Category: Underground

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To Be Announced

In the mid-1980s, award-winning graphic novel writer Derek McCulloch (Stagger Lee, Gone to Amerikay) teamed with beloved cartoonist Mike Bannon (Oombah, Jungle Moon Man; “Old Paper”) to take on that most sacred of sacred cows: television! Decades later, we can now look back on the work that delivered the final, deadly blow to TV and saved generations from its influence.
This collects the stories from all seven issues of the original To Be Announced! comic book, including everything from Sesame Street Blues to the fundraising concert Lemon-Aid.

This book is being released as part of an effort to contact artist Mike Bannon, who has been out of touch with his comics pals and collaborators for well over a decade. Mike, if you’re out there, we want to hear from you!

2022 PopCult Gift Guide selection, Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette-Mail

  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1949996514
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1949996517
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7  x 10 inches, 160 pages, black and white

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BrainStorm!

Before Bryan Talbot brought us The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, The Tale of One Bad Rat, Alice in Sunderland, The Grandville Series, and Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, he was an underground cartoonist, bringing his energy and love of visual detail to hallucinatory, drug-laden, adult themes of the underground comix form. This volume includes his graphic novel Chester P. Hackenbush: The Psychadelic Alchemist (a work which was influential on such things as the Alan Moore Swamp Thing run), an adventure of Ace Wimslow: Freelance Rock Reporter, the pothead strip series Smokey Bears, plus covers and more, brought back to print for the first time in decades!

Bryan Talbot has received several Eagle Awards, a UK Comic Art award, a Society of Strip illustrators Mekon Award, an Eisner Award, a Haxtur Award, and an honorary doctorate form the University of Sunderland. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, In 2024 he was inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame.

$20 US

  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 109 pages, 8.5 x  11 inches
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1949996689
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1949996685

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Scott Shaw!s Comix & Stories: about Fandom, Underground Culture, the Comics Industry, Talking Animals, a Gonzo Cartoonist, & Other Stuff!

For over fifty years, SCOTT SHAW! has been writing and drawing allegedly funny stuff for mainstream comics sold on spinner racks (including Sonic the Hedgehog, Captain Carrot and The Simpsons), underground comix sold in head shops — and almost everything in between. Finally, here’s the first collection starring the award-winning cartoonist’s most notorious characters (including Scott himself!), with over 200 pages of offbeat stories, plus surprises and silliness from the depths of his archives!

  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 335 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1949996581
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1949996586
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.44 x 0.76 x 9.69 inches
  • Cover price: US$30

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