Search Results: Comics from Exchange Value Books

Editions Pow Pow; Montreal, QC, 2016. 1st Edition. Softcover. Like New. 0x0x0. Softcover. French language. Text clean. Brown cover. 92 pages. Comics. 2010. Montreal, QC.

Printed in Japan, 1991. Softcover. Very Good Minus/Good. 0x0x0. [COMICS]. Osamu Tezuka. "Aufruf an Adolf! Number 2." Printed in Japan, 1991. Japanese language. Softcover in dust jacket. Price sticker on back of dust jacket. 7 x 5 x 0.5 in. 18 x 13 x 2 cm. 10 oz. 250 pp. Back cover bows out. Stain at bottom of back cover. Yellowing of pages. Text clean. A Japanese manga comic about World War 2. Very Good Minus. ISBN: 4168501140.

Bloomington, IN: Nate Powell, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Good. [COMICS]. Powell, Nate, and Rachel Bormann. "Bets Are Off / Cakewalk." Bloomington, IN: Nate Powell, 2008. First edition. English language. Stapled dos-a-dos zine with yellow and black covers. Text with black and white illustrations. 8.5 x 7 in. 22 x 18 cm. 2 oz. pp. 28. Tidelines on cover of Cakewalk. Wear evident. Bleeding onto title page. Small tear at top of front cover. Text clean. Good. "A split zine! Except both sides are comics by Nate Powell! One side, Cakewalk, is written by Rachel Bormann, and the other is an illustrated version of a Pretty Girls Make Graves song called Bets Are Off. In Cakewalk, a young white girl named Sara dresses up as Aunt Jemima for Halloween, smearing coal on her face. She goes to school, fantasizing that her teachers and classmates will applaud her creativity, only to be reprimanded and sent to the office. In Bets Are Off, two teenagers take a bus and run away from home. Nate is a… Read More

Art School Comics; Brooklyn, NY, 2021. 1st Edition. Softcover. Fine. 20-page stapled three-color comic zine on card stock. Art School Comics; Brooklyn, NY, 2021. "Can a super-powered cavewoman stop the collapse of history before it begins?!

Uncivilized Komicxs; Minneapolis, MN, 2020. 1st Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 24 page stapled standard size comic book with screen-printed card stock covers. No issues. Text clean. Small spot on back cover. "As the planet balances on a razor’s edge, the end of the world, our world, is not theoretical anymore. What will it look like? What will it feel like? Only through comics can we hope to understand the next stage of human development. It’s the blackpilled, exhaustive, post-crisis, all-apocalypse issue of CARTOON DI(E)ALECTICS. Explore: extinction events, the nature of nature, and the typical post-apocalypse scenario. Remember, the apocalypse is the suburb of Utopia... An eschatological tour de force by Tom Kaczynski.Tom K(aczynski) is an immigrant, cartoonist, writer, teacher, and founder of Uncivilized Books. His comics include the Eisner-nominated Beta Testing the Apocalypse (Fantagraphics) and the forthcoming Trans Terra. Cartoon Dialectics Vol. 3 won… Read More

Peradam Publishing: New York, 2014. First edition, stated. Softcover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. [COMICS]. Koch, Aidan. "Impressions." New York: Peradam Publishing, 2014. First edition, stated. Limited to 1000 copies. English language. Softcover. Full-color illustrations. 8.25 x 6 x 0.25 in. 21 x 15 x 1 cm. 5 oz. 72 pp. Top right-hand corner of front cover stubbed. Price in pencil on half-title. Text clean. Near Fine. ISBN: 9780990644828."Impressions is Aidan Koch's third graphic novel. It tells the story of a young figure model and her relationships with her mother, her best friend, and the man drawing her. Set in an ambiguously modern time, the book captures a young woman's reluctant journey into self-awareness. Impressions was painted over three months at the Maison Des Auteurs residency in rural France, where Koch spent the spring of 2014. Aidan is a visual artist and storyteller based in New York.

Breakdown Press: London, UK, 2015. 2nd Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. [COMICS]. ALBERT, Lauren. "Janus." Breakdown Press; London, 2015. Printed by Victory Press. Second Edition. English language. Softcover. 48 pp. 170 x 240mm. Perfect-bound. Text clean. Graphic novel Risograph printed in blue, black and white. From the Aidan Koch / Kramers Ergot-school of comics. Near Fine. No ISBN. "Janus is the latest mysterious, ethereal, beautiful comic from New Yorker Lala Albert. In her own words:"Janus is a person trying to contain her wandering sense of self within removable modifications to her outward appearance. A mask, silicone skin-suit, webcams and mirrors only serve to widen the gap between mind and body. She is swept up in a world between ocean tides but lacks connection to her surroundings and the life happening around her.

Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2006. Softcover. Very Good Plus. 0x0x0. [COMICS]. Johnson, R. Kikuo. "Lignes de fuite." Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2006. French language black and white comic book. Softcover. 10 x 7 x 0.5 in. 25 x 18 x 1.5 cm. 18 oz. pp. 143. Top right-hand corner crimped. Price in pencil on first page. Text clean. Very Good Plus. ISBN: 9782020891394."First-rate prep school, SUV, and a dream house in the heights ― an island paradise was handed to Loren Foster when he moved to Hawaii with his father six years ago. Now, with the end of high school just around the corner, his best friend, Shane, has grown distant. Rumors abound. Loren suspects that Shane has left him behind for a new group of friends. Their friendship is put to the test when they get mixed up in a petty crime. Johnson has a naturalistic ease in exploring these relationships, which sets this drama… Read More

Barcelona, ES: Ediciones La Cupula, 2012. Softcover. Near Fine. 19x19x11. [COMICS]. Davodeau, Etienne. "Los Ignorantes: Relato de una inicacion cruzada." Barcelona, ES: Ediciones La Cupula, 2012. Spanish language. Softcover with French flaps. Black and white graphic novel. 9.5 x 7 x 1 in. 24 x 17 x 2.5 cm. 24 oz. 270 pp. Rubbing on edges. Use. Tidelines visible along gutter on inside front cover / first page, and at top of page block. Text clean. Very Good Minus. ISBN: 9788418809330.

Zeitheist Productions, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good. [COMICS]. Stephens, Joshua Ray. "The Moth or the Flame." Zeitheist Productions, 2007. Printed by Regal Printing in Hong Kong. English language comics. Hardcover with no dust jacket as issued. Key lime cloth boards. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 96 pages. Price sticker on inside front endpaper. Name [Nick Montfort, Boston 2009] on title page in pencil. Text clean. Near Fine. No ISBN. "The Moth or the Flame takes up the question of exploitive relationships, specifically, who is more at fault? Is it the exploiter, who simply follows his or her rapacious instincts? Or is it the exploited, who, in voluntary situations, sacrifices long-term well-being for short-term happiness? Stephens frames the issue with the story of a sugar-daddy relationship between his two main characters: the wealthy Tempest McGillicutty and a young woman named Tealeaf Rosewallow. Explicitly allegorical, it's a Faust parable at heart, and like most such stories, it's a… Read More

Haus Galerii; Tallinn, EE, 2009. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. [COMICS]. Ed. Andreas Trossek. Contributors: Edvin Aedma, Peeter Krosmann, Kristel Maamagi, Urmas Oja, Minna Prikk, Alekokk, Lilli-Kroot Repnau, Martin Rasta, Tarmo Salin, Elina Sildre, Joonas Sildre, Sander Taal, Margus Tamm, Nele Tammisto, Veiko Tammjarv, Olga Temnikova, Paco Ulman. "Narratiivsus piltides: Eesti Â’00 aastate autorikoomiks, osa 2 (Narration in Pictures: Estonian Alternative Comics from the 00's, Part 2)." Haus Galerii; Tallinn, EE, 2009. English and Estonian languages. Softcover with French flaps. 204 pages. Text and black and white images. Price in pencil on title page. Minor wear. Text clean. Faint tideline visible at top of back cover near spine and at bottom of back cover.. Some discoloration on back cover. Not all comics are in both languages. Good. ISBN: 9789985986264.

Seoul: Jjokkpress, 2019. Korean. Softcover. Near Fine/Very Good. [COMICS]. Johnson, R. Kikuo. "Night Fisher." Seoul: Jjokkpress, 2019. Korean language black and white comic book. Softcover in jacket. 9.5 x 7 x 0.5 in. 24 x 17 x 1 cm. 15 oz. pp. 137. Top of jacket spine rubbed, worn. Price in pencil on free front endpaper. Text clean. Near Fine. ISBN: 9791189519032."First-rate prep school, SUV, and a dream house in the heights ― an island paradise was handed to Loren Foster when he moved to Hawaii with his father six years ago. Now, with the end of high school just around the corner, his best friend, Shane, has grown distant. Rumors abound. Loren suspects that Shane has left him behind for a new group of friends. Their friendship is put to the test when they get mixed up in a petty crime. Johnson has a naturalistic ease in exploring these relationships, which sets this drama apart. This graphic novel debut is at once an unsentimental… Read More

Vancouver: Read Leaf and Grunt Gallery, 2011. Hardcover. Near Fine. 7x0x9. [COMICS]. Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. Edited by Liz Park. "Old Growth." Vancouver: Read Leaf and Grunt Gallery, 2011. English language. Hardcover. Text with full-color and black and white comics. 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches. 24 oz. 176 pp. Price on half-title in pencil. Text clean. Shelf-wear. Near Fine. ISBN: 9781897476963."Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a renowned Haida artist who, gradually, during a thirty-year career as a political activist, began to apply classic Haida visual forms and narratives to contemporary means of communications, including political cartoons and comics...Old Growth chronicles over thirty years of Yahgulanaas' graphic works that document the history of political negotiations and cultural conflict off the Northwest Coast of Canada from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Containing studies and experiments, finished work previously unpublished, and works that few have seen, this book reflects… Read More

Verlag bbb Edition Moderne AG, 2004. German Hardcover. Hardcover. Like New/No Jacket as Issued. 0x0x0. Satrapi, Marjane. "Persepolis: Eine Kindheit im Iran [German]." Edition Moderne; Zurich, Switzerland, 2004. German language. Hardcover. No jacket as issued. Black and white graphic Novel. 160 pages. Text clean. Like New. ISBN: 9783907055748.

Barcelona: La Cupula Comix, 2006. Softcover. Very Good Plus. 6x0x9. [COMICS]. Johnson, R. Kikuo. "Pescador nocturno." Barcelona: La Cupula Comix, 2006. Spanish language black and white comic book. Softcover with French flaps. 9.5 x 7 x 0.5 in. 24 x 17 x 1.5 cm. 19 oz. pp. 139. Covers toned. Small crease in back cover. Price in pencil on title page. Text clean. Very Good Plus. ISBN: 9788478337231."First-rate prep school, SUV, and a dream house in the heights ― an island paradise was handed to Loren Foster when he moved to Hawaii with his father six years ago. Now, with the end of high school just around the corner, his best friend, Shane, has grown distant. Rumors abound. Loren suspects that Shane has left him behind for a new group of friends. Their friendship is put to the test when they get mixed up in a petty crime. Johnson has a naturalistic ease in exploring these relationships, which sets this drama apart. This graphic novel… Read More

Short Pants Press; Chicago, IL, 2005. Softcover. Very Good. [COMICS]. Becan, Sarah, and David Becan. "Shuteye #1: Vea." Short Pants Press; Chicago, IL, 2005. English language. Stapled softcover zine with screenprinted card-stock covers. 5.5 x 8.5. 26 pp black and white comic. Text clean. No issues. Very Good Plus. No ISBN. "A Catalan named Vea deserts his company of explorers in the Banda Oriental.

Jason Levian, Zack Soto: Portland, OR, 2010. Limited to 500 copies. Softcover. Very Good. [COMICS]. Michael DeForge, Aidan Koch, Eleanor Davis, Vanessa Davis, Blaise Larmee, Jim Rugg, et al. "StudyGroup12, No. 4, Vol. 1, Fall 2010." Portland, OR: Jason Levian, Zack Soto, 2010. Limited to 500 copies, this being 265/500. English language. Softcover. Screen-printed covers. 11.5 x 8.5 x 0.25 in. 29 x 22 x 1 cm. 12 oz. 80 pp. Use. Wear. Text clean. Very Good. No ISBN. "The new evolution of the Ignatz Award-winning comics anthology STUDYGROUP12 is a lavish, handmade package with silkscreened covers & offset interiors and some of the best talent the comics industry has to offer!In the six years since issue three, editor Zack Soto focused on his own comics, including THE SECRET VOICE for Adhouse Books, moved to Portland, OR, and helped run local comics/art hub PONY CLUB GALLERY. During his tenure with the gallery, Soto curated several monthly group shows and met dozens of artists working… Read More