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Featured New Items FANTASTIC PAINTINGS OF FRAZETTA On our Cover Highly Recommended. By David Spurlock. Afterword by Frank Frazetta Jr. THE BIG TEASE J. David Spurlock started crafting this A Naughty and Nice Collection book by reviving the original million-selling Highly Recommend- 1970s mass market art book, Fantastic Art ed. By Bruce Timm. of Frank Frazetta. Then he expanded and Bruce Timm has revised it to include twice as many images been creating elegant and presents them at a much larger cof- drawings of women fee-table book size of 10.5 x 14.5 inches! for over 30 years, and The collection is brimming with both classic nearly all of these and previously unpublished works of the charming nudes were subjects Frazetta is best remembered for, drawn purely for fun including barbarians, beasts, and buxom after-hours. This beauties. Vanguard, 2020. book collects all three FANPFH. HC, 10x15, 112pg, PC $39.95 Teaser collections from FANTASTIC PAINTINGS OF 2011 to 2013, long sold FRAZETTA Deluxe out. Plus Surrender, Signed by Spurlock and Frank Frazetta, My Sweet from 2015. Jr. 16 bonus pages, variant illustrated In addition, Timm has created new material espe- slipcase. Highly Recommended. cially for this collection and delved into his personal Vanguard, 2020. archives to share pieces not shown before, culmi- FANPFD. HC, 10x15, 128pg, PC $69.95 nating in more than 75 additional pages of material. Abundant nudity. Oversized. Flesk, 2020. Due Oct. SENSUOUS FRAZETTA Deluxe: Mature Readers. 16 Bonus Pages, Variant Cover. BIGT. SC, 9x12, 208pg, PC $39.95 Mature Readers. SENFD. $69.95 Cover Image courtesy of Bruce Timm and Flesk TELLING STORIES The Comic Art of Publications. ©2020 Bruce Timm. Frank Frazetta Hardcover Slipcased: TELSH. $49.95 $29.95 THE EARLIEST BRADBURY Initial printing of 100. Ray Bradbury fell THE FANTASTIC FICTION OF in with Science Fiction early on. In 1938, HANNES BOK Signed at the age of 18, his first published sci-fi Signed & numbered by five story appeared in the fanzine Imagination! contributors, from 140 cop- This collects every story from this run from ies. Highly Recommended. By 1937-41...everything except his own fan- Hannes Bok and Jim Pitts. Bound- zine, that has been collected elsewhere. in signature page with a color illus- Most of this has rarely surfaced. Includes tration. Signed by artists Jim Pitts, several Hannes Bok illustrations. Experi- Charles de Lint, William Lorenzo, ence some of Bradbury’s earliest steps on and editor/publisher Bob Garcia. his road to becoming a master fantasy/sci The Sorcerer’s Ship, Beyond the fi writer. Lavishly illustrated, with each story Golden Stair and Starstone World. in facsimile direct from the original publication. First Fandom, 2020. These aren’t your conventional fan- EARBRH. HC, 9x12, 160pg, Text/PC $125.00 tasies, although all the trappings are there. They have a sly humor with plots full of twists and turns, stories which take the reader on strange metaphysical paths, and glo- Look for the star symbol. These are rious descriptions that could only come from someone items that are deeply discounted from the with a painter’s eye. Never-before-published Hannes original publisher’s price. Most of these Bok painting on the cover, library cloth with a matching cloth slipcase. American Fantasy Press, 2020. items have been closed out by the publisher FANHBD. HC, 6x10, 448pg, FC $125.00 and we have limited copies. Buy now before they’re gone! Regular Ediition. FANHBH. $45.00 News & Notes TABLE OF CONTENTS Our new website is up and humming along nicely! We hope if you haven’t expe- Artists & Illustration ...................... 4 rienced it yet, you’ll take a look. If you have any issues at all, we’re here to help. 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Coming up are more Publisher HCW Hardcover w/o dustjacket Exclusives: Al Williamson: Strange Worlds in hardcover and Mark Schultz’s signed SC Softcover hardcovers of Xenozoic Tales and Carbon 4. See our website. PC Partial color All orders are going out on time, but UPS and the Post Office are severely backed FC Full color up. Expect delays in transit. Call us if you need an update or tracking number. B&W Black & white Our Christmas Catalog this year will be downloadable in late October and in your mailbox in early to mid-November. It will be eight pages longer, with all new calen- F47- Fall 2020 dars. You can also see these calendars as they come in, check the website. ~Bud 2 BudsArtBooks.com ♦ 530-273-2166 Featured New Items THE BOOK OF PIRATES JACK KIRBY The Epic Life of the King of Comics Highly Recommended. By Howard I love it! Highly Recommended. By Tom Pyle. Possessed of a unique talent for Scioli. Told in Jack Kirby’s own words. recapturing the flavor of bygone eras, But this is a graphic novel, so you also Howard Pyle wrote and illustrated these get visuals, including cool retro images highly readable sagas of the sea wolves of much of his most important work, from who sailed under the dreaded black flag. his first stories in 1939 to his last in the 80 illustrations: b&w plates and drawings 1990s. Based on interviews and articles and 16 full color plates. Unabridged new (and fully documented), here are the edition of his 1921 Book of Pirates plus 5 anecdotes, the humor, the inside story of additional color plates. Dover, 2020. the comic industry’s favorite creator. Jack BOOKPI. SC, 6x9, 336pg, Text/PC created or co-created Captain America, $16.95 Iron Man, Black Panther...hundreds of FLAPPER QUEENS Women heroes and heroines. Ten Speed Press, 2020. HC, 7x10, 208pg, FC $28.99 Cartoonists of the Jazz Age JACKELH $25.99 Highly Recommended. By Trina MISTER INVINCIBLE LOCAL HERO Robbins. In the 1920s, the figure of A delightful spoof of comics, from The Flapper, with her bobbed hair France. Our Highest Recommenda- and angular elbows and knees, short tion. By Pascal Jousselin. Winner of dresses and daring necklines, seemed the Bologna Ragazzi Comics Award, to exist in a perpetual, euphoric state. 2020. Mr. Invincible is an unassuming Girls discovering freedom and sexuality! guy in wrestling tights and a mask who Eisner Award-winning herstorian Trina manages to frequently save the day Robbins curates this collection of comic through his amazing ability to bend the strips by “The Flapper Queens,” the six laws of space and time... by reaching finest woman cartoonists who graced magazines and news- literally outside the panels of this comic papers with images: Nell Brinkley, Eleanor Schoer, Edith book to affect things in the surrounding Stevens, Virginia Huget and the amazing, superlative Ethel panels! Magnetic Press, 2020. Hayes (my favorite). Fantagraphics, 2020. MISINV. SC, 8x11, 96pg, FC $15.99 FLAPH. HC, 10x13, 168pg, PC $34.99 $29.99 PULP HAREM Our Highest Recommendation. By Ed Highly Recommended. By Valentine Brubaker. Art by Sean Phillips and Jacob Gallet. In the wake of Bonaparte’s Phillips. A graphic novel that may look like Egyptian Campaign, artists of the a western, but begins in 1939 New York nineteenth century became fascinated City! Max Winters, an aging pulp writer, by the Orient and, most particularly, finds himself drawn into tales of a Wild the harems which were so remote West outlaw dispensing justice with a from western culture. These places six-gun (secretly based on his own outlaw rapidly provided a pretext for drawing youth in the real west). But now Max has the languid bodies of beautiful naked been tracked down by a retired Pinkerton detective, and might women, whose depiction in any other be able to make one last big score. Image Comics, 2020. context would have been frowned upon. This assembly of PULPG. SC, 7x10, 72pg, FC $16.99 numerous works by Orientalist painters constitutes a sublime AMAZING FANTASY OMNIBUS testimony to an imagined fantasy Orient, located between Collects Amazing Adventures #1- eroticism and sensuality.