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  It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken

  by Seth

  An Acknowledged Classic returns to Canada, gorgeously re-designed. In his first graphic novel, It’s a Good Life, if You Don’t Weaken—a best-selling D & Q titles ever—Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the old-fashioned magazine cartoon. While trying to understand his dissatisfaction with the present, Seth discovers the life and work of Kalo, a forgotten New Yorker cartoonist from the 1940s. But... (more)
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  The Walking Dead: Book 2

  Miles Behind Us

  by Robert Kirkman

  An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months, society has crumbled: There is no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally begin living. This volume follows our band of survivors on their tragic journey in search of shelter. Characters live and die as they... (more)
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  Love the Way You Love Volume 2: Side B

  by Jamie S. Rich, Marc Ellerby

  Tristan has two things to his name - a band and a broken heart - and if he's not careful, he's liable to lose them both. Like A Dog is a band on the verge of blowing up and with Tristan finally back from an overseas trip, they think tonight's gig might just light that fuse! But when Tristan spots his dream girl in the crowd, will she fix his lack of love or send his band's career down in flames? This volume... (more)
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  Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

  by Guy Delisle

  Famously referred to as an 'Axis-of-Evil' country, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes have also left it one of the poorest. When the fortress-like country recently opened the door a crack to foreign investment, cartoonist Guy Delisle found himself in its capital Pyongyang on a work visa for a French film animation... (more)
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  Bone: Out from Boneville (Bone (Graphix Hardcover))

  by Jeff Smith

  An American graphic novel first! The complete 1300-page epic adventure from start to finish in one deluxe trade paperback. Three modern cartoon cousins get lost in a pre-technological valley, speanding a year there making new friends and out-running dangerous enemies. Their many adventures include crossing the local people in The Great Cow Race, and meeting a giant mountain lion called RockJaw: Master of the... (more)
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  Fair Weather

  by Joe Matt

  Joe Matt's comics are famous for their savage character assassination of the unsavory protagonist, Joe Matt. Described as Philip Roth for the younger set, Fair Weather looks back to a golden weekend in Joe's 1970s suburban childhood. Young Joe Matt is a selfish, whiny child who steals from stores, takes advantage of his friends, threatens to burn his mother's house down, and bullies those weaker than himself. The... (more)
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  Teenagers from Mars

  by Rick Spears

  Max is a grave-robbing 13-year-old who gathers relics to pawn for comic book money. Macon works at the local Mallmart by day and publishes his comic book manifestos by night. Madison is a punk beauty who just might be able to fly. When Macon gets badly beaten in a fight with his boss over comic books, Macon and Madison take revenge by smashing the front of the store. They leave their calling card graffitied across... (more)
• The Death of GrooMark Evanier, Sergio Aragones

  

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  The Death of Groo

  by Mark Evanier, Sergio Aragones

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  A Dummy's Guide to Danger 2

  by Jason M. Burns

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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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  I Killed Adolf Hitler

  by Jason

  A contract killer goes back in time to kill Hitler...and fails spectacularly. For his latest graphic novel (the third in color, the ninth to be published by Fantagraphics) Jason posits a strange, violent world in which contract killers can be hired to rub out pests, be they dysfunctional relatives, abusive co-workers, loud neighbors, or just annoyances in general—and as you might imagine, their services are in... (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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  Dear Julia,

  by Brian Biggs

  No matter what, Boyd Soloman needs to fly. But before he finally takes the leap from his eighth-floor window, he writes a letter to his ex-girlfriend Julia trying to explain why. This missive takes readers into what's hiding in the recesses of Boyd's on-the-edge, lonely state of mind: his childhood desire to fly, his similarly afflicted father, a corpse on a road trip to Tucson and a strange Rumpelstiltskin-like... (more)
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  Cicada

  by Jasue Menjivar

  Josué Menjivar, the creator of the comic book series Broken Fender , is back with a moving and emotional graphic novel entitled, CICADA. Examining the emotional scars that infidelity can produce, this graphic novel intelligently relates the guilt that one man carries to the hibernation cycle of the cicada. Fans of Broken Fender know how Josué is a master of combining streetwise urgency with a real sense of... (more)
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  Sulk Volume 1: Bighead & Friends

  by Jeffrey Brown

  This pocket-sized, graphic novel series showcases a variety of Jeffrey Brown's all-new experimental comics. In Sulk Volume 1: Bighead & Friends, Bighead returns! And then he dies. And then he returns! It also features all-new villains like Beefy Hipster, and introduces Little Bighead - who must stop the villainous Sleeper before naptime.
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  Sulk Volume 2: Deadly Awesome

  by Jeffrey Brown

  This pocket-sized, graphic novel series howcases a variety of Jeffrey Brown's all-new experimental comics. In Sulk Volume 2: Deadly Awesome, Jeffrey Brown explores the world of mixed martial arts and the nature of violence in this tribute to no-holds-barred fighting. In an 80-page fight scene, aging veteran fighter Haruki Rabasaku faces off against young powerhouse Eldark Garprub. With furious striking and... (more)
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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)
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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.