FROM THE ARCHIVES

We just found a (very) small stack of new hardcover copies of this long out of print 2007 Release!

Introduction by Mr. Ivan Brunetti!

"Holcombe is largely to blame for enticing me to the medium.  His work is a cartoon Trojan horse that lures the reader with bouncing whinsical brush lines and then unleashes the most lonely and brutal sentiments.  Musical, poetic and ornamental, a blend of Victorian novels and Dr. Suess." – Craig Thompson

"Walt Holcombe seems woefully underrated to me. Especially because he's such a rare combination: a sensitive mind, a wide-ranging imagination, and a virtuoso of pure cartooning. What is wrong with a world where everyone doesn't know this man's name?!!" -- Seth

"Walt Holcombe is a true original; his jazzy drawings and mellifluous prose (to say nothing of his partiality for pathetic nebbishes, marine adventure, and "the exotic") concoct a personal, perfectly-timed viand redolent of 1920s humorists, Cliff Sterrett, and, more than anything, of Walt himself. I should also add that a big-hearted compassion backs his work like a stretched canvas behind paint." -- Chris Ware

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Yes, it's the new Now!  Another 128 page anthology of short comics edited by Eric Reynolds.  Quite a wide variety of approaches are on hand this issue.  You might not like every story, but every issue of Now presents a wide-ranging mix of talent that includes some of today's top names side-by-side with relative unkonwns, all taking artistic chances and working to explore the expressive terrain of comics.

Now enters is third year of publication with a makeover.  With this issue, the paper stock has switched from glossy stock to a medium weight, flat white paper.  Good call: it looks and feels great; a bit more heft.  As a result, it's price has increased to $12.99, but at a chock full 128 pages of great (mostly) full color comics, it's still a bargain!

And, more importantly, this issue features a stellar line up of comics creators, including many a Copacetic fave:

In the 21, full color pages of "The Gigs," E.S. Glenn shows the comics reading world what he is capable of.  Socially constructed barriers between memory, dream, fiction and reality dissolve in Glenn's spirit world of clear line comics (and comics within comics!) in this densely packed (magnifying glass, anyone?), multi-layered graphic novella that takes readers deep into the comics dimension . Get ready for a treat!  

The inimitable Sami Alwani really knocked himself out here, with his piece,"The Misfortunes of Virtue," which is actually an agglomeration of short bits that coheres together into a whole that is greater than the sum of it's parts, an oroboros look at the artist in society that turns things inside-out and back again.

Noah van Sciver revisits a prior work in a meta/auto-bio take on "Saint Cole."

Walt Holcombe's "Cheminant avec Emily" integrates a poster graphics æsthetic with comics to illuminate the soundtrack of romance.

With "The Intoxicated," Maggie Umber employs a minimal but evocative black and white rendering reminiscent of faded celluloid images, to good effect.

Tara Booth takes on "Binge Eating."

New-to-us talents, Veronika Muchitsch, Henry McCausland and Zuzu all turn in excellent and quite varied pieces.

And it all starts off with an eye-catching Al Columbia cover followed by a Theo Ellsworth one-pager.

The New Now is here!

It's here, Now!  Now #10, that is, featuring a new, heavier, stiffer cover stock, and.... a whole bunch of great comics by many a Copacetic favorite!