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COMP LIFE AND TIMES OF SCROOGE MCDUCK DLX ED HC

(W) Don Rosa

An unprecedented comics collection of Scrooge McDuck's life story, this epic Duckburg serial is back for keeps in a beyond-complete oversized full color deluxe edition-and comes slipcased with a special commemorative coin, available nowhere else! From his shoe-shining boyhood in Glasgow, Scotland, to his gold-hoarding adulthood in Duckburg, Calisota, Uncle Scrooge McDuck has lived a life of legend... a legend founded by Scrooge's creator Carl Barks and carried on in Don Rosa's signature series, "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck!" Now join Scrooge, Flintheart Glomgold, Goldie O'Gilt, and more for the most amazing edition ever of Scrooge McDuck's biography. The original twelve chapters - and the many "in-between" chapters and related stories - and every last cover and pin-up are all in this money bin-sized book! Don Rosa, among the world's most beloved modern cartoonists, launched his two-decade, Carl Barks-inspired Disney comics career in 1987, with "The Life and Times" winning the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in 1995 for Best Serialized Story. Presented with brilliant color and a treasure trove of Rosa's behind-the-scenes factoids, this taller, wider deluxe edition shows off Rosa's hyper-detailed artwork to full, glorious effect and comes slipcased with a special commemorative coin available nowhere else! This is the definitive Scrooge McDuck for longtime fans and collectors!

COMPLETE PEANUTS HC #16

1981-1982

(W) Charles M. Schulz

The world's greatest comic strip enters the '80s! In volume 16 of The Complete Peanuts (softcover edition), Snoopy's long-lost brother "Marbles" joins the cast of characters - and is baffled by Snoopy's un-doglike behavior. Charlie Brown lives up to his hard-luck reputation: on the day of the biggest game of the season, he loses the baseball field! In other stories, Peppermint Patty witnesses the "butterfly miracle," Linus and Sally spar over whether he is indeed her "Sweet Babboo," the Van Pelts foray into an ill-fated farming venture, and two of the most eccentric characters from later Peanuts years - the hyper-aggressive Molly Volley and the whiny "Crybaby" Boobie - return for a rematch. Lynn Johnston (For Better or For Worse) introduces this volume. The Complete Peanuts: 50 Years of Art. 26 Books. The publishing project that launched a renaissance in comic strip publishing: the complete reprinting of Charles M. Schulz's classic, Peanuts. This is the only place Peanuts has ever been collected in its entirety. Featuring impeccable production values, every single strip is reproduced better than ever before. The series presents the entire run in chronological order, dailies and Sundays, two years per volume, and includes forewords by famous fans and friends of Peanuts.

COMPLETE PEANUTS TP BOX SET 1979-1982

(W) Charles M. Schulz

A box set collecting two volumes of the series presenting the entire run of the world's greatest newspaper comic strip, in chronological order, dailies and Sundays, two years per volume (In Vols. 15-16, we leave the 1970s behind as we enter the 1980s!) and includes forewords by famous fans and friends.  The Complete Peanuts 1979-1982 gift box set includes paperback editions of Vols. 15 and 16 and introductions by Al Roker and Lynn Johnston. The Complete Peanuts: 50 Years of Art. 26 Books. The publishing project that launched a renaissance in comic strip publishing: the complete reprinting of Charles M. Schulz's classic, Peanuts. This is the only place Peanuts has ever been collected in its entirety. Featuring impeccable production values, every single strip is reproduced better than ever before. The series presents the entire run in chronological order, dailies and Sundays, two years per volume, and includes forewords by famous fans and friends.

CRACKING TP

(W) Tommi Musturi

Cracking is a retina-bursting picture book that gathers Tommi Musturi's work from 2013 to 2020. The book holds plain art, illustrations, sketchbook material, pixel art, and more. A psychedelic mashup of different styles and perspectives, rich in form and color. The book also contains an essay by the author (on working on the borders of different arts) and liner notes for everything included. Musturi is known to be a stylistic chameleon often dealing with existential themes that twirl around the ideal of 'freedom' - Cracking is an attention-grabbing showcase of a rich visual imagination and graphic stylist.

DISNEY BARKS SCROOGE HC BOX SET

(W) Carl Barks

In two volumes snugged into a sturdy slipcase, 440 pages of Barks's brilliance - at a special price that even Uncle Scrooge couldn't resist! A double dose of Duck adventure for the holidays, two volumes snugged into a sturdy slipcase - at a special price that even Uncle Scrooge couldn't resist! This season's Carl Barks Library 440-page gift box collects Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: "The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan," in which Genghis Khan's missing crown, an expedition underground, and pirate treasure are to be found. Also: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: "The Mines of King Solomon," which includes a rip-roaring adventure to locate the lost treasure of King Solomon!

DONALD DUCK & UNCLE SCROOGE WORLD OF DRAGONLORDS HC

(W) Byron Erickson (A) Giorgio Cavazzano

"Help us, Huey, Louie, and Dewey! You're Morgworld's only hope!" A feature-length fantasy epic pits Donald, Scrooge, and the gang against a deadly troll kingdom! Donald, Uncle Scrooge, and their nephews are locked in a Duckburg family feud when an interdimensional doorway appears... and takes them to Morgworld, a medieval realm where trolls rule, humans are serfs, and dragons beasts of burden! Can our squabbling Ducks bring justice to this land of swords and sorcery? Giorgio Cavazzano (Donald Duck: The Forgetful Hero), among Italy's most celebrated comics artists, brings his outrageous energy, emotive characters, and wild "techno" style to a feature-length 21st-century Disney fantasy tale, filled with fire-breathing frenzy by beloved writer/editor Byron Erickson ("A Mickey Mystery")! Fly on dragonback to the fortress city of Toom! Meet way-out wizard Hintermann, bold warrior Brendon, boy prisoner Jute, and three blazing dragons... Smoky, Sniffles, and Spitfire! It's up to Donald, Scrooge, and the boys to rescue these ragtag rebels - don your armor and get ready!

HAPPY HOUR IN AMERICA #2

(W) Tim Lane (A) Tim Lane (CA) Tim Lane

This stand-alone comic book from master of Americana Tim Lane, who wields a brush as effortlessly as Hank Williams strummed a guitar, features three fictional short stories that explore and unpack an icon of the mythological American male, Steve McQueen. Lane's exquisite skill as a comic book illustrator echoes such legendary names as Wood, Frazetta, Raymond, and others.

NIGHT FISHER HC 15TH ANNV ED

(W) R. Kikuo Johnson (A) R. Kikuo Johnson (CA) R. Kikuo Johnson

Two Maui high school students, Loren and Shane, get mixed up in a petty crime, and their friendship is put to the test. One of the most critically lauded graphic novel debuts in the medium's history is now in hardcover for the first time! First-rate prep school, SUV, and a dream house in the heights - an island paradise was handed to Loren Foster when he moved to Hawaii with his father six years ago. Now, with the end of high school just around the corner, his best friend, Shane, has grown distant. Rumors abound. Loren suspects that Shane has left him behind for a new group of friends. Their friendship is put to the test when they get mixed up in a petty crime. Johnson has a naturalistic ease in exploring these relationships, which sets this drama apart. This graphic novel debut is at once an unsentimental portrait of that most awkward period between adolescence and young adulthood and that rarest of things - a mature depiction of immature lives. His lush-yet-unsentimental-depiction of Maui creates an immersive, visceral sense of place. In 2006, critics heralded R. Kikuo Johnson's Night Fisher as one of the most exciting debuts in the medium's history. Johnson won the prestigious Russ Manning Newcomer Award at the 2006 Eisner Awards, the Harvey Award for Best New Talent, and a Harvey Award nomination for Best Graphic Novel. On its 15th anniversary, Fantagraphics is proud to publish this new edition of Night Fisher in hardcover for the first time.

RED ROOM ANTISOCIAL NETWORK TP

(W) Ed Piskor

A cyberpunk, outlaw, splatterpunk masterpiece from the New York Times bestselling creator of Hip Hop Family Tree and X-Men: Grand Design! Aided by the anonymous dark web and nearly untraceable cryptocurrency, a criminal subculture has emerged. It livestreams murders as entertainment. Who are the killers? Who are the victims? Who is paying to watch? How to stop it? Red Room is constructed as a series of interconnected stories, shining a light on the characters who exist in the ugliest of corners in cyberspace. Piskor cuts the graphic horror with his sharp sense of humor, gorgeous cartooning, and dynamic storytelling. Red Room peels back the curtain on the side of humanity few of us knew existed, let alone understood. Fans and followers of Piskor's YouTube channel sensation, Cartoonist Kayfabe, have already made Red Room: The Antisocial Network one of the most eagerly anticipated and talked-about releases of 2021. It is the first in a series of graphic novels, with the second scheduled for release in Summer 2022.

UNIMPRESSED HC

(W) Miranda Tacchia (A) Miranda Tacchia

As seen on her popular Instagram account (@mrmtacchia), Southern Californian cartoonist and animator Miranda Tacchia's first book collects more than two hundred hilarious one-liners (and even funnier drawings) tackling modern friendship, romance, urban living, and self-image. Have you ever schemed with a friend? Stared at your phone screen well after you should have gone to sleep? Braced for heartbreak? Been told to smile more? Then Unimpressed will undoubtedly speak to you. In a book that bridges comics and memes, Tacchia uses her biting sense of humor and background in animation to create brilliant character portraits of women with only markers, Post-it notes, and tape. A master of expression, figure, and subtle (and other times not-so-subtle) comedy, Tacchia's protagonists are usually "unimpressed women" - who all share the fact that "they don't give a shit about you," as Tacchia puts it. What makes Unimpressed so impressive and entertaining is how Tacchia taps into instantly relatable feelings and situations while simultaneously creating art that exudes confidence and vulnerability. (Sample caption: "When you went from giving him an earful to a mouthful.") Her often scabrous depiction of life as a young single woman today echoes that of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's (Fleabag) or Abbi Jacobsen and Ilana Glazer's (Broad City). Funny, smart, observant, sexy, gross, and relatable - Unimpressed is a wonderful debut and a great gift idea.

WALT DISNEY DONALD DUCK HC #16

BALLOONATICS

(W) Carl Barks

A loony balloon, a fraidy falcon, and a new Woodchuck series! Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous puzzlements, and all-around comics brilliance. Carl Barks's stories of the Junior Woodchucks starring Huey, Dewey, and Louie - written and penciled by Barks with finishes by internationally acclaimed Duck artist Daan Jippes - debut in this volume! Other stories include: When Gyro Gearloose invents a ten-story-tall Donald Duck balloon - bigger than anything ever seen at the Macy's Parade! - Donald decides to take a ride. But Gyro's "new balloon gas" is stronger than he thought it was, and Donald finds himself out of control, sailing higher and higher, until... Then, Huey, Dewey, and Louie try to help a "fraidy falcon" overcome his fear of flying by getting Donald to help, but Donald has his own ideas... Next, somebody's blowing up experimental rockets at the launchpad, and the nephews are on the trail of the spy, but Donald's sure of who it's not - until he finds himself on board the next rocket to blast-off... 180 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored. Insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts.