Summer events

Some upcoming summer artist appearances and events:


MAIN STREET CAR-FREE DAY: June 19 - come by to help us draw a block-long comic strip on the street, or doodle at our outdoor table!

COLIN UPTON: July 9, 4pm - 6pm: High Tea and launch of Diabetes Funnies collection

ANDERS NILSEN and BRIAN RALPH: July 31, 7pm - 10pm: Launch of Anders Nilsen's highly anticipated Big Questions book and preview of Brian Ralph's Daybreak, both published by Drawn and Quarterly

August 6, 7pm - 10pm: A display of original artwork by Rand Holmes, curated by Martha Holmes and Patrick Rosenkranz, author of THE ARTIST HIMSELF: A RAND HOLMES RETROSPECTIVE. Holmes is perhaps best known for his Harold Hedd comics and covers for the Georgia Straight in the 1970s. He moved to Lasqueti Island in the 1980s and passed away in 2002. Rosenkranz will give a presentation on his work.

DAVID BOSWELL: August 16, 7pm - 9pm: Launch of recently released collection of the ground-breaking and influential comic book REID FLEMING: WORLD'S TOUGHEST MILKMAN published by IDW.

REBECCA DART: Oct. 21, 7pm - 9pm: Launch of unique nursery rhyme collection published by First Second Books (:01) - local favourite Rebecca Dart (Rabbithead) is one of five artists involved.

New stuff and notes May 21, 2011

Lots of goods in this week, listed below.
Chester Brown appearance at the downtown VPL was a success - over 200 people in the audience and a post-talk signing line-up until after 11pm. Thanks to everyone for coming out!
Coming up:
May 22 - in the gallery: Perichute by John Burgess - part of the Art Waste/Music Waste festival, opening reception is May 22, Upshot in conjunction with Music Waste on June 4.
More info here.
July 9 - Colin Upton High Tea - book launch of Diabetes Funnies
August 6 - Rand Holmes Retrospecive book launch and art show - show up Aug. 5 - 7, reception and presentation August 6

Ok, here's what came in this week:

Koyama Press:
Lose #3 - Michael DeForge
Root Rot - Contributors include Jon Vermilyea, Derek M. Ballard, Dan Zettwoch, T. Edward Bak, Robin Nishio, Ines Estrada, Lizz Hickey, Mickey Zacchili, Jesse Jacobs, Jason Fischer, Hellen Jo, Angie Wang, Greg Pizzoli, Joe Lambert, Bob Flynn and Chris “Elio” Eliopoulos.
Cat Rackham Loses It - Steve Wolfhard
Colour Me Busy - Keith Jones colouring book!
Monster Party - Chris "Elio" Eliopoulos

Picturebox:
Garden - Yuichi Yokoyama
Powr Mastrs Vol 1-3 - C.F.
New Engineering - Yokoyama
Storeyville - Frank Santoro
Travel - Yokoyama
Multiforce - Matt Brinkman
I Was Looking For A Street - Charles Willeford
Mould Map (numbered) - various artists
Viande de Chevet - various artists
City Hunter #1 - C.F.

Conundrum Press:
Chimo - David Collier
Snaps - Rebecca Kratz
Killing Vasquez - Phillipe Girard
Suddenly Something Happened - Jimmy Beaulieu
House of Sugar - Rebecca Kratz
Don't Get Lonely Get Lost - Elisabeth Belliveau (w/DVD)
So I've Been Told - Maryanna Hardy
Gilded Lillies - Jillian Tamaki
Witness my Shame - Shary Boyle

Other restocks:
Candide (Chris Ware cover)
Kramer's Ergot vol 6
Believer #80
Juxtapoz #125
CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #6
Banksy Notecards (20 card packs)
Book of other People (Zadie Smith ed.)
Book of Bunny Suicides
Return of the Bunny Suicides
Dirty South: Outkast, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers who Reinvented Hip-Hop
Street Art: Best Urban Art From Around the World
Chi's Sweet Home vol 1 and 5
The Wolverton Bible - Old Testament by Basil Wolverton
In Me Own Words - Autobiography of Bigfoot by Graham Roumieu
Citrus County - John Brandon
Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden
Old Ball Game by Frank Deford
City of Glass by Douglas Coupland
Player One - Douglas Coupland
They Live - Jonathan Lethem
Vancouver Special - Charles Demers
Moment in the Sun - John Sayles
McSweeney's Issue 37
Adventures of Dr. McNinja vol 1
Approximate Continuum Comics - Lewis Trondheim
Forget Sorrow: an Ancestral Tale - Belle Yang
Simpsons Comics #178
Rocketeer Adventures #1
Bart Simpson Prince of Pranks tp

Abady abady abady that's all folks!

New stuff and notes May 14 2011

Well if you follow comics you know that last weekend was the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, aka TCAF. Sounds like it was pretty amazing once again - congratulations to the Beguiling for putting on a show that is now undoubtedly one of the premier annual comic events in North America.

Coming up:

• Looking forward to Chester Brown's appearance at the VPL Central Branch on May 18. Toronto is spoiled with TCAF, here in Vancouver we don't often get giant names like Chester Brown coming through. His new book "Paying For It" is controversial and much talked-about - chronicling Brown's experiences paying for.."it". Been hearing raves about his recent appearances in Eastern Canada, it should be memorable. 
• Koyama Press - more great books arriving this week from Koyama, including Lose #3 from Michael DeForge, Cat Rackham by Steve Wolfhard, Monster Party by Chris "Elio" Eliopoulos, and an anthology called Root Rot (Contributors include Jon Vermilyea, Derek M. Ballard, Dan Zettwoch, T. Edward Bak, Robin Nishio, Ines Estrada, Lizz Hickey, Mickey Zacchili, Jesse Jacobs, Jason Fischer, Hellen Jo, Angie Wang, Greg Pizzoli, Joe Lambert, Bob Flynn and Chris “Elio” Eliopoulos.)
• Picturebox order coming this week with our first look at Yiuchi Yokoyama's Garden. Exciting. 
• I hate to tease appearances, but a launch at Lucky's with an all-time favorite comic artist is in the works for this summer.
• Colin Upton will be at Lucky's July 9 from 4pm - 6pm for "High Tea" and to promote his new collection of Diabetes Funnies. (Upton got an acknowledgement in Chester Brown's new book!)

A few new/restocked items in this week:

Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths - Shicero Mizuki

Klondike - Zach Worton

Picture This" Nearsighted Monkey - Lynda Barry

Red: A Haida Manga: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Wildlife of Star Wars

Stickerbomb - graffiti stickers

Lego Brickmaster sets: Star Wars, Crazy Action Contraptions, and Atlantis
Next Day - John Porcellino
Star Wars Adventures vol 5 Boba Fett
Return of the Dapper Men
Mouse Guard Legends of the Guard hc
Irredeemable tp vol 6
Akira GN vol 1
Little Endless Storybook HC
Huntington West Virginia on the Fly - Harvey Pekar 

Woot. Out. 

New stuff May 7 2011

Greetings people of the Internet. Well we really oughtta be regularly posting new releases here...we get stuff in a couple times a week from several different sources. Would really make sense to make this a weekly task. Perhaps more of the skookum books we get in would sell. Note to self, let's do this.
Okay, here's some new and restocked items that arrived this week. New-to-us items are in bold:

The Cardboard Valise: Ben Katchor
Ghost World: Daniel Clowes
Caricature: Nine Stories: Daniel Clowes
Mister Wonderful: Daniel Clowes
Barefoot Gen vol 1: Nakazawa
Safe Area Gorazde Special Edition: Joe Sacco
Footnotes in Gaza: Joe Sacco
Banksy: Wall and Piece
Banksy's Bristol: Home Sweet Home
Empire State: Jason Shiga
The Wolverton Bible: The Old Testament and Book of Revelation
I Can Has Cheezburger? A Lolcat Collection
R. Crumbs Heroes of Blues, Jazz and Country w/ CD
Kafka: R. Crumb and David Mairowitz
Metamorphosis and other Stories: Kafka, Sammy Harkham cover
I Want You #1 and 2: Lisa Hanawalt
Holy Moly: Jeff Ladouceur
Hi-Fructose Magazine #18
Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: Taschen
Burma Chronicles: Guy Delisle
Shenzen: Guy Delisle
Lucky: Gabrielle Bell
Ojingogo: Matthew Forsythe
Constructive Abandonment: Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier
Love From the Shadows: Gilbert Hernandez
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard vol 1
Return of the Dapper Men: Jim McCann and Janet Lee
Stitches: A Memoir hc: David Small
Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History: Freedarko

New stuff March 18 2011

New arrivals and restocks:

AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS
BELIEVER MAGAZINE #79 (MAR/APR 2011), W/DVD McSweeney's
BIRD BRAIN MINI-COMICS, #2-4 IN BAG Francois Vigneault
BOY'S CLUB 3 Matt Furie
DUNGEON QUEST, BOOK TWO Joe Daly
FEMINA & FAUNA Camilla d'Errico
HORTUS MISCELLANEOUS A Gardener's Hodgepodge of Information
LUCKY LUKE 23: A CURE FOR THE DALTONS Morris and Goscinny
LUCKY LUKE 24: THE JUDGE Morris and Goscinny
LUCKY LUKE 25: THE STAGECOACH Morris and Goscinny
LUCKY LUKE: BARBED WIRE ON THE PRAIRIE Morris and Goscinny
LUCKY LUKE: BILLY THE KID Morris and Goscinny
LUCKY LUKE: DALTON CITY Morris and Goscinny
MEATHAUS 8: HEADGAMES Alternative Comics anthology
MOME VOL. 21 (WINTER 2011) Fantagraphics anthology
PRISON PIT BOOK 2 Johnny Ryan
PRISON PIT: BOOK 1 Johnny Ryan
THE ARCTIC MARAUDER Jacques Tardi
THE EVIL GARDEN Edward Gorey
TINTIN & SNOWY ALBUM VOL. 2 Herge
TINTIN & SNOWY ALBUM VOL. 3 Herge
WHY WE HAVE DAY AND NIGHT Edward Gorey
WILD WIVES Charles Willeford

New Nieves Books

Smallish bit of an order just arrived from Nieves Books: http://www.nieves.ch/
Including:
The Wildlife Analysis by Dmitri Broquard ($16 cdn)
Baku and Back by Ingo Giezandanner ($31 cdn)
Free Press Light Catalog 1: Cosmic Wonder ($6.00 cdn)
As Above, So Below by Will Sweeney ($16 cdn)


Adding to our other in-stock Nieves titles:

I'm Here: a short film by Spike Jonze ($20 cdn)
Melanie Sheepwash by Mark DeLong and Jason McLean ($10 cdn)
Round the Way by Maya Hayuk ($16 cdn)
Harmony Korine: Mr. Lonely ($20 cdn)
The Kind of Livin' by Taylor McKimens ($16 cdn)
Ffor #7 - Born A Again in DC3000 by Jonas Delaborde ($10)
Ad Rock by Ari Marcopoulos ($22)
Kim Gordon: Chronicles Vol. 2 ($22) 
Blueberry Express by Misaki Kawai ($22)
I Wait Here For You Forever As Long As It Takes ($20)
Cosmic Wonder Free Press 2: Cosmic Wonder ($35)

Study Group 12 Anthology

description borrowed from http://www.etsy.com/shop/secretvoice

The new evolution of the Ignatz Award-winning comics anthology STUDYGROUP12 is a lavish, handmade package with silkscreened covers & offset interiors and some of the best talent the comics industry has to offer!

The 9x12" album sized SG12 is "perfect-bound" with a fancy spine and everything.

here's what the "offical press release" had to say:
In the six years since issue three, editor Zack Soto focused on his own comics, including THE SECRET VOICE for Adhouse Books, moved to Portland, OR, and helped run local comics/art hub PONY CLUB GALLERY. During his tenure with the gallery, Soto curated several monthly group shows and met dozens of artists working in the Portland comics and art scene. Shortly after leaving the gallery to pursue comics full-time, that old anthology itch came back. Thus, we have STUDYGROUP12 #4, a mixture of some of the best Pacific Northwest artists and other great cartoonists from around North America.

Zack has teamed up with Jason Leivian of Floating World Comics to publish this incarnation of SG12, with interiors printed by Eberhardt Press. The series has evolved from issue to issue, changing format each time in a natural evolution of craft and intention. They have come saddle-stitched, perfect-bound by hand, and coil-bound with chipboard covers -- but always with silkscreened covers and photocopied interiors. This issue is another step forward -- the interiors will be offset-printed in a blue Pantone ink on cream paper along with a two-color section and perfect-bound into hand-pulled silkscreened covers, in a limited edition of 500 copies.

Contributing to this issue:

TREVOR ALIXOPULOS - http://www.hautejunk.blogspot.com/
T EDWARD BAK - http://antizerogravity.blogspot.com/
CHRIS CILLA - http://ccillaswamp.blogspot.com/
MAX CLOTFELTER - http://maxclotfelter.blogspot.com/
FAREL DALRYMPLE - http://www.fareldalrymple.com/
ELEANOR DAVIS - http://www.doing-fine.com/
VANESSA DAVIS - http://www.spanielrage.com/
MICHAEL DEFORGE - http://kingtrash.com/
THEO ELLSWORTH - http://thoughtcloudfactory.com/
JASON FISHER - http://www.studiojfish.com/
NICK GAZIN - http://skeleteen.livejournal.com/
RICHARD HAHN - http://www.lumakick.com/
LEVON JIHANIAN - http://www.levonjihanian.com/
AIDAN KOCH - http://www.aidankoch.com/
AMY KUTTAB - http://www.amykuttab.blogspot.com/
BLAISE LARMEE - http://blaiselarmee.tumblr.com/
COREY LEWIS - http://www.reyyy.com/
KIYOSHI NAKAZAWA - http://www.luckynakazawa.com/
TOM NEELY - http://www.iwilldestroyyou.com/
JENNIFER PARKS - http://jenniferparks.blogspot.com/
KARN PIANA - http://www.karnpiana.com/
JIM RUGG - http://jimrugg.blogspot.com/
TIM ROOT - crappycomics [!at] yahoo.com
ZACK SOTO - http://www.zacksoto.com/
IAN SUNDAHL - http://turbooverdrive.angelfire.com/
JON VERMILYEA - http://www.jonvermilyea.com/
ANGIE WANG - http://www.wangie.com/
STEVE WEISSMAN - http://sweetchubby.blogspot.com/
DAN ZETTWOCH - http://zettwoch.blogspot.com/