The first edition, first printing of the two volumes of Spiegelman's autobiographical and biographical comic in which he explores his strained relationship with his father, an Auschwitz survivor, while also relating the story of his parent's experiences as Jews in wartime Poland. As told to him by his father during a series of conversations they had years later in New York and Vermont. Volume 1 is subtitled My Father Bleeds History (mid-1930s to Winter 1944) and Volume 2 is subtitled And Here My Troubles Began (From Mauschwitz to the Catskills.....
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Under Swarte's own exacting supervision, Is That All There Is? collects virtually all of Swarte's alternative comics work from 1972 to date, including the RAW magazine stories that brought him fame among American comics aficionados in the 1980s. Especially great pains were taken to match Swarte's superb coloring, which includes stories executed in watercolor, comics printed in retro duotones, his clever use of Zip-a-Tone screens, and much more. By appropriating and subverting Tintin creator Hergé's classic "clear line" style, Joost Swarte revitalized European alternative comics in the 1970s with a......
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Calling itself "a baker's dozen of diminutive comics and zines from some of the best creators in the underground press brought to you by Slab-o-Concrete Publications," this set, which looks to have been published in 1994, includes 13 mini-zines. Contributors and zines include Simon Gane (Subvertman), Peter Poole (Little Miss Tin-Plate), Terry Wiley & Dave McKinnon (Characters!), John C.S. Quel (Hoax!), Ed Pinsent (Windy), Lawrence Burton (Runciter Corp.), Nigel Auchterlounie (Simon Cat), Lee Kennedy (Dream Bytes), Colin Brown (Meeks 'n' Freaks 'n' Geeks 'n' Creeps), and Richard Argent (Something's.....
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Accompanying an exhibition of the same name, Trade is the first publication of White Columns, New York's oldest alternative art space, occasional in-house journal, The W.C.. The 2005 exhibition centered around the act of artists swapping artworks. As such, this first issue contains anecdotal accounts from the participating artists, sharing their experiences swapping their works. This issue includes writing from artist Rita Ackermann, AA Bronson, Deborah Kass, Richard Kern and more.

Condition: Good, light edgewear and small corner bumps; rust on the staples and a small section of light water.....
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