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Jerome Gaynor's Weird Brain is an oversize (inbetween magazine and treasury edition), saddle-stiched, 64-page, black & white publication with full color, cardstock covers.  It is filled with short personal comics ranging in length from one page to sixteen pages, with most being on the shorter end. 

It's a great, old school indiecomix read!

>>> HERE <<<

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Face Meat by Bonten Taro

The latest work of horror manga from Living the Line's Smudge imprint has arrived.  Translated once again by Ryan Holmberg, who co-edited the book with Kunisawa Hiroshi, Face Meat presents the first English language collection of the work of "outlaw polymath", Bonten Taro.  Combining raunch with horror, and mixing sex with gore, the fourteen tales presented in this 240 page softcover were all originally published between 1967 and 1969 in Japanese "men's" magazines (i.e., smut).  

This volume includes a sixteen-page, illustrated essay by Kunisawa, "The Nine Lives of Outlaw Artist Bonten Taro."

Now available HERE.

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KUŠ COMICS TRIFECTA!  

Three new issues of the international comics anthology, Š! – #s 53, 54, & 55. 

In the pages of these three issues readers will discover the world of Czech comics (#53), the world according to Cash, Caroline Cash (#54), and then experience when worlds collide in #55, the 'Comics Sans Frontieres’ issue, which features comics and criticism (and history and theory and more, in a series of illustrated essays). ALSO Just In, four new issues of the single-creator series of short from comics, MINI-KUS.  the highlight of which – for Copacetic customers, at least – is a new Yokoyama piece, “Sandbox,” in MINI-KUS #134.

From Latvia, with love.

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Salt Green Death by Katarina Thorsen

Desperation, war, trauma, insanity and, ultimately, death stalk the O'Dwyer family after emigrating from Ireland to Canada in the mid-20th Century. Entirely based on materials drawn from archival records, stunningly translated into haunting visuals by Katarina Thorsen in this work newly published by Conundrum Press.

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NANCY IS BACK!

Nancy Wears Hats marks the return of Fantagraphics' series collecting complete years of Ernie Bushmiller's legendary Nancy Dailies. ALL of 1949 and 1950 are here, in crisp black & white.

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Glenn Fleishman's HOW COMICS ARE MADE has arrived! 

This labor of love, which was originally self-published via Kickstarter last year in a now sold-out softcover edition, is now available in a heavy-duty hardcover from Andrews (“Calvin and Hobbes”) McMeel.  Now is the time for all true comics nerds to earn their stripes.  At last you can dig into the nitty gritty of how comics were – and still are – made!   288 pages | 10 1/2" x 8 1/4"

Not to be missed! >>> HERE <<<

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Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson

It's here – the graphic novel edition of Craig Thompson's epic memoir that centers on his personal relationship with ginseng, Ginseng Roots! While it starts out specifically focusing on his family roots in ginseng cultivation, it gradually spreads out into an in-depth historical biography of the humble plant itself, one that reveals the many unexpected ways in which ginseng's roots are deeply entangled in the history of America – both before and after 1492 – and that in the process touches on international cultures, war, world trade – specifically that between East Asia and the US – Christianity, family values, work ethics and much more.  In short, Ginseng Roots takes readers on a fantastic voyage of discovery that provides a unique cluster of insights into our shared present.

Now available from Copacetic (and, at a discount price, no less), HERE.

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GOES LIKE THIS by Jordan Crane

¡WOW! Goes Like This is a book lover's delight. The printing, the design, the production, and, of course, the work itself all come together to generate a uniquely satisfying finished product. 

This volume's large size – 8 1/2" x 11 1/2" – and super crisp printing throughout its 192 pages together well serve to showcase a dozen classic tales that originally appeared in Jordan's one-man series, Uptight, as well as Kramers Ergot and elsewhere, along with fifty of the fabulous prints for which he is justly renowned. These photos only give a hint at the true experience provided by this one-of-a-kind item; a true feast for the senses!

Don't miss this one! >>> HERE <<<

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You Are a Sacred Place by Madeleine Jubilee Saito

Having honed her craft over the years, and devising an Instagram-friendly approach that represents an innovative, 21st-Century update on the classic four-panel daily newspaper comicstrip, Madeleine Jubilee Saito has, in this 180-page, full color, smyth sewn hardcover, adapted her practice to a long form poem-prayer of a graphic novel.

Available >> HERE <<

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MANSECT by Koga Shinichi

The latest from Smudge is the most gruesome and horrific yet!  Mansect hails from a half century back – 1975 – and runs 240 monster-filled pages; a landmark work of horror manga. 

>> HERE <<

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Precious Rubbish by Kayla E.

Kayla E. has mastered the Chris Ware toolkit to build a new and different kind of comic book, “tell(ing) the story of a childhood shaped by maternal emotional dysregulation, rural poverty, and incest” by employing "a collection of short-form comics and gag panels punctuated by interactive elements like paper dolls, satirical advertisements, games, and puzzles.” (sez Fanta)

The communication of the emotional fallout of harsh childhood experiences through the simplified representational strategies of children's comics and magazines makes for some startling juxtapositions.

Available HERE.

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Giraffes in My Hair by Bruce Paley & Carol Swain

Welsh comics artist extraordinaire, Carol Swain rose to the challenge of converting bad boy, Bruce Paley's peripatetic journeys through the underside of the "tumultuous" late-1960s and 1970s in co-creating this epic comics memoir, Giraffes in My Hair.

We found a stash of these in The Copacetic Archives and are now offering them on the Copacetic SALE! page for a bargain basement price, HERE.

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Couch Tag by Jesse Reklaw

In the 175 pages of this hardcover collection, Jesse Reklaw presents a prismatic array of autobio stories, vignettes and anecdotes ranging from light and airy to heavy and mournful – and sometimes both at once – Couch Tag provides a window onto growing up in America outside of the mainstream.

We just unearthed some copies in The Copacetic Archives, and are offering them at a super sale price – HERE.

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Highbone Theater by Joe Daly

We found a stash of Joe Daly's epic masterpiece and have put them up on the SALE! page at copaceticcomics.com

Highbone Theater is an epic, hallucinatory, 570 page journey that while physically set in South Africa, embarks from a place of alienation and detachment and travels through dark and confusing psychological spaces . An hallucinatory mix of Charles Burns, Jim Woodring and Fletcher Hanks, it re-imagines The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers as meathead bodybuilders and then teams up the protagonist with Reid Fleming – who has transferred his skill set to work at a paper factory instead of an industrial dairy, and is now, in addition to being an over-the-top renegade, an off-the-rails paranoid delusional conspiracy theorist, which comes in handy as everything seems linked somehow to the events of 9/11. As you can see from the pages we've posted, the artwork switches back and forth between black and white and full color, as called for by the narrative.

A one-of-a-kind work now at a super special price, HERE.

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New School by Dash Shaw

We just found a nice stack of new copies of New School, and we're offering them at a super-sale price, HERE. In New School, Dash was in the zone, moving intuitively through the work's 340, 9' x 12" pages. It is Dash Shaw's most painterly work, where the real story that unfolds in its reading is the process of its making.

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We just found a couple more copies of this in the archives.

Still on special!

Lorenzo Mattotti

Amazing, right?  Mattotti’s powerfully beautiful and totally unique comics are a must to experience.  For a limited time, Copacetic is offering brand new copies of the Fantagraphics hardcover edition of The Crackle of the Frost pictured above at the Copacetic-Do-Youself-a-Favor™ price, HERE.

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We just found a small stack of copies of this graphic tour de force by Max in the archives.

Now on SPECIAL!

>> HERE <<

Vapor by Max