While he does, of course, have a number of major book projects under his belt, going all the way back to the immensely influential late-1990s work, Skibber Bee Bye, along with numerous contributions to a wide range of...
Anyone old enough to remember reading the Village Voice back in the 1980s will surely remember Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies – "All dialogue guaranteed 100% overheard" – which appeared in pretty much every issue for the entire...
Rescue Party is a document of the the Covid-19 epidemic that takes the form of a 172 page, full size, full color hardcover anthology collecting over 140 nine-panel comic strips from around the world. While some of the creators...
Grixly, the last word in value comics pricing, from the Indy Comics Bang-for-Your-Buck Reigning Champion, Nate McDonough. Here we have two new issues for one low price. And not just any two issues, Grixly #65 & #66 are...
There are tons of rarely seen – along with some very rarely seen – horror comics from the late 1960s filling this nicely produced hardcover volume. Web of Horror magazine is most notable – at least to us here at Copacetic – for...
Her Frankensteinis the debut volume fromSmudge,a new imprint featuring pulp, horror and dark mystery manga, curated and translated by Ryan Holmberg. Here's what they have to say about it: Dareto read the psycho-horror classic...
Hypericum is the latest graphic novel from the amazing Manuele Fior. This 144-page, oversize (9" x 12"), full color hardcover is a wonder to behold. Two tales run on parallel tracks, grounded in 1990s Berlin where Italian...
From the Midwest to the Middle Kingdom, Ginseng Roots spans global history through the lens of this humble plant in Craig Thompson’s latest epic work – the first of his works to be serialized in individual issues. Now, all...
Break out the bongs, Blessed Be has arrived! Rick Altergott has been producing his unique (but definitely inspired by and to a degree derived from the classic Mad) brand of comics – at a painstakingly slow pace – for over three...
Who knew reading history could be so enjoyable? Glynnis Fawkes has been hard at work for quite some time now adapting Eric H. Cline's widely lauded accounting of the collapse of Bronze Age civilization into this massive,...
The comics of Aidan Koch offer unique æsthetic pleasures. They're not for everyone, but if you connect with her work, it can be transportive, and with its 208 full color pages, Spiral and Other Stories is her most substantial...
In 2017, after having lived in Amsterdam for coming up on a decade, the ex-pat native of Cleveland, OH, Chad Bilyeu wasn’t sure what to do next. After a meaningful encounter with Harvey Pekar’s original, self-published run of ...
Editor Alexi Zeren states “Freak Buck is a prison for the monsters we build everyday, and the book covers are the cell walls.” This 256 page, (mostly) full color and black & white , 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" hard cover volume is...
Here's a handy – and unique – hardcover sketchbook/notebook/journal, with front and back inside pockets and elastic band. It contains 200, 4 1/4" x 7" smoooth, flat, off white pages, with bevelled edges and discreetly numbered...
This Giant-Size Special comic book (or graphic novel, if you prefer), is a mash-up of the famous D¡sn*y funny animal family and Charles Biro's Crime Does Not Pay comic book series that has been created with the "anything goes"...
Yes, we've got 'em! Straight out of the box from the printers, hot off the press! It's been a long time coming, but the second issue of comics maestro, Kevin Huizenga's magazine-size, one-person anthology comic book series has...
Anyone who ever wondered whatpornographic comics produced by Chris Ware would be like to read probably won’t ever get an answer closer to Italian cartoonist, Miguel Vila’s North American debut, Milky Way, seamlessly translated...
Here is a one of a kind item. It is a real challenge to describe just how different it is. Ronald Wimberly has long been a student of Japanese culture and æsthetics – among much else – and has leveraged that experience into...
It's hard to believe that Tekkonkinkreet is now thirty years old, but here's the 30th Anniversary Edition to prove it. And quite an edition it is, putting all previous editions in the shade. This sturdy – and hefty! – full size...
From the view here at Copacetic, it appears that Monica has received the highest profile debut of any book in Fantagraphics history – talk about buzz! When was the last time that a graphic novel made the cover / lead review of...
Running Numbers is a serial publication of an illuminated typescript that presents to readers a diaristic account of Frank Santoro’s day-to-day life, internal as well as external. As always with Santoro’s work, the unit is the...
NOW AVAILABLE IN A DELUXE, FULL SIZE SOFTCOVER EDITION!Pittsburgh is now at last back in print in a sturdy softcover edition from New York Review Comics. This edition features heavier, slightly brighter paper – subtly altering...
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...
The clear nod to the seminal work by Roland Barthes in the choice of title(taking it as far as to also “quote" itscover color and font; nice touch) will inform knowing readers that this is a work of ambition and that attention...
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...
Kate Beaton's latest takes readers far, indeed, from the familiar territory of her popular, short, witty, humor strips – to the oil sand fields of northern Alberta, Canada, in fact – in this hefty, 430 page, black & white...
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...
One could say thatJoseph Smith and the Mormons, a 464-page, hardcover, full color, historical-epic/biography in comics form of the life of Joseph Smith and the founding of the Church of the Latter Day Saints – aka the Mormons –...
Stroppy is here: it's ALL NEW; it's a self-contained whole; it's by Canadian cartoonist extraordinaire, Marc Bell; it's...a giant-size, full-colour, underground comix classic presented to an unsuspecting [well, not for long]...
Brecht Evens, creator of The Wrong Place, The Making Of and Panther (all of which except forPanther, which was, thankfully, just reprtinted arecurrently – and shockingly –out of print here in North America)has,in TheCity of...
It's Jaime to the rescue! The holiday season is notably brighter with the arrival of Angels and Magpies. The latest in the uniform softcover edition of Love and Rockets brings together the meta-comics masterwork, God and...
Pénélope Bagieu's Brazen is a collection of 29 comics biographies originally created for the Frenchnewspaper, Le Monde. Employing a clear concise line and limited but playfulcolor palette, for the most part within a well...
Boundless is a 248 assemblage composed of ninetales: World Class City;Body Pods;The Clairfree System;1. Jenny;Half Life;Darla!;bedbug;Sexcoven;Boundless. Each is possessed of itsown individual artistic personality, chosen to...