New Library Comics: Week of September 17, 2007

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection last week:



Allred, Mike (Mike Dalton) Madman gargantua! / Image Comics, 2007.

Balm in Gilead : salves from the souk of imagination / Jersalem, Israel : MW Publications, c2007.

Beland, Tom. True story, swear to God / Berkeley, Calif. : Image, 2007- vol. 1

Braddock, Paige. Jane's world / [Sebastopol, Calif.] : Girl Twirl Comics, 2003- vol. 7

Burgoon, Charles. Odd / Coldwater, Mich. : Ghost Train Press, [1994]- nos. 6-7

Byun, Byung Jun. Run, Bong-gu, run! / New York : NBM, 2007.

Campbell, Eddie, 1955- The Black Diamond Detective Agency / New York : First Second, 2006.

Cannibale. / Roma : Primo Carnera, 1977-1979. nos. 2, 12

Carey, Mike. Re-gifters / New York : DC Comics, c2007.

Deevee 2007. / Paddington, Australia : Deevee Press, c1997-

Empty pockets. / Ann Arbor, Mich. : Wooden Book Press, 2005- no. 2 2006

Fior, Manuele, 1975- Rosso oltremare / Bologna : Coconino Press, c2006.

Foo, Swee Chin. Heofigendlic loðrung : FSC issues 1-5 / La Mesa, Calif. : Neko Press, [2006]

Friedman, Drew. The fun never stops! : an anthology of comic art, 1991-2006 / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2007.

The Ganzfeld. / New York : Kaput Press, no. 5 2007

Gatiss, Mark. The Vesuvius Club : graphic edition / New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005.

Hartzell, Andy. Fox bunny funny / Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf Productions, 2007.

Hayashiya, Shizuru. Sister Red / Fremont, CA : ComicsOne Corp., 2004- vols. 1-2

Hickee / Gainesville, FL : Alternative Comics, [2003]- v. 3 no. 3

Hornschemeier, Paul, 1977- The three paradoxes / Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics, 2007.

Kuper, Peter, 1958- Stop forgetting to remember : the autobiography of Walter Kurtz / New York : Crown, 2007.

Lapham, David. Silverfish / New York : Vertigo, 2007.

Malkasian, Cathy. Percy Gloom / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 2007.

Matt, Joe, 1963- Spent / Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2007.

Mattotti, Lorenzo, 1954- Il rumore della brina / Torino : Einaudi, 2003.

Mattotti, Lorenzo, 1954- Lettere da un tempo lontano / Torino : Einaudi, 2006.

Mineshaft. / Brattleboro, VT : Mineshaft, c1999- no. 17

Modan, Rutu. Exit wounds / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2007.

Mome. / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2005- Summer 2007

Nonaka, Eiji. Cromartie High School / Houston, Tex. : ADV Manga, 2005- vols. 9-11

Orff, Joel. Thunderhead Underground Falls / Gainesville, Fla. : Alternative Comics, 2007.

Ottaviani, Jim. Levitation : physics and psychology in the service of deception / Ann Arbor, MI, G.T. Labs, 2007.

Ottaviani, Jim. Wire mothers : Harry Harlow and the science of love / Ann Arbor, Mich. : G. T. Labs, 2007.

Pekar, Harvey. Macedonia / New York : Villard, c2007.

Peters, Steve. Sparky in love / Willow Grove, Pa. : Awakening Comics, 2007.

Phillips, Sean. Intersections / Berkeley, Calif. : Image, c2007.

Pop art funnies / Detroit, Mich. : MPH comics, [2004]- no. 9

Pope, Paul, 1970- Pulphope : the art of Paul Pope. / Richmond, Va. : AdHouse, c2007.

Potlatch project 6. / [Westminster, Md.] : Angry Dog Press, c2007.

Rees, Peter. Play-grounds : 2 short untruths / Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, c1991.

Rivera, Jonathan. Heart break / [United States] : 1130 Studios, c2007.

Robel, Nicolas. Fallen angel / Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2006.

Robot : super color comic / Carson, CA : Digital Manga Pub., 2005- vol. 3

Sally, Zak. Sammy the mouse / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, c2007- no. 1

Simmons, Josh. House / Seattle : Fantagraphics, c2007.

Smith, Jeff, 1960 Feb. 27- The art of bone / Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 2007.

Snakepit, Ben. My life in a jugular vein : Snakepit comics 2004-2006 / Portland, Or. ; Bloomington, Ind. : Microcosm Pub, 2007.

Steinke, Aron Nels. Big plans / Portland, Or. : [A. Steinke], 2007- no. 1

Takahashi, Rumiko, 1957- InuYasha / San Francisco, CA : Viz, LLC, c2003- vol. 30

Takahashi, Yoshihiro. Ginga legend Weed / Fremont, CA : ComicsOne, c2000- vols. 1-3

Takemiya, Keiko, 1950- To terra -- / New York : Vertical, 2007- vol. 2

Tanaka, Masashi, 1962- Gon / La Jolla, CA : WildStorm Productions, c2007- vol. 1

Tanner, Jamie. The aviary / Richmond, Va. : AdHouse, 2007.

Tinder, Jeremy. Black ghost apple factory (and others) : by jeremy Tinder. / Marietta,Ga : Top Shelf Productions, c2006.

Toth, Alex. Alex Toth : edge of genius. / New York : PUre Imagination, c2007- vol. 1

Wagner, Matt. Grendel archives / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse Comics, 2007.

Wheeler, Shannon. Screw heaven, when I die I'm going to Mars / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2007

Y.Kids. Albert Einstein. / [Seoul, Korea] : Y.kids/YoungJin Singapore, c2007.

Y.Kids. Gandhi : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. / [Seoul, Korea] : Y.Kids, c2007.

Young bottoms in love : a collection of gay romance comics / Los Angeles, Calif. : Poison Pen Comics, 2007.


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Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

We conclude our special Colleen Coover week here at YACB with her cover to Banana Sunday #3, featuring the gang taking in a movie.

(Standard disclaimer about talking apes not really being monkeys applies.)

Click on the image for a larger version.

Colleen Coover Week, Day 3

So much for being too busy to blog; I think I've blogged more this week than I have in the past several weeks! But to keep Colleen Coover week going, here's an illustration of a woman enjoying a good book and a good soak:



(Taken from http://cooverart.livejournal.com/5064.html)

New This Week: September 19, 2007

Ahoy mateys! There be good swag at the olde comick shoppe this day!


Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Carla Speed McNeil's Finder with the Finder: Sin Eater 10th Anniversary Hardcover. It collects the first two trade paperbacks (i.e. issues #1-14) plus the never-before-collected issue #22. And if you want to complete your Finder collection, Lightspeed Press is also re-issuing the third through eighth trade collections as well. Finder is anthropological science fiction at its finest; if you're a fan of Ursula Le Guin's science fiction, you should give Finder a look.


Other collections of interest include the final Strangers in Paradise Pocket edition (vol. 6) and Dr. Thirteen: Architecture and Morality, collecting the highly-praised back-up feature from Tales of the Unexpected by Brian Azzarello & Cliff Chiang.

Manga connoisseurs will surely want to pick up the 11th volume of Tezuka's Phoenix and the first volume of Keiko Takemiya's proto-shojo Andromeda Stories.

Regular comics? How about a new issue of Sabrina, the second issue of Johnny Hiro, and the penultimate issue of World War Hulk?


And if there bein' still a few pieces of eight in yer pockets, you can celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day by grabbin' ye a copy of Ted Naifeh's Polly and the Pirates or Boom!'s Pirate Tales anthology. Just the thing to get ye into the mood for sacking and pillaging. Aaarrrrr!

Quick Review: Polly and the Pirates

Polly and the Pirates
by Ted Naifeh
Oni Press, $11.95

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day, so when you go to your Friendly Local Comic Store to pick up today's booty, do yourself a favor and grab a copy of Ted Naifeh's Polly and the Pirates. Polly is a pre-teen girl who learns that she is the heir to the legendary Pirate Queen. At first she rejects her status, but of course eventually comes to accept her role as a leader of pirates. It's standard hero journey stuff, but Naifeh really makes the story come alive with wit and adventure and interesting characters. It's easily on par with his Courtney Crumrin series.

Rating: 4 (of 5)

Is Countdown Really a Sales Disaster?

Reading various online sales commentaries, one might be led to believe that DC's Countdown is a disaster, or at least a disappointment compared to its previous weekly series 52. But is it really?

Near the end of its run, 52 was selling about 95,000 copies an issue at $2.50 each.

The latest month's worth of Countdown's sales have it selling about 85,000 an issue at $3 each.

Doing the math, we see that at the end 52 was grossing $237,500 an issue; and Countdown is currently grossing $255,000 an issue. So on dollar value, Countdown is currently selling more than 52 did at its end! Countdown's numbers jumped up sizeably from the previous couple of months, when it was selling in the low 70K's. (Not sure why this is...) but even at 72,000 copies Countdown was grossing $216,000 per issue, which is more a reflection of the general downward trend that 52 was experiencing than any seismic shift.

This doesn't even factor in the talent cost; I'm willing to bet that Johns/Morrison/Waid/Rucka rates are more than Dini/Gray/Palmiotti/Bedard/Beechen/McKeever rates.

Did 52 gross more over its entire run than Countdown is likely to? Probably. But a disaster/disappointment? Hardly. (At least from a sales perspective; Your opinion as to the quality of the comics will no doubt vary...)

Colleen Coover Week Day 2

Too busy to blog, so here's a nice Colleen Coover illustration of a pretty girl on the deck of a cruise ship:



(Taken from http://cooverart.livejournal.com/5697.html)

Bonus: here's an audio file of Colleen appearing recently on the cIndyCenter podcast.