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| Here's our annual Calendar Sale! We've discounted most at 50% off, even a few at 60% off. A couple of the collectible titles are 40% off. To see all the adult calendars, click here. Quantities are VERY limited, act now for the best selection. We're doing this earlier than usual, so you still have 11 months of use for every title. See the end of this email for a link to our 2023 Bestsellers list and the latest book closeouts. |
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THE ART OF DANIEL MERRIAM 2024 Calendar Highly Recommended. Very popular year after year, with wonderful images from 2011 to 2021, many quite recent works. Most of these are new to us! Dive into worlds of fantastic creatures and Victorian architecture with Daniel Merriam’s surrealist art. From bizarre circus performers to eerie castles in the mist, from a winged fantasy creature to a face framed by monsters, a train steaming through carved mountain eyries, Merriam’s romantic works combine adventure and whimsy in each scene. Pomegranate, 2023....More. Item Code: ADM24 12x13, 24pg, Full Color |
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WOMEN OF MYTH AND MAGIC Kinuko Craft 2024 Calendar Highly Recommended. Women have inspired great literature, poetry, and, above all, magnificent works of art. Among contemporary artists depicting ladies of legend, none shines brighter than Kinuko Y. Craft. In this elegant calendar, Craft presents twelve opulent and richly detailed portraits of enchantresses, goddesses, and fairy tale princesses, each weaving a spell of breathtaking feminine beauty. Craft is one of the world's most widely respected and well-known contemporary fantasy artists. She has published eight major illustrated fairy-tale and mythology hardcover picture books, including The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Cinderella. Amber Lotus, 2023....More. Item Code: WOME24 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
| Click here to see the beautiful oversized Visions of Beauty by Kinuko. Includes a special full color bookplate, signed by Kinuko! |
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THE ART OF OMAR RAYYAN 2024 Calendar Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. Omar Rayyan's oil paintings, depicting beautiful exotic women and their outré, bizarre "pets." We love his rich colors, his imaginative fantasies. What is the story behind each of these incredible images? You just might find out here. Each month also has a selection of unusual "holidays" such as: Take Your Cat to Work Day, and Bad Poetry Day. 13 unique images, 26 pages, includes bonus page with a 4-month grid for the end of 2023, so you can start enjoying the calendar right away. Calendar starts Sept 2023, ends Dec 31 2024. Very minor, tasteful nudity. Omar Rayyan, 2023....More. Item Code: AOR24 11.5x11.5, 26pg, Full Color |
| Also available is Goblin Market, signed by Omar! |
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HAIKU JAPANESE ART AND POETRY 2024 Calendar Highly Recommended. This calendar features 12 haiku paired with reproductions of exquisite Japanese woodcuts. Each poem is rendered in Japanese calligraphy, Romaji transliteration, and English translation. The roots of Japanese haiku reach back over 1,000 years. In this poetic form, as in life, there is a pause, a shift, in which the poet celebrates sensory awareness of the season, perhaps suggested by the scent of plum blossoms or the silence of snow-covered tree limbs. The timeless appeal of this understated poetry may be the human desire to capture one’s impressions of a fleeting moment. Such seasonal allusions emphasize the essence of haiku: nature and its ephemeral beauty. Pomegranate, 2023....More. Item Code: HAIK24 12x13, 24pg, Full Color |
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HOKUSAI 2024 Calendar Recommended. An unusual selection of work by the master Japanese woodblock artist. Landscapes, mountains, closeups of flowers, trees and a peacock, a long board, racing horsemen, workers carrying loads across a canal, a waterfall... His work is dreamy and evocative, portraying an idealized Japan of the 17th and 18th centuries. Reproduced from richly colored and beautifully designed images, many now iconic. He is our favorite among all the traditional Japanese woodblock artists. Gifted, 2023....More. Item Code: HOK24 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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PRE-RAPHAELITES 2024 Calendar Highly Recommended. Exquisitely detailed paintings by the most renowned artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, circa 1855-1900: Lord Leighton, J.W. Waterhouse, Burne Jones, Herbert Draper, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others. Well-chosen, wonderfully evocative images of angels, gods, queens, country scenes and ordinary people of the mid to late 19th century. The large grid is ideal for home and office with space for birthdays and notes. Grace your walls with unparalleled beauty today! Tushita, 2023....More. Item Code: PRE24 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
| Click here to see more Pre-Raphaelite art from our Rare Books section. |
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ART NOUVEAU 2024 Calendar Recommended. Well-chosen images, some never before collected on a calendar. Includes Sept-Dec 2023. Rare advertisements, ads and paintings by Henri Privat-Livemont (3 different), Etienne Bouisset. Raphael Orazi, Albert Weisgerber, Mucha, Leopoldo Metlicovitz, Jules-Alexandre Grun, Henri Thiriet, etc. This beautiful Art Nouveau Calendar is printed on thick glossy paper with plenty of space for personal notes and birthdays, plus important holidays. Tushita, 2023....More. Item Code: ARTN24 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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DINOSAURS 2024 Calendar Recommended. Outstanding, realistic, highly detailed paintings that look like color photographs! An appealing variety of dinosaurs in lush, realistic settings in jungles and on plains. This reminds us of James Gurney's work in his wonderful Dinotopia. A different, very real dinosaur for each month plus a bonus image. From Pterodactyls flying on leathery wings, to classic T-Rex and and long-necked plant-eaters, they are all here in cool setting and backgrounds. Great for all ages. Bright Day, 2023....More. Item Code: DINO24 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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DINOSAURS THE ART OF SERGEY KRASOVSKIY 2024 Calendar Recommended. Ukrainian paleoartist Sergey Krasovskiy is one of the leaders in his field, incorporating the latest paleontological discoveries into his dynamic paintings. Enjoy 12 of his dinosaur depictions in this calendar. While paleontologists can spend decades recovering and studying bones and fossils, without a time machine there is no way to truly know exactly what dinosaurs looked like. Bones give us the foundation for their bodies, but time and decay limit our knowledge of defining features like the skin, feathers, cartilage, stature, and muscle mass of these extinct creatures. Giving shape to prehistoric beasts that no human eyes will ever see is an inspired art form that takes a unique combination of science and imagination. Pomegranate, 2023....More. Item Code: DINS24 12x13, 24pg, Full Color |
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OVERSIZED!! ALEX ROSS MARVEL MURAL 2024 Six Foot Calendar Recommended. Unfolding to 6 ft. wide x 2 ft. tall, this oversized wall calendar features a mural of 35 Marvel Comics Super Heroes painted by renowned comics artist Alex Ross, from Angel to Wolverine. Alex Ross is one of the most respected and influential artists working in comics. Originally commissioned for Marvel’s New York City offices, the mural presents the Marvel Super Heroes painted in the award-winning, breathtaking style that made Ross famous. Abrams, 2023....More. Item Code: ARM24 72x24, 24pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL VALUE STAMPS 2024 DAY TO DAY Calendar Recommended. This 2024 daily desk calendar showcases the original, highly collected Marvel Value Stamps, first published in 1974, and also all of the related art and advertising from one of the most inspired comic book promotional campaigns of all time. 300 images of super heroes and super villains from the acclaimed 1974 AND 1975 sets, plus later reissues and other related ephemera. Plus a brief history by former Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas. Abrams, 2023....More. Item Code: MARV24 Calendar, 5x4, 24pg, Full Color |
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ZENESCOPE Featuring The Art of Paul Green 2024 Calendar Highly Recommended. Huge, impressive format (11x17 oblong) that doubles as a poster book or art portfolio. Huge, impressive format (11x17 oblong) that doubles as a poster book or art portfolio. Zenescope is known for visually stunning artwork. Now for the first time one of their top talents, Paul Green, presents a wonderful art collection, with images on the front AND BACK of every page. Paul's work will remind you of J. Scott Campbell, it's polished and impressive, featuring beautiful Zenescope girls in hot outfits. And they are cosplaying in spoof ads for pop culture's most iconic cereals! It's great Good Girl art, all in fun. Zenescope, 2023....More. Item Code: ZENE24 Wirebound, 17x11, 24pg, Full Color |
| More Zenescope items can be found here. |
Oversized Vintage Calendars |
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VINTAGE GOLDEN AGE COMICS 2024 Calendar Oversized 11 x 15, removable prints. Highly Recommended. A fine selection of unusual and offbeat 1940s covers: Amazing-Man by Bill Everett, The Blue Beetle, Black Cat by Lee Elias, Phantom Lady, Miss Fury by Tarpe Mills, Boy Comics' Crimebuster by Charles Biro, the best-ever robot cover, Fantastic #3 by Lou Fine, Silver Streak, Green Mask, Moon Girl by Shelly, and Catman by Bob Fuji!! Excellent, dynamic covers that have not been reprinted to death elsewhere. A great selection! Accompanied by in-depth commentary by pop culture historian Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg detailing the contents of each issue. Asgard, 2023....More. Item Code: VINGA24 Wirebound, 11x15, 24pg, Full Color |
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VINTAGE CRIME COMICS 2024 Calendar Oversized 11 x 15, removable prints. Recommended. By L.B. Cole, Matt Baker, Reed Crandall et al. Pre-Code crime comics before the implementation of the Comics Code Authority in 1955. These covers pushed the boundaries of storytelling and good taste, with their gritty and often controversial content. Accompanied by in-depth commentary each month from pop culture historian Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg in the form of a 12-part essay on Pre-Code comics! A fine selection of wild covers from Thrilling Crime, Underworld Crime, Crimes by Women, All-Famous Police, Ken Shannon, Sam Hill, Fight Against Crime, etc. Asgard, 2023....More. Item Code: VINCC24 Wirebound, 11x15, 24pg, Full Color |
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VINTAGE ROMANCE COMICS 2024 Calendar Oversized 11 x 15, removable prints. Highly Recommended. By Matt Baker (3 covers), John Prentice, Warren Kremer et al. Matt Baker! Steamy covers! Silly stories! Suggestive story titles! Romance comics are the new frontier in comic collecting. Neglected for decades, they are finally being discovered for their artwork, their steamy and suggestive story titles and covers. With their melodramatic narratives, lush artwork, and dreamy depictions of love won and lost, romance comic books became one of the top comics genres and boomed from 1948 to 1955. Each month includes commentary that explores their history and impact. Bonus comic panel artwork appears on each grid page. Asgard, 2023....More. Item Code: VINRC24 Wirebound, 11x15, 24pg, Full Color |
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VINTAGE HORROR COMICS 2024 Calendar Oversized 11 x 15, removable prints. Highly Recommended. PA powerful, well-selected montage of some of the very finest horror covers of the pre-code era. The famous exploding head cover, rare L.B. Cole work, a decaying dead body floating, even a wonderful rare Frazetta Beware cover with skeletons and a voluptuous girl. Monsters, beasts, killers, it's all here, from Baffling, Weird Horrors, Witches Tales, Tomb of Terror, Startling Terror, The Unseen, The Thing, Suspense, Black Cat Mystery etc. Accompanied by in-depth commentary each month from pop culture historian Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg in the form of a 12-part essay on Pre-Code comics. Asgard, 2023....More. Item Code: VINHC24 Wirebound, 11x15, 24pg, Full Color |
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VINTAGE SCI-FI 2024 Calendar Oversized 11 x 15, with removable prints. Highly Recommended. By Alan Anderson, Kelly Freas, Earl Bergey, Frank R. Paul et al. Wild and steamy pulp covers from 1931 to 1954: Planet Stories, Captain Future, Startling Stories, Thrilling Wonder, Uncanny Tales. These showcase the works of iconic authors like Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, behind covers of aliens, space babes, robots, and wild futuristic technology. With their vibrant cover art and thought-provoking narratives, these pulps ignited the imaginations of readers and launched the genre of science fiction into the mass media. Each month includes captioning with details about each issue. Asgard, 2023....More. Item Code: VINS24 Wirebound, 11x15, 24pg, Full Color |
Prior Years & Collectible Calendars |
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FRAZETTA SEA WITCH 2023 Calendar Deluxe Variant Sea Witch cover. Limited to 500 copies. Note: there is a tiny corner bump on the envelope, not the calendar; we cannot get more and this will sell out soon. This deluxe variant includes a premium slipcase envelope individually numbered with a hologram sticker, foil stamping on the envelope and a bonus January 2024 page. Produced by the Frazetta Girls, Frank’s family. Here are Frazetta’s finest paintings of women, including many works not collected in calendar form before and several full nudes. Beautiful, voluptuous, and absolutely fearless women! Frank Frazetta painted women who, once encountered, are never forgotten.. Frazetta Girls Inc, 2022. Out of print. Mature Viewers....More. Item Code: FRAZSW23 12x12, 24pg, Full Color |
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DAN BRERETON'S NOCTURNALS OCTOBER EPOCH 2023 Calendar Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. This unique 13-month calendar frames the year as it should, beginning and ending with the most important month of the year—OCTOBER! Featuring significant holidays, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, all the horror-themed dates they could think of: author birthdays, classic horror movie release dates, and many more monstrous events! Includes November-December 2023 also! The Nocturnals and more monsters and creatures star in Dan’s very first calendar, signed on the cover. Nakatomi, 2022....More. Item Code: DB23 12x12, 26pg, Full Color |
| Many more items from Dan are available, all signed! |
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BUD PLANT VINTAGE 1998 PIN-UP Calendar By Earl Moran. Yes indeed, we published this ourselves for 1998 and sold it at a nominal price as a fun premium. The actual year date on this is 1953, which was the "mirror year" for 1998, as explained in the cover sheet. Brown & Bigelow is perhaps the most famous name in pin-up calendars, and they were still taking orders for advertising work at this point, so we picked a fun Earl Moran image and added our name and information and logo...just like businesses did it back in the day. Metal top & bottom clamps, art deco border. Brown & Bigelow, 1996. Out of Print. Condition: Some prints have small tears and or creases. Best copies will be shipped first....More. Item Code: CALPG 18x27, Full Color |
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JEFFREY JONES 1998 Edgar Rice Burroughs Calendar By Jeffery Jones. You might remember this incredible fantasy artist from his collaborative days with artists Michael Kaluta, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Bernie Wrightson, all of the famed "Studio." Or perhaps you are familiar with his works published in Epic Illustrated, Heavy Metal, and National Lampoon Magazine. But, it was Jeffery Jones' great dream to return and bring his own vision to the worlds of the legendary pulp author Edgar Rice Burroughs. FPG, 1998. Out of Print. Condition: Very Fine/As New. In Shrink Wrap!...More. Item Code: RB4221 Calendar, 12x12, 12 prints, Full Color |
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ALBERT HAHN 1877-1918 2021 Calendar Covers by Albert Hahn from the Dutch Journal for the Arts Windingen. This was an Architecture and Arts magazine that appeared from 1918 to 1932. It was an important platform for Dutch expressionism, with lots of emphasis on art and design, and its striking typography. Selected from all 116 cover designs. Calligraphics, 2020....More. Item Code: AH21 Wirebound, 9x13, 26pg, Full Color |
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AN ALMANAC OF TWELVE SPORTS By William Nicholson 2022 Calendar Oversized. Highly Recommended. A fine art, extremely limited (less than 100) calendar from our favorite art historian-turned-publisher. This collects a true classic, first published in 1898 in London. Each of the most popular English sports is elegantly pictured in a color woodblock style. Spiral bound. Very heavy cardstock throughout, gorgeous bright colors, and brilliant design work. Calligraphics, 2021....More. Item Code: ALM22 Wirebound, 11x17, 12pg, Full Color |
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