Love comic books issue 1

1st printing.

Story and art by Aline Kominsky Crumb.

Aline Kominsky-Crumb immediately made her mark in the Bay Area's underground comix scene with unabashedly raw, dirty, unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 60's. Kominsky-Crumb traces her steps from a Beatles loving fangirl, East Village groupie, an adult grappling with her childhood, an 80s housewife and mother, to a new 30-page story Dream House that looks back on her childhood, 40 years later. Collecting comics from the 1970s through today, Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era.

Hardcover, 8-in.x 11-in., 208 pages, B&W. Mature Readers NOTE: May or may NOT include a back cover sash. Cover price $29.95.

Volume 1, 1st Printing - Aline Kominsky-Crumb immediately made her mark in the Bay Area's underground comix scene with unabashedly raw, dirty, unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 60's. Kominsky-Crumb traces her steps from a Beatles loving fangirl, East Village groupie, an adult grappling with her childhood, an 80s housewife and mother, to a new 30-page story Dream House that looks back on her childhood, 30 years later. Collecting comics from the 1970s through today, Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. Softcover, 8" x 10.5", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

Volume 1, 2nd or later printing - Aline Kominsky-Crumb immediately made her mark in the Bay Area's underground comix scene with unabashedly raw, dirty, unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 60's. Kominsky-Crumb traces her steps from a Beatles loving fangirl, East Village groupie, an adult grappling with her childhood, an 80s housewife and mother, to a new 30-page story Dream House that looks back on her childhood, 30 years later. Collecting comics from the 1970s through today, Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. Softcover, 8" x 10.5", 130 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

1st printing.

Written by Frédéric Brrémaud. Art and cover by Federico Bertolucci.

A loyal hunting dog finds himself alone in the wild outback of Australia when his master is struck down by a poisonous snake during an expedition. Now he must make his way through the dangers and obstacles of the magnificent wilderness, relying on instincts that no amount of domestication can fully suppress...

Hardcover, 9-in. x 11-in., 84 pages, full color.

Cover price $17.99.

Add to cart Very Fine $2.50

Add to cart Very Fine $2.50

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written by Jamie S. Rich. Art by Marc Ellerby. Tristan has two things to his name — a band and a broken heart. Like A Dog is a band on the verge of blowing up and with Tristan finally back from an overseas trip, they think tonight's gig might just light that fuse! But when Tristan spots his dream girl in the crowd, will she fix his lack of love or send his band's career down in flames? Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8, 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $5.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $4.00

Add to cart Very Fine $9.49

Add to cart Fine $7.10

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Side A: Songs of Faith!" Collects Love the Way You Love (2006) #1-3. Written by Jamie S. Rich. Art by Marc Ellerby. Tristan has two things to his name - a band and a broken heart - and if he's not careful, he's liable to lose them both. Like A Dog is a band on the verge of blowing up, and with Tristan finally back from an overseas trip, they think tonight's gig might just light that fuse! But when Tristan spots his dream girl in the crowd, will she fix his lack of love or send his band's career down in flames? Softcover, 5-in. x 7 1/2-in., 200 pages, B&W. Cover price $11.95.

1st printing. Collects Love Town (2018 Devils Due) #0-4.

Written by Matt Yuan and John Yuan. Art and cover by John Yuan.

Love Town is a noir world inhabited by private eyes, crooked cops, and dangerous gangsters, governed only by the byzantine politics of the studios and City Hall. Skirting the shadows between the rich and poor are the Infected, victims of an incurable disease that turns humans into werewolves, ghouls, or vampires. Detective Allie Saxon, a woman and a vampire, finds herself beset on all sides while pursuing her quest for justice in a lawless town.

Collects the mini-series plus an exclusive 16 page story in this hardcover collected edition.

Hardcover, 164 pages, full color.

Cover price $21.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Add to cart Near Mint $6.95

Add to cart Very Fine $5.49

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Uoyama. Translated by Nova Skipper. Morio Kurokawa is the toughest-looking tough guy around. Yukiko Akaza is a self-possessed girl with a vision impairment attending a school for the blind. The whole city fears Morio, but Yukiko sees the real him-he's a soft sweetheart who's just searching for his place in the world! Softcover, 208 pages, B&W. For teen audiences. Cover price $9.99.

1st printing. By Terry LaBan. Danny is a cab-driving poet with a heart of gold and a spine of mush. His girlfriend, Suzy, is an angst-filled intellectual whose interest include everything except paying her half of the rent. It's their stories and the stories of their friends and the people in their world that fill the pages of this comical, tragic, and painfully honest collection. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 122 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $14.95.

1st printing. Written by David Rakoff and Chip Kidd. Art and cover by Seth. From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the twentieth century. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish leaps cities and decades as Rakoff sings the song of an America whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. Rakoff's insistence on beauty and the necessity of kindness in a selfish world raises the novel far above mere satire. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent," a word that perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse. Hardcover, 128 pages, Text (with full color Illustrations). Cover price $26.95.

Add to cart Very Fine $9.60

7' X 10', black & white, 96 pages. Cover price $8.95.

1st printing.

By Mike Slater. Cover by Kurt Komoda.

The author and the illustrator behind the best-selling Necronomnomnom have summoned another glorious grimoire-this time featuring cursed cocktails.

These boozy and punny recipes pay homage to Lovecraftian horror themes and monsters with titles such as the "King in Jell-O," "Pink FlaMi-Go," and "Sunken Island Iced Tea." The book provides "Virgin Sacrifices" for the coachman designated to drive everyone back from the séance, or for anyone not wanting to imbibe the devil's water. There are 75 delicious and malicious recipes, each gorgeously illustrated, mercilessly tested, and hilariously written.

Recipes appear in the form of cryptic rhymes and arcane rituals but are always easy (and fun) to follow.

Hardcover, 192 pages, full color.

Cover price $25.00.

Fanzine By Ray Zorn for Lovecraft Collectors. Features collecting issues and pseudonyms. 8 1/2-in. x 5 1/2-in. 4 Pages B&W.

Written by Shannon Appelcline, art by Saffronrage Media. Cover by Lisa Disterheft. Story set in H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham in 1933. Seth Fletcher has just journeyed to Arkham, seeking his brother lost years before, but as he will soon discover, all is not as it seems. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

1st printing.

Based on the stories by H. P. Lovecraft. Adapted by I. N. J. Culbard.

In Providence, Rhode Island, a dangerous inmate disappears from a hospital for the insane. At Miskatonic University, a professor slumps into a five-year reverie. In a mysterious and vivid dreamworld, a melancholy man seeks the home of the gods. And in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, polar explorers unearth secrets that reveal a past almost beyond comprehension - and a future too terrible to imagine. Graphic novelist I.N.J. Culbard gives terrifying form to four classic tales by H.P. Lovecraft: "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," "At The Mountains of Madness," and "The Shadow Out of Time."

Hardcover, 512 pages, full color.

Cover price $35.00.

1st printing.

Written by Hans Rodionoff and Keith Giffen. Art and cover by Enrique Breccia.

An original hardcover graphic novel pairing the writing talents of screenwriter Hans Rodionoff and comics writer Keith Giffen with the exquisite painted art of Enrique Breccia.

When young Howard Phillips Lovecraft becomes the reluctant guardian of the Necronomicon, an accursed book that is the doorway to the beyond, his life veers into strange territory. From an odd upbringing through his later success as a weaver of "weird" tales, Lovecraft maintains a tenuous balance between reality and the bizarre nightmares of his "fictional" horror.

Hardcover, 144 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $24.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Esteban Maroto. Illustrated in haunting black and white over 30 years ago, these comics are re-presented in a new edition, adapting three of H.P. Lovecraft's most famous stories involving the Cthulhu Mythos. "The Nameless City" is considered the first story of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, detailing the discovery of an ancient city in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula built by an unnamed race of reptilian beings. In "The Festival," a man arrives at the sea town of Kingsport, Massachusetts during Christmas but finds a place eerily empty and centuries out of date. "The Call of Cthulhu" is perhaps Lovecraft's most famous story, describing a man who, after finding the notes of his granduncle, is lead on a journey around the world in search of a mysterious and disturbing phenomenon. Hardcover, 80 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1935 have shaped modern horror more than any other author's in the last two centuries: the shambling god Cthulhu, and the other deities of the Elder Things, the Outer Gods, and the Great Old Ones, and Herbert West, Reanimator, a doctor who unlocked the secrets of life and death at a terrible cost. In Lovecraft Unbound, more than twenty of today's most prominent writers of literature and dark fantasy tell stories set in or inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Among the contributors are multiple New York Times best-selling authors Michael Chabon and Joyce Carol Oates, award-winning writers Brian Evenson and Marc Laidlaw, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and many others. Edited by multiple-award-winning editor Ellen Datlow. Features new work from Michael Chabon and Joyce Carol Oates! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 336 pages, Text Only. Cover price $19.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Lovecraft Unknown: Kadath (2022 Ablaze) #1-8. Written by Florentino Florez. Art by Guillermo Sanna, Jacques Salomon. Cover by Jacques Salomon. "Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms... for I am Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos!" Randolph Carter, a traveler to dreamland, tries not to wake up before reaching his goal, the elusive Kadath: the home of the gods, a place of fantasy and overflowing imagination. Carter walks through a world full of threats and abominable monsters, but also of palaces, exuberant cities, and geographies that remind man of his insignificant role on the gigantic cosmic chessboard. What are the reasons to keep going when everything around us is terrifying and lethal? Kadath may offer some answers to this question! An adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath unlike anything you've read before. Collects the complete 8 issue series, plus cover gallery, bonus material, and the original prose story! Softcover, 200 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $14.00

Add to cart Near Mint $14.00

Add to cart Very Fine $9.00

Add to cart Very Fine $9.00

1st printing.

Story and art by Jeffrey Brown.

A pioneer of 21st-century graphic memoir, Jeffrey Brown captures timeless insights into love, intimacy, and vulnerability in three unforgettable relationship portraits.

Twenty years ago, young painter Jeffrey Brown grew frustrated with the expectations of the art world and wanted desperately to make something real. In a single sketchbook, working directly in ink, he began recording his memories of a recent long-distance relationship, matching the emotional frailty of the young lovers with painfully honest writing and art. As that book, Clumsy, struck a chord with readers and spawned the follow-ups Unlikely and Any Easy Intimacy, Brown's work proved a watershed for the emerging form of the graphic memoir.

Chronicling the awkward mess of romantic relationships in unsparing and unflinching detail, these works also reflect the fragmentary nature of memory, the risk of opening ourselves to pain, and the giggly rush of falling in love. Now collected into one volume for the first time, this Relationship Trilogy is a bittersweet reminder of the everyday joy, heartbreak, and humor that-despite everything-keep us coming back for more.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 608 pages, B&W.

Cover price $29.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.00

Add to cart Near Mint $6.00

1st printing.

Cover by Robbi Rodriguez.

Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you get burned! These 9 stories take an honest look at modern romance with all of its imperfections. Whether you're a soldier, techy, sports fan or politician, navigating love can be tricky. But a lot can be learned along way, even if finding what we need isn't always what was expected.

Softcover, 168 pages, full color.

Cover price $15.99.

In 1993 writer and artist Maze created Lovely Prudence as a thin mini-comic. However, he was not happy with it and didn't release it. Until circa 1997 when he printed a new cover and released the original edition. 8 1/4-in. x 10 3/4-in., 24 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.95.

Add to cart Fine $2.50

Add to cart Fine $2.50

By MAZE. Welcome to the world of Lovely Prudence, a bizarre mix of post-modern Charles Addams meets the MTV generation. Lovely Prudence is a vitriolic, skull-headed child who perpetually drives a stake into the heart of P.C. mentality. Nothing is sacred, nothing is taboo when Prudence walks in the door! Mature Readers. B&W, 36 pages. Cover price $2.75.

Add to cart Very Good $2.50

By Kurt Marquart. Mature readers. Cover price $2.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Story and art by Kokoro Natsume. Ako finds a tragic scene that her parents were brutally murdered by a vampire Koh. Ako is also attacked and sucked her blood by Koh. But, at the same time, she also writhes with pleasure... Ako wakes up in Ko's place after the ??, she realizes to become a vampire. Her body can't deny the strong desire of blood sucking and Ko orders her to attack humans.... Ako's only brother Yuya was waiting for her return but another villainous vampire Yui contacts Yuya for a malicious purpose.... Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

1st printing. Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez. In the small Palomar-like town of Lagrimas, a young "loverboy" has a torrid affair with the woman who once was his seventh grade teacher, while three young girls plot to poison the populace. It's a passionate tale as only Gilbert Hernandez, the legendary cocreator of Love and Rockets, can deliver! Original hardcover graphic novel! Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 88 pages, B&W. NOTE: Gilbert Hernandez is "one of the greatest American storytellers. It's so hard to do funny, tragic, local and epic, and he does all simultaneously, and with great aplomb." - Junot Díaz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize Cover price $19.99.