Here a selection of good looking comics heading in to your local comic store in January (or there abouts) as listed in the Diamond Previews Catalog
for November. I'm always keen to know what other comics Cerebus
readers enjoy, so let us know what you're currently reading in the
comments section below. Thanks!
by Dave Sim & Sandeep Atwal
Aardvark Vanaheim, $4.00
In Stores: 31 January 2018
Diamond Order Code: NOV171094
The publisher says:
Everyone in hell is re-reading Watchmen (yes, "again"); first
appearance of Dr. Jacobson, Watchvark and OHIP; Watching Men;
deconstructing Rorschach. Also reprints online strips from
September-October 2016 including the conclusion of Aardvark-Vanaheim
Civil War: Cerebus vs. The Renegade Super-Poets; Todd McFarlane's Grey
Hulk; Super-Cerebus and Batvark Team-Up; photoshop Village People
tribute bands (C! M! Y! K!); Tex Avery Film Festival; True History of
The Graphic Novel session 16; Teena Teen Queen; Third Circle of Hell
Memorial Day Rodeo; Senator Cerebus; more Nietzsche; Dante's Botox
injection; FONDOO!; re-imagining The Lizard and more!
by Bernard Krigstein & Others
Fantagraphics, $29.99
In Stores: 31 January 2018
Diamond Order Code: NOV171665
The publisher says:
This volume collects most of Bernard Krigstein's work for EC, including
his two most highly regarded stories: "Master Race" and "The Flying
Machine. Others include: "Slave Ship," "The Monster From The Fourth
Dimension," and 28 other crime, horror, war, and science fiction
stories. Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library,
Master Race and Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC
experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces.
...I feel safe in saying that Mr. Eisner is universally recognised as the
single greatest pioneer in the "language" of comic-book storytelling,
the innovator of many of those techniques and "breakdowns" which (as Mr.
Spiegelman rightly asserts) Bernard Krigstein used to such good effect
in his own work - work which occupies a place of undisputed high rank in
the pantheon of "comic-book greats", (albeit on a plateau which is
widely agreed to be somewhat below that of Will Eisner)...
by Eddie Campbell & Others
IDW, $49.99
In Stores: 21 March 2018
Diamond Order Code: NOV170560
The publisher says:
With more than 500 period cartoons, The Goat Getters illustrates how
comics were developed by such luminaries as Rube Goldberg, Tad Dorgan,
and George Herriman in the sports and lurid crime pages of the daily
newspaper. This wild bunch of West Coast-based cartoonists established
the dynamic anatomy and bold, tough style that continue to influence
comics today, as well as their own goofy slang that enriched the popular
lexicon. The Goats Getters also captures early twentieth
century-history through the lens of the newspaper comics: the landmark
1910 boxing match in Reno, Nevada between Jim Jeffries, the "Great White
Hope," and Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight
champion; the nationwide race riots that followed; the San Francisco
graft trials that culminated in the shooting of the Federal Prosecutor;
and the trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of architect Stanford White, a
crime of passion that centered on Thaw's wife, show-girl Evelyn Nesbitt
Thaw-all were venerated or vilified by Nell Brinkley, Jimmy Swinnerton,
and their fellow directors of the ink and newsprint stage.
Cartoonists Comics & Graphic Novels
by Dominick Grace & Eric Hoffman
PYR Books, $65.00
In Stores: 24 January 2018
Diamond Order Code: NOV172160
The publisher says:
This overview of the history of Canadian comics explores acclaimed as
well as unfamiliar artists. Contributors look at the myriad ways that
English-language, Francophone, indigenous, and queer Canadian comics and
cartoonists pose alternatives to American comics, to dominant
perceptions, even to gender and racial categories.
by Kent Dixon & Kevin Dixon
Seven Stories Press, $19.95
In Stores: 24 January 2018
Diamond Order Code: NOV171889
The publisher says:
The most complete Gilgamesh in translation, including the new discoveries from tablet V. The Epic of Gilgamesh
is the Uhr epic - the hero's journey, quest, and education - inscribed
onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest
of Ecclesiastes found their voices. Sumerian versions of the epic date
back almost 5000 years. It is a Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to
become a proper human being and therefore a wise king, and to do so,
besides defeating lions and monsters and surviving great physical and
emotional suffering, he must face, and answer, the first (and last)
great question: mortality. Translated into English and presented here in
its entirety as a graphic novel, this version of The Epic of Gilgamesh
is a father/son project by scholar and translator Kent H. Dixon and his
son, the comix artist Kevin Dixon, who bring a fresh take on this great
work.
by Shaky Kane
Fantagraphics, $34.99
In Stores: 31 January 2018
Diamond Order Code: NOV171668
The publisher says:
This major retrospective of comics and illustration from essential
British cartoonist Shaky Kane collects the entirety of his work from the
classic '90s magazine Deadline for the first time. Heavily influenced
by the great Jack Kirby, Shaky produces comics that combine intensity
and bombast with a psychedelic and unmistakably British cynicism.
by Hugo Pratt
IDW, $34.99
In Stores: 21 February 2018
Diamond Order Code: NOV170555
The publisher says:
Corto Maltese sets out on another globetrotting adventure after the
discovery of a Byron manuscript in a mosque on the Isle of Rhodes. Set
in the years 1921-22, the action soon shifts to Turkey, Azerbaijan, and
the Caspian Sea, following the footsteps of the legendary Silk Road, as
Corto Maltese searches for the fabled treasure of Alexander the Great. A
parade of fascinating characters are introduced, including the Whirling
Dervishes, Joseph Stalin (with whom Corto is on a first-name basis),
the Hashinin sect of assassins, the Turkish general Enver Pasha, and the
return of Venexiana Stevenson and Rasputin (who has just escaped from
the dreaded prison known as "The Golden House of Samarkand").
2 comments:
Cerebus completists take note: there is an article on Cerebus in The Canadian Alternative . (Also chapters on Seth, Chester Brown, Jeff Lemire, Nina Bunjevac, Kate Beaton, Michel Rabagliati, and others).
Dom, I ordered "The Canadian Alternative" from my LCBS a few days ago. Hardcover.
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