(Comic book prices and values) In all, a must read for any fan and worth every penny.
In all, a must read for any fan and worth every penny.
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Go, Look: Libyan Cartoonist Elzwawi
I am extremely unfamiliar with the cartoonist’s work, but a mention in this blog post about Libyan-based blogging alerted me to his existence.
Filling In The Picture on Drawn and Quarterly’s Late 2008 and Early 2009
Unlike Fantagraphics, which does a more traditional Fall/Winter, Spring/Summer sales catalog, Montreal’s alt-comics publishing empire Drawn & Quarterly does a catalog for the calendar year. Going from the back half of this catalog and a few on-line bookseller listings, one can see their next several months slowly start to take shape. Here are five books I particularly look forward to seeing.
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ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY #19, HARDCOVER, 97818972299562, DECEMBER, $17.95.
The great Chris Ware returns to his excellent-so-far Rusty Brown serial with what is becoming an annual holiday treat of major significance. The only way I can describe how I look forward to these new ACMEs is to recall the way I felt about those turn of century movie fantasy wallows that showed up for a few years in a row there. I can’t believe I’m following a serial that last came out a year and a half ago with such focused interest.
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AYA OF YOP CITY, MARGUERITE ABOUET AND CLEMENT OUBRERIE, HARDCOVER, 9781894937900, SEPTEMBER, $19.95.
The first book in this series by Abouet and Oubrerie was like nothing else that’s come out in recent memory, and I want to be among the first to read its follow-up. On the one hand, it’s this beautifully observed and funny soap opera; on the other, it’s a melancholy love letter to an all-too-brief period of cultural vibrancy and possibility, since faded.
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MELVIN MONSTER VOL. 1, JOHN STANLEY, HARDCOVER, FEBRUARY, $19.95.
Let the latest great reclamation project begin with this publication from the limited run of comic books that made up the great John Stanley’s primary contribution to the mid-1960s monster craze. One of the two or three best Dell comics ever.
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SKITZY: THE STORY OF FLOYD W. SKITZAFROID, DON FREEMAN, HARDCOVER, 9781897299586, OCTOBER, $19.95.
This one just looks like a lot of fun: the well-known children’s book author (Corduroy) looks at the day in the life of a man split between artistic and business pursuits. What could be a tedious exercise in the hands of some artists should in the late Don Freeman’s fall somewhere between light on its feet and outright elegant due to the artist’s judiciously applied line.
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THE BURMA CHRONICLES, GUY DELISLE, HARDCOVER, 9781897299500, SEPTEMBER, $19.95.
Because the English-language follow-up Shenzhen preceded Delisle’s noteworthy Pyongyang in the original French, or at least that’s what I’ve been led to understand, that would make this the true sequel to Delisle’s internationally lauded hit. It’s as interesting a subject as North Korea, that’s for sure.
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CCI Travel Note: Hotel Deposits
This is the day when most — it could be all, I don’t know — hotels in San Diego participating in Travel Planners’ reservations through the convention offerings lock in the deposits or expectations of deposits for the forthcoming Comic-Con International. I made a small hotel switch yesterday to get a half-mile closer to the show for the one night I’m there, and I couldn’t be happier. If you still need a room, you may be in luck. There remain plenty of slots available for individual days, although passes into the show are almost non-existent at this point. I expect Travel Planners to make a huge push next year to get rid of the double- and triple-booking that results in so many rooms being locked up for no reason until they’re dropped late in the game, but you can certainly take advantage this year. (I would also guess this is a consequence of some plans being changed because of the economy, although it’s impossible to say for sure.)
Flash: Rogues TPB
 Can even the Flash outrun a black hole? Wally West may be the Fastest Man Alive, but even he has trouble keeping up with all the changes in his life. When his interdimensional pal Chunk is wounded, a terrifying black hole is unleashed, forcing the Flash to run against the vortex to save not only his… |
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Flash: Born to Run TPB
 Flash: Born to Run collects some of the early adventures of the one-time sideckick who grew up to be the fastest man alive. Written by Mark Waid, with art by Greg LaRocque, Jim Aparo and Pop Mhan. Also included is the story "Kid Flash: Day Two" by Tom Peyer and Humberto Ramos. This… |
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