The Great War: An Illustrated Panorama by Joe Sacco

Sub-titled, "July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme", The Great War presents in a single image a visual distillation of the events of that day. In The Great War, Sacco has devised an elegant and ingenious synthesis of single image and narrative progression.  All 24 feet of the drawing that makes up The Great War are devoted to delivering a seamless flow of the story of that day,  from the pacing general, through the supply lines heading to the front, to the trench diggers, through the troops themselves in full battle action on to the medical teams removing the dead and wounded to the hospital tents and finally to the cemetary - all in one seamless image that is the graceful comics equivalent of a artfully choreographed tracking shot.  And then there is a mysterious shadow that looms over the center of it all, a shadow, that  – at least here at The Copacetic Comics Company – brings to mind T.S. Eliot's 1925 poem, "The Hollow Men":  Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow.  A true tour de force.  Kudos to Mr. Sacco on his accomplishment.

We still have a few brand new copies that we're offering at HALF PRICE. 

Join us at Copacetic HQ, THIS Saturday, June 25th, from 11am through 7pm for our annual 3138 Donson Street Anniversary Sale!  We're busy assembling deals galore, some of which we will be posting on the FB event page for the sale, HERE. 

Hope you can make it!

On Wednesday, June 15, from 6 to 8pm, Copacetic will host Kramers Ergot editor, SAMMY HARKHAM and comics genius, KEVIN HUIZENGA for an evening of comics and conversation. In adddition to the latest Kramers Ergot, we will have Ganges and Crickets comics -- and plenty more -- on hand. Mark it on your calendar!

                            See you there!

Darwyn Cooke.  Where to begin.  Cooke was the heroic fantasy comics art synthesizer of his generation, par excellence.  He knew comics. He knew how they worked.  He could take them apart and put them back together again, and, more importantly, he amply demonstrated, that he could disassemble the machinery of the styles of the greats of comics past, pick out the best, strongest parts, the ones that still held up, and then put them all together to build an awesome new comics story-telling machine, one that coould deliver page after page of action-packed adventure.  And there’s more.  His work successfully conveys, and, when the moment is ripe, reveals the emotional needs that undergird heroic fantasy; the bruised egos, the tethered ids, the lack of grace.  Cooke was practically alone among his peers working at the “big two” in his conscious understanding of the wounded life led by the reader of heroic fantasy; plus, he was a die-hard romantic.  He will be missed.  

November 16, 1962 – May 14, 2016

PIX 2016 is almost here!  Go to pixcomix.org for info and all the latest news!

Also, PLEASE NOTE: Copacetic HQ will be CLOSED the day of PIX, as we will be at the show!

Also, there will be two Pre-Pix events on Friday April 1:

Bill Griffith fans will want to know that, in addition to his being a special guest of PIX 2016, he will also be doing a presentation at The ToonSeum the night before, starting at 7pm at Bricolage, a few doors down from The ToonSeum:  45 Years of Zippy the Pinhead: An Evening with Bill Griffith.

AND, running form 7pm to 11pm at Lili Cafe (downstairs from The Copacetic Comics Co.) it's The Pre-PIX Comix Reading Extravaganza! Here's a chance to get a jump start on the PIX 2016 festivities!