HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
ALLEN GINSBERG'S HOWL: A GRAPHIC NOVEL GN
(W) Allen Ginsberg (A) Eric Drooker
A tie-in to the forthcoming movie Howl starring James Franco and featuring graphics by Eric Drooker, this graphic novel adapts Allen Ginsberg's legendary poem. Howl: A Graphic Novel visualizes the poem stanza by stanza with illustrations drawn from Drooker's storyboards, key frames, concept art, and cells from the Monk studio's animation. The book's introduction tells the story of the genesis of Ginsberg's poem, the obscenity trial it spawned, and its subsequent victory, and will also describe the making of the film. For the past four years, Drooker has worked as the Animation Designer on the film, utilzing an unusual blend of live action and animation to illustrate the full text of Ginsberg's epic poem. NOTE: Previously offered in Previews Plus #925.
SC, 7x9, 224pgs, FC SRP: $19.99
STARS OF THE MONTH
UNDERSTANDING COMICS TP (NEW PRINTING)
(W/A) Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud, a twelve-time Harvey and Eisner Award nominee, uses a comic book to explain and analyze the medium of comic books themselves. This ultimate book about comics dissects the art form and shows how words, lines, colors, symbols, panels and pictures all come together to create a unique and one-of-a-kind storytelling experience.McCloud shows how this unique genre is just as important and valid as film and prose in his own funny and profound manner. (JAN098101)
SC SRP: $22.99
REINVENTING COMICS TP (HARPER COLLINS EDITION)
(W/A) Scott McCloud
Eisner Award-winner Scott McCloud takes comics to the next level after Understanding Comics, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are created, read, and perceived today, and how they're poised to conquer the new millennium. (JAN074155)
SC, 7x10, 256pgs, B&W SRP: $22.95
MAKING COMICS: STORYTELLING SECRETS OF COMICS, MANGA AND GRAPHIC NOVELS SC
(W/A) Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud, acclaimed illustrator and renowned author of Understanding Comics, focuses his critical analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the most minute of artistic details. (JUL063708)
SC, 7x10, 272pgs, PC SRP: $22.95
ZOT! VOLUME 1: THE COMPLETE BLACK & WHITE STORIES 1987-1991 TP
(W/A) Scott McCloud
Zachary T. Paleozogt, popularly known as Zot, is a blond-haired, blue-eyed teenage hero from an alternate Earth — this alternate reality is a retro-futuristic technological utopia. Zot eagerly takes on Earth’s challenges with the most amusing outcomes. New material includes sketches, designs, some of McCloud’s behind-the-scenes working methods, and lots and lots of commentary — “the story behind the stories” as it were. (MAY083919)
SC, 6x9, 576pgs, B&W SRP: $24.95
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HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE
FLUORESCENT BLACK GN
(w) MF Wilson (a) Nathan Fox, Jeromy Cox
Fluorescent Black takes readers into the hard-hitting dark future of South East Asia where gene-tech has divided the human race into two races, and both the utopian and dystopian futures exist in near proximity. Known for it provocative ideas and scientific accuracy, Fluorescent Black has been praised by biotechnology web rings and counter-culture magazines as a seminal "bio-punk" novel. A visceral ride through a bio-punk future where life is cheap and death is the only way out. (C: 0-0-1)
SC, 10x13, 196pgs, FC SRP: $24.95
HEAVY METAL FALL 2010
(W/A) Various
"The Revenge of Count Skarbek." It is said that a proper revenge can take time. This is wrong. A proper revenge must take time. It must be carefully prepared. It must be disguised. It must give no warning. How many years of injustice must the very civilized Count Skarbek endure until his only hand can finally clench into a vengeful fist? (C: 0-1-2)
MATURE THEMES
Magazine, 150pgs, PC SRP: $6.95
HERMES PRESS
BUCK ROGERS IN 25TH CENTURY: THE DAILIES VOLUME 5: 1935-1937 HC
(W) John F. Dille (A) Dick Calkins
The saga of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, the world's most famous science-fiction newspaper strip, continues! Included in this volume are two more years of the strip, from 1935 to 1937, featuring five complete adventures. Volume Five features continuities with Buck, Wilma, Ardala, Killer Kane, and Black Barney. The strips contained in this volume have never been reprinted before and have been painstakingly restored to perfection! (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 9x12, 288pgs, PC SRP: $49.99
THE HERO INITIATIVE
OFFERED AGAIN
O/A THE HULK 100 PROJECT TP
(A) Various
Following hot on the heels of last year's über-successful Ultimate Spider-Man #100 Project, The Hero Initiative gets mean and green! All of Hero's 100 original covers to Marvel Comics' Hulk #1 and the Red Rampager himself, the Red Hulk, are on display in this great book, with art by J. Scott Campbell, John Cassaday, Frank Cho, Terry Dodson, Dale Keown, Joe Quesada, John Romita Sr. and Jr. and more!
SC, 7x10, 128pgs, FC SRP: $10.00
HISTORY GRAPHICS PRESS
CIVIL WAR ADVENTURE VOLUME 2.2 GN
(W) Chuck Dixon (A) Gary Kwapisz, Various
"Will The Black Man Fight?" Part 2: The Texans, fighting under their black flag, begin their bloody assault on the untested Colored Troops at Milliken's Bend. Against long odds Ty and Seth have to fight their way out of the WV Mountains in the second part of "March To Romney." The Sharpshooters Duel, voodoo in the Civil War? Plus more!
SC, 6x9, 64pgs, B&W SRP: $4.95
HUMANOIDS INC
FLYWIRES GN
(W) Chuck Austen (A) Matt Cossin
Kelsey Fontine is an unemployed cop whose busted flywire forces him into a loser's life on the Aeon City-Ship. As Fontine searches for a boy's missing mother, he learns the dark side to the many privileges that come with having your brain connected via flywire. In production as a Film. (C: 0-0-1)
7x10, 144pgs, FC SRP: $19.95
METAL HC
(W) Jerrold E. Brown, Paul Alexander (A) Butch Guice, Roman Surzhenko
Elias, Ruler of the Huron Dynasty, is determined to unite his Empire and defeat the ominous alien forces known as Prime. Elias is betrayed and murdered. His life force is stuck inside his combat robot, giving it life. Can he unite his people, despite his metal form, and destroy Prime? (C: 0-0-1)
7x10, 168pgs, FC SRP: $29.95
THE WHISPERS IN THE WALLS #5
(W) David Muñoz (A) Tirso
The stage has been set in the epic battle between the vampires and druids. Where do the allegiances of Sarah and her friends lie and how much will they ultimately matter? A gothic tale of horror by David Muñoz (co-writer of Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone film) and Tirso. (C: 0-0-1)
36pgs, FC (5 of 6) SRP: $3.50
HYPERION BOOKS
THE BARTIMAEUS TRILOGY VOLUME 1: THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND GN
(W) Jonathan Stroud, Andrew Donkin (A) Lee Sullivan
Nathaniel, a young magician-in-training, thinks he's ready to take on more challenging spells. With revenge against the proud and ambitious Simon Lovelace on his mind, he masters one of the toughest spells of all and summons Bartimaeus, a 5,000-year-old djinni, to assist him. But summoning Bartimaeus and controlling him are two different things entirely, and when Nathaniel sends the djinni to steal Lovelace's greatest treasure, the Amulet of Samarkand, he finds himself caught in a whirlwind of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion. Available in hardcover and softcover editions. (C: 0-1-2)
SOFTCOVER—SC, 6x9, 144pgs, FC SRP: $9.99
HARDCOVER—HC, 6x9, 144pgs, FC SRP: $19.99