The stratification, planting, and growth cycles of the ginseng seed parallel the seasons of childhood. Ginseng berries are gathered in the last week of summer, just before school resumes and brings with it the awkward transitions of adolescence, sexuality, and friendship… or a parental decision to homeschool. Before planting, ginseng seeds are doused in bleach and fungicide-a purifying ritual of sorts-like baptism-which Craig and his siblings undergo to be cleansed of sin. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Thompson, Craig. Artist Thompson, Craig. Cover by Thompson, Craig.
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Pagina del Previews (JUL/2020): 322
Data di uscita: 26/08/20
Phil joins Craig during a book tour in South Korea, through Seoul and Bucheon, then extending to a research journey in rural Geumsan, the epicenter of Korean ginseng cultivation. Geumsan is the sister city to Marathon, the brothers' tiny American town, but with a deep thousand-year history of art, mythology, and cuisine surrounding the medicinal root. While there, the brothers sort out how Craig's paralyzing writer's block and Phil's marital strain are tangled up in their working-class childhood. Metallic gold ink cover. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Thompson, Craig. Artist Thompson, Craig. Cover by Thompson, Craig.
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Pagina del Previews (SEP/2021): 362
Data di uscita: 17/11/21
The Terraformers are coming! Take an archaeo-mythological detour through antediluvian Sumer in Utnapishtim's ARK as we search for the ultimate Source of human nature in Deep Time. Also, visiting Doctor Zizmor's office becomes a psyche-analysis of the comics-consciousness continuum. Can comics think? Including Aesthetic Education, Cartoon Hermeneutics, and barbarians. Eternal ideas in a convenient disposable comic book package. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
Ordinabile fino al 05/05/23
By Kaczynski, Tom. Artist Kaczynski, Tom. Cover by Kaczynski, Tom.
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Pagina del Previews (APR/2023): 415
Data di uscita: 21/06/23
Final Order Cutoff: 05/05/23 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
A collectible Box Set with all 12 issues of Craig Thompson's Eisner Award-nominated Ginseng Roots series. From ages 10 to 20, Craig Thompson and his little brother Phil, toiled in Wisconsin farms. Weeding and harvesting ginseng-a medicinal herb that fetched huge profits in China-funded Craig's youthful obsession with comic books. Comics in turn, allowed him to escape his rural, working class trappings. Now, for the first time in his career, Thompson is working in serial form, in a comic book series part memoir, part travelogue, part essay, that explores class divide, agriculture, holistic healing, the 300-year-long trade relationship between China and North America, childhood labor, and the bond between two brothers. The Collectible Box contains issues #1-12, a bonus mini comic, and a sticker. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Thompson, Craig. Artist Thompson, Craig. Cover by Thompson, Craig.
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Pagina del Previews (SEP/2023): 390
Data di uscita: 15/11/23 (può ritardare di 30 giorni)
From ages 10 to 20, Craig Thompson (Blankets) and his little brother Phil, toiled in Wisconsin farms. Weeding and harvesting ginseng - a medicinal herb that fetched huge profits in Chinam - funded Craig's youthful obsession with comic books. Comics in turn, allowed him to escape his rural, working class trappings. Now, for the first time in his career, Thompson is working in serial form, in a bimonthly comic book series. Part memoir, part travelogue, part essay, Ginseng Roots explores class divide, agriculture, holistic healing, the 300 year long trade relationship between China and North America, childhood labor, and the bond between two brothers. The set includes Goodbye Chunky Root mini-comic and a sticker. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
Ordinabile fino al 02/10/20
By Thompson, Craig. Artist Thompson, Craig. Cover by Thompson, Craig.
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Pagina del Previews (SEP/2020): 322
Data di uscita: 04/11/20
Final Order Cutoff: 02/10/20 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
John Porcellino's Prairie Pothole ran only for a short 16 weeks in the Chicago Reader. Still, it remained beloved by readers, old and new. Since then, John has continued to produce the strip for his Patreon supporters, writing mainly about his childhood memories of growing up in Chicagoland. Listening to weird records, earwigs, trick or treating, and smelt, The Collected Prairie Pothole includes all 28 of these classic four-panel newspaper-style strips, plus bonus material (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Porcellino, John. Artist Porcellino, John. Cover by Porcellino, John.
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Pagina del Previews (FEB/2022): 362
Data di uscita: 20/04/22
If you're feeling sick, The Man may be following you… 1945: Daniel broods after a failed confrontation with The Man. The only impact of his friends' plan was to exacerbate his symptoms to the point that the hallucinations feel more alive than ever. Whatever this illness is, it wants something from Daniel. 1955: George performs an autopsy on the housewife who murdered her family, resulting in disturbing revelations. However, he comes to a standstill in his attempt to trace patients with similar symptoms. Little does he know, The Sickness is closer to him than he could ever imagine. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Cha, Jenna. Artist Cha, Jenna. Cover by Cha, Jenna.
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Pagina del Previews (JAN/2024): 386
Data di uscita: 27/03/24
Feeling sick? The Man may be following you… 1945: Daniel Buss, an anxious teenager living in small-town America, has been experiencing strange symptoms: mood swings, increased sensitivity, and terrifying hallucinations, threatening to ruin his summer vacation before freshman year. Worse, a stalking presence watches Daniel's every move. 1955: George Brooks-war vet and tireless doctor-nears retirement from his decorated past. When a local housewife murders her entire family, her son-the sole survivor-is put into his care; George grows obsessed with uncovering what could drive an ordinary person to such brutality. Though they live a decade apart, their fates intertwine through a horrifying illness and the haunting figure who follows wherever they go. 2nd edition. Fluorescent ink cover. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Cha, Jenna. Artist Cha, Jenna. Cover by Cha, Jenna.
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Pagina del Previews (AUG/2023): 410
Data di uscita: 04/10/23
As the planet balances on a razor's edge, the end of the world, our world, is not theoretical anymore. What will it look like? What will it feel like? Only through comics can we hope to understand the next stage of human development. It's the black-pilled, exhaustive, post-crisis, all-apocalypse issue. Explore: extinction events, the nature of nature, and the typical post-apocalypse scenario. An eschatological tour de force by Tom Kaczynski. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Kaczynski, Tom. Artist Kaczynski, Tom. Cover by Kaczynski, Tom.
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Pagina del Previews (JUL/2020): 322
Data di uscita: 12/08/20
A young Hmong boy sacrifices his childhood, his education, and his future dreams to help out in the family ginseng gardens. His father is torn between the traditional Hmong customs, shamanism, and his role as a Christian pastor in America. Spring brings unexpected death and mourning, but in fall the harvest must begin again. As markets change, a new generation struggles to continue the ginseng legacy. Profits have shifted to the retail side at the expense of the farmer's hard labor. Another harvest cycle unearths ghosts in the soil, both ancestral and chemical. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
Ordinabile fino al 01/01/21
By Thompson, Craig. Artist Thompson, Craig. Cover by Thompson, Craig.
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Pagina del Previews (DEC/2020): 320
Data di uscita: 03/02/21
Final Order Cutoff: 01/01/21 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)
Craig Thompson and his brother Phil reconcile, recover from illness, hire an interpreter, and reconnect for the final leg of their journey. The Jilin Province of China is the birthplace of the ginseng story. This hard-to-reach region on the border of North Korea features one of the largest forest preserves in all of China. The brothers encounter a wild ginseng root that wins a $120,000 prize, nude environmentalists protesting ginseng cultivation, and why it's easier to attend university in China than in America. Bootleg versions of Craig's books and Wisconsin ginseng beg the question: What does it mean to be authentic in an age of globalization? (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Thompson, Craig. Artist Thompson, Craig. Cover by Thompson, Craig.
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Pagina del Previews (OCT/2022): 378
Data di uscita: 14/12/22
Gabrielle concludes that she is a failure in life, so she might as well do what she likes for the rest of it. She spends hours at cafes covertly drawing and eavesdropping on her fellow layabouts and shirkers every day. Occasionally she gets caught, and sometimes, she makes friends. Being a failure can be a lot of fun. Gabrielle Bell is comics' most infamous diarist and the creator of The Voyeurs and Everything is Flammable. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Bell, Gabrielle. Artist Bell, Gabrielle.
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Pagina del Previews (JUL/2022): 409
Data di uscita: 21/09/22
In this intense finale of the critically acclaimed autobiographical comic, Noah finds himself in a showdown with a tough local comic-collecting gang at Vincent's Pizzeria. But can a newly revealed secret rescue him this time, or will a surprising alliance save the day? Noah Van Sciver was a regular contributor to MAD Magazine and has written and drawn numerous bestselling graphic novels, including One Dirty Tree (Uncivilized), the Fante Bukowski: Struggling Writer (Fantagraphics), and Joseph Smith And The Mormons (Abrams). (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Sciver, Noah Van. Artist Sciver, Noah Van. Cover by Sciver, Noah Van.
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Pagina del Previews (SEP/2023): 390
Data di uscita: 08/11/23
Phil joins Craig during a book tour in South Korea, through Seoul and Bucheon, then extending to a research journey in rural Geumsan, the epicenter of Korean ginseng cultivation. Geumsan is the sister city to Marathon, the brothers' tiny American town, but with a deep thousand-year history of art, mythology, and cuisine surrounding the medicinal root. While there, the brothers sort out how Craig's paralyzing writer's block and Phil's marital strain are tangled up in their working-class childhood. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Thompson, Craig. Artist Thompson, Craig. Cover by Thompson, Craig.
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Pagina del Previews (JUN/2022): 397
Data di uscita: 17/08/22
Returning to the very place they tried to escape from, the crew shelters in Circuit City. Where can one run when the roads twist? How far beneath the city must one go before they reach soil? What is the cost of a corn dog? Some questions are asked, and some are answered. And the dancing is only just beginning. Thump. Thump. Thump. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Grund, John. Artist Grund, John. Cover by Grund, John.
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Pagina del Previews (FEB/2023): 395
Data di uscita: 26/04/23
The fifth issue flows along the 'crimson creek' of America's history with ginseng: from the Native people's uses of the plant, to French explorers' 'discovery' in 1716, to America's initiation of trade relations with China in 1784. Also learn how the debts of the American Revolution were paid, and how the nation's first multi-millionaire founded his fortune... and the when and why Craig's brother, Phil, started spending his salary on guns instead of comics. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
Ordinabile fino al 03/04/20
By Thompson, Craig. Artist Thompson, Craig. Cover by Thompson, Craig.
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Articolo in stock alla Diamond (affrettati a ordinarlo!)
Pagina del Previews (MAR/2020): 377
Data di uscita: 20/05/20
Final Order Cutoff: 03/04/20 (se ordinato entro questa data - un paio di giorni prima per permetterci di ordinarlo - le possibilità che l'ordine verrà soddisfatto sono molto alte)