Tuesday 17 February 2015

SOMETHING NEW


GRAPHIC NOVELS 
18TH FEBRUARY


Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen 

Acclaimed cartoonist Dylan Horrocks returns with a long-awaited new graphic novel, the first since his perennial classic, 1998's Hicksville 

Cartoonist Sam Zabel hasn't drawn a comic in years. Stuck in a nightmare of creative block and despair, Sam spends his days writing superhero stories for a large American comics publisher and staring at a blank piece of paper, unable to draw a single line. Then one day he finds a mysterious old comic book set on Mars and is suddenly thrown headlong into a wild, fantastic journey through centuries of comics, stories, and imaginary worlds. Accompanied by a young webcomic creator named Alice and an enigmatic schoolgirl with rocket boots and a bag full of comics, Sam goes in search of the Magic Pen, encountering sex-crazed aliens, medieval monks, pirates, pixies and—of course—cartoonists. Funny, erotic, and thoughtful, Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen explores the pleasures, dangers, and moral consequences of fantasy.

"Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen is a tour de force. There's something very pure about Dylan Horrocks' comics. That’s perhaps an odd word to describe this book which is so much about desire. But Horrocks' line and his imagination both seem to flow freely and directly from some primal source. If you’ve ever wished that Hergé had written comics for grown-ups—gorgeously drawn and playful adventures that explore the serious anxieties of midlife—your wish has come true, and then some." – Alison Bechdel

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN HC WHO AM I
ARIOL SC VOL 06 NASTY CAT 
ATOMIC ROBO TP VOL 09 KNIGHTS OF GOLDEN CIRCLE 
AXIS CARNAGE AND HOBGOBLIN TP
BATMAN BLINK TP
CISCO KID JOSE LUIS SALINAS & REED TP VOL 02 FEB 5
CIVIL WAR PRELUDE TP NEW WARRIORS
CONSTANTINE TP VOL 03 THE VOICE IN THE FIRE 
CRIMINAL TP VOL 02 LAWLESS 
DAMIAN SON OF BATMAN TP 
DAREDEVIL TP VOL 02 WEST CASE SCENARIO
GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS TP VOL 05 GODKILLERS 
JIM HENSONS DARK CRYSTAL TP VOL 01 CREATION MYTHS
LEGO LEGENDS OF CHIMA GN VOL 04 FIRE CHI 
RANMA 1/2 2IN1 TP VOL 06 
RESIDENT EVIL MARHAWA DESIRE GN VOL 02 
SCALPED HC BOOK 01 DELUXE EDITION 
TERRA FORMARS GN VOL 04 
TOWER CHRONICLES DREADSTALKER TP VOL 01
UBER TP VOL 03 
UMBRAL TP VOL 02 THE DARK PATH 
YO MISS GN A GRAPHIC TALE OF HIGH SCHOOL


The seventh annual volume of Love and Rockets: New Stories, the most important and enduring alternative comics series in the history of the medium, finds Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez writing and drawing at the top of their game. In Jaime's stories, Maggie and Hopey take a road trip and much-needed break from their humdrum domestic lives and travel to visit a "sick friend." And, when the cat's away, Ray visits some old sick friends of his own. Plus Tonta's nutty family! Gilbert offers a veritable suite of stories, including "The Magic Voyage of Aladdin," a sweeping epic of derring-do in which Morgan Le Fey (Fritz) teams up with Aladdin to stop the evil Circle from obtaining the magic lamp; "The Golem Suit," a WWII sci-fi thriller starring "Killer"; and "Daughters and Mothers and Daughters," in which flashbacks to Luba's mother Maria reveal how ugly secrets of the past affect their family today.

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