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Happy Birthday to the prolific Edward Gorey! Did you really ever sleep?

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Just in time for Black History Month: Vintage comics from ‘66 - ‘72 featuring notable figures such as Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, Joseph Cinque, and more. Golden Legacy comics were first printed in 1966 and were quickly endorsed by the NAACP, the National Urban League, the NYC Board of Education and many other Civil Rights groups and scholars. 

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Rare first printings of WEIRDO comic anthology, unearthed and ready to buy at Last Gasp. Issues #1 and #9 edited by Robert Crumb, #11 and #13 edited by Peter Bagge. Featuring an all-star cast of comic art greats: Crumb, Kaz, Dori Seda, Raymond Pettibon, Diane Noomin, Ed Roth, Kim Deitch, JD King, Aline Kominsky-Crumb and more!

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Original copies of Vaughn Bode’s ‘Erotica’ available at Last Gasp. Get ‘em while they last!

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Escaped from the Last Gasp basement: Robert Armstrong’s Mickey Rat! While supplies last.

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Valentine’s Day is this Sunday - don’t be boring! Impress the special person/people in your life with something different (like Tokio Saeki’s ‘Onikage’).

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Last Gasp highlights January 2016′s best books: 3D Jim Woodring, Drulliet psychedelia, Kuniyoshi monster madness, and more.

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R. Crumb's Snoid spotted on public transit.

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RIP Blowfly

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On January 16th, 2014, Gary Arlington left this world, voyaging to his home planet at last. While he was with us, Gary was both an outsider and trailblazer. He opened what is said to be the first comic book store in the US, The San Francisco Comic Book Company in 1967 and left an indelible mark on underground comix culture.

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The latest installment of Last Gasp's blog series "Rescued from the Basement" brings the unlikely but intriguing pairing of ripped Cimmerian warrior Conan the Barbarian and feminist cartoonist trailblazer Trina Robbins. Oh, and lest we forget the other slice of bread in this deadstock sandwich: "Weirdworld: Warriors of Shadow Realm, Part 3" (!!!).

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Woooooow. The Barris Custom Supervan can be yours!

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Many of your New Year's resolutions could technically improve your life– quitting drinking, eating better, getting more sleep – but they will likely result in making you boring as well. Here's your best bet for a better life in 2016 .

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Staff Pick of the Week

For the staff pick this week I chose Slow Death Funnies #1, published by Ron Turner and Last Gasp on April 15, 1970.

Slow Death ran for 11 issues total, 10 of which were published from 1970-1979, and the 11th was published in 1992. Slow Death Funnies (later just Slow Death) was the first work published by Last Gasp, which is still printing underground books and comics today. While the first issue is strictly about the environment (and how humans are ruining it), later issues included futuristic sci-fi stories as well as others about atomic power, cancer, animal rights, and war. Despite broadening the subject matter, the constant theme of the comics remained the same: the human race is killing the planet and basically everything else.

Given all that has happened in the past 45 years, naming the comic Slow Death might have been a little optimistic.

-Kalani

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As You Were Volume 4: Living Situations is our best yet, I can’t wait for you to get into it! Available now from Silver Sprocket and Last Gasp, 

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Dog Visitors of Last Gasp this week.