It's here! The complete Grip, by the one and only Lale Westvind. So, all of you who missed the gone-in-a-blink-of-eye risograph editions can now celebrate with this beautifully (offset) printed edition, which successfully captures the vibrant color scheme, andwhich, at 8" x 10" is slightly larger than the 6.5" x 8" riso editions. Grip!
To quote our own, earlierlisting for the riso, "Gripis Lale Westwind's comics constitution of cosmic energies in the service of manual creativity. Readers will be propelled through panel after panel filling page after page with imaginative delineations of a series of fantastic mergings of mind and hands with...
In the full color pages of Inappropriate, her latest hardcover collection from Uncivilized Books, Gabrielle Bell delves into the porous borderland between fact and fantasy, a land populated by daydreams,conjectures, anxieties, obsessions, recollections, ruminations, self-doubts,self-incriminations and much more, all clearly communicated in her ever more confidently created comics.And then there is the collection's standout piece, "The original, true, biographical versionof Little Red Riding Hood," which sets the tale in an ahistorical New York City. Inappropriate isBell's best collection to date. Here, she has broken through to a more...
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.
To learn more about this unnerving graphic novel, check out our original listing, HERE.
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introduction by Chris Ware.
The best kept secret in the last twenty years of comics is probably the 1995 tabloid newspaper format Storeyville. A Whitmanesque epic poem in comics form, Storeyville was sui generis at the time of its release, revealing previously unexplored depths in the comics form. For a closer look at this landmark work, we refer you to our review of this original release, here. It is now, finally, twelve years later, being released in a deluxe hardcover edition complete with a 1200 word introduction by Chris Ware along with bonus back up features including an essay providing the history and context of its creation by Dan...
Working in an office building – or even visiting one! – will never be the same again after reading Theo Ellsworth's richly imaginative graphic novel interpretation of Jeff VanderMeer's tale (that was originally published as the lead storyin his2004 collection of the same name). Secret Life, as one might expect,is all about revealing adifferent sort of life lurkingjust below the surface of quotidian normalcy. It only takes an instant to realize that this is straight up Theo Ellsworth's alley! It's close toa perfect match, and Theo really goes to town. It is a bit different seeing him work on a more formally straightforward narrative, and...
(Book Three in the New Edition of the collected Love and Rockets) Yes! The next two volumes in the fantastic new packaging of the One True Classic of Modern American Comics have arrived ahead of schedule. We can hardly believe it, but are pleased to report that these two are, if possible, even more wonderful than the first two. The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. contains the long out of print Death of Speedy in its entirety along with so much more greatness. Should you be looking for a good entry point into the world of Love and Rockets for yourself or another, look no further! Start here.
Currently/temporarily out of print, but we still have a...
This 320 page, full color, 8 1/2" x 12" hardcover volume is a fantastic collection of some of the finest prints ever produced. It presents full-page, full color reproductions of all 118 of Hiroshige's Edo prints, along with copious notes, supporting illustrations and an appendix of reduced-size, "thumbnail" reproductions of the numerous variations among the different versions of the print editions; hundreds in all.
Amazing! Recommended! Deal!
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A landmark book presenting the early "deluxe" versions of Hiroshige's Edo prints for the first time!
Utagawa Hiroshige's unique landscape series One Hundred Famous Views...
Year of the Rabbit is an effective and affecting memoir of life in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge during the years 1975 to 1980. While most North Americans who were alive during the Vietnam War are at least dimly aware that something bad happened in Cambodia after American forces largely left Southeast Asia at the conclusion of the Vietnam War, few are aware of the details, or have an understanding of what life was like for Cambodians themselves after the Communist Party of Cambodia – the Khmer Rouge – or, as readers of this book will learn, Angkar, which is how the Khmer Rouge referred to themselves during the early years of their rule –...
If you’re looking for a book to kick-start your brain and move it into a higher gear, a book that will set your thinking on a fresh path and that by doing so will help extricate us, as a society, together, out of our present dark morass, and to provide a strong, sensible, workable basis on which to build a better tomorrow, then look no further –Doughnut Economicsis that book.
Kate Raworth is an educator, researcher and activist currently based at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute who is both smart enough and strong to recognize and identify the errors in the reigning economic theories that underpin the global capitalist...
The large majority of Nate McDonough's comics making has, thus far, taken place in Pittsburgh. His magnum opus, Longboxes began here in Pittsburgh, and is continuing in his new home in Durango, Colorado. The first Longboxes collection has just been released! It's a whale of a read at 288 pages. Don't miss it.
You can get an eyeful of Longboxes on our Tumblr post, HERE.
Cameron Arthur began his comics creating career in Texas, where all issues of his single-creator anthology title, Swag were created. Now, since relocating to Pittsburgh, he has embarked on the creation of a three-issue series Broken Wires. The first issue is out now! – and the second has just been completed and will soon be at the printer.
Get a taste of Broken Wires, from our Tumblr post, HERE.
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