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...

Year two of Baron Bean picks up right where year one left off, at the start of 1917 (after New Year's Day holiday, that is). It's a year in on Baron Bean, and the work here shows that Herriman clearly felt more at home with the characters and set-up that he had established. In the strips collected in this volume he confidently tackles serious questions concerning the relationship of social status to race, ethnicity, religion, career, habitual behavior and many other variables the social worth and merit of which the society of the day takes for granted but which Herriman clearly believes are open to question. He demonstrates here that so...

The wait is over!!! The longest stretch yet between issues has ended and the new Love and Rockets has arrived.

The Bone Clocksis a book into which Mitchell tries to squeeze in everything under the sun, and moon, and, especially, that which is under neither. Heopens up literature's bag of tricks and grabs everything he can carry. Hestarts with the framework of a classic 19th century British novel – think George Eliot – and works in the likes of Philip Pullman'sHis Dark Materialstrilogy,Twin Peaks, andMai, the Psychic Girl, before delivering an action-packed, climactic denouement that is possibly the closest a work of prose has come to portraying a cosmic Marvel Comics superhero battle; roughly the equivalent of pitting Dr. Strange and the X-Men...

Stuck Rubber Baby is one of the few graphic novels that really and truly succeeds as a novel on the novel’s terms. It is an extraordinarily complex and rich tapestry of characters deftly woven into the fabric of a specific time and place: a mid-sized community in the deep south during the civil rights era. While this book was originally released in 1995, its recent reprinting makes it appropriate to revisit it at this time. Please click on the image at left to read our full length review.

The day has finally dawned on the first new North American edition of Moebius work in a generation. The World of Edena is the first in a series of deluxe hardcover volumes that will reintroduce the great French master of comics (bande dessinée) to readerson this side of the Atlantic. Collecting all theEdenashort stories in a deluxe, 344 page, full color,hardcover edition,The World of Edenaincludes “Upon a Star,” “Gardens of Edena,” “The Goddess,” “Stel,” and “Sra.” Although several had been translated into English in the 1980s, this will be the first time “Sra” has been available to English-language audiences. Dark Horse has done a nice...

Fans of the classic Barks ten-pagers from Walt Disney's Comics & Stories will rejoice upon opening this volume, for the table of contents reveals that in addition to it's title track, "The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp," this volume consists almost entirely of these works, nineteen in all (!), spanning from the close of 1953 all the way through middle of 1955, making for a collection that is bulging with the finest slapstick comedy comics you'll find anywhere and featuring all the characters in the Barks pantheon: Huey, Dewey and Louie, Uncle Scrooge, Gladstone Gander, Daisy Duck, Gyro Gearlooseand more. This volume is rounded out with...

WOW! It's a dream come true for long suffering fans of the work of Alex Toth: over 370 pages of full color comics all scanned directly from the original 1950s comics published under the banner of Standard Comics in Toth's glory days of 1952 through 1954; and not only that, this 432 page softcover includes a heavily illustrated 30-page vintage interview with Toth from 1968; and, that's not all – there are also fourteen pages of notes by editor Sadowski (who, we must add, is also responsible for this volume's knock-out design and production) plus full color scans of the original black and white artwork for two complete stories (as well as a...

Lynda Barry's classichybrid illustrated novel (that was successfully adapted to a play) at last returns to print in its first hardcover (and nicest yet!) edition, from Drawn & Quarterly (natch'). Set in the Seattle of the late 1960s,The Good Times Are Killing Me presents a bittersweet portrait of an adolescence in whichexposure to the toxic effects of racism occurs simultaneously with a revelation of the redemptive uplift ofmusic; music oftencreated by those who suffer the most from those toxiceffects...

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Poetry Is Useless has arrived!Anders Nilsen's new 200+ page hardcover is chock-a-block with plenty of beautiful sketchbook scans mixed together with miscellanea in this sumptuous æsthetic free-for-all. We've only just taken our copies out of the box, and so don't have much to say yet besides, "Wow, nice!", but want to let people know that it's here.

We put together a quick preview, iuncluding eight full spreads, HERE. Take a moment to feast your eyes...