Yes! 382 pages of comics selected from the next-to-impossible-to-find first fifty issues of King-Cat Comics (currently published under the title King-Cat Comics and Stories) by the long suffering self-publishing champ, John Porcellino. King-Cat Comics is an ideal illustration of the existentialist project that brings order and meaning to a life lived in an inherently absurb world. Beginning in May of 1989, Porcellino put pen to paper and declared that he would have no rules dictating what he would produce, only that it would be true to his artistic instincts and that it would all be called King-Cat Comics. As the years passed, King-Cat...

Originally published in Japan in 1995, Jiro Taniguchi’sA Journal of My Father,a moving tale of a son’s memories of growing up in Tottori, a small city on the sea of Japan, has at last made it to American shores in English translation (by Kumar Sivasubramanian assisted by Chitoku Teshima). As the title suggests, the story centers on the relationship of the son – Yoichi – with his father, who, we learn at the outset, has just died. The story is divided into twelve chapters which, while there are several especially significant moments that recur, take the reader on a chronological journey from Yoichi's earliest memories up to the present....

This release has been years in getting across the finish line, but it's finally out – thanks to Perfectly Acceptable Press – and copies have at last arrived here at Copacetic!

While the publication of this book was originally planned – and long scheduled – to take place under the auspices of 2dCloud, now that we are holding the actual book in our hands, it feels like it was its destiny all along to be published by Perfectly Acceptable Press, and that it had to take this long and winding road in order to finally emerge in this physical form. It is a sturdy, hefty, well constructed hardcover with smyth-sewn binding that is well suited for...

Krazy Kat aficionados have long placed its creator, George Herriman at or near the center of the development of comics and cartooning. A prodigious talent, and true comics pioneer – possessed of an unquestionable genius – he produced comics of startling fluidity; words, images and design each blending seamlessly, eachreinforcing andsupporting the other to create works of lasting strength and beauty. The concept of the intelligent vocalizing cartoon animal –the “funny animal” – that gave rise to Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Donald and Daffy Ducks and countless others was more or less forged by Herriman, who in the process opened...

NOW AVAILABLE IN SOFTCOVER!

Perhaps the single greatest science-fiction-adventure bande dessinée series of all time, the six-volumeseries that was originally published in France throughout the 1980s has at last been collected in its entirety in a single 316 pagesoftcover volume for a price that works out to less than $4.50 per volume – barely more than a standard American comic book. Massively influential (see Brian Michael Bendis's introduction cum rant), The Incal has informed many a popular culture work, across mediums: films, television series, and books, in addition to the countless comics, manga and graphic novels tha have been...

The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud,the first, and likely definitive, English language collection ofthe work of Kuniko Tsurita, the firstwoman contributor to Garo – debuting in 1965 at the age of eighteen(!) – is a revelation. The eighteen uniquely powerful stories collected in this softcover volume provide readers with340 pages of formally inventive and visually daring manga,alloriginally published between 1966 and 1980, during which period Tsurita was the only regularly contributing woman in the pages of Garo. In addition, there is an invaluable 40 page illustrated essay, "The Life and Art of Kuniko Tsurita," by Ryan Holmberg and...

2022 has clearly been a watershed year for Ms. Julie Doucet. Firstshe won the 49th Angouleme Festival’s Grand Prix(only the third woman to do so). Then, a month later, her first (drawn) comics work in 15 years,Time Zone Jwas published to a flurry of press, including in theNY Times(along with stalwarts,TCJandThe Beat and others). A result of all this publicity is that it, apparently, generated a significant early demand for the book – as we initially struggled to get and keep it in stock. But, the pressure has abated, and we've managed to put in a good stock.

Here's a new copy of Miguel Vila's pervy masterpiece that looks like it was struck on the top with thin, blunt object, resulting in a fairly deep gash in both the front and back covers (that have received minor, fairly ineffectual tape repair on the inside covers) although barely denting the interior pages. So, totally fine for reading, but decidely not ever destined to be a collector's item.

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Anyone who ever wondered whatpornographic comics produced by Chris Ware would be like to read probably won’t ever get an answer closer to Italian cartoonist, Miguel Vila’s North American debut, Milky Way, seamlessly translated by Jaime Richards and delivered to readers in a solid, well-designed, 176 page, 7" x 10", full color hardcover. As would be expected in such a case, Milky Way is not, of course, a work of straight-up pornography, but rather it is – as it would be if penned by Ware – a complex work of meta-porn, a look at the context, function and effects of pornography at the same time as it is also pornography; it examines the...