The Complete Zap Comix Boxed Set [PRE-ORDER]
This is the project that has been keeping Gary Groth busy for the last few years. It's a five volume set that Fantagraphics has priced at $500.00 We're offering a pre-order only special price of $395.00. (In other words: we will raise the price when the book is released). Just for the record, Amazon's pre-order price is, as of this writing, $428.30*.
Fanta sez: "There scarcely was an underground comics world before Robert Crumb's classic solo first issue of Zap in 1968. By Zap#2, he had begun assembling a Seven Samurai of the best, the fiercest, and the most stylistically diversified cartoonists to come out of the countercultural kiln. All of them were extremists of one sort or another, from biker-gang member Rodriguez to Christian surfer Griffin, but somehow they produced a decades-long collaboration: a mind-blowing anthology of abstract hallucination, throat-slashing social satire, and shocking sexual excess, that made possible the ongoing wave of alternative cartoonists like Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and Charles Burns. The Complete Zap Comix collects every issue of Zap — every cover and every story, and even the Zam mini comic jam among the Zap artists — in a multi-volume, slipcased hardcover set. It will also include the 17th unpublished issue with work by Crumb, Moscoco, Wilson, Rodriguez, Shelton, Mavrides, and Williams. Plus, an introduction by founder R. Crumb and an oral history of Zap by Patrick Rosenkranz, and other exclusive bonus features and items TBA."
Five-volume hardcover boxed set; Limited, single-printing edition
920 pages; 9” x 12”; black & white with color
featuring: R. Crumb, Rick Griffin, Paul Mavrides, Victor Moscoso, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, and S. Clay Wilson
ISBN: 9781606997871
Check out the PDF preview!
Availability
Ships in: December 2014 (subject to change - while we can guarantee to ship this item within one business day of our receiving it, and we are operating under the assumption that we will receive it in time to get it to customers before Christmas, we cannot guarantee that this will turn out to be the case.)
*While we are aware of Amazon's "pre-order price guarantee", we suspect that we fly so far below the radar that they our price won't register on their screens, and so won't cause their price to automatically lower to match ours. We could be wrong of course, but even then: wouldn't you rather buy this from Copacetic than for a penny less from Amazon?
SEPTEMBER 24 (Wednesday) Michael DeForge, Simon Hanselmann & Patrick Kyle World Tour, w/ Annie Mok
SEPTEMBER 25 (Thursday) John Porcellino Hospital Suite signing & screening of Root Hog or Die, the John Porcellino / King-Cat Comics documentary film*
*PLEASE NOTE: The John Porcellino event will be held at The Harris Theatre, located at 809 Liberty Avenue, downtown.
BOTH EVENTS BEGIN AT 7:00pm.
+PLUS+
Then, as an added bonus, closing out this epic week on Sunday, September 28, it's the 2014 Pittsburgh Zine Fair! Held at The Union Project in Highland Park / East Liberty, it will run from 2:00pm through 8:00pm and will feature a mighty slice of the Pittsburgh small press and self publishing community! There will be more than just comics on hand here, so writers, poets and zinesters of all stripes – including plenty of the comics variety! – will be on hand. Check out the Exhibitor/vendor list, HERE.
Hope to see you there!
Copacetic Mailroom Closed for Vacation
PLEASE NOTE: The Copacetic Mailroom will be closed this week (July 28 through August 1). Internet orders placed during this time will ship on Monday, August 4. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The shop itself will be open everyday this week, except Friday, August 1, when it will be closed.
Meanwhile, take a moment to read our recommendation for what we're confident will be a perennial summer read / beach book.
It Never Happened by Sam Alden
Courtesy of Uncivilized Books, we finally have a Sam Alden collection, an actual book, with a spine! It Never Happened Again collects two works: the 64 page "Hawaii 1997" and the 90 page "Anime." "Hawaii 1997" is the work through which many readers first encountered Alden. When it was first posted on Tumblr, it blazed through the eyeballs of many an internet surfer. The pencils here are strong, bold and decisive, executed with quick, deft strokes which crackle with emotional energy. The figures and landscapes in "Hawaii 1997" feel like they are flowing non-stop out the tip of Alden's pencil and onto the paper in an automatic recollection that is magically transmitted from the mind to the hand. In this respect the energetic linework recalls some of the pages in Frank Santoro's seminal masterwork, Storeyville, which was originally published in 1995. Like "Hawaii 1997", "Anime" is a story told largely through images. It is a more calibrated work, however, one that spans family, work, relationships and continents in a bold attempt to portray the perceptions of a personality that had been led to, and a consciousness that has been shaped by, animé. Employing an informed and disciplined use of the grid, Alden is successful in implicitly conveying a sense of the irrevocable ticking of the clock, as time marches on while the concurrent personal growth necessary to survival sometimes has trouble keeping up...
PLEASE NOTE: The Copacetic Comics Company is on vacation this week. The shop is closed Tuesday, July 8, Wednesday, July 9 and Thursday, July 10. In addition, all internet orders received this week will not be processed until the weekend, and will ship on Monday, July 14. We apologize for the inconvenience and/or delay.
