You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation

Readers of the first Fletcher Hanks volume―I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets―were stunned by its pop surrealism and outright violent mayhem. This larger second volume, when combined with the first, comprises the complete comics work of the heretofore forgotten Golden Age visionary. Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur. That is, he wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories. He completed an astonishing 48 stories in three years from 1939-1941. As a one-man-cartooning-band, his work packs the wallop of a unique and unified artistic vision. He was a true comics visionary. In the earliest days of the comic book, before censorship, it was “anything goes!”―and in the tales of Fletcher Hanks, anything went!

BLAB!—the Harvey Award-winning anthology of cutting-edge comics, art, and culture—has returned to its comics roots with a stellar lineup of contributors. Noah Van Sciver depicts the tragic demise of Crime Does Not Pay editor Robert Wood. Ryan Heshka recounts the rise and fall of Superman creators Siegel and Shuster. Sasha Velour portrays the making of film director F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. Children’s book illustrator Giselle Potter examines Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter’s passion as a naturalist. Illustrated articles include the history of the gorilla and a report on UFOs. All this and much more in Comics and Stories That Will Make You BLAB!

Daring Dames goes Polynesian with this collection of Tropic Tiki Tarts featuring hula dancers, jungle girls, pirate princesses, bathing beauties, gorilla girls, cat queens, and more! Enjoy stories with South Sea Girl, Dorothy Lamour, Pharoh's Daughter, Bob and Swab, Fantomah, The King of Swing, Sadie Glotz, Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, Torchy, Vooda: Jungle Princess, Undercover Girl, Madam Darkova, Princess Pantha, and Corsair Queen. An island full of fantasy awaits with these terrific tiki tales! 100 Big Pages!

Sass Parilla the Singing Gorilla hosts this classic comic collection of fabulous females and awesome apes in Girls & Gorillas! The boss blue bassist narrates some of the strangest stories of the Golden Age where heavenly heroines clashed with gargantuan gorillas. Starring: Sheena, Starr Flagg, Thun'da, Cave Girl, Kaanga, Fantomah, & Vooda! Featuring legendary art by Frank Frazetta, Bob Powell, Fletcher Hanks, Matt Baker, Ogden Whitney, Frank Riddell, Jerry Iger, & Will Eisner! A bodacious bonanza of babes & bananas! 100 Big Pages!

On the surface, the relationship between comics and the ‘high’ arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and art continue to occupy vastly different social spaces. Comics Versus Art examines the relationship between comics and the most important institutions of the art world, including museums, auction houses, and the art press. Bart Beaty's analysis centres around two questions: why were comics excluded from the history of art for most of the twentieth century, and what does it mean that comics production is now more closely aligned with the art world? Approaching this relationship for the first time through the lens of the sociology of culture, Beaty advances a completely novel approach to the comics form.

An A-Z of eccentrics! 250 true stories of the most original and outrageous people on earth, from bad poets to transsexual evolutionary theorists this encyclopedic guide covering ancient times to the present, includes reams of material never seen in book form before. Famous eccentrics like King Ludwig, Salvador Dalí and Howard Hughes rub shoulders with a host of lesser-known, but equally colorful, characters in these -- mostly -- life-affirming stories. There are unsuspected parallels and connections throughout creating an alternative, off-kilter history of the world.

The Washington Post hails Greil Marcus as our greatest cultural critic. Writing in the London Review of Books, D. D. Guttenplan calls him probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson. For nearly thirty years, he has written a remarkable column that has migrated from the Village Voice to Artforum, Salon, City Pages, Interview, and The Believer and currently appears in the Barnes & Noble Review. It has been a laboratory where Marcus has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements, teasing out from the welter of everyday objects what amounts to a de facto theory of cultural transmission. Published to complement the paperback edition of The History of Rock & Roll in Ten Songs, Real Life Rock reveals the critic in full: direct, erudite, funny, fierce, vivid, astute, uninhibited, and possessing an unerring instinct for art and fraud. The result is an indispensable volume packed with startling arguments and casual brilliance.

The newly approved translation of the readings for weekday Masses is now available to presiders, preachers and faithful alike in a convenient one-volume study edition. LTP's study edition of the Weekday Lectionary, although not intended for use in the liturgy, offers many of the same features as its beautiful ritual volumes. The efficient two-column layout of the readings allows the user to view the first and gospel readings and the responsorial psalm together, with few page turns. The large, clear type--the same size as that found in LTP's Sunday Lectionary study edition--is easy to read, and the book's lieflat binding allows it to remain open to the correct page while the user consults other resources and takes notes for homilies and study groups. Those who attend daily Mass regularly will want a copy of this volume for their own prayerful preparation, as will presiders, liturgists, students and preachers. Those who plan and preside at daily services of the word or communion services will also need a copy to prepare reflections and practice readings. The parish library, sacristy and office can also benefit from this practical tool for preparing and celebrating daily Mass.