<div>"Comics' answer to Finnegan's Wake, an inspired work of obsessivegenius that will take a long time to untangle." - Rob Salkowitz, SeniorContributor, FORBES </div> <div>"The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is one of the most spectacularcomics I have ever read or seen. I can't recommend it enough, although you mayhate it. Bizarre and beautiful and completely unique." - Jim Rugg, Cartoonist Kayfabe, Street Angel, The P.L.A.I.N. Janes </div> <div> </div> <div>"This is a master work. I'm honoured to have even laid eyes on it." - E.S.Glenn, author of Unsmooth, cartoonist for The New Yorker "Amust-read for anyone interested in the history and craft of comics" - BrandonGraham, King City, Warhead, Prophet </div> <div>"Grubaugh provides a brilliant and fitting conclusion to what would haveotherwise been one of the most notable unfinished works of recent times. I forone am excited at holding the completed Strange Death of Alex Raymond inmy hands." - Gary Spencer Millidge, Strangehaven, Alan Moore: Portrait of anExtraordinary Gentleman Legendary creator Dave Sim is renownedworld-wide for his groundbreaking Cerebus the Aardvark. Now, in TheStrange Death of Alex Raymond, Sim brings to life the history of comics'greatest creators, using their own techniques. Equal parts UnderstandingComics and From Hell, Strange Death is a head-on collision ofink drawing and spiritual intrigue, pulp comics and movies, history and fiction.The story traces the lives and techniques of Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon, RipKirby), Stan Drake (Juliet Jones), Hal Foster (Prince Valiant),and more, dissecting their techniques through recreations of their artwork,and highlighting the metatextual resonances that bind them together. Foreword by Eddie Campbell. </div>

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond

Comics & Graphic Novels

Sim, Dave

Grubaugh, Carson

Graphic Novels

Living The Line

<div>Art and literature historians of the future will be flabbergasted thatYokoyama existed in our time. He is a visionary on the level of William Blake.PLAZA is a parade of invention, set to the beat of turning pages. - Dash Shaw(Cryptozoo, Discipline) Bigger, bolder, and louder than ever before,neo-manga artist Yokoyama Yuichi is back with&nbsp;PLAZA! Inspired by Carnavalin Brazil,&nbsp;PLAZA&nbsp;offers a maniacal extravaganza of marching, dancing,leaping, firing, cheering, smashing, and exploding over the course of 225eye-and-eardrum-confounding pages. Originally published in Japan in 2019, thisoversize English edition of&nbsp;PLAZA&nbsp;brings to full, hyper-animated lifethe spectacular graphic art of this genre-defying work of avant-garde comics. </div>

PLAZA

Arts & Photography

Yokoyama, Yuichi

Graphic Design

2023 MoCCAArtsFest Award of Excellence Recipient!\nAfter seven years of exile, battle-hardened Hallstein Thordsson returns home to Iceland, only to find that old wounds haven't healed. His stepmother Solveig and his half-brother Ottar are besieged by wood thieves, directed by her unwelcome suitor, Einar. The Exile's presence disrupts the delicate balance and threatens to tip all of Iceland into violence.\nA remarkable decades-spanning epic, Erik Kriek's The Exile is equal parts action “Western” and family drama, with a surprising story of violence and consequences at its core. Told in a naturalistic modern style but with tremendous fidelity to the historical period in which it is set, The Exile depicts the Viking age in all of its conflict, turmoil, and social structure, with every detail depicted vividly on the page.\nHailing from the Netherlands, Kriek is an internationally-decorated illustrator known for his work on In the Pines (2015) and Gutsman. Lushly told with gorgeous traditionally-drawn brush work, and a limited palette illustration style reminiscent of the great three-color illustrators of the 1940s and 50s, Kriek's art is alternately breezy and gritty, but always stunning, whether he's depicting a full-blown Viking battle or a wearying sea voyage.\nPraise for Erik Kriek's In the Pines: Murder Ballads (2018)- 
"...a beautiful and eerie collection, filled with betrayals, revenge, and exceptional visual storytelling." - Publishers Weekly\n"...Kriek’s work is so lyrical and innate in its study of violence and human nature..." - Carl Doherty, Shelf Abuse\n"... a stylish first outing." - Bookmunch\n" ...disturbing, macabre, yet beautiful and is likely to appeal to fans of shows like Twin Peaks and Hannibal which are known for blending stunning visuals with twisted storylines. [...] a gorgeous and unusual addition to your bookshelf." - GeekMom

The Exile

KRIEK, ERIK

<div style="font-family:#39;Arial#39;;font-size:12pt;text-align:left;"> Wandering in a World on Fire. The ground in and around Centralia has warmed so much, it's impossible to stand on without melting. Those who survive long enough will be confronted with carnivorous birds, collapsing buildings, and the trigger-happy Simia Nasalis, armed with bazookas and stilts. Against their better judgement, a group of adventurers set out to discover the treasure of gold hidden away at the heart of the abandoned town. </div>

Centralia

Vandepitte, Miel

<div style="font-family:#39;Arial#39;;font-size:12pt;text-align:left;"> Is she sick, or is it the world itself? HOUSE ON FIRE, the debut graphic novel by writer/artist Matt Battaglia, teases out the difference in a personal-political cruise through a fallen world, where fear is rational and obedience your only refuge. &nbsp; Battaglia depicts the near-future landscape of House on Fire with wild two-color brushwork reminiscent of the great Paul Pope, and a minimalist writing style that evokes and questions rather than lectures. </div>

House on Fire

Battaglia, Matthew

"The Abolition of Man is a thorough test drive of AI image making, and the results are extraordinary, appalling, compelling, cold, hot, beautiful, repellant, and should be abolished." ― Dave McKean, Prompt, Sandman, Cages\n"Chilling. Exciting. Bizarre." ― Jim Rugg, Cartoonist Kayfabe, Street Angel, Hulk: Grand Design\n"The Abolition Of Man is a curiously uneasy experiment. One that almost seems as if the construction of it is trying to discover why it should exist. That alone is worth the time to explore it." ― J H Williams III (Echolands, The Sandman Overture, Batwoman, Promethea)\nDon't miss out on one of the most innovative graphic novels of the decade.\nConceived of and executed by fine-artist/educator/philosopher turned Eisner Award nominated cartoonist, Carson Grubaugh, The Abolition of Man Deluxe Edition collects all five issues of the groundbreaking series of the same name, the first comic series in history to be entirely illustrated by an Artificial Intelligence.\nIn a series of four interwoven experiments, Grubaugh used Midjourney AI to interpret an essay by renowned thinker, C.S.Lewis, imagine a satirical dystopian future, illustrate an AI generated script, and finally, to produce graphics for an essay provided by Oxford Philosopher of Information and AI & Data Ethics policy advisor to the EU, UK, Google, etc., Luciano Floridi. All of these strands, alternately hilarious and terrifying, weave together to give a chilling peek into the world of the future, where humans and their most treasured passions have lost all purpose.\nThis deluxe hardcover edition contains loads of exclusive content, including a reprint of the extremely rare Dall-E 2 variant edition of The Abolition of Man #1, in which the entire interior of issue #1 was re-illustrated using Dall-E 2. The collection also includes two pieces of philosophical writing produced by Grubaugh between 2007 and 2018 that were the source of inspiration for this project. These essays included predictions about the banal, content apocalypse AI is now making a reality.\nAlso accompanying the Abolition of Man project are a series of long-form discussions about the ethics and impact of AI art with superstar guests Dave McKean (illustrator), NFN Kalyan (fine artist), John Mahoney (concept designer, filmmaker) and Luciano Floridi (Philosopher of Information, Data and AI Ethics policy maker). These are posted to Living The Line's YouTube channel and linked in the book.\nThis singular project will hold an important place not only in the history of comics but in the history of art as it is the first of its kind to engage with the most important moment in the history of art since some wasteful cave-person blew juice at their hand on a wall instead of drinking it.

The Abolition of Man: The Deluxe Edition

Robinson, Sean Michael

Floridi, Luciano

Tihku

Kutikuti

History & Criticism

Moonray: Mother's Skin (Moonray, 1)

Graham, Brandon

<div style="font-family:#39;Arial#39;;font-size:12pt;text-align:left;"> Deep in the mountains of Japan, a flying saucer smashes into the earth. Fearful of the strange and hyper-intelligent beings they find inside, the government hides from the public all news of the alien craft. But it's not the aliens themselves that they should be afraid of-the real danger is the parasitic spores they brought with them! Will earth survive the UFO MUSHROOM INVASION?! &nbsp; Originally published in 1976, Shirakawa Marina's UFO MUSHROOM INVASION is unanimously considered a masterpiece of Japanese sci-fi horror. Pulling on his deep knowledge of Japanese ghost stories and folklore, Shirakawa serves up one of Japanese comics' cult classics and an unforgettably creepy entry in the canon of spore-horror. &nbsp; UFO MUSHROOM INVASION is the second volume of SMUDGE, a line of classic pulp, horror, and dark fantasy manga, curated and translated into English by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg. </div>

UFO Mushroom Invasion

Shirakawa, Marina

Udagawa, Takeo

Manga

<div style="font-family:#39;Arial#39;;font-size:12pt;text-align:left;"> From daily routines and art-making, to dealing with depression, and living among porn performers in Las Vegas, Eisner Award winning cartoonist Brandon Graham (King City, Rain like Hammers, Prophet, Moonray) takes readers through his full-color diary comics and offers a funny and touching look into the life of an artist making his way in the 21st century. Graham, who has been known primarily for his strange far future science-fiction and pun-filled fantasy works, has been making diary comics for decades. This is the first major collection of this work, exploring Graham's life in the seedy alien landscape of Las Vegas, while he strives at making art as a tool for&nbsp;surviving&nbsp;the chaotic universe. </div>

Surviving on Mars

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