Anarchy Comics£1.95 • magazine • Last Gasp |
Cartoon strips, art and stories from various international anarchist comic artists, including Clifford Harper, Ruby Ray, Jay Kinney and Paul Mavrides. A class mixture of history (Durruti, Makhno, Kronstadt, Jimmy Hayes etc), comment and fiction (such as the seminal 'A Punk In Utopia'). Limited quantities of issues 1 & 4 still available. |
AS-FIX-E8£5.95pb • Last Gasp • 0 86719 233 X |
Lydia Lunch, Mike Mathews and Nick Cave collaborate to produce something rather special. How can you go wrong with this trio. er ...adult orientated. |
Bonafide£1.50magazine • Bonafide Productions • |
Virtual Insanity, comic style. A wonderful mind-bending collection of comics and strips from a host of fine artists and writers. Get your hallucinogens around this one. |
Breaking Free: The Further Adventures Of Tintin£3.95pb • Attack International • 0 9514261 0 9 |
Back in print at last, the full length graphic novel of Tintin and his pals (but where's Snowy?) battling it out with the State, and causing urban mayhem and revolution. Herge never had it this good. Truly essential. |
Compendium Comix Anthology£15.95pb • Mangajin • 1 895348 02 1 |
Rather awesome (280 pages, 16 in full colour) anthology of comix. Beautifully produced. Breathtaking in its scope. Includes work from the likes of Julie Doucet, Seth Tobocman, Joe Matt, Peter Kuper, Mary Fleener, Carel Moiseiwitch, Ace Backwards, Cultural Jetlag, as well as contributors to some of the finest independent comics such as CIA, Girl Frenzy and NoZone. Stunning. |
Girl Frenzy£1.80magazine • Self • |
By women for people. Lots of strips plus reviews, interviews and cultural comment. No make-up tips, but (as well as the comics), issues have included Valerie Solanas, Trina Robbins on sex and sexism in comics, girls rocking out and much more. |
Kekrapules£8.95pb • Mille Putois • 2 921497 04 2 |
Excellent anthology of art and strips. Half in French, half in English, many making words redundant. Contains a whole host of new artists and writers, as well as such stalwarts as Julie Doucet and Mike Diana. Recommended. |
Nozone£5.95magazine • Self • |
Now let's get it straight. This is probably the BEST comic/graphic collection around at the moment. Superb layout, style and content. Strips, graphics and text to satisfy the most critical of minds/tastes. Very political, very good. Very essential. |
Savage Love£2.50A5 magazine • Bear Bones • |
The best gay comic AK has distributed in a long time. Graphic observations on subjects as diverse as "the first time" to an interesting critique of gay S+M. Excellent |
Scenes From The Inside: New Independent Comic Anthology£2.75magazine • Drat 'N' Blast • |
THE cutting edge of comics and graphics. Truly superb. A whole host of unknown, well known and soon to be fabulously famous artists and writers. If you want to know what's happening today and more importantly tomorrow, this is the best place to start. |
Watermelon£5.95magazine • Self • |
a wierdshit comic you can stroke! - massive format with a furry spine, has to be seen to be believed. |
World War 3 Illustrated£2.95magazine • Self • |
Superb, bloody huge (around 120 pages, glossy cover) magazine from America. Featuring a mixture of excellent comics, graphics, articles, fiction, prose etc on a mixture of social and political themes. Violent, politicised and provocative. Each issue is loosely based around a theme (Ecology, Women, Riot etc). Up to No. 17 and still going strong. Well worth checking out dude. |
ANDREAS, JoelAddicted To War: Why the US Can't Kick Militarism£6.95pb • New Society • 0 86571 243 3 |
Militarism, and its effects, externally and internally, Uncle Sam style. Very readable, and recommended. |
BAER, FreddieEcstatic Incisions£7.95pb • AK Press • 1 873176 60 0 |
Freddie Baer's first collection of collage work. Over the last decade her illustrations, ranging from the bitingly political to the sublimely surreal, have appeared on numerous magazine covers, t-shirts, posters and album sleeves. This anthology draws from all her previously published pieces, new material, and her collaborations with Hakim Bey, T Fulano, Jim Gilman, Jason Keehn and David Watson. |
BAXENDALE, Leo'I Love You Baby Basil'£13.95hb • Reaper Books • 0 9513277 2 0 |
Probably the last collection of comics ever from the creator of Minnie The Minx and the Bash Street kids. The strips that originally appeared in The Guardian. Excellent as ever, Baxendale has now given up on comics to work full-time on his writing (rather fine in itself). |
BAXENDALE, LeoTHRRP!£4.95pb • Knockabout • 0 86166 051 X |
His first cartoon collection for adults. Featuring the droopy-nosed inhabitants of Planet Urf: the people with no name. Also starring the diminutive deviant Spotty Dick. |
BILAL & CHRISTIANThe Hunting Party£8.95pb • Titan • 1 85286 289 0 |
Richly conceived illustrations and a timely text that denounces the quest for absolute power, as the hunting party of East-bloc party loyalists turns a little bloody. |
BILAL & CHRISTIANThe Ranks Of The Black Order£8.50pb • Titan • 1 85286 202 5 |
Excellent full-colour story of old protagonists from the Spanish Revolution (Fascists and Republicans) fighting their battles again 40 years later. |
BRITTON, Dave & GUIDIO, KrisLord Horror #1 - #3£2.95 eachmagazine • Savoy • |
The original, the best. Get it, before the police do. |
BRITTON, Dave & GUIDIO, KrisMeng & Ecker #1£3.95magazine • Savoy • 0 86130 074 2 |
Sex, violence ... well mainly violence really. You have been warned. |
BRITTON, Dave & GUIDIO, KrisMeng & Ecker #2 - #8£2.25magazine • Savoy • |
The latest instalments of sex, violence, vicious satire, and more sex and violence, from the hardest of today's comics. This is literally the comic, encased in full colour, that they are - still - trying to ban. Get it while you can. We do have almost all the back issues. Write or 'phone for details. |
BRITTON, Dave & GUIDIO, KrisMeng & Ecker #9£2.95magazine • Savoy • 0 86130 094 7 |
The latest adventures of Meng & Ecker. |
BRITTON, Dave & GUIDIO, KrisMonoshock£1.50magazine • Savoy • |
A one-off from the creators of Lord Horror, and Hard-Core Horror. |
BRITTON, David & COULTHART, JohnReverbstorm #1£3.50magazine • Savoy • |
Instalment #8 from the lovable Lord Horror. Comes with a CD, to fuck with you aurally, as well as visually. Needless to say, this is essential. Just ask the Manchester police. |
BRITTON, David & COULTHART, JohnReverbstorm #2 - #4£3.50 eachmagazine • Savoy • |
More instalments of the art of John Coulthart |
CHIAPPETTA, JoeSilly Daddy£6.95pb • Spit And A Half • 0 9644323 0 7 |
Three true stories of the trials and tribulations of fatherhood and family-life. Wry, witty, sad, serious and poignant. A real gem. |
Coleman, JoeCosmic Retribution: The Infernal Art Of Joe Coleman£18.95pb • Fantagraphic Books • 0 922915 06 7 |
A deluxe 144 page compilation of his graphic work, including illustrations, comic strips and the paintings that have made his reputation. Includes 32 pages of full-colour plates, a revealing interview with Coleman, a photo-section devoted to his collection of grotesque human oddities and an introduction by Robert Crumb. |
CRAWFORD, JohnBaboon Dooley Rock Critic!£7.95pb • Popular Reality • 0 945209 00 2 |
Classic collection of all those comic strips you've seen in a million magazines, from Forced Exposure to Flipside and the Village Voice, along with some new material and eulogies from Bob Black, Ivan Stang and various other notables. |
DIMASSA, DianeHothead Paisan£2.95A5 magazine • Giant Ass • |
Tales of the (now) legendary homicidal lesbian terrorist. Quarterly slices of groovy violence, destruction and love, lesbian style. |
ELLISON, MikeSkin On My Teeth£4.50pb • Dear Rorschach • 0 9524592 3 X |
If only all self/small publishing was like this. A beautiful work, both art and text, following one man's tortured escapades in a world of many others. Social realism in graphic form with a rare talent. |
GUIDIO, KrisSinister Legends£5.95pb • Savoy • 0 86130 071 8 |
The perfect blend of fantasy, rock'n'roll and black and white art. They are all in here - Pauline Murray, Lou Redd, Johnny Thunders, Elvis Presley and, of course, The Cramps. Includes an extensive interview with Guidio by Michael Butterworth. |
HARPER, CliffordAn Alphabet£3.95pb • Working Press • 1 870736 19 2 |
26 drawings. A is for Anarchy....Z is for Zero. As ever, beautifully illustrated by the man who put the art back into anarchism. |
HARWOOD, GrahamIf Comix: "Mental"£4.50magazine • Working Press • |
Britain's first computer generated comic, chronicling the slow disintegration of a Gulf War veteran... Still in stock too, a handful of copies of If Comix No. 2, with the likes of Graham Harwood, Clifford Harper and other notables. (limited edition of 1500, with poster and record) |
HUCK & KONOPACKIThem£8.95pb • Charles H. Kerr • 0 88286 204 9 |
Second collection of "labor cartoons". Fighting back is always easier with a sense of humour. Workers of the world, unite and laugh it up! |
HUCK & KONOPACKI Bye! American: Labor Cartoons£8.95pb • Charles H Kerr • No ISBN |
An excellent anthology of cartoons from the workplace. 150 hilarious class-struggle cartoons from America's finest labor cartoonists. |
HUCK, Gary & KONOPACKI, MikeMad In USA£10.95pb • Charles H Kerr • No ISBN |
A hefty new dose of refreshingly outrageous cartoons. Nine out of ten doctors recommend side-splitting class-struggle humour as the best cure for proletarian doldrums. Here's as good as any place to start. |
Kidd, MickLife On The Floor And Other Mattresses£5.99pb • Impact Books • |
From the creator of Biff, spanning four decades, in the inimitable Biff style, Life On The Floor chronicles Phil's personal odyssey, from acne to Hackney, Post-War to Post modernism - the first faltering kiss, the first lop-sided moustache.... |
LAWSON, AnnieBiological Function£2.95pb • Bellew Publishing • 0947792872 |
Full colour comics, strips and one-lines from the woman with a thousand postcards. |
LAWSON, AnnieBrilliant Advice£2.95pb • Bellew Publishing • 0947792139 |
The first collection, show casing the acerbic wit and hilarious commentary on current mores and fashionable attitudes. |
LAWSON, AnnieLife On The Hard shoulder£2.95pb • Bellew Publishing • 0947792503 |
The shape of angst to come? Have you ever considered the glad-to-be-greying merits of pre-Feminist Man? The usual heady brew of challenging cartoons and incisive wit, laying bare the modern-day machinations of you, me and the gatepost. |
LAWSON, AnnieMore Brilliant Advice£2.95pb • Bellew Publishing • 0947792244 |
Yet another collection, including a fine selection of her colour work. |
LAWSON, AnnieTortoisewoman£3.25pb • Bellew Publishing • 1857250621 |
The newest instalment from the master. |
MCartoons By M£7.95Pb • Ava Press • 0 9635101 0 X |
Brilliant and pointed satire from perhaps the finest political cartoonist in America today. Alexander Cockburn loves her, Edward Herman thinks she's the best, and so should you! |
MASTIN, PeteThe Faction File£2.00pb • Hooligan • 1 869802 06 3 |
Excellent collection of political cartoons and comic strips that first appeared in the anarchist paper Black Flag. |
MCLUE, Greg & BLOOM, CliveDark Nights: The New Comics in Context£8.95pb • Pluto • 0 7453 0663 2 |
The first collection of serious essays on the burgeoning rise of the graphic novel. |
MOORCOCK, Michael & CAWTHORN, JamesThe Crystal And The Amulet£6.95A4 pb • Savoy • 0 86130 044 0 |
Dorian Hawkmoon penetrates the evil capital city of the Dark Empire. Portrayed in graphic, large-format pages, this is a highly acclaimed graphic adaptation. |
MOORE, Alan & SIENKIEWICZ, BillBrought To Light: A Graphic Docudrama£4.95pb • Titan • |
Full colour expose of 30 years of drug smuggling, arms deals and covert operations by the CIA. |
NAIDUS, BeverlyOne Size Does Not Fit All£10.95pb • Aigis • 1 883930 00 6 |
The author uses original art and collages, along with text developed from feminist workshops, to confront women's issues concerning body size, as shaped by the media and society. A truly superb collection of both collage, and line and paint work. |
O'CONNELL, MitchGood Taste Gone Bad£10.95pb • Good Taste • 0 9639762 0 6 |
A fine collection of sexy pop-art illustrations and humorous comic stories wrapped inside a neat full-cover. Includes his material from National Lampoon, Spy, Playboy, Heavy Metal et al, along side various exhibition pieces, new work and the like. |
REIBE, ErnestMr Block: Twenty Four IWW Cartoons£5.95pb • Charles H Kerr • 0 88286 062 3 |
Beautiful facsimile reprint of the first radical comic book, originally published by the IWW in 1913. This hilarious comic inspired Wobbly bard Joe Hill to write one of his most popular songs. Includes an introduction by Franklin Rosemont. |
ROBBINS, SIENKIEWICZ, TRIPTOWStrip Aids USA£8.95pb • Last Gasp • 0 86719 373 5 |
A massive benefit collection of art and cartoons to raise money for AIDS concerns. Hundreds of artists, including all the famous spods - Paul Mavrides, Frank Miller, Bill Siekiewicz, Hernandez Bros et al. |
ROOUM, DonaldABC of Bosses£1.95pb • Freedom • 0 900384 60 3 |
A handy guide, by the Wildcat comic team. |
ROOUM, DonaldHealth Service Wildcat£1.95pb • Freedom • 0 900384 73 5 |
Latest collection of biting strips on health care, privatisation, and profit. Dedicated to the lunatic doctrine that people trained in making profits can provide a better health service than people trained in caring for the sick. |
ROOUM, DonaldWildcat Comics£1.95pb • Freedom • 0 900384 30 1 |
First collection of comics by the prolific artist and Freedom contributor, featuring the the political and pertinent adventures of the unrepentant moggy 'Wildcat'. |
ROOUM, DonaldWildcat Strikes Again£1.95pb • Freedom • 0 900384 47 6 |
The second collection of anarchist comics, following on the high standards of the first. |
SACCO, JoePalestine Book One: A Nation Occupied£12.95pb • Fantagraphics • 1 56097 150 9 |
Reportage, political commentary, and seriocomic travelogue. A landmark comic book, based on Sacco's visits to Palestine, where he reported on the repression and rebellion. |
SAGAR, Tim & FARMAN, TimThe Kransbeigh Complex£2.00A4 pamphlet • Colonade • Bottomline l No ISBN |
The story of Odsoc "the richest flat-footed purse bill you'll ever see" & the Kransbeigh Complex" wonderful but bizarre. |
SMITH, Winston
£21.95
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First full collection, in FULL COLOUR of the incredible collage work of Winston Smith, long-time Dead Kennedy's cover artist and all-round genius. His work ranges from the bitingly political to the hilariously surreal. An expensive tome, but beautifully produced, and worth every penny. Every page should be in a picture frame on your wall. |
TOBOCMAN, Seth & KUPER, Peter (eds)
£10.95
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Anthology of the first ten issues of the very wonderful World War 3 Illustrated. If you haven't got the originals, now's the time to pick up the best of the sharpest, sassiest political comic around. |
WILLIAMS, Robert Views From A Tortured Libido£21.95pb • Last Gasp • 0 86719 399 9 |
Sixty oil paintings, in colour, from the master, along with his notes on each piece,and an introduction from Timothy Leary. |
WILLIAMS, Robert Visual Addiction£21.95pb • Last Gasp • 0 86719 377 8 |
Beautiful large format collection of the man's work, including 40 full colour plates. Love him or loathe him, in full glorious Technicolour. Includes an introduction by Lydia Lunch. |
WILLIAMS, Robert Zombie Mystery Paintings£21.95pb • Last Gasp • 0 86719 381 6 |
The newest printing of this collection of paintings. As ever, all in full, glorious colour. |
YATES, John
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136 pages of genius from the master. A greatest hits culled from the pages of Punchline, various of his T shirts, record sleeves, other projects and some previously unpublished material. Pointed, political,and downright excellent. Includes an introduction by Jello Biafra. |
YATES, John
£3.50
Pamphlet, poster and postcards in 7" sleeve
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A collection of photo-art by the man - in a pamphlet, poster and postcards on the subject of war. John Hartfield has found a worthy successor. Sublime and provocative. |