PANTHEON BOOKS
CHARLES BURNS' X'ED OUT GN
(W/A) Charles Burns
From the creator of Black Hole, the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color! Doug is having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there, across the room, next to a huge hole torn out of the bricks, sits his beloved cat, Inky, who died years ago. What’s going on? Drawing inspiration from such diverse influences as Hergé and William Burroughs, Charles Burns has given us a dazzling spectral fever-dream — and a comic-book masterpiece. (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 9x12, 56pgs, FC SRP: $19.95
STAR OF THE MONTH
BLACK HOLE: THE COLLECTED EDITION SC (NEW PRINTING)
(W/A) Charles Burns
Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards. Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. A strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s it. What unfolds isn’t the expected battle to fight the plague or even to treat it. Instead, we witness the nature of high school alienation itself. Black Hole deftly explorEs a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it. (JAN098007)
SC, 368pgs, B&W SRP: $18.95
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PENGUIN BOOKS
CHE GUEVARA: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY GN
(W) Kiyoshi Konno (A) Chie Shimano
Che Guevara. His name is synonymous with rebellion, revolution, and socialism. His face is on tee-shirts all over the world. Che Guevara's life continues to captivate the imagination more than forty years after his death. This illustrated biography tells the riveting story of Che's life and death, from his upbringing in Argentina to the revolution in Cuba and his death in Bolivia, through the popular Japanese art form manga. (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 6x9, 192pgs, B&W SRP: $16.00
PURE IMAGINATION PUBLISHING
THE EISNER SHOP SC
(W) Various (A) Will Eisner
This collection of early Will Eisner art includes several issues of Wags, The Black X, Uncle Sam, Mr. Mystic, Lady Luck, Baseball Comics, and more. Theakstonized for maximum reproduction quality.
SC, 160pgs, B&W SRP: $25.00