Gillian Welch and her long time musical cohort, David Rawlings are back at last with their first new record since 2003's Soul Journey. We've only had the chance to give this one listen so far, but we look forward to a long summer of replays and feel safe in saying it's going to fit quite comfortably along with the rest of their catalogue of works and that we'll be enjoying it for years to come. In other words: it's been worth the wait.

Charles Burchfield is an artist whom Copacetic customers, as a population, have a strong likelihood of connecting with. He spent a fifty-year career – first in his native Ohio, after studying at the Cleveland Institue of Art, and then in upstate New York – forging a startlingly original visual language. Working primarily in watercolors, Burchfield picked up where Van Gogh left off in creating artworks that manage to visually communicate non-visual perceptions. Heat Waves In a Swamp is thecatalogue of an exhibition held at the Hammer in LA, the Whitney in NYC and the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY in 2009 and 2010 that was put...

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...

The Wait Is Over! Crickets #4 is HERE. 48 pages; magazine size; cardstock cover; heavy newsprint interior. Written and drawn by Mr. Harkham (w/ Kevin H. assists!). This issue isnearly entirely devoted to continuing the epic saga, "The Blood of the VIrgin," which began in #3. It follows Seymour & Co. on the set and off, making the film, dealing with actors, directors and producers. The home front is not neglected, as the reader is made privvy to moments that Seymour is not. "The Blood of the Virgin" is an ominiscient third-person narrative in the classic tradition of the late-nineteenth century naturalistic novel, but set in Vietnam-war...

Can you say, "Embarrassment of Riches?" Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty-FIve Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels is a 776 page hardcover overflowing with rare and hard-to-find comics published in out of the way nooks and crannies by some of the world's finest cartoonists, comickers and mangakas. It is also filled with family-album-style photos of these self-same creators side-by-side with each other as well as with D&Q staff, and more interviews and appreciations than can shake a stick at (not that you would want to). Here are some pics to give an idea of what's in store. Quite a treat!

This 248-page black & white 7.5" x 9.25" softcover is the fifth volume of Locas stories by Jaime Hernandez; and the eighth overall, the other three collecting Gilbert's Palomar stories. Esperanza picks up where 2010’s Penny Century collection left off in collecting the the stories from the second volume of Love and Rockets – the comic book size series that ran from 2000 through 2007. Together, the two volumes collect everything Locas up through #19, the second to last issue of the series (#20, the last issue, presents the full color story that originally ran in the New York Times, along with a second, off-format story of Maggie's...