2014: Another Year of Made in Pittsburgh
The results are in, and, for a second year in a row, graphic novels, comics – and, this year, books as well – made right here in Pittsburgh, PA top the lists!
**MiP** = Made in Pittsburgh
GRAPHIC NOVELS
1. Hip Hop Family Tree, Volume 2 by Ed Piskor **(MiP)**
2. Street Angel by Jim Rugg **(MiP)**
3. This One Summer by Jillian & Mariko Tamaki
4. Megahex by Simon Hanselmann
5. Copra: Round One by Michel Fiffe
6. I Saw Him by Nate McDonough **(MiP)**
7. Sugar Skull by Charles Burns
8. Syllabus by Lynda Barry
9. Here by Richard McGuire
10. How To Be Happy by Eleanor Davis (tie)
11. It Never Happened Again by Sam Alden (tie)
COMICS
1. Morgan by Frank Santoro **(MiP)**
2. Abyssal Yawn by Bill Wehmann and Ed Steck **(MiP)**
3. Final Frontier by Tom Scioli **(MiP)**
4. Lose #6 by Michael DeForge
5. Cosplay #1 by Dash Shaw
6. Retrofit Comics #21: Wicked Chicken Queen by Sam Alden
7. Nightworld #1 by Paola Leandri & Adam McGovern
8. Copra #13 by Michel Fiffe
9. Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #1 by Tom Scioli **(MiP)**
10. You Can Did It #1 By Nils Balls & Mike Carretta **(MiP)**
BOOKS
1. The Garden by Ed Steck **(MiP)**
2. Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Tom Sweterlitsch **(MiP)**
3. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
4. You Can’t Win by Jack Black (new edition)
5. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami (tie)
5. The Secret Life of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (tie)
COMICS ANTHOLOGIES
1. Study Group #3D edited by Zach Soto
2. Mould Map #3 edited by Hugh Frost and Leon Sandler
3. Maple Key Comics #1 **(1/2 MiP^)** edited by Joyana McDiarmid
4. Andromeda Quarterly #6 **(MiP)** edited by Andy Scott
5. SubCultures edited by Whit Taylor
^Technically, this particular anthology was put together in White River Junction, Vermont, but now that the Maple Key Comics Cooperative has relocated to Pittsburgh, PA, we felt it deserved a semi-MiP appellation.
And, in these last two categories, there was really no competition, as each dominated their respective category:
COMICS NEWSZINE
1. Comics Workbook Magazine **(MiP)**
HOLIDAY GIFT BOOK
1. What Nerve! edited by Dan Nadel
Yes, it's that time of year. We've put together (and are still adding to) a giant page of great gift items on sale here at copaetic. It's in a clunky scrolling form that is good for reading, but not for ordering from; to do the latter, you'll have to head back here to copaceticcomics.com and search for the item in question. Please be forewarned that a few of the items are already near to selling out; only a few, tho' - we've put in a pretty good stock, so check 'em out.
Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream
Think big this holiday season with this towering tome. In Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, a whoppin' 100 cartoonists and illustrators have paid tribute to the Winsor McCay's masterpiece by creating new Little Nemo strips that are all reprocduced at the same size as the original Little Nemo strips: the amazing, broadsheet newspaper-size of 16" x 21", using the mega-book size pioneered by Peter Maresca's Sunday Press in reproducing the original Little Nemo Strips. Contributors to Dream Another Dream include Paul Pope, Bill Sienkiewicz, Peter Bagge, Farel Dalrymple, Nate Powell, David Mack, Theo Ellsworth, Jeremy Bastian, Jeremy Baum, John Cassaday, Jim Rugg, Jasen Lex, Michael Allred, Scott Morse, Tom Scioli, Yuko Shimizu, David Petersen, J.G. Jones, Denis Kitchen, Stephen Bissette, Ronald Wimberly, P. Craig Russell, JH Williams III, Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, among many others. See the full contributor list along with any examples of the strips produced for the volume at the original Kickstarter page for the project. We're offering a SPECIAL PRICE on it for Thanksgiving weekend.
Breakdown Press. Straight from CAB 2014. Now @ Copacetic.
New (and restock) from Connor Willumsen, Joe Kessler, Seiichi Hayashi, Inés Estrada, Antoine Cossé and Lando!
