/or check out this online gallery of his work.

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