
Gilbert's follow up to 2013'sMarble Season,Bumperheadis another full-size, hardcover graphic novel fromDrawn & Quarterly, but it is much more than just a follow up. It's not going too far out on a limb to proclaimBumperheadGilbert's most fully realized work outside of theLove and Rocketscontinuity. He is in the zone here, playing to his strengths as a storyteller and artist as he relates life events, group dynamics and family to character formation and the Hernandezian Arc of Life. It's almost magic the wayBumperhead's players are broughtso vibrantly to lifethatthe reader comes away feeling that theyknowthe pen & ink people that...

Accruing accolades and awards by the bushelful, McBride's novel employs a staccato, jump-cut prose style reminiscent of Samuel Beckett, and puts it to new and original uses in this harrowing coming of age tale
Here's Anne Enright's review in the UK Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/20/girl-half-formed-thing-review
Here's James Woods in The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/useless-prayers

Hold onto your hats - the complete collection of The Panic Fables by Alejandro Jodorowsky has arrived. All 284 strips, originally created in 1967-1973, written AND drawn by Jodorowsky, all translated into English for the first time. This is it!

Miraculously, after two decades of less than stellar recordings, Iggy has managed a return to form here on this album, produced at age 65 and released close on the heels of his 66th birthday. This is doubtless due in no small measure to the return of James Williamson on the heels of the multi-year reunion of Iggy with the (almost) original Stooges line-up. The presence of the Ron and Scott Asheton was not enough to saveThe Weirdness. Ready to Die is another story, however. Backed by James Williamson on multiple-tracked guitars, Scott Asheton on Drums, Mike Watt on Bass and Steve Mackay on Sax (of which there is plenty) as well as a number...

Dauntless Dames is the latest in the series of beautiful mega-sized (13" x 17") hardcover collections of classic newspaper comicstrips from Sunday Press. Edited by Trina Robbins and Sunday Press publisher, Peter Maresca, Dauntless Dames is a feast for the eyes. An amazing amalgamation of classic Sunday pages featuring women protagonists, many of which were also created by women, including Pittsburgh's own Jackie Ormes, including some super rare strips from The Pittsburgh Courier!
We'll provide a bit more info soon, but suffice it to say that this volume includes page after oversize page – 160 in all – of classic full color (and along with...

The definitive account of the early jazz scene -- and so much more...
An unforgettable reading experience that opens new perspectives on American history and cultural life.
Now, at last, back in print from New York Review Books!
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This collection of works from the early 1980s by Millhauser starts off with August Eschenburg, a prototypical tale which serves as the template for several later Millhauser works, most notably Martin Dressler (see below). The middle section is composed of three stylistically linked forays into the classic short story mode, each of which stages an elaborate wedding of location with season to produce an exquisite evocation of an exact yet unnameable emotion, and each of which manages to pull it off. The stories that will really having you reaching for the champagne to celebrate their success, however, are the three that close out the volume,...

It's here! This 264-page hardcover just released by Abrams ComicArts is sure to be the definitive comics biography of the one and only Ernie Bushmiller. Three Rocks digs deep and unearths some gems of insight (along with plenty of classic Nancy strips). A MUST for all Ernie Bushmiller – and Bill Griffith – fans!
Three Rocks weaves together fact and fantasy, history and speculation, as Griffith mixes research and his own artful musings with classic Bushmiller reprints. Uniquely and intriguingly, Griffith samples Bushmiller artwork – individual panels along with isolated figures from the strips – and remixes them for his own narrative ends...

Here is your best single opportunity to experience the full range of the uncategorizable works of David Sandlin. Schooled in art and painting at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) during the late 1970s, but harboring within a deep love of comics (especially those of Jack Kirby) and a burgeoning affair with Punk Rock, Sandlin quickly made his way to New York City upon graduation and became enmeshed in the early '80s art and music scene there; in the process coming to the attention of Art Spiegelmen and François Moulay (among others) and ending up in their groundbreaking comics anthology, Raw, while at the same time producing prints...

The long (as in a decade) out of print, first D & Q collection of comics maestro, Kevin Huizenga's work, Curses is now at last back in print in this very nice French-flappped softcover edition – that includes 40 additional pages, including an appreciation by noted comics authority, Douglas Wolk.
Revisiting this thematically and formally interlinked collection of short to mid-length comics after close to twenty years, the first thought it how current, even prescient they seem. The social, political and personal observations feel as fresh and pertinent now as they did then. Huizenga's long running concerns with temporality, scale and...
We are currnetly one month away from a particularly consequential slate of mid-term elections. To anyone who has been sitting on the sidelines, this is a good time to pay attention, find out what elections you’re eligible to vote in, read up on the issues important to you and pick your candidates. If you’re not registered to vote – or not sure whether you are (or whether you’re registered at the correct address) – there’s still time (in many/most states – but, sadly, not all) to register and/or update your address (HERE is a list of the registration deadlines for each state). You can get to the information you need through the voter portal, vote.org .
(Also: we recommend using only vote.org. Some other voter portals – most notably the cynically named “VoteSafe" dot org, which was created by the Elon Musk-funded America PAC – collect, sell and otherwise exploit any information you enter; talk about irony...)
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