Here it is, what is sure to be the definitive Trots and Bonnie collection. Originally appearing in the pages of National Lampoon from, roughly, the early-1970s to the late-1980s, Trots and Bonnie featured Bonnie,a preternaturally naive13 year-old"everyteen", and her dog, Trots, along with her sidekick, the worldwise Pepsi, and hercomic foil, the clueless male, Elrod. Itwas – and still is – a one of a kind strip. Its creator, Shary Flenniken, employed a strong grasp of the classic strips from back in the earliest days of the Sunday comics page – the line,the pacing, the page layouts, the characterization;all of it – and then drafted it in...
You want funny? Look no further: This book will make you laugh. Like Peter Bagge's Hate, but smarter and more brutal in its judgments on this dysfunctional society of ours, and with a distinctive flavor all its own, this is a comic for people who see past the façade as a matter of course. Hey, Mister takes sarcasm to new heights. It makes us think of the Monty Python episode, the "Piranha Brothers," in which a fearful and trembling thug played by Michael Palin relates how Doug Piranha was the most terrifying gangster he had ever encountered because of the deft manner in which, "he used... sarcasm." And the bitterness, oh, the bitterness! ...
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...
Finally, another Gilbert volume in the updated format of the complete Love and Rockets Library collection.Luba and HerFamilymarks the tenth volume in the series. The 228 pages of comics in this volume encompass Gilbert's work fromMeasles#1 - 8,New Love#1 - 6,Luba#1 - 4 andLuba's Comics & Stories#1. Savor and enjoy.
Here It is: over 35 years worth of interviews, conducted between 1974 and 2011, with the one and only Jean "Moebius" Giraud, all conducted by his long time friend and associate, Numa Sadoul. It can be considered as the prose companion to Jean Giraud's spiritual journey through comics, taken in his persona of Moebius.
Translated by Edward Gauvin, so Anglophone readers can know they're in good hands.
282 page softcover | 8" x 11" | Illustrated (in B & W and full color) and annotated.
Get ready.
Finally! A new – and very improved – edition of Seiichi Hayashi's manga masterpiece of alienation has been releasesd by Drawn and quarterly. This new edition has a nice heft and feel, and the design has been slightly tweaked for a mild aesthetic improvement, but the big change is the addition of a 60 page, illustrated essay by manga/gekiga/Garo scholar, Ryan Homberg. The inclusion of this essay will enable all readers to better situate Hayashi's work in manga history and better appreciate his achievements. As Red Colored Elegy is over 45 years old, andHayashi's work is far from typical manga fare, Holmberg's essay is a crucial improvement...
It's time to let the good times roll - with MORTON! Let's all join David Collier on a cross country (in this case, Canada) rail journey and experience old school reality before it slips into the history books. We will be conveyed along our journey by train, the most civilized form of travel. We will experience the journey via comics, the most suitable form through which to communicate such an undertaking. And our pen & ink guide will be David Collier, who intuits the precise perspective.
Now enters is third year of publication with a makeover. With this issue, the paper stock has switched from glossy stock to a medium weight, flat white paper. Good call: itlooks and feels great; a bit more heft. As a result, it's price has increased to $12.99, but at a chock full 128 pages of great (mostly)full color comics,it's still a bargain!
And, more importantly, this issue features a stellar line up of comics creators, including many a Copacetic fave:
Inthe 21, full color pages of "The Gigs,"E.S. Glenn shows the comics reading world what he is capable of. Socially constructed barriers between memory, dream, fiction andreality...
The Chad in Amsterdam hardcover published by Scratch Books in Amsterdam collects all six issues of Cleveland native, Chad Bilyeu's series – and it has just now arrived at Copacetic!
The Copacetic Comics Company is the (for now) exclusive distributor of this book in North America. We are, of course, selling it directly to our customers here on the site, but will also be distributing to shops in North America. Here in Pittsburgh, you will, of course be able to pick up from Doomed Planet Comics at the former Copacetic digs in Polish Hill, but if you live elsewhere, and would prefer to buy it in person and/or know of a shop (or, of course, are a retailer yourself) please feel free to let your local shop know about it and/or contact us directly about wholesale on this item.
And just to reassure anyone not already famliar with this series, despite being created and published in Amsterdam, it is written (almost) entirely in English.
Here are a few pages:
And, here's a press/info one-sheet PDF that may also be freely shared and/or used in promoting this book.
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