Writer: Brian K. Vaughan
Artist: Jason Shawn Alexander, Steve Rolston, Philip Bond, Eduardo Barreto
Inspired by Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, this is Vaughan's love letter to his chosen medium, a story about what it takes to start out with nothing in Cleveland, Ohio and end up with a comic so hot a major corporation wants to steal it from you! Brilliantly interweaving the lives of the creators with the world of their creation, artists Steve Rolston and Philip Bond bring the comic-booking trio Maxwell Roth, Case Weaver, and Denny Jones to life, while the inimitable Jason Shawn Alexander and Eduardo Barreto illustrate the thrilling trials and exciting extrications of the new-and old-Escapist!
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Story Jerry Frissen
Art Bill, Fabien M, Gobi & Ohm
Cover Bill
It's the first complete stories chronicling the wild adventures of the Luchadores Five, Tequila and Tikitis, collected for the first time! Also includes bonus behind-the-scenes artwork. It's perfect way to sample the hilarious mix of superheroes and masked wrestling that received a 2008 Eisner Award nomination! COLLECTS ISSUES 1-5
We say:
"Think Love & Rockets crossed with Akira. Riotously funny"
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From the author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling graphic novel, GOOD-BYE, CHUNKY RICE comes Craig Thompson's all-new masterpiece. BLANKETS. Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, BLANKETS explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith. A profound and utterly beautiful work. -- 592 pages, Deluxe Graphic Novel
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Writer/Artist:Jeff Smith
Reprints:BONE #1-55
An American graphic novel first! The complete 1300-page epic adventure, from start to finish, in one deluxe paperback! It's the biggest, coolest Bone book of all! Get it while it lasts! This book will not be kept in print! Three modern cartoon cousins get lost in a pre-technological valley, spending a year there making new friends and out-running dangerous enemies. Their many adventures include conning the local people in "The Great Cow Race," and meeting a giant mountain lion named "Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border"; They learn about sacrifice and hardship in "The Ghost Circles"; and finally discover their own true natures in the climatic journey to "The Crown of Horns!".
Superb value at a fraction of the cost of buying all the seperate volumes.
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Writer/Artist:Peter Bagge
BUDDY DOES SEATTLE collects the entire 'Seattle' arc from the pages of Hate, and is the first time the entire saga has appeared under one cover! Bagge more or less cemented his association with the Grunge subculture in 1992 when he devoted two issues of Hate to a story where Buddy Bradley manages his best pal Stinky's grunge band, Leonard and the Love Gods, whose original lineup included three guys named Kurt. Bagge's characters are some of the most fully realized in comics — Buddy, the slacker antihero; Valerie, Buddy's Prozac-normalized ex; Lisa, his masochistic, worm-eating latest flame; Stinky, his selfish, venereal-warted roommate; and George Cecil Hamilton III, the resident "intellectual," who sits in his room scribbling depressive arcana into his notebook — they display their emotions so openly, so helplessly, so graphically, and with such precision as they attempt to negotiate the ragged terrain of early adulthood that it would all be rather horrifying if it weren't such a riot. Bagge's cartooning aids the cause, with one of the most idiosyncratic and inspiredly elastic and cartoony drawing styles in comics history.
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Epileptic is author David B.'s story of his brother's battle with epilepsy, but it turns into a penetrating and sometimes lacerating self-examination on the author's part, as he delves into his own complex emotions and his family's troubled history, as well as his own youthful fantasy life. Particularly pointed in his description of the family's journey from one attempted cure to another, the book is drawn in David B.'s spare but detailed, straightforward but elegant style. One of the most extraordinarily well-received graphic novels in France and the winner of the French national cartooning award "Alph'Art."
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Writer/Artist: Eric Powell
The Goon is a laugh-out-loud, action-packed romp through the streets of a town infested with zombies. An insane priest is building himself an army of the undead, and there's only one man who can put them in their place: the man they call Goon. Dark Horse celebrates the launch of our new Goon bi-monthly series with this collection of last year's Goon series and The Goon Color Special, originally published by Albatross Exploding Funny Books; presented here for the first time in full-color.
Reprints: The Goon #1-4, The Goon Color Special
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by Gary Spencer Millidge Collects together issues #1-6 of the award winning series. Alex Hunter awakes from a car crash only to find himself trapped in a deceptively idyllic village, deep in the remote English countryside. He soon encounters some of the village's bizarre inhabitants including an Amazonian shaman, a man who claims to be from the planet Nimoi, a woman with talking pets, and more. But who is the woman in the fish tank? Mature Readers. SC, 7x10, 176pg, b&w
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