Hardcover. New York, Artisan, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by William Steig. Introduction by John Updike. A study of the life and work of the eminent cartoonist, New Yorker cover artist, and humorist. Steig also served as art director of the New Yorker.

Hardcover. New York, Artisan, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by William Steig. Introduction by John Updike. A study of the life and work of the eminent cartoonist, New Yorker cover artist, and humorist. Steig also served as art director of the New Yorker.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Scrimshaw Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Lovely copy of an early Crumb work, created over a six month period when he was "nineteen years old and still a virgin...", and subsequently given to his wife Dana as a gift when they first met. 142 pages illustrated by Crumb in color. A bright, pristine copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages of single and multiple panel humorous cartoons with sports and leisure themes.

Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 87 pages of b&w cartoons from The New Yorker. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped. Clean.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oversized trade paperback. Color art throughout. Some small dates notations on copyright page, light chipping to paper spine otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 265 pages illustrated in b&w. From Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobody's Fool, comes Three Rocks, a biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy. But this graphic novel is about more than a single comic book artist. It is the story of this American art form, tracing its inception to 1895 with the Yellow Kid, the creation of Nancy in 1933, and all the strips that followed, including Peanuts and The Far Side. When Bushmiller died in 1982, Nancy was running in almost 900 daily newspapers--a number few syndicated cartoonists ever achieve. Nancy is hailed as the "perfect" comic strip by fans and cartoonists alike. The title Three Rocks refers to the trope of three hemispherical rocks often seen in a Bushmiller landscape--just enough to communicate environment to the reader. This distillation is exemplary of the iconic, diagrammatic look of Nancy, a comic strip about the nature of what it means to be a comic strip--the perfect avatar for Griffith to expand upon his philosophy of creating comics. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. 160 pages with a collection of underground erotic comic strips, published in the 1930's - 1950's in America. Introductory essay by Art Spiegelman. Commentary by Richard Merkin. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. ADULT CONTENT..

San Francisco, Last Gasp, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, a guide to the characters of the comic series presents information on the role in the strip of and real life models for Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, General Alcazar, Professor Calculus and others. Each is shown in early and late incarnations, b&w and color, with fascinating historical facts and tidbits. 131 pages include index and color throughout.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. In 1972, underground cartoonists Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli produced Tits & Clits - a funny, rowdy, raucous underground comix series about female sexuality that one reviewer described as "the ultimate in vaginal politics" - and became the first American women ever credited with writing, drawing, and publishing their own comic books. A feminist answer to Zap, Tits & Clits quickly became an anthology showcase for other women cartoonists, featuring the work of Mary Fleener, Roberta Gregory, Krystine Kryttre, Lee Marrs, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Trina Robbins, Dori Seda, among others. Like other underground comix, Tits & Clits leaned into being lewd in order to satirize women's experiences with so-called sexual liberation. Featuring stories about birth control, abortion, menstruation, masturbation, and more, Tits & Clits featured intimate politics which occasionally clashed with contemporaneous feminist concepts about sex and sexuality. As Chevli put it: their work had something to offend everyone. (In 1973, conservative legal authorities in Orange County deemed their work pornographic and even threatened the two editors with arrest on obscenity charges.)Now, for the first time in half a century, a new generation of readers will be shocked, entertained, enlightened, and scandalized by the bold satirical cartoonists that comprised the band of sisters in Tits & Clits. In addition to reprinting the seven-issue run of the Tits & Clits series, this collection also includes in their entirety two classic solo comics from 1972 written and drawn by Farmer and Chevli - Abortion Eve and Pandora's Box. Also included is an introductory essay providing context to Tits & Clits' place in the history of women's cartooning by the book's editor, Samantha Meie

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 380 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. To Laugh That We May Not Weep is a sweeping career retrospective, reprinting -often for the first time in 60 or 70 years- over 800 of Young's timeless, charming, and devastating cartoons and illustrations, many reproduced from original artwork, to create a fresh new portrait of this towering figure in the worlds of cartooning and politics.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Collects issues January - September 1953 Issues 7 - 11. Exclusively features a special introduction from Jeff Gelb and a profile of one of the genre's leading artists - John Giunta, plus examples of his original artwork.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 257 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Collects June-November 1952, Issues 1-6).

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format pictorial boards, 200 pages. In 1949, the ambitious Charles Biro - who had previously co-created the realistically brutal comic Crime Does Not Pay - edited and wrote an oversized comic aimed at adults, called Tops. Like several other radical adult comics projects that would follow, it proved to be a commercial failure and lasted only two Life magazine-sized issues. The original comics have since become a legendary holy grail among comics fans and historians, fetching as much as $6,000 on the collector's market: written about but rarely seen and never reprinted. Until now.Fantagraphics' Tops collects both issues of these oversized experimental comics in their entirety. Some of the best craftsmen working in comics at that time drew these pulpy, sexy, and melodramatic stories: Dan Barry, George Tuska, and others. It includes two stunning pre-EC crime tales illustrated by Reed Crandall, reminiscent of his Crime SuspenStories work. Actor Melvyn Douglas (believe it or not) takes the reader on a tour of utopia, entitled "How Would You Live Under A World Government?" - a positive spin on global Socialism! A treasure trove of fascinating and revelatory comics history for scholars and fans, this compilation includes an introduction by the editor, the historian and cartoonist Michael T. Gilbert, as well as several other essays providing background on the creation of the series and the publisher, editors, and cartoonists who realized it. It includes a chronicle in essay form of experimental, adult comics endeavors throughout the first half of the 20th century. Tops is a landmark work of historical importance and a mind-boggling reading experience from a bygone era meticulously restored and reproduced in a deluxe hardcover in its originally published dimensions. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Icon/Marvel, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. A graphic novel of of Eliot Ness's hunt for America's first serial killer-Cleveland's 1935 torso killer. B&w art by Bendis followed by pages of news clipping with photos of the actual crime scene and investigators at work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Northampton MA, Heavy Metal/Tundra, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards, color ilustrations by Fabrice Lamy and Olivier Vatine. Olivier Vatine's comic book "Trio Grande" is a splendid presentation of his skills in the comic book world. The book is set in a hot desert scenario with a fantastic spaghetti western style. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. 394 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Stan Lee was one of the most famous and beloved entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, became known as the creator of more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than nearly anyone: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the Incredible Hulk . . . the list goes on. His carnival-barker marketing prowess helped save the comic-book industry and superhero fiction. His cameos in Marvel movies have charmed billions. When he died in 2018, grief poured in from around the world, further cementing his legacy. But what if Stan Lee wasn't who he said he was? To craft the definitive biography of Lee, Abraham Riesman conducted more than 150 interviews and investigated thousands of pages of private documents, turning up never-before-published revelations about Lee's life and work. True Believer tackles tough questions: Did Lee actually create the characters he gained fame for creating? Was he complicit in millions of dollars' worth of fraud in his post-Marvel life? Which members of the cavalcade of grifters who surrounded him were most responsible for the misery of his final days?

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcvoer, Light edgewear to wrappers. Color and Black and white comics throughout. Trailing the success of the movie based on Clowes' graphic novel Ghost World (1997) comes this collection of shorter stories from his alternative comic book Eightball. Many of the pieces are tirades, albeit entertaining ones, about things Clowes despises (perhaps the comic should have been called Hateball). "On Sports" details his contempt for professional athletics, and "Art School Confidential" is an expose of pretentious, talentless poseurs. This approach is carried to its logical peak in "I Hate You Deeply," a litany of the "types" that annoy Clowes, from "fashion plates" to "crybabies, whiners, and sensitive people." Clowes puts his misanthropy in abeyance for slice-of-life stories in which he ruminates during a stroll around his neighborhood or fantasizes about his fellow passengers on a subway. Worthwhile enough, these earlier stories merely presage Clowes' far-more-impressive recent work in which cynicism is presented more subtly, leavened with sympathy, and voiced by well-developed characters. If these pieces lack the heft of Clowes' longer, more ambitious efforts, the best of them are still masterful miniatures.

Softcover. Guerneyville CA, Eclipse Comics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Jones. ADULT CONTENT. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Guerneyville CA, Eclipse Comics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Jones. Part 2 of 4. ADULT CONTENT. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Guerneyville CA, Eclipse Comics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Jones. Part 3 of 4. ADULT CONTENT. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Guerneyville CA, Eclipse Comics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Jones. Part 4 of 4. ADULT CONTENT. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 367 pages, a graphic novel illustrated in color by Igort. Color illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued. After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia, collecting the stories of the survivors and witnesses to Soviet rule, masterful Italian graphic novelist Igort was compelled to illuminate two shadowy moments in recent history: the Ukraine famine and the assassination of a Russian journalist. Now he brings those stories to new life with in-depth reporting and deep compassion. In The Russian Notebooks, Igort investigates the murder of award-winning journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkoyskaya. Anna spoke out frequently against the Second Chechen War, criticizing Vladimir Putin. For her work, she was detained, poisoned, and ultimately murdered. Igort follows in her tracks, detailing Anna's assassination and the stories of abuse, murder, abduction, and torture that Russia was so desperate to censor. In The Ukrainian Notebooks, Igort reaches further back in history and illustrates the events of the 1932 Holodomor. Little known outside of the Ukraine, the Holodomor was a government-sanctioned famine, a peacetime atrocity during Stalin's rule that killed anywhere from 1.8 to twelve million ethnic Ukrainians. Told through interviews with the people who lived through it, Igort paints a harrowing picture of hunger and cruelty under Soviet rule.

Softcover. US, Kitchen Sink Press, 2nd printing, 1993-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams ComicArts, 1st, 2018, Hardcover, 26 pages fold-out accordion style, all in color by the author. "By focusing on the narrative of one immigrant worker, Tonatiuh breaks the mammoth issues of immigration and workers rights into an easy-to-swallow bite, allowing the reader to easily engage with an often intimidating topic. The personal is again political. Highly recommended." In a cardboard slipcase with a color label. Like new.

Hardcover. Paris, Dargaud , reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 64 pages illustrated in color by Savard. Light waviness to early pages. Clean, very good. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. Paris, Casterman, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 68 pages illustrated in color by Rossi. Clean, very good. FRENCH TEXT.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, The Print Mint, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover First Edition July 1970. .50 cent printed price. (28 pages.) Close to near fine in stapled pictorial printed wrappers. Text mildly toned.

Hardcover. Phoenix AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated (120 pages). Illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards with small rubbed of patch on front edge of front cover, else a clean, tight copy. Printed in conjunction with the exhibit held at The Phoenix Art Museum from, "April 21-August 19, 2007". The artists exhibited: Kim Deitch, Jerry Moriarty, Gary Panter, Ron Rege, Jr. and Seth.

Hardcover. Phoenix AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated (120 pages). Illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards with small rubbed of patch on front edge of front cover, else a clean, tight copy. Printed in conjunction with the exhibit held at The Phoenix Art Museum from, "April 21-August 19, 2007". The artists exhibited: Kim Deitch, Jerry Moriarty, Gary Panter, Ron Rege, Jr. and Seth.

Softcover. New York, Doubleday, 3rd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with Light edgewear to wrappers. Cartoons by Roz Chast. Cartoons use puns and the author's offbeat sense of humor to poke fun at human nature and modern life in the United States. Originally appeared 1978-1981 mostly in The New Yorker magazine.

Softcover. New York , NBM, 1st, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in color by Hampton. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 30 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 30 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ibooks/Simon & Schuster, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w art by Lomax.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. SelfMadeHero, 1st US, 2015, Softcover, 142 pages illustrated in color by Stok. Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson. This graphic biography documents the brief and intense period of creativity Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) spent in Arles, Provence, in southern France. Here van Gogh dreams of setting up an artists' studio--a haven where he and his friends can paint together. But attacks of mental illness leave the painter confused and disoriented. When his friend and fellow artist Paul Gauguin refuses to reside permanently at the Yellow House, a distraught van Gogh cuts off part of his own ear. Throughout this period of intense emotion and hardship, Vincent's brother, Theo, stands by him, offering constant and unconditional support. Writer and illustrator Barbara Stok breathes riveting new life into a fascinating episode of art history, creating a vivid portrait of one of the world's most beloved and legendary artists. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated. B&w illustrations by Crumb. "Yo! People! Here's yet another book of placemat drawings done while sitting in restaurants. Wow, doesn't this guy ever stop drawing?? Hey, now I have a good reason for making artwork on placemats. I'm no longer simply doodling to pass the time 'til the food arrives. I'm earning money while waiting to be served! I'm getting paid for it! Can you imagine??" (from R. Crumb's forward)

Softcover. Miami FL, Vanguard Publishing, 2nd pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, glossy pictorial wrappers, 207 pages. Color art throughout. This contains the complete collection of non-EC, 1950s crime and horror comics by Wally Wood. Some of the highlights are: Captain Steve Savage; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Sabu the Elephant Boy; Frank Buck; Martin Kane; Fu Manchu; and many, many more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Color and b&w illustrations by Frank King throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Illustrated end papers and pastedowns. Include appendix of historical sketches. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.