256 page FULL-COLOR Trade Paperback - Edited by Joe Meno

BrickJournal magazine is the ultimate resource for LEGO enthusiasts of all ages, and this FULL-COLOR book compiles the first three digital-only issues from 2005-2007, in printed form for the first time ever! It spotlights all aspects of the LEGO Community, showcasing events, people, and models, with contributions and how-to articles by top builders worldwide, new product intros, and more! Featured are interviews with: Lego car builder Zachary Sweigart (showing his version of the time-traveling Delorean from the movie Back to the Future), Jørgen Vig Knudstorp (CEO of LEGO Systems, Inc.), Mecha builders Bryce McLone and Jeff Ranjo, paraplegic Lego builder Scott Warfield, Bob Carney (Lego castle builder extraordinaire) and Ralph Savelsburg (Lego plane builder), Reverend Brendan Powell Smith (author of the Lego version of the Bible), NASA Astronaut Trainer Kieth Johnson, Jake McKee (Global Community Director for The Lego Group), builder Jason Allemann on recreating the spacecraft from 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: The Year We Make Contact, features on the Bionicle universe, how to make your own custom bricks, plus building instructions and techniques, and more! Edited by Joe Meno.

NOTE: The issues printed here are different than the new print edition.

ISBN-13: 978-1-893905-97-9
ISBN-10: 1-893905-97-7

Review:

• 2008 September 26 - Weekend Shopping Guide by Ken PLUME on Quick Stop Entertainment
  

224 page FULL-COLOR Trade Paperback - Edited by Joe Meno

BrickJournal Compendium, Volume Two, compiles issues #4-5 of the acclaimed online magazine for LEGO enthusiasts of all ages—for the first time in printed form! This FULL-COLOR book spotlights all aspects of the LEGO Community through interviews with: Mike Wilder (about using a Mindstorms robot to film a 3-D documentary) and Mark Larson (creator of the Fabuland Housewifes online comic strip), Alban Nanty on his Lego-based Star Wars® film, plus features on Lego character sculptures, tutorials on LCad software for creating projects, an examination of Legoland's history, behind the scenes at a Lego factory, building big with Legos (from castles and rollercoasters to ships and skyscrapers), creating custom minifigures, instructions and building techniques, and more! Edited by Joe Meno.

ISBN-13: 978-1-605490-02-1
ISBN-10: 1-605490-02-4

192-page Trade Paperback - Edited by Roy Thomas

The acclaimed magazine ALTER EGO first took the world by storm in the 1960s as the premier ’zine about comics. After abandoning it for a two-decade career as a major writer and editor for Marvel and DC Comics, Roy resurrected it in 1999, and this trade paperback collects the first two issues, plus 30 pages of new material! Behind a new JLA Jam Cover by JOE KUBERT, GEORGE PÉREZ, DICK GIORDANO, GEORGE TUSKA, NICK CARDY, RAMONA FRADON, & JOE GIELLA, you’ll find: GIL KANE, JULIUS SCHWARTZ, & GARDNER FOX on the creation of the Silver Age Atom! “The STAN LEE Roast” co-starring SAL BUSCEMA, JOHN ROMITA, PETER DAVID, CHRIS CLAREMONT, JIM SHOOTER, et al.! MICHAEL T. GILBERT on WILL EISNER’s 1966 Spirit story! ROY THOMAS, JERRY ORDWAY, & MIKE MACHLAN on creating Infinity, Inc.! Interviews with LARRY LIEBER, IRWIN HASEN, & JACK BURNLEY! Wonder Woman rarities, with art by H.G. PETER! How MARV WOLFMAN rescued Golden Age art! Plus ROBERT KANIGHER, BILL SCHELLY on comics fandom, FCA (Fawcett Collectors of America) with MARC SWAYZE, C.C. BECK, MAC RABOY, & RICHARD DEANE TAYLOR—and more, including special New Sections featuring scarce art by GIL KANE, WILL EISNER, CARMINE INFANTINO, MIKE SEKOWSKY, MURPHY ANDERSON, DICK DILLIN, plus all seven of our super-star cover artists!

ISBN-13: 978-1-893905-59-7
ISBN-10: 1-893905-59-4
Diamond Order Code: APR063420

You can look through this book on Google Books!

Review:

• Steven Grant's Review-O-Rama - 20 September 2006
• MBR's California Bookwatch - October 2006
• by Matthew Moyer via Ink19 - October 2006
  

192-page Trade Paperback - Edited by Roy Thomas & Bill Schelly with an introduction by the late Julius Schwartz

In 1961, Jerry Bails and Roy Thomas launched Alter Ego, the first fanzine devoted to comic books and their colorful history. This volume, first published in low distribution in 1997, collects the original 11 issues (published from 1961-78) of A/E, with the creative and artistic contributions of Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Wally Wood, John Buscema, Marie Severin, Bill Everett, Russ Manning, Curt Swan, & others—and important, illustrated interviews with Gil Kane, Bill Everett, & Joe Kubert! See where a generation first learned about the Golden Age of Comics—while the Silver Age was in full flower—with major articles on the Justice Society, the Marvel Family, the MLJ heroes, and more!

128 page trade paperback - by Christopher IRVING

TwoMorrows Publishing proudly presents a new book series that spotlights indy comics talent with an outside-the-box approach. Through a combination of original photography, multiple art gallery sections, and an introspective dialogue with each subject, Comics Introspective is unlike anything being published. Volume One features Peter Bagge, whose unique, expressive work runs the gamut from political (his strips for reason.com), to absurdist and satirical (the Batboy strip for Weekly World News), and dramatic (Apocalypse Nerd). From his Seattle studio, Bagge lets journalist Christopher Irving in on everything from just what was on his mind with his long-running Gen X comic Hate!, to what’s going on in his head as a political satirist. This debut volume features an assortment of artwork picked by Bagge himself, and is printed on deluxe glossy stock to maximize the impact of the art and photography—all working to make it as breakthrough as the innovator it covers.

Check out a 60 page PDF preview of this book. Also, we've got a PDF flyer that you can download and print out. (Flyer drawn by Mister Oura.)

ISBN-13: 978-1-893905-83-2
ISBN-10: 1-893905-83-7
Diamond Order Code: MAY073779

68 page Magazine - by Pete Von Sholly

If you like comics fan mags, boy, are you gonna hate this! It’s COMIC BOOK NERD, PETE VON SHOLLY’s side-splitting parody of the fan press, including our own mags! Experience the magic(?) of such publications as Whizzer, the Comics Urinal, Ultra Ego, Comics Buyer’s Guise, Bagged Issue!, Comic Book Meatmarket, Scrawl!, Comic Book Artiste, Purviews, and more, as we unabashedly poke fun at ourselves, our competitors, and you, our loyal readers! It’s a FULL-COLOR first issue, collector’s item, double-bag, slab-worthy, keep behind the counter, speculator’s special sure to rub even the thickest-skinned fanboy the wrong way! If you buy only one magazine this month, we’re probably not going to make any money off you, so go ’way. Otherwise, be sure to order a copy of each of our 5000 variant covers (which, come to think of it, all look pretty much the same)!

Check out our 16 page (4M PDF) preview!

Reviews:

• Oddball Comics
• Lord Shazam's Blog
• Ink 19
• Steven Grant's Permanent Damage - 16 August 2006
• NeedCoffee.com's Magazine of the Week - 14 September 2006
  

68 pages - Comicbook size

Released in conjunction with our trade paperback AGAINST THE GRAIN, the WALLACE WOOD CHECKLIST is the most thorough listing of Wood’s work ever published!

An unprecedented reference to Wood’s work! Lists his published comics WORK in detail, plus FANZINE ART, ADVERTISING ILLUSTRATIONS, unpublished work, & more. Indispensible for serious Wood collectors!

208 page Trade Paperback - by Blake Bell

Will Eisner does *what*? Alan Moore said *that*? Dave Sim is *really* like that? Take a deep look into what its been like living with comic book creators over the past 60 years, with the people who know them best! This trade paperback explores the lives of the partners and wives of Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Stan Lee, Joe Kubert, Harvey Kurtzman, John Romita, Gene Colan, Dan DeCarlo, Dick Ayers, Archie Goodwin, Ric Estrada, Dave Sim, Howard Cruse, Dave Cooper, and more! In addition to sharing memories and anecdotes you'll find nowhere else, their better halves have opened up private files to unearth personal photos, momentos, and never-before-seen art by the top creators in comics! Once you've read this book, you'll see: You only thought you knew them!

ISBN-13: 978-1-893905-16-0
ISBN-10: 1-893905-16-0
Diamond Order Code: JUN022611

48 page Magazine - by Pete Von Sholly

Do you like OLD MONSTER MOVIES? Do you like OLD MONSTER MOVIE MAGAZINES? Do you like to laugh like an HYSTERICAL MANIAC? Chances are you like one of them things! If so you will FLIP OUT at the SECOND GREAT ISSUE of CRAZY HIP GROOVY GO GO WAY OUT MONSTERS, the RETRO MONSTER MOVIE MAGAZINE that is a laugh riot lampoon of those GREAT (and absolutely abominable) magazines of the 1950s and ’60s! Relive your misspent youth (not to mention your misspent allowance) and become the Blob yourself as you dig the hilarious photos, ads, and articles skewering OUR FAVORITE THINGS of the past... all in the MONSTER MAGAZINE that you will have you saying once again, “Why did I buy that?” CHIGGWOM!!! (Pronounced “chig-wom!”) Remember what we always say: “For people who like this sort of thing... this is the sort of thing they like!”

48 page Magazine - by Pete Von Sholly

Remember when monster magazines were new? Remember when they were great? When they were loaded with cool articles and pictures and behind-the-scenes glimpses into who did what - and how - on your favorite monster films? Then boy, are you old! CRAZY HIP GROOVY GO-GO WAY-OUT MONSTERS is a twisted, hilarious, backward plunge into the fun we thought we were having, replete with fake letters-to-the-editor, phony ads for worthless, wacky stuff, tons of stills from imaginary films as bad as any that were really made, interviews with their "creators," - and much more! CHGGGWOM is the magazine that never was - and all the ones that really were! Hollywood storyboard legend Pete Von Sholly ("Mars Attacks," "Darkman") has created this outlandish spoof that will seem like EIGHTY PAGES of filler and reprints! Noted film director Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption," "The Green Mile") says, "CHGGGWOM is a laff riot, Von Sholly style!" Don’t miss it!

224 page Trade Paperback - Edited by Jon B. Cooke

It’s the ’70s Marvel Monster Marching Society versus the Independent Comics of the ’80s in the Eisner Award-winning CBA’s third compilation, re-presenting that acclaimed mag’s seventh and eighth sold-out issues. Behind a new cover by Michael T. Gilbert, featuring his great creation Mr. Monster doing battle with various Marvel monsters, you’ll find interviews with Gilbert, Steve Rude, Paul Gulacy, Steve Gerber, Don Simpson, Howard Chaykin, Scott McCloud, Rich Buckler, John Byrne, Denis Kitchen, and many others, as well as an all-new bonus section featuring over 24 pages of cool, previously-unseen stuff (including a hilarious look at the bizarre melding of two popular ’70s series, War of the Worlds on the Planet of the Apes!). Whether you¹re interested in the horror-fueled, Kung Fu capers of Marvel in the “Me Decade,” or the ascension of the independent creators during the Reagan era, this collection is the one for you!

ISBN-13: 978-1-893905-42-9
ISBN-10: 1-893905-42-X
Diamond Order Code: FEB053098

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Reviews:

• Need Coffee. com Weekly Recommendations: Comic Collection of the Week 1 May 2005