(W) Fred Van Lente (A/CA) Ryan Dunlavey At last! The amazing, inspiring story of the comics medium in comics form goes global! In this volume, Fred and Ryan tackle the origins of Japanese manga, French graphic albums, the British Invasion of the American scene, the battle for creators' rights in the US, and how comics have invaded cyberspace and Hollywood! Plus: the Her-Story of Comics continues, and we spotlight other countries' funnybooks across five continents! The Comic Book History of Comics goes wherever comics go-which is everywhere!

(W) Josh Trujillo (A/CA) Nick Kennedy Keelee is a brave, young girl who discovers a purple, fuzzy, funny beast! Together, the two must make their way across this fantastic land to return Beast to his home. This is a touching tale of friendship and fun that children will want to revisit again and again. The children's book is the debut of painter Nick Kennedy and comics writer Josh Trujillo (Dodge City). Lost Beast, Found Friend transports readers to a lush, tropical world, and Kennedy's unique style gives Keelee and her new friend a vivid fantasy world to play in. This book will stick with readers of all ages long after story-time is over. Lost Beast, Found Friend is a charming and vibrant adventure story for the explorer in all of us!

(W/A/CA) Mirion Malle The League of Super Feminists is an energetic, fierce, and disruptive comic wherein cartoonist Mirion Malle guides young readers through some of the central tenets of feminism. Issues of consent, intersectionality, privilege, inclusivity, body image, and gender identity are demystified in the form of a witty, down-to-earth dialogue. Malle's insightful and humorous comics effectively transport lofty concepts from the ivory tower to the eternally safer space of open discussion. The League of Super Feminists is an asset to the classroom, library, and household alike.

(A) Lou Fine & Various Featuring Power Man (aka Rip Regan) who is given a 'power suit' by his friend and mentor Dr. Austin which gives him super-strength, imperviousness, and enables him to perform superhuman leaps alongside other classic comic heroes from Fiction House such as Shark Brodie, Kinks Mason, Spy Fighter, Chip Collins, Big Red McLane, Kayo Kirby, Oran of the Jungle, and Strut Warren. All masterfully brought to life by Lou Fine, George Tuska, Steve Broder, Leonard Frank, Fred Schwab, Charles Sultan, John Celardo, Fletcher Hanks, Dan Zolnerowich, Bob Powell, and Klaus Nordling. Collects Fight Comics #4-6 (April-June 1940).

Treasury of Mini Comics Volume Two gathers more than 800 pages of underground and alternative self-published comics in this compact but hefty hardcover. Previously only seen in limited run pamphlets, these comics are startling, visionary, hilarious, profane, and profound. Editor Michael Dowers provides a historical survey of several decades' worth of work from some of the medium's most talented creators, including: Johnny Ryan, Trina Robbins, R.K. Sloane, Jeffery Brown, Jim Rugg, Tom Neely, Ellen Forney, Esther Pearl Watson, Ren?e French, Lisa Hanawalt, J.R. Williams, Pat Moriarity, Souther Salazar, Theo Ellsworth, Nick Bertozzi, Dan Zettwoch, Marc Bell, and many others.

Presenting UDON's classic Street Fighter comics in gorgeous oversized hardcover format! In Vol.2, Ryu trains with both the mysterious Dhalsim and former assassin Gen as he searches for the true path of the warrior. Meanwhile, Cammy and T. Hawk team up against M. Bison and his army of killer Dolls! Collects the original Street Fighter #11-14 and Street Fighter II #0-6, plus cover art and bonus stories from some of the hottest names in comics!

(A) Norman Nodel & Various Even more Saturday morning picture show classic adventures for you to enjoy with Volume 4, featuring the stunning artwork of the great Sam Glanzman! The Voyage to the Deep series featured the adventures of the submarine Proteus and their adventures and battles pitted against an unknown and powerful alien enemy. Plus you get the bonus addition of Avon's Escape From Devil's Island; set up and framed for murder and robbery, Pierre Gavril is sentenced to twenty years of torture, hard labor, and isolation on Devils Island - and escape is said to be suicide. Collects Voyage to the Deep #1-4 (1962-1964) and Escape from Devil's Island #1 (1952).

(W/A/CA) Azusa Banjo It's a familiar story: a popular high school student gives their plain friend a makeover and transforms their life. But this time, both the popular student and the plain friend are boys! Mido Kenshiro has loved cosmetics all his life, keeping his obsession a secret. But when his childhood friend Hiura lets Kenshiro practice applying makeup on him, the results are earth-shattering-for both of them!

(W) Derek Royal & Various (A) Walter Simonson & Various (CA) Eric Rewitzer If you thought FULL BLEED Volume 1 was full of amazing content, wait until you see the Deep Cuts in Volume 2! An exclusive interview with industry legend Walter Simonson, with never-before-seen sketches from the master himself! An interview with Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez of Love & Rockets fame! A political rant with spot illustrations from the inimitable Bob Fingerman! An interview with, and feature on, the fantastical Nnedi Okorafor! All that, plus new comic content, new fiction, personal essays on punk rock, comic art in museums, famous war photographers, and much, much more. Full Bleed is a brand-new quarterly, PRINT-ONLY 200-page hardcover 'magazine,' curated and edited by IDW Publishing's Dirk Wood and Ted Adams. By merging the best in comics, fiction, non-fiction, deep dive interviews, opinion, history, think-pieces and more, FULL BLEED will be a reading experience like no other, and a beautiful artisan addition to any bookshelf. Looking through an international lens, but filtered through the unique

Animator Yehudi Mercado brings the zaniness of Saturday-morning cartoons to this wacky graphic novel! Pantalones, TX follows the adventures of a band of misfit kids in a rural Texas town as they try to outwit, outrun, and outprank the ever-vigilant, fried chicken truck-riding sheriff and his giant chicken. Featuring spoof ads and an eye-popping orange casewrap in landscape trim, this book will appeal to boys, girls, and their Adult Swim-watching parents!

(W/A/CA) David Chelsea Six strange 24-hour comics in one deluxe hardcover volume! Strictly following rules devised by Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics), David Chelsea has created six inspired improvisations-each drawn in a single day! This hardcover collection is filled with experimentation, witty pun play, and inventive scenarios!

Escape from Inner-Earth! Derek Dynamo is a prisoner of The Exile - who has taken him deep into Inner-Earth. Now Super Dinosaur must assemble a team to save his best friend, but along the way, he will learn the secret of Inner-Earth - something that could bring about the fall of human civilization! Collects SUPER DINOSAUR #12-17

(W/A/CA) Azusa Banjo It's a familiar story: a popular high school student gives their plain friend a makeover and transforms their life. But this time, both the popular student and the plain friend are boys! Mido Kenshiro has loved cosmetics all his life, keeping his obsession a secret. But when his childhood friend Hiura lets Kenshiro practice applying makeup on him, the results are earth-shattering-for both of them!

(W) Shannon Hale (A/CA) LeUyen Pham The highly anticipated follow-up to the runaway hit graphic memoir Real Friends. Shannon knows sixth grade is going to be a perfect year. She's got a spot in the in-crowd called The Group, and her best friend is their leader Jen, the most popular girl in school. But the rules are always changing, and Shannon has to scramble to keep up. She never knows which TV shows are cool, what songs to listen to, and, most importantly, which boys you're allowed to talk to. Who makes these rules anyway? And does Shannon have to follow them to stay friends with The Group?

(A) Various Fun with the Friends continues in this anthology, jam-packed with one-offs of the Friends and their various adventures...and adorable art! For readers ages 10 and up.

In a world filled with super-heroes, one man stands apart, Neuron, the man responsible for saving the world, most particularly from the KHR Syndrome. But it was this very plague which began to change the world forever, filling its population of super heroes with a deadly new hunger - a hunger for human flesh!

(W) Various (A) Various (CA) George Perez Written by Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, and Paul Levitz Art by Jim Janes, Steve Ditko, and others Experience the Legionnaires? far-flung adventures leading up to the Great Darkness Saga in this follow-up collection of action-packed episodes from acclaimed talents Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, Paul Levitz, Jim Janes, Steve Ditko, and more! This second and final volume collects The Legion of Super-Heroes #272-283, DC Special Series #21, and The Best of DC: Blue Ribbon Digest #24.

Before Fredric Wertham and The Seduction of the Innocent (SOTI), before before the infamous Comics Code, the comic book racks at local drug stores and newsstands boasted a plethora of delights highlighted by the good girl adventures of the comic book version of Brenda Starr. These four-color wonders displayed all the finer things loved by comic book buyers: good girls, bondage, a little torture, and other delectable things, which adults thought would corrupt the morals of young and impressionable readers. Now, for the first time in over 50-years, comics fans can read and own these rare comics from another era, digitally restored to perfection and presented in an archival hardcover. This volume presents the remaining four Brenda Starr Pre-Code books, issues #9-12, and the very mod and 1960's version of Brenda drawn and scripted by Dale Messick.

(W/A) Usa Nintendo Take a globetrotting journey all over the world-and beyond!-with this companion art book to the hit video game for the Nintendo Switch™ system! In October of 2017, Super Mario Odyssey™ took the gaming world by storm. Now, discover the art and expertise that went into creating one of Nintendo's best-loved games! This full-color hardcover volume clocks in at 368 pages and features concept art, preliminary sketches, and notes from the development team, plus insight into some early ideas that didn't make it into the game itself! Explore the world of Super Mario Odyssey from every angle, including screen shots, marketing material, and more, to fully appreciate this captivating adventure.

The American Comic Book Chronicles continues! Kurt Mitchell and editor Roy Thomas composed this volume about the 'Golden Age' of the comic book industry, a five-year period that presented the earliest adventures of such iconic super-heroes as Batman, Captain Marvel, Superman, and Wonder Woman. It was a time when America's entry into World War II was presaged by the arrival of such patriotic do-gooders as Will Eisner's Uncle Sam, Harry Shorten and Irv Novick's The Shield, and Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Captain America. It was when teenage culture found expression in a fumbling red-haired high school student named Archie Andrews. But most of all, the first five years of the 1940s was the age of the 'packagers' when studios headed by men like Harry A Chesler, Will Eisner, and Jerry Iger churned out material for a plethora of new comic book companies that published the entire gamut of genres, from funny animal stories to crime tales to jungle sagas to science-fiction adventures. These are just a few of the events chronicled in this exhaustive, full-color hardcover.

(W/A/CA) Matt Kindt From the imagination of Matt Kindt, 2 Sisters is at once a fanciful World War II thriller full of codes, gadgets, and cyanide capsules and the heartbreaking story of Elle and Anna, whose shared past and secrets are dredged up when Elle is recruited into His Majesty's service as a covert agent!

(W) Rekomaru Otoi The Epiphany maidens now have a new weapon with which to challenge the gods-the conception awakening! Meanwhile, Hironori and Lina quickly grow more intimate, and a new side to the Epiphany Maidens is revealed as friends and enemies join the fray?

Double Fine Productions is renowned for making videogames such as Psychonauts, Br?tal Legend, and Iron Brigade. Scott Campbell (or Scott C) came on as art director for Psychonauts and started drawing comics as a morning warm up. These comics were then uploaded to doublefine.com and the world was made amazing. Now you can own them in print form! This very book contains the first 300 strips plus magnificent bonuses! You'll laugh like crazy, and join the world in feeling amazing.

Friends Forever celebrates the magic of friendship in these stand-alone tales featuring all of your favorite characters. Share adventures with Princess Luna and Spike, Applejack and Mayor Mare, Twilight Sparkle and Big Mac, Rarity and The Cakes, and many more! Collects issues #13-24.

(W) Greg Pak, Jonathan Coulton (A/CA) Takeshi Miyaza In The Princess Who Saved Her Friends, Princess Gloria Cheng Epstein Takahara de la Garza Champion continues to explore the good-and sometimes bad-sides of friendship. Gloria has always used determination, bravery, and understanding to build relationships and overcome strife in her friendships with monsters and witches, but how will she handle the discovery that the witch she befriended might not be such a great friend after all? Reuniting the team behind Mech Cadet Yu, join New York Times best-selling writer Greg Pak (Darth Vader) and illustrator Takeshi Miyazawa (Ms. Marvel) for this charming graphic novel sequel based on the beloved song by internet superstar musician Jonathan Coulton.

The start of Geoff Johns's amazing run on JSA is collected in this massive hardcover that reintroduces the world's first super team to the modern-day DC Universe! Collected here are JSA #1-25, JSA ANNUAL #1, JSA SECRET FILES #2, JLA/JSA: VIRTUE AND VICE, JSA: OUR WORLDS AT WAR #1, JLA/JSA SECRET FILES #1, SECRET ORIGINS OF SUPER VILLAINS #1, JSA ALL STARS #1-8, ALL STAR COMICS #1-2, ALL AMERICAN COMICS #1, ADVENTURE COMICS #1, ADVENTURE COMICS #1, NATIONAL COMICS #1, SENSATION COMICS #1, SMASH COMICS #1, STAR SPANGLED COMICS #1 and THRILLING COMICS #1!

(W) Shannon Hale (A/CA) LeUyen Pham The highly anticipated follow-up to the runaway hit graphic memoir Real Friends. Shannon knows sixth grade is going to be a perfect year. She's got a spot in the in-crowd called The Group, and her best friend is their leader Jen, the most popular girl in school. But the rules are always changing, and Shannon has to scramble to keep up. She never knows which TV shows are cool, what songs to listen to, and, most importantly, which boys you're allowed to talk to. Who makes these rules anyway? And does Shannon have to follow them to stay friends with The Group? Available in softcover and hardcover editions.

(W/A) Various (CA) Bill Golliher Archie Andrews presents the ultimate guide to his world in this collection of stories featuring everything from hi-tech hijinks to super heroics! Want to learn how to successfully date from the best? Well, maybe successful isn't the best word? but if you want to learn both the 'Do's' AND 'Don'ts' of dating, then you've just struck gold! Archie is back to his poorly-managed love triangle, as he traverses Riverdale with his friends in adventures both slapstick and sensational!

In 1939, MARVEL COMICS (soon renamed MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS) launched a storytelling revolution that lasted eight decades and ultimately birthed the modern Marvel Universe! The title's first year was a mix of pulp adventure seeded with the first sparks of the colorful heroes to come - but in its second year, MARVEL MYSTERY followed the path of the fiery Human Torch and the aquatic Sub-Mariner with super heroes galore! Those twin trailblazers were soon joined by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Vision, the all-American Patriot and the joyously wild robot Electro. Backed up by boy sleuth Terry Vance, the pre-comics jungle king Ka-Zar and the noir adventurer the Angel, each issue delivered 64 pages of nonstop 1940s action! Now, relive the glories of the Golden Age in this painstakingly restored, oversized Omnibus edition! Collecting MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #13-24. Rated T

This is where it begins! The Evil Max Maximus wants to get to Inner-Earth! He wants the dinosaurs that live there! He wants the powerful DynOre mineral that originates there! SUPER DINOSAUR and DEREK DYNAMO are the only ones who can stop him! The fate of the world rests on the shoulders of a ten year-old kid and his best friend, a nine-foot tall Tyrannosaurus Rex who loves to play video games. Collects SUPER DINOSAUR #1-5 and SUPER DINOSAUR ORIGIN SPECIAL #1

Kaori is taking steps to face Hajime, a friend from elementary school that she has since forgotten. But with Hajime in the picture, how will the bond between Yuuki and Kaori shift? Are things looking up for their friendship, or??

(W) VARIOUS (A) Various Just when you thought it was safe to venture out - we bring you the strangest tales ever told at Midnight! I mean, c'mon! The original copies of these comics will have been swapped a hundred-fold or sold for pennies when the recess bell sounded in the magical long-ago frightful freakin' fab 'n' fantastic fifties schoolyards. And now you can pick 'em up for peanuts! Go get, 'em folks! I'm getting all wistful so you'll have to excuse me... it starts good and just keeps right on gettin' gooder. But then it's PS Artbooks, you warriors, so get with the program! Collects Midnight Vol. 1 #1-5 from Farrell Comics, published between April 1957 and February 1958. Available in Hardcover and Slipcased Hardcover editions.

(W) Mike Millar (A) Frank Quitely & Various (CA) Frank Quitely Collecting the entire second half of THE AUTHORITY's groundbreaking first series, this new edition of THE ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY VOL. 2 includes Mark Millar's legendary run, presented in its unexpurgated form for the first time. From deposing monarchs to posing for magazine covers, from the heights of popularity to the bottom of the barrel, THE AUTHORITY redefined the comic book super-team. This slipcased, oversized hardcover volume includes THE AUTHORITY #13-29, THE AUTHORITY ANNUAL 2000 and stories from WILDSTORM SUMMER SPECIAL!

(W/A) JP Coovert Inside this volume of the popular new DIY comic series you'll find all the tips and tricks you need to create and print your own comic books! The International Comics Library is in a lot of trouble! If Maggie can't come up with $500,000 in a week, Dr. Carl is going to bulldoze her grandfather's library and turn it into a parking lot! To save the day, she'll need all her comic drawing skills, the loyal library watchdog, and her new assistant (that's you!). With Draw a Comic! you'll learn to create and print your own comics books! Follow these simple steps to sketch out your story ideas and ink a comic page. Learn which art supplies are best for drawing comics, you can use a pen, a brush, or even a computer! With the help of photocopy machine, you can even self-publish your own comics and share them with your friends!

(W/A) Valve Corp Valve Corporation and Dark Horse Books are proud to present this complete collection of the web comics produced by Valve that dive deeper into the many characters and events from the game. Collected for the first time ever, DOTA 2: The Comic Collection is a must-have item for comics fans and DOTA heroes alike.

Written by Penciled by Cover by Steve Rogers was America's first Super-Soldier - Captain America - and he's fought for his country since World War II. Now a face from the past reappears, a woman that cannot be alive because Steve watched her die! Steve has fought for so long, and lost so much -- is his past coming back to haunt him now? Or could this be the plot of an old enemy who controls nearly everything he touches, including Steve's mind? From multiple Award-Winning Captain America scribe Ed Brubaker and acclaimed artist Dale Eaglesham comes a book no Cap or Avengers fan will want to miss! Collecting STEVE ROGERS: SUPER-SOLDIER #1-4. Rated T+

(W) Sarah Graley, Stef Purenins (A/CA) Sarah Graley Just how much of the bed should your cats get to take up? If you lose at your video game, should you get a conciliatory hug? Does your partner think that you're beautiful even though you feel like a goblin today? If any of this sounds familiar, you're in the right place! Sarah Graley's second collection of hit diary webcomic Our Super Adventure shares three more years of cute and weird moments of Sarah's life with her partner Stef and their four cats: Pesto, Toby, Pixel and Wilson! So whether you're a heat vampire, the person who doesn't want to share that last donut, or even someone who's late to a party because a cat was sleeping on them, you'll find that Video Games and Pizza Parties is packed full of strange yet wonderful moments that anyone can relate to!

Fans of Kate Beaton and Sarah Andersen will love this collection of the hit webcomic OUR SUPER ADVENTURE by Sarah Graley (Rick and Morty, Kim Reaper)! Eating too much pizza together. Smelling your cats. Figuring out how to spend your evening when the internet has suddenly stopped working. Relationships are full of sweet and quirky little moments! Sarah Graley's first collection of the hit diary webcomic Our Super Adventure chronicles two years of these strange, relatable instances, as she navigates life with four cats and one cat-like boy. Whether it's that feeling of getting the entire bed when your partner gets up before you, or the heartbreaking realisation that the love of your life has burned the microwave popcorn, Press Start To Begin documents all the weird little everyday flashes of shared absurdity that make up a relationship.

The first-ever anthology of National Lampoon cartoonist Charles Rodrigues is a cavalcade of hilarious selfcontained comic strips and serials that boggle the mind and challenge all sense of decency and propriety. Featured are a cast of grotesqueries and na?fs along with 'biographies' of Marilyn Monroe, Abbie Hoffman, Eugene O'Neill, and others. Whilst Charles Rodrigues may be gone and almost forgotten, this collection will rectify at least one of those tragedies.

(W/A/CA) Matcha Hazuki With a soft art style, Matcha Hazuki tells a bittersweet story about a girl who loses her memory each week and the boy who resolves to befriend her each time. Even with Yuki's memory of Kaoru disappearing each Monday, he continues to persist in befriending her every week! Each time their friendship deepens, despite Yuki's condition. Can Kaoru make an impression on her with his willfull question, 'Would you like to be friends?'