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Herriman's HoominsHerriman's Hoomins: The Complete Stumble Inn and Us Husbands
by George Herriman
Fantagraphics sez:
From the creator of Krazy Kat comes George Herriman's Hoomins, which collects Herriman's two major strips of the 1920s, Stumble Inn and Us Husbands. Us Husbands is a domestic comedy and its Sundays-only format allows for some of Herriman's richest and most detailed drawing - and it is by far the most obscure of Herriman's major works, with aficionados having seen only a glimpse of it. Stumble Inn, for which Herriman drew both richly detailed, six-panel dailies and glorious full-page Sundays, is sometimes described as a precursor to Fawlty Towers. It takes place entirely within a small hotel and pits the long-suffering proprietor, Uriah Stumble, and his staff against a rotating cast of difficult guests. Hijinx ensue, both verbal and visual. Herriman's Hoomins will be augmented with a historical appreciation by the invaluable Jeet Heer (co-editor of Frank King's Walt & Skeezix reprint series and a critic for The National Post), and more Herriman rarities.

Product Details

    * Hardcover: 160 pages
    * Release Date:  30 May 2009
    * Language: English
    * ISBN-10: 1606991515
    * ISBN-13: 978-1606991510
    * Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 1 inches

retail price - $29.99
copacetic price - $25.00

Prince Val 1

Prince Valiant: 1937 -1938
by Hal Foster
The most gorgeous adventure comic strip of all time, the on-going Prince Valiant Sunday-only comic strip ran for 35 years under its creator, Hal Foster. Foster limned epic swordfights and some of the most beautiful human beings ever to appear in comics. And he matched his nonpareil visual sense with the narrative instincts of a born storyteller. Prince Valiant has previously been widely available only in re-colored, now-out-of print editions (which fetch collectors' prices). Thanks to advances in production technology and newly available original proof sheets, this new series is the first to feature restored artwork that captures every delicate line and chromatic nuance of Foster's masterpiece. Comic strip aficionados will be ecstatic, and younger readers who enjoy classic adventure will be bowled over. Book One also has a rare, in-depth Foster interview.

About the Author
Hal Foster (1892-1982) created Prince Valiant in 1937. Though remaining involved with the strip until his death in 1982, Foster handed the bulk of the scripting and art chores over to his longtime assistant, John Cullen Murphy, in 1971.

Product Details

    * Hardcover: 120 pages
    * Release Date:  25 May 2009
    * ISBN-10: 1606991418
    * ISBN-13: 978-1606991411
    * Product Dimensions: 13 x 10 x 1 inches

retail price - $29.95
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Cap EasyCaptain Easy, Soldier of Fortune:
The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips 1933-1935 (Hardcover)
Fantagraphics sez: 
Roy Crane created the first American adventure strip: Wash Tubbs. The character Captain Easy spun off into his own Sunday page in 1933, and Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips Vol. 1 collects these full-color strips from that point until 1935. In Volume One, Captain Easy visits a lost city, battles pirates, dons a diving suit in search of treasure; everywhere he goes, he finds beautiful women. Captain Easy not only influenced roles for the likes of Hollywood actors such as Cary Grant or Errol Flynn, he influenced virtually every comics hero who followed him - Gil Kane once said "Superman was Captain Easy; Batman was Captain Easy." Crane combined adventure and humor in a Bigfoot cartooning style: according to comic-strip historian Richard Marschall, Crane "develop[ed] expressive techniques and a whole dictionary of conventions and signs for future comic strip artists. Volume One also features some of the best and rarest Roy Crane art, as well as illustrations from his sketchbooks. It will also contain biographical and critical introductions to Crane and his work.

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retail price - $34.95
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Abstract ComicsAbstract Comics: The Anthology
by Andrei Molotiu

Fantagraphics sez:
Beginning with the experiments of Saul Steinberg, through some of the more psychedelic creations of R. Crumb, and more recently, cartoonists created comics whose panels contain little to no representational imagery, and which tell no stories. Reduced to the panel grid, brushstrokes, and sometimes colors, abstract comics highlight the formal mechanisms that underlie all comics. The first collection devoted to this genre, Abstract Comics: The Anthology, is edited by Andrei Molotiu, an art historian and contemporary abstract-comic creator. It gathers the best abstract comics so far, including early experiments by Gary Panter, Moebius, Patrick McDonnell, and Lewis Trondheim, and pieces by little-known pioneers such as Benoit Joly, Bill Boichel and Jeff Zenick, as well as by recent practitioners such as Ibn al Rabin, Billy Mavreas, Mark Staff Brandl, and many others. Abstract Comics also features first attempts, commissioned specifically for this anthology, by well-known cartoonists such as James Kochalka, Ivan Brunetti, J.R. Williams and Warren Craghead.

# Hardcover: 208 pages
# Release Date: 30 June 2009
# ISBN-10: 1606991574
# ISBN-13: 978-1606991572
# Product Dimensions: 11 x 9 x 1 inches

retail price - $39.99
copacetic price - $33.95





Locas IILocas II: Maggie, Hopy & Ray
by Jaime Hernandez
Fantagraphics sez:
This second omnibus volume of "Locas" tales by Jaime Hernandez - collecting over a dozen years' worth of stories from the award-winning Love and Rockets comics - picks up shortly after Maggie and Hopey's long-awaited reunion at the end of the Locas hardcover. Even though her love life remains chaotic, Hopey takes her first steps toward responsible adulthood with a real job, while divorced Maggie manages a fleabag apartment building, where she continues to wrestle with the demons of her past - especially in the stunning graphic novel-length "Ghost of Hoppers" with its hallucinatory dream finale. Ray, still in love with Maggie, hangs out with the bombshell "Frogmouth," whose ties to local thugs causes trouble. Of course, Maggie, Hopey and Ray's paths continue to intersect in Jaime's increasingly complex, always richly imagined world, along with those of characters both old (Izzy Ortiz, Penny Century) and new (the jockette Angel, the mysterious superheroine Alarma).
Product Details

    * Hardcover: 416 pages
    * Release Date:  30 June 2009
    * ISBN-10: 1606991566
    * ISBN-13: 978-1606991565
    * Product Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 11 x 2 inches

retail price - $39.99
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