The kind folks at NBM have supplied ComicList with their solicitations for comics and other products featured in the July 2009 Previews, scheduled to ship September 2009.
JOE & AZAT
Jesse LONERGAN
Joe is an American in the strange land of Turkmenistan who finds a good friend in Azat, a Turkmen dreamer whose optimism knows no bounds. With tales of doomed desert cab rides, nights of endless vodka shots, unlikely Turkmen business schemes, and secret girlfriends, Lonergan captures not only the bizarreness of living in a country where the president for life launches copies of his poetry books into space, outlaws gold teeth and renames the months and days, but also reveals that there is hope in seemingly hopeless situations. Based loosely on Lonergan's Peace Corps experience in the former Soviet republic.
6×9, 104 pp., B&W trade pb.: $10.95, ISBN 978-1-56163-570-2
Jesse's been blogging regularly about this book and other musings. This is an entertaining travelog of sorts, a great bit of escape into the wilds of the world (see the preview pages). If you've missed his Flower & Fade, check it out. It's about a relationship that comes and goes. Sounds run of the mill, right? Well, it's how Jesse handles it that's, once again, quite entertaining and different.
New from Eurotica:
Also of note this September is Eurotica bringing back out the long out of print classic The Story of O as adapted to comics by erotic comics master Guido Crepax. We started Eurotica back in the late eighties with this great masterpiece of bondage and sold tens of thousands of copies in a few volumes over the years. But this time we're doing it as an omnibus, as they like to call 'em now, and a handsome clothbound edition as we did for First Time.
With all the bunk readily available in adult on the net, Eurotica continues to provide something worth actually keeping on your shelf:
THE STORY OF O
Pauline REAGE • Guido CREPAX
The classic is back! Pauline Reage's classic of submission and bondage shocked the world when it came out in the fifties. The great Italian erotic comics artist Crepax then adapted it into comics in the mid seventies. Eurotica started with this book and sold tens of thousands of copies in a multi-volume edition. The story of a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer who, out of love for her man, is willingly blindfolded, chained, whipped, branded, pierced, and taken by many men in all ways, O is one of the all-time great classics of erotic literature and Crepax' adaptation stands equally as one the great classics of erotic comics. Out of print for some years, it is now brought back in a beautiful, library-worthy omnibus edition with gold stamped jacket and cloth.
8 1/2 x 11, 176pp., B&W jacketed hardcover, $24.95,
ISBN 978-1-56163-573-3
NEW FROM PAPERCUTZ:
In Septermber, besides a new Hardy Boys (vol.18) with a new cover look and a boxed set of volumes 13-16, you might want to take note of this:
CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #6: The Scarlet Letter
By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Adapted by P. Craig Russell
Jill Thompson, Artist
D. H. Lawrence said that there could be no more perfect work of the American imagination than "The Scarlet Letter," which makes it ideal material for CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED. Adapted by award-winning graphic novelists P. Craig Russell and Jill Thompson. In addition to his incredible graphic adaptations of operas, the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde, and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, P. Craig Russell is known for both his collaborations with best-selling author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman story "Ramadan") and adaptations of Gaiman's works, such as "Coraline" and "Sandman: The Endless," all of which makes Russell an inspired choice to adapt "The Scarlet Letter." Russell broke down the novel into comicbook script form as well as page layouts, providing artist Jill Thompson, also a well-known Neil Gaiman collaborator ("Sandman: Brief Lives"), the foundation for her beautifully painted comics pages.
6 1/2 x9, 56pp., full color hardcover $9.95,
ISBN-13: 978-1-59707-162-8
