The Copacetic Comics Company

Image + Text • Sound + Vision • Art + Literature => An Oasis at the Crossroads of Culture. Putting people before profits since 2001. https://www.copaceticcomics.com

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Letterform Archives Press

These books are beautifully produced and designed compendiums and/or facsimile editions of classic (mostly 20th century) works of graphic design involving and/or centered on textual elements.

The copaceticcomics.com link immediately below each of the images above links to the Copacetic page for the respective title, and each of these pages in turn links to the Letterform Archives' own page – or pages – devoted to the book, each of which provides a spectacular look.

So, click on a link and get ready to SEE!

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30x30: Thirty Years of Conundrum Press

30 x 30 is a 350 page oversize softcover that collects selections from each of the 25 books in the Conundrum 25 series of small squarebound-book-mini-comics short story collections and graphic novellas published over the course of five years in the run-up to its 30th anniversary – but available, for the most part at least, only in Canada. Lots of great comics here, the vast majority of which are going to be unfamiliar to readers here in the USA (and bargain-priced, all things considered).

On special => HERE

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LAAB ZERO RMX: A Comics Magazine Hacking Pop Culture

Who says there's no second chances? The long-out-of-print first issue of Ronald Wimberly's LAAB Magazine returns — remixed and expanded. Pledge now!

LAAB ZERO RMX: A Comics Magazine Hacking Pop Culture

The long-out-of-print first issue of Ronald Wimberly's LAAB Magazine returns — remixed and expanded

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New from Alright Press: The Method #2 & Two Snakes!

Here are a pair of NEW, limited edition, risograph editions from Alright Press!

The Method #2 is an 8" x 10", 44-page, 5-color risograph comic book magazine. This time around we are presented with three short stories focused on relationships, objectification and self-image in a hand-numbered edition of 350 copies.

Two Snakes is a nice 20-page, 6" x 8", single-color (Prussian blue, in case you were wondering)risograph edition from Suerynn Lee. It presents us with a pithy fable in the form of a story of, yes, two (talkative) snakes.

And, it just won the 14th Annual Cartoonist Studio Prize presented by the Center of Cartoon Studies! 

It has been printed in an edition of 500 copies.

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Pittsburgh Film-Makers: Fliers Posters Calendars, 1982 - 1984

This is a facsimile box set of the fliers, posters and calendars made by Bill Boichel for Pittsburgh Film-Makers during the years when he ran the exhibitions program there.  The box contains roughly 100 pieces.  All but a very few (2-3) of the posters/fliers are 100% scans of the 8 1/2" x 11" paste-up originals.  Also included are the dozen bi-monthly calendars that Boichel designed (and wrote the texts for), which are 100% scans of the best extant copies of the 11" x 17" offset printed calendars (the paste-up orignals having been lost), and a one-page introduction providing some background on their creation.

This is a limited, hand-signed, hand-numbered edition of 50 copies. 

Available HERE

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NEW Kuš Comics at Copacetic!

Š! #58: the 18+ issue

Š! #57: Mythbústers

Kuš! Mono #16: WISPS by Amanda Baeza

Kuš! Mono #17: Vibe Shift by Noah van Sciver

Good stuff!

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Yoshiharu Tsuge, quite possibly the greatest cartoonist ever, has passed away.

This tribute to him is the first comic strip I'll be making and posting to tumblr.

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A Garden of the Spheres by Linnea Sterte

Long in the works (since at least 2021), A Garden of the Spheres is an epic – and stunningly beautiful – work of comics fantasy, of the world-building, science-fictional variety. The world Sterte has built for us here is a world of gods and monsters, one that evokes our pre-industrial past, when humans lived more in harmony with nature, while simultaneously embodying a magical and mythical halcyon age where occurrences and abilities that we, today, would call supernatural are simply presented as de facto, and so constitutes an alternate, fantastical history, a kind of “never was”. 

This volume is her most substantial work to date, running 336 pages, craft printed on a choice of papers perfectly suited for the work, which allow the colors to recede or advance, to simmer or pop, so as to best convey the moment and mood, all signature bound in a softcover with French-flapped dustjacket; and it's only "Book One".

Available HERE

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Bernadette #1 & #2 + more from Angela Fanche & Katie Lane & Co.

Here are some more Slices of PIE 2026 (see earlier post). Both extant volumes of the oversize (10" x 13") comics anthology, Bernadette, each packed with a wide range of personal and experimental comics from a vast array of contributors.

Then AltComics returns after a seven year hiatus with, fittingly, its seventh issue. And Angela Fanche teams up with Maybelline Skvortzoff for the bi-partate In the Corner / Sun-Deprived.

All now up on the site!

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Fielder #4 by Kevin Huizenga Has Arrived!

This issue is primarily focused on – and is particularly strong in –  observational cartooning.  No one turns the mind inside out and shows the mechanics of its inner workings in comics form better than Huizenga.  The ongoing chatter and endless micro-decisions that make up our day-to-day inner lives are depicted in situ as our hero, Glenn Ganges ponders the nature of reality, debates various routes and shortcuts, remembers choices made and the processes employed, all while he strolls, meanders, and otherwise directs his feet along the pathways and byways of the mythical midwestern pen & ink locale of Fielder, Michiana. And there's plenty more besides!

Now available at a special Copacetic price — HERE!

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Belfaust by David Sandlin — RESTOCK!

Fresh from PIE 2026 (see our previous post) and courtesy publisher Cram Books, we now have six of the eight extant issues of this one-of-a-kind hard-to-find series by the inimitable David Sandlin!

All hand-printed risograph editions!

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PIE 2026 is THIS Sunday!

That’s right:  On Sunday, March 15, from 11am to 5pm, PIE – the Pittsburgh Indie Expo – returns to The Heinz History Center, located at 1212 Smallman St. on the edge of downtown Pittsburgh.

A nexus for small press comics and self-publishing awaits. Exhibitors and Special Guests plus Workshops, Panels and a Mobile Cartoon Museum!

ALSO:  There will be “Pre-Game Comics Reading” on Saturday evening (3/14), from 6pm to 8pm at Pullproof Studio, located at 5112 Penn Ave.

Get all the details at pieburgh.com

SEE YOU THERE!

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Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories by Jaime Hernandez

712 pages of greatness for one quite reasonable price (all things considered). And not only that: early bird special!

>> HERE <<

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Like Swimmers: Special Memory by Dash Shaw

Yes, it's time for another limited edition comics newspaper publication from Mr. Dash Shaw!  Within its 12 tabloid-size pages printed on high quality white newsprint are four pages of preview of Shaw's upcoming graphic novel, Like Swimmers, scheduled to be published by New York Review Comics on August 18th, along with, more importantly, an all new 8-page comics story printed here for the first time, "What's Off"! 

>> HERE << Don't miss it.

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Metadoggoz by Bérénice Motais de Narbonne...

Is here – and it's a wow!

>> INTRO SPECIAL PRICE <<

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Demon Summoner Gash Gash by Connor McCann

Get ready for Baptism of Maggots, A Crown of Flies, The Centipede Golgatha A Go Go and more in 228 pages of full color horror action by Connor McCann from Strangers Publishing.

Now in stock at Copacetic, HERE.

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Tales from Qyleoth, Volume 2 by M. Yaxam

Get ready to book your trip to Qyleoth! M. Yaxam has delivered 36 pages (including covers) of amazingly detailed, otherworldly artwork.

Now available HERE!