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Heads Up: VERY CASUAL by Michael DeForge

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Earlier today, publisher Annie Koyama posted to announce that Koyama Press has four new titles set to debut in Spring 2013: Very Casual and Lose #5 by Michael DeForge, Journal by Julie Delporte and Everything Takes Forever by Victor Kerlow. Certainly, every one of those titles is going to be worth a look, at the very least, but I have to say, the book I am most looking forward to, the book I will definitely buy, sight unseen, is the 152-page DeForge collection, Very Casual:

Here’s the publisher’s description:

Culled from mini comics, online comics and anthology contributions, Very Casual collects notable short stories from DeForge’s prolific oeuvre. Included are stories about litter gangs, meat-filled snowmen, righteous cops, beagle/human hybrids, and forest-bound drag queens. Very Casual also collects “Spotting Deer,” which won the Pigskin Peters Award for best non-traditional, non-narrative or avant-garde work at the 2011 Doug Wright Awards

You can read a great many comics stories by DeForge for free online at What Things Do and via DeForge’s Tumblr stream or WordPress blog.

Now get ready to buy the book!

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Look Here: Five Westerns with cover art by various hands

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As I’ve mentioned in the past, I don’t often buy Western novels for the cover art. But here are five that I did buy. They’re not masterpieces, by any means. Each one, however, displays some feature or other that, for me, distinguishes it from the usual boring, middle-of-the-road, realist action scenes that publishers apparently think that readers of Western novels prefer to gawk at:

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All of the cover artists in the above group are uncredited, but two of the covers are legibly signed, so I’ve included their names in the file names. Two other covers are also signed, but I can’t make out the signatures, nor can I find any credit information on any other websites.

Enjoy?

Keywords: Outlaw Hell, Hangrope Town, The Arizona Clan, The Texas Gun, The Last Days of Worlf Garnett.

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Look Here: Another obscure paperback with cover art by McGinnis

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I scanned the following book from my personal collection, as usual, but in the interests of full disclosure, I feel I should warn you that I also did a bit of work on the image with GIMP to remove some unfortunate and obtrusive stains. Here’s hoping that my ham-handed “improvements” don’t spoil your viewing experience…

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Keywords: Fort Everglades.

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Look Here: Two “Mark Kilby” P.I. novels with cover art to die for…

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Neither Mark Kilby Stands Alone nor Mark Kilby and the Miami Mob includes a formal credit for the cover artist. The art for Mark Kilby and the Miami Mob, however, is signed “Abbett” — short for Robert K. Abbett — in the shadow cast on the ground by the reclining blonde woman in the straw hat:

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As usual, both of the above covers were scanned by me from crumbling old paperbacks in my personal collection.

Keywords: Mark Kilby and the Miami Mob, Mark Kilby Stands Alone.

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Archie’s Christmas Stocking (1956)

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I did a lot of quick-and-dirty cleanup on the above cover scan with GIMP to make it presentable. My sincerest apologies (and best wishes!) to everyone who actually knows how to use image editing software.

BONUS LINKS:

Ragged Claws Network > Archie’s Christmas Stocking (1957) – Archie Giant Series #4

Ragged Claws Network > Archie’s Christmas Stocking – Archie Giant Series #15

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Heads Up: ANARCHY COMICS: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION

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I’m a little bit late with this heads up, but as someone who has all four of the original Anarchy Comics, I can assure you, sight unseen, that Anarchy Comics: The Complete Collection, edited by Jay Kinney (224 pages, PM Press), is definitely worth a look:

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Here’s the publisher’s description:

Reviving an iconic comic series originally published from 1978 to 1986, this exclusive collection brings together the legendary four issues of Anarchy Comics, the underground comic that melded anarchist politics with a punk sensibility, producing a riveting mix of satire, revolt, and artistic experimentation. The anthology features previously unpublished work by Jay Kinney and Sharon Rudahl, along with a detailed introduction by Kinney that traces the history of the comic he founded and provides entertaining anecdotes about the process of herding an international crowd of anarchistic writers. Reintroducing the long-out-of-print underground comic that inspired its readers and united a subculture, this collection includes all 30 original contributors from across the globe, including Clifford Harper, Donald Rooum, Gary Panter, Melinda Gebbie, and Steve Stiles, among other talented writers and illustrators.

I’d love to see many more fat reprints of underground comics, and that is why, even though I already have the comics, I intend to buy Anarchy Comics: The Complete Collection.