
This volume reissues the seminal, long out-of-print, and highly sought after volume which collected Spiegelman's trailblazing (pre-Maus)1970s work. These are the thoroughly original, self-aware comics about comics through which he forged a comics of deconstruction. This, in turn, led him, along with his wife, François Mouly, to pioneer a new comics aesthetics that forefronted comics' formal properties, consciously focused on the mechanics of production and that changed the face of comics in the 1980s: RAW. And there's more: this fabulous, oversize harcover volume includes a 20-page introduction in comics form in which Spiegelman takes 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...

Well, instead of the long awaited Maria M., Book Two, we get... Maria M., the compete, all-in-one, single-volume hardcover edition. So, sorry to all those who bought Book One and now have to get it again in this complete volume... but, this one – containing both Books One and Two – is priced only seven dollars more* than Book Two alone was priced (before it was cancelled and replaced with this single volume). Such are the exigencies of publishing.
All that said, Maria M. is a a book of multiple layers. To anyone simply picking it up and reading it, Maria M. will be 232 pages of rock 'em, sock 'em comics pulp fiction, loaded with the sex...

Bill Griffith, widlely heralded as a founding father of underground comics and late-20th century pop counter culture, primarily for his star creation, Zippy the Pinhead, but also for his pioneering editorial contributions to the important comix anthologiesYoung Lustand, with Art Spiegelman,Arcade,has here, in the pages of this200 page graphic memoir, told the story that he has been keeping to himself all these many decades. This one's got a title -- well, subtitle, anyway -- that pretty much doesn't hold back the punch line; what was the big surprise for the author isfait accomplifor all readers going in. The reason for this is that there...

Here's the one Copacetic customers have been ringing the phone off the hook about. And not without reason. Each issue of Ganges has managed to make something new with the comics form. Huizenga pretty much picks up here where #3 left off – it may very well be the very same evening, diegetically speaking – and continues exploring the twilight zone of consciousness that lies between waking and sleeping, where memory and fantasy mix with all kinds of thought: this time around, from list-making to self-analysis to pondering the nature and meaning of being and time and space and... well, you get the idea. Ever the innovator, Huizenga has here...

The most lushly beautiful and haunting of all of Fellini's films, the climax of Federico Fellini's artistic collaboration with his life-long partner, actress Giulietta Masina, an experience that can never be forgotten, Juliet of the Spirits is now available on DVD from the Criterion Collection! In Juliet of the Spirits, the processes involved in identity formation -- specifically those that involve the family dynamic and religious aspirations -- are shown to involve spirits of the past which, while they typically are encountered during the process of "growing up" as the values which are transmitted through the generations, are more real...

At looooong last – the first issue of Ganges was published in 2006 – the completeGangeshas been collected in this excellent hardcover volume from Drawn and Quarterly. And not just collected: In preparing this work for its permanent home, Huizenga went through the original issues with his inspector's hat on and tweaked this here and fixed that there, with the goal of bringing it all together in the best shape and form possible. Anyone who is looking for challenging, thought-provoking comics that push the boundaries of what comics can do – look no further, this is it!
In the meantime, we have written extensively on each of the individual...

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.
Now back in iprint!

It's here! The complete collection of Conor Stechschulte's groundbreaking, decade-in-the-making masterpiece, Generous Bosom, here collected under the title of its film adaptation, Ultrasound.
Here's our orignal overview essay on the series:
PLEASE NOTE: while no plot particulars will be revealed in what follows,there are implicit reveals of aspects of the work that are deliberately withheld by the authoruntil well into the series, and then only gradually shown. These revelations are made here in order to provide an overall sense as to what the series may be getting at and of the overall experience that is in store for interested readers....

Wow! The first issue of Liz Suburbia's newseries, Egg Cream, is a knockout! Her crisp,confident line in combination withartfullybalanced blackspottingcreatescomics that come alive in smartly arrangedpanelsfillingone well-composed page after another– 96 pages in all – in this squarebound volume ofall new comics work;printed just right in black and white on newsprint with cardsrtock covers.Startingoff with a hefty installment of the follow up,second volume of Sacred Heart, and concludingwith thegraphically advenutrous "Goth Ex GF,"Egg Cream is easily the best new series yet seen in2019!
Anyone unfamiliar with Liz Suburbia can get an idea not...
We are currnetly one month away from a particularly consequential slate of mid-term elections. To anyone who has been sitting on the sidelines, this is a good time to pay attention, find out what elections you’re eligible to vote in, read up on the issues important to you and pick your candidates. If you’re not registered to vote – or not sure whether you are (or whether you’re registered at the correct address) – there’s still time (in many/most states – but, sadly, not all) to register and/or update your address (HERE is a list of the registration deadlines for each state). You can get to the information you need through the voter portal, vote.org .
(Also: we recommend using only vote.org. Some other voter portals – most notably the cynically named “VoteSafe" dot org, which was created by the Elon Musk-funded America PAC – collect, sell and otherwise exploit any information you enter; talk about irony...)
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