Featured New Items AMBEDO The Art of Tran Nguyen On our Cover Deluxe Hardcover, page edges in gold. Recommended. 120 paintings and drawings ROY G. KRENKEL FATHER OF HEROIC by this award-winning illustrator and fine artist. FANTASY A Centennial Celebration Born in Vietnam and raised in the States, she Our Highest Recommendation. By AndrewSte- is fascinated by creating traditional paintings ven Damsits, Barry in the realms of fantasy and surrealism. Tran Klugerman. A magnif- illustrates for magazines, books, product pack- icent, best-ever look aging, advertising and mural art. Her clients at Krenkel’s entire include Smithsonian magazine, Tiger Beer, the career. Oversized. World Wildlife Fund and Amazon, and galleries Loaded with previously across the world. Flesk, 2019. unpublished work. One AMBEH. HC, 9x12, 208pg, FC $40.00 of the most renowned fantasy artists of the Bill Sienkiewicz 20th century. Krenkel’s BILL SIENKIEWICZ REVOLUTION Vol 1 far-reaching influence Recommended. By Ben Davis. Introduction on--and work with--artists by Neil Gaiman. First of a three-volume series like Frazetta, Williamson, covering the 40-year career of the legendary Kaluta and Jeffrey Jones, artist. 40 individual deluxe reproductions of to name but a few, was previously unpublished paintings, drawings, immeasurable and sketches, and mixed media works from four cannot be overstated. Krenkel illustrated Edgar Rice decades of Sienkiewicz’s notebooks and Burroughs, Robert E. Howard and others--but much personal collection as well as other private of his work, full-blown paintings and illustrations, collections. Six Foot Press, 2019. often were unpublished and never seen by even his BSR01H. HC, 9x12, 224pg, FC $49.95 biggest fans. IDW, 2019. ROYKH. HC, 9x13, 304pg, PC $59.99 $49.99 BILL SIENKIEWICZ REVOLUTION Vol 1 Limited Edition Companion Signed Cover image: Color comp for Ace edition of Signed & numbered, 1000! Blue cloth-cov- Escape on Venus, March 1964. ©2019 ered traycase. Recommended. By Ben Davis. Introduction by Neil Gaiman. Contained in a FRANK E. SCHOONOVER AMERICAN VISIONS fabric-covered clamshell box is a collection of Highly Recommended. Foreword by Andrew J. Sordoni, 40 individual deluxe reproductions of previously III and Preface by Robert T. Horvath. A wonderful new unpublished paintings, drawings, sketches, and exhibition catalog from the mixed media works, Printed on heavy stock, Norman Rockwell Museum. most in full color. None of these plates are in The exhibition features the trade edition--and the trade edition is Schoonover’s paintings not in this. A companion set, with only the for such classic stories as interview and introduction repeated here and Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe, printed as a separate, 10x13, 16-page booklet Swiss Family Robinson, and signed by the artist. Sienkiewicz explains and Ivanhoe, illustrations his influences and techniques and offers his for the novels of Zane Grey view on the future of comic book art. and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Six Foot Press, 2019. Schoonover’s long teaching BSR01D. HC, 10x13, FC $350.00 career is examined, as is his role in establishing the Delaware Art Museum and obtaining seminal Pyle works Look for the star symbol. These are items for its collection--as one of the original Pyle students him- that are deeply discounted from the original self. Original paintings, drawings, and studies, archival publisher’s price. Most of these items have photographs and examples of the artist’s daybooks and been closed out by the publisher and we have personal effects. Norman Rockwell Museum, 2018. limited copies. Buy now before they’re gone! FRANAV. SC, 8x9, 120pg, FC $30.00 TABLE OF CONTENTS News & Notes Artists & Illustration ...................... 4 Our cover feature for the Fall catalog, The Art of Mac Raboy came in late—now it’s Signed Sketchbooks ..................... 6 here on page 3. I Go Pogo page 3 has been a surprise seller; I hope Calla/Dover Comics & Graphic Novels............. 6 does more of these. I like Calendar Girls, too. Little Lulu by Jon Stanley is being Comic Book Archives ................... 9 collected from the very beginning, in full color, by Drawn & Quarterly--Introduction Comic Strip Collections .............. 12 by Margaret Atwood (Handmaid’s Tale)! Classic Comics White Sale ........ 13 We did a short list of 2019 Bestsellers in our latest Special Email on January 14th. Comic Reference & How-To ........ 14 We also did a special Adult email in January, with new sale items and 2019 Adult Pulps & Pulp Fiction .................... 15 Bestsellers. You can sign up on our website home page for future mailings or click Sanctum White Sale ................... 16 on the small New Items Blog box under the banner to seem them on our blog. Due Statues & Fun Stuff ..................... 18 to restrictions, we don’t put our adult mailings on the blog. Collectors Supplies ..................... 18 The Classic Comics Press White Sale begins on page 13. Sanctum pulp reprints Pin-Up & Erotic Art ...................... 19 sale is on page 16. The IDW/Image Comics White Sale is relisted on page 24. Nude Photography ...................... 19 We’ve hired a new person to put Rare & Out of Print books on the website, most Adult DVDs ................................... 20 weeks. You’ll find a sampling on page 23. To keep up, see our weekly emails or go Coming Soon ............................... 21 on the website and click on the Rare & Out of Print section for the latest arrivals. Rare Books................................... 23 We’re still working through the Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. collection plus special buys Don’t Miss These! ........................ 24 I have made. Just Arrived .................................. 30 Many excellent new items came in too late to list in our final 2019 catalog, so you’ll Key for price line codes find some great items here. InJust Arrived on page 30, I really like The Call of HC Hardcover Cthulhu, the new Robert Williams end-all art book, and Choke Gasp! The Best HCW Hardcover w/o dustjacket of 75 Years of EC Comics. SC Softcover You can download a catalog with clickable title links about 3-4 weeks before you PC Partial color receive a printed copy (if you are on our mailing list). You can click (or tap) on every FC Full color item title to get a longer description and several more scans. Got to our website and B&W Black & white you can download THIS catalog now. ~Bud F43 - Spring 2020 2 BudsArtBooks.com ♦ 530-273-2166 Featured New Items JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS 1680-1938 A massive fifteen-pound, oversize MAC RABOY Master of the Comics volume in a fancy box. Includes 17 The first-ever book on this fold-outs. Recommended. By Andreas hugely talented artist. Our High- Marks. 200 of the most exceptional Jap- est Recommendation. Introduc- anese woodblock prints in their historical tion by Roy Thomas. Beginning context. From the 17th-century decadent with his WPA etchings during the ukiyo-e to the decline and later resur- 1930s, Mac Raboy struggled to gence of prints in the early 20th century, survive the Great Depression and the images collected in this edition make eventually found his way into the up an unmatched record of the shifting comics. He perfected his art style mores and cultural development of Ja- on early stories of Dr. Voodoo, pan. From mystical mountains to snowy Zorro The Mystery Man, Bullet- passes, samurai swordsmen to sex workers in shop windows. man, Spy Smasher, The Green Taschen, 2019. Lama and especially, Captain JAPWBH. HC, 11x16, 622pg, FC $200.00 $180.00 Marvel Jr. Raboy went on to illustrate the Flash Gordon Sunday newspaper strip. Through extensive research and THE ART OF GAME OF THRONES interviews with son David Raboy, and several of Mac Huge oversized hardcover. Recom- Raboy’s Golden Age assistants, author Roger Hill brings mended. By Deborah Riley and Jody Mac Raboy, into focus. TwoMorrows, 2019. Revenson. Filled with gorgeous illustra- MACRAH. HC, 8x11, 160pg, FC $39.95 tions and artwork from HBO’s hit series, The Art of Game of Thrones is the defin- itive Game of Thrones art collection. The CALENDAR GIRLS, SEX GODDESSES, AND official collection of behind the scenes PIN-UP QUEENS OF THE 40S, 50S, AND 60S concept art and production design Vintage full color pin-up photography, from HBO’s landmark show. Chapters 1940s-1960s. Highly Recommended. examine Westeros, Essos, The Wall and Already a bestseller for us! It was the Beyond. Insight Editions, 2019. glamorous movie stars of the 1930s that ARTGTH. HC, 10x13, 432pg, PC $75.00 $65.00 first began the era of pin-up. Stars like GAME OF THRONES A Viewer’s Guide to The Betty Grable and Jean Harlow oozed sexualtiy--many even posed nude. By World of Westeros and Beyond the 1940s, this was a new phenome- The Complete Series. Recommend- non that sold millions of calendars and ed. By Myles McNutt. In two parts, the magazines--nudes, but provative, never book follows the story of the South, explicit, flirtatious but also freespirited. where kings and queens battle for the The images never crossed a certain moral line. And that’s Iron Throne, and of the North, where what we have here, from Marilyn Monroe to Bettie Page, the White Walkers and their army of the Diane Webber to Hollywood actresses moonlighting for some dead gather. Each character is pictured extra money. Schiffer, 2019. and described. Covering all eight CALGH. HCW, 8x10, 440pg, FC $50.00 $42.50 seasons: timelines, original essays, and photography. Chronicle Books, 2019. I GO POGO GAMETH. HC, 9x11, 288pg, FC $50.00 $42.50 Facsimile of the 1952 first edition. Highly Recommended. By Walt Kelly. SKY MASTERS OF THE SPACE FORCE This compilation features comics from Complete Sundays 1959-1960 Signed the election year of 1952, during which An absolutely must-have book.