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Life Drawing by Jaime Hernandez

Here it is, the latest Jaime Hernandez masterwork.  Life Drawing collects the intertwining sagas of Maggie, Ray, Tonta, Vivian & Co. (including a couple cameos by Hopey).  132 BIG (9 1/2" x 11 1/2") pages of amazing art in the service of delineating the most vital pen & ink characters around. Every page is a gem.

Now up at copaceticcomics.com at a special price, HERE.

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Comic Book Copacetic – Old School and Overlooked

Here are some standard old school comic books (comics magazines; floppies; pamphlets) that have earned the Copacetic Seal of Approval™. These comics have been selected especially for their excellence in art and storytelling, as well as their influence and importance, but also, and especially, because, while these comics highlighted here are known and treasured by many comics artists they are not, generally speaking, as widely known among comics readers and fans as their high quality merits. We hand sold these comics in the shop(s) for MANY years (in some cases for almost forty years!) drawing customers attention to them and then letting the comics speak for themselves. So, here's a chance to snag a couple overlooked classic comic books. And, because these comics have been largely ignored by the collector market, we can offer them at affordable prices that are quite reasonable given their quality, age and condition >>> Most comics will be considered "close to new" or "almost like new" and/or "unread" to non-collectors. For collectors we can say that all the comics offered here are Very Fine ( VF | 8.0 ) or better; most are Very Fine / Near Mint (VF/NM | 9.0 ) – unless noted.

This batch features (some of the best) work of Kevin Nowlan, Walter Simonson and Alex Toth along with what is to our knowledge the sole extant team-up between Trevor Von Eeden and Alex Niño.

>>> HERE <<<

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Land of Mirrors by María Medem

With a clear, flowing line and vivid, glowing colors reminiscent of Peter Max's classic 1960s work, Spanish Cartoonist/artist/illustrator, María Medem has forged a 300+ page graphic novel of isolation and discovery in an abandoned town, about which Tillie Walden wrote, "Spellbinding and inventive. Unlike any other graphic novel around, a truly impressive debut."

Now available at copaceticcomics.com, HERE.

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Milk White Steed by Michael D. Kennedy

Milk White Steed is an amazing work that we heartily recommend to one and all.

Kennedy’s strategies in representing the quality and character of Black British lives and times often employ and/or rely upon the figure of the duppy, a concept involving a spirit or ghost that originated in central Africa and later evolved to figure prominently in West Indian folklore, where it can be used to connect generations and also, in some respects, be seen as a device through which the past can be made manifest in the present. These employments can veer unexpectedly, yet nonetheless aptly, into the surreal – both visually in the artwork and also narratively, as automatic writing, free association and dream states, as well via incursions from the realms of science fiction and the supernatural into the quotidian.

Kennedy’s comics have broken new ground and his adaptation of the duppy to the world of comics is quite successful, revealing it to be ideally suited to the form.   Milk White Steed is a signal work that has the potential to open a new chapter in the history of comics.

>>> DON'T MISS IT! <<<

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Wally Wood from Witzend: Complete Collection

Here's an up close look at an important publication, focusing on its driving force, Wallace / Wally Wood.  Witzend is an intriguing anomaly in comic book history.  It was a creator-driven, creator-owned, self-published, independent comics magazine series that began publishing in 1966.  And while it was a very forward thinking, new school style of publication in this respect, it was also largely old school in its approach to comics making.  Another way of looking at it is that it combines the free spirited approach to comic books that was only barely just getting underway in the world of underground comix (Witzend  was published before Zap) and the high degree of professionalism that came with artists with decades of experience in the mainstream comic book industry.  It didn't earn Wood the financial returns commensurate with the labor that it required to create, but that didn't stop him from keeping at it.  Eight issues were published between 1966 and 1971, and then five more between 1972 and 1985 (the last two posthumously, as Wood died in 1981).

Available HERE.

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Saints & Sand by Michael Olivo

This elegantly produced, 7 3/8” x 5 3/4”, horizontal hardcover (with gold gilt page edges) presents readers with 250 variations on a theme. The divided binaries of Alpha and Omega, zeroes and ones, male and female, and paternity and maternity meet on a high-contrast black & white battlefield grounded in Christian iconography.

Available HERE.

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From Ted to Tom by Edward Gorey

This horizontally formatted 248 page hardcover is filled with page after page of full color scans of illustrated envelopes, typewritten notes and handwritten quotations that form the corpus of the correspondence from Ted to Tom.

Now available - HERE

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New from PEOW*

Three new releases from the Swedish publishing powerhouse have just arrived here at Copacetic. All sumptuously produced.

World Heist by Linnea Sterte

Ex-Mag 5: Vampires

Soft by Jane Mai

*(technically now PEOW2)

Limited supplies, so...

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Oba Electroplating Factory by Yoshiharu Tsuge

The fourth volume in the Drawn & Quarterly series collecting the Tsuge Yoshiharu's mature works, Oba Electroplating Factory takes readers through 1973 and 1974, guided by translator, Ryan Holmberg's in-depth, heavily researched essay. It's hard to believe this work is fifty years old!

Available HERE

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The Comics of Andrew White

Now in stock at The Copacetic Comics Company and available HERE.

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Andrew White's YEARLY: 2018 - 2024

We just got in the latest issue of Yearly, along with a restock of all prior issues, and so now have all of the seven issues in the series (so far)!

Over 600 pages of personal, poetic, colorful, experimental, self-published comics!

HERE

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THREE classics for the price of ONE!  

MERE by C.F. EVERYTHING TOGETHER by Sammy Harkham POMPEII by Frank Santoro

All published by PictureBox

All three for the price of one

ALL BRAND NEW COPIES

Only eight sets available

LIMIT - ONE per customer

Brighten your February with these three amazing books for one amazing price >>> HERE

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Black Coal & Red Bandanas

Black Coal & Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars dramatizes in comics form a series of related instances of the intense violence that can be inspired by the struggle for control over energy resources – in this case, coal – and that took place in West Virginia – not far from us here in Pittsburgh, PA – early in the twentieth century. 

The author, Raymond Tyler, had his work cut out for him, as there is a tremendous amount of material – often involving conflicting reports of the facts on the ground – that needed to be both sorted through and then compressed into a story that could be conveyed in graphic novel form.

The artist, Summer McClinton clearly put a great effort into researching the people and places – as well as the historical epoch –  (likely also studying the John Sayles film, Matewan for its dramatic effects in addition to other historical materials) and so effectively presents the action in a "you are there" fashion.

The 100 page comics dramatization at the core of this book divides the mine wars of the title into four battles, each of which is given their own chapter, and is bracketed by contextualizing essays by Gordon Simmons and Shaun Slifer at the fore and Paul Buhle at the aft.  There are references to many supporting works of the history of these battles – as well as to the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum – for anyone interested in digging deeper. 

This book has been produced in affiliation with Working Class History, "an international collective of worker-activists focused on the research and promotion of people's history."

Available HERE.

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Crease – a comics anthology

Crease is an ambitious and challenging 56 page, 8 1/2" x 11" comics anthology edited by Austin English.  All of the comics are adaptations of written works penned in Europe from the late-19th through mid-20th century.  There is a strong focus on the intersectionality of sex lives with the wider world of class and gender, and economic and political orders. 

Now in stock at Copacetic and available HERE.

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Escape from the Great American Novel by Drew Lerman

Escape from the Great American Novel uses comics to confront the challenge presented by how best to manifest the creative communicative drive.  Along with the novel, poetry and song are explored. Cultural identities, communal living arrangements of various sorts, private property and business interests, as well as conflicts between the public and the private, and the forces of nature and technology all figure in the narrative as it unspools amidst the lo-fi hi-jinx of scratchy ink delineated cartoon characters.

Available now, here.

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Bubbles Is in the House @ Copacetic!

Along with the latest issue of Bubbles – which features an interview with Copacetic fave, John Hankiewicz (conducted by Copacetic helmsman, Bill Boichel, no less) – we restocked our supply of the entire catalogue of Bubbles Press (although we sold out of Bubbles #19 before we had a chance to post this!).  So, now's a good time to fill in the holes in your collection, try one of the Bubbles Press books (three of which are projects of manga scholar/translator and Garo specialist, Ryan Holmberg), or take the plunge and check out Bubbles for the first time!

ALL AVAILABLE HERE

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I.L by Osamu Tezuka

I.L is a 350-page, mature-theme/adult graphic novel by the one and only Tezuka Osamu.  Originally serialized in Big Comics from August 1969 to March 1970, it is being published here in English for the first time (!) in this handy, budget-priced softcover format. 

It is composed of a series of 14 short comics (which are divided into two parts for reasons that aren't immediately obvious) of roughly equal length – each running 16 - 23 pages (with the exception of the triple-length finale) – all linked by the central figure of I.L and assembled here for one low price!