comics

[jfb]

Here are the comics I want to get rid of, or at least the ones I think someone might want. I'm mostly just going to give the titles--if any of them interest you, let me know and I'll type in the individual issues and trade paperbacks.

Maus (Art Spiegelman), both volumes
Strangers in Paradise (Terry Moore)
The World Below (Paul Chadwick & Ron Randall)
What's New? (Phil Foglio)
Tintin: The Castafiore Emerald (Herge)
Red Rocket 7 (Mike Allred)
Geisha (Andi Watson)
The Sandman: Season of Mists (Neil Gaiman)
Saga of the Swamp Thing (Alan Moore)
Kabuki (David Mack)
A Distant Soil (Colleen Doran)
The Silver Surfer (Stan Lee & Jack Kirby)
I Feel Sick (Jhonen Vasquez)
Cerebus (Dave Sim)
Astro City (Kurt Busiek)
Bone (Jeff Smith)
Lenore (Roman Dirge)
This Modern World (Tom Tomorrow)
Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud)
Zot! (Scott McCloud)
an embarrassment of Gen 13

I also have the Clerks edition of Oni Double Feature, which appears to have been signed across the cover by two people who may have been Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes, or perhaps Kirk Douglas and James Madison. Huh.

(Note: Where I've listed writers and not artists above, it's not to diminish the significance of the artist in the creative process. It's just that I'm lazy.)

Comments

[pobig.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in Understanding Comics.

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

I'll take the Tom Tomorrow, and if you have the third Zot collection, I could use that too!

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Huh, I'm not sure I ever had that. What I have left of Zot is The Original Zot! Book One and, uh, issue 12, including "Zot! in Dimension 10 1/2" by Matt Feazell. The Tom Tomorrow books are Greetings from This Modern World and Tune in Tomorrow.

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

Okay, how about the first Tom Tomorrow book and the Feazell book?

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Sure thing. (It's mostly a McCloud book, there's just an extra little story by Feazell.)

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

The third volume of Zot seems to be really rare, and I was about to be upset I didn't have a chance to see it.

not that rare

[jfb.livejournal.com]

$8.99 from abebooks (http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=430783052&searchurl=an%3Dscott%2Bmccloud%26y%3D0%26tn%3Dzot%26x%3D0). More options on half.com (http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=990043&pr=676011).

Re: not that rare

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Fine. Force me to buy up all the copies and incinerate them, just to prove I'm right.

Re: not that rare

[jfb.livejournal.com]

. o O ( everything is proceeding according to plan.... )

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

If I may be so bold, I'd like

Strangers in Paradise (Terry Moore)
The World Below (Paul Chadwick & Ron Randall)
A Distant Soil (Colleen Doran)
The Silver Surfer (Stan Lee & Jack Kirby)
I Feel Sick (Jhonen Vasquez)
Astro City (Kurt Busiek)
Lenore (Roman Dirge)

Particularly Astro City (which I assume is the first collection), and Stranger in Paradise.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Never assume. Here's what I've got:

SiP: Volume 1, I Dream of You, It's a Good Life, and issues 1 and 6 of volume 3.
TWB #1.
ADS #1, #13.
TSS TPB from 1978.
IFS #1.
AC #1-2.
Lenore #2.

Let me know which things you want.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Maybe not Lenore, I'm always wary about starting anything after the beginning.

But the others sound cool.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Lenore doesn't really depend on continuity, it's just a bunch of self-contained stories about a little dead girl. On the other hand, it's kind of dumb. Might as well skip it.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

*tries to figure out what's still left*

Can I have the Bone, the Moore (er, Swamp Thing, I mean-- which issues?), and oooh, What's New!

(I'd've wanted other stuff, but, y'know, too late and all that.)

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Oh, also Maus, which I don't actually own.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Saga of the Swamp Things collects issues 21-27, according to some seller on half.com. What's New is volume 1, sadly not featuring Gazebo Boy. All I have of Bone is the Image reprint of issue #1. Also a promotional book from a 1997 joint tour by Jeff Smith, Charles Vess, and Linda Medley--not very interesting, I think, but I'll throw it in if you're curious.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Er, Swamp Thing, singular.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

OK, yeah. Then I don't need the What's New, 'cause I have Vol. 1.

But I'll take the others. Including the Bone, 'cause I don't have #1. And, also, including the promotional book. ('cause, y'know, Vess.)

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. (Coincidentally the rest of my Bone and Vess went to another Kate.)

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I'd dig the Zot! if there's any left.