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Title Creator Publisher Series Price
Root Rot Anne Koyama, Michael DeForge, Dan Zettwoch, Hellen Jo and more ... Koyama Press $12.00
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Rootrot
Read more and comment... 		Here's another forest themed book.  This all-new anthology contains 16 two-page spreads by 16 different artists including Dan Zettwoch, Hellen Jo, T. Edward Bak, John Vermilyea and Joseph Lambert – roughly 2/3 comics and 1/3 illustration – along with a wraparound cover by co-editor DeForge.  Beautifully printed on heavy, flat white stock.  Another fine Koyama Press publication.  BACK IN STOCK.
Study Group 12 #4 Theo Ellsworth, Jim Rugg, Dan Zettwoch, Edward Bak and more ... Study Group Study Group 12 $20.00
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Studygroup12-4
Read more and comment... 		edited by Zack Soto After, what? five years? we have another issue of Study Group 12.  This one is the grandest yet.  8 1/2" x 11 1/2" , with 72 pages printed in navy blue, eight extra pages with an additional layer of magenta, and then all wrapped up in a hand silk-screened cover in aqua and pink.   This package holds quite a lot of talent.  Creators included in this issue are Theo Ellsworth, Jim Rugg, Dan Zettwoch, T Edward Bak, Richard Hahn, John Vermilyea, Michael DeForge, Vanessa Davis, Farel Dalrymple, Aidan Koch, and plenty more.  The front cover is by editor, Zack Soto; back cover by Mr. DeForge, and endpapers by the esteemed Steven Weissman.  This is a hand-numbered edition of 500 copies.
MOME: Spring 2010 #18 Eric Reynolds, Nate Neal, Frank Santoro, Ben Jones and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $12.75
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Mome18
Read more and comment... 		This issue's editorial claims that, with the publication of MOME 18, MOME has now published over 2000 pages of comics, and that this "may be a record for an English-language alternative comics anthology."  Who knew?  To start off the celebration we have Nate Neal's cover feature, the multi-layered and multi-levelled, "Neurotic Nexus of Creation."  This one should leave you with much to ponder, especially regarding its innovative formal qualities, but as well as for its worldview.  Of special interest to Copacetic customers is the latest message from the Cold Heat universe, brought to you by the combined powers of Ben Jones, Frank Santoro and John Vermilyea.  This feature is a vigorously rendered and sumptously colored tale of drugs, rock 'n' roll, sex, and gruesome horror.  Also in this issue we have:  an all-new Tim Lane tale, "The Passenger"; a surprise new Pip and Norton adventure from Dave Cooper and Gavin McInnes; "Burrow World," wherein Joe Daly does Mat Brinkman;  three short pieces by Nicolas Mahler; the third installment of Fuz & Pluck in "The Moolah Tree"; the second installments of both T. Edward Bak's WIldman – "A Barvarian Botanist in St. Petersburg," and Michael Jada & Derek Van Gieson's "Devil Doll"; a four-pager by Lilli Carré that had us thinking of old Rick Geary; the pastoral "Autumn" by Conor O'Keefe; more René French; and the Chris Ware homage, "The Jerk Machine," by Jon Adams.  MOME!
MOME #14 Emile Bravo, Gilbert Shelton, John Vermilyea, Ben Jones and more ... Fantagraphics MOME $13.50
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Mome14
Read more and comment... 		Another fine issue from the recently reenergized MOME.  This issue's standout feature is Lilli Carré's, full-color, 32-page piece (graphic novella?), "The Carnival," that is a dream-like meditation on the desires that flow just below the surface of the quotidian, desires that are constantly struggling to break through, and yet seem always to be mysteriously held back by... what exactly?  "The Carnival" doesn't pretend to give you the answers, but it will help put you in a place where you might find some on your own.  The highlight for us here at Copacetic is an all-new Cold Heat tale by Frank Santoro, Ben Jones and John Vermilyea (who also turns in a solo piece here that has to be one of the most pithy portrayals of the American Way ever penned).  And there's plenty more including the continuation of Gilbert Shelton's multi-part saga which reveals -- among other things -- that he, along with fellow underground comix grandmaster, R. Crumb, is a lifelong Carl Barks fan. Emile Bravo provides a deeply sarcastic satire of American Politics; Ray Fenwick, Laura Park, Dash Shaw, Sara Edward-Corbett, Olivier Schrauwen, Josh Simmons and Conor O'Keefe are all on hand, and are joined by newcomers (to American Comics) Hernán Migoya & Juaco Vizuente; and the entire issue is punctuated by a series of one-pages by Derek Van Gieson.
Cold Heat Special #1 Frank Santoro, John Vermilyea PictureBox Cold Heat $3.00
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Read more and comment... 		Upon learning that the Cold Heat comic book series was going to be transformed into a stand-alone graphic novel to be released in late 2008 (at the earliest) and as a result faced with the potential for a year long drought for Cold Heat fans after their being acculturated to a regular release schedule, CH creator Frank Santoro commisioned several ancilliary Cold Heat books to tide readers over while he toils away on the core text.  The first  Special is an 11" x 14" newspaper, with artists Santoro and Vermilyea taking full  advantage of the grand page sizes to present an action-packed adventure that doubles as a sweeping simile.