The eleventh volume in the immensely popular Bone series, Tall Tales collects previously published material along with an all-new framing sequence that weaves it all together, featuring Smiley, Bartleby, Ring, Bingo and Todd telling the "tall tales" that fill the collection.  The largest portion of the book is a now-colored-by-Steve-Hanamaker representing of the out-of-print, B&W collection Stupid, Stupid Rat Tales, which features the adventures of Big Johnson Bone, that was written by Tom Sneigowski and drawn by Bone-creator, Smith.  In addition there is a hard-to-find short story that originally appeared in Disney Adventures Magazine.  Technically, the story-telling framing sequence takes place after the conclusion of the Bone saga, while the stories that they tell take place before, making them prequels of a sort.  This volume will set snugly on the shelf next to the previous ten volumes in the Bone saga, and is sure to be enjoyed by all its fans.

This is a nifty guide to zinemaking and zinestering that is a great primer for anyone who is getting started  -- or even thinking of getting started -- down the road of making a zine, whether it be comics or otherwise.  It's purposefully designed to be exactly the kind of guide that the authors wished they had when they started out.  In covers the practical ins and outs such as formats and print-marriage set ups, the pros and cons of various drawing tools and printing methods, and a wide array of binding methods that one might never think of on one's own. But there's much more as the authors bring in a bevy of talented cartoonists, zinesters and self-publishers to offer their artistic, poetic, historical and technical perspectives, encouragements and insights.  Among those creators featured are John Porcellino, Ron Regé, Jr., Souther Salazar, Dan Zettwoch, Martin Cendreda, Dave Kiersh, Allison Cole and Raina Lee.  All in all this book has a great feel and is sure to be enjoyed even by those who are well on their way down Zinester Avenue.  And it's bargain priced to boot!

This book was published in 2006 and is now out of print :(, and currently out of stock, BUT this is a great book that we'd like to keep available here and so are on the prowl for furtive copies that may be hiding out in a warehouse(s) somewhere, so please check back and see whether or not we found any... AND WE DID!

ONE NEW COPY

The Amulet series has won a veritable legion of enthustiastic young readers here at Copacetic, and we're certain they will all be happy to hear that the third, 200-page, full color volume in this series has at last arrived – just in time to provide a welcome weekend reward after a week of scholarly striving.  Flying monsters, robot pilots, cities in the sky, and more fills the fantastic parallel universe – one that comes complete with prophetic glances into our own – with adventure and thrills.  The Amulet series is definitely reminiscent of Miyazaki's work, with The Cloud Searchers bringing to mind Castle in the Sky in particular, so we feel comfortable recommending this book to Miyazaki fans as well as fans of Jeff Smith's Bone who are looking around for something new to read.  Anyone who has yet to expeiene Amulet, or is considering it as a gift, is encouraged to start at the beginning, with the first volume in the series, The Stonekeeper (which is, of course, readily available here at Copacetic, along with it's sequel, The Stonekeeper's Curse).