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Title Creator Publisher Series Price
Suddenly Something Happened Jimmy Beaulieu Conundrum Press $17.77
($20.00 list)
OUT OF STOCK!
Suddenlysomething
Read more and comment... 		Here's the first English language edition (translation by Kerryann Cochrane) of any work by the esteemed Francophone Canadian comics creator, Jimmy Beualieu.  Founder of the publishing house, Mecanique Générale and the author of eight books in French, Beaulieu was long overdue for being introduced to Anglophone readers.  The work contained in this meaty 252 page volume originally appeared in French in 2004 and 2005 and was awarded the 2005 Prix de l'Esoir Québécois.  Rendered in pencils occasionally bolstered by ink washes, Suddenly Something Happened chronicles the life and loves of its laid-back artist-protagonist set against the backdrop of Quebec, both urban and rural.  There's a bit of Dupuy and Berberian here, a touch of Posy Simmonds, and fans of Alex Robinson might find what they're looking for in these pages.  Beaulieu is a natural and fluid visual storyteller and this is a book to be savored.   TEMPORARIY OUT OF STOCK.
Chimo David Collier Conundrum Press $15.25
($17.00 list)
Chimo
Read more and comment... 		Woohoo!  A brand new work by Copacetic fave David Collier is sizzling hot off the press and waiting for you.  We haven't had the chance to do more than crack it open, but even a cursory glance is enough to see that this is classic Collier through and through.  As we can't wait to announce this book's arrival, we're going to step aside for a moment to let someone who has read it, and knows a little something about comics, share their opinion:  "Chimo is an idiosyncratic, compelling and hilarious musing-in-comics that I couldn't put down.  Seemingly a quirky memoir about soldiering, it's really a quest for survival – both basic and artistic – and a meditation on aging, family and the fight to simply try and understand oneself, all told by one of the most unpretentious cartoonists in North American.  There's an eye for mundane detail and a sort of animal fear running through it all that leaves one shaken yet oddly refreshed.  It's unlike anything I've read before.  I loved it."  - Chris Ware.  Since premiering in R. Crumb's Weirdo over twenty years ago, Collier can be credited with pioneering a wide swath of non-fiction comics, including comics biography, comics history, sketchbook comics, autobio comics, anecdotal comics and more.  Working out of humble Hamilton, Ontario, David Collier has quietly been building one of the most significant bodies of work in comics. 
Nog a Dod Marc Bell Conundrum Press $22.22
($25.00 list)
Nog a dod_shop
Read more and comment... 		Many a Copacetic Customer is a fan of the work of Marc Bell, but is was difficult to absorb his work in the proper context -- as the leading light in a vibrant scene -- until now!  Nog A Dod is a revelation and a mind blower.  Page after page of drawings over, under, sideways, down in both basic black & white and fabulous full color reproductions.  Here's what publisher, Conundrum Press has to say: "Nog A Dod is a landmark in Canadian Oddball Art Publishing. It documents nearly a decade of work by a loosely affiliated group of primarily Vancouver artists who draw with and about each other. Like their contemporaries and friends in the Royal Art Lodge, they work on each other's drawings, create small run books and ephemera, and collaborate so closely that it is sometimes difficult to tell where one begins and another ends. Their work falls somewhere between children's book art, comics, psychedelia and fine art... The book documents hundreds of unique mini-books by artists including editor and designer Marc Bell, Peter Thompson, Jason McLean, Amy Lockhart, Owen Plummer, Tommy Lacroix, S.P. Ehman, Scott Evans, Julie Voyce and Mark Connery."  So, what are you waiting for?
Gilded Lillies Conundrum Press $17.00
($17.00 list)
Gildedllilies
Read more and comment... 		Yet another talented Canadian comicker struts her stuff.