We just returned from San Diego Comic-Con and a partial report is below. More next week, and we’ll also begin listing the many new items we picked up there just as soon as humanly possible. Watch the Just Arrived sections in each category. The Kinuko Y. Craft Beauty and the Beast includes a specially done, full color bookplate she designed exclusively for us, and it’s wonderful. And it’s a children’s book, so it’s just $17.99. I’ve just begun reading The Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne, adapted into a 3-book graphic novel (but here all collected in one book). I love the pacing (mellow) and the artwork of this, it’s a good take using much of the original text—but with anthropomorphic animals in the human roles. It’s a blast. The Poe Pop-up is really fun, also. |
| Art, Illustrated & Children’s Books | Graphic Novels & Archives
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Signed -- Signed full color bookplate! Our Highest Recommendation. By Mahlon F. Craft. Art by Kinuko Craft. Award-winning team Mahlon and Kinuko Craft bring us a gorgeous and vivid retelling of the classic story of Beauty and the Beast in this stunningly illustrated picture book, with all-new illustrations. One of today's finest fantasy artists, it all comes together for her here--double page spreads, brilliantly ornate borders, highly detailed costumes, jewery, settings, and very personable characters--the charming, innocent beauty and the scary, startling beast.....More. |
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| Kinuko has two 2017 calendars this year, Beauty and the Beast with illustrations from this book and the other, her Women of Myth and Magic. |
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GRIS GRIMLY'S Tales from the Brothers Grimm Signed -- Signed bookplate while supplies last! Highly Recommended. Grimm’s fairy tales are brought to life for a new generation of readers in their original, uncut form by the modern master of gothic horror--with a twist. Enter Gris Grimly, who has faithfully reproduced the original text of a selection of tales and adorned them with his own inimitable artwork. The result is a Grimm collection unlike any other, set in a world that is whimsically sinister, darkly vivid, and completely unforgettable. Both full color plates and b&w drawings throughout.....More. |
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GRIS GRIMLY'S FRANKENSTEIN Signed -- Signed bookplate! Highly Recommended. Assembled from the original text by Mary Shelley. Art by Gris Grimly. A twisted, fresh, and utterly original full-length, full-color graphic-novel adaptation of Mary Shelley's original text, brought to life by the acclaimed illustrator of macabre humor. Gris has cut and stitched Shelley's text to his own artwork, creating something entirely new: a stunningly original remix, both classic and contemporary, sinister and seductive, heart-stopping and heartbreaking. | ||||||||||||
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EDGAR ALLAN POE THE RAVEN POP-UP -- Highly Recommended. Design by David Pelham. Art by Christopher Wormell. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" is one of the most widely recognised poems in the English language. When it first appeared in the New York Evening Mirror in 1845, the poem made Poe an overnight sensation. Master paper engineer David Pelham and illustrator Christopher Wormell amaze us with intricate, elaborate pop-ups that fill the pages as you open each to reveal a new interpretation of each major, even panoramic scene. A haunting love story.....More. |
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EDGAR ALLAN POE'S SPIRITS OF THE DEAD -- Highly Recommended. By Richard Corben. A collection of Edgar Allan Poe's classics adapted by master horror comics artist and Eisner Hall of Famer Richard Corben. Includes The Conqueror Worm, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Red Death, plus Morella and The Rue Morgue. And more! All in full color in a handsome, impressive new hardcover. | ||||||||||||
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SHOW POSTERS THE ART AND PRACTICE OF MAKING GIG POSTERS -- By Pat Jones & Ben Nunery. Design meets music in a one-of-a-kind tour! The two men behind Powerhouse Factories take you beyond album covers to reveal the art & design that drives today's biggest shows and festivals. Show Posters offers a visual timeline of the big players in the music industry, from The Black Keys and Passion Pit to Phantogram and Real Estate, as well as the posters that launched their shows--and the designers' careers. Contributors include Tara McPherson, our favorite Stainboy, Justin Hampton, Jermaine Rogers, et al.....More. |
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| Our website has more books about the current scene and the history of posters. |
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THE CHILDREN OF CAPTAIN GRANT -- Highly Recommended. Adaptation and art by Alexis Nesme. In this adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic novel, the entire cast of characters has been transformed into anthropomorphic animals! And the artwork and storytelling and epic quality of these globe-trotting adventures are just brilliant. You HAVE to see this, page after page of artwork that is worthy of a Pixar movie or a Harry Potter film! Like Journey to the Center of the Earth, this begins with a message in a bottle from a Captain whose ship has gone down at sea.......More. |
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JULES VERNE'S TWENTY-THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA -- Highly Recommended. By Jules Verne. Adapted by Gary Gianni. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. The classic tale of Nemo and the fearsome Nautilus submarine is retold in a wonderful new graphic novel, capturing the vintage feel of the original story, written in the 1860s. The combination of Verne's masterful storytelling and Gianni's dynamic graphic style makes this exciting adventure of life in the first submarine not to be missed. | ||||||||||||
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DOOM PATROL Volume 2 -- Collects #35-50, 1990-91. Recommended. By Grant Morrison. Art by Richard Case, John Nyberg et al. Though they are super-powered beings, and though their foes are bent on world domination, all that is conventional ends there. Shunned as freaks and outcasts, and tempered by loss and insanity, this band of misfits faces threats so mystifying in nature and so corrupted in motive that reality itself threatens to fall apart around them — but it’s still all in a day’s work for the Doom Patrol. Discover an entirely new direction in comics, well-drawn and amazingly written.....More. |
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DOOM PATROL Volume 1 -- Collects #19-34, 1989-90. By Grant Morrison. Art by Richard Case and John Nyberg et al. "Morrison and Richard Case took over that fourth-tier superhero series at the beginning of 1989 and spent the next four years driving it through zones of surreal madness that comics had scarcely visited before...." -Los Angles Times. The groundbreaking series from Grant Morrison that led American comics in a wholly unexpected direction. Though they are super-powered beings, convention ends there. Shunned as freaks and outcasts, tempered by loss and insanity--reality itself threatens to fall apart around them. | ||||||||||||
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MACHINE MAN COMPLETE COLLECTION -- Recommended. By Jack Kirby, Wolfman, Defalco, and Stern. Art by Kirby, Steve Ditko et al. A classic Jack Kirby creation with all the king's classic style from The Fantastic Four for nine full issues. Then our Spider-man guy Steve Ditko takes over for the NEXT ten issues. A real blast from the past, with contributions from other major writers and inkers. A military machine with a soul, a thinking computer in the form of a man, X-51 is the Machine Man! Abel Stack gave a government-created robot a human face, nurturing the man inside the machine and calling him son. But Stack's death left that son, Aaron, alone and running for his life.....More. |
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DEJAH OF MARS 1 -- By Mark Rahner. Art by Jethro Morales. Cover art by Jay Anacleto. John Carter, the hero from Earth, has disappeared. Before he vanished, he assaulted loyal Heliumite guards and stole an ancient artifact. Now, Dejah Thoris -- the Princess of Mars and beloved wife to the fugitive champion -- must investigate his mysterious course of action and save him from the death penalty. Bonus: includes new variant nude covers by the superlative Jay Anacleto, four of them, plus four "incentive" covers by Fabiano Neves, and a "limited edition" cover by Mel Rubio. Mature Readers.....More. |
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LIVING MUMMY AND OTHER STORIES -- 32 Stories from 1950-52. Highly Recommended. By Al Feldstein. Art by Jack Davis. When Jack Davis took up his pen for EC Comics, he made his innocent victims more eye-poppingly terrified, his ax-murderers more gleefully gruesome, and his vampires and werewolves more bloodthirsty and feral than any other artist. These horror and suspense tales — from the pages of Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, and Shock SuspenStories — offer everything a horror fan could ask!....More. |
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PRINCE VALIANT Volume 1 -- Sunday Pages, 1937-38. Our Highest Recommendation. By Hal Foster. The giant Sunday funnies pages gave Foster a huge canvas upon which he was able to propel his daring young hero from one crisis to another with barely a panel to catch one's breath. These epic adventures of Prince Valiant show every delicate line and chromatic nuance of Foster's original masterpiece. Thanks to advances in production technology and newly available proof sheets, this new series is the first to feature superb restored artwork.....More. |
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| Sooner than we expected, this first volume is back in print and, nicely, at the original price and not at the new $35 price of more recent volumes. This makes all the volumes available again, through Volume 13. We still have a very limited number of the oversized American Epic editions, on sale at $49.95 each, which collect years 1938 and 1939 in the full, original newspaper page size. [PV02SC, PV03SC]. |
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CTHULHU 2017 Calendar -- Appearing in several of H.P. Lovecraft’s works, kraken-like monster Cthulhu is an iconic figure that has fed artists' and writers' imaginations and astonished fans. This "Elder God," created by Lovecraft as part of his story mythology, has come to exemplify Lovecraft's strange worlds and pantheon of monsters. Featuring the fantastic work of artists including Peter Siedl, Don Harding, Kari Christensen, Cloud Quinot, Alex Ruiz and others.....More. |
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ARTHUR RACKHAM 2017 Calendar -- Recommended. Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the "Golden Age" of British book illustration, which roughly encompassed the years from 1890–1918. Rackham's illustrations in this calendar are drawn from a variety of publications and show the beauty and skill of his work. Informative text accompanies each work. Images from A Midsummer Night's Dream (2), Alice in Wonderland (2), Mother Goose, Sleepy Hollow, Some British Ballads, Wind in the Willows, Siegried and the Twilight of the Gods, King Arthur, Aesop's Fables and The Night Before Christmas.....More. |
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ART OF BIG O 2017 Calendar -- Art by Roger Dean, H.R. Giger, Vali Myers, Rodney Matthews, Robert Venosa, Jim Burns, Wayne Anderson et al. All of the artists featured here in this calendar had truly amazing, often psychedelic visions that were featured in the Big O publications in the 1970s... Also includes work by Graham Percy, Michael Fishel, Terry Pastor, David Vaughn (of John Lennon), and John Hurford. Their hallucinatory genius reaches for the sublime. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views.....More. |
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WAYNE ANDERSON 2017 Calendar -- Art by Wayne Anderson. Wayne Anderson is an award-winning British illustrator. He has found incredible success providing book illustrations for adults and children alike for the last 30 years. Follow his atmospheric artworks of rather creepy goblins and very unusual faeries into a world of dark curiosity. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views. His works include Ratsmagic, winner of the Society of Illustrator's Gold Medal, and The Flight of Dragons.....More. |
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RODNEY MATTHEWS 2017 Calendar -- Art by Rodney Matthews. For more than 40 years the unique sci-fi and fantasy creations of master illustrator Rodney Matthews have been published worldwide on record album covers, books (including the Elric novels by Michael Moorcock), posters, calendars, video games and more recently the TV screen with his Lavender Castle series. This calendar is a stunning survey of 12 of his amazing dragon artworks - fierce representations of that most popular of fantasy creatures.....More. |
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HISTORY OF MARVEL COMICS PAGE PER DAY 2017 Calendar -- One for us veteran fans! Recommended. Celebrate the new year by learning about the history of Marvel and their characters throughout their beloved history. This is made up entirely of classic Marvel covers and panels and artwork all from the sixties and seventies--the era us old-timers grew up with. There's lots of Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Romita, Cap, Spidey, The Black Widow, Black Bolt, The Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Hero for Hire, Thor---six days a week, a new image from the golden years of Marvel. In a plastic holder and full color box.....More. |
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WONDER WOMAN The Art Of War Wonder Statue By Bruce Timm -- Limited & numbered, 5,200! Designed by Bruce Timm. Sculpted by Jonathan Matthews. Legendary animator and multiple Eisner Award winner Bruce Timm brings his unique animation-style vision of the Amazon Princess. A new ART of WAR statue! It's pure Timm, with long legs and lasso and a very clear 'tude--hands on hips, ready for her next challenge. On a large gold colored base with her "WW" logo. Color box. Sculpted by Jonathan Matthews.....More. |
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FRAZETTA MAGNET SET (HUNTRESS, MAMMOTH, SILVER WARRIOR, DESTROYER) -- Recommended. By Frank Frazetta. Dark Horse brings us a new officially licensed collectible based on the work of the great fantasy artist Frank Frazetta. This is a cool set of four individually packaged magnets, featuring iconic images: The Mammoth (based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs story), The Silver Warrior, (Conan) The Destroyer and The Huntress (also an ERB story). Each 2.25” magnet is packaged on a 2.5” x 3.5” card in a hanging polybag. Crisp reproduction, extra-strong, durable magnet.....More. |
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| Here I thought we were all caught up last week, but these four new titles rolled in. Also coming is a two-volume slipcased set of The Thing Volumes 1 and 2. See all the sale-priced PS Artbooks on our website. They were among our bestsellers at the San Diego Comic-Con last week. One dealer bought a copy of practically every one we had, nearly fifty titles—and another swapped me rare old Golden Age for a Planet set and several others. Don’t miss out, these are selling quickly and we cannot restock most of the titles once they are gone. |
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ROY THOMAS PRESENTS FRANKENSTEIN Volume 5 -- Collects #11-15, 1948. Recommended. Written and drawn by Dick Briefer. Frankenstein in Prize Comics is widely regarded as being America's first ongoing horror series. Indeed, it was Briefer's work that probably caused the creature to be actually named as Frankenstein instead of the nameless monstrosity from Shelley's novel. Splitting the stories between humor and horror, Briefer's tales are absorbing and unsettling in equal parts.....More. |
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ROY THOMAS PRESENTS FRANKENSTEIN Volume 6 -- Collects #16-21, 1948-52. Highly Recommended. Written and drawn by Dick Briefer. With issue #18, the stories took on a far darker tone and became straight horror, in keeping with the boom in horror comics at this time. Poor Frankenstein was once again the tragic figure, and watch out folks if you mistreated him or what few sympathetic acquaintances he came across. Death and destruction was the payback from our boy, and lots of it. Stories include "World of Monsters," "Satan and the Sailor," "Tomb of the Living Dead," and "Tomb of Death!" Also includes backup horror stories by Mort Meskin and others.....More. |
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ROY THOMAS PRESENTS FRANKENSTEIN Volume 7 -- Collects #22-27, 1952-53. Highly Recommended. Written and drawn by Dick Briefer. While earlier issues were pure humor, with these issues Frankenstein takes a dark, sinister turn into pure horror. Each issue also includes two back-up stories, horror tales typical of the horror comics genre before the code came along. There's work by artists Mort Meskin, Marvin Stein (several), and lots of unknowns. Poor Frankenstein, when he's not killing well-deserving bad guys, he also encounters mummy creatures, a wolfman, is frozen alive, is taken aboard a whaling ship, inadvertently makes friends with a grave-robbing ghoul, and finds an equally horrible mate, who of course he loses to a gun-toting mob.....More. |
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ROY THOMAS PRESENTS FRANKENSTEIN Volume 8 -- Collects #28-33, 1954. Highly Recommended. Written and drawn by Dick Briefer. While earlier issues were pure humor, here Frankenstein continues, and in fact concludes the complete run. It's now entirely a dark, sinister turn into pure horror. I particularly like these stories, as the mute monster relentlessly deals out harsh, final justice to anyone who wishes him ill. He also became a silent judge-and-jury when he finds others persecuted or wronged, and never hesitates to mete out violent justice! He's the man!....More. |
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| Volume 3 is also available at the sale price, but volume 4 has sold out. We will be restocking it at the original $49.99 price soon. We also still have very limited quantites of the slipcased editions, at $21.95 each, of volumes 5-8. Note: The publishers were unable to get source material for volumes 1 and 2, being the Frankenstein stories from the very scarce Prize Comics, so these will appear if and when they get that material. See our website for all Roy Thomas Presents Frankenstein. |
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GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO Artist's Edition -- By Larry Hama. Art by Herb Trimpe et al. If you are a fan of classic 1980s G.I. JOE comic books, this is your holy grail! Complete stories from Issues #1, 2, 21 Silent Interlude, 24, 26 Origin of Snake Eyes, and G. I. JOE Yearbook #2 are all represented in this Artist's Edition. Plus an amazing cover gallery, featuring many of the best covers in the run. Due Sept.....More. |
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BATMAN A Celebration of the Classic TV Series -- By Robert Garcia and Joe Desris. Batman: A Celebration of the Classic TV Series is the definitive book for all fans of the popular Sixties show. Presented in a lavish hardcover edition, the book features classic images, rare stills, photography and production art and serves as the ultimate tribute for fans of the series. Due Sept. ....More. | ||||||||||||||
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Mature ReadersJust one new adult item this week, and it’s scarcely that. The Vintage Burlesque 2017 Calendar has just two fully nude pictures, and the balance are all classic tease. But we like it, the costumes are exotic and the girls new to us. Check it out. Dejah of Mars has several superlative nude paintings for variant covers by Jay Anacleto, but with that the only adult content, I kept it in the regular section. You can see two of these in our scans if you click on it. Nude Photography | Erotic Art | Erotic Films: DVDs | Adult Graphic Novels | All Pin-Up & Adult |
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San Diego Comic-Con Report In about two weeks we will have copies of Carbon 2, and Mark Schultz will be signing a limited number for us. |
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The Sensuous Frazetta arrived early for the show, thanks to Vanguard including us in his advance delivery. It’s available in softcover, hardcover and deluxe—we put it on the website a while back when still coming. We even have just a few hardcovers signed by Frank’s daughter Holly Frazetta. Also from Vanguard, and also in advance of general distribution, Wally Wood’s Jungle Adventures (also in sc, hc and deluxe)—these last are in before any Diamond accounts will be getting theirs, since the publisher picked up copies at the dock in Long Beach. |  |
We also picked up copies of a fine artbook by Alex Nino, published last year, but each one has a drawing by Alex in it and is signed. And though we could not get regular Bill Sienkiewicz sketchbooks (they are all going to the Lucca show in Italy), we did score ten copies which include a remarque drawing. We’ll try to get regular editions later on. As you may have surmised, it’s sometimes hit or miss on getting all the sketchbooks we would like to offer you. Some artists don’t sell them except at the show, others (sadly) may offer them exclusively through another dealer, and some simply sell them out and that’s it! We noted there were fewer titles this year—nothing from Chris Sanders, or Alex Ross, for instance. And not nearly so many new titles from new artists—many are now doing lower-cost postcards and prints. The heyday of sketchbooks might just be waning a bit after peaking a year or two ago. Keep checking the website and we’ll get these new arrivals listed as soon as possible. Our advance orders will use up all we have on the advance copies of The Sensuous Frazetta Deluxe and softcover. But we should have advance copies available of Wally Wood’s Jungle Adventures and the Sensuous Frazetta hardcover, which we did not previously announce. Otherwise it will be two or perhaps three weeks until our main shipment arrives and we can finish filling advance orders and then have copies available for new orders. Illustration Press (aka Illustration Magazine) just announced a new book on Tom Lovell, limited to just 900 copies. We’ll be handling it as we do all their books. The highlight for me was Howard Chaykin singing a show tune with my partner Anne...still not sure what brought that on. Bill Stout came by with two new sketchbooks (one is on Bill’s work for Willis O’Brien films like King Kong), author Max Allan Collins (who signed his Mike Hammer Newspaper strip collection), Denis Kitchen came by and we will be handling a self-published bio by him, that expands on the interview in Comics Creator #5. Terry Moore brought us our order of specially signed copies of his new complete Rachel Rising, a massive new book with the complete epic story. We also have Terry’s new sketchbook which will be in shortly. This is already on the website. We also met up in the booth with EC expert and writer Grant Geissman, Wendy and Richard Pini, Joseph Linsner brought by his new sketchbook, and Daxiong, whose artwork is on the cover of our upcoming catalog (see below), let us have more copies of his art book done several years ago, complete with an original sketch in each one. The author of Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration signed our copies of his book (which is outstanding, by the way). More news and personal commentary next week. Watch our Facebook page for pictures from the show, including my favorite new comic book acquisitions. ~ Bud |
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