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Major art book publisher of long standing.


Title Creator Publisher Series Price
Meanwhile Jason Shiga Abrams $15.00
($15.95 list)
Meanwhile
Read more and comment... 		Mathematically-minded, computer-program-writing, troubleshooting-oriented comics fans please take note:  Here is a comic book for you.  This is a comic that is very hard to accurately describe.  It is a true one-of-a-kind work (so much so that it may be destined to remain so for all eternity) that is a take on the "choose your own adventure" genre that is much, much more.  To give you a better idea, here's the entirety of the author's introductory note:  "Meanwhile began as a series of seven increasingly complex flowcharts.  Because of asymmetries in the branching, a special notation had to be invented for the final three charts.  Once the outline of the story was structured, a computer algorithm was written to determine the most efficient method to transfer it to book form.  However, the problem proved to be NP-complete.  With the use of a V-opt heuristic algorithm running for 12 hours on an SGI machine, the solution was finally cracked in the spring of 2000.  It was another six months before layouts were finished, again with the aide of homebrew computer algorithms.  After a year of prep work, production began on the book, which was completed one year later."  And that brings us to the fact that this work was originally released in a hand made edition with a tiny press run roughly seven years ago, and only now has it finally managed to make it out into the wider world courtesy of Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams.  You owe it to yourself to check this one out!
Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman Patrick McDonnell, George Herriman Abrams $8.88
($19.95 list)
Krazykat
Read more and comment... 		Where to begin with such a book.  It is clearly and definitely the best book ever done on Krazy Kat, which is, at least in our estimation, the greatest of the classic newspaper comics. Ergo, it is, Copacetically speaking, one of the single best volumes of comics ever produced.  In other words, it wins the Desert Island Award™: If there were one comics related book to take  to a deserted island, this might very well be it.  And as if that weren’t enough, it has now been reissued in an economy softcover edition that’ll only set you back a double sawbuck.  Think of it-- a lifetime of pleasure and consolation for what it would cost you to spend a few hours in a bar.  And they say there is no God. For sheer aesthetic achievement, narrative inventiveness, psychological incisiveness, cultural significance, and creative ebullience, Krazy Kat, the masterpiece in comics that George Herriman produced on a daily basis from 1913 through 1944, cannot be beat. This volume provides a judiciously selected, finely reproduced and intelligently arranged collection of George Herriman’s work accompanied by an engrossing account of his life and career.  NOW AVAILABLE AT A SUPER SPECIAL PRICE!