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Post by thebeautifulpuffin on Oct 14, 2021 23:27:02 GMT
That superman drawing rules. Doesn't it? Every time I peep my cell snap it makes me happy enough that I kind of wish that I'd checked how much it would have cost me to have the original to hang in my foyer. Great scores too! The Lone Sloan books are hard to come by these days I think Thanks! I left feeling feeling very lucky and like my comic karma must be in good standing. Beggars/choosers, I would have loved to land some Sloan adventures that don't already live here, but I can't complain about having the opportunity to hook up a couple of folks in need. New day, new report: Powell's Books had a nice little store-wide sale last week, and my selections from their virtual aisles of used stuffs landed here in the Mitten this afternoon - All gold, by my standards, but I'm particularly happy about Mr. Pettingill coming over to play. Finally landed this Sugar Skull supplemental, too... ...thanks to a seemingly-too-good-to-be-true deal at The Bad Place. Amazed that what I received was actually a new and minty copy, shrink wrap still in place. Whew!
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Post by mikesheawright on Oct 16, 2021 21:50:29 GMT
Enjoyed the shit out of One Eight Hundred Ghosts, really impressive writing and drawing. I wish it was a little bigger to really represent the detail in this thing but overall loved it. I got it from Wigshop, you can also get it direct here.
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Post by benjaminlclark on Oct 20, 2021 23:18:56 GMT
Milt Caniff's Male Call just arrived --
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Post by manoopuesta on Oct 21, 2021 13:51:38 GMT
Just came in my mail: - But is it... comic aht? #1 - Birth of the bat - Sunday #3/#4 (I was able to buy issue 1, now hoping I snatch a copy of #2 next time they print it!)
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Post by thebeautifulpuffin on Oct 22, 2021 20:46:30 GMT
Upped my NYRC game a bit with some mail ordered public library discards: Outfits like Better World Books and Thriftbooks offer a great opportunity to catch up on a budget, at least for those of us that aren't condition queens. I loan out most of my collection anyway, so 'mint' is very rarely a concern around here.
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Post by mikesheawright on Oct 22, 2021 21:11:56 GMT
Upped my NYRC game a bit with some mail ordered public library discards: Outfits like Better World Books and Thriftbooks offer a great opportunity to catch up on a budget, at least for those of us that aren't condition queens. I loan out most of my collection anyway, so 'mint' is very rarely a concern around here. Good lookin out on those used book links!
I just ordered No. 5 volume 2 and Cats of the Louvre from Copacetic. I'm a huge Matsumoto fan and that first No. 5 volume is so sick and different from anything else of his that I've read.
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Post by lew on Oct 23, 2021 13:19:50 GMT
Feel pretty lucky to have found a copy of Yuichi Yokoyama's Plaza! Seen the cover around a bit and figured I'd just never get my hands on it. It's a total barrage! So crazy!
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Post by thebeautifulpuffin on Oct 24, 2021 0:43:29 GMT
Peddled into the big city this morning, to take some pictures and poke around some galleries, and also to pick up my copy of (*cough*) Porn Basket at one of my favorite locals. Grabbed a copy of Gropper's Alay-Oop, too. Long time coming on that one. Arrived home to discover a fat packet of s oon-to-be-shareds from the curatorial desk of Mr. Austin English: Wasn't expecting the pile nearly so soon! Solo folks: Long Gone Comix #3 & 4, by Samuel Benson; Francis Bacon, by E.A. Bethia; Plaguers Int'l, by Max Huffman; Future #7, by Tommi Musturi; Rabbit Game, by Myoshi; and Blue Hole #2, by Christine Shields Anthologies: Suspect Device #2, edited by Josh Bayer; Tinfoil #1, 2 & 4, edited by Floyd Tangemanand; and Reptile House #5-7, edited by... the collective? Or maybe just Shane Olsen. Not to sell any of the other pretties short, but holy damn is Tinfoil really something! First I'd laid eyes on the young series. I'm sure all of the above can be found from the individual creators and self-publishers, but why not just cut a fat check for Domino Books instead?
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Post by grubcubman on Oct 26, 2021 19:10:33 GMT
Feel pretty lucky to have found a copy of Yuichi Yokoyama's Plaza! Seen the cover around a bit and figured I'd just never get my hands on it. It's a total barrage! So crazy!
Woah, really cool. Where did you pick this one up?
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Post by lew on Oct 27, 2021 10:32:37 GMT
Feel pretty lucky to have found a copy of Yuichi Yokoyama's Plaza! Seen the cover around a bit and figured I'd just never get my hands on it. It's a total barrage! So crazy!
Woah, really cool. Where did you pick this one up?
Just did my recurrent Yokoyama ebay search and managed to snap it up from mandarake store.
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Post by BubblesZine on Oct 27, 2021 21:52:43 GMT
Woah, really cool. Where did you pick this one up?
Just did my recurrent Yokoyama ebay search and managed to snap it up from mandarake store. I was so happy Glacier Bay got a few of these in their distro. It's my favorite of Yokoyama. The size!!
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Post by grubcubman on Oct 28, 2021 0:14:15 GMT
My latest is Sean Christensen's bound collection of pandemic-era zines. I don't know if they're sold out, but you can find more info (and see better pictures) here.
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Post by lew on Oct 30, 2021 7:15:37 GMT
Just did my recurrent Yokoyama ebay search and managed to snap it up from mandarake store. I was so happy Glacier Bay got a few of these in their distro. It's my favorite of Yokoyama. The size!! yesss! the size and that sort of phonebooky quality to it. big and floppy. Love the quality of New Engineering, but this feels so real and dashed off (??) raw! has the feel of like the paul pope THB mags. Almost like a dream of another kind of industry. Where they're at every corner shop. But of course, its a japanese print! So it is from another industry. Just got volumes 2 & 3 of Umezu's The Driftng Classroom. Great to have it in physical form.
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Post by timbecile on Oct 31, 2021 15:52:35 GMT
I got Trevor Alixopulos' Lipstick Traces in the mail via Kickstarter a month or two ago and finally read it. It’s a self-published book on thick stock limited to 150 copies compiled from anthology work created over many years. Despite originally appearing sporadically, the stories have a lot in common, often involving the same characters. The cover calls them “nightlife comics,” and there is a recurring theme of meeting up at a party or a bar after work. It was very evocative to me of my youth, when I wasn’t, as the Kinks song goes, “always home in bed by half-past eight.”
I also bought but haven’t read yet Crime Comics Confidential, another Craig Yoe baffler--mainly a chance to read another scattershot selection of public domain comics, this time at a slightly larger size. Can he release a book without a spot varnish? Why are there like 5 typefaces on the cover? The opening stories seem to compile comics about real-life crime figures, but after that I think the only organizing principle is crime stories by cult artists, not always at their best? The cover is that famous Jack Cole drawing of a guy in a car with a "Chicago typewriter" spelling out “RAT” in a convulsed man’s chest with bullet holes. The cashier at the shop noted that the guy must be a really good shot, because he’d actually have to spell it backwards. Weird how cashiers will openly ridicule your purchases sometime lol. Maybe he was right.
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Post by skoden on Nov 2, 2021 18:00:19 GMT
Some recent pickups that I've been excited to dig into this week. Read halfway through Helter Skelter which is some pretty good manga horror/drama so far.
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