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Title Creator Publisher Series Price
I Saw You Austin English, Keith Knight, Kazimir Strzepek, Joey Sayers and more ... Three Rivers Press $11.75
($12.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Yes, it's a comics anthology entirely consisting of comics inspired by "real-life" missed connection ads posted on Craigslist.  These short tales range from sad to pathetic to depressing to funny to deranged to impossible-to-describe.  An astonishing 98 artists contributed to this anthology, including – but not limited to – Sarah Oleksyk, Jesse Reklaw, Sam Henderson, Peter Bagge, Liz Prince, Shannon Wheeler, Laura Park, Jeffrey Brown, Keith Knight, Elijah Brubaker, Greg Means, Gabrielle Bell, Alec Longstreth and Aaron Renier.  If nothing else, this massive array of talent testifies to the universality of Craigslist.  This book probably has something important to say about interpersonal relationships in the internet era, if we can only figure out what it is...
Sticks and Stones Peter Kuper Three Rivers Press $12.55
($13.95 list)

Read more and comment... 		Managing to get away from his illustration work for the New York Times, Time Magazine and others, Peter Kuper is back in comics form with a new pantomime graphic novel.  Like Eric Drooker (Flood), his on and off cohort at WWIII Illustrated,  Kuper's longer work deftly employs the strengths inherent in the shorthand of visual storytelling to work in the allegorical form.  In Sticks and Stones he presents us with an epic fable of empire gone wrong.  Three Rivers Press • 128 pages • B & W and Color
A Right To Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury Aaron McGruder Three Rivers Press $15.25
($16.95 list)

Read more and comment... 		Over 800 strips make up this, the first, Boondocks treasury. The selection dates from the earliest days up through to the waning days of 2002.  Sundays are in color, dailies in B & W.  The observations on America as perceived by media-drenched, suburban-dwelling African-Americans provide a unique -- to comics -- perspective on our times.  Plus, they’re funny.
All the Rage: The Boondocks Past and Present Aaron McGruder Three Rivers Press $15.00
($16.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Starting out with a front cover that immediately made us think of The Onion, it's clear that this Boondocks book is not your ordinary reprint volume.  It's divided into three parts: I:  The Strips; II:  The Media; and III:  The Controversy.  The first, is the typical strip collection part, which presents Boondocks strips running through the last day of 2005.  The second collects various and sundry media reports of, on and about The Boondocks, and contains quite a few interviews with McGruder.  The third section focuses on the "controversial" strips -- those that were pulled by various  papers around America -- and includes the "before and after" versions of strips where changes were demanded by the syndicate.  Enjoyable and educational, this Boondocks collection continues and extends McGruder's reign as the one of the most savvy and successful cartoonists of our day.