THIS Saturday, June 28, Copacetic will be joining with building mates Mind Cure Records and Lili Cafe to celebrate our fourth anniversary of being all together here at 3138 Dobson Street with one gigantic building-wide sale! We don't know exactly what will be in store for you at Mind Cure and Lili, but we can say that here at Copacetic we are working hard to make this sale the best yet! Our focus this year will be on the $5 price point: our goal is to squeeze so much into it that minds will be boggled.
We've posted some of the deals up on our FB event page.
Ed Steck Trifecta w/ Bill Wehmann
Please join us from 7:00pm to 9:00pm on Saturday, June 21 to celebrate the recent releases of three new works by Pittsburgh's own Ed Steck:
The Garden (a novel)
sleep as information / the fountain is a water feature (a book-length open)
The Abyssal Yawn (a comic book collaboration with Bill Wehmann)
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The Garden is "Composed in part from technical military intelligence text, Ed Steck's The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation is a formally complex representation of cultural brain damage, the damage left by war in language and thought."
sleep as information / the fountain is a water feature is a "book-length poem confronting the nebulous associations of fragmented memory: a pseudo-taxonomical investigation with plywood-like consistency, an expository web of mall food court fare, anti-memories of a large indoor water fountain, and cheap paperback science fiction novels."
The Abyssal Yawn is a comic book collaboration with Polish Hill-based artist – and Copacetic Stalwart – Bill Wehmann, who, in addition to pencilling, inking and coloring the work, also acted as designer and publisher. It has been described as a "full color 32 page comic book sports a card stock cover and is printed on high grade glossy stock throughout. These heavy duty production measures were necessary to carry the weighty concepts that are herein delivered. The Abyssal Yawn is a far-flung multi-dimensional science fiction tale in the tradition of Jack Kirby and Jim Starlin – think the Silver Surfer and Warlock – that took a detour through the meta-comics dimensions of Fort Thunder and navigated the Kramers Ergot force field with the aid of contemporary post-modern literary techniques and a bit of gage."
One of the great allegorical novels of the twentieth century, Crash, originally published in 1973, is one of the definitive mile-markers of the transition from modernism to post-modernism. A novel in the grand tradition of the science fiction cautionary tale, Crash places the car at the center of technologically acculturated concsciousness. Ballard's clinically precise language is pitch perfect in the creation and presentation of a milleau in which human sexuality is channelled through an eroticization of the automobile in which the act of driving becomes the equivalent of love making which climaxes in collision. (fair warning: during the reading of this book, you may find yourself feeling disoriented and uneasy when you get behind the wheel; driving may become difficult; you may need to pull over and collect yourself; you might have to just get out of the car and walk) As part of a special purchase, we've secured a healthy supply of this excellent UK edition (along with two other classic Ballard texts) that we can now offer at a price so low that there's simply no excuse to put off reading this seminal text any longer.
PITTSBURGH COMIC BOOK ACADEMY TO MEET
WHAT: First meeting of the PITTSBURGH COMIC BOOK ACADEMY with Frank Santoro
WHERE: Lili Cafe, 3138 Dobson St. in Polish Hill Pittsburgh 15219
WHEN: Wednesday April 30th, 7pm to 9pm
Frank sez: "I’ve been wanting to try a “floating academy” for awhile now. This FREE event will be a simple hangout for anyone and everyone in the Pittsburgh area who wants to take comic book classes. I have tried to do this at Copacetic Comics upstairs in the same building but there are no chairs and tables - so I talked Lili Cafe into staying open an hour later than usual and we are going to try it out. I will lead a simple drawing exercise and we will talk shop."
**FREE** 7pm to 9pm - Wednesday April 30th.
Totally Confused Release Party
Please join us this Friday, April 11, from 7pm to 9pm for The Totally Confused Release Party celebrating the release of a clutch of new made-in-Pittsburgh comics:
You Can Did It! #1 by Nils Balls (delayed! Free print instead!)
Top of the Line #6 by Dan McCloskey
It's a Tough Economy by Nate McDonough & Jarrod Shanahan
Andromeda Quarterly #7 edited by Andy Scott
and "hot new prints" by Max Wheeler
How can you say no to a line-up like this?
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