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BLAZE
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The
Last Ride of the Western Heroes |
by John Ostrander & Leonardo Manco |
Paperback: 96 pages
Marvel Books
ISBN: 0785109064 |
$11.50

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Charlier
& Moebius |
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The
Blueberry Saga
Confederate
Gold |
by Jean-Michel Charlier & Jean "Moebius"
Giraud |
Paperback: 288 pages
Mojo Press
ISBN: 1885418086 |
Out of print:
Available through Amazon Marketplace.

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Tim Truman--
Jonah Hex, Lone Ranger
"Awe-inspiring compositions,
amazing brushwork and great characters create a mythical Western dreamscape
that should have been... VIVA MOEBIUS!"
Jack Jackson, Comanche
Moon, Los Tejanos
"What Sergio Leone (Fistful
of Dollars) did for the Western film, the team of Charlier and Moebius
have done in the medium of comics. Blueberry is a classic, its storyline
entertaining and artwork stupendous." |
Who was the
man known to us as Blueberry? This bizarre and unusual name belonged to
a mysterious soldier of fortune whose trail can be followed through the
history of the American West, a figure who appeared to have been involved
in some of the most dramatic events in American history, but who always
remained behind the scenes.
The West is rife with legends
and tall tales of men such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, the Dalton Brothers,
Wild Bill Hitchcock, and even better known figures such as General George
Armstrong Custer. But the casual researcher will be able to locate only
a few, incomplete stories about the man named Blueberry. No pulps were
written about him, no serials were made about his exploits and, until recently,
his very existence had sunk into an obscurity that he would have most likely
welcomed.
The definitive American reprints
of the classic French western. This volume will contain a history of Blueberry
by Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean-Marc Lofficier, reprints of Blueberry
#'s (Epic) 1,2, and part of #3, and the first English language printing
of "Three Black Birds", a Moebius written and illustrated Blueberry adventure.
Introduction by Elmer Kelton. |
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Virginia
Lee Burton |
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CALICO
THE
WONDER HORSE
or
The
SAGA Of STEWY STINKER |
by Virginia Lee Burton |
$5.95

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In comic-strip format, this
action-packed western drama is complete with cattle rustling and kidnapping,
a stampede, a holdup, and a thrilling chase. From start to bang-up finish,
Calico the Wonder Horse outruns and outsmarts the double-dyed villains
-- and, of course, saves the day! Publishers Weekly says, "Complete with
lightening bolt and clouds of churned-up dust, for its tale of good and
evil in the wild West." |
Paperback: 58 pages
Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN: 0395845416 |
From Horn
Book
Burton's rootin'-tootin'
comic-book-style Western was and still is completely original, with its
varied-colored pages and experimental graphic design. Yi! Yi! Whoopee!
to the publishers for reissuing this progressive and energetic classic--with
the villain's name properly and alliteratively restored to boot.
-- Copyright
© 1998 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Dimensions (in inches): 0.29 x 5.69 x 8.25 |
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JACK JACKSON |
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LOST
CAUSE
John Wesley Hardin, The Taylor-Sutton
Feud, and Reconstruction Texas |
by Jack Jackson |
Paperback: 168 pages
Kitchen Sink Press
ISBN: 0878166181 |
$16.95

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LADY
RAWHIDE |
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It
Can't Happen Here |
by Don McGregor, Mike Mayhew, Jimmy Palmiotti |
Paperback: 140 pages
Image Comics
ISBN: 1582400776 |
$16.95

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Zorro`s bustier
sporting temptress flies solo as she tracks down a madman who is stalking
and killing women. |
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MARTIN ROWSON |
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THE
LIFE AND OPINIONS
OF
TRISTRAM SHANDY,
GENTLEMAN |
by Martin Rowson |
Hardcover: 240 pages
Overlook Press
ISBN: 0879517689 |
$26.95

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Tristram
Shandy is one of English literature's most curious, complex and comic
novels. Here, cleverly recreated in the distinctive, anarchic style of
cartoonist and illustrator Martin Rowson, Tristram travels
with his faithful companion Pete through the torturous paths of
the infinitely digressive world of Laurence Sterne's eccentric masterpiece.
Rowson
provides a wickedly modern viewpoint, bringing in deconstruction, a film
version of Tristram Shandy by Oliver Stone, a vomiting whale, a
ship full of critics, Martin Amis and D.H. Lawrence, and a lot of noses. |
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From
Publisher's Weekly:
Best
known in this country for his cartoon version of The Waste Land, British
cartoonist Rowson (Lower Than Vermin: An Anatomy of Thatcher's Britain,
etc.) rises to a new challenge in this comic-book rewrite of Laurence Sterne's
nine-volume 1767 masterpiece. Solemn figures like Eliot, Marx and the Iron
Lady are, after all, longstanding objects of fun: it's easy to laugh at
a sourpuss. But Tristram Shandy is already just about as cartoonish as
The Great Books get: a mock-novel packed equally with philosophical digressions
and physical comedy. Rowson never quite gets around this obstacle; he simply
goes over the top by trying to out-bawdy the bawdy and out-slapstick the
slapstick. Near the middle of the book, Oliver Stone starts filming a movie
version of Uncle Toby's military misadventures ("From a Place Called Namur
to Hell and Back"). That's the sort of spoof this is, and Rowson makes
it the occasion for parodies of a surprising range of graphic predecessors,
not just Hogarth and Piranesi, but also Dürer, Beardsley and Grosz
(to name a few of his many un-Augustan pictorial lampoons).
From
Kirkus:
Rowson's
graphic novel of Laurence Sterne's famous ``cock and bull'' story (often
called the first modern novel) will disappoint readers looking for a ``Classic
Comics'' crib version. Which is, of course, the very strength of this wickedly
inventive re-creation of Sterne's notoriously self-reflexive book. Employing
a visual style that blends Hogarth with Gilbert Shelton (of Furry Freak
Bros. fame), Rowson himself shows up on the page for some meta-level commentary
of his own, and reimagines scenes from Sterne in the styles of Dürer,
Beardsley, Grosz, and George Harriman, not to mention one from Oliver Stone's
movie version. Rowson also rewrites key passages in the manner of Martin
Amis, Raymond Chandler, and García Márquez (among others).
Tackling such an inherently unadaptable novel, Rowson nevertheless selects
many of the most memorable sections for extended visualizations: Tristram's
birth and naming, Uncle Toby's famous wound and hobbyhorse, and the history
of family noses. All provide occasion for Sterne's bawdy, which Rowson
makes somewhat more explicit. As critical commentary and scholarly play,
this rude and splendid comic book will delight true Shandeans. |
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