| | | |  | Chiaroscuro HC
Troy Little (w & a)
Chiaroscuro is the story of Steven Patch, an unemployed artist with a single blank canvas. Steven's busy living the introspective, angst-ridden life of your average twenty-something; drinking too much and complaining about his situation while doing little to improve it. A case of mistaken identity pushes Steven into a flow of events that bring him places he'd never imagined and forces him to make a choice between art and mere existence.
Web Price: £18.99 | |
|  | Chickenhare House Of Klaus TP
Writer:Chris Grine
Artist:Chris Grine
He’s a chicken! He’s a hare! He’s Chickenhare! And he’s your new favorite comic book character, whether you know it or not! Night is falling on the frozen landscape as Chickenhare and his turtle friend Abe find themselves on their way to be sold to Klaus - an insane taxidermist with a penchant for unique animals and enough emotional baggage to go on a very long vacation. With the help of two mysterious new companions, our fuzzy, feathered, and amphibious heroes endeavor to escape their dire fate. But they soon discover that might not be so easy when they get caught up in an adventure that could bring Klaus’s villiany to an end for good...or they all might die. Whatever happens, Chickenhare is sure to charm, scare, and delight readers young and old alike!
Web Price: £7.50 | |
|  | Chicken With Plums HC
Writer:Marjane Satrapi
Artist:Marjane Satrapi
From the acclaimed author of the best-selling Persepolis books, here is Marjane Satrapi's most accomplished and emotionally powerful work yet - the story of her great-uncle, a celebrated Iranian musician who gave up his life for music and love. We are in Tehran in 1958, and Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most revered tar players, discovers his beloved instrument to be irreparably damaged. Though he tries, he cannot find one good enough to replace it. Brokenhearted, he takes to bed, renouncing the world and its pleasures. Over the course of the week that follows, as his loved ones gather at his bedside, we are treated to flashbacks and flashforwards that reveal Nasser Ali's entire life and beyond - from his own childhood through his children's futures. And as the pieces of his story slowly fall into place, we begin to understand the breadth of his decision to give up life.
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|  | Children Of The Grave TP
Tom Waltz (w); Casey Maloney (a); Ashley Wood (c)
Before they teamed up on Gene Simmons' Zipper, writer Tom Waltz and artist Casey Maloney delivered the horrific wartime tale, Children of the Grave. This new printing features fully colored art for the first time ever, a new back-up story from Waltz and Maloney, and an all-new cover from acclaimed artist Ashley Wood!
Web Price: £14.99 | |
|  | Chimera #1
Writer:Lorenzo Mattotti
Artist:Lorenzo Mattotti
Web Price: £5.99 | |
|  | Cherubs Paradise Lost GN
by Talbot & Stafford
Eisner-award winner Bryan Talbot and hot Brit Indy artist, Mark Stafford, present Cherubs!, a totally irreverent, fast-paced supernatural comedy-adventure that's heaven-sent and hell-bent! Put in the frame for the first murder in Heaven, the outrageous celestial rugrats chase the renegade archangel Abbadon to New York on the eve of the Apocalypse! Befriended by Mary, an exotic dancer, and pursued by unstoppable Seraphim terminators, they join battle with Frankie Dracula and his vampire horde as the Devil prepares to stalk the earth once more! Demons! Vampire Hunters! Fairy hookers! Fart jokes! What more could anyone possibly want?
Web Price: £10.99 | |
|  | Chickenhare TP Vol 02: Fire In The Hole
Writer & Artist - Chris Grine
Things are going from bad to worse for our feathered and furry friend Chickenhare and his partner in hijinks Abe! Their narrow escape from the evil taxidermist Klaus is going to seem like a cakewalk compared to the dangers they'll face in the sequel to the Eisner- nominated graphic novel, Chickenhare: The House of Klaus. Magic and mayhem are about to collide, along with some pointy pitchforks, a few unexpected relatives, and more laughs than a barrel full of wet shromph as the Chickenhare and Abe learn the origins of their mysterious fellow escapees Meg and Banjo-and what this means to our friends is nothing but trouble!
Web Price: £8.50 | |
|  | City of Others Tp
Writer: Steve Niles
Artist: Bernie Wrightson
Stosh Bludowski is a killer, born with the capacity for no apparent human emotion other than rage. Killing comes easy for Blud, and he makes a good living doing what's easy-until the day he meets two jobs in an alley who just won't die, and a grotesque mystery unfolds right in front of him. Soon, the remorseless killer is confronted by a reality he could never imagine, and he will be invited to make a decision once and for all . . . is he human, or is he Other?
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|  | City Of Silence tp
Writer:Warren Ellis
Artist:Gary Erskine
Web Price: £7.50 | |
|  | Clive Barkers Great & Secret Show Vol 01
Writer:Chris Ryall
Artist:Gabriel Rodriguez
It begins here! The first half of an adaptation of master of horror Clive Barker's epic journey into the fantastic, The Great and Secret Show. Adapted by Chris Ryall (Shaun of the Dead) and artist Gabriel Rodriguez (Land of the Dead), this first collection presents the beginning of a battle between good and evil that will span many decades and different dimensions. Featuring a special introduction from Clive himself!
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|  | Clive Barkers Age Of Desire HC
by P. Craig Russell & Timothy Bradstreet
First time in print! Clive Barker's dark vision of the last days of a genetically altered and homicidally ecstatic sexual compulsive. Over 15 years in the making, this is the notorious adaptation by P. Craig Russell and Timothy Bradstreet that went missing for over a decade! Recently revised with its original ending restored!
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|  | Clouds Above GN
by Jordan Crane
Jordan Crane's all-ages classic is in paperback for the first time! This gorgeously packaged, yet affordable, children's fantasy has become an instant classic since its original hardcover release in 2005, becoming a perennial bestseller for Fantagraphics in three hardcover printings. This paperback edition - the first - includes five new pages not included previously! The Clouds Above is a rip-roaring adventure about a kid named Simon, who skips school one day with his cat, Jack. This brilliant, full-color graphic novel doubles as a wondrous children's book, recalling such classics as Where the Wild Things Are, The Wizard of Oz and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Web Price: £12.99 | |
|  | Colour Of Earth GN
(W/A) Dong Hwa Kim
First love is never easy. Ehwa grows up helping her widowed mother run the local tavern, watching as their customers, both neighbors and strangers, look down on her mother for her single lifestyle. Their social status isolates Ehwa and her mother from the rest of the people in their quiet country village. But as she gets older and sees her mother fall in love again, Ehwa slowly begins to open up to the possibility of love in her life. In the tradition of My Antonia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, renowned Korean manwha creator Kim Dong Hwa debuts a trilogy about a girl coming of age, set against the vibrant, beautiful landscape of pastoral Korea.
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|  | Comic ARF
nother great Arf book for 2008, featuring one of the greatest cartoonists of all time: Milt Gross!!! The Gross-ness begins on the cover with a stunning painting by the Count of Cartoons depicting Uncle Sam as he grinds up a sea of immigrants into a parade of classic comic strip characters!
During the 1920s, Milt Gross drew a comic strip that left the last panel blank for aspiring cartoonists. Arf series Editor Craig Yoe has drafted a Who's Who of contemporary cartoonists to complete Gross's unfinished masterpieces. Art Spiegelman, Patrick McDonnell, Mort Walker, R. Crumb, Bil Keane, Johnny Ryan, Jaime Hernandez, Mike Mignola, Bill Griffith, Kaz, Gene Deitch, Joost Swarte and a dozen more cartooning celebrities contribute art especially done for this Arf Happening!
For the history buff, Comic Arf delivers with showcases of Dudley Fisher, Arch Dale and a hard-hitting chapter entitled "The 15 Most Powerful Anti-War Cartoons of History." But why stop there! Keep turning the pages and you will find features and comic strip presentations by the likes of Walt Kelly, Gary Panter and Mitch O'Connell! And that's not all!!!
Web Price: £13.50 | |
|  | Comic Book Holocaust
Writer:Johnny Ryan
Artist:Johnny Ryan
In these raunchy, parody-packed pages, Ryan mocks every kind of comic imaginable. COMIC BOOK HOLOCAUST skewers characters of all types, from newspaper strip icons and alternative favorites to the stars of Manga, sci-fi, kid's, and superhero comics. This hilarious and irreverent sketchbook collection continues the Johnny Ryan brand of gleefully perverse humor.
Web Price: £7.50 | |
|  | Comics Are For Idiots
A Blecky Yuckerella Collection
by Johnny Ryan
Sure, she's smelly and gross, but she's got a heart of gold! This is the third collection of Johnny Ryan's comic strip, Blecky Yuckerella, as seen in the pages of Vice magazine. Blecky is the ugliest girl in the second grade and the only one with three-day stubble. The strips cast of characters also includes Blecky's Aunt Jiggles, her best friend Wedgie, Insanio the cat and many other absurdist goofballs. Demonstrates Ryan's blend of politically incorrect gags and social satire is as sharp as ever.
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|  | Common Foe TP
by Giffen, Denton, Dzialowski & Federico
Amid the blood and chaos of the Battle of the Bulge, a battered squad of American soldiers and a platoon of German infantry do everything they can to rip each other to shreds. But to survive the night, the two enemies must come together and unite against an ancient evil hell bent on destroying everything in its path. Collects issues 1 to 5.
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|  | Complete Saga Of The Victims (Headpress)
By Alan Hewetson and Suso Rego (with contributions from John Gallagher)
The mind blowing nihilistic apotesis of the Horror Mood canon. Archaic Al demonstrates the sheer, pointless and hopeless antagonism which we humans suffer at the whim of an all-powerful, demented demiurge with the power of total omnipotence. Anne's punishment for resisting evil is ultimately to be destroyed.
The complete strip from Skywalds 'Scream' magazine, including the 'missing' final chapter.
(headpress)
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|  | Contraband GN
by Thomas Behe & Phil Elliott
Toby picked the wrong person to turn his cell phone camera upon. A self-styled "citizen journalist," he is documenting a group of underground video journalists who look for violent acts to film on their phones when he is discovered by agents for a cell-phone channel called "Contraband." Forced to work for them, Toby is assigned the difficult task of finding a female activist bent on sabotaging Contraband and must navigate a difficult path where he must choose between his own safety and the greater good.
Web Price: £9.99 | |
|  | Cory Doctorows Futuristic Tales Here And Now HC
Written by Dara Naraghi, James L. Kuhoric, Dan Taylor, J.C. Vaughn
Art by Dustin Evans, Paul McCaffrey, Esteve Polls, Daniel Warner and more
Cover by Paul Pope
Writer and BoingBoing.net co-editor Cory Doctorow has won acclaim for his science-fiction writing as well as his Creative Commons presentation of his material. Now, IDW Publishing is proud to present six standalone stories adapted from Doctorow's work, each featuring cover art by some of comics' top talents. Stories collected include: the Locus Award-winning "When SysAdmins Ruled the Earth"; "Anda's Game", a story selected for inclusion in the Michael Chabon edited 2005 Best American Short Stories; "Craphound", a story selected for Year's Best Science Fiction XVI; "Nimby and the D-Hoppers", selected for Year's Best Science Fiction 9; The Hugo-nominated and Locus Award-winning "I Robot"; and "After the Siege."
Web Price: £18.99 | |
|  | Couriers Vol 2 Dirtbike Manifesto
Writer:Brian Wood Artist:Rob G. Moustafa and Special are back! The two urban mercenaries from last year's The Couriers are still ruling the streets of New York City, banking mo' money and mo' street cred with each job they take on. But when one of their own dies in a gun deal gone bad, they find themselves taking the fight to unfamiliar territory: the wilds of upstate New England! (AiT)
Web Price: £9.99 | |
|  | Couriers Vol 03 Ballad Of Johnny Funwrecker
Writer:Brian Wood
Artist:Rob G.
Book Three in the Couriers saga hits the rewind button on the lives of everybody's two favorite urban mercenary couriers and goes back, way back, to 1993. Moustafa's a dirtbag grunge kid selling weed by the cube at Astor Place and Special's a riot grrrl with a mean streak, looking to carve a place for herself in the criminal underworld. How do these two unlikely partners meet up and become the tight-knit team they are now? Meet Johnny Funwrecker, the hilarious larger-than-life Chinatown mob boss and role model for little street rat hooligans all over. Wood doesn't scrimp on the action and humor in this origin story, and artist Rob G kicks out his own hometown anthem, drawing New York City the way only a true local can.
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|  | Covenant Vol 01
Writer:Aron Coleite
Artist:Tone Rodriguez
Your teenage years are a time of carefree fun, excitement exploration and discovery. But when four teens discover they're about to become the most powerful warlocks in the world, a little fun today can mean big trouble tomorrow.
When murders begin near the boys' summer camp, suspicion falls on one of their own. Can they retain their bond and find the truth? Or will the covenant be broken?
Web Price: £7.50 | |
|  | Cover Girl TP
by Cosby, Church & Santolouco
He's Alex Martin, the down-on-his-luck actor whose star is rising thanks to a roadside rescue caught on tape. She's Rachel Dodd, the bodyguard assigned to keep him alive after several mysterious attempts on his life. Will Rachel be able to keep Alex alive long enough to get to the bottom of the attacks on the actor? Will Alex be able to keep his hair perfect the entire time? Andrew Cosby (Sci-Fi's Eureka) and Kevin Church (Cthulhu Tales) team up with artists Mateus Santolouco, R.M. Yankovicz and others to tell the story of two people that are trying to stay alive now, if only to kill each other later!
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|  | Curse Of Dracula TP
Writer:Marv Wolfman
Artist:Gene Colan
Reprints: The Curse of Dracula #1-3 (Dark Horse)
A mysterious and persuasive figure is moving amongst the circles of San Francisco's political elite. When Jonathan Van Helsing and his team of vampire hunters come to town investigating a string of grisly murders and stumble into a virtual pit of blood-soaked horrors teeming with ravenous vampires, they realize this dark figure is none other than the Lord of the Dead - Dracula!
Web Price: £7.50 | |
|  | Curses HC
Writer:Kevin Huizenga
Artist:Kevin Huizenga
Delving into mythology, belief, and spirituality, Kevin Huizenga’s short stories are based in the lives of familiar characters confronting the textures of mortality in unique and sometimes peculiar ways. Huizenga fuses the most banal aspects of modern culture with its most looming questions in a consistently genial style. Light-hearted, but with a healthy dose of 19th century spine-tingling, the narratives presented in CURSES are insightful portrayals of reality. Huizenga’s central character in his comics is Glenn Ganges, a seemingly middle class man living in the suburbs whose blank-eyed wonderment at everyday experiences brings together such diverse aspects of our world as golf, theology, late-night diners, parenthood, politics, Sudanese refugees and hallucinatory vision, into a complete experience as multifaceted as our own lives.
Web Price: £16.50 | |
|  | CVO Covert Vampiric Operations Vol 01
Writer:Alex Garner, Jeff Mariotte
Artist:Mindy Lee, Gabriel Hernandez
American intelligence services have a secret weapon—and it has fangs! This volume collects the original graphic novella by Alex Garner and Mindy Lee that introduced CVO—vampire operatives who spy for the United States, dealing with the most dangerous global threats—plus CVO Artifact, by Jeff Mariotte and Gabriel Hernandez, the spine-tingling tale of an incredibly ancient artifact and a disappearing colleague that lead CVO toward an encounter with a deadly trio. CVO is in development as a major video game by Konami, one of the world's leading video game companies.
Web Price: £14.99 | |
|  | CVO Covert Vampiric Operations Rogue State TPB
Writer:Jeff Mariotte
Artist:Antonio Vazquez
Reprints:CVO COVERT VAMPIRIC OPERATIONS ROGUE STATE #1-5
When a mole in CVO exposes the whole organization to danger, things look bad for America’s first line of supernatural defense against growing global threats. With fellow agents being killed all around them, the vampire spies of CVO may find themselves out in the cold.
Web Price: £14.99 | |
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