www.86thfloor.com     PREVIEWS VOL. XVIX #7 July 2009  

Independent Comic Publishers
(Companies beginning with W)

WW NORTON

THE BOOK OF GENESIS: ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT CRUMB HC
(W/A) Robert Crumb
The eagerly awaited graphic work retells the first book of the Bible in a profoundly honest way. Peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretations, R. Crumb, using the actual text work for work, has imagined the Bible as it really was. First serialized in The New Yorker, this graphic work is now available in a collected edition. Also available in a Limited Hardcover Edition, slipcased with a signed print, limited to 500 copies. (C: 0-1-2)
HARDCOVER—HC, 8.5x11, 224pgs SRP: $24.95
LIMITED HARDCOVER—HC, 8.5x11, 224pgs SRP: $500.00

STITCHES HC
(W/A) David Small
One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the young boy had not been told that he had throat cancer and was expected to die. Small, a prize-winning children’s author, re-creates a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. Readers will be riveted by his journey from speechless victim to his decision to flee his home at sixteen with nothing more than dreams of becoming an artist. Stitches will transform adolescent and adult readers alike with its deeply liberating vision. (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 7x9, 320pgs, B&W SRP: $23.95

WATSON GUPTILL

SPY VS SPY TP'S
(W/A) Antonio Prohias
Spy vs. Spy was a long-running feature of MAD Magazine. These stories, some of which have been out of print for over 40 years, are now collected into three volumes — Danger, Intrigue, Stupidity; Masters of Mayhem; and Missions of Madness. The crazed work of Antonio Prohias enthralled readers with its madcap adventure and derring-do; now these stories are introduced by longtime MAD editor John Ficarra. (C: 0-1-2) NOTE: This item may be available through other retail outlets before shipping to comic book specialty shops.
MISSIONS OF MADNESS—SC, 8x11, 192pgs, B&W SRP: $11.99
MASTERS OF MAYHEM—SC, 8x11, 192pgs, B&W SRP: $11.99
DANGER, INTRIGUE, STUPIDITY—SC, 8x11, 192pgs, B&W SRP: $11.99

WIZARDS OF THE COAST

MAGIC THE GATHERING: PATH OF THE PLANESWALKER GN
(W/A) Various
Written by Magic: The Gathering's creative team, and brought to life by some of the industry's best known artists, Path of the Planeswalker presents the storytelling readers expect from the world's most popular trading card game. Readers will find adventures from their favorite planeswalkers including battles between mind-mage Jace Beleren and the implusive pyromancer Chandra Naalar. The mercurial necromancer Liliana Vess tangles with the savage Garruk Wildspeaker. We learn more of the artificer Tezzeret's past with the Seekers of Carmot, plus much more. (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 192pgs, FC SRP: $19.95