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"Fresh out of prison for an arson conviction, clueless 20-year old Billy Bonney finds himself drifting through the seedy and unsavory world of cut-rate moviemaking, even more out of place amongst his peers than he felt as a teen six years earlier when he got busted. Following his brother to the sets of grade B and exploitation 1970s Hollywood seems like a path of least resistance, until he accidentally lands a job as a handler to a has-been actor. But the bright lights burn harsher and show more than he anticipated as he steps lucklessly into a gangster-driven plot to burn down a studio for the insurance money, and finds himself in over his head. Drunken, washed-up stars. Scrambling, past-their-own-prime producers. Teenage girls on the make, slick hustlers, and violent fixers."--Provided by publisher.

Never completed and left for dead thirty years ago, comics history's most famous derelict masterpiece--Image Comics' legendary 1963 by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, and Rick Veitch--is finally given the unceremonious, irreverent, and completely unauthorized 72-page King-Size Annual climax everyone was promised but no one ever asked for!

Esotericism: the quest for hidden truths and spiritual secrets, through which searchers uncover the true nature of self.

Presented as a handsome dual-sided book with two covers, go behind the scenes of The Brothers Hernandez: over 400 pages of sketches, inked drawings, early comics, and uninhibited graphic ephemera that never made it into the pages of Love and Rockets.

A box set collecting the 19th and 20th volumes of The Complete Peanuts in a handsome slipcase, with intros by Garry Trudeau and Lemony Snicket!

"In The Complete Peanuts: 1989-1990 Snoopy's brother Olaf comes to visit and wins the "Ugly Dog" contest, Pigpen runs for class president, and Charlie Brown gets a girlfriend!"--

The audacious exploits of ten great adventurous female stars from the Golden Age of comic strips.

A strikingly rendered and spiritually transformative tarot set, penned by a masterful contemporary illustrator.

"Two young women road trip through the Arizona desert in search of a spiritual awakening. Crowds gather to see the village wise woman commune with the dead. Strange bright lights flash across the night sky, provoking all manner of interpretations. A mosaic of experiences, Totem offers tantalizing glimpses of characters on their own journeys connected by some ethereal thread. The narrative slips through time and space, delicately drifting from reality to different states of consciousness. Like a vivid dream, this story is rendered through eerie settings and potent symbols, a spiritual puzzle inviting the reader to piece together. With Totem, this self-assured graphic novel by Spanish illustrator and comics artist Laura Pâerez is presented in English for the first time. Pâerez presents an entrancing, contemporary vision of magic and mystery, aptly rendered through her wispy, atmospheric pencil lines."--

A deep dive into the first 50 issues of the Hernandez Brothers' acclaimed comic series, this scholarly book seeks to answer the question: What makes Love and Rockets such an enduring classic of the medium?

"Discover the history of hip hop in graphic novel form -- this omnibus collection of the New York Times best-selling series includes over 140 pages of extras in a deluxe hardcover for the first time!"--

"Marco and Stella's lukewarm, aspiring yuppie romance was already on the ropes when they meet Lulu, an older, working-class ice cream server with a kid and a shady past. But when Marco develops an interest in her that soon veers into obsession, it awakens in him a problematic and dormant sexuality. With a voyeuristic gaze, Miguel Vila lays his characters bare, observing them in their hypocrisies, insecurities, and unmentionable desires. Milky Way is a grotesque comedy, psychological character drama, and erotic thriller about erotic compulsion, inadequacy, and affection."--

The Mastermen called it a "census," but it was so much more. If its citizens proved worthy, the Earth would join the interstellar confederation and reap the benefits of advanced alien technology, food, medicine, and educational resources the likes of which could scarcely be imagined. But first, there was the question of race ... Uncannily perceptive and prescient when it was written in 1953, EC writer Otto Binder's The Unwanted went unsold for more than a decade until he finally gave it to a fanzine publisher who promptly got out of the fanzine business -- and so it languished, unread, in a yellowing file folder for decades.Never before published and now unearthed, The Unwanted is Binder's response to the 1950s McCarthy era, couched in metaphorical science fiction terms. Fantagraphics Underground Press ushers in this previously unknown mini-masterpiece by the writer of Captain Marvel, Superman, Captain America, and the "human" robot, Adam Link. Illustrated by EC artist Angelo Torres and his international collaborator Stefan Koidl, this edition pays homage to Binder's comics career. The result is a stunning tribute to Binder's lifelong commitment to comics and prose.An unbelievable journey, unavailable no longer.

"The ancient precepts of battle and business, condensed and considered with cartoon accompaniment. For two and a half millennia, generals and CEOs alike have followed the lessons of Sun Tzu. But for the time-poor modern warlord on the go, humorist Joe Queenan has condensed these precepts into their vital essence. The sprightly illustrations of Keith Bendis help to focus the student's attention on this entirely serious, in no way sardonic, take on the 2,500-year-old text. Full-color illustrations throughout"--Amazon.com.

Return to Uncle Scrooge's epic past in this all-new standalone Disney graphic novel... full of thrills and chills in the long-ago coal mines of Scotland!

"This book presents three Fritz B-movies: one all-new, two revised and expanded from their initial comic book run. The titular story is a fable set in a world very reminiscent of Palomar. Then, Fritz plays an 'astronette' on an existential mission through space. Three Fritz B-movies: one is entirely new, while two of the tales are expanded from their original appearances in the ongoing Love and Rockets comic book series. The titular story, 'Proof That the Devil Loves You, ' is a fable about a free spirit, Bula, played by Fritz. Something strange is going on in a town very reminiscent of Palomar. Gisel and Kiki are determined to understand why the hamlet's residents are acting so foolishly -- is it something in the air? And why can't Gisel leave? But when there's a violent turn, evidence points toward the supernatural. Then, Fritz plays the role of an 'astronette' on an existential journey through space. Proof That the Devil Loves You is the latest in a series of graphic novels featuring Gilbert Hernandez's character Fritz, a B-movie actress (and half-sister to his iconic Love and Rockets character, Luba) whose hourglass figure has earned her a cult following. While Gilbert often explores Fritz's troubled life off-screen in Love and Rockets, for years he has also been 'adapting' her exploitation films in various forms, including a series of standalone graphic novels that include Chance in Hell, The Troublemakers, Garden of the Flesh, Maria M., and Hypnotwist/Scarlet By Starlight. Proof That the Devil Loves You is part of the Love and Rockets series."--]cProvided by publisher.

"Garth Stein and Matthew Southworth team up again for the second book in this action-packed coming of age series about a mutant from the Pacific Northwest. In the eagerly anticipated Book Two, Dr. Kenneth Langner, a world-renowned geneticist and creator of the Cloven species, reveals himself to Seattle Stranger reporter Jake Arthur, who continues his in-depth research on the homeless encampment known as "the Jungle." When Langner turns up dead the next morning, Arthur realizes he's into something far more sinister than he realized. Meanwhile, in an effort to evade the para-military that have begun rounding up Cloven, Tuck is taken to Halcyon Meadows, a bizarre retreat of the true insiders--Supreme court justices, ex-presidents, movie stars, rock musicians, health gurus--those who are really in the know and who gather there every summer to worship goats. And to celebrate the existence of the first human/goat hybrid: The Cloven. And that's when things really start to get weird."--Publisher.

"Joe Orlando partnered early with Wallace Wood on a variety of science fiction comics, including several for EC Comics. But he quickly made a name for himself and struck out on his own, carving out a long and distinguished career in American comics. Orlando became a mainstay at EC, especially on science fiction, and [this book] collects his first two dozen. All of them, scripted by editor/ writer Al Feldstein, serve up classic O. Henry-style shock endings, including a mind-bending time-travel twister in which a man visits the past and (unknowingly) romances his own mother (think about it), a gender-switching look at a future where women are the breadwinners and men are the homemakers, another future where marriages are limited by law to three-year contracts, a good old-fashioned 'planets collide' shocker, an animal rights parable, plus lots of rollicking space opera, aliens, and, of course, interplanetary monsters"--

"A cosmic work of science fiction, cosmology, conspiracy, metaphysics (and more). Starseeds is a phantasmagorical marvel, a visual and conceptual feat of world-building. The past of all conscousness crescendos in Book 3, as the Prophecy of the Starseeds is realized!"--

Newly single fortysomethings Maria Bamford and Scott Cassidy each signed up on the dating site OkCupid, under the respective usernames "Hogbook" and "Lazer Eyes." They went on a date, and then another, and soon, despite a history of Bipolar II disorder and unhealthy relationships for each of them, they fell in love and were married in 2015. We view all of this through the prism of their pug housemates, including Blueberry and Bert (who has an unnatural obsession with Michael Flatley of "Riverdance" fame), and the elderly bonded pair Betty and Arnold (who recount their star turn as interplanetary canine scientists in the second season of Lady Dynamite).

Collecting all of acclaimed cartoonist Jordan Crane's short stories (from self-published zines and anthologies such as Non and Uptight) and more for the first time, in a gorgeously designed package.

In the tradition of Mickey's Christmas Carol and Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers, master Disney comics writer/artists tackle wild retellings of great literature!

"In lithe, sensuous colored pencils, this international prize-winning, impressionistic graphic biography traces the life, the affairs, and the artistic process of Anais Nin, one of the best-known authors of women's erotica in the 1920s and '30s"--

Spain's answer to Seinfeld, these observational, relatable autobio vignettes by Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca poke fun at the vexing tribulations of modern life.

"On the run from her treasured home, Joana boards a steamship bound for the frozen realm of wolves and men. Here, Tala guides a gold-hunting expedition into the heart of the wilderness. As storm winds loom and a fearsome she-wolf lurks in the shadows, these bold young women soon discover that Nature's wrath come for all who seek to plunder Her."--Provided by publisher.

Fêted French cartoonist Tardi masterfully dramatizes the activist and singer Dominique Grange's gripping first-person account of the powerful student protest movements that rocked France from the '60s to the '70s.

In this adaptation of the original 1924 version of in our time, cartoonist Jason Novak finds the graphic equivalent of Ernest Hemingway's lean, muscular prose to convey the understated poetics of those early, groundbreaking stories.

In this collection of internationally acclaimed Duck comics, Uncle Scrooge has adventures in outer space and on the high seas!

This is a gift box set, just in time for the holidays, of two volumes of Donald Duck comics collections by one of the most influential cartoonists in the world!