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Big Questions

Title	Creator	Publisher	Series	Price
Big Questions #9	Anders Nilsen	Drawn and Quarterly	Big Questions	$6.00 ($6.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
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Big Questions #8	Anders Nilsen	Drawn and Quarterly	Big Questions	$5.00 ($5.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	The latest issue in Nilsen's ongoing epistemological entreaty employing avian intermediaries is currently expounding from our shelves. This issue comes to us in a deluxe 40-page, French-flapped edition, in which the flaps themselves are cleverly employed to provide us with a full-color line-up of the cast of characters that will be edifying to all but will be especially useful to newer readers in helping them to navigate their way through the symbol strewn landscape of this series.
Big Questions #6: Anoesia and the Matrideicidic Theophany #6	Anders Nilsen	Self-published	Big Questions	$5.00 ($5.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	C'mon, you gotta give it up for a comic with a title like this one's! If this title didn't stop and make you think, well then... you're not thinking. Go back and read it again, go get a dictionary (there's probably one on your computer, but it might not be deep enough to do the job) and suss it out. It might take you longer than you guess (hint: matrideicidic is a combination of matricide and deicide that may not technically be a legitimate word; but that shouldn't stop you from being able to figure out what it means). Well, while you're doing that, we'll continue... It's been over a year since Big Questions #5, so it's good to know that the Ingmar Bergman of self-published comics is still at it. Believe it or not, this issue continues the story from #4 & #5 (both now back in stock here at Copacetic, in case you missed them the first time around), so you'll probably want to dig them out and have them handy for maximum effect. 48 pages; saddle stitched; B & W with cardstock color cover
Big Questions #15	Anders Nilsen	Drawn and Quarterly	Big Questions	$7.25 ($7.95 list)
Read more and comment...	We sometimes questioned whether this day would ever arrive; but it has. The final, concluding issue of Big Questions, Anders Nilsen's long running series, upon which the bulk of his reputation rests, is now on sale here at The Copacetic Comics Company. Are there answers? Is there closure? We'll let you decide...
Big Questions #14	Anders Nilsen	Drawn and Quarterly	Big Questions	$7.00 ($7.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Anders pulls out his pens and gets down and does some serious drawing in this 48 page issue which is, evidently, the penultimate issue of this epic tale.
Big Questions: A House That Floats #13	Anders Nilsen	Drawn and Quarterly	Big Questions	$8.88 ($9.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Already another issue! This is the shortest interval between issues since D & Q began publishing it with the seventh issue; and not only that, but this time out we have a double-length 48-page issue! It appears that Mr. Nilson has been eating his Wheaties™. This issue comes equipped with French flaps which provide the added bonus of cameo-style portraits and mini-bios of the entire cast of characters.
Big Questions #12	Anders Nilsen	Drawn and Quarterly	Big Questions	$5.95 ($5.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	Yes, it's here. Apologies for not noting it earlier... This issue features straight-up bird-on-bird action in a single, issue-length story. Anders takes us on yet another metaphorical foray into our life and times, as his fine flock of feathered friends gets jumped by a gang of crows set on mayhem and murder.
Big Questions: Sweetness and Light #11	Anders Nilsen	Drawn and Quarterly	Big Questions	$6.25 ($6.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This time around Mr. Nilsen appears to goes heavy on the irony, as the contents of this issue seem to more closely resemble the characteristics of bitterness and darkness than those of sweetness and light; but appearances can be deceiving; perhaps that's the point here; perhaps it's all in the eye of the beholder; perhaps it's all open to interpretation. 48 pages, seven chapters; a pilot, a sleeping idiot, a bunch of birds and a pack of dogs; heavily labored, detailed pen and ink drawings, rhythmic repetitions punctuated by startling and dramatic images. What's it all add up to? That is for Anders to know and you and I to figure out. Enigmatic, mysterious, obscurely hinting at something just beyond comprehension: yes, it's the latest -- and, at least so we've heard, the penultimate -- issue of Big Questions (although now we've heard otherwise...).
Big Questions #10: The Hand That Feeds	Anders Nilsen	Drawn and Quarterly	Big Questions	$5.85 ($6.50 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	The world's most philosophically inquisitive birds continue in their confrontation with the mysteries of the (at least to them) unknown while you, the reader, are left to find the proper perspective from which to view the diverse diffractions of Anders's angled arguments. Highlights in this issue include: crows, the pilot of the plane and doughnuts. See you there.
Big Questions - S/N hardcover	Anders Nilsen	Drawn and Quarterly	Big Questions	$64.95 ($69.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Deluxe, Signed and Numbered, Hardcover Edition (of 1000) Please note that this edition – in addition to possessing a signed and numbered tipped-in plate – includes the entirety of the standard softcover edition, plus 3 appendices that comprise an additional 55 (or so) pages that are not in the softcover. What you get is: the extra, non-essential stories from Big Questions #1 & #2; all the covers of the original series – including an unseen (by us, at any rate), unused (to the best of our knowledge...) extra cover for #5; "bird strips" from other publications that did not appear in the original Big Questions series.
Big Questions	Anders Nilsen	Drawn and Quarterly	Big Questions	$37.77 ($44.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The tiny seed that was planted in the back of Mr. Nilsen's mind during the course of an artist workshop exercise that took place at the D.H. Lawrence Ranch in Taos, NM in 1996 has now at last reached its maturity in this sequoia-like 592 page tome that collects the entire continuity originally published in the (mostly) long out of print series. The first six issues were self published before Drawn & Quarterly – the publisher of this collection – picked it up and added the series to their then burgeoning but now defunct series of regularly published pamphlet comics. Big Questions defies easy categorization, and many have written much about the original issues (including, in brief, us). We'll try to have something intelligent to say shortly on the event of its book publication, but for now will cede the floor to Anders himself in this interview posted on CBR on 12 August where he talks about his comics career and answers questions Big and small. The uninitiated are encouraged to read this brief, yet poignant PDF preview.

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