Hong Kong: Secret Acres, 2018. First Edition (stated). Softcover. What’s silly, scary and sexy? Edie Fake’s comics forged an entire aesthetic of art and queer culture. Since his Ignatz Award winning Gaylord Phoenix, Fake’s comics have only appeared in underground anthologies and zines. At last, these rare comics can all..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Elise Gravel wants to write a totally drab book; her characters want to let loose. Who’s gonna win? Don’t take the title as a metaphor: it really is the worst book ever. Governor General Literary Award winning children’s book..... More
Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Since its inception in 2005, MOME has bridged the gap between the contemporary graphic novel scene and the current cutting-edge literary scene, serving as a perfect sampler of today's best young graphic novelists in a quarterly format that sits as handsomely on..... More
San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2016. First English Edition. First Printing. Softcover. Student nurse Kumiko has just flunked her physiology exam and has one last shot at passing her makeup test. Lucky for her, newbie health science professor Kaisei needs a guinea pig for his physiology lectures. Join Kumiko..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2006. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Walt & Skeezix is the first-ever collection of the classic twentieth-century newspaper strip Gasoline Alley, and Book One is the beginning of a handsome multivolume series edited and designed by comics virtuoso Chris Ware Chris Ware has often cited..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2006. First Edition. Hardback. "Gasoline Alley clearly belongs in the cannon as a deeply American masterwork of cartooning." -Time.com Walt and Skeezix: Book Two collects the Gasoline Alley strips by the great American cartoonist Frank King from 1923 to 1924. King was the first cartoonist..... More
London: Knockabout Comics, 1983. UK Reprint. Softcover staple-bound. More
Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press, 1996. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. This landmark book, first published at the height of the manga boom, is offered in a hardcover collector's edition with a new foreword and afterword. Frederik L. Schodt looks at the classic publications and artists who created modern manga, including..... More
Toronto: Bantam Books, 1980. Paperback. More
New York: Popular Library, 1973. Paperback. More
New York: Popular Library, 1972. Paperback. Selected cartoons from "Still a few bugs in the system" More
New York: Popular Library, 1973. Paperback. More Selected Cartoons from But This War Had Such Promise. More
New York: Popular Library, 1972. Paperback. Selected cartoons from "Still a Few Bugs in the System" More
New York: Popular Library, 1973. Popular Library Edition. Paperback. More
New York: Popular Library, 1973. Paperback. More
Toronto: Bantam Books, 1978. Paperback. More
Toronto: Bantam Books, 1978. Paperback. More
Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews and McMeel, 1990. Softcover. More
New York: New York Review Comics, 2018. Gébé (illustrations). First Printing. Trade Paperback. A new translation from the French by Edward Gauvin Amid the blasted rubble of a once-perfect suburb, a hazmat-suited postman delivers the mail, aloud. He shouts his letters down a vent to the bunker-bound family below..... More
New York: Square Fish, 2009. Softcover. Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Jin Wang starts at a new school where he's the only Chinese-American student. When a boy from Taiwan joins his class, Jin doesn't want to be associated with an FOB like him..... More
New York: First Second Books, 2013. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Stock image shown. Heavy item; please note handling charge. The Boxers & Saints Boxed Set from Gene Luen Yang, one of the greatest comics storytellers alive, brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing work. In two..... More
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2001. Reprint. Softcover. Highly acclaimed when it was first published in 1924, this enduring classic fired the opening salvo in a campaign for serious recognition of the importance of popular culture. Seldes - a journalist, editor, and cultural critic - believed that for a...... More
London: Knockabout Comics, 1989. Reprint. Softcover staple-bound. More
London: Knockabout Comics, 1980. Reprint. Softcover staple-bound. More
London: Knockabout Comics, 1986. Softcover staple-bound. More
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