Written and illustrated by Eisner Award nominee and Eagle Award winner Steve Conley, this 10th-anniversary edition of Astounding Space Thrills collects for the first time the rare early issues of the popular independent comic book. Also featured is a gallery of amazing art from the series by legendary artists Jim Steranko, the Brothers Hildebrandt, Dave Dorman, Ken Kelly, Dave Gibbons, Frank Cho, Kelly Freas and others. [Steve Conley (W) Steve Conley (A & C)]
Roxy spins records in dark clubs and small bars, hoping to make a name for herself as a DJ in the complex and demanding club culture of New York City. She stumbles across Robie, a burned-out former superstar DJ, who shows her how to rise to the next level of her art. As Robie's mentoring begins to elevate Roxy's career, she must choose whether to follow her heart or the beat of the music she loves. Looking for the ""perfect beat"" is a long and demanding journey. Which path will Roxy choose, and what will she have to leave behind? B.P.M. is written and drawn by GLYPH award-winning author Paul Sizer and includes a comprehensive sketchbook section, detailed playlists and notes, plus links to iMixes from the Apple iTunes website that provide a soundtrack to accompany the book. A truly multi-media comic/music experience! [Paul Sizer]
AMERICA'S STUPIDEST SECOND-GRADER IS BACK! Sure, she's smelly and gross, but she's got a heart of gold! This is the third collection of Johnny Ryan's weekly comic strip, Blecky Yuckerella, as seen in the pages of the Vice magazine and elsewhere. Blecky is a four-panel gag strip in the tradition of Underworld, Maakies, and Nancy, but with much more generous portions of bodily fluids and toilet humor. Blecky Yuckerella is the ugliest girl in the second grade, and the only one with three-day stubble. The strip's cast of characters also includes Blecky's Aunt Jiggles, her best friend Wedgie, Insanio the Cat, and many other absurdist goofballs, like Rich Bucksley (millionaire and "high class idiot"), Unitard (the last retarded unicorn), the pregnant babies ("we're guaranteed to blow your mind!"), and Quasimodo Rose (the hunchback porn star). This book collects over 100 strips for the first time, and his unmistakable blend of politically incorrect gags and social satire is as sharp as ever.
[Johnny Ryan]
This book reprints the entirety of legendary cartoonist Wally (EC Comics, MAD magazine, etc.) Wood's classic sex and violence secret-agent strip from the late-1960s. This oversized collection includes a section of never-before-seen ephemera in the form of sketches, notes and annotated information about the strip. [Wally Wood]
Things get more dangerous and more confusing for Akito as he and the mysterious Neon search for a way to cure Yaya. Their travels lead them to Neon's hometown, but he doesn't exactly receive a warm welcome! Will appeal to fans of Saiyuki. [Duo Brand]
Despite the success of her club, Rui makes a sudden and shocking announcement - she's quitting! Natori thinks she should join him on the Student Council, but an unexpected turn of events causes the two to switch places! With Rui as the new Student Council President and Natori leading the Cy-Believers club, will things ever go back to normal? From the creator of Crossroad, Cy-Believers will appeal to fans of The Gentlemen's Alliance and Imadoki. [Shioko Mizuki]
IDW Publishing is proud to present the second collection of Doctor Who comics, featuring art by Dave Gibbons. Originally published in the UK, these stories are making their first appearance in the states and are also in color for the first time ever. Follow along as the Doctor, with the help of TARDIS, travels through time and space solving problems and righting wrongs. [Pat Mills, John Wagner, Steve Moore (W) Dave Gibbons (A) ]
This decades-spanning story of four young Italian immigrants starts in 1910 and follows them as they grow up to become a gangster, an actress, a Catholic priest, and police officer. Volume Two concludes the stories of love and hate of this Italian American family. This thrilling story, published in English for the first time, is like no other crime comic and will appeal to fans of the Godfather saga. [Carlos Trillo (W) Domingo Mandrafina (A)]
The 1968 TV episode "Assignment Earth" had been the Season Two finale for the original Star Trek series, and was intended by Gene Roddenberry as the pilot for a spin-off series that never came to pass. Now, acclaimed writer/artist John Byrne delivers the series 40 years after it would have debuted, recounting the adventures of interstellar agent Gary Seven and his Earth-born assistant as they covertly confront threats to the past so that they can save Star Trek's future. [John Byrne (W) John Byrne (A & C)]
Capture the excitement from all three Underworld films in this collection of Underworld, Underworld: Evolution, and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. Follow Selene, a Vampire "Death Dealer," as she continues her eternal quest to rid the world of Lycans, then witness her evolution as she uncovers more truths about the origins of the two species, before Rise of the Lycans reveals the untold story of Lucian's early years in captivity and the age-old war between the Lycans and Vampires. [Kris Oprisko, Kevin Grevioux (W) Nick Postic, Nick Marinkovich, Antonio Vasquez, Andrew Huerta (A)]
An unexpected departure from previous Zippy collection, the latest volume is almost entirely devoted to chronicling the strange history, people and social mores of Zippy's hometown, ""Dingburg,"" the only city in the U.S. inhabited entirely by pinheads - well, aside from Washington D.C. and certain sections of Newark... complete with a fold-out map of this fabled enclave ""17 miles west of Baltimore."" Also, Dingburg's favorite comic strips, including ""Fletcher & Tanya"" and the Dingburg kids' favorite online comic, ""Unibrow Versus the Universe."" Plus the ""Little Zippy"" series and much, much more, including 24 pages of full-color Sunday strips. [Bill Griffith]
Mr. Natural is commited to a mental institution! This freshly reprinted volume contains Crumb classics Dirty Laundry #2, the last of the Arcade strips, full-cover covers for books, comics and LPs, and Crumb's complete serial from the pages fo the Villiage Voice. Relive the 20th century with Crumb! [by R. Crumb]
Kim Deitch, creator of the acclaimed Fantagraphics collection Shadowland and the cover feature interview in this month's The Comics Journal #292, has recruited his siblings to produce a unique, all-new ""picto-fiction"" pocket book. Alternating between heavily illustrated near-comics stories and outright prose pieces, Deitch's Pictorama is a testament to the Deitch family's amazing yarn-spinning abilities! Kim's lengthy picto-story ""The Sunshine Girl"" leads off - a typically Deitchean tall tale involving bottle cap collectors, drug dealers, family secrets, and the innocents who wind up in the middle of the hullaballoo. Seth's prose short story, ""Children of Aruf,"" features a man and his very unusual dog; ""Unlikely Hours,"" a paranoid picto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustrated by Kim; the prose novella ""The Golem,"" once again written by Seth and decorated with a series of superb pencil illustrations by Simon; and finally Kim's autobiographical ""The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me."" This entire ""Deitch treat"" is wrapped up with an introduction by legendary Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator and proud papa Gene Deitch. [by Kim, Seth & Simon Deitch]
Reprints issues #13 - #18 (24 stories) of the comic book Tales From the Crypt, originally published in 1952 and 1953, and the inspiration for the hit movie and HBO series. Creators include Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; Artists: Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, Al Williamson, Joe Orlando, George Evans. Foreward by comics historian Robert Overstreet. [Various,]
A visionary work of comic art, for all-ages! Readers who haven't discovered Jim Woodring's "Frank" stories have a colossal treat waiting for them in this all-ages gem collecting the character's greatest adventures. Frank is a unique, visionary comic, exquisitely drawn and so fully realized that adults and children alike find themselves drawn deeply into Woodring's hallucinatory mindscape. The stories, almost entirely wordless, are told with brilliant, candy colors that people of all ages find alluring. The stories themselves unravel like a good puzzle, rewarding re-reading, providing an experience as immersive as that first love affair, that first samadhi, or that first breath. Simply put, the world of Frank must be experienced to be understood.Frank is an 11-year-old generic anthropomorph who lives in a force-laden landscape called the Unifactor. He is curious but not smart, naïve but not noble, and his most outstanding character trait is his ineducability. Along with Pupshaw, Frank's semi-subservient housedog-like godling, the two traipse across their surreal landscape, occasionally encountering Manhog, the bloated bladder of sin with a heart of radiance who exists to thwart their prosperity. And then there's the platonic Jerry Chickens, and the lachrymose Lucky, as well as Frank's Real Pa and Faux Pa, each a part of one of the great cartoon achievements of the 20th century.For all its mystery, the world of Frank is a simple, delightful, mesmerizing example of world-building at its most fanciful, surely to delight parents and children alike. [Jim Woodring; Introduction Justin Green]
