Two of the best independent English-language comics publishers have sales going on this week: Top Shelf has over 100 of their titles on sale, many for $3 or less, and Drawn & Quarterly is discounting nearly everything in their catalogue by at least 30%. Here are five killer deals on excellent books from each publisher.
TOP SHELF:
Voice of the Fire: The great comics writer Alan Moore’s only prose novel to date: a set of ten episodes set in his home town of Northampton, England, over the course of many millennia. $3.
Fox Bunny Funny: Andy Hartzell’s wordless black-and-white thesis/antithesis/synthesis story of a young creature who wants to be something his culture won’t let him be is lovely and very clever. $3.
Super F*ckers: The prolific James Kochalka’s stab at a Legion of Super-Heroes-style team book, except what his superpowered teenagers mostly do is figure out new ways to get high and insult each other. Awesomely mean and also oddly sweet. $10.
Carnet de Voyage: Craig Thompson’s most overlooked book: a spectacularly nice-looking, deeply observed journal of a trip to promote Blankets. $10.
Alec: The Years Have Pants: Approximately six billion pages of Eddie Campbell’s masterful autobiographical and semiautobiographical comics, spanning three decades. $20.
DRAWN & QUARTERLY:
Exit Wounds: Rutu Modan’s graphic novel about family secrets playing out against the political landscape of Israel keeps swerving in unexpected directions. $8.64.
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea: The Canadian animator Guy Delisle’s fascinating comics journal of a few months he spent working in the land of Kim Jong-Il. $9.
Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography: Chester Brown’s biography of the 19th century French Canadian rebel is terrifically entertaining, and an ingenious piece of comics formalism. $11.
Masterpiece Comics: A collection of R. Sikoryak’s brilliant reinterpretations of classic literature in the styles of famous cartoonists–Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” as a series of “Peanuts” daily strips, Dante’s “Inferno” as a handful of Bazooka Joe comics, that sort of thing. $12.
Walt and Skeezix: The first three hardcover volumes of D&Q’s gorgeous Chris Ware-designed editions of Frank King’s ’20s-era “Gasoline Alley” comic strips are half off–$15 apiece.