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  Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened

  by Jason Rodriguez

  “The inventive writers and illustrators who crafted these transporting stories just may convince you to trash your BlackBerry and buy some stamps.” –Frank Warren, author of PostSecret You’ve seen them at flea markets and in antique shops and used-book stores across the country: Vintage postcards inscribed with handwritten notes, evocative messages that capture a thought, an expression, a concern, a snapshot of... (more)
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  The Best American Comics 2006 (Best American Comics)

  The popularity of the graphic genre continues to rage, and The Best American Comics is a diverse, exciting annual selection for fans and newcomers alike. The inaugural volume includes stories culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web. Contributors include Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Kim Deitch, Jaime Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Joe Sacco, and Lynda Barry—and unique... (more)
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  Negative Burn: The Very Best From 1993-1998

  by Various

  Negative Burn was an anomaly, merging together genres, pushing boundaries and allowing the top comic book talent in the world an opportunity to experiment and tell stories that they wanted to tell. When told that a black & white anthology title without a defined theme would never last beyond five issues, Negative Burn exceeded all expectations by running 50 issues and ending of its own decree, garnering... (more)
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  The Best American Comics 2007 (The Best American Series)

  Guest editor Chris Ware and series editor Anne Elizabeth Moore have sought out the best stories to create this cutting-edge collection. Contributors include Lynda Barry, R. and Aline Crumb, Kim Deitch, Gilbert Hernandez, Seth, and Art Spiegelman.
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  SPX 2003 Anthology

  For ten Years SPX has been the United States' preeminent destination for exploring comics' new frontiers.In these pages of this anthology seriers, and on the floor of the Brthesda, MD convention, comic book masters and talented newcomers mingle excitedly to exchange views on where the comic medium can go. New talent is discovered and new possibilities are exposed at this event where the comics world comes... (more)
• Small Press Expo - SPX' 98Chris, Ed. Oarr

  

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  Small Press Expo - SPX' 98

  by Chris, Ed. Oarr

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  The Expo: Spx 99

  by Chris Oarr

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  SPX 2002 Anthology

  SPX has become America's premiere art comics festival, welcoming aficionados from all over the world who come to mingle with comics masters and the newest generation of cutting-edge talent.This anthology shows each wave as it swells. In Just a few years it has become, like a festival, an eagerly anticipated showcase of the medium's most engaging talent. This year it continues to break ground by exploring the... (more)
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  Best Erotic Comics 2008

  A literary and artistic exploration of human sexuality -- and a fun dirty book, featuring today's smartest, raunchiest, funniest, filthiest, most beautiful, and most arousing adult comics! Best Erotic Comics 2008 smashes the divide between literary/art comics and adult comics by including both the hottest work from the literary/art comics world -- and the highest-quality work from the adult comics world. Artists... (more)
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  The Best Of Dark Horse Presents Volume 2

  by Various

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  I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections

  by Julia Wertz

  This anthology of comics inspired by real-life missed connection ads posted on Craigslist and in local papers around the country will tug at your heartstrings and make you think. Lonely hearts, romantics, and even cynics pore over missed connection ads in search of love, to gawk and giggle, or out of curiosity. These posted stranger sightings and chance encounters lay bare the truths and oddities of real-life... (more)
• The SPX 2005 Anthology

  

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  The SPX 2005 Anthology

  Graphic album which assembles 35 new stories from the creators at the bleeding edge of comic art. Scott Morse, Jordan Crane, Jeff Campbell, Marc Bell, Nick Bertozzi, Brian Chippendale, Jesse Reklaw, Jef Czekaj and many more.
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  The Best American Comics 2008 (The Best American Series)

  This newest edition to the Best American Series--"A genuine salute to comics" (Houston Chronicle)--returns with a set of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Lynda Barry and and brand new series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden--acclaimed cartoonists in their own right-- have sought out the best stories culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the... (more)
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  An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (Volume 2)

  Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change—rapid and unpredictable—is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists engaged in this world of change. These outstanding cartoonists, selected by Brunetti for their graphic sophistication and literary style, are both expanding and transforming the vocabulary of their genre. ... (more)
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  Scheherazade : comics about love, treachery, mothers & monsters

  Energy, ferocity, and a dazzling variety of drawing styles unite and light up the pages of this new anthology, which uses the yarn-spinning skills of Queen Scheherazade as inspiration for unraveling its own stories. Showcasing the work of 23 of the most interesting female graphic novelists working today, both well-loved veterans and new and emerging artists, this collection appeals to devotees of both comics and... (more)
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  Spx '97

  Welcome to the SPX'97 comic, a one-of a kind anthology featuring some of the best creators in comics. Inside you'll find work of every conceivable stripe-from autobiography to black humor to fantasy-adventure-reflecting the incredible diversity and creativity of small press comics today. We'd like to thank the more than 40 artists who contributed to the SPX'97 Comic, the profits from which go to the Comic Book... (more)
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  Vertigo: First Taste (DC Comics Vertigo (Paperback))

  by Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, Brian K. Vaughan, Si Spencer

  You've heard about Vertigo - now it's time to take the plunge. This specially priced collection invites readers into the first issues of six different critically-acclaimed series: Y: THE LAST MAN, 100 BULLETS, THE BOOKS OF MAGIK: LIFE DURING WARTIME, SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, TRANSMETROPOLITAN and DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.
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  9-11: Artists Respond, Volume 1

  by Eric Powell

  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... (more)
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  Expo 2000

  by Seth

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  Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions

  by Brett Warnock, Rob Goodin, Various

  Edited by Brett Warnock and Robert Goodin, this issue of Top Shelf includes Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's banned DC Comics "Cobweb" story; a Peanuts tribute featuring Chris Ware, Seth, and a host of other cartoonists; a brand new section by the Swiss avant-garde cartoonist collective Arta Bile; an excerpt of a graphic novel by Martin Tom Dieck; new contributions by the entire Robot Publishing gang (a group of... (more)