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 is a moment we've been waiting for for quite awhile. In our opinion, the least appreciated and most misunderstood science fiction writer of modern times, James Tiptree, Jr. (the nom de plume of Alice Sheldon) is a writer of breathtaking originality who is still ahead of her time, nearly twenty years after her death. That all of her work -- with the exception of a single "loose ends" collection that was published three years ago -- has been out of print for years is, in our opinion, a negligence that borders on the criminal. Thankfully ("Thank you, Tachyon Publications, thank you."), this situation has now come to an end with the...

Yes! A new – and amazing – Olivier Schrauwen collection has arrived. Featuring the long out of print cult classic, "Greys" – which is a strong contender for the crown ofgreatest alien abduction story ever produced, in any medium –along with five, newscience fiction stories, which have either not ever been published in English, or only in extremelylimited edition (and now very expensive)anthologies from Lagon. The stories range in length from the twopage, "Mister Yellow,"(although each page is made up of seventy panels!)up through the 66-page epic, "Space Bodies." The stories are all first-person narratives, with thelead in each story...

This Giant-Size Special comic book (or graphic novel, if you prefer), is a mash-up of the famous D¡sn*y funny animal family and Charles Biro's Crime Does Not Pay comic book series that has been created with the "anything goes" spirit of classic underground comix, and that really does the job; it is – amazingly, fantastically, incredibly – successful. Cramming every classic noir trope into one non-stop roller coaster narrative, Michael Mouse is a rollicking radical read that runs through 69 1/2 pages of full color comics, employing a merciless 12-panel grid without let up; there is no pause, no chance to catch your breath; it just goes.

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Running Numbers is a serial publication of an illuminated typescript that presents to readers a diaristic account of Frank Santoro’s day-to-day life, internal as well as external. As always with Santoro’s work, the unit is the spread. Here, the left side contains the typescript – the text – and the right side a set of three horizontal panels each containing a drawing in markers –the image – usually in blazing colors, but also, on occasion, in black and white. These drawings are sometimes sequential, sometimes standalone and sometimes overlapping and/or merging into one; all interact with and illuminate the facing typescript.

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by Anneli Furmark, Amanda Vähämäki, and T. Edward Bak We listed this last month, but in our haste neglected to write it up, a gross oversight on our part, as you will see... This volume has a special Scandinavian focus, with two of the three comics works originating in the somber lands of the midnight sun. A melancholy northern mood pervades the entire collection, including its centerpiece, the contribution of the lone North American, T. Edward Bak. The Partisan -- his first fully developed work since Service Industry, the work for which he is best known -- is a complex multi-layered work that (or, at least, so it seems to us) seeks to...

Mister Baker, perhaps the funniest cartoonist alive, steps out of his clown shoes and puts on his severest suit and tie to deliver this sermon of repression and defiance, violence and vengeance, and struggle and sacrifice, in this synecdochical story of slavery in these United States. Reading this book, in which the narrative is advanced almost entirely in images (pantomime style) interspersed with excerpts from The Confessions of Nat Turner, it is impossible not to marvel at the strength of Baker's storytelling. And, there is a method to the madness of attempting to relate so complex a tale entirely in images. It captures the forced...

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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A one-of-a-kind classic of the early years turn-of-the-century*, independent, creator-owned comics, Pop Gun War presents a fullembodiement ofthe imaginative capacities of the comics medium created by a natural-born comics maker.

*Pop Gun War was originally created and published between 1997 and 2003. It has now (in 2016) been reissued to prepare the ground for its forthcoming sequel.

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