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Our spanking new catalog is downloadable now. My editorial addresses the fact that I am hoping to sell Bud’s Art Books by the end of this year, while Anne and I will continue to handle Rare and Out of Print books from her website. Details in News & Notes below. Lots of new goodies and some great coming items…Enjoy. |
 Late Spring 2025 Incredible Catalog Download Now! |
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Click here for last week's new items, and here for Bud's Upcoming Events. Click here to see ALL New Arrivals, beginning with the latest and going back 30 days.
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| WALT DISNEY'S MICKEY MOUSE AND THE AMAZING LOST OCEAN Hardcover & Gorgeous! Our Highest Recommendation! The European writer/artist team of Denis-Pierre Filippi and Silvio Camboni present an incredible new Mickey Mouse graphic novel adventure — reflecting the Golden Age of comics past with incredible steampunk creations! I am super impressed, this is absolutely gorgeous artwork and wild, imaginative story. - Bud. In a dystopian future located in a parallel reality, scavengers rule the Earth: pals like Mickey and Goofy are salvaging rare fuel from the seafloor, and rogues like Peg Leg Pete are fighting to get it first! Fantagraphics, 2025....More. Item Code: WDMMALH Hard Cover, 10x13, 64pg, Full Color |
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| I don’t usually lead off with a graphic novel. But this masterpiece from Europe is one of the best works I’ve seen, it is packed with amazing artwork, wild inventions, superlative color, and it’s just darned fun. I can’t recommend it enough. - Bud |
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CARAVAGGIO THE PALETTE AND THE SWORD Volume 2 Milo Manara’s Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword Volume 2, the second half of Manara’s epic two-volume biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter, depicts the tragedy of his years on the run for killing a man in a duel in Rome. With a price on his head, Caravaggio flees to Naples, Malta, and Sicily — continuing to paint and desperately hoping his work will earn him a pardon from the pope. Fantagraphics, 2025. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: CARV02 Soft Cover, 9x12, 64pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| Click here for Volume 1 and more by Milo Manara. |
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HELEN OF WYNDHORN Collects #1-6. By Tom King. Art by Bilquis Evely and Matheus Lopes. Following the tragic death of her late father C.K. Cole, the esteemed pulp writer and creator of the popular warrior character Othan; Helen Cole is called back to her grandfather’s enormous and illustrious estate: Wyndhorn House. Features a sketchbook section and bonus art by Walt Simonson, Greg Smallwood, Clay Mann, Elsa Charretier, Tula Lotay, Massimo Carnivale, Fabio Moon, and Jill Thompson. Dark Horse, 2025. ...More. Item Code: HELWH Hard Cover, 7x10, 176pg, Full Color |
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EYRIE MAGAZINE #4-6 Set Signed Volume 4 signed by Mike Hoffman! Art by Mike Hoffman. New tales of horror that salute the great mags of the past, but also plow new territory with imaginative and thought-provoking tales by famed fantasy artist & comics creator Mike Hoffman and his band of supremely talented artists and writers! Self-published and not available in most outlets. Hoffman International, 2021....More. Item Code: EYR02P Soft Cover, 8x11, 48pg, 48pg, 44pg, b&w $26.95 |
| Click here for Set #1 and more by Mike Hoffman. |
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DC FINEST CATWOMAN Vengeance and Vindication Collects Catwoman #0, #13-32; and Catwoman Annual #2-3. Following directly from previous volume DC Finest: Catwoman: Life Lines, which collected the earliest Catwoman solo stories from the late 1980s and early 1990s, DC Finest: Catwoman: Vengeance and Vindication continues to propel Selina Kyle forward in her own ongoing series with art by Jim Balent, joined by writers Jo Duffy and later, Chuck Dixon. DC Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: DCFCV Soft Cover, 7x10, 624pg, Full Color |
| Here’s the latest releases in this excellent “DC Finest” series.
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NANCY WEARS HATS The cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller stated that his beloved Nancy was created for “the gum chewers” and not the “caviar eaters,” and this new collection of classic Nancy comic strips is perfect for gum chewers of all ages! Featuring over 300 comic strips, Nancy Wears Hats is a hilarious introduction to the timeless classic, beloved by generation after generation of children and adults. Fantagraphics, 2025. ...More. Item Code: NANW Soft Cover, 9x8, 216pg, b&w |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THREE ROCKS The Story of Ernie Bushmiller The Man Who Created Nancy Almost Gone! Highly Recommended. From Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobody’s Fool, comes Three Rocks, a graphic novel biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy. But this graphic novel is about more than a single comic book artist. It is the story of this American art form, tracing its inception back to 1895 with the Yellow Kid, the creation of Nancy in 1933, and all the strips that followed, including Peanuts and The Far Side. When Bushmiller died in 1982, Nancy was running in almost 900 daily newspapers — a number few syndicated cartoonists ever achieve. Abrams ComicArts, 2023....More. Item Code: THREH Hard Cover, 7x10, 272pg, b&w $24.99 |
| We have just four of these left. Here’s more Nancy and the biography of her creator! |
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THE DC UNIVERSE By Steve Ditko Omnibus Collects Beware the Creeper #1-6, Stalker #1-4, World's Finest Comics #249-255, Adventure Comics #467-478, and many, many more, 1968-2011. Highly Recommended. AfterAfter co-creating Spider-Man and creating Doctor Strange, Ditko moved to DC Comics in 1968, creating two long-lived series: The Creeper and Hawk and Dove! Roughly a decade later, Ditko returned to create even more, including Shade, the Changing Man and Stalker — along with contributing to genre anthologies like House of Mystery and Time Warp. This massive volume collects all of his DC work in one oversize volume! This is very cool! DC Comics, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: DCUSDH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1264pg, Full Color |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS DAREDEVIL Volume 19 Collects Daredevil #204-214 and more, 1984-85. Denny O’Neil continues his celebrated Daredevil run and joining him is one of the series’ most influential art talents, David Mazzucchelli! Mazzucchelli grew from a fresh new talent to a comic art master at an unbelievable pace and his early issues are collected here for the first time. Micah Synn emerges as a formidable antagonist, uncovering Daredevil’s identity and competing with the Kingpin for criminal control of New York City. Daredevil must do the unthinkable — join with Kingpin to defeat Synn. Plus a story by sci-fi master Harlan Ellison, the debut of Glorianna O’Breen and a brutal experience for Foggy and Debbie Nelson. Marvel, 2025. ...More. Item Code: MMDA19H Hard Cover, 7x10, 296pg, Full Color |
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FANTASTIC FOUR Omnibus Volume 6 Collects Fantastic Four #164-203 & Annual #11-13, and more, 1975-78. Recommended. By Roy Thomas.In the 1970s the series remained a creative force under the guidance of Marvel’s top writers, the artistry of the brothers Buscema, Keith Pollard and break-out talent George PÉrez. This Omnibus edition presents FF adventures on a massive scale like Galactus vs. the High Evolutionary, while seating the drama in the closeness of the team as a family. All families have their struggles though, and when the FF break up, it really could be the end. Their greatest enemy will bind the team back together. Marvel, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge....More. Item Code: FFOM06H Hardcover, 7x11, 1072pg, Full Color |
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CRYPTOLOGY #3 "I, the Cryptologist, am back with editor Peter Normanton and my horrible little troop of ne’er do wells, to inflict the dread of Mars Attacks upon you”the banned cards, model kits, and despicable comics, along with a few words from the film’s deranged storyboard artist Pete von Sholly! The chilling poster art of Reynold Brown gets brought up from my vault by Steve Kronenberg, along with a host of terrifying puppets from film, and more pre-Code comic books Dr. Wertham would prefer you forget! Plus, Tim Leese spends more Hammer Time on that studio’s films, we run from another Killer “B” movie (1959’s The Manster), and Justin Marriot flips through obscure ‘70s fear-filled paperbacks. It’s more retro-horror to satiate your sinister side!" TwoMorrows, 2025....More. Item Code: CRY03 Magazine, 8x11, 84pg, Partial Color $10.95 |
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ALTER EGO #193 Edited by Roy Thomas. Alter Ego #193 features “Drawn to Greatness”, the lavishly illustrated story of the Golden and Silver Age Superman artists who followed in Joe Shuster‘s boot-steps! It's an abridgement of the super-rare book by Eddy Zeno — showcasing the likes of Wayne Boring, Paul Cassidy, Fred Ray, Jack Burnley, John Sikela, Leo Nowak, Win Mortimer, and others, with appreciations by Ordway, Kupperberg, Isabella, Jurgens, Waid, Macchio, Neary, Nowlan, Eury, Thomas, and others! Plus Fawcett Collectors of America, Michael T. Gilbert in Mr. Monster's Comic Crypt, and more! TwoMorrows, 2025....More. Item Code: AE193 Magazine, 8x11, 84pg, Partial Color $10.95 |
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COMIC BOOK CREATOR #38 Rick Veitch Edited by Jon B. Cooke.Artist/writer Rick Veitch discusses his varied career, from undergrounds at age 20, graduating “first class” at the Kubert School, to his wild ride in the ‘80s with 1941 to Epic Illustrated to Heavy Metal, stint as Swamp Thing man, to his own creator-owned King Hell Heroica universe, including The One, Brat Pack, and Maximortal! Plus the saga of Studio Zero, the short-lived ‘70s California collective bringing together Jim Starlin, Frank Brunner, Alan Weiss, Steve Englehart, and others who all almost scored a regular comics feature in Rolling Stone magazine! TwoMorrows, 2025....More. Item Code: CBCR38 Magazine, 8x11, 84pg, Partial Color $10.95 |
| Click here for back issues, plus much more from TwoMorrows. |
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MEN'S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #12 Edited by Robert Deis and Bill Cunningham.That’s how it starts — a beautiful dame walks into a private eye’s life, and everything goes to hell with more gut-wrenching twists and turns than a roller coaster. Here are some of the best stories taken from the men’s adventure magazines of yesteryear by some of the masters of the hard boiled P.I. genre. Subtropic Productions, 2025....More. Item Code: MENQ12 Soft Cover, 8x10, 161pg, Partial Color $33.95 |
| Back issues and more from this publisher. |
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WILD ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Volume 5 Hardcover By Will Murray. Art by Joe DeVito. Cover by Tom Roberts.Beginning with “The Matter of the Missing Mortician,” which London’s greatest detective solves without ever leaving his Baker Street sitting room to “The Conundrum of the Disputed Canvas,” which brings Holmes to Richmond Hill to resolve the authenticity of a painting of questionable origins. Odyssey Publications, 2025....More. Item Code: WILSHE05H Hard Cover, 6x9, 276pg, Text/b&w $60.00 |
| Here are previous volumes and more Will Murray novels. |
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GO FIGURE Figurative Social Surrealist Paintings By Guy Colwell. Go Figure collects 44 “social surrealist” figurative paintings, spanning 1987-2023. All are in eye-popping color: many depict a crowd in observational tableaux, each figure a character by virtue of dress, body language, and interactions with each other, animals, and their setting. Other paintings reflect Colwell’s wide travels, and still others are surreal — such as “Junior and the Legs” (2023), which shows a young man strumming a guitar on stage, accompanied by disembodied women’s limbs. Each image has a narrative and a moral purpose — often, one figure bravely moves forward, despite a hostile crowd. In Guy Colwell’s world, no individual could ever be an island, just another part of a rich ecosystem. Fantagraphics, 2025....More. Item Code: GOFIH Hard Cover, 11x11, 96pg, Full Color |
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Here's another batch of 70 items that are going away soon, down to just one, two or three copies left. You can see the latest 3…2…1 items our ALMOST GONE section, at the top of the home page, right next to CLOSEOUTS.
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY #20 Halloween Special Highly Recommended. Special issue featuring the dark arts of EC's master Graham Ingels (written by Grant Geissman), Famous Monster cover artist Basil Gogos (reminiscence by J. David Spurlock), the superlative Tom Grindberg (Tarzan: The New Adventures, Tarzan & the Martian Legion) and three other illustrators. Book Palace, 2025. Due: Sept....More. Item Code: IQS20H Soft Cover, 9x11, 200pg, Partial Color $53.99 |
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WALT DISNEY'S CHILDREN'S CLASSICS 1937-1953 By Charles Solomon. Travel to imagined lands through mid-century illustrations by pioneering Disney artists such as Al Dempster, Campbell Grant, Dick Kelsey, Mel Shaw, and Retta Scott Worcester. This anthology of stories draws from early Disney film adaptations for the Golden Books, including princess fairy tales, adventure fantasies, and tales of animal heroes. Taschen, 2025. Due: Sept....More. Item Code: WDCHH Hard Cover, 8x10, 376pg, Full Color $50.00 |
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BATMAN '66 COMPENDIUM Collects Batman ‘66 #1-30, Batman ‘66: The Lost Episode #1, and a story from Solo #7, 2005-16. By Jeff Parker. Art by Jonathan Case. Return to the groovy world of the classic Batman TV series with this complete collection of Batman ‘66! Inspired by the beloved show, these action-packed, lighthearted tales bring the Dynamic Duo face-to-face with their most infamous foes, including the Joker, the Penguin, Catwoman, and the Riddler, along with first-time appearances by Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Bane, and Two-Face in this retro-stylized universe! Featuring the legendary Lost Episode adapted from an unproduced script by sci-fi icon Harlan Ellison, this compendium is a must-have for Bat-fans and lovers of pop culture nostalgia. DC Comics, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Sept....More. Item Code: BAT66H Hard Cover, 1008pg, Full Color |
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WONDER WOMAN By John Byrne Omnibus Collects Wonder Woman #101-136, Wonder Woman Annual #5-6 and more, 1988-98. By John Byrne. Art by Walt Simonson, Mike Mignola, Mike Zeck, and Curtis Swan. Master storyteller John Byrne brings his signature style to the world of Wonder Woman in this omnibus collecting his full run on the iconic Amazon Warrior. As Diana carves out a new life in Gateway City, she faces devastating battles against the forces of Apokolips, confronts deadly foes such as Cheetah, and even ascends to godhood in a saga that redefines her destiny. With stunning artwork and sweeping storytelling, this collection showcases Wonder Woman’s most mythic and action-packed adventures of the 1990s, including the rise of a new Wonder Girl and Queen Hippolyta’s surprising turn as Wonder Woman during World War II. This omnibus is a must-have for fans of epic superhero storytelling! Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Sept....More. Item Code: WWJBH Hard Cover, 7x10, 1016pg, Full Color |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS UNIVERSE The Monster Men Hardcover By Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cover by Brian LeBlanc.On a secluded jungle island in the East Indies festers a horrifying secret. There Professor Maxon has fled with his daughter Virginia following the success of his immoral experiments to subvert the laws of nature and create life. Twelve misshapen, hideous things have risen from Maxon’s vats on the island — but Number Thirteen is almost human. Bonus Story: “Elmer” by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Rare Original Draft of “The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw!” ERB Inc., 2025. Due: Oct....More. Item Code: ERBMMH Hard Cover, 6x9, Text/b&w $39.95 |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS UNIVERSE Return of the Monster Men Hardcover By Josh Reynolds. Cover by Brian LeBlanc. Thirteen months after their horrifying experiences in the East Indies, Bulan—the man once known as Townsend J. Harper, Jr.—and his wife Virginia return the isle of terror where their adventures began. In their hearts lies a burning question: What truly happened to Number Thirteen, the soulless monster unleashed from Professor Maxon’s vats? But they are little prepared for the answer, or to confront the shadowy faction of a foreign power that has seized the island hoping to unearth its dread secrets for nefarious purposes. Includes the Bonus Novelette “Weird Worlds: Dead on Venus” by Mike Wolfer. ERB Inc., 2025. Due: Oct....More. Item Code: ERBRMH Hard Cover, 6x9, Text/b&w $39.95 |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS UNIVERSE Monster Men and Return of The Monster Men Hardcover Set Special set of both of these new books at a discounted price. See the individual books or the full descriptions for details on each. Includes Bonus stories in both volumes. ERB Inc., 2025. Due: Oct....More. Item Code: ERBMHP Hard Cover, 6x9, Text/b&w |
| Set of both new books in softcover at a $10 savings. |
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SKY MASTERS OF THE SPACE FORCE The Complete Sunday Strips in Color Hurt New Edition, larger size with 16 bonus pages in color. Our Highest Recommendation. By Dave Wood. Art by Jack Kirby and Wally Wood. The Sky Masters newspaper strip is one of the most fascinating and obscure works by comics legend Jack Kirby. Created and developed by Kirby with writer Dave Wood at the beginning of 1958 while Kirby was working for National (DC), the Sky Masters daily strip debuted on September 8 of that year. Five months later, on February 8, 1959, the color Sunday strips arrived featuring a totally independent story line from the dailies.The strip narrates, with a realistic approach, the adventures of Major Sky Masters during the early days of space exploration in the late 1950s, just as a new front opened in the Cold War between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.: a frenzied space race. Kirby Museum Press, 2024. Condition: Bumped corners. Out of print....More. Item Code: SKYMHR Hard Cover, 10x14, 144pg, Partial Color |
| We are unable to get more copies of this fine, fine book. But the good news is that we have a batch of slightly blemished copies, with a corner or two dented. So we are dropping the price $10 and making these available while they last. This was published overseas. |
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ARTHUR ADAMS PRELIMINARY STUDIES Signed Closeout Price! Signed! Highly Recommended. Amazing and fascinating blue pencil preliminaries — only a few of these have ever been seen on Arthur's Instagram page. But this is how he works out his final drawings and figures — so John Fleskes began with a big stack of originals and culled it down to this cool little book, which is small but quite thick! 224 page 5 x 7.5 inches. There are action scenes, heroines in motion, closeups — all variety of images as Art works out what will go onto his final pencil and inked work. Flesk, 2025....More. Item Code: ARTAP Soft Cover, 5x7, 224pg, Partial Color |
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THE ART OF RACHEL AND TERRY DODSON Signed Closeout Price! Comes with an exclusive double-sided bookplate signed by both. Our Highest Recommendation. Highlights from this exceptional team’s 25-year career and how their art is created, including 40 of their favorite comic book covers. The pair also share insights into how eight personal pieces were executed, and they break down the making of a two-page Red One sequential comic story. Stages of their creative process — Terry’s pencils, Rachel’s inks and Terry’s colors for each piece. Supporting commentary offers further insight, and two dozen covers are supplemented by Terry’s initial sketches. Flesk, 2024....More. Item Code: ARTRTD Soft Cover, 9x12, 176pg, Partial Color |
| The Deluxe signed hardcover is still available at the published price. This comes with a special two-sided print, signed by both Terry and Rachel, limited to 200 and exclusively from us! [ARTRTDH. $59.95]. Here is more from the Dodsons. |
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We are currently adding more items to this month's Clearance Sale. Click here to see the eighty items on sale. You can also view recently reduced items that are slated for future sale emails here. We also have our 2025 Calendars still on sale, with a many excellent titles for $5! You can also choose one of three 2025 Calendars that are free with any order. Order over $50, and take all three! Plus we still have 10 items in our Flash Sale, 6 items priced at $10 or less! |
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Rare Books this week: PS Artbooks! Many titles which are no longer in print, $20-$60. Signed copy of Tim Kirk: Kirk’s Works, Film Architecture, Marilyn Amoung Friends and Fearless Women, Michael Zulli’s scarce Fracture of the Universal Boy, Empire by Samuel Delany & Howard Chaykin, the art of Cham, Gustave Dore, Ariel: The Fantasy Magazine (Corben, Frazetta, REH), The Art of Austin Briggs, Great Balls of Fire: An illustrated HIstory of Sex in Sci Fi, Mirage signed by Boris plus his Dreams, and Fantasy: The Golden Age of Illustration, one of my favorite books introducting the 1890-1925 illustrators. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We just discounted a brand new batch of of 100 titles by 20%. Click here to see all 100. And...we've also reduced our previous batch of Rare Books that were 20% off to 30% off, over 900 titles! We broke these into categories for easier browsing: Artist & Illustration - Comic Book Archives |
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Bud is Retiring—sort of—in 2026! |
Ok, I threatened to do this back in 2012 but I couldn’t quite pull the trigger. We downsized from 11 people to just a couple of us, then we changed our minds and kept things going! Today, 75 catalogs later, it’s time to get serious again. I turned 73 this last May and I’d like to have more options in my future. This is the 55th year for this business, which I started as a college freshman back in 1970. I’d already been a partner in two comic stores by then, and in 1972 John Barrett and I created Comics & Comix, which became a chain of seven Northern California stores. I’ve been living and breathing this business for a long time…but I’ve loved it and I remain very passionate about comic books and illustration in general. I’m just ready to pull back from bringing in all the new books, writing descriptions, dealing with all those day to day issues all businesses have to deal with…including my wonderful eight employees, also, I’m afraid. |
The staff here already knows it’s time to make a change; at least two of them plan to retire when I do. My other guys are great and will land on their feet. Anne and I plan to keep the Rare Books portion of the business going; we’ll probably move all the books over to her website (our current website is quite costly). We still have thousands of books to catalog from the various collections we’ve acquired, such as Jim Vadeboncoeur’s and Bob Foster’s. But, I am officially putting Bud Plant Comic Art, aka Bud’s Art Books, up for sale. I’ve already been in talks with Buddy Saunders at MyComicShop.com and that is one possibility. If you can help me get the word out, maybe another buyer or two will step up who would like to carry on what I’ve done over the past 55 years. Meanwhile, please rest assured that it’s business as usual for the rest of 2025. We’ll keep bringing in new items as we always have, right into December. But we currently plan to stop ordering new items slated for 2026 unless we find a buyer. We’ll also begin dropping more older items than we normally would, so we’ll have less backlist items available by the end of the year. That is something you should be aware of. I already discontinue items regularly, as you know. |
So this will only be a partial retirement—I’ll step back from doing printed catalogs, newsletters and weekly emails and such for new items. I hope we’ll find someone to take the business forward. Anne and I will continue to exhibit at book shows and the occasional comics show, we’ll continue to sell out of print books on her website and in occasional emails [budplantandhutchisonbooks.com]. If we find a buyer, I’ll work with them into 2026 to make a transition as smooth as possible for everyone. Get the word out for us, okay? ~Bud |
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