He is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a warrior of legendary prowess-relentless, fearless, merciless. As cold and brutal as the iron of the massive sword he wields. Bent on revenge against the unholy forces that have branded him for sacrifice, but especially on Griffith, one of the demon lords of the Godhand. But Griffith was once a man, the leader of the Hawks, a renowned cadre of elite fighters with a young Guts as its fiercest champion. Though forged in a crucible of cruelty and violence, nothing could prepare Guts for a confrontation with Nosferatu Zodd, a superhuman beast who slaughters Guts' comrades as easily as a scythe cuts wheat. Even Guts and Griffith are no match for the abomination's power ... but something Griffith wears around his neck may well be! • One of the most eagerly anticipated manga properties in recent years, Berserk was originally published in Japan and has been serialized in Young Animal Magazine since the early 1990s. • The Berserk manga has been adapted into a best-selling anime series available from Media Blasters! • NOTE: Each volume of Berserk is shipped shrink-wrapped and carries a cover content advisory.

Before giant robots, space ships, and masked super heroes filled the pages of Japanese comic books -- known as manga -- such characters were regularly seen on the streets of Japan in kamishibai stories. Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater tells the history of this fascinating and nearly vanished Japanese art form that paved the way for modern-day comic books, and is the missing link in the development of modern manga. During the height of kamishibai in the 1930s, storytellers would travel to villages and set up their butais (miniature wooden prosceniums), through which illustrated boards were shown. The storytellers acted as entertainers and reporters, narrating tales that ranged from action-packed westerns, period pieces, traditional folk tales, and melodramas, to nightly news reporting on World War II. More than just explaining the pictures, a good storyteller would act out the parts of each character with different voices and facial expressions. Through extensive research and interviews, author Eric P. Nash pieces together the remarkable history of this art and its creators. With rare images reproduced for the first time from Japanese archives, including full-length kamishibai stories, combined with expert writing, this book is an essential guide to the origins of manga. Introduction by Frederick L. Schodt. Hardcover, lots of color art.

Tank Girl's back and she's madder than ever! Join our bullet-spraying, bloke-spaying heroine as she yet again wreaks havoc on an unsuspecting world, with a titanic battle against evil bounty hunters, a fascinating odyssey through the culinary world, the astonishing, all-true story of popular beat combo The Smiths, the lovely Jet Girl, the unlovely Booga, and more dead nasties than you can shake some sick at! Tank Girl is "remastered" here in chronological order as originally featured in the 1980's cult British music/comic magazine Deadline. Fans can also savor some rarely seen art by cult Brit artist Jamie Hewlett, the visual genius and co-creator of virtual rock band Gorillaz, the opera Monkey: Journey to the West, and the artist chosen to work on the BBC's 2008 Olympic programming.

YHWH is a vinyl figure created in conjunction with Necessaries Toy Foundation after the central figure in Mark's painting of the same name. In production for more than a year, the figure is cast in pink vinyl with inset, high-quality eyes and comes in an elaborately designed, gold embossed box. Edition size of 2,000. Figure size: 42cm x 23cm x 4cm, after assembly. Box size: 41cm x 10cm x 10cm. Child and bucolic landscape not included. Not intended for children.

Author, artist, playwright, costume designer -- Edward Gorey was a Renaissance man of keen wit and twinkling eye. The droll, enigmatic characters he created for more than 100 illustrated works unfailingly tickle our imagination. This holiday card set features one dozen 5 x 7" holiday cards with Gorey's "Skating" art, depicting two innocent children riding the back of an ice-skating crocodile. Inside message: Wishing you smooth skating for the holidays. Thirteen white envelopes, all in a red box with clear lid. Printed on recycled paper.

Author, artist, playwright, costume designer -- Edward Gorey was a Renaissance man of keen wit and twinkling eye. The droll, enigmatic characters he created for more than 100 illustrated works unfailingly tickle our imagination. This holiday card set features one dozen 5 x 7" holiday cards with Gorey's "Twelve Lords a-Leaping, Eleven Ladies Dancing" art, with thirteen white envelopes, in a red box with clear lid. Inside message: Season's Greetings. Printed on recycled paper.

Author, artist, playwright, costume designer -- Edward Gorey was a Renaissance man of keen wit and twinkling eye. The droll, enigmatic characters he created for more than 100 illustrated works unfailingly tickle our imagination. This holiday card set features one dozen 5 x 7" holiday cards with Gorey's "Fruitcake" art, depicting an assortment of genteel people discreetly dropping their fruitcakes through a hole in the ice. Inside message: Season's Greetings. Thirteen white envelopes, all in a red box with clear lid. Printed on recycled paper.

Comics for erotica fans! Erotica for comics fans! Smart, hot, and cutting- edge, Best Erotic Comics 2009 features the sexiest, funniest, filthiest, most beautiful, most unsettling, most inspiring adult comics of today, with work by Alison Bechdel, Gary Baseman, Peter Kuper, Junko Mizuno, Gilbert Hernandez, Ellen Forney, Toshio Saeki, and many other first-rate erotic comic artists.For erotic connoisseurs who aren't familiar with the world of comics, this anthology will open up an entirely new wor

Scott Musgrove unearths previously undiscovered animals through a dedicated and scientifically un-approved practice of zoological impressionism. A lonestar in the field, he ventures where the graymaned, khaki- clad, anthropologists with ivory walking sticks have not -- tunneling beneath freeways and ditch-combing along the rough borders of American mini-malls, in search of undiscovered and, up to this point, at least, extinct animals.The Late Fauna of Early North America features lush, highly de

A fake children?s book in the guise of an illustrated dictionary, with large colorful illustrations, oversize typefaces and simple definitions, featuring a wandering gremlin as comic relief. An A-B-C of kustom kulture, lowbrow, and hot-rod cultural terms, presented in a friendly child-like book, The Dizzy Dictionary is twist on a well-known format--the illustrated dictionary--updated and downgraded for today's modern world: T is for Tiki; J is for Jet Car; N is for Nitrous Oxide; B is for Biker; I is for Iron Cross; V is for Voodoo; Z is for Zombie. With bold, punchy illustrations, the graphics seem to have one foot in the '60s and the other in the present day. The Pizz's illustrations appeal to a wide range of fans, from rockabilly hot-rodders to Japanese urban vinyl collectors, and all the underground art aficionados in between. The Pizz, an early protege of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, has had seven solo shows at La Luz de Jesus in LA, as well as shows at a long list of galleries and museums. He has also worked in TV and film. His collectors include Jesse James (Monster Garage), Pink, Penelope Spheeris, and Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers). Jesse James is CEO of West Coast Choppers, host of Motorcycle Mania and Monster Garage. Other branches of the "West Coast Family" include the Chopperdogs fan club and Jesse's Girl clothing line.

Little Fluffy Gigolo PELU is a comic tale of a cute extraterrestrial creature that comes to Earth determined to find himself true happiness in the form of a human bride. Our hero's search takes him from the surface of his fantastic alien planet to an off-kilter modern Japan where Pelu meets aspiring singers, sassy girls, paint-sniffing bad boys, and the body-switching students of a mysterious high school. Please note: This item is not really erotica, but it does contain a fair amount of nudity.

In all the excitement over manga from Japan and bandes dessinées from France, it's easy to forget that most other countries have a thriving comics culture all their own. This eye-popping anthology, assembled by Danish publisher/editor/translator Steffen Maarup, introduces adventurous readers to 18 exciting talents, most of whom are taking their first bow on the English-speaking stage. One centerpiece of the book is Nikoline Werdelin's stunning "Because I Love You So Much," a Doonesbury-style slice-of-life Danish daily strip about a suburban Danish couple who discover their daughter is being molested - is it happening at her daycare center - horrifyingly, closer to home? Other major revelations include Julie Nord's elegantly drawn "From Wonderland With Love" (which gives the collection its title), a modernistic riff on Alice in Wonderland, and Ib Kjeldsmark's "Sloth," a riotously punk-inflected day-glo duo-toned road trip. The book also spotlights the snarky and surreal single-panel work and gags by HuskMitNavn, Christoffer Zieler, and Johan F. Krarup; the visually explosive silent comics of Mårdøn Smet and Peter Kielland; cover artist T. Thorhauge's spectacular philosophical piece "M"; and many other stories in a wide variety of styles from the sinister black and white Lynchian surrealism of Simon Bukhaven's wooden robot story "All I Have in My Hand" to the watercolored animal-fable extravaganza "Tomb of the Rabbit King" by Allan Haverholm, from Søren Mosdal and Jacob Ørsted's meticulously delineated and colored nightmare yarn "Dog God" to Zven Baslev's slashing, black and white, Panter-esque "Cadarul Zombie." And more!

An anachronistic parable for the convulsive elite. What is the squirrel machine? Is it a rodent ensnarement device? A mechanism for concealing one's guarded harvest? An anachronistic fable? A meaningless diversion? Set in a fictional 19th Century New England town, the narrative initially details the relationship and maturation of Edmund and William Torpor. But the two brothers quickly elicit the scorn and recrimination of an unamused public when they reveal their musical creations built from strange technologies and scavenged animal carcasses. Driven to seek a concealment for their aberrant activities, they make a startling discovery. Perhaps they will divine the mystery of the squirrel machine. What is The Squirrel Machine? An immutably strange and haunting narrative that transcends known logics and presumptive dream-barriers; a distillation of subconscious beauty and inspired madness; a dangerous object for the incautious; a revelation for the undernourished crypto-seeker; the virgin caress of unconsummated apocalypse; the unspeakable thing that you always knew. It's also the longest and most ambitious graphic novel by legendary obscurantist cartoonist Hans Rickheit, 200 pages of exquisitely rendered pictorial narrative. Meticulous, strange, and hauntingly beautiful, this enigmatic work will ensure the inquisitive reader a spleenful of cerebral serenity that will take exposure to vast quantities of mediocrity to dispel. Hardcover, b&w. "Rickheit is a vastly under-seen talent." -Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter