Hot off the press! An all-new work by Connor Willumsen!

Sayeth Koyama: "Join an oneiric odyssey through a slacker second life.Reality’s grip is loosened as Spyda and Lynxa explore a potentially constructed environment that shifts between dystopic future and constructed virtual present. Like a form of multistable perceptual phenomena,Anti-Goneexists in ambiguity."

8.5 x 11” |120 pages, B&W |trade paper

Bonus Fun Fact: Conor Willumsen – along with Noel Freibert and Patrick Kyle –will be at Copacetic from 6 to 8pm on the evening of Thursday 21 September, to jointly celebrate the release of their recent releases, including this one. Mark...

A tour de force of comics formalism, John Hankiewicz's graphic novel, Education is a bolt from the blue. Hankiewicz's comics work is perilously difficult to describe, butwe're going to take a moment to get our thoughts in order here at Copacetic... andmake anattempt to back upour encouragementto any and all takers to tackle the challenge proffered byEducation,throughhighlighting its artistic virtues,as it is a work that will offer rewards more thancommensurate with the efforts made to come to terms with it.

On the purely æsthetic level of the drawing and, especially, the composition, each page is a gem of finecraftsmanship. Onthe level of...

The COMPLETE Jack Kirbyrun of Challengers of the Unknown. These issues were published between 1956 and 1959,and can be seen as somewhat of a prototype of The Fantastic Four. THe printing in this volume is crisp and clear, and the colors are bright, on flat (NOT glossy, thankfully) white paper.

Added Bonus: Issues #4 through #8 are inked by Wallace "Wally" Wood.

'Nuff said.

Bill Griffith, widlely heralded as a founding father of underground comics and late-20th century pop counter culture, primarily for his star creation, Zippy the Pinhead, but also for his pioneering editorial contributions to the important comix anthologiesYoung Lustand, with Art Spiegelman,Arcade,has here, in the pages of this200 page graphic memoir, told the story that he has been keeping to himself all these many decades. This one's got a title -- well, subtitle, anyway -- that pretty much doesn't hold back the punch line; what was the big surprise for the author isfait accomplifor all readers going in. The reason for this is that there...

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Think of how much a better place the world would be if, when people heard the name Ron, instead of thinking of Ronald Reagan, Ronald McDonald orL. Ron Hubbard,they instead all thought of Ron Regé, Jr.! We can all now do our part to make this a reality by partaking in Ron's mega-masterwork of mental (re)mapping,The Cartoon Utopia, wherein Ron dives deep into the waters oftheosophy, through which a peck of profound painters of the previous turn-of-the-century swam – most notablyWassily KandinskyandPiet Mondrian, en route to their mature styles – and also ascends into the abstruse realms ofalchemythatinformed artworks of...

We heard only hours before starting to write up the arrival of the softcover edition of this classic work by two of the all-time greats of bande dessinee, that Moebius, perhaps the greatest of them all, had passed away. While Madwoman does not contain the type of cosmic science fiction imagery most closely associated with Moebius, it is second only to The Incal as his most important collaboration withAlejandro Jodorowsky, and it is a work that clearly demonstrates his seemingly effortless mastery of the form and that is certainly one of his most mature and sophisticated works from a narrative standpoint. On the one hand Madwoman is a...

Unstable Molecules is one of the best graphic novels Marvel has produced... well, possibly, ever, but, to hedge our bets, let’s say, "in quite awhile." In any event, it is like nothing Marvel has ever produced in the past. It is a textual analysis of comics done in comics, and it is one of the finest ever produced -- certainly the finest ever produced by Marvel! It should be considered in the context of Understanding Comics and Hicksville as much as the Fantastic Four. Telling the "true" story of the "real people" that the Fantastic Four were based on, this book is a work of metacomics and a dream come true for students of narrative theory...

What came to be known as "The Marvel Age of Comics" begins HEREin the "pre-superhero" Marvel comics created, primarilyby Jack Kirby and secondarily by Steve Ditko (and tertiarily by Don Heck), with the inking assists of Dick Ayers, George Bell and others, andwith Stan Lee and Larry Leiber filling out the scripts. These comics provided form and color to the unconsciouscold war anxieties that lurked benearth the surface of every sentient American during the years – 1957 - 1962 –that led up to the Cuban Missle Crisis, allowing readers to finally face their fears, and, eventually, after getting to know them through the comics collected here,...

Here at last under one cover are the widely scattered (and often hard to find) short pieces that DeForge has produced over the last few years, all to wide acclaim, as well as the now-out-of-print stand alone comics,Spotting DeerandIncinerator. Michael DeForge is well on his way to forging a genuinely original body of comics work that focuses on the expressive relationship between line and the human form, and explores the porous border between perception and delineation, always pushing the limits of the capacity of pen and ink to express attitudes towards flesh and blood (and gore and ooze) and sex and death, as in deceptively simple...