Underground comics legend Barbara Mendes – better known back in the day as Willy Mendes – steps into the spotlight with this superdeluxe hardcover volume collececting her long-in-the-works epic, the Queen of the Cosmos Comix trilogy, herein collected in its entirety!  This is a massive 10 1/2" x 12 1/2" hardcover volume running 236 pages, with, roughly, the first third (i.e., Book One of the trilogy) in black & white and the subsequent two thirds (i.e., Books Two and Three of the trilogy) in blazing, brilliant full color.  Get ready!  

To hep you to what's in store, we've posted a gallery of pages from all three parts up on the Copactic Tumblr, HERE.

And then here's the Fantagraphics promo pitch:

Barbara "Willy" Mendes' masterpiece of hallucinogenic storytelling, Queen of Cosmos Comix Trilogy, collected for the first time in a single volume.

In Queen of Cosmos Comix Trilogy, underground cartoonist, fine artist, and muralist Barbara "Willy" Mendes chronicles women creators' psychedelic journey through Biblical tableaux, modern life, and into a fantastical, interstellar future, weaving in her own intimate stories of being an artist, mother, and grandmother, especially in the never-before-published third volume. Inspired by Jewish mysticism, Mendes presents a creation myth shaped by feminine cosmic consciousness, with new, immersive worlds — and a radical reimagining of this one.

Includes an illuminating and entertaining interview with Mendes, as well as the 3rd never-before-published chapter of the trilogy.

To hep you to what's in store, we've posted a gallery of pages from all three parts up on the Copactic Tumblr, HERE.