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Crypto Zoo: The Collected Rare Bit Fiends TPB Vol. 3
 At last! The third and most apocalyptic collection of Rick Veitch's double Eisner nominated Rare Bit Fiends! This time Veitch illustrates a wild and haunted dream series he recorded 25 years earlier. Crypto Zoo is a deeply personal, harrowing and ultimately life affirming tale of coming-of-age in the collective unconscious. Also includes an eight-page color story, 'Three Dreams and a Coincidence' and 'The Annotated Rare Bit Fiends.' |
24 Seven TPB Vol. 1
 24 Seven features a who's who of today's best writers and artists from comics film and animation telling tales of robots in the city that never sleeps. In the vein of FLIGHT these stories run a cross-genre gamut from robot zombies to a prison break to a bizarre feud between a Siamese DJ team. 24seven has romance action horror"everything you want all told by a cross-section of the most diverse writers and artists you'll find on the printed page. |
Eisner/Miller TPB - nick & dent
 Finally available is this fascinating discourse between two of this medium's greatest contributors-living comics legend Will Eisner and Sin City creator and co-director Frank Miller. It would be hard to imagine any creators who have affected their chosen medium more than Eisner and Miller have influenced the world of comic books and graphic novels. Now, life-long comics fans and culture-curious readers are invited to listen in as a legendary innovator and godfather of sequential art (Eisner) and the modern master of cinematic comics storytelling (Miller) discuss one on one, in an intimate interview format, the ins-and-outs of this absorbing and often controversial art form. Eisner/Miller is widely illustrated and features rare, behind-the-scenes photos of Eisner, Miller, and other notable creators. |
Tim Sale Black & White HC
 Revised and Expanded! Heroes artist Tim Sale discusses his life and work in this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume. This is a new, revised and expanded edition of the original sold out and out-of-print Tim Sale: Black and White previously published by Active Images. Includes 16-page color section. |
Negative Burn #16
 The Eagle, Eisner, and Harvey Award nominated anthology returns this month with yet another issue packed with today's top creators and tomorrow's brightest talents. |
Pin-Up Art Of Dan DeCarlo Vol. 2 TPB
 For more than 40 years, Dan DeCarlo best known for his definitive renditions of Archie Comics' Betty and Veronica, two of comics' most beloved icons. But before joining Archie and unbeknownst to many, DeCarlo has honed his skills as a good girl artist for the Humorama line of digest magazines. Following the immensely popular The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo, this second volume once again displays DeCarlo's sexiest Humorama pin-up cartoons, and continues Fanatagraphics' dedication to showcasing the best of the classic pin-up cartoonists. |
Drawing The Line Vol 2 GN
 by Various VEI Press presents Drawing the Line... again! With 50% more pages and stories, join the 61 artists who have generously donated original works created specifically for this follow-up anthology (including Moebius, Sienkiewicz, Sakai, and Clive Barker). As before, 100% of all the money collected from sales goes directly to cancer research." |
Hot Mexican Love Comics 2007
 by Calleros & Sherak With more amor than ever before! It's gonna be a caliente summer as everyone's favorite Latin-themed comic anthology sets fire to the shelves! With all new stories and artwork for 2007. Once again brought to you by the best-looking cartoonists working in Primetime TV animation. Voted 'Best Bang for your Buck' by Tijuana Comics Quarterly. Featured artists productions include: The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, American Dad, Avatar, Drawn Together, Invader Zim, and many more!" |
Comics Revue
 Comics Revue is a monthly magazine that reprints classic newspaper strips in chronological sequence, and features about ten different series each month, including: Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Steve Canyon, Little Orphan Annie, The Phantom, Krazy Kat, Gasoline Alley, and others! It gives you anywhere from a few days to a few week's worth of each series. " |
Comic Art Magazine #9
 The Eisner-nominated and 2004 Harvey Award-winning Comic Art Magazine returns! Issue #9 features an essay by novelist Tom De Haven on Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould; a career-spanning profile of Kaz; a visual biography of Abner Dean; an exploration of Jesse Marsh with Gilbert Hernandez and Adrian Tomine; a visual autobiography by Jerry Moriarty; and an essay on the early cartoons of Lyonel Feininger. This 208 page square bound magazine is shrinkwrapped with a separate 80-page booklet titled'Cartooning' by Ivan Brunetti." |
Comics Revue #258
 Comics Revue is a monthly magazine that reprints old newspaper strips in chronological sequence, and features about ten different series, such as Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Steve Canyon, Little Orphan Annie, The Phantom, Krazy Kat, Gasoline Alley, and others! It gives you anywhere from a few days to a few week's worth of each series." |
Creatures of the Night HC - nick & dent
 From the New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman comes a brand new hardcover collection, featuring two magical and disturbing stories lushly adapted to comics by veteran painter Michael Zulli ( The Last Temptation ). Newly rewritten by Gaiman for this graphic novel, these two ominous stories from the author's award-winning prose, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions , feature animals and people not being quite what they seem. In The Price, a black cat like a small panther arrives at a country home and is soon beset by mysterious and vicious wounds. What is he fighting every night that could do this, and why does he persist? The Daughter of Owls recounts an eerie old tale of a foundling girl who was left with an owl pellet as a newborn on the steps of the Dymton Church. She was soon cloistered away in a local convent, but by her fourteenth year word of her beauty had spread"and those who would prey upon her faced unforeseen consequences. 2004 will see the release of the...... |
Dark Horse Presents #57
 Alien Fire returns from Anthony Smith and Eric Vincent! New Material from Eddie Campbell, Frank Miller, John Byrne, John Arcudi and Dale Eaglesham! Cover by Miller and Byrne! We had so much great material left over from the 64-page Annual (offered last month) that we couldn't fit it into a regular-sized issue! In this 48-page "Post-Annual," readers will see: the action-packed conclusion to "Interlude," the prelude to John Byrne's The Next Men; Marv comes closer to finding Goldie's killer in Frank Miller's Sin City; Eddie Campbell's trip "Around the World in Eighty Frames," plus, John Arcudi and Dale Eaglesham's The Creep. |
Negative Burn #19
 The Eagle, Eisner, and Harvey Award nominated anthology returns this month with yet another issue packed with today's top creators and tomorrow's brightest talents. |
Negative Burn #17
 The Eagle, Eisner, and Harvey Award nominated anthology returns this month with yet another issue packed with today's top creators and tomorrow's brightest talents. |
Decade: A Dark Horse Short Story Collection TPB - nick & dent
 Frank Miller, Matt Wagner, Mark Verheiden, Johji Manabe, and Paul Chadwick are just several reasons to pick up this short-story anthology. Predator, Concrete, Nexus, Aliens, Sin City, and The Mask are several more. Over its ten-year history, Dark Horse Comics has earned a reputation for publishing the most diverse line of quality comics. That decade of experience is all brought to bear in this collection of original short stories. If you're a fan of adventure or horror, of crime or fantasy, of science fiction or the supernatural, there is guaranteed to be something you'll love within these 112 pages! |
Sexy Chix TPB - nick & dent
 Don't let the title fool you-this isn't your average collection of comics featuring impossibly proportioned vixens in spandex. This time around the sexy chix in question are the writers and artists behind the comics, respresenting some of the best and brightest talent contributing to the medium of comics and graphic novels today. With stories ranging from mainstream adventures to hilarious comic shorts to heart-wrenching autobiography, Sexy Chix is devoted to the under-recognized contingent of female cartoonists in an overwhelmingly male-oriented industry. It's about time these divinely talented creators get to tell the stories they want to, and the result is an exquisite variety of artistic visions and styles. Among the sexy chicks are New York Times best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates, Eisner Award-winning illustrator Jill Thompson ( Scary Godmother ), A Distant Soil writer/artist Colleen Doran, Bitchy Bitch creator Roberta Gregory, DC Comics writer Gail Simone, novelist Sarah Grace McCandless ( Grosse...... |
Strip Search TPB - nick & dent
 Only Dark Horse Comics, the publisher that introduced the world to Concrete, Sin City , and Hellboy , could publish a book this full of new, undiscovered talent. More than a dozen young artists and writers strut their stuff in this hefty collection. These strips are culled from Dark Horses on-line comics talent search/contest, Strip Search (darkhorse.com/stripsearch) and represent the best of the strips posted. Pick up this book if you want to see the future of comics today."Strip Search is not only a lot of fun to read, but it's also like a time machine offering a glimpse into the future of comics." -Steve Niles, creator of 30 Days of Night and Criminal Macabre "There seems to be a giant bubble hovering on the horizon, a bubble filled with a genuine Renaissance in cartooning and these comics are a big part of it. Beauty and creative thought pervade as this fresh army of young cartoonists prepares to plunge the world into the fearsome tentacles of a new era."- Tony Millionaire, creator...... |
September 11 TPB Vol. 1 - nick & dent
 Chaos! Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Image Comics -- with assistance from Oni Press, Top Shelf Productions, and others present a collection of stories and illustrations from an incredibly diverse array of talented writers and artists. The New Yorker 's Eric Drooker contributes a cover showing a cityscape that is simultaneously ancient and modern, mournful and hopeful, with an artist at the center, empowered to interpret a tragic landscape. Among Volume 1's contributors are writer/artist William Stout, who shares the true story of a Yugoslavian citizen's love of Americans; Stan Sakai, vividly recalling his last visit to New York City; and Paul Chadwick, who offers his interpretation of the heroism of the passengers on Flight 93, whose sacrifice kept September 11 from being an even more tragic day. Cartoonists Tony Millionaire, Sam Henderson, Mike Diana, Scott Morse, Mark Crilley, Roger Langridge, Chris Eliopoulos, and Mark Martin are among those offering differing takes on a range of subjects spanning from...... |
Marvel Weddings TPB - nick & dent
 Reed and Sue, heart and soul of Marvel's First Family of Super Heroes. Peter and Mary Jane, the spider and the supermodel. Scott and Jean, childhood sweethearts sworn to protect a world that hates and fears them. Bruce and Betty, the beauty and the beast. Break out the tissues, True Believer: The House of Ideas cordially invites you to celebrate the history-making nuptials of its greatest couples in this keepsake edition! From the Fantastic Four to Spider-Man to the X-Men, with a few surprises in between, this commemorative volume proves the power of love can overcome all odds! Collects FANTASTIC FOUR #150 and ANNUAL #3, INCREDIBLE HULK #319, AVENGERS #59-60 and #127, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #21 and X-MEN #30. |
Dark Horse Maverick 2001
 In this second annual anthology of creator-owned coolness, we've roped a few wayward, unpredictable colts, corralled them with some solid but imaginative workhorses, and even had some of those fancy European ponies brought to the Dark Horse ranch for the best ride of the new millennium! Okay, horseplay aside, Matt Wagner visits the Grendel universe with another chapter of the Hunter Rose legacy, Sergio Aragonés rolls out an autobiographical anecdote in his trademark style, Will Eisner tells a tale of fleeting triumph, and young Usagi learns a valuable lesson in a story by Stan Sakai. All the way from France, Angoulême Grand Prize winners Charles Berberian and Philippe Dupuy send their charming and funny Monsieur Jean for your reading pleasure. Jogging in from the outfield, Denis Kitchen provides a hilariously absurd story called "My Five Minutes with God," and J.R. Williams provides his take on a Greek myth with "Skinboy: Sisyphus Revisited." Rounding out the edges we have a...... |
Dark Horse Presents #126
 Giant-sized flip-book issue! Featuring 48 fat pages and: * Dan Brereton's The Nocturnals ! * Tarzan and Shadow artists Stan & Vince debut their high-paced, ultraviolent "Metalfer"! * An all-new Starship Troopers story by Jan Strnad ( Star Wars ) and Tommy Lee Edwards ( Batman Chronicles )! * Rich Hedden tells the tale of Snipe, a monster hunter in Hollywood, where the true beasts come in the hundreds! * Jeff DeMos and Scott Gillis ( Neon Lit: Perdita Durango ) return to tell the tale of a man obsessed with circles in "A Hole in the Head." * Two covers -- one by Dan Brereton and one by Stan & Vince! Plus new strips by Diana Schutz, Bernie Mireault ( The Jam ), & Rupert Bottenberg and Steven Weissman (featuring characters from Yikes!). |
Dark Horse Presents #150: DHP2K
 Millennial fever got you down? Concerns about technological meltdown nagging at your brain? Relax! If you find yourself reading this milestone issue of Comics' Greatest Anthology, you will have survived. Kick off the next thousand years with Buffy the Vampire Slayer in "Killing Time." Buffy has just two minutes to save the earth from a demon that threatens to destroy the world! Paul Chadwick returns to the character he made famous with another brilliant short story for which he himself is justly famous, Concrete. Plus the conclusion of The Nevermen, Jack Pollock's Devil Chef, and other surprise guests in this 48-page spectacular! |
Dark Horse Presents #100-1
 For our fifth anniversary, Frank Miller introduced Sin City -- be here as he takes a break from |
Dark Horse Presents #100-3
 We start off with a 14-page Concrete tale titled "The Artistic Impulse," written and illustrated by Paul Chadwick. It brings back the same characters that appeared in the first issue of Dark Horse Presents way back in 1986!Then there's a 6-page story titled "Whistle and Queenie" by girl-hero Megan Kelso! Harvey Pekar tells us about"Breakfast at Billy's" in a 5-page story illustrated by Joe Sacco."Faggot Story" is a 6-page autobio story written by James Sturm and Dan Savage, and illustrated by Jason Waskey. And we cap it off with a page of sick strips from the fevered brain of Ivan Brunetti! |
Dark Horse Presents #100-4
 Dave Gibbons pays tribute to EC with a scary Martha Washington cover, tied in with the 6-page story, "Attack of the Flesh-Eating Monsters," which he and Frank Miller provide for our entertainment pleasure! "Black Cross," which debuted in DHP #1,returns in an 8-page story by Chris Warner. There's a 2-page autobio strip titled "Oh, My Goodness," written by Harvey Pekar and illustrated by Joe Sacco. Ellen Fornéy ( Tomato ) reveals her real-life encounter with Tom Waits in a 4-page story called "Bourbon on the Rocks". There's an 8-page tale titled "Bird Dog" by Ed Brubaker ( Lowlife )and Pat McEown ( Grendel ). Brian Sendelbach takes four pages toteach us that"Violence is Golden". And we're treated to "The Symphony of Daily Nourishment" by Rick Geary, a 1-pager with a good beat we can all dance to! |