FOLLY: THE CONSEQUENCES OF INDISCRETIONby Hans Rickheit$18.99 / SC / 144 pgs / PC / 8 x 10

Lovers of art comics will know Hans Rickheit (The Squirrel Machine) as one of the most inscrutable and discomforting cartoonists working today, but Rickheit has been producing his own self-published comics for over a decade. Originally distributed as Xeroxed pamphlets, these “underground

comix” have now been compiled into a compact, lushly illustrated bedside reader filled with strange and beautiful images culled from the deepest reaches of the back-mind. Readers of The Squirrel Machine will not be disappointed.

THE COMPLETE CRUMB VOL 1: The Early years Of Bitter Struggle(new expanded edition)by R. Crumb (with Charles Crumb); Introduction by Marty Pahls $24.99 / SC / 192 pgs / PC / 8.5 x 11

This long-unavailable first volume of the multiple award-winning Complete Crumb Comics series, one of our most demanded reprints, has now been expanded to include a never-before-published, 48-page “home-made” Arcade comic

from 1962. This previously undiscovered work shows many flashes of the direction in which Crumb was heading and features the first quintessential “Crumb girl,” Mabel. This is Ground Zero for perhaps the greatest cartoonist who ever lived.

THE BIG TOWNby Monte Schulz$29.99 / HC / 444 pgs / BW / 6 x 9/ Prose

From the award-winning author of The Last Rose Of Summer and This Side Of Jordan comes a new prose novel framed within a city where gangsters murder ordinary citizens and everyone seems to have a get-rich scheme. Set as the Roaring ’20s come to a thunderous close, The Big Town evokes a lost era through language and flamboyant characters reminiscent of Fitzgerald, Dos Passos and Ring Lardner, and yet it also eerily

mirrors our own time with its study of the role of business, crime, morality, and love in our lives.

COMPLETE PEANUTS 1983–1984Great Picks in Graphic Lit!by Charles M. Schulz; introduction by Leonard Maltin $28.99 / HC / 344 pgs / BW /

8.5 x 7

As Peanuts reaches the mid-1980s, Charles Schulz

is still creating new characters, and in this volume Snoopy’s brother Spike takes center stage. In romantic news, the Peppermint Patty-Marcie-Charlie Brown love triangle heats up while Linus continues to deny that he is Sally’s “Sweet Babboo.” Lucy’s pursuit of Schroeder continues and romance blossoms between two of Snoopy’s “Beagle Scout” birds. All this plus appearances from the cover-featured Franklin, Rerun, and the rest of the gang from a period of Peanuts that’s far less well-known than the 1960s and 1970s strips.

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CINEMA PANOPTICUMNow In Paperback!by T. Ott $16.99 / SC / 104 pgs / BW / 6.5 x 9.25

T. Ott guides us through a funhouse of fear with five graphic horror novelettes, each executed in his hallucinatory and hyper-detailed scratchboard style. Dark, stark and grimly funny, Ott’s plot twists will delight fans of classic horror like The Twilight Zone and Tales From the Crypt and his artwork will haunt you long after you’ve put the book down.

PEANUTS © 2011 Peanuts Worldwide LLC

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The CompleTe peanuTs 1967–1968 Vol. 9Great Picks in Graphic Lit!

by Charles Schulz$28.95 JAN083613As we rush toward the end of Peanuts’ second decade, Peppermint Patty rises to stardom, Lucy antagonizes everyone and Charlie Brown is... Charlie Brown. Introduction by John Waters.

prinCe ValianT Vol. 4: 1943–1944by Hal Foster$29.99 APR111034Valiant’s obsessive search for his bride-to-be Aleta takes him to North

Africa, the Middle East and back home to Camelot (via Athens and Gaul). Foster at his peak!

The CompleTe Crumb ComiCs Vol. 7Great Picks in Graphic Lit!by R. Crumb$19.99 SEP090827“Hot n’ Heavy” features the complete

Uneeda, Hytone, Mr. Natu-ral #1, plus “Honeybunch Kaminsky, the Drug-Crazed Runaway” and “Horny Harriet Hotpants.”

The CompleTe Crumb ComiCs Vol. 12 Great Picks in Graphic Lit!by R. Crumb$19.99 OCT090910Spotlight

on Crumb’s American Splendor collaborations with Harvey Pekar, plus an encounter with High Times, a jazz period piece, a jam with wife Aline & more.

The squirrel maChineby Hans Rickheit$18.99 JUL090866Tthis evocative and enigmatic book will ensure the inquisitive reader a spleenful of cerebral serenity.

The number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8by Thomas Ott$28.95 FEB083752A prison guard finds a slip of paper with a mysterious sequence of

numbers, which leads his luck to change from good to bad to worse in this chilling tale from the Swiss horror master.

r.i.p.: besT of 1985–2004by Thomas Ott$28.99 JAN111195Compiles 3 of Ott’sprevious books with 8 uncollected stories. 20 tales of murder, suicide, terror, mutilation,

marital strife, and nuclear annihilation.

This side of JordanGreat Picks in Graphic Lit!by Monte Schulz $22.99 JUN090895A picaresque prose novel told in the voice of a lost generation hurtling

toward the Great Depression. A farm boy meets a violent gangster and an eccentric dwarf...

The lasT rose of summerby Monte Schulz$29.99 AUG101017With the Great Depression looming, three strong-minded women related by

marriage form an uneasy household in a Southern town.

haTe ColleCTion Vol. 6: buddy biTes The bulleTGreat Picks in Graphic Lit!Warehouse Find!by Peter Bagge$16.95 STAR13321Reprinting the full-color Hate issues

#26–30, this softcover volume completes the series.

loVe and roCkeTs book 3: las muJeres perdidas Great Picks in Graphic Lit!Warehouse Find!by Los Bros. Hernandez

$19.95 STAR10460Features the cream of Jaime’s “Maggie the Mechanic” stories including the sprawling epic “Lost Women,” plus Beto’s classic Palomar tales “The Laughing Sun” and “Act of Contrition.”

nighTmare alleyWarehouse Find!by Spain Rodriguez & William L. Gresham$14.95 STAR17765This engrossing graphic adaptation of the 1930s noir

novel is a study of the lowest depths of showbiz and its sleazy inhabitants.

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kOLOR kLIMAX: Nordic Comics NowCertified Cool! Edited by Matthias Wivel $29.99 / SC / 250 pgs / FC / 8.5 x 10.5

Scandinavia has become a hotbed of cartooning activity, from the internationally acclaimed Jason (Norway) to Sweden’s Martin Kellerman and Denmark’s Eisner-nominated Nikoline Werdelin. This anthol-ogy of comics, many of them created for this book, offers an intoxicating and compelling sampling of current works from a new generation of Scandinavian alternative cartoonists.

PRINCE VALIANTVOLUME 5: 1945–1946by Hal Foster$29.99 / HC / 112 pgs / FC / 10.25 x 14

Fantagraphics’ ever-popular series of Hal Foster’s epic masterpiece forges ahead with Val’s adventures continuing unabated despite his recent betrothal. Scanned once again from superb syndicate proofs, half the strips in this volume also include Foster’s bonus “Medieval Castle” strip, a chronicle of two young boys growing up during the time of

the First Crusade. But by the end of the 1945 strips this series has ended and the Valiant portion resumes its full-page glory.

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