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.