Art Comic

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Remainder mark on top edge, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color, black and white pictures/comics throughout.

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 b&w cartoons. Preface by Philippe Halsman. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Prion, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 368 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Archie Comics, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 color pages illustrated by Bob Montana.

Softcover. Archie Comics, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of stories from the "Golden Age" of Archie Andrews and his friends. Color comics in color. Softcover.

Softcover. Archie Comics, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, color throughout

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st thus, 2007-12-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Having mastered comic books and gag cartoons, in 1958 Jack Cole set his sights on the cartoonist's pot of gold--a syndicated newspaper strip. He hit the bull's-eye with Betsy and Me, a breezy domestic farce focusing on a middle-class urban couple and their smart-aleck genius son. Betsy and Me was an instant success and newpapers were lining up to buy it. Then, with only two-and-a-half month's worth of strips completed, Cole purchased a .22 caliber pistol and ended his life. For Betsy and Me, featuring city dweller Chet Tibbit's day-to-day stuggles and achievements, Cole stripped his style down to its bare essentials, creating a strip that sparkles with economy, wit, and charm. What gave the strip its edge, however, was Cole's innovative storytelling. As R.C. Harvey writes in his introduction, "Cole's storytelling manner was unique: the comedy arose from the pictures' contradicting the narrative prose. Cole's fatuous protagonist and narrator would say one thing in the captions accompanying the drawings, but the pictures of his actions showed the opposite, revealing [him] to be a trifle pretentious and wholly delusional." Harvey's intro also serves as a biographical sketch and sheds light on the circumstances surrounding Cole's suicide.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st thus, 2007-12-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Having mastered comic books and gag cartoons, in 1958 Jack Cole set his sights on the cartoonist's pot of gold--a syndicated newspaper strip. He hit the bull's-eye with Betsy and Me, a breezy domestic farce focusing on a middle-class urban couple and their smart-aleck genius son. Betsy and Me was an instant success and newpapers were lining up to buy it. Then, with only two-and-a-half month's worth of strips completed, Cole purchased a .22 caliber pistol and ended his life. For Betsy and Me, featuring city dweller Chet Tibbit's day-to-day stuggles and achievements, Cole stripped his style down to its bare essentials, creating a strip that sparkles with economy, wit, and charm. What gave the strip its edge, however, was Cole's innovative storytelling. As R.C. Harvey writes in his introduction, "Cole's storytelling manner was unique: the comedy arose from the pictures' contradicting the narrative prose. Cole's fatuous protagonist and narrator would say one thing in the captions accompanying the drawings, but the pictures of his actions showed the opposite, revealing [him] to be a trifle pretentious and wholly delusional." Harvey's intro also serves as a biographical sketch and sheds light on the circumstances surrounding Cole's suicide.

Softcover. Canada, The History Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages, softcover. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, unpaginated (about 94 pages), b&w cartoons by Hoff from The New Yorker and Look Magazine. Dust jacket with rubbing, edge wear. Clean.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Regular Sized Comic Book. First Edition. (matte finish cover with blue shoes and pants). Contains tale of Dale Steinberger, Jewish Cowgirl, Eggs Ackley among the Vulture Demonesses and others.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 3rd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. Contains tale of Dale Steinberger, Jewish Cowgirl, Eggs Ackley among the Vulture Demonesses and others. Pages physically, if not morally, clean. 3rd printing as pictured with Crumb's name in red box, matte cover, green pants and shoes). 50 cents cover price. Mild wear.

Softcover. Chicago, Bijou Publishing Empire, 2nd pr., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages with semi-glossy color covers, and b/w interior. Cover by Robert Crumb. Stories and art by Robert Crumb, Jay Lynch, Justin Green, and Skip Williamson. Saddle-stapled wraps. Light shelfwear.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Kitchen Sink/Print Mint, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 50 cents cover price, 1st or 2nd Printing as they are considered indistinguishable, includes Jay Lynch, Skip Williamson, Justin Green, R Crumb, Jay Kinney, R Hayes, Kim Deitch, Jay Lynch, Roger Brand. 32 pages, some pages with wear, mild wrinkles.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Bijou Publishing Empire, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 50 cents cover price, 32 pages, some pages with wear, mild wrinkles, cover starting to split at spine top 2 inches. Cover art by Crumb, inside stories by Jay Lynch, R. Crunb, Justin Green, Jay Kinney.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Hardcover, very large format-15 X 19", 176 pages. Bill Ward's glamour girls were the staples of countless men's and humor magazines, where they shared the pages with cult models like Bettie Page, Tina Louise, and Julie Newmar, and cartoons by fellow "good girl" artists such as Archie's Dan Decarlo and Playboy's Jack Cole. Imagine if you will, an innocent but stunning young woman boasting wildly exaggeratedly Barbie-like proportions poured into a wisp of lingerie or clingy cocktail dress and adorned in diamond necklaces and opera-length gloves, all perched on top of a pair of dangerously high stiletto heels, and you've got the recipe for the quintessential Bill Ward glamour girl. What set Ward apart-and above-his talented contemporaries in terms of sheer image-making was his use of the conte crayon. When drawn on simple newsprint stock, this potent combination created Ward's trademark gossamer sheen on his women's thigh-high stockings. This Fantagraphics Studio edition showcases the best of Ward's Humorama work and includes a healthy number of what became known as his "telephone girls." Tame by today's standards, Ward's telephone girls were always caught in candid moments when they just happened to be talking on the phone dressed in gossamer lingerie in innocently provocative poses. And did they ever talk on the phone when they weren't in bed? The majority of the images in this volume were drawn between 1955 and 1965 when Ward was at the height of his skill. They have been scanned in super high-solution from original art and reproduced to highlight every sheen and accentuate every curve to its fullest. The book not only reproduces more than 150 of Ward's most beautifully rendered illustrations, but also serves as a time capsule to a more innocent moment in pop culture when these images were shocking. The Fantagraphics Studio Edition also features an introduction by fashion/style icon and burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese. Like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, folio size, unpaginated, profusely illustrated in b&w by the author. A fictitious chronicle in newspaper prose with cartoon illustrations satirizing society in a small mid-west community. Corners and edges show wear. Interior clean.

Softcover. Princeton WI, Kitchen Sink, 7th pr., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Siftcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Art by Justin Green, Daniel Clyne, Tim Boxell, Wendel Pugh. Mild corner crease, otherwise bright and clean. First published in 1972.

Softcover. Milwaukee WI, Kitchen Sink, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color illustrated cover with black/white interior art. For sale to adults only. 36 pages with 75 cents cover price. With plain overwrap hiding outrageous cover still attached, some slight wrinkling.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Comicarts, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 168 pages. B&w art by Wagner Willan. Author Julian Voloj and award-winning illustrator Wagner Willian's Black & White is the first graphic novel biography following the life of Bobby Fischer, from chess wunderkind and national hero to his eventual spiral into madness and infamy. It begins in Brooklyn, where Fischer was born and raised by a single mother. By the time he was a teen, he had established himself as a loner and dropped out of school. But none of that mattered; he had found his true calling--chess. In 1972, Fischer played what many consider "the game of the century" against the Soviet Union's chess champion Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War. Later, Fischer became the youngest-ever US Chess Champion and the game's youngest grandmaster. Never before had chess received such international attention. Fischer, whose sole focus in life up until then was chess, reached the Olympus of chess at 29, and then . . . he disappeared. Suffering from mental illness, the chess genius became increasingly paranoid, lost in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories--despite the fact that he himself was Jewish--and died as a fugitive in Iceland. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Archaia, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color comics throughout by Fincher/Hyman. Clean, tight copy with minor if any wear to edges.

Softcover. NY, ibooks, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. The story of a private detective seeking revenge for the death of his assassinated ex-girlfriend. A stunning thriller, enhanced by a wonderfully detailed drawing style, with characters in the form of the animals that best reflect the nuances of their personalities. Rendered in a film noir style, the stories are set in late 1950s United States. The strip attempts to reflect a dirty, realist outlook and a dark cinematic style through fairly clean, realistic lines. Detailed watercolor drawings, including real-life places and cities, also contribute to the realistic feel of the series, despite the fact that characters are animals. Dog-ear crease to rear corner of cover, clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First time hardcover complete b&w reprint of the only four issues - originally published by James Warren in 1965 and 1966. Written by Archie Goodwin and drawn by such luminaries as Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, John Severin, Alex Toth, Al Williamson, Russ Heath, Reed Crandall and Gene Colan. 228 pages. No dust jacket issued. Clean and bright.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, A comic-book classic with timely resonance: Blazing Combat was an American war-comics magazine published by Warren Publishing from 1965 to 1966. Written and edited by Archie Goodwin , with artwork by such industry notables as Gene Colan , Frank Frazetta , John Severin , Alex Toth , Al Williamson, Russ Heath, Reed Crandall, and Wally Wood , it featured war stories in both contemporary and period settings, unified by a humanistic theme of the personal costs of war, rather than by traditional men's adventure motifs. What proved to be the most controversial were stories set during the then-contemporary Vietnam War; one such story caused key distributors to stop selling the title. Fantagraphics softcover edition of the sold-out 2011 hardcover, magnificently printed and bound, of these stories, superbly reproduced from the original printer's film negatives.