ILLUSTRATORS SPECIAL #7
PIRATES
(W) Peter Richardson (A) VARIOUS
Avast, me hearties! Hoist high the Jolly Roger for a perilous voyage through 100 years of piracy illustrations from comics, magazines and books! Divided into 5 sections: "Under the Black Flag", "Sweep the Spanish Main", "Swashbucklers of the Seven Seas", "Four Fabled Sea Raiders", and "The Sea-Faring Man with One Leg", along with special sections on Howard Pyle and Norman Mills Price. Featured artists include Ron Embleton, NC Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Cecil Glossop, Graham Coton, James McConnell, DC Eyles, Sep Scott, Fortunino Matania, Will Eisner, Edward Mortelmans, Peter Jackson, Alex Nino, Jose Salinas, Reed Crandall, Wally Wood and many more! A showcase some of the greatest pirate art ever published in comics, books, magazines, posters, including many versions of Treasure Island.
IT CAME OUT ON A WEDNESDAY #11
(W) VARIOUS (A) VARIOUS (CA) Elliot Fernandez
Monsters, aliens, skeletons, wizards, and robots all lurk in the pages of every double-sized issue of It Came Out On A Wednesday! This issue features a monstrously magnificent cover by superstar artist Elliot Fernandez!
JUDGE DREDD 100 PAGE GIANT #0
(W) VARIOUS (A) VARIOUS (CA) Alan Quah
Take a trip through the rough streets of Mega-City One with the one-and-only Judge Dredd! Featuring amazing stories from an all-star cast of writers and artists that stretch from the filthy underbelly of Mega-City One to beyond its walls, there's never been a better place to see what you've been missing.
JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #417
(W) VARIOUS (A) VARIOUS (CA) NA
More action and adventure in the future-shocked world of Judge Dredd! The lawman leads the fightback against the Black Atlantic pirates in 'Plunder'; Metta Lawson tracks down the Badlands killers in Lawless: 'Boom Town'; Devlin Waugh's holiday retreat becomes a massacre in 'A Very Large Splash'; an alien life form goes on the attack in series three of 'Blunt'; and the new Judges hit resistance in 'Dreadnoughts'. Plus, an exclusive, all-new series set in the world of hit videogame Zombie Army, written by I, Zombie's Chris Roberson! In addition there's interviews, features and more - and in the bagged mini-trade, classic British horror from the pages of Scream in 'The Nightcomers'!
LOCKE & KEY SMALL WORLD DLX HC ED
(W) Joe Hill (A) Gabriel Rodriguez (CA) Gabriel Rodriguez
Three years after wrapping up their award-winning, best-selling Locke & Key saga, the team that built Keyhouse returns to Lovecraft, Massachusetts with a new tale of terror and suspense! An impossible birthday gift for two little girls unexpectedly throws open a door to a monster on eight legs! This deluxe hardcover edition contains the new 24-page story and adds pages from VARIOUS drafts of Joe Hill's scripts, from the earliest hand-written pages to the VARIOUS revisions; process pages from Gabriel Rodriguez; a special pinup from Brian Coldrick, and more! • You never thought it'd happen but... the Eisner-winning series returns to unlock a special tale from Keyhouse's sordid past! • All-new 24-page story by series creators Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez, and Jay Fotos!
MAGIC IN OTHER WORLD TOO FAR BEHIND LIGHT NOVEL SC #7
(W) Gamei Hitsuji (A) himesuz
It's about time they finished what others had started. Reiji's party meets back up with Suimei and company to discuss the VARIOUS threats challenging them now. Is there a dark connection they've been overlooking this whole time? Either way, it'll be hard for them to put their heads together when Suimei is still keeping secrets. Will he finally be able to come clean with his friends? And just how are they going to deal with the colorful new interloper in the group? They'll need to figure out something with what they have coming...
VADEBONCOEUR COLLECTION OF IMAGES #6
(W) Jim Vadeboncoeur (A) VARIOUS (CA) Gustaf Tenggren
Special Price. Published at $20.00. This special issue features the works of just two giants of illustration: Gustaf Tenggren (63 images) and Frank Brangwyn (50 images, including a centerfold two-pager). Each artist gets a brief bio, plus there are short explanations of the works collected here. Included are Tenggren's paintings and illustrations of Grimm's fairy tales from a 1922 Swedish edition, images from the annual Bland Tomtar och Troll from 1920-23, plus some of his work from Disney's Snow White. Brangwyn's works here include many of his Venice sketches and paintings, maritime pieces, fantastic tempera work and five magnificent murals from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition. Fine paintings are reproduced from "Work," a nearly unknown portfolio from 1914, limited to less than 100. Super fine paper and printing, originally published in 2003 in a print run of 2,000 copies.
VADEBONCOEUR COLLECTION OF IMAGES #7
(W) Jim Vadeboncoeur (A) VARIOUS (CA) John Richard Weguelin
Special Price. Published at $20.00. This special issue features the art and articles of The Studio, which was the premier art magazine of the early 20th century, circa 1890-1925. Many of the brightest stars of the illustration firmament are featured here, including John D. Batten, Frank Brangwyn, Eleanor Brickdale, Maurice Detmold, Russell Flint, Norman Lindsay, Charles Robinson, Byam Shaw, Anders Zorn and many others, including a superb centerfold by Edmund Dulac. Edited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
VADEBONCOEUR COLLECTION OF IMAGES #8
(W) Jim Vadeboncoeur (A) VARIOUS (CA) Heinrich Kley
Special Price. Published at $20.00. Featuring a cover and 15 pages of paintings by Heinrich Kley (1863-1945) from Jugend magazine, circa 1910-1916, are reproduced in full-color. Also, rare, never-before-collected works by Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, and N.C. Wyeth; 12 marvelous full-page fairy tale paintings from a 1912 Hans Christian Andersen calendar by Heinrich Lefler and Josef Urban; illustrations from The Arabian Nights by Charles Folkard; Uncle Remus illustrator J.M. Condé is featured in the "Ink Spot" and more. Edited by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
VAMPIRELLA #1 1969 REPLICA ED NEW PTG #0
(W) Forrest J. Ackerman (A) VARIOUS (CA) Frank Frazetta
Dynamite Superstar Vampirella got her start in 1969 as a Horror comic 'hostess,' and she's gone through 50 years of story evolution since to become the iconic character that we all know and love! While we're celebrating her illustrious career, we're also taking a look back at where this blood-sucking babe got her start! This Limited Replica Edition of Vampirella #1 is exactly what it says on the tin, a magazine-sized, 66-Page celebration of the Daugher of Draculon's first time in print! This special reprint includes every story and even advertisements exactly as they looked half a century ago! Warren's sharp-eyed editors assembled the best talents across the world to write and draw timeless stories. This first issue features a diverse range of masters, including Neal Adams (Batman, Green Lantern), Reed Crandall (Blackhawk, EC Comics), longtime Jack Kirby inker Mike Royer, and other greats such as Tom Sutton, Ernie Colon and Tony Tallarico. All under an unforgettable cover by Frank Frazetta. Check out the Vampirella Archive HC series for more Warren-Era Vampirella!
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPP
WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT PEDAGOGY SC
An unparalleled gathering of top educators, comics artists, and writers advocating the vital utility of comics in the classroom. Building upon interdisciplinary approaches to teaching comics and teaching with comics, this book brings together diverse voices to share key theories and research on comics pedagogy. By gathering scholars, creators, and educators across VARIOUS fields and in K-12 as well as university settings, editors Susan Kirtley, Antero Garcia, and Peter Carlson significantly expand scholarship. This valuable resource offers both critical pieces and engaging interviews with key comics professionals who reflect on their own teaching experience and on considerations of the benefits of creating comics in education. Included are interviews with acclaimed comics writers Lynda Barry, Brian Michael Bendis, Kelly Sue DeConnick, and David Walker, as well as essays spanning from studying the use of superhero comics in the classroom to the ways comics can enrich and empower young readers.