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Women's History Month

Alice Barber Stephens (American, 1858-1932) • Ladies Home Journal Cover • February, 1897

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A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Dave Kovic / Bill Mitchell: Kevin Kline Ellen Mitchell: Sigourney Weaver Bob Alexander: Frank Langella Alan Reed: Kevin Dunn Duane Stevenson: Ving Rhames Vice-President Nance: Ben Kingsley Murray Blum: Charles Grodin Alice: Faith Prince Randi: Laura Linney White House Tour Guide: Bonnie Hunt Senate Majority Leader: Parley Baer House Majority Leader: Stefan Gierasch Mrs. Travis: Anna Deavere Smith Policeman: Charles Hallahan Jerry: Tom Dugan Lola: Alba Oms Secret Service #1: Steve Witting David: Kellen Sampson White House Guard: Lexie Bigham Frederic W. Barnes: Frederic W. Barnes Ronald Brownstein: Ronald Brownstein Eleanor Clift: Eleanor Clift Tom Harkin: Tom Harkin Bernard Kalb: Bernard Kalb Larry King: Larry King Michael Kinsley: Michael Kinsley Morton Kondracke: Morton Kondracke Jay Leno: Jay Leno Frank Mankiewicz: Frank Mankiewicz Chris Matthews: Chris Matthews John McLaughlin: John McLaughlin Howard Metzenbaum: Howard Metzenbaum Abner J. Mikva: Abner J. Mikva Robert D. Novak: Robert D. Novak Tip O’Neill: Thomas P. ‘Tip’ O’Neill Richard Reeves: Richard Reeves Paul Simon: Paul Simon Ben Stein: Ben Stein Oliver Stone: Oliver Stone Kathleen Sullivan: Kathleen Sullivan Jeff Tackett: Jeff Tackett Helen Thomas: Helen Thomas Nina Totenberg: Nina Totenberg Sander Vanocur: Sander Vanocur John Yang: John Yang Don Durenberger: Stephen Root Girl at Durenberger’s: Catherine Reitman Mom at Durenberger’s: Dawn Arnemann Clara: Marianna Harris Diane: Sarah Marshall White House Barber: Ralph Manza President’s Physician: George Martin White House Nurse: Laurie Franks Trauma Doctor: Tom Kurlander Trauma Nurse: Dendrie Taylor Japanese Prime Minister: Joe Kuroda Vice-President’s Wife: Geneviève Robert Vice-President’s Son: Jason Reitman Secretary of Education: Ruth Goldway Director of OMB: Frank Birney Secretary of Treasury: Paul Collins Secretary of Commerce: Peter White Postmaster General: Robin Gammell Judy: Heather Hewitt Policeman #2: Gary Ross Ellen’s Aide: Jeffrey Joseph Female Senator: Bonnie Bartlett Speaker of the House: Robert Walsh Congressional Doorkeeper: William Pitts Reporter: Dan Butler Announcer: Wendy Gordon Announcer: Ben Patrick Johnson Announcer: Steve Kmetko Chris Dodd: Chris Dodd Alan K. Simpson: Alan K. Simpson Arnold Schwarzenegger: Arnold Schwarzenegger Film Crew: Set Designer: Joseph G. Pacelli Jr. Screenplay: Gary Ross Editor: Sheldon Kahn Production Design: J. Michael Riva Casting: Michael Chinich Director of Photography: Adam Greenberg Casting: Bonnie Timmermann Executive Producer: Joe Medjuck Set Designer: Darrell L. Wight Director: Ivan Reitman Set Designer: Steve Arnold Executive Producer: Michael C. Gross Costume Design: Richard Hornung Art Direction: David F. Klassen Set Decoration: Michael Taylor Producer: Lauren Shuler Donner Hairstylist: Christopher Shihar Casting Associate: Alan Berger Costume Supervisor: James W. Tyson Script Supervisor: Karen Hale Wookey Hairstylist: Marlene D. Williams Makeup Artist: Linda DeVetta Construction Coordinator: Terry Scott Makeup Artist: Robert Norin Original Music Composer: James Newton Howard Movie Reviews: Rob: A lovely romantic comedy in that true eighties style. A little charmer of a movie starring the ever-watchable Kevin Kline. I’ll admit I’m pretty old-fashioned and, even in today’s evil world, I cling to the hope there are still good-hearted people out there somewhere. This is one of those movies keeping that hope alive. Let the soft side of you out and enjoy this film.

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Alice Barber Stephens (American, 1858-1932): Lady with Teapot (1907) (via Freeman's)

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Alice Barber Stephens   The women's life class

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Alice Barber Stephens - The Women in Business (1897)

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Magnificent Women Monday

For this week’s #Magnificent Women Monday offering, we present Susanna and Sue written by American writer and educator Kate Douglas Wiggin, illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens and N.C. Wyeth, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, and printed by The Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1909. A first edition copy, this book is adorned with orange ornamental border designs and beautiful green and yellow Stephens illustrations, accompanied by twelve chapter headpieces in black and white created by Wyeth.  

Author Kate Wiggin is remembered for her contributions to children’s literature as well as her commitment to the education of disadvantaged children during a period when these children were considered little beyond cheap labor. Alongside her sister Nora, she established over 60 kindergartens for impoverished families in San Francisco and Oakland, California, before moving to New York and devoting herself to literature. Her bestseller Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was adapted into a play during her lifetime and was eventually produced as a motion picture starring Shirley Temple in 1938. Described simply as “a story of the Shakers,” Susanna and Sue depicts family life amongst a town of Shakers, a subset of the religious Quakers group in Philadelphia.

Coincidentally, illustrator Alice Barber Stephens grew up a Quaker in New Jersey before moving to Philadelphia to study art, including wood carving, black-and-white oils, charcoal, full-color oils, ink-washes, and watercolor. Her first published and credited work was an oil-on-cardboard painting called “Women’s Life Class,” modeled after a Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts classroom scene, for Scribners’ Monthly during the first year women were admitted to the school (1876). Considered by some to be the first famous American female illustrator, Stephens’s most well-known work is from the 1903 edition of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Much of her early work was produced during the era of the “New Woman,” a feminist movement of independence within which women artists became outspoken about their ease in moving between the professional world and home life, often utilizing their art as a means of displaying this idea. A prime example is Stephens’s series “The American Woman,” for the Ladies’ Home Journal in 1897, depicted women in six different settings (society, religion, home, summer, business, motherhood). By choosing to set three images within the home and three outside, Stephens conveys the idea of capable women juggling careers and family obligations. 

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Alice Barber Stephens portrays two aspiring female artists. Dreaming of love, one sets aside her brushes and pigments while her friend focuses steadily on painting. Stephens's fluid brushwork and interest in capturing effects of light and color reflect the influence of impressionism and painting outdoors. At this point in her life, she was a successful illustrator, as well as a wife, mother, and teacher.

At age 15 she became a student at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art), where she studied wood engraving. She was admitted to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1876 (the first year women were admitted), studying under Thomas Eakins.

Life drawing was essential for any artist’s success. Being able to portray the figure in an anatomically correct way meant artists could then make paintings considered significant by their colleagues and collectors. History paintings with religious, literary, and historical subjects relied on the beautiful depiction of the human form. Traditionally, women were excluded from life drawing classes, considered inappropriate for a woman’s supposedly delicate sensibilities. Consequently, women were unable to compete for Academic recognition and commissions.  The PAFA women advocating for life drawing classes were successful, with the compromise solution of gender-separated classes. 

Woman in Business was part of a six-part “American Woman” painting series produced for “Ladies’ Home Journal” in 1897, when Barber Stephens was at the peak of her career. The series illuminated the expanded Woman’s Sphere by focusing not only on middle-class Philadelphia women at home—as a mother, at church, and at leisure—but also in the economic world. Woman in Business is set at John Wanamaker’s department store, elegant with its stained glass window, like a cathedral of consumption. The store is crowded with customers and clerks.

On either end of the diagonal is a girl. One, pushed all the way to the extreme foreground of the picture plane, is the antithesis of the ornamental dog and well-heeled consumer. The hollow-eyed child, perhaps an immigrant, is already at work as a shop assistant. Her workaday clothes contrast with the pampered young lady dressed in her pinafore and bonnet, shadowed in the rear, at the far end of the diagonal. Stephens’ emphasis on the poor child forces the viewer to consider the economic system that creates such disparity, while the affluent child almost blends into the background, minimizing her importance.

The title is Woman in Business, but which central figure does it refer to—the woman with the economic upper hand or the highlighted clerk? Both were women in business in their day. The woman forced to work for a living as a salesclerk had to learn to maneuver in the Public Sphere of the business world. Only white, privileged women were spared the necessity to work. In the hierarchy of labor choices for women in the late 19th century, this salesclerk was relatively well off. The affluent woman is also a woman in business, enacting her moral duty to consume the products manufactured or imported, to participate in the economic engine that fueled America’s prosperity.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Barber_Stephens

https://arttimesjournal.com/art/Art_Essays/winter_14_rena_robey/alice_barber_stephens.html

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Scarab #6

I don't know what's happening on this cover but I definitely have a new sexual fetish.

This comic book stars a raccoon. Rating: A+.

Most of the weird dialogue in this comic book probably comes from John Smith's high school notepads full of terrible poetry. I mean, this part about winter isn't too bad! I kind of like it. It's almost as if William Carlos Williams and H.P. Lovecraft were caught in a Star Trek transporter malfunction where their minds were melded but they had to overcome the horror of their new two-dicked physical existence to continue writing poetry. I knew John Smith was English from his previous work on 2000 A.D. and other British comic book periodicals but then he uses the phrase "Chinese whispers" in this issue and I think, "If I hadn't already known he was English from his previous work on 2000 A.D. and other British comic book periodicals, I'd now know he was English by his use of the phrase 'Chinese whispers.'" Here are some of the ideas John Smith throws into a two-page account of Scarab's recent adventures that he couldn't bother writing into full scripts but wanted everybody to know he thought up anyway: a television at the Waldorf haunted by the 20th Century, a pervert breaking the spirits of kids with his Zoo of Shame, The Phantom Barber stealing scalps from runway models, the world's sexiest man raped by Tarot cards, and the Electric Fetus Machine which manifests as a large organ whose music foments rebellion in fetuses. Is this how the British writers took over DC's adult comic books? By occluding our minds with so much random and weird pseudo-philosophical garbage that we couldn't think straight? Sure, I guess an Electric Fetus Machine sounds like a way better story than Batman beating The Riddler near to death. But is there really any substance there? I suppose there could be if the idea were fleshed out and some kind of theme built around the idea of fetuses rebelling. Maybe all of these ideas John Smith throws out are just a game of Chinese whispers where he takes, say, a story by John Barth from Lost in the Funhouse about the thoughts of a sperm considering how the race toward life is pointless and, maybe, they should all just give up, and he turns it into the Electric Fetus Machine so that when I read it, I don't instantly think, "Isn't this a John Barth story?" Instead, I think, "That's a better sounding story than the one where the guy is raped by the Three of Wands!"

Meanwhile, Scarab spends his downtime watching Eleanor turn into a Dr. Seuss tree. Or a mushroom cloud (because remember the theme established by the beginning quote and title?!).

Try to ignore Scarab's ass in the previous scan. It's phenomenal. If you're training to be a comic book artist, you need to spend a lot of time getting the ass right. And once you do, you'll never get an ass in pants right again because all you have ever learned to draw is a naked ass which readers will know is actually under skin tight Lycra unless the colorist completely shits the bed. The guy in the jar on the cover is a Russian experiment in psychotropic warfare called a Gloryboy. There are three of them and they're some kind of pacifist dream come true. They constantly mutter Vertigo phrases in a tonal frequency that makes normal people vomit and shit themselves. It's the Brown Note theory of winning battles but taken to the Vertigo extreme. Instead of a whomping bass sound system, the noise comes form a naked albino in a jar composed of dream matter. Maybe they're not composed of dream matter. And maybe they're not about pacifism at all. It seems they've been altered and experimented in such a way that they can give voice to "the Scream over Hiroshima!" That sounds pretty bad. It's probably some form of psychic bombardment, comparable to a nuclear blast, which drives everybody in the vicinity completely insane. Or maybe it really will just be a thing that pacifies everybody because have you ever tried to do anything while shitting yourself? I mean other than read the ingredients in your shampoo. And even then, I bet you take your eyes off the bottle for a moment to really be in the moment. As an aside, do women find shitting as enjoyable as men or is it just the fecal matter pressing up against our prostate as it passes that makes a big shit feel so good? The Russians test the Scream Over Hiroshima on London. What it does is project into the minds of everybody who hears it the entire reality of what happened in Hiroshima. It's the truth of war. It's pure horror and death and consequence. It probably also makes everybody shit themselves. But when it's done, they'll all understand, on a physically primal level what war is. And the assumption is that everybody will finally be against it, I guess? I've been on Twitter for many years and the one thing I know is that even physically experiencing the horrors of the bombing of Hiroshima isn't going to change the minds of most idiots. I mean, if you didn't become a vegan pacifist hug machine after hearing Sting's song, "Russians," why would you become one after living the horror of fifty thousand lives snuffed out in an instant?! Some people, you just can't reach. London turns into a burning chaotic mess as everybody flips the fuck out from suddenly experiencing the most painful thing they've ever experienced. Scarab arrives after it's all over and everybody is afraid of him. Surprise! There's nothing he can do. He just observes the mess and meets a psychic who tells him that Eleanor is coming back. And isn't that the most important part of this eight issue story? That Louis the Scarab's love returns to him while the rest of the world falls into death and chaos? Scarab #6 Rating: C. Smith seeded this issue with more story ideas than story. The main story is an idea that really goes nowhere as well. It's a thought experiment. It's a minor philosophical musing. And Scarab doesn't do anything but distract himself from his wife's condition. But it also wasn't uninteresting. So I think that means it's a C? What am I, a high school teacher? I don't know how to grade shit!

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IDW has some great books dropping this week, and we have your early look at them all. Here’s the IDW Publishing Previews for 2-1-2017.

America’s Best Comics: Artist’s Edition HC

Writer: Alan Moore Artists: Arthur Adams, Hilary Barta, Gene Ha, Kevin Nowlan, Paul Rivoche, Chris Sprouse, Rick Veitch, J.H. Williams III Cover Artist: Chris Sprouse

Alan Moore was the braintrust behind America’s Best Comics, one of the most acclaimed imprints in the history of comics. Comprised of four main titles: Tom Strong, Top10, Promethea, and the anthology Tomorrow Stories, the ABC line paired Moore with the finest artists in comics. This volume will present a beautiful overview of the ABC line, including complete stories from Promethea #10 (Eisner Award-winner for best issue of the year) and Top 10 #7. Additionally, a fine selection of shorter stories featuring Tom Strong, Jack B. Quick, Splash Brannigan, and Greyshirt will be included. Plus a stunning gallery section. The best stories by the best artists in the best format!

HC • BW • $95.00 net cost item • 216 pages • 12” x 17” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-757-4

Bullet points:

Advance solicited for November release!

The ABC line won a total of 12 MAJOR Eisner Awards, including: Best Writer (four times), Best Artist, Best Single Issue (twice), Best Serialized Story, Best Continuing Series, Best New Series, Best Anthology, and Best Graphic Novel!

   Back to the Future #16

Writers: Bob Gale, John Barber Artist: Emma Vieceli Cover Artist: Emma Vieceli

WHO IS MARTY McFLY?!? And why are there so many on the loose in 1986?! Marty and Doc finally get some answers, but they might not like where those answer take them… and they’re definitely not going to like WHEN it takes ’em!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Cover Month!

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Box Office Poison Color Comics #2

Writer: Alex Robinson Artist: Alex Robinson Cover Artist: Alex Robinson

Sherman’s frustration with his job grows and grows… while the story of Jane and Stephen’s relationship is revealed!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Winner of the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, the International Comics Festival Award for Best Debut Graphic Novel (Angouleme, France), and voted by Wizard Magazine as the best indy graphic novel of all time.

“A salute to comics, an exploration of the human condition, and a solid, absorbing, and riotously snide tale about at least half of the things that make life important.” — Tasha Robinson, The AV Club

Each issue will be presented in color for the very first time!

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Chester 5000: Isabelle & George

Writer: Jess Fink Artist: Jess Fink Cover Artist: Jess Fink

1889: an age of industrial revolution and sexual frustration. Isabelle is a lonely orphan, reprimanded at every turn by her strict matron. George is an inventor on the cusp of a brilliant discovery. Together they find love, but in an age of violent mechanization and military secrets, can their passion survive?

After the smash success of CHESTER 5000’s first volume (the tale of a Victorian woman and her robot lover), beloved web-cartoonist Jess Fink returns with another triumphant story of boundary-breaking love, sex, and technology. Discover the origins of your favorite characters along with all-new thrills. All the drama and adventure of the silent film era is here, enlivened with modern whimsy and erotic charm.

HC • BW • $14.95 • 184 pages • 6.5” x 7.5” • ISBN: 978-1-93656-169-8

Bullet points:

“A woman-friendly, couple-friendly book destined to become a perennial in sex-positive toy and book stores.” — The Comics Journal

Fink’s storytelling is as likely to pluck on your heartstrings as get you all steamed up.” — The Guardian

Adults Only (18+)

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Donald Quest #4 (of 5)

Writers: Stefano Ambrosio, Chantal Pericoli, Pat McGreal Artist: Stefano Zanchi Cover Artist: Stefano Zanchi

“Rock Racers!” As evil Emil Eagle reaches the Trembling Anvil—Feudarnia’s last, best hope against the Meteorbeast invasion!—desperate Donald is trapped in the villains’ Dragon Moon lair, forced to fight Pegleg Pete and his gang in a thrilling battle of wits!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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As Donald’s great steampunk miniseries rolls on, the whole Disney rogues’ gallery is here—from the Beagle Boys and Magica De Spell to Pegleg Pete and the Phantom Blot!

Variant cover by Andrea Freccero!

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The Electric Sublime #4 (of 4)

Writer: W. Maxwell Prince Artist: Martin Morazzo Cover Artist: Martin Morazzo

Arc finale! Featuring famous works by Rene Magritte, Georges Seurat, Edward Hopper, and Pablo Picasso, this is the blood- and paint-splattered chapter you’ve been waiting for!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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From the writer of Judas: The Last Days(IDW) and the artist of Great Pacific and Snowfall (Image)!

The X-Files meets Alice in Wonderland, by way of The Da Vinci Code!

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Ghostbusters Annual 2017

Writer: Erik Burnham Artist: Dan Scoening, Rachel Stott, Corin Howell, Erik Evensen Cover Artist: San Schoening

Join us for this special double-sized annual, featuring Ghostbusters past, present… and future! Learn the origin of Slimer! Witness a crazy bust in the Midwest with the Chicago Ghostbusters! Find out what Winston Zeddemore was up to during the Scolari Brothers incident in Ghostbusters 2! And peek into the future at the next generation of Ghostbusters… and much more! Be there or be slimed!

FC • 48 pages • $7.99

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The secret origin of Slimer and much more!

Part of IDW’s 2017 Annual Offensive! Over-sized and action-packed key stories in a deluxe format!

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Ghostbusters International, Vol. 2

Writer: Erik Burnham Artists: Dan Schoening, Rachael Stott Cover Artist: Dan Schoening

The team is still on the move as they head to Puerto Rico and Ireland as ghosts all over the world need to be busted, while Egon chases a mystery about a powerful Scandinavian spell book. Collects issues #6–11.

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 132 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-834-2

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“One of the best paced and best written series out there. Artist, writer, and colorist working together in perfect harmony.” –Big Comic Page

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Haunted Horror #26

Writer: Various Artist: Various Cover Artist: Bernard Baily

The second sickening installment in THE HORRORS OF IT ALL! Featuring terrifying tales as chosen by Steve “Mr. Karswell” Banes! A surprisingly vicious issue highlighted by a terror-ific Bernard Baily cover, as well more severed head stories inside than you can swing a sharp edged stick at! Yes, if this one doesn’t scare you—you’re already dead!

FC • 32 pages • $4.99

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Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me #5 (of 5)

Writer: Devin Faraci Artist: Vic Malhotra Cover Artist: Vic Malhotra

Jim Thompson’s sinewy, brutal, and beloved novel comes to a disturbing climax. Small-town deputy Lou Ford seems a little slow and a little boring on the surface, but underneath hides a sickness that has reared its ugly head once again and left a trail of bodies in its wake…

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Variant covers by Robert Hack (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina).

“Probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally-warped mind I have ever encountered.” —Stanley Kubrick

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Jem and the Holograms Annual 2017

Writer: Kelly Thompson Artists: M. Victoria Robado, Maria Jose Barros, Svanna Ganucheau, Katarzyna Witerscheim, Gisele Lagace Cover Artist: W. Scott Forbes

The Starlight Girls have been writing and drawing an “exquisite corpse” style fan fiction comic that re-imagines their favorite pop stars — Jem & The Holograms — as pop-stars by day and renegade space heroes by night. Follow the adventures of Jem and The Holograms as you’ve never seen them before — superheroes fighting to save the universe from the evil Majestrix Pizzazz and her…army of Mecha-Spider-Pizzes!?!? OMG.

FC • 48 pages • $7.99

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  Jem: The Misfits #2

Writer: Kelly Thompson Artist: Jenn St. Onge Cover Artist: M. Victoria Robado

OUR SONGS ARE BETTER Part Two! The band is getting a whole new taste of fame via an intrusive “MISFITS!” reality TV show and it’s pushing on everyone’s most vulnerable buttons – none more so than Stormer — who’s reliving her early days of fame and the nasty things that came with it. How did Stormer not only survive but blossom in the often toxic court of public opinion? And will she be able to do it again?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Learn how The Misfits first came together!

Will a Misfits Reality Show be the thing that will finally tear them apart… forever?!

Misfit’s first ever series of their own!

Variant cover by Derek Charm!

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Judge Dredd: The Brendan McCarthy Collection

Writers: John Wagner, Alan Grant, Al Ewing Artist: Brendan McCarthy Cover Artist: Brendan McCarthy

Ground-breaking artist Brendan McCarthy has been at the fore-front of independent comics since the early 1980s as well as the TV and film industry, including co-writing and designing Mad Max Fury Road. This oversized hardcover collection showcases all of his stories and covers for Judge Dredd including “Oz,” “The Day the Law Died,” “Dr. Panic,” “Atlantis,” and more!

HC • PC • $49.99 • 200 pages • 9.25” x 12” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-824-3

Bullet points:

Lead Designer on Mad Max Fury Road!

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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #50

Writer: Ted Anderson Artist: Andy Price Cover Artist: Andy Price

“Chaos Theory” Part 3 (of 3). Discord’s new form threatens to take over all of Equestria! When the Elements of Harmony prove ineffective, the final gambit rests in Starlight Glimmer’s hoofs!

FC • 40 pages • $5.99

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The landmark 50th issue of My Little Pony!

Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Cover Month!

Variant cover by Sara Richard!

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My Little Pony: Friends Forever, Vol. 8

Writers: Ted Anderson, Christina Rice, Tony Fleecs Artists: Brenda Hickey, Agnes Garbowska, Tony Fleecs, Jay Fosgitt Cover Artist: Trish Forstner

Five tales of friends and fun! Rarity tries to help Maud Pie discover her inner enthusiasm; Twilight visits Cadance in the Crystal Empire; Little Strongheart asks Rainbow Dash to go on a quest with her; Fluttershy meets the most adventurous adventurer ever: Daring Do; and, Applejack must discover the secret history of Cherry Jubilee! Collects issues #29–33.

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 120 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-839-7

Bullet points:

“The Friends Forever line of MLP comics either work amazingly well as character pieces.” — We The Nerdy

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Popeye Classics #55

Writer: Bud Sagendorf Artist: Bud Sagendorf Cover Artist: Bud Sagendorf

More brilliance from the raucus retro-cool Popeye comics!  Five great features with your beloved Popeye characters: The one-eyed sailor himself, Swee’pea, Olive Oyl, that rascal Wimpy, O.G. Wotasnozzle, and the bad guys this time, the terrible, terrible Misermites!

FC • 32 pages • $4.99

Bullet points:

Variant cover by Sarah Rose!

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Star Trek New Visions: Sam

Writer: John Byrne Artist: John Byrne Cover Artist: John Byrne

James Kirk faces the greatest challenge of his life when his own brother is accused of murder!

FC • 48 pages • $7.99

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection, Vol. 4

Writers: Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Paul Allor Artist: Kevin Eastman, Sophie Campbell, Mateus Santolouco, Cory Smith, Andy Kuhn Cover Artist: Dan Duncan

Recovering from the events of “City Fall,” the Turtles seek sanctuary in the countryside, but questions remain unanswered and tension festers among the brothers. Meanwhile, in New York, Shredder tightens his grip on the city in their absence and Krang’s plan to destroy the Earth is ramping up, but Baxter Stockman has plans of his own. Collects Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issues #29–37, Utrom Empire, and the 2014 Annual.

HC • FC • $49.99 • 344 pages • 7” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-820-5

Bullet points:

All of the TMNT comics in recommended reading order!

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Transformers: Lost Light #2

Writer: James Roberts Artist: Jack Lawrence Cover Artist: Jack Lawrence

Rodimus and Co. find themselves in a dangerous place. Even more dangerous than on a planet that exploded from the inside. That’s already pretty dangerous. But where they are now? Oh boy.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Cover Month!

Variant cover by Joana Lafuente!

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Uncle Scrooge #23

Writers: Francois Corteggiani, Jonathan Gray, Lars Jensen Artists: Giorgio Cavazzano, Daan Jippes Cover Artist: Giorgio Cavazzano

“The Third Nile,” Part 1 of 2! A McDuck quest into Egyptology for Scrooge, Donald, and Ludwig Von Drake gets hairier with the Beagle Boys hot on our heroes’ trail—and prehistoric caveducks ready to pounce!

FC • 40 pages • $3.99

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Continues this beloved series’ legacy numbering at #427!

Thinking man’s thinking man Ludwig Von Drake is back with Scrooge and the gang for another journey into insanity! (Hoo-hoo!)

Variant cover by Fabrizio Petrossi!

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The Wind in the Willows (Illustrated by David Petersen)

Writer: Kenneth Grahame Artist: David Petersen Cover Artist: David Petersen

Experience the timeless story of Toad, Rat, Mole, and Badger in a beautiful new unabridged, hardcover designed and illustrated by New York Times Bestselling author and Eisner Award-winning creator David Petersen (Mouse Guard). Painstakingly illustrated over 3 years, this exquisite and lavish edition features both color and pen and ink illustrations throughout.

Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame to his son, The Wind in the Willows is a timeless tale of animal cunning and human camaraderie. Since its first publication in 1908, generations of adults and children have cherished this world of gurgling rivers and whispering reeds, serving as home to the most lovable creatures in all literature—Rat, Mole, Badger, and the irrepressible Toad of Toad Hall; with his goggles, overcoat and love of fast cars. Follow these little adventurers through gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their Wild Wood.

HC • FC • $24.99 • 256 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-343-9

Bullet points:

Direct Market Exclusive: Each hardcover will feature an exclusive tip-in plate illustrated and signed by David Petersen limited to orders received!

Complete and unabridged! Original art dust jacket, cloth cover with gold foil stamping, 20 color illustrations, 50 pen and ink illustrations!

Advance solicited for October release!

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Weird Love: Jailbird Romance

Writer: Various Artist: Jim Mooney, Pete Morisi, Vince Colletta, Manny Stallman, Pete Costanza, Henry Keifer, The Iger Shop Cover Artist: Ogden Whitney

“Forget funny Valentines… some of the most off-kilter 1950s romance comics, titled Weird Love…. the mind boggles!” —The Hollywood Reporter

With an introduction by Heidi MacDonald of The Beat! Your mind will be blown when you read: “Jailbird Romance!,” “Never Love A Man With A Harem!,” “Hobo Girl,” “Innocence Was My Angle,” “Backroads Romance,” and “I Tortured My In-Laws,” plus many more!

HC • FC • $29.99 • 160 pages • 7.5” x 9.75” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-782-6

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“Get your sweaty little libidinous palms all over these testaments to twisted torridness!” —Dan Greenfield, Dimension 13

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Yakuza Demon Killers #4

Writer: Amit Chauhan Artist: Eli Powell Cover Artist: Eli Powell

The devastating price of power! In this shocking conclusion, Tokyo is the final battleground for Earth’s future, and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. The Yakuza come face-to-face with their greatest threat, and it will come from an unexpected place.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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You Might Be An Artist If…

Writer: Lauren Purje Artist: Lauren Purje Cover Artist: Lauren Purje

With a BFA, solo exhibitions, and work experience at a New York gallery, Lauren Purje has spent plenty of time in the art world…consider this her cry for help.

You Might Be An Artist If…collects several years of her comic strips about the ups and downs of life in the arts. Her wry and relatable sense of humor animates every page, tying together flights of fancy, bitter grumblings, motivational pep-talks, self-doubt, procrastination, and inspiration.

Capturing the moments that remind us why we take art seriously — but not TOO seriously — Purje’s comics are a perfect handbook for anyone living the creative life.

HC • BW • $19.99 • 144 pages • 5.82” x 8.26” • ISBN: 978-1-60309-406-1

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IDW Publishing Previews for 2-1-2017

IDW has some great books dropping this week, and we have your early look at them all.

IDW Publishing Previews for 2-1-2017 IDW has some great books dropping this week, and we have your early look at them all.

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IDW has some great books dropping this week, and we have your early look at them all. Here’s the IDW Publishing Previews for 2-1-2017.

America’s Best Comics: Artist’s Edition HC

Writer: Alan Moore Artists: Arthur Adams, Hilary Barta, Gene Ha, Kevin Nowlan, Paul Rivoche, Chris Sprouse, Rick Veitch, J.H. Williams III Cover Artist: Chris Sprouse

Alan Moore was the braintrust behind America’s Best Comics, one of the most acclaimed imprints in the history of comics. Comprised of four main titles: Tom Strong, Top10, Promethea, and the anthology Tomorrow Stories, the ABC line paired Moore with the finest artists in comics. This volume will present a beautiful overview of the ABC line, including complete stories from Promethea #10 (Eisner Award-winner for best issue of the year) and Top 10 #7. Additionally, a fine selection of shorter stories featuring Tom Strong, Jack B. Quick, Splash Brannigan, and Greyshirt will be included. Plus a stunning gallery section. The best stories by the best artists in the best format!

HC • BW • $95.00 net cost item • 216 pages • 12” x 17” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-757-4

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Advance solicited for November release!

The ABC line won a total of 12 MAJOR Eisner Awards, including: Best Writer (four times), Best Artist, Best Single Issue (twice), Best Serialized Story, Best Continuing Series, Best New Series, Best Anthology, and Best Graphic Novel!

   Back to the Future #16

Writers: Bob Gale, John Barber Artist: Emma Vieceli Cover Artist: Emma Vieceli

WHO IS MARTY McFLY?!? And why are there so many on the loose in 1986?! Marty and Doc finally get some answers, but they might not like where those answer take them… and they’re definitely not going to like WHEN it takes ’em!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Cover Month!

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Box Office Poison Color Comics #2

Writer: Alex Robinson Artist: Alex Robinson Cover Artist: Alex Robinson

Sherman’s frustration with his job grows and grows… while the story of Jane and Stephen’s relationship is revealed!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Winner of the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition, the International Comics Festival Award for Best Debut Graphic Novel (Angouleme, France), and voted by Wizard Magazine as the best indy graphic novel of all time.

“A salute to comics, an exploration of the human condition, and a solid, absorbing, and riotously snide tale about at least half of the things that make life important.” — Tasha Robinson, The AV Club

Each issue will be presented in color for the very first time!

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Chester 5000: Isabelle & George

Writer: Jess Fink Artist: Jess Fink Cover Artist: Jess Fink

1889: an age of industrial revolution and sexual frustration. Isabelle is a lonely orphan, reprimanded at every turn by her strict matron. George is an inventor on the cusp of a brilliant discovery. Together they find love, but in an age of violent mechanization and military secrets, can their passion survive?

After the smash success of CHESTER 5000’s first volume (the tale of a Victorian woman and her robot lover), beloved web-cartoonist Jess Fink returns with another triumphant story of boundary-breaking love, sex, and technology. Discover the origins of your favorite characters along with all-new thrills. All the drama and adventure of the silent film era is here, enlivened with modern whimsy and erotic charm.

HC • BW • $14.95 • 184 pages • 6.5” x 7.5” • ISBN: 978-1-93656-169-8

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“A woman-friendly, couple-friendly book destined to become a perennial in sex-positive toy and book stores.” — The Comics Journal

Fink’s storytelling is as likely to pluck on your heartstrings as get you all steamed up.” — The Guardian

Adults Only (18+)

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Donald Quest #4 (of 5)

Writers: Stefano Ambrosio, Chantal Pericoli, Pat McGreal Artist: Stefano Zanchi Cover Artist: Stefano Zanchi

“Rock Racers!” As evil Emil Eagle reaches the Trembling Anvil—Feudarnia’s last, best hope against the Meteorbeast invasion!—desperate Donald is trapped in the villains’ Dragon Moon lair, forced to fight Pegleg Pete and his gang in a thrilling battle of wits!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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As Donald’s great steampunk miniseries rolls on, the whole Disney rogues’ gallery is here—from the Beagle Boys and Magica De Spell to Pegleg Pete and the Phantom Blot!

Variant cover by Andrea Freccero!

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The Electric Sublime #4 (of 4)

Writer: W. Maxwell Prince Artist: Martin Morazzo Cover Artist: Martin Morazzo

Arc finale! Featuring famous works by Rene Magritte, Georges Seurat, Edward Hopper, and Pablo Picasso, this is the blood- and paint-splattered chapter you’ve been waiting for!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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From the writer of Judas: The Last Days(IDW) and the artist of Great Pacific and Snowfall (Image)!

The X-Files meets Alice in Wonderland, by way of The Da Vinci Code!

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Ghostbusters Annual 2017

Writer: Erik Burnham Artist: Dan Scoening, Rachel Stott, Corin Howell, Erik Evensen Cover Artist: San Schoening

Join us for this special double-sized annual, featuring Ghostbusters past, present… and future! Learn the origin of Slimer! Witness a crazy bust in the Midwest with the Chicago Ghostbusters! Find out what Winston Zeddemore was up to during the Scolari Brothers incident in Ghostbusters 2! And peek into the future at the next generation of Ghostbusters… and much more! Be there or be slimed!

FC • 48 pages • $7.99

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The secret origin of Slimer and much more!

Part of IDW’s 2017 Annual Offensive! Over-sized and action-packed key stories in a deluxe format!

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Ghostbusters International, Vol. 2

Writer: Erik Burnham Artists: Dan Schoening, Rachael Stott Cover Artist: Dan Schoening

The team is still on the move as they head to Puerto Rico and Ireland as ghosts all over the world need to be busted, while Egon chases a mystery about a powerful Scandinavian spell book. Collects issues #6–11.

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 132 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-834-2

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“One of the best paced and best written series out there. Artist, writer, and colorist working together in perfect harmony.” –Big Comic Page

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Haunted Horror #26

Writer: Various Artist: Various Cover Artist: Bernard Baily

The second sickening installment in THE HORRORS OF IT ALL! Featuring terrifying tales as chosen by Steve “Mr. Karswell” Banes! A surprisingly vicious issue highlighted by a terror-ific Bernard Baily cover, as well more severed head stories inside than you can swing a sharp edged stick at! Yes, if this one doesn’t scare you—you’re already dead!

FC • 32 pages • $4.99

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Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me #5 (of 5)

Writer: Devin Faraci Artist: Vic Malhotra Cover Artist: Vic Malhotra

Jim Thompson’s sinewy, brutal, and beloved novel comes to a disturbing climax. Small-town deputy Lou Ford seems a little slow and a little boring on the surface, but underneath hides a sickness that has reared its ugly head once again and left a trail of bodies in its wake…

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Variant covers by Robert Hack (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina).

“Probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally-warped mind I have ever encountered.” —Stanley Kubrick

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Jem and the Holograms Annual 2017

Writer: Kelly Thompson Artists: M. Victoria Robado, Maria Jose Barros, Svanna Ganucheau, Katarzyna Witerscheim, Gisele Lagace Cover Artist: W. Scott Forbes

The Starlight Girls have been writing and drawing an “exquisite corpse” style fan fiction comic that re-imagines their favorite pop stars — Jem & The Holograms — as pop-stars by day and renegade space heroes by night. Follow the adventures of Jem and The Holograms as you’ve never seen them before — superheroes fighting to save the universe from the evil Majestrix Pizzazz and her…army of Mecha-Spider-Pizzes!?!? OMG.

FC • 48 pages • $7.99

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  Jem: The Misfits #2

Writer: Kelly Thompson Artist: Jenn St. Onge Cover Artist: M. Victoria Robado

OUR SONGS ARE BETTER Part Two! The band is getting a whole new taste of fame via an intrusive “MISFITS!” reality TV show and it’s pushing on everyone’s most vulnerable buttons – none more so than Stormer — who’s reliving her early days of fame and the nasty things that came with it. How did Stormer not only survive but blossom in the often toxic court of public opinion? And will she be able to do it again?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Learn how The Misfits first came together!

Will a Misfits Reality Show be the thing that will finally tear them apart… forever?!

Misfit’s first ever series of their own!

Variant cover by Derek Charm!

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Judge Dredd: The Brendan McCarthy Collection

Writers: John Wagner, Alan Grant, Al Ewing Artist: Brendan McCarthy Cover Artist: Brendan McCarthy

Ground-breaking artist Brendan McCarthy has been at the fore-front of independent comics since the early 1980s as well as the TV and film industry, including co-writing and designing Mad Max Fury Road. This oversized hardcover collection showcases all of his stories and covers for Judge Dredd including “Oz,” “The Day the Law Died,” “Dr. Panic,” “Atlantis,” and more!

HC • PC • $49.99 • 200 pages • 9.25” x 12” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-824-3

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Lead Designer on Mad Max Fury Road!

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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #50

Writer: Ted Anderson Artist: Andy Price Cover Artist: Andy Price

“Chaos Theory” Part 3 (of 3). Discord’s new form threatens to take over all of Equestria! When the Elements of Harmony prove ineffective, the final gambit rests in Starlight Glimmer’s hoofs!

FC • 40 pages • $5.99

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The landmark 50th issue of My Little Pony!

Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Cover Month!

Variant cover by Sara Richard!

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My Little Pony: Friends Forever, Vol. 8

Writers: Ted Anderson, Christina Rice, Tony Fleecs Artists: Brenda Hickey, Agnes Garbowska, Tony Fleecs, Jay Fosgitt Cover Artist: Trish Forstner

Five tales of friends and fun! Rarity tries to help Maud Pie discover her inner enthusiasm; Twilight visits Cadance in the Crystal Empire; Little Strongheart asks Rainbow Dash to go on a quest with her; Fluttershy meets the most adventurous adventurer ever: Daring Do; and, Applejack must discover the secret history of Cherry Jubilee! Collects issues #29–33.

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 120 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-839-7

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“The Friends Forever line of MLP comics either work amazingly well as character pieces.” — We The Nerdy

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Popeye Classics #55

Writer: Bud Sagendorf Artist: Bud Sagendorf Cover Artist: Bud Sagendorf

More brilliance from the raucus retro-cool Popeye comics!  Five great features with your beloved Popeye characters: The one-eyed sailor himself, Swee’pea, Olive Oyl, that rascal Wimpy, O.G. Wotasnozzle, and the bad guys this time, the terrible, terrible Misermites!

FC • 32 pages • $4.99

Bullet points:

Variant cover by Sarah Rose!

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Star Trek New Visions: Sam

Writer: John Byrne Artist: John Byrne Cover Artist: John Byrne

James Kirk faces the greatest challenge of his life when his own brother is accused of murder!

FC • 48 pages • $7.99

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection, Vol. 4

Writers: Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Paul Allor Artist: Kevin Eastman, Sophie Campbell, Mateus Santolouco, Cory Smith, Andy Kuhn Cover Artist: Dan Duncan

Recovering from the events of “City Fall,” the Turtles seek sanctuary in the countryside, but questions remain unanswered and tension festers among the brothers. Meanwhile, in New York, Shredder tightens his grip on the city in their absence and Krang’s plan to destroy the Earth is ramping up, but Baxter Stockman has plans of his own. Collects Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issues #29–37, Utrom Empire, and the 2014 Annual.

HC • FC • $49.99 • 344 pages • 7” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-820-5

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All of the TMNT comics in recommended reading order!

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Transformers: Lost Light #2

Writer: James Roberts Artist: Jack Lawrence Cover Artist: Jack Lawrence

Rodimus and Co. find themselves in a dangerous place. Even more dangerous than on a planet that exploded from the inside. That’s already pretty dangerous. But where they are now? Oh boy.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Cover Month!

Variant cover by Joana Lafuente!

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Uncle Scrooge #23

Writers: Francois Corteggiani, Jonathan Gray, Lars Jensen Artists: Giorgio Cavazzano, Daan Jippes Cover Artist: Giorgio Cavazzano

“The Third Nile,” Part 1 of 2! A McDuck quest into Egyptology for Scrooge, Donald, and Ludwig Von Drake gets hairier with the Beagle Boys hot on our heroes’ trail—and prehistoric caveducks ready to pounce!

FC • 40 pages • $3.99

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Continues this beloved series’ legacy numbering at #427!

Thinking man’s thinking man Ludwig Von Drake is back with Scrooge and the gang for another journey into insanity! (Hoo-hoo!)

Variant cover by Fabrizio Petrossi!

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The Wind in the Willows (Illustrated by David Petersen)

Writer: Kenneth Grahame Artist: David Petersen Cover Artist: David Petersen

Experience the timeless story of Toad, Rat, Mole, and Badger in a beautiful new unabridged, hardcover designed and illustrated by New York Times Bestselling author and Eisner Award-winning creator David Petersen (Mouse Guard). Painstakingly illustrated over 3 years, this exquisite and lavish edition features both color and pen and ink illustrations throughout.

Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame to his son, The Wind in the Willows is a timeless tale of animal cunning and human camaraderie. Since its first publication in 1908, generations of adults and children have cherished this world of gurgling rivers and whispering reeds, serving as home to the most lovable creatures in all literature—Rat, Mole, Badger, and the irrepressible Toad of Toad Hall; with his goggles, overcoat and love of fast cars. Follow these little adventurers through gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their Wild Wood.

HC • FC • $24.99 • 256 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-343-9

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Direct Market Exclusive: Each hardcover will feature an exclusive tip-in plate illustrated and signed by David Petersen limited to orders received!

Complete and unabridged! Original art dust jacket, cloth cover with gold foil stamping, 20 color illustrations, 50 pen and ink illustrations!

Advance solicited for October release!

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Weird Love: Jailbird Romance

Writer: Various Artist: Jim Mooney, Pete Morisi, Vince Colletta, Manny Stallman, Pete Costanza, Henry Keifer, The Iger Shop Cover Artist: Ogden Whitney

“Forget funny Valentines… some of the most off-kilter 1950s romance comics, titled Weird Love…. the mind boggles!” —The Hollywood Reporter

With an introduction by Heidi MacDonald of The Beat! Your mind will be blown when you read: “Jailbird Romance!,” “Never Love A Man With A Harem!,” “Hobo Girl,” “Innocence Was My Angle,” “Backroads Romance,” and “I Tortured My In-Laws,” plus many more!

HC • FC • $29.99 • 160 pages • 7.5” x 9.75” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-782-6

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“Get your sweaty little libidinous palms all over these testaments to twisted torridness!” —Dan Greenfield, Dimension 13

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Yakuza Demon Killers #4

Writer: Amit Chauhan Artist: Eli Powell Cover Artist: Eli Powell

The devastating price of power! In this shocking conclusion, Tokyo is the final battleground for Earth’s future, and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. The Yakuza come face-to-face with their greatest threat, and it will come from an unexpected place.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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You Might Be An Artist If…

Writer: Lauren Purje Artist: Lauren Purje Cover Artist: Lauren Purje

With a BFA, solo exhibitions, and work experience at a New York gallery, Lauren Purje has spent plenty of time in the art world…consider this her cry for help.

You Might Be An Artist If…collects several years of her comic strips about the ups and downs of life in the arts. Her wry and relatable sense of humor animates every page, tying together flights of fancy, bitter grumblings, motivational pep-talks, self-doubt, procrastination, and inspiration.

Capturing the moments that remind us why we take art seriously — but not TOO seriously — Purje’s comics are a perfect handbook for anyone living the creative life.

HC • BW • $19.99 • 144 pages • 5.82” x 8.26” • ISBN: 978-1-60309-406-1

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via IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing Previews for 2-1-2017 IDW has some great books dropping this week, and we have your early look at them all.