The Copacetic Blog

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Mind Cure Records / Copacetic Comics $1 SALE - This Saturday!

Posted on 24 January 21:01 (about 11 years ago)

This Saturday, January 26, from 11am to 8pm, Mind Cure Records and The Copacetic Comics Company are teaming up in the back room of our downstairs neighbor, the Lili Cafe, to bring you untold boxs of LPs, 45s, magazines... and, of course, comic books - thousands of 'em  - ALL priced at $1!!!  For more details, visit the Facebook Event Page, here:  http://www.facebook.com/events/461227367269662/  Hope you can make it!

Happy New Year!

Posted on 10 January 16:01 (about 11 years ago)

The Copacetic Comics Company welcomes you to 2013.  We look forward to bringing you the best in portable cultural objects, æsthetic achievements, interactive opportunities and more!

This Saturday: CMU Meets Polish Hill @Copacetic

Posted on 03 December 15:12 (over 11 years ago)

Saturday, December 8, 2012 - ONE NIGHT, TWO BOOKS!

The CMU School of Art meets Polish Hill for a double launch party.   Join us from 6:00pm to 8:00pm for an evening of art student projects about life in and the lives of this storied Pittsburgh neighborhood.  

Book Release #1: Un,tied States, edited by Mark Schroder

Un,tied States is an anthology of translations of 'stories' collected in Polish Hill, scripted around the globe, and illustrated in Pittsburgh, PA.

Book Release #2: At Sixteen: Faces of Polish Hill Reimagined as 16-year-olds by Jessica Aguero

At Sixteen is a collection of portraits based on participants' descriptions of how they looked, dressed, and behaved at age 16. 

Both creators will be on hand to discuss their work.

Updates and more @ http://www.facebook.com/events/101761826659766/

This Saturday, December 1 - It's... Santoro Con!

Posted on 28 November 22:11 (over 11 years ago)

A salon for the Pittsburgh comics cognoscenti

hosted by Frank Santoro and Bill Boichel

appearances by Tom Scioli, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg and more!

Time:  7:00pm - 11:00pm
Frank will lead an informal workshop talk at 8:30

Frank sez:  "Wacky back issue holiday sale. Frank's curated comics boxes are here to cure your holiday ramp up blues. Plus super deals from Bill's Copacetic Comics collection. Bill and Frank will be pulling some gems out of the vault for this one folks. Come on down just to talk shop or hang out. Comics Club partytime!"

And here's the Facebook™ event page:  http://www.facebook.com/events/424921077562359/

Happy Halloween! October New Releases Posted

Posted on 31 October 21:10 (over 11 years ago)

Yikes!  While we here in Pittsburgh emerged unscathed by the elemental forces unleashed by "Superstorm" Sandy, this has been quite a week for millions of others on the east coast.  We hope anyone receiving this who was affected is hanging in there, and will find some small consolation from what it contains and the implicit message that life goes on.  We recommend to anyone who would like to help those in need of aid as a result of the storm to make this page their first stop:  http://www1.networkforgood.org/hurricanesandy

We've been doing a bit of fixing up here on the third floor of 3138 Dobson and have finally managed to reach (our admittedly minor) goal of organizing and opening up our rear hallway to customers, and so hereby announce the less-than-grand opening of "Book Alley"  where you can now find a nice and (mostly) organized selection of attractively priced fiction, poetry, history, science and nature writing, biography, memoir, epistolary and essay collections, books of art, photography and art history and plenty more – along with our relocated – and expanded! – Comics Sale Shelf.  So make sure to turn right and head back next time you find yourself up at Copacetic.
 
Book Alley

But we need to clear even more room in order to get the shop ready for the holidays, so, yes, we are having a clearance sale.  It's The Return of BOGO:  from now until Sunday, November 11(unless it's all gone before then!) every purchase from any and all boxes on the tabletops in Copacetic's "Back Issue Corner" will entitle the purchaser to an item or items of equal value from these tables, FREE!  The comics on sale here are already massively discounted – especially the sets – so this is a chance to pick up a lot of comics on the (very) cheap.

Back Issue Corner 1

Book ALley 2

And then, of course, there's this month's new arrivals (admit it, you were beginning to wonder if we'd ever get around to them).  You will count some of the year's most anticipated releases among them. So, without further ado... here's the latest!

You can check them out here, or go old school and read all the reviews on a single page, here.