Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos!
If ever there were a collection of comics to highlight during Black History Month, Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos is it. The comics collected here were history making in and of themselves. Created by the talented Black comics maker, Jay Jackson, they were published in the most widely read Black newspaper of the twentieth century, The Chicago Defender 80 years ago, during World War II. Not only that, this volume published by New York Review Comics is, to the best of our knowledge, the first time that they have ever been collected, meaning that, outside of scholars and researchers, almost no one alive today has read these strips before. Additionally, each of these strips here included a one panel comics biography of an important figure in Black History – Black History within Black History! Take a look...
John Porcellino Double-Header!
TWO new comics in from John Porcellino in one day! The latest issue of King-Cat Comix & Stories...
AND his collaboration with poet, Stefen Lorenzutti, The Stoneware Jug.
In the shop and on the site.
Celebrating Forty Years of Love and Rockets!
As most watchers of this space are likely already aware, Love and Rockets, the masterpiece of comics by Gilbert, Jaime and, as the just released box set shows, also Mario Hernandez, is the mainstay publication here at Copacetic, where it has been central to the shop's identity. And so we'd like to hereby join in the celebration of its fortieth (how?!?) anniversary!
First off, there is the hour-long PBS documentary, produced by KCET in SoCal, HERE.
Then, there are the articles acknowledging the significance of Love and Rockets in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, and doubtless other outlets as well.
Here's a look at Love and Rockets: The First Fifty, the box that Fantagraphics put together. This comes with quite a high price tag, but we have to say that Fantagraphics did a great job here – as well they should have, considering that Love and Rockets is their flagship publication and will be their greatest legacy as a publisher.
As 2022 draws to a close, here are the hours for the last week.
HOLIDAY SHOP HOURS
The shop will be open regular hours (see hours on sidebar at right) after Christmas – except CLOSED on New Year's Day and on Monday, January 2 (the day the New Year's Day Holiday is officially observed). HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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And now, for your diversion, here's a look at a big stack of Classics Illustrated that just came in, all of which are between sixty and seventy years old, and some of which feature great art by recently out of work former EC artists like Joe Orlando, George Evans, George Woodbridge and Reed Crandall!
