VPL zine buy at Lucky's

The Vancouver Public Library is coming by Lucky's for what is turning into a semi-regular visit to replenish and stock up their zine library at the Central Branch downtown. If you self-publish a zine, art book, comic or any kind of mini-book, get it down to Lucky's for consignment by June 21st to be considered by the librarians. No book too humble to be considered - hand-folded and stapled is a-ok!

If you are bringing books down, 3 copies is perfect, the library might take 2, then we'd have one left over for the store and would be able to contact you for more.

Please price your books. Our policy is to keep 40% consignment, so factor that into your price (if it sells for $3.00, we keep $1.20).

So...you have eight or nine days, that's enough time to start and finish something, so get to it knucklehead!

Sincerely,

Your friends at Lucky's.

History/Politics Comics

In no particular order, here are some of the featured titles on display in our History/Politics section:

It Was A War of the Trenches by Jaques Tardi

The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Guibert, Lefèvre, and Lemercier

Burma Chronicles, Shenzen, and Pyongyang by Guy Delisle

Diario de Oaxaca by Peter Kuper

Alan's War by Emmanuel Guibert

Footnotes In Gaza by Joe Sacco

Palestine: The Special Edition by Joe Sacco

The Great Anti-War Cartoons edited by Craig Yoe

Waltz With Bashir by Ari Folman and David Plonsky

Blazing Combat by Archie Goodwin (writer, various artists)

A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld

Petit Livres Titles

Several of our all-time best selling books are from The Petit Livres series published by Drawn and Quarterly. Foremost among these have been Marc Bell's Stacks, Milk Teeth by Julie Morstad, All We Ever Do Is Talk About Wood by Tom Horacek, Ojingogo by Matthew Forsythe, Pohadky by Marek Čolek and Pat Sewchuck, and Fire Away by Chris von Szombathy (all books that Lucky's hosted launches for...and incidentally, all book by Canadian artists).

The Selves by Sonja Ahlers is sure to join our bestseller list soon, releasing in early May 2010, and kicking off with a book launch at the Western Front tonight.

Petit Livres titles currently in stock at Lucky's include:

Stooge Pile by Seth Scrivner (new, sweet)

Dirty Dishes by Amy Lockhart (new, rad)

All We Ever Do Is Talk About Wood by Tom Horacek (Gary Larson-esque)

Fire Away by Chris Von Szombathy

Ojingogo by Matthew Forsythe

Lady Pep by Julie Doucet

One Eye by Charles Burns

Pohadky by Marek Čolek and Pat Sewchuck

Prayer Requested by Christian Northeast

Bacter-Area by Keith Jones

Fallen Angel and Joseph by Nicolas Robel

We'll continue to support and stock Petits Livres at Lucky's as long as Drawn and Quarterly keeps making them! Watch out for Sonja Ahlers' The Selves - in stock soon...

Bulbous - Owen Plummer - Lucky's Gallery - Oct. 3

Owen Plummer's BULBOUS opening at Lucky's, Oct. 3, at 7:30 pm. Come enjoy BULBOUS and the rest of the Drift thedrift.ca on Oct. 3 and 4 in the Main Street area.

New stuff July 16/09

List of new and restocked items in recently:

Zeitoun - Dave Eggers

Strain - Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli

Low Moon - Jason

Cometbus #53 - Aaron Cometbus

Be A Nose - Art Spiegelman

Everybody is Stupid Except for Me - Peter Bagge

Juxtapoz Poster Art

Reich #6 - Elijah Brubaker

Follow Me - Jesse Moynihan

Dirtbags: Mallchicks and Motorbikes - Dave Keirsch

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman hc

Multiforce - Mat Brinkman

Tales Designed to Thrizzle hc collection - Michael Kupperman

The Photographer - Emmanuel Guibert

Paul Pope - 100%

David Berman - The Portable February

Skim - Mariko and Jillian Tamaki

The Blot - Tom Neely

Jin and Jam - Hellen Jo

Mourning Star vol. 2 - Kazmir Strzepek

Cat Getting Out of the Bag - Jeffrey Brown

Philip K. Dick books: Radio Free Albemuth, Scanner Darkly, the Man Who Japed, Monority Report, Now Wait for Last Year, Counter-Clock World, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said

Tokyo Zombie - Yusaku Hanakuma

Tree Show - Mark Ryden

Notes for a War Story - Gipi

Big Questions #11 - Andres Nilsen

Blazing Combat anthology - Fantagraphics

Papercutter #10, 9, 8, and 5

Fart Party vol. 2

Boy's Club #1 and 2 - Matt Furie

Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans - McSweeney's humor anthology

Mountain Man Dance Moves - McSweeney's Book of Lists - humor anthology

Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron - Daniel Clowes

Bigfoot: I Not Dead - Graham Rounieu

Capacity - Theo Ellsworth

Sardine In Outer Space vol 1 - 6

Catching the Big Fish - David Lynch

Epileptic - David B.

Blankets - Craig Thompson

Ode to Kirihito - Osamu Tezuka

American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang

MUSIC

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 180g vinyl

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware LP

Neko Case - Blacklisted LP

The Clash - London Calling LP

Destroyer - City of Daughters/Theif LP

Mount Eerie - Dawn (Book + CD)

New Pornographers - Mass Romantic LP

Joanna Newsom - Milk-Eyed Minder

Nu Sensae - s/t

Silver Jews - American Water

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.  

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

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.

December arrivals

BEN JONES ART BOOK
KRAMER'S ERGOT 7
OR ELSE #5
BIG QUESTIONS #11
BIGFOOT: I NOT DEAD (HARDCOVER)
ME WRITE BOOK: IT BIGFOOT MEMOIR (HARDCOVER)
BOOK OF LONGING (SOFTCOVER) - Leonard Cohen
LET US COMPARE MYTHOLOGIES (HARDCOVER) - Cohen
CANDIDE (CHRIS WARE COVER)
DORORO, VOL. 3 - Tezuka
MW - Tezuka
ROMEO & JULIET (MINI BOOK)
TOKYO ZOMBIE
WHATCHA MEAN, WHAT'S A ZINE? THE ART OF MAKING ZINES AND MINI-COMICS WU-TANG MANUAL
BELIEVER MAGAZINE #58: THE 2008 ART ISSUE (NOV/DEC 2008)
BIG BABY (SOFTCOVER EDITION) - Charles Burns
CHE: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY
CREATED IN DARKNESS BY TROUBLED AMERICANS: THE BEST OF MCSWEENEY'S HUMOR (SC)
DEVO: THE COMPLETE TRUTH ABOUT DE-EVOLUTION VIDEO COMPILATION (DVD)
HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS AND OPPRESS PEOPLE: CLASSIC TRAVEL ADVICE... 2 x INCREDIBLE CHANGE-BOTS - Jeffrey Brown
JUXTAPOZ MAGAZINE #95 (DEC 2008)
LITTLE NEMO 1905-1914 (TASCHEN HARDCOVER)
MEAT CAKE 17
MOUNTAIN MAN DANCE MOVES: THE MCSWEENEY'S BOOK OF LISTS
OTHER PEOPLE'S LOVE LETTERS: 150 LETTERS YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO SEE
SULK 1: BIGHEAD AND FRIENDS (MINI BOOK)
ZIPPY: WELCOME TO DINGBURG

New Books Abound 11/27/08

A couple of orders in this week, including:

Ojingogo by Matthew Forsythe -plentiful copies for the launch party on Saturday.
Louis Riel by Chester Brown - restock on this perennial favorite.
What It Is by Lynda Barry - restock on this fun filled popular title on creativity.
Bat-Manga: the Secret History of Batman in Japan - edited by Chip Kidd, super-cool book.
Pyongyang by Guy Delisle - before his new The Burma Chronicles, Delisle dipped into North Korea, and also visited China for Shenzen.
Historyonics - history themed anthology from Cloudscape Comics
Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon - to accompany his other plentiful and in-stock titles Gentlemen of the Road, the Final Solution, the Yiddish Policeman's Union, and of course the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch - yes, the David Lynch - restock on this popular book of meditations.
Town of Mirrors by Robert Pollard - his new photo collage book from Fantagraphics - sweet!
Fuzz and Pluck: Splitsville hc - by Ted Stearn - a Lucky's all-time favorite, Fuzz and Pluck are full of surreal surprises and impossible gags.
Bed Bed Bed by Marcel Dzama with a They Might Be Giants CD included - kids love it!
Marcel Dzama Christmas Cards - need I say more? Also a couple copies of The Berliner Ensemble Thanks Us All in stock.

Many more titles back in stock, such as Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, Ghost World, Edward Gorey Puzzle, Maus, Berlin vol 1 and 2, Juxtapoz Tattoo, Found Magazine #1 - 5, Sardine From Outer Space, and more!

Trifecta of Comics Arty Goodness

What a confluence of great Lucky's related events this September, 2008.

1. Peter Thompson, veteran of the All-Star Schnauzer Band and creator of The Chronicles of Lucky Ello (Drawn and Quarterly) displays a series of twenty drawings, Is It the Apocalpyse, in Lucky's Gallery until September 26.
2. Launch party and art display for the release of You Ain't No Dancer volume 3, edited by Ed Brisson, on New Reliable Press.
3. Peter Bagge! Yes, Peter Bagge (Hate! Apocalypse Nerd, Buddy Does Seattle, Buddy Does Jersey, Reason Magazine), sponsored by Lucky's Comics, is coming up to Word on the Street at the Vancouver Public Library on September 28. He'll be speaking, and then meeting and greeting at our table afterwards.
   

New stuff update Sept 12/08

Well, once a month is better than once every 6 months. Here's an update on some new and restocked items:

• Moomin vol. 3 !!! Hooray for the new Moomin!
  
• Angaza Afrika beautiful book of modern African Art from Princeton Architectural Press
  
• Jamilti and Other Stories - new Ruutu Modan from Drawn and Quarterly
  
• Giraffes? Giraffes! - Haggis-on-Whey from McSweeney's
  
• McSweeney's #27 - holy cow - three book triple threat attack
• Wholphin vol. 6
• Stickerbomb
• Jokes Every Man Should Know
• The Portable Frank - the inimitable Jim Woodring
• The Wu-Tang Manual by the RZA
• Bone volume 8
• Amulet volume 1

New stuff update Aug 7/08

Incoming today and tomorrow:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Roderick Rules

From Hell

Mouseguard #1 Fall 1152

365 Days

Backyard Birdsong Guide West

Dim Sum A Pocket Guide to Chinese Brunch

Batman Murder at Wayne Mansion

Graphic Design Cookbook plus...Marvel, Vertigo, DC, Dark Horse (and more) restock: ALL STAR SUPERMAN HC VOL 01 AMELIA RULES BOOKSHELF ED TP VOL 02 WHAT MAKES YOU AMELIA RULES BOOKSHELF ED TP VOL 03 SUPERHEROES ANIMAL MAN TP VOL 01 ANIMAL MAN TP VOL 02 ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES ANIMAL MAN TP VOL 03 DEUS EX MACHINA ARKHAM ASYLUM ANNIVERSARY ED SC (MR) ASTONISHING X-MEN TP VOL 01 GIFTED ASTONISHING X-MEN TP VOL 02 DANGEROUS BATMAN STRIKES TP VOL 02 IN DARKEST KNIGHT BATTLESTAR GALACTICA CYLON APOCALYPSE TP BLACK PANTHER BY JACK KIRBY TP VOL 01 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #17 DOOM PATROL TP VOL 02 PAINTING THAT ATE PARIS DOOM PATROL TP VOL 04 MUSCLEBOUND DOOM PATROL TP VOL 05 MAGIC BUS DOOM PATROL TP VOL 06 PLANET LOVE ESSENTIAL AVENGERS TP VOL 01 ESSENTIAL AVENGERS TP VOL 02 ESSENTIAL CAPTAIN AMERICA TP VOL 01 ESSENTIAL GHOST RIDER TP VOL 01 ESSENTIAL GODZILLA TP ESSENTIAL GODZILLA TP ESSENTIAL GODZILLA TP ESSENTIAL SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 03 EX MACHINA TP VOL 01 THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS EX MACHINA TP VOL 02 TAG EX MACHINA TP VOL 03 FACT V FICTION EX MACHINA TP VOL 04 MARCH TO WAR EX MACHINA TP VOL 05 SMOKE SMOKE EX MACHINA TP VOL 06 POWER DOWN FABLES TP VOL 02 ANIMAL FARM FABLES TP VOL 08 WOLVES FABLES TP VOL 09 SONS OF EMPIRE FILTH TP HULK TP VOL 01 INCREDIBLE DIGEST INVISIBLES TP #2 APOCALIPSTICK INVISIBLES TP #6 KISSING MISTER QUIMPER JACK KIRBYS GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS HC JELLYFIST KORGI GN VOL 01 KORGI GN VOL 02 COSMIC COLLECTOR KORGI GN VOL 02 COSMIC COLLECTOR LOEG VOL ONE TP MAD WAR ON BUSH (PP #761) MARVEL 1602 TP QUILL AWARD EDITION MARVEL ADV SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 08 FORCES OF NATURE MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 04 CONCRETE JUNGLE MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 09 FOES DIGEST MARVEL AGE SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 03 DIGEST MARVEL AGE SPIDER-MAN TP VOL 04 GOBLIN STRIKES DIGEST NEIL GAIMAN & CHARLES VESS STARDUST TP NEIL GAIMANS MIDNIGHT DAYS TP NEIL GAIMANS NEVERWHERE TP OWLY GN VOL 01 WAY HOME OWLY GN VOL 03 FLYING LESSONS OWLY GN VOL 04 TIME TO BE BRAVE PREACHER TP VOL 03 PROUD AMERICANS NEW EDITION PREACHER TP VOL 07 SALVATION NEW EDITION PREACHER TP VOL 08 ALL HELLS A COMING PROMETHEA TP BOOK 01 PROMETHEA TP BOOK 02 SANDMAN TP VOL 01 PRELUDES & NOCTURNES SANDMAN TP VOL 02 THE DOLLS HOUSE SANDMAN TP VOL 04 SEASON OF MISTS SANDMAN TP VOL 05 A GAME OF YOU SANDMAN TP VOL 06 FABLES AND REFLECTIONS SANDMAN TP VOL 10 THE WAKE SEAGUY TP SECRET WAR TP SLOTH HC STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES TP VOL 01 STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES TP VOL 02 STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES TP VOL 03 STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES TP VOL 04 STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES TP VOL 05 STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES TP VOL 07 STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES TP VOL 09 STAR WARS CLONE WARS ADVENTURES TP VOL 10 STAR WARS CLONE WARS TP VOL 08 LAST SIEGE STAR WARS CLONE WARS TP VOL 09 ENDGAME STINKY GN STUCK RUBBER BABY SWAMP THING TP VOL 08 SPONTANEOUS GENERATION SWAMP THING TP VOL 09 INFERNAL TRIANGLES TONY MILLIONAIRE LITTLE & LARGE HC TRANSMETROPOLITAN TP VOL 07 SPIDERS THRASH TRANSMETROPOLITAN TP VOL 08 DIRGE TRANSMETROPOLITAN TP VOL 09 THE CURE UN-MEN TP VOL 01 GET YOUR FREAK ON VENOM VS CARNAGE TP WATCHMEN TP WONTON SOUP GN X-FILES SPECIAL #0 Y THE LAST MAN TP VOL 02 CYCLES

Art Spiegleman on CBC

I'd have loved to hear the interviewer ask: "What do you think about the fact that we're going to blur out the images of the Danish cartoons when this is aired? Do you think we are spineless, unwilling to stand up for free expression, or just total wimps?"

From the CBC website:

He's the only artist/illustrator to ever win the Pulitzer Prize. But why does Art Spiegelman think Canada is so uptight? Sunday's Carolynne Hew asks the man who depicted Holocaust victims as mice about the pitfalls of fighting for free expression.

Great interview...his skills in co-curating the comic portion of the Krazy! show at the Vancouver Art Gallery, though...another matter.

Morstad, von Szombathy, and Horacek

Nice little article from the Ottawa Citizen about recently (in the past 12 months) released books by Vancouver artists Julie Morstad, Chris von Szombathy, and Tom Horacek. All are part of the Petits Livres series of books published by Drawn and Quarterly.

Morstad, von Szombathy, and Horacec will all be appearing at Comix and Stories at the Vancouver Art Gallery on August 24th from 11am to 5pm. Kim Deitch is headlining, and Lucky's will be there too.

Lucky's newstuff 06 14 08

Because there seems to be a positive correlation between people knowing what we sell and people buying what we sell, here is the first installment blog posts letting you know what's arrived recently at Lucky's.

Books and Comics (new releases in bold):

Exit Wounds - Rutu Modan
Essex County Vol. 2: Ghost Stories
Mouse Guard: Fall 1152
Louis Riel - Chester Brown
Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
Maps And Legends - new Chabon
Milk Teeth - Julie Morstad
Idiots, Hypocrites, Demagogues
Mcsweeney's Issue 27 - amazing issue, three books in slipcase including Art Spiegelman drawing book, and gallery book of NYC drawing show curated by Dave Eggers
Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay - Chabon
Giraffes? Giraffes!
Animals Of The Ocean
Reading Comics and What They Mean - Douglas Wolk

Games:

Maple Story starters and boosters
Pokemon Great Encounters theme decks and boosters
Naruto the Chosen boosters
Bleach Seireirei and Soul Society boosters
Yu-Gi-Oh Dark Emperor structure decks
Magic the Gathering Chinese Portal starters
Bella Sara boosters

Nut Brown Live at Lucky's

Nut Brown performing live at Lucky's at the Ryan McCormick "The Game of Life" opening.

21 Questions with Lucky's

Lucky's is currently featured on the Sequential: Canadian Comix, News and Culture blog. Thanks to Bryan and the Sequential team for cultivating and promoting Canadian comics, stores, and culture!

Lucky's newstuff

Who knows, maybe I'll actually get into the habit of using the ol' blog again. Here's what's in new today:

McSweeney's:
Animals of the Ocean by Dr. Haggis on Whey (McSweeney's)
Arkansas by John Brandon
McSweeney's 26
Where to Invade Next

Simply Read
When You Were Small illustrated by Julie Morstad
The Day It All Blew Away by Lisa Cinar
Red Tree by Sean Tam


Scholastic:
Bone vol. 7 restock
Amulet Book One: The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi

Hyperion:
Jellyaby by Kean Soo

D.C.
Batman The Killing Joke hc reprint

Bodega
Mourning Star (restock)

Comic Feeds and Websites

Here are some of the comic related blogs we at Lucky's try to keep up with:

Sequential (Canadian kudos)
Blog Flume
Comics Comics
Drawn and Quarterly
Fantagraphics "Flog"
Journalista