"Following a succession of some of the most quirky and outré graphic
albums ever conceived, including the ongoing, award-winning
RPG-inspired Dungeon Quest series, cartoonist Joe Daly has drawn
his most ambitious stand-alone graphic novel yet - the 572 page
Highbone Theater. Our protagonist Palmer - wallflower, mystic seeker
and paper mill
worker - moves into a new apartment with his outwardly self-assured and
womanizing friend, Perry, and begins an epic struggle of love, hate, and
self preservation. Events take a peculiar turn as Palmer befriends an
iconoclastic co-worker, Billy Boy, and plunges head-long into the
mysterious and sinister world of sorcery, psychological operations,
subterranean organizations, wild goose chases, and self discovery. Palmer
is warned that before any semblance of order is restored to his world there
will be more chaos and there’s probably nothing he can do about it, but
that doesn’t stop him from trying! Joe Daly single handedly conceived his
own ruminative slacker genre, and Highbone Theater is its artistic
apotheosis, drawn in a style that is a cross between Charles Burns and Herr
Seele, told with artist’s patented leisurely rhythms, a hilarious and
poignant adventure epic."
"Along with Wallace Wood’s trademark 1970s Sally Forth and Cannon strips that ran in the Overseas Weekly military newspaper, Wood created a super-rare third strip, a sexy western, produced in 1972, named Shattuck. Wood originally conceived of, co-wrote (with Nick Cuti), and drew the layouts for Shattuck as a vehicle for his studio-mate, Golden Age Captain America artist Sid Shores, but turned it over instead to two young up-and-comers - Howard Chaykin (American Flagg!, Black Kiss) and the now-legendary X-Men artist, Dave Cockrum. Shattuck, the historic, very first credited ongoing feature for both Chaykin and Cockrum, has never been re-published or collected since it first appeared in Overseas Weekly more than 40 years ago. Full of gun-toting femmes fatale, fastdrawing lawmen, and snarling outlaws, Shattuck is a Western romp published in the same format as Fantagraphics’ bestselling Wood production of Cannon. As a bonus, while appearing to be in black and white, the entire book has been scanned from the carefully preserved originals in full-color to mimic as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual original art, complete with paste-overs, notes, art corrections, etc. Previously enjoyed only by American servicemen in the Vietnam era, Fantagraphics Books and The Wallace Wood Estate and proud to present the missing link in Wood’s oeuvre in a beautifully designed and affordable format."
"This gripping graphic novel adaptation of the highly acclaimed book by
James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia, delves deeply into one of the most
haunting unsolved crimes in American history. Award-winning filmmaker David
Fincher (Gone Girl, Zodiac) and acclaimed storyteller
Matz (The Killer) worked at length to preserve much of Ellroy's
original dialogue while bringing the stark images of 1940s L.A. to full,
living color with illustrator Miles Hyman.
LAPD investigators Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard find themselves
enthralled with the mysterious and brutal murder of a beautiful young
woman, Elizabeth Short. Their obsession takes a dark turn as they delve
into the underbelly of Hollywood and the heart of the dead woman's tortured
and twisted past. It is a case that will test their mettle and their
sanity."
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