Best of
Comix

1986

Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness


Berkeley Breathed - 1986
    An anthology of cartoons from the syndicated comic strip, "Bloom County" encompasses highlights from the five-year span of the strip.

Dykes to Watch Out For


Alison Bechdel - 1986
    Grin, giggle, and guffaw your way through this celebrated cartoonist's graphic commentary of contemporary lesbian life.

New York: The Big City


Will Eisner - 1986
    Before the Lower East Side was cool, there was the grit and grime of Avenue C, a world filled with street musicians, overflowing sewers, and peeping toms, all recalled in Eisner’s unforgettable style.

Grendel: Devil by the Deed


Matt Wagner - 1986
    This collection brings to life one of the most popular alternative comic characters.

Love & Rockets: Heartbreak Soup


Gilbert Hernández - 1986
    Love and Rockets is a body of work routinely praised for its realism, complexity, subtlety and ethnic authenticity. It was the first comic series to give a voice to minorities and women in the medium's then 50-year history. One of the hidden treasures of our impoverished culture. --The Nation

Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?


Alan MoorePaul Kupperberg - 1986
    Moore teams with Curt Swan, the definitive Superman artist from the 1950's through the 1970's, to tell the final adventure of the Man of Steel featuring his last stand against Lex Luthor, Brainiac and his other foes in "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN OF TOMORROW?". This volume also includes Moore's classic early collaboration with WATCHMEN illustrator Dave Gibbons, "FOR THE MAN WHO HAS EVERYTHING", in which Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman find Superman held captive by the villain Mongul in the Fortress of Solitude and dreaming of an idyllic life on Krypton courtesy of a wish-fulfilling parasitic plant known as the Black Mercy. Both tales are considered two of the top five all-time best Superman stories among fans. The rare first team-up adventure between the Man of Tomorrow and Swamp Thing, the character that first brought Moore to notoriety in the United States, is included as an additional bonus.This volume collects the two-part “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?” from SUPERMAN #423 and ACTION COMICS #583, as well as “The Jungle Line” from DC COMICS PRESENTS #85 and “For the Man Who Has Everything...” from SUPERMAN ANNUAL #11.

The Gabriel Set-Up


Peter O'Donnell - 1986
    With her trusted right-hand man, Willie Garvin, no job is too big, no threat too great!

The Biggest Tongue in Tunisia: And Other Drawings


B. Kliban - 1986
    Drawings

The Whole Enchilada


Nicole Hollander - 1986
    Includes American comic strips featuring the character of Sylvia who offers her opinions on subjects ranging from spot slimming to international disarmament.

Squadron Supreme Omnibus


Mark Gruenwald - 1986
    Collects Squadron Supreme (1985 1st Series) #1-12, Captain America (1968-1996 1st Series) #314, and Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe Graphic Novel (1989).

Rock Toons : A Cartoon History of the First 30 Years of Rock 'n' Roll


Serge Dutfoy - 1986
    size - with 103 very colorful cartoon pages. Starts with 1954 Doris Day, Sinatra, Dean Martin then to Fats Domino, Chuch Berry and onto Folk Rock, Country Rock, Disco and onto the Elvis and The Beatles, Michael Jackson & everyone in between. The First 30 Years of Rock n' Roll - The Music That Changed the world!

The Return of Mr. X


Dean Motter - 1986
    And now Mr. X, the man with no name, no face and no eyes--the creature who created this madness--must return to undo the damage he's done before he's too late.