by Igort Close to a century ago, two aspiring cartoonists - Celestine and Pilade - vowed to use this new medium to create amazing works of fantasy and magic, and talk a retired local newspaper publisher into reviving his paper just for them. But just as he sees his big break and gets ready to launch what will eventually become his signature chaacter, 'Morvo', Celestine falls terribly ill, and even his doting sister's help can't get him back on track. Igort's ambitious series traces an alternate history of the very beginnings of the comic strip artform, with subtle nods toward such masters as Winsor McCay and George Herriman. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Igort. Artist Igort.
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by Gilbert Hernandez Another printing of one of the popular titles in the Ignatz line of comics! In book one, 'Children of Palomar,' there are mysterious thieves stealing food from wherever they can grab it the quickest, then they're off like lightning. Sheriff Chelo and some citizens do their best to solve the mystery, but no one seems able to catch these bandits in action until Pipo puts her soccer-trained legs to work and goes after them herself! (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Gilbert Hernandez. Artist Gilbert Hernandez.
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by Gilbert Hernandez Gilbert Hernandez returns to that funky little Central American hamlet of his with another story set in the 'Sopa de Gran Pena' days starring 'The Children of Palomar' - in this case, the obnoxious and picked-on Gato (whom LR fans will remember as Pipo's husband-to-be), Soledad, Guero, Pintor, and Arturo. The quintet of troublemakers' explorations across a bottomless chasm results in two of the kids coming face to face with... well, we won't spoil the surprise. But Sheriff Chelo is on the case and saves the day! (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Gilbert Hernandez. Artist Gilbert Hernandez.
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by Gilbert Hernandez The final installment of New Tales of Old Palomar focuses on the gorgeous but troubled Tonantzin. Everyone in Palomar takes the supernatural with a grain of salt, but young Tonantzin is determined to uncover the mystery of the laughing baby that appears only to her, haunting her daily life. What is the baby's link to the giant stone idols that stand outside the town? (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Gilbert Hernandez. Artist Gilbert Hernandez.
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by Linda Medley With nary a strip-mall in sight, the castle folk enjoy an evening of bowling and clothes shopping, and Jain learns some interesting details concerning lovable Doctor Fell's puzzling condition. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Linda Medley. Artist Linda Medley.
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by Linda Medley A fable for modern times, Castle Waiting is a fairy tale that's not about rescuing the princess, saving the kingdom, or fighting the ultimate war between Good and Evil - but about being a hero in your own home. For the first time, Fantagraphics'collects the entire Castle Waiting story into one mammoth volume - including the concluding chapter written and drawn especially for this volume. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Linda Medley. Artist Linda Medley. Cover by Linda Medley.
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by R. Kikuo Johnson First-rate prep school, SUV, and a dream house in the heights - this was the island paradise handed to Loren Foster when he moved to Hawaii with his father six years ago. Now, with the end of high school just around the corner, his best friend, Shane, has grown distant. The rumors say its hard drugs, and Loren suspects that Shane has left him behind for a new group of friends. What sets Kikuo's drama apart is the naturalistic ease with which he explores the relationships of his characters. It is at once an unsentimental portrait of that most awkward period between adolescence and young adulthood and that rarest of things - a mature depiction of immature lives. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By R. Kikuo Johnson. Artist R. Kikuo Johnson.
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Thrizzle #5 bursts upon the scene with important information on Catare- the secret art of using an enraged feline for self-defense. Aliens give an innocent man sexy woman's legs, and Twain and Einstein have many, many adventures, including a journey through multiple dreamscapes, a superhero/private eye caper, and a meeting with an enraged badger. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Michael Kupperman. Artist Michael Kupperman. Cover by Michael Kupperman.
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Data di uscita: 25/03/09 (può ritardare di 30 giorni)
by Charles M. Schulz Peanuts surges into the 1970s with Schulz at the peak of his powers and influence: a few jokes about Bob Dylan, Women's Liberation and 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex' (!) aside, these two years are as timeless as Peanuts ever was. Sally Brown - school phobia, malapropisms, unrequited love for Linus and all - elbows her way to center stage, at least among the humans, and is thus the logical choice for cover girl... and in her honor, the introduction is provided by none other than Broadway, television and film star Kristin (Wicked) Chenoweth, who first rose to Tony-winning fame with her scene-stealing performance as Sally in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Two long Summer-camp sequences involve Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty, who has decided that Charlie Brown is madly in love with her, much to his clueless confusion. Snoopy shows up at camp as well, as does Peppermint Patty's new permanent sidekick, the one and only Marcie. The eternally mutable Snoopy mostly shakes off his World War I Flying Ace identity and turns into Joe Cool, college hipster extraordinaire. And in three long sequences he writes a fan letter to his favorite author, Miss Helen Sweetstory, then goes on a journey to meet her, and finally enlists Charlie Brown's help when her latest opus, 'The Six Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out,' falls afoul of censors. Also, Woodstock attends worm school, falls in love with a worm (perhaps the most doomed unrequited Peanuts love story ever!), and is nearly eaten by the neighbors' cat... Peppermint Patty is put on trial for another dress code violation and makes a very ill-advised choice in terms of lawyers... Snoopy turns Linus's blanket into not one but two sportcoats... Lucy hits a home run... and the birth of one Rerun Van Pelt! (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Charles M. Schulz. Artist Charles M. Schulz. Cover by Charles M. Schulz.
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(W/A) Linda Medley Moving day, as just about the entire Castle pitches in to make things go more (or in some cases less) smoothly! Also in this issue, Pru is visited by a ghost, Rackham gives a stirring speech, revelations about what happened to Simon's father are aired, and Jain is given a mysterious set of keys to an empty store room. The second volume of Linda Medley's deeply involving and often hilarious fantasy series continues toward its conclusion later this year. (immagine) Categoria: Comics
By Linda Medley. Artist Linda Medley. Cover by Linda Medley.
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(W/A) Ivan Brunetti Hoping to further increase his irrelevance to the esteemed world of graphic novels and thus cement his status as 'former cartoonist,' the saturnine Ivan Brunetti (author of the acclaimed Misery Loves Comedy and editor of Yale Press' two essential Anthologies of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories) has compiled HO!, which collects the vast majority of his morally questionable, aesthetically confused - and absolutely gut-busting - 'gag' cartoons. Culled mostly from out-of-print work and other anthologies, the contents are discreetly presented in an uninviting, funereal package of unglamorous black and white. Hopefully, this will keep the impressionable, young, and faint-of-heart unintrigued and at a distance, while those who appreciate a touch of the gallows in their humor can enjoy an uncomfortable chuckle or two before the merciless thumb of oblivion grinds us all into less than dust. HO! further cements Brunetti's reputation as the contemporary king of the gag cartoon, a sentiment echoed by noted comedian Patton Oswalt (The King of Queens) in his introduction. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Ivan Brunetti. Artist Ivan Brunetti. Cover by Ivan Brunetti.
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(W/A) Bob Fingerman Video store clerk Darla Vogel is fed up. Fed up with her job, her wake-and-bake roommate, everything. But when one of the customers at Kwok's Video, a precocious home-schooled kid with dreams of chemically engineering authentic meat-flavoring, offers her some of his meat-tinged candies, Darla takes a plunge down the rabbit hole into a surreal world of throbbing, veinous buildings, compulsory public nudity, weird creatures and more. If William S. Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, H.P. Lovecraft and Harvey Kurtzman had a mutant lovechild, it might resemble Bob Fingerman's bold new confection Connective Tissue. Fingerman, a cartoonist and novelist best known for an acclaimed graphic novel (Beg the Question, a Gen X classic with 'dialogue worthy of the stage' according to Entertainment Weekly) and an acclaimed prose novel (Bottomfeeder, which Booklist described as 'at the front ranks of its genre' in a starred review), merges his two favorite disciplines in Connective Tissue, a genre-bending and medium-mixing work best described as a fully illustrated novella. Fingerman's visuals complement and supplement his crackling prose, giving vivid life to the surreal world and people that populate the story. Connective Tissue will further escalate Fingerman's reputation as a master of genre fiction, regardless of the medium. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Bob Fingerman. Artist Bob Fingerman. Cover by Bob Fingerman.
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The exploding head on the cover says it all: The years covered in this volume of Complete Crumb were some of the most fertile and imaginative in his career! The book includes: the complete Zap #0 and Zap #1, the comics that launched the underground revolution; a selection of Crumb's legendary work for American Greetings (including the 'Sad Book' booklet in full color!); treasures like the original, unused cover for Zap #0; the very first 'Mr. Natural' strip; and page after page of classic Crumb stories and illustrations-all topped off with a long personal reminiscence by Crumb, with a dozen fascinating photos from the period. Mature Readers. SC, 144pg, PC (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Robert Crumb. Artist Robert Crumb. Cover by Robert Crumb.
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by Wally Wood The Compleat Cannon reprints the entirety of legendary cartoonist Wally Wood's classic sex-and-violence secret-agent strip of the late 60s. The Cold War is still the hottest topic throughout the world in 1970. Surely either the ruthless dictators of the USSR or the greedy capitalists of the USA will take over the planet before the century careens to a cataclysmic climax. John Cannon not only has a license to kill, but he's got the nerve to accomplish this and other ugly duties without mercy or remorse. Mature Readers. SC, 10x13, 160pg, b&w (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Wallace Wood. Artist Wallace Wood. Cover by Wallace Wood.
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By Jules Feiffer In 1956, a relatively unknown cartoonist by the name of Jules Feiffer started contributing a strip to the only alternative weekly published in the US, a small radical newspaper called The Village Voice. It was the first time the American public had been subjected to a weekly dose of comics that so uncompromisingly and wittily confronted individuals' private fears and society's public transgressions. Explainers is the first of four volumes collecting Feiffer's entire run of weekly strips from The Village Voice. This edition contains approximately 500 strips originally published between 1956 and 1966 in a gigantic landscape hardcover format. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Jules Feiffer. Artist Jules Feiffer. Cover by Jules Feiffer. (NOTE: Resolicited due to rescheduling.)
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by Bob Fingerman A caustic and hilarious love story set in 1990s New York City. Bob Fingerman's Beg the Question tells the story of Rob and Sylvia, two twenty-somethings navigating the labyrinth of New York City life. Follow Rob & Sylvia's relationship through all of its ups-and-downs, from courtship to marriage, rentals to real estate salesmen, public sex to unwanted pregnancies, and everything in between. Performance art, extended families, the comic book industry and Screw magazine are just a few of the other topics subjected to Fingerman's satirical microscope. Featuring an introduction by Penn Jillette. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
By Bob Fingerman. Artist Bob Fingerman. Cover by Bob Fingerman.
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Data di uscita: 18/02/09
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