Illustration, issue 15 Spring 2008
Edited by Ruth Prickett. Guineapiguana Publications, Spring 2008. At a time when the business pages are filled with stories about doom and gloom on the financial markets and the plight of banks dealing with the “credit crunch”, we go shopping. Eric Ravilious's gorgeous and iconic High Street is now too expensive for most of us to buy – at least while the banks clamp down on lending – but it takes us back to a time when shops could be small, individual and full of exotic and wonderful wares.

Ravilious's gorgeous autolithographs bring out both the reality and the fantasy of these miniature retail emporiums and remind us that window shopping is a pleasure that can never be replaced by a click with a mouse. Production and display are also the themes of many of the pictographs in the codexes produced by the Maya in Central America. Their scribes recorded essentials from astronomy and religion to bee-keeping, weaving and agricultural practices – real and spiritual life inseparably entwined.

Fantasy and reality collide in a very different way in Winsor McKay's Dream of the Rarebit Fiend cartoon strip. While the subject is obviously fantastic, much of the material was based on contemporary US life and often draws on McCay's own personal experiences. A few decades later, on the other side of the Atlantic, Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird) took the grim reality of war, fifth columnists and fear of the blitz and used gentle humour and a sense of the absurd to persuade people to behave well in a world gone mad. His simple designs have become classics, but this simplicity has perhaps allowed posterity to underestimate their sophistication. We redress this balance and look at the thought behind the well-known images.

The illustrations of Wayne Anderson are clearly fantasy, but are made possible by a real work ethic and “obsessive” attitude. Fantasy makes reality palatable: we offer this issue as an antidote to economic woes. 50 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8" x 12" (203mm x 305mm) Recommended.

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Exotique 3: The World's Most Beautiful CG Characters
Daniel Wade, Editor. Ballistic Publishing, 2007. Experience a completely new collection of the world's most beautiful digital characters. EXOTIQUE 3 brings together the world's most beautiful CG characters in genres ranging from science fiction, fantasy, anime, to photo-realism and stylised realism.

Featuring 292 artworks by 197 artists in 45 countries and printed to the high standards that Ballistic Publishing is renowned for, you'll be both inspired and impressed by the original character art showcased here. 192 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (220mm x 297mm) (ISBN-13: 9781921002458)

See also Exotique 1 and Exotique 2, the earlier volumes in this fascinating series as well as other outstanding books from Ballistic dedicated to stunning digital art!

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Hellboy Volume 1
Mike Mignola with John Byrne. Dark Horse Books, 2008. Since Mike Mignola's "Hellboy" first hit the stands in 1993, it has become a cultural sensation, racking up a dozen Eisner Awards and inspiring numerous spinoffs, from a novel line, to video games, to feature films. Now, here are the comics that started it all, collected in deluxe hardcover editions.

Handsomely bound to match "The Art of Hellboy" hardcover, each volume contains two full story-arcs, the equivalent of two trade-paperbacks. Each volume of the "Hellboy Library Editions" also includes extensive supplemental materials, including previously unreleased sketches and designs. 278 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (229mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781593079109)

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The Complete Terry and the Pirates, Vol 3, 1939 – 1940
Milton Caniff, edited by Dean Mullaney. IDW Publishing, 2008. April Kane has come to China and Terry Lee's life will never be the same! Milton Caniff's newspaper classic shifts into high gear with stories featuring the villainous Sanjak, the outrageous Singh-Singh, and the mysterious Hu Shee. This volume features the first appearance of pivotal character, Raven Sherman. Containing over 100 lovingly-restored colour Sunday pages and more than 700 total comic strips, "The Complete Terry and The Pirates" provides non-stop adventure, comedy, and romance, as IDW Publishing's Library of American Comics showcases the incredible work of Milton Caniff, forever known as The Rembrandt of American Comics. 352 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 11½" x 9" (281mm x 229mm) (ISBN-13: 9781600101441) Highly Recommended.

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Illustration magazine issue number twenty two
Dan Zimmer, Editor. The Illustrated Press, 2008. Another eagerly awaited issue of this stunning magazine. This issue features Frederick Blakeslee (1898 – 1973), an appreciation by David Saunders. Blakeslee was probably the artist for aviation pulps such as G-8 and his BattleAces and the article features wonderful illustrations along with a biography.

Morton Roberts: An Illusion of Life, tells the story of a magnificent magazine illustrator who's career was tragically cut short by his early death. The New Orleans funeral piece that begins the article is worth the price of admission alone. Finally we have The Story of the Merrill Company, a leader in the field of children's picture books during the 1940s and 50s. The usual news and reviews round out the issue. 96 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 9" x 11" (229mm x 279mm)

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Modesty Blaise: Yellowstone Booty
Peter O’Donnell, Enric Badia Romero, John Burns. Titan Books, 2008. The dark underworld of espionage and crime is lit up by the fatal charms of the gorgeous Modesty Blaise - high priestess of pulp crime and goddess of cult thrillers! Adventurer, spy, smuggler, racketeer and all-round bad girl, Modesty is as stylish as she is smart, as lethal and beautiful as a Japanese fighting sword!

This latest volume features three classic hard-to-find stories: "Yellowstone Booty", "Idaho George" and "The Golden Frog" … all wrapped up in a spectacular collector's library edition!

Complete with brand new story introductions by Modesty creator and bestselling author Peter O'Donnell, plus exclusive behind-the-scenes sketches and rarely seen artwork by John Burns. 104 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 9" x 12" (229mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781845764197)

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Persepolis (2 volume set)
Marjane Satrapi. Jonathan Cape, 2006. Excellent value collection that features both the acclaimed Persepolis stories, The Story Of A Childhood and The Story Of A Return. Compared at the time to Art Spiegelman's Maus, this is Marjane Satrapi's perceptive, funny & heartbreaking account of her childhood in Iran during the Islamic revolution, illustrated in bold simple images.

In the second instalment, she asserts the moral bankruptcy of all political dogmas & religious conformity, how it bullies & murders. Despite all the hardships and suffering, the author shows how to carry on with laughter and tears in the face of absurdity. 344 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 6" x 9" (152mm x 229mm) (ISBN-13: 9780224080392)
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Prince Valiant: In The Days of King Arthur volume 1 1937-1938
Harold R Foster. Libri Impressi, 2008. The first of 22 volumes reprinting one of the greatest newspaper adventure strips of all time. Of course there have been reprints before but the difference with this edition is that for the first time the black and white reproduction is crystal clear, showing the incredible penmanship. This is a fine way to begin an appreciation of Foster's masterpiece in a large format hard cover.

Where possible these pages have been reproduced from original proofs from the King Features archives, others come from newspaper pages that have had the colour dropped and the blacks and shadings meticulously restored. There are even pages scanned from the original art! 110 pages. Hard Cover Black & White (ISBN-13: 9789899517660) Highly Recommended.

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The Trigan Empire Volume 5: The Red Death (Complete Don Lawrence Collection) (Limited Edition)
Don Lawrence, Mike Butterworth. Don Lawrence Collection (DLC), April 2008. First Edition. For the first time ever, the complete Trigan Empire saga in ENGLISH. All the legendary adventures of Trigo, Janno, Perik and Bragg presented in a unique DELUXE 12 volume set containing all the Trigan stories illustrated by the late Don Lawrence - over 40 stories and more than 950 pages of glorious colour artwork in total.

Each book is LIMITED to just 500 copies in English and is printed in large format on 150gm coated paper with a full colour leatherette bound hard cover and a full colour print.

This is volume 5 in the series - the tenth volume to be published - and features the stories previously published in Look and Learn: The Lost City, The Invisibility Ray, The Ultimate Weapon, The Tyrant and The Red Death. The dossier for the book covers Trigan City and the Palace.

112 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 13" (240mm x 340mm) ISBN: 9789073508965 Highly Recommended.


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The Fascinating Madame Tussaud
Rene Follet & Andre-Paul Duchateau. Cinebook, 2007. Paris 1793. Marie Crossholz manages the wax museum set up by her father. In exchange for payment, some executioners allow her to mould the faces of guillotined aristocrats… After the French Revolution, Marie Crossholz becomes Mrs Tussaud. Disappointed in her marriage, she leaves for London with the ambition to create a wax museum there.

New battles and other tumultuous adventures await her… Thirty years later, in 1835, she will inaugurate the famous Tussaud Museum of Baker Street in London, which, since that time, continues to grow with new celebrities and has not ceased to attract millions of visitors. 104 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 7½" x 10" (190mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9781905460366)

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Frank Bellamy's Robin Hood: The Complete Adventures
Frank Bellamy, Steve Holland (introduction). Book Palace Books, April 2008. Fabulous book with a detailed introduction by Steve Holland and complete with every single episode of Bellamy's strips 'Robin Hood and His Merry Men' and 'Robin Hood and Maid Marion' (134 pages).

Even at this early stage of Bellamy's career, his work was remarkably confident and detailed; if you've never seen this strip before prepare to be amazed! Soft Cover Black & White (ISBN-13: 9780955159633)

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Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide 38th Edition (Marvel Villains cover)
Robert M Overstreet. Gemstone/House of Collectibles, 2008. The big event in Comic books is, of course, the latest Comic Book Price Guide from Robert M. Overstreet, the indispensable tool, now with over a thousand pages. Regular features include expanded Market Report, Key Comics Sales 2003, Grading, Storage, Collecting tips, Top Golden Age, Top 20 Silver Age, Top 10 Bronze Age, Top 20 Big Little Books, Top Crime, Horror, Romance, Colour Comic Gallery & much more.

The price guide listing is broken into various sections including Platinum Age, Victorian Age, Giveaways, Main Section and Big Little Books. 1090 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 7" x 9" (178mm x 229mm) (ISBN-13: 9780375722394)

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Dan Dare Reign Of The Robots
Frank Hampson, Don Harley et al.. Titan Books, 2008. Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, returns! First published in classic British comic The Eagle, these are the original space adventures of one of Britain's best-loved characters.

Dan and company return from a 10-year mission in space only to discover that the fearsome Elektrobots and their evil master, the Mekon, have conquered the Earth.

This volume also features “The Ship That Lives” which focuses on Dan's famed spaceship Anastasia. 112 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (229mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781845764142)

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The Wagon Train: A Lucky Luke Adventure # 9
Morris & Goscinny. Cinebook, 2008. Calamity Jane saves Lucky Luke from a delicate situation. A friendship is quickly formed, and they arrive together in El Plomo... where Calamity Jane proves by her manners and her strength that she's not a weak woman: She acquires the local saloon by winning an arm-wrestling match!

Its ex-owner, August Oyster, is hopping mad and has only one obsession: to send her packing. During this time, Lucky Luke tries to clear up a dark affair involving arms traffic… 48 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 9" x 11" (229mm x 279mm) (ISBN-13: 9781905460403)
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Crikey! # 4
Edited by Brian M Clark. Sequential Media Publications, 2008. Features a long overdue appreciation of artist Mike Noble (TV 21; Look-In etc.) and an interview with the creators of the post Reg Smythe Andy Capp strip and Dave Gibbons offers a trip down memory lane in My Comic Saturday. Other features include a look at 1950s British horror comics and a look into what may be the rarest of all British comic Annuals. 48 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 8½" x 11½" (215mm x 291mm)

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E. C. Segar's Popeye Volume 2: Well, Blow Me Down!
Written & illustrated by E. C. Segar, introduction by Bill Blackbeard. Fantagraphics Books, 2007. The second volume (of six) of the acclaimed hit series collecting the entirety of E.C. Segar's original Popeye (a.k.a. Thimble Theatre) comic strips begins with a foreword by Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker plus an introduction by noted film and cartooning critic Donald Phelps.

This volume features work from 1930 to 1932 and most notably includes the debut of Segar's second greatest character: J. Wellington Wimpy. Wimpy stands as a one-of-a-kind icon some 70 years after his creation, the most likeable low-down cad ever to grace the comics page.

Popeye Vol. 2 includes the stories: Clint Gore (continued from the cliff-hanger last volume); A One-Way Bank, in which Popeye opens a bank that allows withdrawals but no deposits; a long war story featuring King Blozo that begins with The Great Rough-House War; and Skullyville, which wraps up the daily strips for this volume. 176 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 11" x 15" (279mm x 381mm) (ISBN-13: 9781560978749) Highly Recommended.

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Vadeboncoeur Black & White Images Fourth Annual Collection 1890 - 1922
Compiled by Jim Vadeboncoeur. Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., 2008. A wonderful new collection that contains more than 200 illustrations from the turn of the 20th Century from the pens and brushes of the finest artists of the day. Includes rare work from Winsor McCay, J. Allen St. John and many others. 106 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 9" x 12" (23cm x 30cm) (ISBN-13: 9780972469746) Highly Recommended.

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Commando: Rumble In The Jungle
Edited by, and with an introduction from, George Low. Carlton, 2008. Stories set in the jungles of Malay and Burma are, like all other Commando comics, packed with action and adventure. But there is something about these plots that really get the writers in top gear and they pull out all the stops. Who couldn't get enthusiastic about ambushes, impenetrable undergrowth, mysterious caves, deep river gorges flooded by monsoons, samurai swords, slithering snakes, fiendish fevers, strange cries in the night, menacing idols, dangerous insects and animals added to the usual threats from bullets and bombs?

Featuring such stories as "Jungle Madness", "Grudge Fight", "The Black Pagoda", "Halt - or Die!", "Danger Everywhere!" and "Jungle Sniper", this carefully selected anthology will transport you into a world of sweat, swamps and where our ever invincible allied heroes battle bravely and honourably to victory. 784 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 7" x 9" (18cm x 23cm) (ISBN-13: 9781844420025)

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Krazy and Ignatz: The Complete Full Page Comic Strips 1941-1942 (A Ragout of Raspberries)
George Herriman, edited by Bill Blackbeard. Fantagraphics, 2007. George Herriman integrated full, spectacular colour into Krazy Kat in June, 1935. The gorgeous evolution continues in our fourth colour volume, which includes the Sunday strips from all of 1941 and 1942. The colour format opens the floodgates for a massive amount of spectacular, rare colour art from series editor Bill Blackbeard and designer Chris Ware's files. Most of these strips in this volume have not seen print since originally running in Hearst newspapers over 60 years ago.

Critic Jeet Heer contributes an essay about the history and precedents of Herriman's unique use of language, exploring his characters' loquacious lexicography. 120 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (229mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781560978879)

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Heart of Empire or The Legacy of Luther Arkwright
Bryan Talbot. Dark Horse Books, 14 March 2008. In a future alternate-reality Earth -- one existence in a swirling maelstrom of parallel worlds -- a vicious totalitarian British Empire reigns supreme. But in Rome, the dying Pope sets into motion a dark plan to place the throne of Britannica under papal control by any means necessary. And while such temporal machinations threaten the world's political and social stability, a monstrous force is building across the multiverse, and a countdown begins to almost certain dimensional apocalypse!

Luther Arkwright has saved a universe before, but with an infinity of universes threatened with annihilation, all of Arkwright's preternatural talents are needed. If only Arkwright weren't dead . . . This is the new second edition published to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Luther Arwrights first appearance in comics a spectacular science-fantasy romp. 296 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 6½" x 10" (164mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9781593077266)

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Biggles Recounts The Battle Of Britain
F Bergese & B Asso. Cinebook, 2008. This is the second in a series of English language reprints, which offer an exciting historically accurate story featuring a battle where aviation plays a major role. Biggles of course started his career in World War One like his creator Captain W.E. Johns, he'd be overdue for retirement by the time of the Second World War. In fact it's just the use of the characters name to draw readers into the story.

The story is well illustrated in a modern version of the famous clear line style. 48 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm) (ISBN-13: 9781905460397)

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Tomart's Disneyana Update Issue 69
Edited by Thomas E. Tumbusch. Tomart Publications, 2008. Cover feature and centre spread this issue is on Disney's Ice Classics. There is an interview with the first female ‘Imagineer' Harriet Burns who reminiscences about working for Disney during the 1950's. Updates on Roger Rabbit comics, Valentine's Day promos and Disney / Pixar model cars as well as the usual news and views. 64 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8½" x 11" (215mm x 279mm)

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Blake and Mortimer: The Mystery of the Great Pyramid Part 2
Edgar P Jacobs. Cinebook, 2008. Captain Blake having been assassinated at Athens Airport, Olrik seems to have won the first round. A furious Mortimer swears that he'll never stop trying to avenge his friend. He goes on the hunt, but information is scarce. Sheil Abdel Razek, an old man with mysterious powers, protects him against Doctor Grossgrabenstein's crew. The doctor is a devoted Egyptologist who has undertaken excavations not far from the Great Pyramid. Strange events take place, and Mortimer sometimes feels like he's losing his way in this investigation that will lead him into the darkest depths of the Great Pyramid! 56 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 8" x 11" (203mm x 279mm) (ISBN-13: 9781905460380)

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The Chronicles Of Conan Volume 14 Shadow of the Beast and other stories
Roy Thomas, John Buscema, Ernie Chan. Dark Horse Comics, 2008. Conan faces his most arduous adventure yet as he matches his wits and brawn against the very forces of nature itself-no small task, even for a man who's done battle with wizards, otherworldly beasts, and ancient gods. But will the strength of steel really be enough against such powers?

All this plus the tenth anniversary story by Roy Thomas and John Buscema, this volume marks the end of an era-collecting the final issues of Roy Thomas's celebrated run on Conan the Barbarian. Featuring completely re-mastered color, this volume is a must for fans of classic sword and sorcery! Collects Conan the Barbarian Issues # 108-115. 168 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (178mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9781593078997)

Highly Recommended.

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The Savage Sword of Conan volume 2
Roy Thomas, John Buscema, Neal Adams, Gil Kane, Alfredo Alcala et al. Dark Horse Books, 2008. In the mid 1970s a comics magazine was published containing some of the most exciting epic fantasy tales the world has ever known-The Savage Sword of Conan. Based off of the work of renowned author Robert E. Howard, each issue offered multiple thrilling tales of the legendary barbarian. The magazine was also a showcase of comics talent, headed up by Conan aficionado Roy Thomas.

Now for the first time ever, these stories are being collected in a series of omnibus-style books, with over five hundred pages of classic sword and sorcery-for the complete Conan collector!

Included in this volume are tales featuring the stunning art of such comics luminaries as Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala, Jim Starlin, Al Milgrom, Pablo Marcos, Walter Simonson, and many more. 544 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 7" x 9" (178mm x 229mm) (ISBN-13: 9781593078942)

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Acme Novelty Library #18
Chris Ware. Drawn & Quarterly, 2007. In keeping with his athletic goal of issuing a volume of his occasionally lauded ACME series once every new autumn, volume 18 finds cartoonist Chris Ware abandoning the engaging serialization of his "Rusty Brown" and instead focusing upon his ongoing and more experimentally grim narrative, "Building Stories."

Collecting pages unseen except in obscure alternative weekly periodicals and sophisticated expensive coffee table magazines, The ACME Novelty Library #18 re-introduces the characters which New York Times readers found "dry" and "deeply depressing" when one chapter of the work (not included here) was presented in its pages during 2005 and 2006.

Set in a Chicago apartment building more or less in the year 2000, the stories move from the straightforward to the mnemonically complex, invading character's memories and personal ambitions with a text point size likely unreadable to human beings over the age of 45. Reformatted to accommodate this different material, readers will be pleased by the volume's vertical shape and tasteful design, which, unlike Ware's earlier volumes, should discreetly blend into any stack or shelf of real books. 56 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 8½" x 10½" (215mm x 266mm) (ISBN-13: 9781897299173)

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The EC Archives: Weird Science Volume 1 (Leather edition) (Signed) (Limited Edition)
Stories by Al Feldstein, William Gaines, illustrators include Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Joe Orlando, Jack Kamen, Al Feldstein and others.. Gemstone Publishing, 2006. The first volume in The EC Archives kicks off the series with a 212-page hardcover volume collecting the first six issues of the legendary Weird Science sci-fi comics. Each volume will also include all of the original EC advertisements, editorial pieces and even letters pages, to give readers a true idea what made EC so influential. The EC Archives editions will present these stories with all-new colours based on the originals, using new methods of shading and texture to heighten each story's impact.

The reproduction of these volumes is the best ever, as each of The EC Archives is shot directly from the original EC art! Legendary Star Wars creator, George Lucas, who holds the EC Comics line in high regard, provides a nostalgic foreword for this first volume. One can assume that comics such as Weird Science helped to expand the imagination of the young George, steering him towards A Galaxy Far, Far Away...

These comics inspired cartoons, movies, TV series, and countless parodies and tributes, and now these classics of the 20th century are set to return in this stunning new format for the 21st century! 212 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 11½" (229mm x 292mm) ISBN: 1888472585 and ISBN-13: 9781888472585
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION (300 copies worldwide) BOXED Leatherbound gold-blocked edition. SIGNED by EC Editor Al Feldstein.

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The Original Art of Basil Wolverton
Glenn Bray. Last Gasp Publishing and Grand Central Press, 2007. The hilarious spaghetti-and-meatball style caricature art of Basil Wolverton has been a huge influence on art luminaries such as Robert Crumb, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Robert Williams, Drew Freidman, and others. This is the first time that the work of one of comicdom's major legacies has been presented in a fine art tome.

Born in Oregon in 1909, Wolverton pitched his first comic strip to a syndicate at the age of 16, but it wasn't until 13 years later that he would sell his first comic features to the new medium of comic books.

"Disk-Eyes the Detective" and "Spacehawks" were published in 1938 in Circus Comics. In 1940, "Spacehawk" (a different and improved feature) made its debut in Target Comics. The series ran for 30 episodes (262 pages), until 1942. "Powerhouse Pepper," Wolverton's most successful humor comic book feature was published in Timely, Marvel and Humorama comics from 1942 through 1952. Wolverton penned many other features, producing a total of some 1,300 comic book pages. In 1946 he earned first prize for his rendition of Lower Slobbovia's ugliest woman, Lena the Hyena. The contest, part of Al Capp's "Li'l Abner" newspaper strip, was judged by no less than Boris Karloff, Frank Sinatra, and Salvador Dali. It won Wolverton fame and notoriety, and moved his career into the mainstream spotlight for a few years, with features and caricatures appearing in Life and Pageant magazines.

In his later years Wolverton produced a story of the Old Testament, which included more than 500 illustrations, and created a series of apocalyptic illustrations based on the New Testament's "Book of Revelation." During this time he continued to create outrageous cartoons for clients as diverse as Plop, Playboy and the Topps Company. Wolverton died in 1978. 272 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 9½" x 12½" (241mm x 317mm) (ISBN-13: 9780867196870)

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The Last Musketeer
Jason. Fantagraphics Books, 2007. After his existential thriller (Why Are You Doing This?), his Parisian famous-writers crime caper (The Left Bank Gang), and his time-travel story (I Killed Adolf Hitler), Jason's fourth full-colour album may feature his loopiest premise yet. Set in the present time, The Last Musketeer stars the by-now centuries old musketeer Athos, who has been reduced to a suavely dressed but useless near-panhandler trading on his now almost extinct fame.

All this changes when one day the Martians attack Earth. Suddenly there is a need for swashes to be buckled, and Athos leaps back into the fray with a vengeance. The Last Musketeer is a vintage sci-fi adventure with a unique twist from an internationally acclaimed cartoonist. 48 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 7" x 9" (178mm x 229mm) (ISBN-13: 9781560978893)

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The Art of Bryan Talbot
Introduction by Neil Gaiman. NBM Publishing, 2007. The best by the great artist of Luther Arkwright, The Tale of One Bad Rat and, most recently, Alice in Sunderland. From covers to comics, illustrations from his psychedelic beginnings to rock stars and nudes, and offbeat paraphernalia, Bryan Talbot presents his outstanding body of work. 96 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (229mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781561635122)

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Mélange
Dean Yeagle. Akileos, 2007. Acclaimed artist Dean Yeagle has somehow managed to gain plaudits for both his Disney and his Playboy work. That seems like quite a stretch, but rather obvious when you see this great new collection of his work. For this volume he has selected many of his favourite images from across the whole spectrum of his work, children's stories to cheesecake, character designs and model sheets as well as pin-ups and saucy gags. This monograph shows a fresh playful update on a classic pin-up and animation style shown off to best advantage in a classy well-designed volume. 128 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9½" x 12" (241mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9782915168754)

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Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge Adventures: The Barks / Rosa Collection volume 2
Carl Barks & Don Rosa. Gemstone Publishing, 2008. A gloriously simple and effective idea. Take a classic Carl Barks story that many would like to see reprinted: Donald Duck's Atom Bomb from 1947 and follow it with a modern Don Rosa homage to the Good Duck Man (and David Bowie / Nic Roeg) - The Duck Who Fell To Earth from 1993 - that follows up on the premise of the original inspiration.

There are two other Barks originals and Rosa homage to round out the issue. Would that more modern comics art showed as much respect, intelligence, clarity and subtle wit as Don Rosa's. 68 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 7" x 10" (178mm x 254mm) Highly Recommended.

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Eagle vol. 1 #4 - 5 May 1950
Condition: Good. British comic.

This is one issue from the classic British comic series that introduced Dan Dare, Heros The Spartan, Riders of the Range, PC49, Blackbow the Cheyenne, Captain Hornblower, Fraser of Africa, and many more. We have virtually every issue of Eagle from 1950 onwards.

See our comprehensive Eagle listings which also include collected Full Year Sets. And look out for out for our Eagle Picture Gallery coming soon!

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Classics Illustrated No 4 The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper & John Severin / Stephen Addeo. Jack Lake Productions, 2007. Set in the backdrop of the North American French-Indian War we are introduced to Uncas, Chingachgook and Hawkeye as they run for cover protecting the Munro sisters Alice and Cora during the British and French conflict. Lovely interior art by EC & Marvel Comics legend John Severin with an introduction by Classics scholar William B. Jones Jr. 52 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 6½" x 9½" (164mm x 241mm) (ISBN-13: 9781894998871)

Enjoy more of this brand new Classics Illustrated USA Jack Lake editions

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Mr Natural Says (Signed) (Limited Edition)
Artist: Robert Crumb

Medium: Numbered Limited edition Print (Lithograph)

Size: 20" x 26" (500mm x 650mm)

Signature: Signed by Artist

Description: A VERY rare silkscreen print from 1992. In perfect condition. This is signed and numbered from an edition of only 80. The picture of Mr Natural and his wisdom says it all.

Just in: more Robert Crumb signed limited edition prints !!

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Moebius A Retrospective
Moebius. Out of Print. The exhibition catalogue from the Carlton Art Museum, San Francisco. 40 pages. Soft Cover Black & White

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