www.86thfloor.com     PREVIEWS VOL. XVIX #6 June 2009  

Independent Comic Publishers
(Companies beginning with H)

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS

AVALON HIGH: CORONATION VOLUME 3: HUNTER'S MOON GN
(W) Meg Cabot (A) Jinky Coronado
Hunter's Moon marks the thrilling finale to Meg Cabot's first manga series. This trilogy continues from the ending of the bestselling novel, Avalon High, in which the world of King Arthur was reincarnated in a modern American high school, and this final installment places the fate of the world in Ellie and Will's hands! (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 5x7, 160pgs, B&W (3 of 3) SRP: $9.99

HEAVY METAL

HEAVY METAL NOVEMBER 2009
(W/A) Various
Heavy Metal is the long-running adult fantasy comics magazine filled with all of the over-the-top graphic sci-fi/fantasy madness you've come to expect from the world's top creators! (C: 0-1-2)
MATURE THEMES
Magazine, 150pgs, PC SRP: $6.95

INSOMNIA HC
(W/A) Katrina Sokolava
Katrina Sokolava's ability to create images of great beauty and strong emotional charge awakens our romantic side — in others, our dark side. She complements her illustrations with short stories, helping readers to delve deeper into the fantasies of her universe. (C: 0-0-1)
HC, 48pgs, FC SRP: $14.95

HILL & WANG

FAHRENHEIT 451 GN
(W) Ray Bradbury (A) Tim Hamilton
Fifty-five years ago, Ray Bradbury envisioned one of the world’s most unforgettable dystopian futures. Thinking is dangerous; trust only the state; turn in your neighbors; and, most important, burn all books. The world of Guy Montag, a career fireman for whom kerosene has become perfume, has been translated by Tim Hamilton into unforgettable full-color art that uniquely captures Montag’s awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature.
SC, 160pgs, FC SRP: $16.95

THE VIETNAM WAR: A GRAPHIC HISTORY HC
(W) Dwight Jon Zimmerman, Chuck Horner (A) Wayne Vansant
Through beautifully rendered artwork, The Vietnam War: A Graphic History depicts the course of the war from its initial expansion in the early 1960's through the evacuation of Saigon in 1975, and what transpired at home, from the antiwar movement and the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. to the Watergate break-in and the resignation of a President. (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 6x9, 160pgs, B&W SRP: $19.95