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Title Creator Publisher Series Price
A Drunken Dream and Other Stores Moto Hagio, Trina Robbins, Matt Thorn Fantagraphics $22.22
($24.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Founding mother of shojo manga, Moto Hagio finally gets an English language collection!  This hardcover volume contains ten tales spanning three decades, and contains some of her very best work, including the novella, "Iguana Girl," which Trina Robbins, in her tubthumping forward, calls a "brilliant tour de force."  A Drunken Dream also includes an introductory essay by shojo evangelist Matt Thorn on "The Magnificent Forty-Niners," the generation of female manga artists who revolutionized girls comics in the 1970s, as well as a quite substantial interview with Hagio, also conducted by Thorn.  Anyone interested in the history of shojo manga pretty much has no choice but to check this one out, and we think that anyone looking for emotionally powerful yet delicately nuanced comics will find their time spent here rewarded.  Fantagraphics has made this easy, by providing this massive 31-page preview.   Be sure to take advantage of this, we're confident that you'll find it worth your while.
Above and Below: Two stories of the American Frontier James Sturm Drawn and Quarterly $7.95
($9.95 list)

Read more and comment... 		With this saddle-stitched volume, publisher Drawn & Quarterly collects James Sturm's two self-published and out-of-print classics of Americana:  The Revival -- it's Kentucky, it's 1801, and thousands gather to look for salvation; and Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight -- life in an Idaho mining town in 1886.  These are the stories that comics iconclast Sturm built his rep on.  He's now spearheading the development of The Center for Cartoon Studies, which aims to be the first full-fledged university for all things comics.  His work is well worth checking out.
American Barbarian Tom Scioli AdHouse Books $17.77
($19.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Get ready for 256 pages of pulse pounding pencils – and inks and colors, not to mention the story and script as well - by the pandemonium producing Pittsburgh comics creator, Tom Scioli!  Author and artist of the the Xeric-winning Myth of 8-Opus saga, and co-creator of Godland, Scioli has here brought the past and the future together in a post-apocalyptic fusion of all things adventurous.  It's Devil Dinosaur and the Forever People meet Conan the Barbarian and Captain America, with a dash of The Mighty Thor and Star Wars thrown in for good measure.  If you need more convincing, read this rave Robot 6 review.  American Barbarian started out life as a web-comic, so feel free to dive right in (and while you're there, you can also check out Scioli's latest project, Final Frontier, which is just now getting underway).  Yes, American Barbarian is a fun-filled romp that will scratch that comic book itch, but, like all the works by Scioli's patron saint, Jack Kirby, it also contains a good deal more.  In its meshing and blending of ancient mythical archetypes and religious narrative tropes with pop culture iconography, Scioli provides cogent (if sometimes obscure) social and historical commentaries that can be reached by anyone willing to scratch (and sometimes dig) below its action-packed surface.
Daybreak Brian Ralph Drawn and Quarterly $19.75
($21.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		After years spent in the small press comics wilderness, Brian Ralph finally makes it onto bookstore shelves everywhere with this handsome, finely crafted (embossed!) hardcover volume from Drawn & Quarterly that collects the three softcover volumes orginally published by indy stalwart, Bodega Press.  A co-founder of the Providence, RI-based art collective, Fort Thunder, Ralph made his mark with the (now out of print) wordless graphic novel, Cave-In, published by Highwater Books.  Daybreak employs a formally unique hybrid of second-person and direct address that it would be hard to pull off in any medium other than comics to tell a tale of post-apocalyptic zombies that puts the reader right in the thick of it.
Ev and Art Dorothy Howard $2.70
($3.00 list)

Read more and comment... 		This new work, the first in quite awhile by recent Pittsburgh returnee Howard, features the trials and tribulations of Ev (mostly) and Art, two shy and lonely twenty-somethings who are each waiting for the other to make the first move. Made in Pittsburgh.
Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative Will Eisner, Peter Poplaski $20.00
($22.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		The third and final volume in the "Will Eisner Instructional Series" -- following the essential classic Comics and Seqential Art and its sequel, Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative Expressive Anatomy was nearly complete before Eisner's death and offers plenty of tips and guidance in this crucial area that lies right at the heart of cartooning.
Flight #5 Kazu Kibuishi Flight $22.22
($24.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Yes, it's time for another 360 page anthology of full color fantasy inflected comics of an international flavor that leans towords the pacific rim.  Contributors this time around include Graham Annable, Matthew Bernier, Scott Campbell, Tony Cliff, Michel Gagné, Reagan Lodge, John Martz & Ryan North, Paul Rivoche, Joey Weiser and over a dozen others including editor Kibuishi, who also handles the cover chores.  There's something for everyone here:  from baseball games to ninja battles, from polar bears to dragons to robots (and robot dragons), from space travel to couch surfing and plenty more.  Here's a great preview. 
Galago, Volume 01 - From the Shadow of the Northern Lights: An Anthology of Swedish Alternative Comics #1 $17.77
($19.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Hey you comics fans of all things Scandanavian, here's 200 pages of dark, brooding, self-conscious, introverted tales of foreboding, angst, self-doubt, self-pity and more, all originating from the center of Scandanavia -- Sweden!  There's really quite a variety of drawing styles and story-telling schemas on display here, more than you might think; so if this sounds interesting, don't forget to take a look, because our supply is small.
George Herriman's Krazy Kat: A Celebration of Sundays Peter Maresca, Patrick McDonnell, George Herriman Sunday Press $95.00
($100.00 list)
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Read more and comment... 		<<•>>  edited by Patrick McDonnell and Peter Maresca <<•>>  Yes, it's true!!!  Sunday Press, the fine folks who brought us the game-changing Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays, and its myriad Sunday strip sequels have at last seen their way clear to produce an equivalent volume of that greatest of all( well, at least to us here at Copacetic) Sunday strips, the work that introduced poetry to comics:   the one and only Krazy Kat, by George Herriman.  Finally, KRAZY KAT as it was meant to be seen:  135 full-size Sunday pages from 1916-1944  Plus, dozens more early comics from George Herriman.  Included in this splediferous 14 x 17-inch collection is a sampling of each of Herriman's creations for the Sunday newspaper comics from 1901-1906: Professor Otto, The Two Jackies, Major Ozone, and more, many of which have never been reprinted before.  HERE are some sample pages, BUT the whole idea of this book is lost in reading them on a computer screen, so think twice before clicking over:  you may want to wait for the real thing.
Government Issue Comics Richard L Graham, Will Eisner, Milton Caniff, Al Capp and more ... Abrams ComicArts $17.77
($29.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		edited, compiled and annotated by Richard L Graham    Government Issue Comics provides readers with a 300 page overview of over sixty years of government sponsored comics.  The numerous and various branches of the US government managed, unsurprisingly, to recruit some of the top comics talent of its time, and in these pages you will find work by Will Eisner, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Joe Kubert and Kurt Schaffenberger – and Charles Schulz, Walt Kelly, Chic Young and George McManus (and Al Wiseman!), along with a host of anonymous unknowns, all working on behalf of educating their fellow citizens on a (very) wide array of issues.  Richard Graham, an associate professor and media services librarian at the University of Nebraska has put together a broad survey of this massive but under-appreciated aspect of comics history.  It is organized into four categories:  military; economics and employment; civil defense, safety and health; and landscapes and lifestyles.  Each of these sections begins with an introductory essay by Graham that puts the comics in context.  Readers with Q-Code readers will, in theory, be able to access a large online archive of these comics by scanning the digital access code at the end of the book (or, go here and download PDF files of some of the complete comics and start reading now; just scroll down...).   Yes, history can be fun!  And now for less, as it is now on sale!
I Will Bite You Joseph Lambert Secret Acres $12.75
($14.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		This Vermont resident (native?) has been quietly building an impressive body of hard-to-get-a-hold-of self-published works that are now, at last, herein collected in a single volume published by the fine folks at Secret Acres.  A Center for Cartoon Studies alum, Lambert has developed a strong, recognizable style.  He is not, however, content to play the same song over and over.  Rather, he has put his chops in the service of a restless intelligence and has produced so far a nice batch of formal and thematic explorations that will reward engaged comics readers everywhere.  Take a gander at his online comics work, here. 128 pages • 2-color throughout, except for 1 full-color signature.  Recommended.
MAD's Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin Don Martin $50.00
($150.00 list)
OUT OF STOCK!
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Read more and comment... 		 This massive two-volume slip-cased edition is the same format made famous by the complete Calvin and Hobbes and Complete Far Side, and, like them, is a deluxe edition.  The Completely MAD Don Martin weighs in at a walloping fifteen pounds and runs a mind-boggling 1200 pages that contain ALL of Don Martin's work for Mad Magazine.  If you know anyone for whom this would be a dream come true, now's your chance to score it for a mere fraction of its original price!    SUPPLIES ARE LIMITED
Miriam #1 Rich Tommaso $4.44
($4.95 list)
OUT OF STOCK!
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Read more and comment... 		Mr. Tommaso's most Clowesian comics work yet is a tale of growing up different, immersed in pop culture.  Follow Miriam and her pals as the narrative jumps back in forth through time to portray crucial (and not so crucial) moments in their development.
Moomin, Book Three Tove Jansson Drawn and Quarterly Moomin $17.77
($19.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		It's here!  The third book in the four volume Drawn & Quarterly series collecting the entirety of the Moomin comic strip.  Commissioned by the London Evening Standard over fifty years ago, created and produced in Finland by Ms. Jansson, Moomin went on to be published in over forty different newspapers around the world.  Believe it or not, to the best of our knowledge (please correct us if we're wrong), despite its global popularity and the solid US sales of the children's Moomin books -- many of which include illustrations -- these D & Q volumes represent the first time the comics manifestation of the Moominverse has ever been published in book form in North America.  Once again Drawn & Quarterly has done the material proud by maintaining their ususal standard of excellence in production.  Don't worry if this is the first you've heard of Moomin:  we still have the first two volumes (and now, the fourth, as well) in stock.  And, not only that, D & Q had the foresight to provide us with an online location at which to peruse 90 consecutive strips --  here -- so, go ahead and get Moominized!
Owly Andy Runton $8.50
($10.00 list)

Read more and comment... 		Owly finally finds a permanent home in the first Owly trade paperback from Top Shelf.  This 160 page volume offers newcomers a chance to find out what buyers of the self-published (and Top Shelf distributed) Owly minis have been discovering over the last year:  Owly is one of the cutest and most endearing characters existing in that ephemeral reality constructed in lines on paper.  The two Owly adventures herein collected -- The Way Home and The Bittersweet Summer -- are related entirely in pictures; but while the characters that populate the similarly pantomimic work of Jason and Kriek (see below) tend to delve a bit into the shadows of the human psyche, Runton's Owly -- ironically, considering the animal that is his name sake -- is of an indefatigably bright disposition and never fails to direct his feet to the sunny side of the street.  This is one strip that is guaranteed to chase those blues away.  It's only a matter of time until the Owly plush dolls start rolling off the production lines.   Hmm,  wonder where we'll put ours...