Best of
Comix

1992

The Adventures of Tintin, Vol. 6: The Calculus Affair / The Red Sea Sharks / Tintin in Tibet


Hergé - 1992
    These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists.This repackaged hardcover volume contains 3 classic Tintin stories, including: The Calculus Affair, The Red Sea Sharks, and Tintin in Tibet.

My Perfect Life


Lynda Barry - 1992
    Line drawings.

Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature


Tsai Chih Chung - 1992
    Inspired by his fascination with the wisdom of this sage, the immensely popular Taiwanese cartoonist Tsai Chih Chung created a bestselling Chinese comic book. Tsai had his cartoon characters enact the key parables of Zhuangzi (pronounced jwawngdz), and he rendered Zhuangzi's most enlightening sayings into modern Chinese. Through Tsai's enthusiasm and skill, the earliest and core parts of the Zhuangzi were thus made accessible to millions of Chinese-speaking people with no other real chance of appreciating this major Daoist text. Translated into English by Brian Bruya, the comic book is now available to a Western audience. The classical Chinese text of the selections of the Zhuangzi is reproduced in the margins throughout. Evoked by the translation and the playful cartoons is the spontaneity that Zhuangzi favors as an attitude toward life: abandon presuppositions, intellectual debates, and ambitions, he suggests, and listen to the music of nature. With the writings attributed to Laozi, the Zhuangzi contributed to an alternative philosophical ideal that matched Confucianism in its impact on Chinese culture. Over the centuries this classical Daoism influenced many aspects of Chinese life, including painting, literature, and the martial arts. It had a particularly strong effect on Chan Buddhism (Japanese Zen). For this book, Donald Munro has written an afterword that places Daoism and the Zhuangzi in historical and cultural context.

The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 8: The Castafiore Emerald / Flight 714 to Sydney / Tintin and the Picaros / Tintin and Alph-Art


Hergé - 1992
    These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists.This repackaged hardcover volume contains 3 classic Tintin stories, including: The Castafiore Emerald, Flight 714 to Sydney, and Tintin and the Picaros.

Pixy


Max Andersson - 1992
    but then Angina gets a call from the Netherworld. It's her aborted fetus: he's drunk and he's pissed off. So begins Pixy, which Neil Gaiman calls "the best comic I've read this year" — a 65-page journey into a nightmare world unlike any you've ever seen before. The rest of the book follows Alka's attempts to infiltrate the Kingdom of the Dead (where time runs backwards and is sold by the pint to time-addicts), in order to track down the malevolent Pixy and kill him for good. Shedding bodies and identities with some regularity (Pixy himself blows one to smithereens), Alka finds his own sense of reality eroding further and further during his sojourn down under — and it doesn't help at all when Pixy, now his best friend, accompanies him back up to the Land of the Living, where the gun-happy undead sprite wreaks unspeakable havoc. Pixy is the first major work by Swedish cartoonist Max Andersson, and it combines the freewheeling-yet-obsessive graphic and narrative weirdness of such contemporary North American cartoonists as Chester Brown, Julie Doucet, Kaz and Charles Burns with a bizarre yet coherent story that mixes coal black humor, barbed satire, wild surrealism, and stark horror in a totally new way — a feast for the (preferably deranged) mind and the (preferably diseased) eye.

Skin Deep


Charles Burns - 1992
    Skin Deep is the third (following El Borbah and Big Baby) of a hardcover series of four volumes reprinting his acclaimed oeuvre up to his current project, the ongoing Black Hole comic book series.Skin Deep includes Burns' popular character, Dog Boy, a red-blooded All-American boy with the transplanted heart of a dog, which was turned into a live action segment on MTV's Liquid Television series; new covers and endpapers; as well as several pages of new illustrations from his sketchbooks, as well as covers and other drawings from foreign editions of his work.

The Nikopol Trilogy


Enki Bilal - 1992
    The tale is a unique mix of science fiction, anxiety, humor, and strangeness from Europe's premier comics creator, Enki Bilal.This hardcover volume presents The Carnival of Immortals, The Woman Trap, and Equator Cold, three of Europe's best-selling graphic novels of all time.

Kenji


Ryuchi Matsuda - 1992
    Kenji (拳児) is a manga about a Japanese teenager named Kenji who practices the martial art Bājíquán (Japanese: Hakkyoku-ken) and his encounters with other martial artists, including some from real life, such as Adam Hsu and Liu Chia-Liang.The series is based on the life of Song Tien Long Dz and has had histories of Hakkyoku-ken, Li Shu-Wen, and Liu Yun-Chiao.Kenji's archnemesis is a gangster named Tony Tan who practiced Hung Gar and later Xinyiliuhequan.This series primarily features Bājíquán, but also gets into Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Baguazhang, Chen T'ai Chi Ch'üan, Pi Quan, Xingyiquan, Xin Yi Liu He, Shaolin, Hung Gar, Daito Ryu, Shotokan and numerous other styles.

Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine


Maria Reidelbach - 1992
    Alexander Isleys lively, sophisticated design incorporates 200 black-and-white drawings from Mad masters, as well as over 350 color shots, including reproductions of every one of the magazines covers since 1952. Completely Mad is a must for every all-American rec room!

Intron Depot


Masamune Shirow - 1992
    American editions of his spectacular graphic epics have been highly praised and voraciously collected. Now, his gorgeous and highly detailed color art has been collected for the first time into a single, handsome trade paperback. Beautifully printed in Japan and featuring text in both Japanese and English, this package features nearly two hundred full-color Shirow works, 47 published for the first time anywhere in the world! This book is a nearly complete archive of Shirow's color work from 1981 to 1991, including material from Appleseed, Dominion, Black Magic, Orion, and much more. This is an absolute must for fans of Shirow, science-fiction and fantasy art, and manga.

Lout Rampage!


Daniel Clowes - 1992
    This 1991 paperback includes stories from Eightball #1-6, along with strips Clowes created for alternative comics anthologies Blab!, Young Lust, and Weirdo. It includes several of the cartoonist’s one-page collaborations with The Duplex Planet creator David Greenberger and two of his most well-known comic-strip rants: “I Hate You Deeply” and “I Love You Tenderly.”

Monkey Food: The Complete "I Was Seven in '75" Collection


Ellen Forney - 1992
    Collection from Seattle cartoonist Ellen Forney.

Thirteen O'Clock: A Mr. Murmur Adventure


Richard Sala - 1992
    An unknown killer is prowling the night... An evil chuckle echoes down a shadowy corridor... In the tower, the bell is ringing. It's...Thirteen O'Clock, the latest deranged pulp nightmare from alternative-comics maestro Richard Sala! You've seen his fevered visions in the pages of Raw, Blab, and Buzz, and his animated serial, "Invisible Hands," mesmerized a nation of video slaves on MTV's Liquid Television! Thirteen O'Clock collects the exploits of Sala's mysterious figure of the night, Mr. Murmur, from Deadline U.S.A. along with new Murmur material seen nowhere else on this planet! Follow Sala's masked avenger as he descends into the city's stygian depths to unlock the unholy secrets behind the Corkscrew Murders! Join Mr. Murmur, Eve E. Vee, The Wheezer, Lt. Sedan, Dr. Verlorene, and the head of Zolok in this tableau of dread, death, and darkness!

The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color #1


Carl Barks - 1992
    "The Victory Garden""Good Deeds" "Life Guard Daze""The Rabbits' Food""The Limber W Guest Ranch"

Everyday Devils And Angels


Michael Leunig - 1992
    All he could trust was sighing, sobbing, swearing, screaming and singing. If you asked him why he no longer believed, he would sigh... He would sob... He would scream and swear. And then he would start to sing like a bird.'

Great Pop Things: The Real History of Rock 'n' Roll from Elvis to Oasis


Colin B. Morton - 1992
    Morton and Chuck Death deliver an irreverent, heartfelt, and devastatingly funny history of rock and roll. Like Monty Python at its best, their version is surreal and ridiculous - yet somehow everything in it rings true. According to Morton and Death, the bass player in Led Zeppelin was Jean-Paul Sartre. And despite having been able to think up brilliant titles for their first three albums, Led Zeppelin were stuck for what to call the fourth one - so they put a load of prunes on the front. In strip after strip, Morton & Death pinpoint the absurdities and oddities of rock history. In the process, they often come closer to its truth than conventional accounts do, as well as being far more entertaining. As for the drawings, their caricatures of rock stars from Mick Jagger to Frank Zappa, Johnny Rotten to Courtney Love, are in themselves worth the price of admission.

All Waldo Comics


Kim Deitch - 1992
    Crumb and Justin Green, et. al., and today he is the most prolific and creatively fertile artist of his generation. His newest book is a hardcover collection from Pantheon and marks the company's big graphic novel follow-up to Jimmy Corrigan; these books collect the best of his classic, underground work from the 1960s to 1980s. Deitch shares with Crumb a fascination with the "lost America" of the 1920s and '30s, particularly the history of animation (his father was the legendary Gene Deitch of Terrytoons and jazz LP covers fame). Beyond the Pale collects Deitch's best from the '70s and '80s, while All Waldo Comics features the best of his most enduring character, Waldo the Cat. A Shroud for Waldo is a sacrilegious graphic novel about Jesus, Waldo, and Hollywood.

A Shroud for Waldo


Kim Deitch - 1992
    Crumb and Justin Green, et. al., and today he is the most prolific and creatively fertile artist of his generation. His newest book is a hardcover collection from Pantheon and marks the company's big graphic novel follow-up to Jimmy Corrigan; these books collect the best of his classic, underground work from the 1960s to 1980s. Deitch shares with Crumb a fascination with the "lost America" of the 1920s and '30s, particularly the history of animation (his father was the legendary Gene Deitch of Terrytoons and jazz LP covers fame). Beyond the Pale collects Deitch's best from the '70s and '80s, while All Waldo Comics features the best of his most enduring character, Waldo the Cat. A Shroud for Waldo is a sacrilegious graphic novel about Jesus, Waldo, and Hollywood.

Depression is Fun!


Nina Paley - 1992
    

Freaks


Jim Woodring - 1992
    Adaptación a historieta de la película de culto.