edited by Art Spiegelman and Francois Mouly If the amazing kids' comics from the halycon days of yore are your thing, then you've hit the jackopot with this one!  Well over 300 pages of classics, all scanned from the original comics themselves, and printed at approximately 120% of the originals.  These scans have been digitally cleaned up a bit, so there's no newsprint background tones, just the flat white paper that they're printed on.  While this might upset some purists, it was probably a good call as this book is clearly going to be marketed as a gift for children as well as for older fans, and lay people will have difficulty appreciating the nuances of newsprint; and they did a more than decent job of balancing the tones.  The book is, somewhat arbitrarily, divided into five sections:  Hey, Kids; Funny Animals; Fantasyland; Storytime; and Weird and Wacky.  The book successfully draws across the spectrum of children's comics from the twenty years following the close of the second world war – the golden age of kids' comics that fed the baby boomers' imaginations before television took over.  While certainly no one is going to agree with every choice, the editors – along with the board of advisors – picked a good crop of comics that is certain to contain favorites of every fan as well as win the hearts of every reader and, more importantly, is sure to capture the imagination of the next generation.  Includes work by all-time greats Carl Barks, Basil Wolverton, Harvey Kurtzman, John Stanley, Bob Bolling, Walt Kelly, and many, many more (even Dr. Seuss, who started out in comics).  Get a sneak peek, here (just click on the image of the open book at the top right, under "Sample Toon Treasury").

There's plenty to like between these two covers.  The only questions is:  How much of it do you already have? Highlights for us are those works that are not readily available elsewhere on the shelves at Copacetic, and include:  eight pages of new Jimbo comics by cover boy, Gary Panter; new, specially commissioned endpapers by Jesse Jacobs, whose AdHouse press debut, Even the Giants, is also featured; four Michael Kupperman strips from The Washington City Paper; Nora Krug's "Kamikaze", from A Public Space; six Jonathan Bennett one-pagers for The Believer Magazine; and House of Debt by David Sandlin.  Also on hand are healthy excerpts from X-ed Out by Charles Burns, Big Questions by Anders Nilsen, Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine, Paying for It by Chester Brown; H Day by Renee French, Crickets  by Sammy Harkham, Love and Rockets by Jaime Hernandez, Chimo by David Collier, and plenty more.  A great way to catch up with comics.

RESIST! 96 pages of comics and more, all in the 4th of July spirit of resistance and the rights of the individual (with an accent on women).

 

RESIST! 96 pages of comics and more, all in the 4th of July spirit of resistance and the rights of the individual (with an accent on women).

PLEASE NOTE:  This item # is for those who are adding a copy of RESIST! to their order.  Anyone who is interested in ordering only RESIST! and nothing else may do so HERE.  The charge is to compensate for the labor of packing and shipping it all by its lonesome.

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