Yes, it's ALL here: All eighteen* issues – in their entirety, covers, letters pages and all** – of the epochal, definitive single-creator anthology comic book series: Daniel Clowes's Eightball! Everything is as it originally appeared, in black & white and/or full color. Also included are the two short "Behind the Eightball" addendums that were prepared for the hardcover slipcased edition.
One and done!
*Yes, of course, you are correct: Eightball did indeed run for 23 issues, but, as you also know, these first 18 issues constitute the entirety of its "single-creator anthology comics book series" run. #s 19-21 serialized David Boring,...
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! ...
FROM THE ARCHIVES | ONE COMPLETE SET | ALL HIGH GRADE: VF/NM - NM (actual set for sale pictured)
Ronin is Frank Miller's masterpiece. It is the series that changed comics. DC offered Miller total control and carte blanche to do what he wanted in order to steal him away from Marvel, where he was changing the comics landscape with his take on Daredevil (and his creating and subsequent destruction – and then later resurrection – of Elektra). And, with Ronin, that's exactly what Miller did. In a series of six, 52-page, ad-free issues Milller created a bold and original synthesis of American comics (with Kirby and Eisner at its core), European...
The wait is over, the new issue of Tongues has arrived! Over fifty pages of full color comics in a lush oversize format by a master of the form.
In this issue things get dark – literally – as Astrid is taken deep into the recesses of The Mountain and confronts that which goes by no name, that is that it is. While, outside in the conflict zone, things get stranger and stranger...
Tongues is a triumph of the imagination. Mythological figures from classical antiquity mix it up with science fiction concepts amidst the social disintegration accompanying late-stage capitalism and its attendant politics to forge a unique vision that supplies...
Anyone involved with self-published, handmade comics: William Blake is your patron saint.
He started the make your own images + write your own texts + put it together and print it yourself = salvation.
Here's an affordable complete full color collection of his books. Essential, we say.
We've been selling this book in the shop since the dawn of Copacetic, as its release happened to almost directly coincide with the store opening its doors. Now we're offering it here.
Anyone unfamiliar – or only passingly familiar – with Blake could do themselves a favor by taking a minute… or an hour… or a day HERE at the Blake Archive.
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The concluding volume of Ellsworth's ambitious cartooned deconstruction of the psyche has arrived! This is the third in a matched series of full size, full color, hardcover graphic excursions. Prepare yourself for a trip like no other, as The Understanding Monster turns identity inside-out and then plays out a series of dramas with its component parts... it's pretty difficult to describe actually. Hereis our take on the initial volume in the series. See you on the other side!
This book presents the strongest of David Collier's work and is one of our perennial best-sellers here at Copacetic. It is filled with extremely engaging stories of the lives of minor, obscure and offbeat Canadian figures. Some of these are full fledged biographies, such as the fascinating account of Humphrey Osmond, the Canadian scientist who was an early researcher into psychotropic drugs and reputedly coined the term "psychedelic." Then there's the life story of Ethel Catherwood, the Olympic high jumper known as the Saskatchewan Lily, who ended up obscure and reclusive. A more tightly focused tale is that of "Grey Owl," an enigmatic...
With the arrival of this, the second issueof the series, it becomes clear that the first was but a prologue. Here, in the 88 full color pages ofUnsmooth #2: BUM, E.S. Glenn opens up new portals and reveals previouslyunseen dimensions of what will henceforth be known as the Unsmooth Multiverse. Enmeshed within an encompassing framework of ligne claire bande dessinée, readers will encounter mechamanga (along with a snatch of horror hentai)– plus sub-titled anime videos – New Yorker cartoons (and anold school Penguin paperback), cartooned modern art (along with some graffiti),some classical, newspaper Sunday-pagestrips,photobooth strips,and...
The most formally ambitious issue yet in theRetrofit Comicsseries published by Box Brown, Andrew White'sWe Will Remaincontains five shorts works which together serve to showcase White's native abilities as well as demonstrating that he has absorbed some of the key lessons ofFrank Santoro's comics correspondence course. Recommended for those who appreciate the work of David Mazzucchelli and Dash Shaw, as well as Santoro,We WIll Remainstarts off with a dramatic shift from the micro to the macro as the small scale personal work "The Deep End" gives way to the cosmic conundrum of "Travel" before heading into a trio of formal experiments, "As...
Approximate Hellhound, the arrival of which has been highly anticipated by the Copacetic Comics Co., is now standing tall on our trusty CD rack. Listening to this disc for the first time is an experience akin to that of suddenly realizing that the movie you inadvertently ended up watching at three in the morning has you riveted, and you find yourself thinking that it is the most amazing thing you've ever seen. The ten tracks on this discflow like a conversation, each one picking up where the other left off, generating a persuasive musical argument that drives its train of thought to the end of the line. Our favorites include: "Take What...
We've posted close to a dozen delicious slices of PIE that we picked up at the 2025 Pittsburgh Indie Expo up on the Copacetic Tumblr > HERE < Dig in!
All are now available on our Just In! page – in limited quantities.
Here are a few to get you started:
All are now available on our Just In page – in limited quantities.
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