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During his 45th year of life "A singular voice in cinema," (Movies in Focus) and "One of genre's most exciting filmmakers" (Indiewire) decided to make a comic book.After the release of three startling, award-winning movies that have played around the world and been added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, S. Craig Zahler wanted to return to his first artistic passion-illustration. With tools that he had developed as a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, novelist, and songwriter, he committed himself to writing, drawing, inking, and lettering his graphic novel debut, a full-length work of noir horror entitled, Forbidden Surgeries of the Hideous Dr. Divinus.Homeless people are disappearing in New Bastion, and occasionally, a dismantled corpse turns up in a dumpster. These crimes are left alone, until the day a comatose woman named Lillian Driscoll is kidnapped from the hospital. Her brothers-a grumpy detective named Leo and a slick mobster named Tommy-seek answers that lead them to darkness, arcane medicine, and pain.Fans of Bone Tomahawk (recently named best film of the decade by Conan O'Brien) will enjoy Zahler's return to the supernatural, and the idiosyncratic, tough guy dialogue found in his crime pictures Dragged Across Concrete and Brawl in Cell Block 99 (both of which premiered at the Venice Film Festival) is also present in this starkly rendered, black-and-white graphic novel, a stylistic confluence of pre-code horror, vintage comic strip, and modern indie art styles.

A comic book potpourri collecting over a decade of fever dreams, lost highways, and psycho-sexual noir. Welcome to the club.Wasp Video Roadhouse compiles a trove of hard to find zines and self published mini-comics that even the most die hard fans have never seen. Includes: ‘Steam Walkway’ (2010), ‘Micro Pitch’ (2012), ‘Shit Town’ (2012), ‘Lost Canyon’ (2013), ‘Star Power’ (2014), ‘Scab County’ (2015), ‘The Toy Collector’ (2021) and bonus material.These stories range a variety genres outside of Gonzalez’s science fiction ‘comfort zone’, such as romance, sports, political apocalypse, neo-noir, music biography, western. Follow the crooked journey of several ‘lost’ souls as they navigate the borders of rationality within a curdled American gumbo. If you can’t get enough of crudely drawn mutilation fables, open this door. Then you can get back to your jazz albums and drinking.

“Workers of the world… relax!” THE ABOLITION OF WORK, a well-know essay written by the anarchist Bob Black in 1985, appears now in a comics edition by Bruno Borges. His expressive cartoons reinforce the strength and pertinence of this groundbreaking text.Features a new introduction by Bob Black.

In I Am Trying To Love You, the author vulnerably opens themselves up to exploring their bittersweet relationships and self with a rigorous and sloppy honesty. The result is a quirky and raw memoir that is felt by the reader as a kind of really funny and revealing therapy."I wrote these comics between 2019-2022, when I was clumsily and painfully navigating the feral whims of my heart, and desperately trying to understand anything about myself at all. I was chaotic, so my relationships were chaotic. I didn’t know it at the time, but I had no real capacity to be honest with myself, and I think I became so jeopardized by that lack of honesty, that I had to unconsciously create a new way to interact with myself with rigorous accountability and candidness, and this book became that." — From the author’s introduction.

City Crime Comics is Teddy Goldenberg’s funny and nightmarish experiment in 1950’s Golden Age noir and romance. 21 surreal stories take place in a strange city where people randomly disappear and reappear, become lost or confused, or turn into signs or statues. Wake up laughing when the pages are closed, you won’t want this dream to end.

A collection of long and short form comics, Rich Tommaso’s one-man comics anthology magazine, Black Phoenix! Features stories from an array of classic Golden Age comic book styles and genres.Black Phoenix is, at its core, a contemporary comics magazine featuring original characters and stories of various comics genres--all dreamed up by its sole author, Rich Tommaso. In this volume, you'll meet Venus The Love Goddess and read all about her many adventures in the whirlwind world of romance--as she attempts to play matchmaker to all of those in need. Wherever there's trouble--Texas, Hollywood California, The Planet Mars, or down south to Miami Beach--she is there to lend a helping hand. While in Miami Beach, Venus becomes acquainted with a group of young, sun-lovin' beachcombers--partly made up of the cast from Tommaso's Horror Of Collier County universe-- but also starring some new fiends, including a sexy crocodile girl and a vampire cat. Plus, more short stories about love and death. Don't miss this one!

Backflipping out of a helicopter, Floating World Comics, Power Comics, and Monster Fan Club bluntly present Ken Landgraf’s 80s masterpiece of blood soaked urban mayhem! Check your underwear before you attempt to pick up this cast-iron omnibus collecting all 5 issues, 3 broken fists full of cracked bonus material, and a new, exciting way to live your life! Can you feel the rats gnawing on your ankles?A staggering whirlwind of vigilante chaos, the savagely inspiring New York City Outlaws heralded the ‘80s self-publishing boom. In just five issues — here with unseen material — writer Bob Huszar and iconic cartoonist Ken Landgraf (Apocalypse 5000) shredded the rules and drowned them in blood. When night becomes darkest there will arise those who fight for the dawn… FREEZE SUCKERS! And get ready to throw down with THE NEW YORK CITY OUTLAWS: TITAN – Johnny Apollo; two-fists-of-fury from the land of mermaids! WHAMO – Chung Kii; ecstatic dance-fighter with a mutual respect for life and anger! POLYMIXIN – Daniella Marques; like a moth to her flame all men are incinerated by her rage! ZEBRA – Hector Rodriguez; street punk with brains and an incurable romantic to boot! ISAAC – Bernie Schwantzman; electronic wizard with a devilish passion for gardening! THUNDERCLAP JONES; sustained by anger he’s the forever warrior brawling his way through the slime and stink of this foul city! and PATCH – Peter Dinero; his kid brother was killed by the mob! Never before has the pen and ink page captured the violence and terror of the deadly city! THE NEW YORK CITY OUTLAWS fight war mongers and street-crime vigilantes in a never-ending battle against crime! Printed in B&W & RED with Full Color tipped-in covers50+ pages of bonus backup materialIntro essay by Jim RuggKen Landgraf interview with Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun, Kids Vs. Aliens)

A birdwatcher finds something terrible in the woods entering him into a strange and desperate world.Egbert is a member of the Cocoon County Birding Club. While his fellow birders are obsessed with invasive species, or compulsive internet donating, his goal is to add a rare "Painted Bunting" to his life list. His online therapist says everything happens for a reason. But what do you do when that reason stops benefitting you?Part murder mystery, and part mystery of the self, I Never Found You is a story about unrequited love, mystical detectives, and late night arts & crafts, in a world made increasingly hostile by dark human influence.

Black Phoenix is, at its core, a contemporary comics magazine featuring original characters and stories of various comics genres--all dreamed up by its sole author, Rich Tommaso. Don¿t be fooled by the pseudonyms inside--he changes names as often as drawing styles. But, the magazine is also like a walk through comics history itself. Each volume of these golden age, pulp styled digest anthologies is headed up by a long-form comics adventure which is backed up by a bunch of short-form comics--all in the same genre or flavor.

Features 300 of Tim Goodyear's movie reviews with hand drawn recreations of the movie's original advertising or VHS box art.

Quievreux explores the subconscious as the battlefield of the near future.

The late, eminent scholar Clement Eaton once observed that the nineteenth- century romantic spirit, which "subtly permeated the society of the Old South," was borne out most vividly in the region's "arts and social manners." Having had its genesis in European literature and fine art, romanticism found its way into the cultural output of the young Republic, both North and South. The same ideals that imbued the canvases of the Hudson River School also colored the art of painters who found their inspiration and audience below the Mason-Dixon Line.In this study of thirty-two artists represented in the Johnson Collection, noted art historian Estill Curtis Pennington delineates the historical, social, and cultural forces that profoundly influenced their aesthetic sensibilities. Author of the award-winning books Lessons in Likeness and Kentucky: The Master Painters, Pennington examines the core concepts of the romantic movement as it unfolded in the American South: the heroic individual, an idealized chivalric code of personal honor, the sublime quality of nature, and the inevitability of change in an imperfect world. Many of the artists under consideration in this lavishly illustrated volume created works of art that have achieved iconic status in the annals of painting in the South, including William Dickinson Washington, William Thompson Russell Smith, Gustave Henry Mosler, Thomas Addison Richards, Joseph Rusling Meeker, Robert Walter Weir, and Thomas Sully.Spanning the years 1810¿1896, Romantic Spirits includes insightful illustrated biographies of the featured artists, as well as extensive bibliographic resources. This inaugural publication underscores the Johnson Collection's commitment to advance interest in the dynamic role that the art of the South plays in the larger context of American art and to contribute to the canon of art historical literature.

Top kid detective Pops and rookie Branwell tackle their first case: The mystery of who (or what!) killed Branwell's parents!

A focused practical guide to useful and edible plants found in the San Francisco Bay Area that can also be helpful in discovering similar plants in other regions of California

Follows three people living in a faceless city of decrepit movie theaters, girlie nightclubs, and paper thin apartment buildings.

"If you've got a grievance with reality, I reckon you're in the right place."

Not a Place to Visit collects a series of comics essays exploring themes of social and ecological flux in the western US, by WILD MAN cartoonist T Edward Bak.

The heroes of All Time Comics stand ready to triumph or die!

What's beautiful, what's trash, and is there an elixir to fix this human condition called suffering?

"A sumptuous and remarkable adaptation of the classic storyÉThis comics version manages to infuse the story not just with the dread and cosmic horror of the original, but also displays a deep appreciation for the natural world."--Jeff Vandermeer, bestselling author of Borne.>Borne.

The first chapter in a grand fantasy epic filled with psychic warrior monks, magic battles, monsters, and romance from the mind of Zack Soto!

This volume presents surreal and sadly relatable one-panel comic suggestions about how to live life.