This is it: The ideal antidote to these trying times. Slim’s wit, style, charm, and grace will make the world vout oroonee in no time. As with all Proper Boxes, this one includes 4 CDs packed to the limit (102 tracks total!) for over 5 hours of music -- all remastered in the UK at the highest possible standards for music recorded during this period -- and a 44 page booklet containing a comprehensive history of Slim's career along with fab photos, old ads, record labels, and, best of all, complete track by track annotation -- where you’ll note the appearances of Slam Stewart, Ben Webster, Zutty Singleton, Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie...

With Jack's Book, Gifford and Lee launched the oral biography as a valid form(there'd be no Please Kill Me without it), and arguably created what remains its gold standard. Here you have a portrait in the round of the central figure of "the beat generation" (who hated that label) provided by all the other players who were in his circle during the two decades of his writing career. William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Carolyn Cassady, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Felinghetti, Gary Snyder and many more herein provide thoughtful, forthright recollections of Kerouac, his scene and the times in which they mixed. Gifford and Lee weave them together...

OK, this is not just the perfect gift book for the jazz fan on your list, it is also makes for an ideal gift to give to anyone -- of any age -- who has a love of words and pictures. This sumptuous hardcover volume has the potential to turn the squarest square into the heppest cat. Everyone is a jazz fan in the making: this is just the ticket to inspire them to take a closer look. Jazz ABZ is a pæn to jazz in art and poetry that simply has to be seen to be believed. The essence of jazz -- collaboration, composition, and improvisation -- is embodied in this singular tribute to the form. The overall package is designed to resemble the...

(Book Two of the New Edition of the collected Love and Rockets) Most frequenters of this space are hep to the wonder of Love and Rockets. However, there are still those who have yet to see the light. Are you someone who still hasn't managed to get around to reading the greatest comics ever produced? If so, all we've got to say is: if you haven't read the original run of Love and Rockets (in any one of its extant formats) and you are trawling the web looking for exciting new releases and looking through back issue bins at your friendly neighborhood comics shop for classics of the days of yore, then you are simply wasting your time -- the...

One of the best – perhaps the best, and almost without doubt, the most painfully sad – graphic memoir ever penned. The urtext of adolescent alienation. An undisputed masterpiece. Recommended to all serious comics readers as well as anyone who needs help in facing up to painful and unhappy memories.

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Perhaps the single greatest science-fiction-adventure bande dessinée series of all time, the six-volumeseries that was originally published in France throughout the 1980s has at last been collected in its entirety in a single 316 pagesoftcover volume for a price that works out to less than $4.50 per volume – barely more than a standard American comic book. Massively influential (see Brian Michael Bendis's introduction cum rant), The Incal has informed many a popular culture work, across mediums: films, television series, and books, in addition to the countless comics, manga and graphic novels tha have been...

¡WOW! Goes Like This is a book lover's delight. The printing, the design, the production, and, of course, the work itself all come together to generate a uniquely satisfying finished product. Collecting Jordan Crane's comics and prints from the last twenty years, this one-of-a-kind volume features – unusually – an exposed spine, in which all the sewn-signatures are then in turn joined and sewn across the spine (we counted an even dozen horizontal stitches) and rubber cemented for a kind of industrial strength stab-binding. This binding enables the book to fully open, allowing the pages to lie flat, and also to be strong enough to endure...

Finally!!! This has been in the works for – literally – over a quarter-century (the project goes at least as far back as 1988, as you can see [if you squint] by the copyright date of this poorly formatted scan of an early installment of the text posted HERE). After repeated cancellations and seemingly interminable delays, How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels, Mark Newgarden & Paul Karasik's definitive deconstruction of Ernie Bushmiller's iconic Nancystrip - and, by extension, all of comics - has at long last been published and has touched down at Copacetic. Finally!!!

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Sub-titled, "July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme",The Great Warpresents in a single image a visual distillation of the events of that day. While this is not the first 20+ foot-long single image comics book that has come our way – that honor going to Helge Reumann and Xavier Robel's hyper kineticElvis Road, originally published in Switzerland in 2002 by Pipifax, and then in the USA by Buenaventurra Press in 2007. But whereas Elvis Road presented a frenzied instant of urban chaos that was unreadable – in the sense that there was simply no way to narratively digest the complexity of the image; all one could do was bask in...

248 more pages of the epic Luba saga are now available in this just released collection, the eleventh volume of the offical Love and Rockets Library series. This volume picks up where Luba and Her Family leaves off and also containswork that was originally created and published in the late 1990s, during the hiatus between the first and second volumes of Love and Rockets, collecting the comicsthat appeared in the pages of Luba #3 - 9, Luba's Comics & Stories #2 - 5 and Measles #3. Dark impulses lead to violence and despair, are channelled through sex, role playing and other games, occasionally leading the players to the light of...