Here it is: the latest issue of The ACME Novelty Library. We feel safe in saying that: "Hey, it's new and it's by Chris Ware; do youreallyneed to know anything else?" That said, we will go ahead to further urge its purchase by stating thatLintis yetanothermasterpiece by the ever astonishing Chris Ware, who reveals himself here as the true, and greatest, heir of the American realist traditions of the 20th century that emerged from the midwest, in both literarature and art.Lintprovides its readers with a full life portrait of its titular protagonist as rich with personal detail and psychological insight as those found the novels of Sinclair...

The follow up to last year's It Never Happened, New Construction features two new comics novellas, "Backyard" and "Household."Each is tautly rendered in Alden's forceful pencil line. New Construction is aptly titled in that it is put together diferently. It is a bifurcated edition, with the first tale, "Backyard," being both tightly rendered and printed on a (relatively) bright cream colored stock, while the second, "Household" is far more loose and expressionistic in its rendering and is printed on a dull light gray newsprint. It is worth noting here that the reproduction quality in New Construction is significantly superior to that of It...

Wow, a double dose of Ron Regé, Jr.! (along with YH #12, which was released simultaneously) This one is technically Yeast Hoist #(lucky)13. It is a beautifully drawn, designed and produced square format volume. Printed in two colors with a full color flexi cover and endpapers this book is an aesthetic treat and a bargain to boot. Ron Regé, Jr. is channelling the spirit of the 20th century American painter, Charles Burchfield into 21st century comics. Like Burchfield's paintings, Regé's comics in this volume fill the viewer/reader with a sense of wonder at the impossible beauty and strange otherness of nature. His work really puts you...

We've been chomping at the bit for years now looking for a nice anthology of Soviet-era graphics produced in Russia during the magic decade 1917-1927. At last we've found one, but we had to go all the way to Japan to find it! This elegantly produced 320-page softcover is overflowing with excellent full color reproductions of the glorious works that emanated from the hands, hearts and minds of the true believers that gave their all to the revolution, before being so cruelly betrayed. Anyone with a passion for works of visual art cannot fail to be energized by the works collected here. Rodchenko, Stepanova, Kandinsky, Malevich, El Lissitzky,...

Yes, the new issue of Love and Rockets has arrived! We'reenjoying staring at the cover so much that we have yet to open it to see what's inside, but didn't want to let that stop us from offering it for sale, as we have a big stack of them. We'll give you a bit more detail once we crack the issue, but, really, what more do you need to know? It's Love and Rockets...

What can you say about a book that opens with a Galactus quote from Fantastic Four #49, drops more comics references -- particularly to the classics of the 1980s -- than any novel we've ever read, clearly shows the influence of Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar and, especially, Luba stories, AND won the Pulitzer Prize for best novel of 2007? We'd say, "This is a must read! Particularly suitable for fans of Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude and Michael Chabon's (also Pulitzer Prize winning) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay." And then we'd add: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a gigantic meditation on the inner life of the...

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...

This is the second collection of Jim Rugg’s mind-bending, eye-poppin’ ballpoint pen drawings. It too is a cleverly formatted volume, resembling a spiral notebook, but this time around the notebook itself has gone a bit upscale, with a heavier stock and debossed title logo. The drawings themselves continue in the tradition established in the first volume, with the added twist that several are 3D drawings –using a red pen and a blue pen – that have been composed in 3D at the time of drawing, in other words drawn twice, once in red and once in blue, by hand in the notebook. Don’t try this at home! Only Jim Rugg could pull this off. To prevent...