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New from Jim Rugg @ Copacetic!

Alien Disclosure (HOT OFF THE PRESS)

The John Jacobs / Ken Landgraf Lost Tales

The Street Angel Gang: Process Zine (3 book set)

The Jim Rugg Guide to Pittsburgh Comic Book Stores

Conspiracy Comics #1 (restock)

True Crime Comics #1 (restock)

Supermag (new printing)

Or just go to Just In! at Copacetic (page 2)

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Pebbles by Molly Colleen O'Connell

Here's a peek at the covers and select pages from the first three issues of Molly Colleen O'Connell's new, ongoing, self-published series. All issues are magazine-sized; #1 runs 24 pages, #2 for 40 pages, and #3 for 56. Do you sense a trend here?

Fun, quirky, women-centric comics!

Click HERE for a special price on a set of all three issues. Only two sets available.

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New from Entropy Editions*

*(new to Copacetic)

We just got in four nifty comics from Entropy Editions

God's Sod House by Cedar Van Tassel

Cookie Nights by Andrés Magán

Split Brain by Hue Nguyen

Little Misanthropist by Gabriel Mason Howell

And, here's a little bundle of all four of the comiccs at a special discount for anyone who's ready to go all in!

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So Buttons by Jonathan Baylis - #13 & #14

Jonathan Baylis has been writing, editing and self-publishing his Harvey Pekar-influenced / American Splendor-inflected series, So Buttons for over a decade and a half now, and these two latest issues are among the strongest in the series, so far, with contributions by erstwhile American Splendor contributors Joe Zabel and Gary Dumm, Bernie Mireault, Box Brown, Whit Taylor and many others, and so make great jumping on point.

To help you make the leap, we're offering a two-fer special on the pair, HERE (supply on this special is limited, just FYI).

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Tongues, Vol. One by Anders Nilsen

As those of us who have been reading the individual issues already know, this mind blowing series fully embodies the challenges we face here in the 21st century through a brilliant mix of mythology, science fiction and current events.

This deluxe, oversize, hardcover volume collects all seven extant issues of the series that have been published – at the rate of roughly once per year – so far.

Highly recommended >>> now available HERE

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Tongues Process Sketches + Outtakes Zine

In celebration of the release of the Tongues hardcover collection by Pantheon Books, Anders Nilsen has teamed up with Secret Headquarters to produce this process zine providing a behind the scenes look at the creation of this magnum opus. Sketches, logo tryouts, cover variations and more rarities.

Limited Edition.

64 pages | 6.5" x 8.5" |  full color cover, black and white interior |  perfect bound.

Now available HERE

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PIE 2025 is a wrap!  

Thank you to everyone on the PIE Crew for doing such an amazing job on running the show, right out of the gate!  And thank you to The Heinz History Center for providing the IDEAL space for the show!  

It was non-stop at the Copacetic table, but we managed to snatch a bit of time to make the rounds and grab some comics – and a few enterprising creators sought us out to show us their comics, as well.  So...

Here are some delicious slices of PIE that we picked up at the 2025 Pittsburgh Indie Expo.  Dig in!

All are now available on the Copacetic JUST IN! page – in limited quantities.

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Beat It, Rufus by Noah Van Sciver

Get ready for the life and times of Rufus and the legend of Funky Cool. It's the rock 'n' roll life Noah Van Sciver style. Humor mixes with pathos and a portrait of America on the skids slowly congeals.

Now on sale –> HERE

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COMIX SKOOL by Kevin Huizenga - COMPLETE BUNDLE!

School was never like this! Learn the comics basics – and then some – a whole new way, with Kevin Huizenga, who puts the fun in fundamental with his highly idiosyncratic pedagogical approach.

We just got in a limited number of complete set bundles, and they are now available HERE

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PEOW(2) Re-stock: Ex.Mag 1 + Stages of Rot

Here's a reprieve for anyone who missed out on these two fantastic works the first time around.

The spectacular first issue of Ex.Mag is filled cover to cover with great comics, and it closes out with what has to be one of the most amazing short comics pieces created this century (so far): Connor Willumsen's "My Grandma Was My Bounty" is a gorgeously drawn, mind-bending work that goes one step beyond Moebius. You have to read it to believe it.

Stages of Rot by Linnea Sterte is, also, a Moebius-inflected work, but working on an entirely different register. Beautifully drawn, with a subtle color palette it explores and evokes an æstheticized natural world that is just enough detached from our own to help us see it.

Both of these are RECOMMENDED!

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2X Carol Lay!

It's not every day we get a new work by Carol Lay, to say the least, so to have two almost back to back is pretty much a once in a lifetime event.

Between My Time Machine and Murderburg we have 400 pages of all new full color comics written with panache and drawn with flair by the one and only Carol Lay.

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Holy Lacrimony by Michael DeForge

HOT OFF THE PRESS!

With Holy Lacrimony, Michael DeForge puts a whole new spin on the alien abduction tale in which for the alien abductors, sadness = celebrity.

hardcover | 116 pages  | tri-color and black & white

>>> HERE <<<

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Chrysanthemum Under the Waves by Maggie Umber

This evocatively titled collection, can be seen, figuratively, as a haunted house. Its present is hollow and vacant, a shroud of neglect is draped over the loneliness that pervades.  Its hey day was in the 1930s, but the hauntings extend even further back in time.

More prosaically, it is a collection of a series of independent – but thematically linked – “silent” comics pieces, that were created over a number of years.  Most have previously appeared in anthologies such as NOW.  

This 280-page softcover volume is printed in a monochrome of an almost black midnight plum which effectively communicates the permeating mood of one step beyond mood indigo.

Available HERE (on SPECIAL through March 2025)

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Pocket Full of Rain and Other Stories by Jason

Here's a deluxe, expanded (224 pages) hardcover reissue of the seminal collection of the formative years (the 1990s) of the phenomenal, Norwegian comics creator, Jason.  Pocket Full of Rain and Other Stories presents a thoroughly enjoyable collection of his comics, while simultaneously providing a fascinating look at the development of his singular talent.

Published by Fantagraphics Underground

HERE

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World Within the World by Julia Gfrörer

Fans of Julia Gfrörer's hard to find, dark, gothic and eerily erotic, self-published, black & white comix now have ecstatic fulfilment at hand with this omnibus collection of more than thirty of these* that has at last been published by Fantagraphics in a very nice, smyth sewn, cloth, hardcover edition – with dust jacket. What's more, Fanta has honored the originals by setting the background colors on the pages to match (or approximate) that of the paper used in the printing of the individual comix self-published by Gfrörer, which grants readers, as much as possible, the pleasures of the originals.

Those unfamiliar with Gfrörer's work are hereby cautioned that it contains instances of up close and personal violence – often quite grim and occasionally extreme – that is in turn often adjacent to – or at times mixed with – unrelentingly graphic sexuality. What's posted here are the tamer images, just FYI.

>>> HERE <<<

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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 <<<