Comics, Magazines and Books for January 22 2014

Digital Comics: Digital new releases available from your local comic book shop are marked below. [DIG] = Digital version available. [DIG/P+] = Print-Plus digital/print combo pack available. For more information, go to www.digitalcomicsreader.com.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ITEM CODE DESCRIPTION PRICE
AUG130979 10TH MUSE TP VOL 03 [DIG/P+] $14.95
AUG131100 12 REASONS TO DIE #6 (MR) $3.50
OCT130863 ARCHIE FUNHOUSE DOUBLE DIGEST #1 [DIG/P+] $3.99
OCT130864 ARCHIES VALENTINE ROCK & ROLL ROMANCE TP $10.99
NOV131123 ARISA GN VOL 12 $10.99
SEP131294 ATOMIC ROBO SAVAGE SWORD OF DR DINOSAUR #5 $3.50
NOV131125 ATTACK ON TITAN GN VOL 07 $10.99
NOV130951 BAD ASS #1 (MR) $3.99
NOV130857 BART SIMPSON COMICS #88 $2.99
OCT131220 BASIL & VICTORIA LONDON GUTTERSNIPES HC $39.95
SEP131115 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA #7 $3.99
NOV131005 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA STARBUCK #3 $3.99
NOV131193 BENNY BREAKIRON HC VOL 03 TWELVE TRIALS $11.99
NOV130779 BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #220 [DIG/P+] $3.99
NOV130928 BLAKE & MORTIMER GN VOL 17 SECRET O/T SWORDFISH PART 3 $15.95
NOV130741 BO PLUSHY GANGSTA #1 (MR) [DIG/P+] $3.99
NOV130897 BRAVEST WARRIORS #16 MAIN CVRS [DIG] $3.99
JUL130833 BUBBLEGUN #4 DIRECT MARKET MAIN COVERS [DIG] $3.99
NOV131119 CEMETERY GIRL GN BOOK 01 PRETENDERS $24.95
NOV130806 CROSSED BADLANDS #45 (MR) $3.99
NOV130808 CROSSED BADLANDS #45 TORTURE CVR (MR) $3.99
NOV130807 CROSSED BADLANDS #45 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
NOV130805 CROSSED WISH YOU WERE HERE HC VOL 03 (MR) $27.99
NOV130804 CROSSED WISH YOU WERE HERE TP VOL 03 (MR) $19.99
NOV130929 CRUSADE GN VOL 04 FIRE BREAKS $13.95
NOV130865 DECEIVERS #2 [DIG] $3.99
NOV131192 DINOSAURS HC VOL 01 BEGINNING $10.99
NOV130971 DOC SAVAGE #2 $3.99
NOV130972 DOC SAVAGE #2 CASSADAY VIP CVR $3.99
NOV131268 ETERNAL WARRIOR #5 PULLBOX BERNARD $3.99
NOV131267 ETERNAL WARRIOR #5 REG CRAIN $3.99
NOV131271 ETERNAL WARRIOR TP VOL 01 SWORD O/T WILD $9.99
NOV131133 FAIRY TAIL GN VOL 34 $10.99
SEP131234 FAIRY TALES OF OSCAR WILDE HC VOL 02 NEW PTG $17.99
NOV131264 FLOWERS OF EVIL GN VOL 08 (MR) $10.95
OCT131219 FOLIGATTO HC (MR) $24.95
NOV130739 FRACTURE #2 [DIG/P+] $2.99
NOV131265 FROM THE NEW WORLD GN VOL 02 $10.95
NOV131331 GFT QUEST #3 A CVR LAISO (AOFD) $3.99
NOV131332 GFT QUEST #3 B CVR TYNDALL (AOFD) $3.99
NOV131333 GFT QUEST #3 C CVR PANTALENA (AOFD) $3.99
NOV131341 GFT WONDERLAND ASYLUM #1 A CVR MALSUNI (MR) $3.99
NOV131342 GFT WONDERLAND ASYLUM #1 B CVR ERIC J (MR) $3.99
NOV131343 GFT WONDERLAND ASYLUM #1 C CVR CAFARO (MR) $3.99
NOV131344 GFT WONDERLAND ASYLUM #1 D CVR LILLY (MR) $3.99
SEP130865 GHOST COP #2 [DIG] $3.99
SEP130854 GOLD DIGGER #206 [DIG] $3.99
NOV130890 HACKTIVIST #1 (MR) [DIG] $3.99
NOV131138 HENRY AND GLENN FOREVER AND EVER #3 (MR) $5.00
NOV130881 I DONT GET IT HC $17.99
NOV130735 JACK HAMMER #1 [DIG/P+] $2.99
NOV130930 LADY S GN VOL 03 GAME OF FOOLS $11.95
NOV130931 LARGO WINCH GN VOL 12 WAY & VIRTUE $11.95
NOV130957 LEGENDS OF RED SONJA #3 $3.99
NOV130963 LIL BIONIC KIDS #1 $3.99
NOV130964 LIL BIONIC KIDS #1 EXC SUBSCRIPTION CVR $3.99
NOV130932 LUCKY LUKE TP VOL 42 LONE RIDERS $11.95
NOV130933 LUCKY LUKE TP VOL 43 BLUEFEET ARE COMING $11.95
OCT130871 MEGA MAN TP VOL 06 BREAKING POINT $11.99
NOV130892 MIDAS FLESH #2 MAIN CVRS [DIG] $3.99
NOV131134 MISSIONS OF LOVE GN VOL 06 $10.99
NOV138078 MOCKING DEAD #2 YELLOW HAZARD 2ND PTG $3.99
NOV138079 MOCKING DEAD #3 YELLOW HAZARD 2ND PTG $3.99
NOV131006 MOCKING DEAD #5 $3.99
NOV131310 OOKU INNER CHAMBERS GN VOL 09 (MR) $12.99
NOV130934 ORBITAL GN VOL 05 JUSTICE $13.95
NOV130920 PEANUTS VOL 2 #15 [DIG] $3.99
OCT130954 PENNY FOR YOUR SOUL DEATH #5 (MR) $3.50
NOV130740 PRINCELESS ENCORE ED #3 [DIG/P+] $2.99
NOV131152 QU33R GN (MR) $29.99
OCT138139 RED SONJA #5 FRISON VIRGIN ART RARE REORDER ED $3.99
AUG131423 ROY THOMAS PRESENTS CLASSIC PHANTOM LADY TP VOL 01 $24.99
NOV131358 SCREWED TP $15.99
NOV131135 SHERLOCK BONES GN VOL 03 $10.99
NOV131298 SHONEN JUMP PACK 2014 #1 $19.99
SEP130830 SKYWARD #5 [DIG/P+] $2.99
OCT131212 SORAKO GN $9.95
NOV130935 SPOOKS GN VOL 03 EL SANTERO $13.95
AUG130980 STEAMPUNK ORIGINALS GN VOL 01 [DIG/P+] $14.95
SEP131312 STUFF OF LEGEND OMNIBUS HC VOL 02 $34.99
OCT130962 TAROT SWORD MAIDEN S&N DELUXE BUNDLE (MR) $21.99
SEP131130 THE LONE RANGER #21 $3.99
OCT131116 VAMPIRELLA ANNUAL 2013 $4.99
NOV131136 VINLAND SAGA GN VOL 02 $19.99
OCT131105 WARLORD OF MARS DEJAH THORIS #34 (MR) $3.99
OCT131301 WAYWARD SONS TP VOL 02 $19.95
NOV131137 WEIRDO YEARS 1981-1993 HC (MR) $29.95
NOV131266 WOLFSMUND GN VOL 03 $12.95
NOV130783 WORLD OF ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #36 [DIG/P+] $3.99
NOV131286 X-O MANOWAR #21 REG DAVIS $3.99

MAGAZINES
OCT131519 BACK ISSUE #70 $8.95
NOV131459 CINEMA RETRO #28 (MR) $11.99
NOV131445 COMIC SHOP NEWS #1388 PI
OCT131531 DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE #468 $11.99
SEP131552 HOBBY JAPAN DEC 2013 $16.60
SEP131543 JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #62 $10.95
NOV131436 JUXTAPOZ #157 FEB 2014 $5.99
NOV131463 LOCUS #636 $7.50
NOV131437 NON SPORT UPDATE VOL 25 #1 WALKING DEAD CVR $5.99
SEP131548 RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE #141 $9.95
SEP131528 STAR TREK STARSHIPS FIG COLL MAG #7 KLINGON KTINGA-CLASS BAT $20.00
OCT131512 STAR TREK STARSHIPS FIG COLL MAG #9 USS DEFIANT NX-74205D $20.00
NOV131242 STAR WARS CLONE WARS MAGAZINE #22 $4.99
NOV131466 STAR WARS INSIDER #147 NEWSSTAND ED $7.99
NOV131467 STAR WARS INSIDER #147 PX ED $7.99
SEP131535 TOMARTS ACTION FIGURE DIGEST #202 $5.99
NOV131460 WALKING DEAD MAGAZINE #7 NEWSSTAND ED (MR) $9.99
NOV131461 WALKING DEAD MAGAZINE #7 PX ED (MR) $9.99

BOOKS
NOV131378 DC SUPER HEROES BATMAN YR TP CATWOMANS HALLOWEEN HEIST $4.95
NOV131375 DC SUPER HEROES BATMAN YR TP MAD HATTERS MOVIE MADNESS $4.95
NOV131376 DC SUPER HEROES BATMAN YR TP MAKER OF MONSTERS $4.95
NOV131377 DC SUPER HEROES BATMAN YR TP SCARECROW DR OF FEAR $4.95
NOV131379 DC SUPER HEROES SUPERMAN YR TP DEADLY DREAM MACHINE $4.95
NOV131384 DC SUPER HEROES WONDER WOMAN YR TP DR PSYCHO CIRCUS CRIME $4.95
NOV131386 DC SUPER HEROES WONDER WOMAN YR TP FRUIT OF ALL EVIL $4.95
DEC131420 DEATH AND RESURRECTION SC $14.95
NOV131404 DOC SAVAGE DOUBLE NOVEL VOL 72 PURPLE DRAGON $14.95
NOV131390 DOCTOR WHO SHADA LOST ADVENTURE SC $16.00
NOV131361 FANTASY PLUS SC VOL 05 WORLDS MOST IMAGINATIVE ARTWORKS $35.00
NOV131252 LOU SCHEIMER CREATING FILMATION GENERATION SC $29.95
NOV131398 MISS PEREGRINES HOME PECULIAR CHILDREN BOOK 2 HOLLOW CITY HC $17.99
NOV131405 NICK CARTER DOUBLE NOVEL #2 $14.95
SEP130857 PAPER DREAMS BEN DUNN SKETCHBOOK $14.99
NOV131406 SHADOW DOUBLE NOVEL VOL 80 SHIWAN KHAN RETURNS $14.95
NOV131388 WARREN ELLIS GUN MACHINE SC $17.00

Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for October 16 2013

Digital Comics: Digital new releases available from your local comic book shop are marked below. [DIG] = Digital version available. [DIG/P+] = Print-Plus digital/print combo pack available. For more information, go to www.digitalcomicsreader.com.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
AUG131132 ADVENTURE TIME #21 MAIN CVRS $3.99
JUL130961 ADVENTURE TIME FIONNA & CAKE TP $19.99
JUN130729 AIRBOY DEADEYE TP $14.95
JUL131266 ALICE I/T COUNTRY OF JOKER CIRCUS & LIARS GAME VOL 03 (MR) $12.99
AUG131338 AMULET BOXSET #1 SOFTCOVER VOL 1-3 PI
AUG131359 ANIMAL LAND GN VOL 08 $10.99
JUL131172 BEST AMERICAN COMICS HC 2013 (MR) $25.00
AUG131492 BLOODSHOT & HARD CORPS #15 REG LUPACCHINO $3.99
AUG131494 BLOODSHOT TP VOL 03 HARBINGER WARS $14.99
AUG131086 BLUE ANGEL GN (MR) $19.95
APR131158 BUCK ROGERS IN 25TH CENTURY DAILIES HC VOL 08 1940-1941 $49.99
JUN131249 CANTRIP THE MAGIC RABBIT TP $16.99
AUG130947 CAVEWOMAN HEROESCON 2013 SKETCHBOOK (MR) PI
JUN130892 CLIVE BARKER NEXT TESTAMENT #1 PHOENIX COMIC CON EX $9.99
JUL131135 COMPLETE CRUMB COMICS TP VOL 17 CAVE WIMP (NEW PTG) (MR) $19.99
JUN130928 COMPLETE GOLDEN AGE AIRBOY & VALKYRIE HC $24.99
JUN131224 COURTNEY CRUMRIN SPEC ED HC VOL 04 $24.99
JUN130865 CRITTER (ONGOING) #15 $3.50
AUG131050 CROSSED BADLANDS #39 (MR) $3.99
AUG131052 CROSSED BADLANDS #39 TORTURE CVR (MR) $3.99
AUG131051 CROSSED BADLANDS #39 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
JUL131079 DARK SHADOWS #21 $3.99
JUN131042 DEJAH THORIS & GREEN MEN OF MARS #7 (MR) $3.99
AUG131373 DEVILS DOG #1 (MR) $3.99
FEB130996 DF ADVENTURE TIME FIONA & CAKE #1 WARREN SGN ED $10.00
MAY131093 DF DEJAH THORIS & GREEN MEN #6 RISQUE RED EXC $19.99
MAY131100 DF GUARDIANS O/T GALAXY #1 EXC CGC 9.8 $89.99
MAY131115 DF STAR WARS #2 LTD GOLD ROSS SGN ED $89.99
JUN131108 DF SUPERIOR CARNAGE #1 CGC 9.8 $99.99
JUN131110 DF SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN #1 CGC 9.8 $99.99
JUL130930 DINGO DLX ED TP VOL 01 $14.99
AUG131304 DIVAS DAMES & DAREDEVILS LOST HEROINES OF GOLDEN AGE TP $16.95
JUL131267 DIVE I/T VAMPIRE BUND GN VOL 01 (MR) $13.99
JUL131268 DIVE I/T VAMPIRE BUND GN VOL 02 (MR) $13.99
AUG131339 DOGS OF WAR GN $12.99
AUG131340 DOGS OF WAR HC GN $22.99
JUL131276 EPIC CHRONICLES HAGAR THE HORRIBLE HC 1979-80 $19.95
AUG130949 EXPLORER HC VOL 02 LOST ISLANDS $19.95
AUG130948 EXPLORER SC VOL 02 LOST ISLANDS $10.95
JUN130837 EXTINCTION PARADE #3 (MR) $3.99
JUN130839 EXTINCTION PARADE #3 END OF SPECIES CVR (MR) $3.99
JUN130838 EXTINCTION PARADE #3 WRAP CVR (MR) $3.99
AUG131523 FLOWERS OF EVIL GN VOL 07 (MR) $10.95
AUG131312 FRAN HC (RES) $19.99
JUN130750 GENE SIMMONS COMICS ANTHOLOGY GN VOL 03 (MR) [DIG/P+] $19.95
JUL131386 GFT ROBYN HOOD WANTED #5 A CVR CAFARO $5.99
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JUL131388 GFT ROBYN HOOD WANTED #5 C CVR RUFFINO $5.99
JUL131389 GFT ROBYN HOOD WANTED #5 D CVR ORACLE $5.99
JUN130727 GOLD DIGGER #204 $3.99
JUL130754 GOLD DIGGER HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 2013 [DIG] $4.99
JUL130755 GOLD DIGGER SWIMSUIT ANNUAL 2013 [DIG] $4.99
AUG131226 GRIMM #6 $3.99
JUL131269 HAGANAI I HAVE NO FRIENDS GN VOL 04 (MR) $12.99
AUG131136 HELLRAISER DARK WATCH #9 (MR) [DIG] $3.99
AUG138071 HIT #1 (2ND PTG) $3.99
AUG131138 IMAGINE AGENTS #1 [DIG] $3.99
JUN130866 IN CROWD #3 $3.50
AUG131433 IRON BOUND GN $21.95
JUL131270 JACK THE RIPPER HELL BLADE GN VOL 05 (MR) $11.99
AUG131221 JENNIFER BLOOD #32 (MR) $3.99
JUN131198 JINN WARRIORS GN VOL 02 FOURTH HORSEMEN $9.99
AUG131165 KINGS WATCH #2 $3.99
AUG131524 KNIGHTS OF SIDONIA GN VOL 05 $12.95
JUN130935 LARGO WINCH GN VOL 04 HOUR OF TIGER $19.95
AUG131388 LETTER 44 #1 $1.00
JUL130897 LIBERATOR #4 $3.50
AUG131088 LOUIS LAMOUR LAW O/T DESERT BORN GN $25.00
JUN131137 LOVE AND ROCKETS NEW STORIES TP VOL 06 $14.99
JUL131271 LOVE IN HELL GN VOL 01 (MR) $11.99
AUG131262 MERCY SPARX #2 (MR) $3.99
AUG130951 MISADVENTURES OF SALEM HYDE HC $14.95
AUG130950 MISADVENTURES OF SALEM HYDE SC $6.95
JUL131272 MONSTER MUSUME GN VOL 01 (MR) $12.99
AUG131260 MUSHROOM MURDERS GN $19.99
AUG131390 MYSTERIOUS STRANGERS #5 $3.99
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AUG131103 SERGIO ARAGONES FUNNIES #10 $3.50
JUL131011 SHADOW #18 ALEXANDER CVR $3.99
JUL131012 SHADOW #18 EXC BRADSTREET SUBSCRIPTION CVR $3.99
JUL131010 SHADOW #18 ROSS CVR $3.99
AUG131185 SHADOW GREEN HORNET DARK NIGHTS #4 CASSADAY CVR $3.99
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AUG131662 STAR WARS ART CONCEPT HC $40.00
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JUL131286 WALLACE & GROMIT NEWSPAPER STRIPS HC VOL 01 $14.99
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JUN131047 WARLORD OF MARS DEJAH THORIS #30 (MR) $3.99
JUL131273 WITCH BUSTER TP VOL 03 BOOKS 5 & 6 $17.99
AUG131263 WOMAN REBEL MARGARET SANGER STORY HC $21.95
AUG131495 X-O MANOWAR #18 REG CRAIN $3.99

MAGAZINES
JUL131258 2000 AD PACK SEP 2013 $21.00
AUG131707 COMIC SHOP NEWS #1374 PI
JUL131259 JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #340 $12.25
FEB131309 SPIDER DOUBLE NOVEL #2 $14.95

BOOKS
AUG131329 ADVENTURES IN CARTOONING CHARACTERS IN ACTION SC $9.99
APR138229 ANGRY BIRDS STAR WARS INTERACTIVE ANNUAL 2014 HC $12.99
APR138230 ANNOYING ORANGE INTERACTIVE ANNUAL 2014 HC $12.99
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AUG131609 DC COMICS GUIDE TO CREATING COMICS SC $24.99
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AUG131647 MOVIE STORY BOARDS ART VISUALIZING SCREENPLAYS HC $45.00
MAY131485 PLAYBOY BOX (MR) $150.00
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JUL132295 WARHAMMER GOTREK & FELIX CITY OF THE DAMNED SC $14.00
AUG131651 WES ANDERSON COLLECTION HC $40.00
AUG131615 WONDERBOOK ILLUS GT CREATING IMAGINATIVE FICTION SC $24.95

Comics, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for September 26 2012

PREVIEWS PUBLICATIONS
JUL120007 ANTARCTIC ZOMBIE KID MINI COMIC BUNDLE 2012 $4.99

JUL120008 APE STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE SCOUTS MINI COMIC BUNDLE 2012 $4.99

JUL120009 ARCHAIA COW BOY HALLOWS EVE MINI COMIC BUNDLE 2012 $4.99

JUL120011 BOOM ADVENTURE TIME MINI COMIC BUNDLE 2012 $4.99

JUL120005 DARK HORSE AXE COP MINI COMIC BUNDLE 2012 $4.99

JUL120012 FANTAGRAPHICS SPACEHAWK MINI COMIC BUNDLE 2012 $4.99

JUL120006 GHOSTBUSTERS MINI COMIC BUNDLE 2012 $4.99

JUL120015 HALLOWEEN MINI COMICS MEGA BUNDLE 2012 PI

JUL120010 NEW CRUSADERS RISE OF HEROES MINI COMIC BUNDLE 2012 $4.99

JUL120013 PAPERCUTZ ERNEST & REBECCA MINI COMIC BUNDLE 2012 $4.99

JUL120014 TOP SHELF TRICKY TREATERS MINI COMIC BUNDLE 2012 $4.99

MAY128000 VIZ LITTLE MISS DAREDEVIL MINI COMIC BUNDLE 2012 $4.99

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
AUG121190 101 QUESTIONS ABOUT BIBLE & CHRISTIANITY HC $8.99

JUL120908 ADVENTURE TIME #8 [DIG] $3.99

JUL120724 ADVENTURES OF A COMIC CON GIRL #2 (MR) $3.99

JUL121241 AFFLICTED GN $12.99

APR121227 ALIEN ILLUSTRATED STORY LTD SGN ARTISTS ED HC $75.00

AUG120966 AN INSPECTOR CALLS ORIGINAL TEXT ED GN $16.95

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JUL120759 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #233 [DIG/D+] $3.99

JUL121169 ASTERIX OMNIBUS HC VOL 06 $27.95

AUG121193 BABYLON TP $16.99

JUN121083 BARBARA GN (MR) $19.95

JUL120854 BART SIMPSON COMICS #75 $2.99

JUL121328 BASALDUA & DEBALFO COVER GALLERY $5.99

JUN120764 BEAR TP VOL 01 IMMORTAL (MR) $14.95

AUG121192 BOOK OF GOD HOW WE GOT BIBLE GN $16.99

JUL121230 CLINT 2.0 #4 (MR) $6.99

JUL120842 CRITTER (ONGOING) #4 $3.50

AUG120856 CROSSED BADLANDS #11 AUXILIARY ED (MR) $3.99

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JUL120804 CROSSED BADLANDS #14 (MR) $3.99

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AUG120879 CROSSED BADLANDS #4 PHILADELPHIA ED CVR (MR) $5.99

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JUL121129 DELTORA QUEST GN VOL 08 $10.99

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JUL121220 ERSTWHILE FROM TALES OF BROTHERS GRIMM HC GN $20.00

AUG120880 FERALS #6 AUXILIARY ED (MR) $3.99

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JUL120732 GEARHEARTS STEAMPUNK GLAMOR REVUE #4 $3.99

JUL121131 GENSHIKEN OMNIBUS TP VOL 02 $19.99

JUL121319 GODSTORM #0 (MR) $2.99

MAY120811 GOLD DIGGER #142 [DIG] $3.99

JUL121061 GRAPHIC CLASSICS GN VOL 23 HALLOWEEN CLASSICS $17.95

JUN120763 HALO & SPROCKET TP VOL 02 NATURAL CREATURES $8.95

JUL120003 HCF 2012 MU AVENGERS AND ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN PI

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Review: Steven Heller's COMICS SKETCHBOOKS

COMICS SKETCHBOOKS: The Private Worlds of Today’s Most Creative Talents
THAMES & HUDSON, INC. – @thamesandhudson

AUTHOR: Steven Heller
DESIGNER: Ashley Olsson
ISBN: 978-0-500-28994-5; paperback
352pp, Color and Black and White; $44.95 U.S., $47.50 CAN

Steven Heller is co-chair of the MFA/Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program at New York’s School of Visual Arts. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of over one hundred books on design and popular culture. His works include Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age (with Mirko Ilic) and New Modernist Type (with Gail Anderson).

His latest book is Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today’s Most Creative Talents. A massive book (365 pages, 8.65 x 11.5), Comics Sketchbooks contains sketches, doodles, drawings, roughs, thumbnails, and even comics from some of the world’s most cutting edge and innovative artists and also some emerging talents. Over 80 artists open up their private sketchbooks and notebooks, from which Heller culled the hundreds drawings and samples that fill this fat (and phat) book. Even some artists who do not keep sketchbooks provided roughs and studies for this book.

Readers get a chance to see the thinking and planning and the experimentation, practice, and play behind the work and style of such artists as Charles Burns, Lilli Carré, Drew Friedman, David Mazzucchelli, Gary Panter, and Carol Tyler, to name a few. Readers can see into the sketchbooks of such legends as R. Crumb, Bill Griffith, Victor Moscoso, Bill Plympton, and Arnold Roth. Not every artist in this collection is specifically a comics artists, but according to Heller (in his introduction), all of them make comics as either their primary occupation or as part of their larger body of work.

Admirers, fans, and students of alternative comics and cartoonists will like Comics Sketchbooks. Still, some, like myself, may find this book missing things they wanted, which is a bit ungrateful. Why do I want more?

Obviously, Heller could not get every drawing that he wanted included in this book, for various reasons. One of the reasons is that some artists are self-conscious about opening their sketchbooks. Another reason is that some artists only actively sketch to prepare for upcoming projects, and may, in fact, discard such preliminary drawings and preparatory material once projects are completed.

So, the two pages of David Mazzucchelli just don’t seem like enough, although the sample of his typographical skills almost makes up for that. There are four pages of R. Crumb, but since Crumb has been publishing his sketchbooks and sketchbook material for four decades, the illustrations here won’t seem like anything new.

My minor quibbles aside, there is some spectacular material in Comics Sketchbooks from some major talents, known and little known. The six pages of sketches by Carol Tyler are a doorway into the wonderland that is the talent of this unheralded artist. The offerings from political cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, include several superb sketches of President Barack Obama caricatures. There is no way to prepare for the six pages of Joseph Lambert, which are crammed with drawings. I couldn’t help but return to his section several times.

It would be impractical for me to try to describe all the drawings in this book, all of it good, some of it even stunning, and even a few pieces that are (dare I say it) great. I will tempt some of you by saying that there are a few sketches in here that were proposals for covers for the magazine, The New Yorker, including one by the always fabulous Drew Friedman. This is a good book. Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today’s Most Creative Talents should be on comics fans’ wish lists. Steven Heller deserves some awards recognition, and certainly, at least, an Eisner nomination next year.

A

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux

www.thamesandhudsonusa.com

The artist and cartoonists included in Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today’s Most Creative Talents:

Sotos Anagnos, Chris Battle, Lou Beach, Kaye Blegvad, Peter Blegvad, Russ Braun, Steve Brodner, Charles Burns, Chris Capuozzo, Lilli Carré, Seymour Chwast, Colonel Moutarde, R. Crumb, John Cuneo, Vanessa Davis, Kim Deitch, Julie Delporte, Eric Drooker, Drew Friedman, Manuel Gomez Burns, Bill Griffith, Robert Grossman, Benoit Guillaume, Cyril Guru, David Heatley, Rian Hughes, Kevin Huizenga, Nathan Jurevicius, Ben Katchor, Denis Kitchen, Jakob Klemencic, Thomas Knowler, Matej Kocjan, Nora Krug, Olivier Kugler, Peter Kuper, Joseph Lambert, Brendan Leach, Etienne Lecroart, Matthias Lehmann, Martin Lemelman, David Libens, Sebastien Lumineau, Patrick McHale, Matt Madden, Javier Mariscal, David Mazzucchelli, Rutu Modan, Saxton Moore, Victor Moscoso, Joanna Neborsky, Josh Neufeld, Mark Newgarden, Vladan Nikolic, Gary Panter, Bill Plympton, Max De Radigues, Laren Redniss, Arnold Roth, Marcel Ruijters, Johnny Ryan, David Sandlin, Seth, Peter De Seve, Robert Sikoryak, Posy Simmonds, Mark Alan Stamaty, Jim Steranko, James Sturm, Joost Swarte, Takeshi Tadatsu, Ann Telnaes, Simon Tofield, Jeremy Traum, Carol Tyler, Andres Vera Martinez, Lauren Weinstein, Tracy White, Signe Wilkinson, Run Wrake, Derek Yaniger, and Danijel Zezelj

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Review: THE COMPLETE RECORD COVER COLLECTION

THE COMPLETE RECORD COVER COLLECTION
W.W. NORTON & COMPANY

CARTOONIST: R. Crumb
ISBN: 978-0-393-08278-4; hardcover
96pp, Color, $25.95 U.S., $32.50 CAN

An American comic book artist, illustrator, and musician, R. Crumb (also known as Robert Crumb) is the famed Underground Comix creator known for his controversial work. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1943, Crumb is a founder of the Underground Comix movement and is its most prominent figure. Crumb also founded the seminal Underground Comix comic book series, Zap Comix.

Crumb is something of a satirist and social critic, and his work has frequently been called racist and sexist. But there are many sides to Crumb’s creativity and artistry, which is revealed in The Complete Record Cover Collection, a new hardcover Crumb art book from publisher, W.W. Norton & Company. Crumb is a prolific illustrator of record covers, having produced over 400 of them. Crumb apparently began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin asked him to draw the cover for Cheap Thrills (1968), the second album from American rock band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, for which she was then the lead singer.

The publisher says that The Complete Record Cover Collection is the complete catalog of every record cover jacket Crumb has ever drawn, while also admitting that there could still be Crumb music-related art hidden away somewhere. Crumb mainly drew record covers for artists, new and forgotten, who performed jazz, country, old-time blues, roots, and Americana music of the 1920s and 30s. He also produced record cover art for his own musical act, R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders.

The Complete Record Cover Collection also brings together other music related art from Crumb. The book reprints art for event flyers and posters, advertisements, magazine covers, silkscreen prints, and trading cards, among other things. Much of the work also reveals Crumb’s skill at lettering. I think the publisher would like reviewers to emphasize the record cover art in their reviews of The Complete Record Cover Collection, but I want to focus on something else.

What I like most about this book are the portraits of musicians – past and present. These drawings range in size from about 2.5” x 4” to a little larger. They are drawn with such power and faithfulness to the subjects that they seem larger. Crumb executed two such portraits of legendary R&B singer James Brown for The New Yorker in 2000. One depicts a young Brown that captures his likeness with a photographer’s touch. The other, a depiction of an older “hardest working man in show business,” is more of a cartoon, but it captures the spirit both of Brown’s public persona and of his stage performance. Crumb’s 1992 portrait of Frank Zappa (also for The New Yorker) is a sparkling psychedelic piece that encapsulates the eccentric Zappa.

These black and white ink drawings are rendered in such detail that Crumb’s cartoonish style has a kind of realism that is all his own. Crosshatching, fine line work, and solid brushwork bring these musicians to life in strange ways, making even what is familiar about them vibrant and new. This is exemplified in portraits of a smirking, older George Jones; a proud Bo Diddley, and a wired up Merle Haggard.

The Complete Record Cover Collection is about the record cover art of R. Crumb, and it is an excellent book in that regard. Its treasure, however, is the collection of portraits.

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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Review: THE SWEETER SIDE OF R. CRUMB

THE SWEETER SIDE OF R. CRUMB
W.W. NORTON & COMPANY

CARTOONIST: R. Crumb
ISBN: 978-0-393-33371-8; paperback
110pp, B&W, $17.95 U.S., $22.50 CAN

The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb is a 2010 paperback from W.W. Norton & Company that reprints various non-controversial works from the cartoonist and artist, R. Crumb (Robert Crumb). Crumb, the famed Underground Comix creator, has created comix and art that some describe as perverse, crude, cruel, nasty, vile, racist, misogynist, and just plain negative. While I would agree with those sentiments in some examples of his work, I think that American comic books would be worse off without the work of this genius.

Perhaps R. Crumb, a publicist, and/or his publisher decided it was time to show readers a less controversial, more artistic side of Crumb. The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb is a combination art book, portfolio, and sketchbook that offers an array of Crumb drawings that have nothing to do with the busty female revolutionaries, conniving funny animals, weird characters, and horny everyman’s that populate Crumb’s comic book and comix work. Also, the art here is in glorious black and white, the better to show off Crumb’s precision cross hatching and sumptuous, textured ink work.

The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb presents intimate portraits of Crumb’s family and friends as well as drawings of roots music figures – some obscure (Charlie Poole) and some fairly well known (B.B. King). This book offers marvelous landscapes from the French countryside and lovely still life drawings, and even eye-popping depictions of French alleyways and buildings. Many of these drawings may simply be work that Crumb did while quietly observing people or interior and exteriors scenes. There are even a few comic strip vignettes starring Robert and his daughter Sophie as a small child.

I look at The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb as a publication Norton is going to use to pad their R. Crumb catalog. Or maybe people who only know the controversial R. Crumb need a book like this. Even Crumb seems to suggest as much in his introduction to this book, an introduction that only seems partly tongue-in-cheek. As far as I’m concerned, I’m up for anything that will get more people to see R. Crumb’s comix and illustrations. If it means The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb, then, let’s have more.

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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The Complete Zap Comix Coming Fall 2012

FANTAGRAPHICS TO PUBLISH THE COMPLETE ZAP COMIX

JULY 23, 2011, SAN DIEGO, CA—Fantagraphics Books President and Co-Publisher Gary Groth announced today at Comic-Con International that the Seattle-based publisher has entered into an agreement to publish The Complete ZAP Comix in Fall of 2012.

ZAP remains the best-known and most influential underground comic of all-time, and in many ways is Ground Zero for the entire field of underground, alternative, literary and art comics that exists today. Created by Robert Crumb, it was one of the defining events in the counterculture of the 1960s and singlehandedly launched the “underground comix” era.

“ZAP took comics from children to adults, crushing The Comics Code Authority in the process,” proclaimed ZAP artist Victor Moscoso.

The Complete ZAP Comix will be published as a two-volume, slipcased hardcover set, printed slightly larger than the original comics, and shot from the original negatives to the comic books, ensuring the finest reproduction ever seen of the material. It will also include the rarely-seen ZAM, a one-shot mini-comic/jam spinoff of ZAP from 1974, as well as other supplementary features, interviews with the artists, and other surprises.

“ZAP may be the most significant series in the history of American comics,” said Fantagraphics President and Co- Publisher Gary Groth. “Its cultural preeminence is the result of artistic merit, not collectibility or economics and that sets it apart from most comics series that have achieved this level of public awareness or notoriety. The artists that Crumb invited into ZAP each proved to be a stylistic virtuoso with a unique point of view and an uncompromising vision. ZAP was the vanguard of a movement that segued into the alternative comics of the ’80s and the graphic novels of the ’00s. We couldn’t be prouder to collect this landmark series in its entirety in a beautifully packaged two-volume set.”

Originally printed by Beat writer Charles Plymell in an edition of around 3,500 copies, ZAP #1 was the first title published by the late Don Donahue under the Apex Novelties imprint, and was infamously sold on the streets of Haight-Ashbury out of a baby stroller pushed by Crumb’s ex-wife, Dana. Over time, the series’ 16 issues have sold millions of copies.

Although R. Crumb had initially created ZAP as a showcase for his own work, the success of the first issue led him to open up the pages of subsequent issues to several other artists. He invited his peers S. Clay Wilson, Robert Wil- liams, “Spain” Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Victor Moscoso and Rick Griffin to join him, effectively creating an artists’ collective that has remained mostly constant in the subsequent decades; when Rick Griffin died in 1991, the artist Paul Mavrides was invited to join the group.

“Fantagraphics’ The Complete ZAP Comix, as designed by Victor Moscoso, will be a classy item for the bookshelves of underground comics fans — those who can afford it, that is,” said ZAP artist Gilbert Shelton. “I imagine most of the original readers wish they still had their copy of the first edition of ZAP # 1, which sells for over ten thousand dollars now, if in perfect condition. But part of the secret of the success of underground comix was that they werecheaply produced and turned yellow and fell apart quickly, and also that they were borrowed and never returned by one’s friends, thereby forcing you to buy another copy. This will not happen with the new collected edition, which will be produced under the most rigorous of quality control.”

“Much as the effect EC’s MAD had on the mid-20th Century, ZAP was equally influential and disruptive to cultural mores at the end of the 20th Century, but without the hindrance of the old comic book code that cramped graphic novel expression for 40 years,” said ZAP artist Robert Williams. “I’m very pleased that Fantagraphics will release this long-awaited compendium of ZAP Comix.”

“When Robert Crumb started ZAP in 1968, no one had any idea that it would still be alive 45 years later,” Shelton added. “This exercise in anarchy — there were never any rules, restrictions, or editorial policy — is still the flagship of the underground comics movement. I tried, and failed, to get my fellow ZAPsters to correct their spelling errors, but they would not be subjected to such editorial tyranny. I also wanted to let other artists into the group, but it was decided to restrict the number of contributors to seven. So be it. Spell free or die, I now say.”

Fantagraphics will be publishing the The Complete ZAP Comix in Fall of 2012.

The Complete ZAP Comix
By: R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, & Paul Mavrides
Release Date: Fall 2012
Page Count: 800 PP
B & W + Full Color • Two-Volume, Slipcased Hardcover Set

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The Evolution of Sophie Crumb

I read Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist

I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has FREE smart phone apps).

R. Crumb's Sweet Side

I read The Sweeter Side of R. Crumb

I posted a review at the Comic Book Bin (which has those FREE smart phone apps).  This is a slim collection of drawings and illustrations from the great comix creator.