Friday, March 27, 2009

New stuff March 27/08

Bundles of goodies in at Lucky's this week:

New:

Supermen: The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936 - 1941, forward by Jonathan Lethem, published by Fantagraphics. Enjoy Fletcher Hanks' I Shall Destroy All the CTheivilized Planet? You'll love this. 9 covers and 20 full-length stories from the likes of Jack Cole, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Fletcher Hanks, Shuster and Siegel, and Basil Wolverton. A revelation. 

Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury by Tony Millionaire, published by Fantagraphics, More madness from Millionaire.

Star Wars Punch out and Play Book, iconic photos of your favorite Star Wars characters - to pop out, stand up, and goof around with!

 The Believer: The 2009 Film Issue, Includes DVD JLG in USA, a visual anthology documenting Jean-Luc Godard's travels in the U.S...as if that's not worth the price of admission...

Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine #99 (april 2009) featuring Jeff Soto, Chloe Early, and more.

About Dogs by George Booth, publsihed by Harry N. Abrams, New Yorker cartoonist George Booth's comics about...dogs, if Bill Cosby loves it it must be good. He loves Booth's dogs and wrote the introduction to this book.

Perennial favorites back in stock:

Capacity by Theo Ellsworth Haven't seen this yet? Highly recommended, a novelly told, wonderfully drawn story. 

Catching the Big Fish: Mediation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch On the all-time Lucky's bestseller list - deep thoughts, ideas, and meditations from Lynch, what's not to like about that? Have you seen www.dlf.tv yet?

Boy's Club by Matt Furie - bwah ha ha...hahahaha...enough weirdness to go around...likewise for:

Injury #1 by Ted May - more plain awesome than weirdalicious, but healthy doses of both.

Bigfoot: I Not Dead by Graham Roumieu, the latest in the wildly popular trilogy of Bigfoot memoirs by comic genius and Canadian Roumieu. If you haven't read any of the Bigfoot books, you're missing out on some rock solid guaranteed chortling laughing good times.  




Thursday, March 19, 2009

New Books March 19.09

New and restocks:

A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Moomin vol 1 and 2 by Tove Jansson
Mcsweeney's vol. 30
Best of Wholphin DVD vol 1
Drawn and Quarterly Showcase vol. 3, 4 and 5
All We Ever Do Is Talk About Wood by Tom Horacek
Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Book Launches



Just a note to let you know of a couple upcoming launches at Lucky's - this Friday, March 20 is the Pohadky book launch with Pat Shewchuck and Marek Colek, published by Drawn and Quarterly (5pm - 8pm), and then on April 3 Chicago resident Paul Hornschemeier will be coming to town with slideshow in tow for a launch of Mother Come Home published by Fantagraphics Books.
Would be awesome to see you there, really.