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NBM in March: a Peyo art book

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Here’s what NBM has solicited through comics bookstores this month to come out in March:

The main news is a beautiful art book import (in English and French) presenting the life work of Peyo, the creator of not only the Smurfs but many other great series:

PEYO, The Life and Work of a Marvelous Storyteller
Issued on the occasion of a recent exhaustive exhibition of original art by Peyo, father of the Smurfs, this is a hefty compendium chock-a-block with reproductions of his original pages from Johan & Peewit to Poussy the Cat and more, and of course with plenty of Smurfs art! Accompanied by text on the history of Peyo’s creations. A limited direct import from France. Once the few we’re able to import are sold out, no more!
8 ¼ x 11, 250pp. full color trade pb., $50, ISBN 9782953974300; see a preview.

Dungeon Zenith set
Volumes 1-3
Lewis Trondheim, Joann Sfar, Boulet
Specially priced set! Collecting the main core introductory storyline to the popular sprawling dark-humored epic spoofing horror and heroic fantasy. Includes volumes newly back to press! This is the series Pendleton Ward called a ‘big inspiration’ for his ever more popular “Adventure Time” series.
6 ½ x 9, 288pp., full color trade pbs., 3 volume banded set, $39.99, normally $43, ISBN 978-1-56163-624-2  See more on the series.

Now, you might notice we have up on our Coming Up page this month the next Boneyard set 5-7, due to some miscommunication, Diamond did not solicit for it this month and will for May.

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Meantime over at PAPERCUTZ:

ALL NEW 3 STOOGES COMICS!!! The movie’s comin’ and they’re recreating the 3 amazingly… so here goes:

THE THREE STOOGES #1 “Bed Bugged!”
Jim Salicrup, George Gladir, writers
Stan Goldberg, art
On the eve of the new major movie, Moe, Larry, and Curly are back in this collection of all-new comics stories written by Papercutz Editor-In-Chief Jim Salicrup and Sabrina the Teenage Witch creator George Gladir, drawn by legendary Archie Comics artist Stan Goldberg. In the title story “Bed Bugged,” the stooges find themselves as exterminators in a wealthy house full of priceless works of art. Can the three clear the house of bugs and leave the place intact? Their first collection of shenanigans will take them from Sumo Wrestling School to the set of a Spaghetti Western and all the way to Hollywood! Expect eye-pokes, gags, and slapstick galore in this return of the classic trio for an all-new audience.
6 x 9, 64pp., full-color paperback: $6.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-315-8
6 x 9, 64pp., full-color hardcover: $10.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-316-5 

PAPERCUTZ SLICES #4 “The Hunger Pains”
Stefan Petrucha, writer
Rick Parker, artist
Papercutz parodies the hot YA series just before its big budget film adaptation hits theaters in the fourth volume of Papercutz Slices. Ratkiss Everspleen decides to take her sister Dim’s place in the annual televised “Battle to the Death,” even though Mayor Underwear insists participation is completely optional. Ratkiss and her fellow contestant Peek A Choo soon begin training under Heybitch Blubbernasty for the most unnecessary battle of their lives. Expect laughs galore in this pointed parody that pokes fun at everything from Glee to Winnie the Pooh.
6 x 9, 64pp., full-color paperback: $6.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-312-7
6 x 9, 64pp., full-color hardcover: $10.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-313-4

PAPERCUTZ SLICES #1-3 Boxed Set
Maia Kinney-Petrucha, Margo Kinney-Petrucha, and Stefan Petrucha, writers
Rick Parker, artist
Laugh out loud comics parodies “Harry Potty,” “Breaking Down,” and “Percy Jerkson and the Ovolactovegetarians” all in one specially priced boxed set!
6 x 9, 192 pages, full-color paperback: $19.99
ISBN:  978-1-59707-274-8

DISNEY FAIRIES #8 “Tinker Bell and Her Stories for a Rainy Day”
Silvia Gianatti, Augusto Machetto, Paola Mulazzi, writers
Emilio Urbano, Elisabetta Melaranci, artists
Tinker Bell’s oldest friend Peter Pan and her oldest enemy Captain Hook both guest star in the newest volume of the Cyblis Award nominated series. Containing four magical stories jam-packed with rare appearances by some of the most beloved Disney characters including the lovable bumbling pirate Mr. Smee and fairies of Pixie Hollow who have never appeared in comics—until now.
6 x 9, 64pp., full-color paperback: $7.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-303-5
6 x 9, 64pp., full-color hardcover: $11.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-304-2

THE SMURFS  #11 “The Smurf Olympics
Peyo – writer and artist
Yvan Delporte, writer
Papercutz celebrates the Summer 2012 Olympic Games with “The Smurf Olympics”! Hefty Smurf loves to play sports, but he can’t get the other Smurfs to play with him. His solution – create “Smurf Olympics”! The Smurfs divide themselves into two teams, all competing for the grand prize: a kiss from the Smurfette. But when one Smurf is turned down by both teams, he decides to compete on his own, throwing the games into chaos! Can one Smurf take on the whole village? And can the Smurfs stop cheating and playing pranks on each other long enough for the games to actually take place?
6 ½ x 9, 56pp., full-color paperback: $5.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-301-1
6 ½ x 9, 56pp., full-color hardcover: $10.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-302-8 

 
THE SMURFS #4-6 Boxed Set
Peyo – writer and artist
Gos -writer
Yvan Delporte, writer
Volumes 4 through 6 collected into one boxed set with close to 150 pages of comics! Includes “The Smurfette”, “The Smurfs and the Egg,” “The Smurfs and the Howlibird.”
6½ x 9, 192 pages, full-color paperback: $17.99
ISBN:  978-1-59707-306-6

SEE MORE AT THE PAPERCUTZ SITE!

ALL OF THESE CAN BE ORDERED THROUGH YOUR COMICS BOOKSTORE NOW!

NBM in November: Two Sets Great for Holiday Gifts

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Here’s what we’ve got being solicited for in comics stores as we speak to become available in November:

 

P. Craig Russell’s Opera Adaptations set
The great P. Craig Russell adapts in stunning comic art The Magic Flute, Parsifal, I Pagliacci, Pelleas & Melisande, and Salome amongst others. A banded set of 3 beautiful volumes at a special price. Normally $54.
8x 11 1/2, 440pp. full color set of 3 trade pb., $44.99,
978-1-56163-620-4

These beautiful books have long been in our catalog and here’s a fabulous way to discover them all at a great price!

Oh, and you know what: we’re going to have some news with P. Craig Russell next year… THE NEXT VOLUME OF HIS FAIRY TALES OF OSCAR WILDE! It’s been a few years since the last one and with all that’s gone on since, we’re excited to bring this all back to the fore!

And then we’ve got this set:

Miss Don’t Touch Me complete set
Kerascoet and Hubert
The banded complete set of both volumes of the Miss Don’t Touch Me series. Paris in the thirties. The ‘Butcher of the Dances’ is on the prowl for young loose women. Blanche works as a maid along with the only family she knows, her sister, fun-loving Agatha. Suddenly, Blanche loses her to what she saw was murder but others only write off as suicide. She decides to take matters into her own hands. In her pursuit, she ends up hired into a luxury house of call-girls. She even becomes quite good at certain lascivious practices while still remaining a virgin! But she also doesn’t lose sight of her goal: find the Butcher.
A suspenseful spicy tale as only the French could so lightly get away with, yet deceptive in its depth and realism. By the artist of Dungeon Early Years.
61/2 x9, 192 pp., full color set of 2 trade pb., $27.99: normally $29.90
978-1-56163-621-1

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ALL OF THESE CAN BE ORDERED THROUGH YOUR COMICS BOOKSTORE NOW!

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NEW FROM PAPERCUTZ

Papercutz has one SMASH hit on its hands this month! Orders are topping 150,000 on this latest sensation from LEGO:

NINJAGO #1 “Challenge of Samukai”
By Greg Farshtey, writer
Paulo Henrique, artist
New series based on the hit new toy line from LEGO every boy wants! The “Masters of Spinjitsu” come to Papercutz in their first graphic novel appearance written by Greg Farshtey, the hit force behind the LEGO BIONICLE series. Under the tutelage of their master Sensei Wu, the “chosen four” ninjas Kai, Jay, Cole, and Zane must learn to use their elemental powers of fire, ice, lightning and earth. Their mission: defeat Sensei Wu’s evil brother Garmadon and his army of skeleton warriors before they can take over the world! Anticipated first print on this will surpass 75,000!
6 x 9, 64pp., full-color paperback: $6.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-297-7
6 ½  x 9, 64pp., full-color hardcover: $10.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-298-4

So that’s for the boys, but Papercutz has a couple of new fun series for girls as well:

ERNEST & REBECCA  #1 “My Best Friend is a Germ”
Guillame Bianco, writer
Antonello Dallena, artist
Rebecca is a six and a half year-old girl who is out of luck – her parents are on the verge of divorce and she is always getting sick due to a weak immune system. One rainy day Rebecca’s luck changes when she meets a magical microbe named Ernest, who becomes her best friend! Ernest is no regular germ—he’s about the same height as Rebecca and he can talk. Can Rebecca keep her parents together with the help of her new friend? And can anyone really have a friend who belongs in a Petri dish?
8  x 10, 48pp., full-color hardcover: $11.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-286-1

SYBIL THE BACKPACK FAIRY #1 “Nina”
Michel Rodrigue, writer
Manuela Razzi and Antonello Dalena, artists
Nina is a girl in middle school with a little brother and a single mom who barely has enough time to spend with her. Put down at school by nasty cliques, Nina’s life is not much fun. All this changes when a magical fairy named Sybil turns up in Nina’s backpack! Sybil and Nina have a blast giving Nina’s tormentors a taste of their own medicine. There’s only one problem: demons from the magical world that Sybil comes from have followed her to our dimension, and they’re out to cause some damage of their own!
8  x 10, 48pp., full-color hardcover: $11.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-285-4

THE SMURFS  #9 “Gargamel and the Smurfs”
Peyo – writer and artist
Four Smurftastic stories all featuring the arch-enemy of the Smurfs, Gargamel! In “The Smurfnapper,” which is also the first appearance of Gargamel, a Smurf is kidnapped by the evil wizard, who wants to use him as an ingredient in a potion. It’s up to Papa Smurf and the rest of the smurfs to break into his lab and save their friend without ending up as a treat for Gargamel’s cat Azrael. Also featuring “The Smurf Not Like the Others” and “The Smurfs and the Little Ghost.”
6 ½ x 9, 56pp., full-color paperback: $6.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-289-2
6 ½ x 9, 56pp., full-color hardcover: $10.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-290-8

The Papercutz site will be updated with this info next week and a snazzy new home page intro to Ninjago, Ernest & Rebecca and Sybil!

ALL OF THESE CAN BE ORDERED THROUGH YOUR COMICS BOOKSTORE NOW!

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Update: Cowboys & Aliens Just Smurfs By The Smurfs

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Yesterday we reported that it looked like The Smurfs had beaten Cowboys & Aliens to win the weekend box office.  Well, it looks like we called that one a bit too soon.  The sci-fi/western mashup actually won the weekend bringing in $36.4 million for the weekend compared to $35.6 million for the little blue irritants.

Oops, reported that one a bit too early and to that I can only say, “smurf me.”

Movie Goers Say “Smurf You” to Cowboys & Aliens

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It looks like The Smurfs has just beat out Cowboys & Aliens when it comes to the weekend box office take.  Both movies have taken in an estimated $32.6 million in North America and the little blue beings just edged out the Cowboys and their alien foes.  The Smurfs has cost a reported $110 million to make while the highly pedigreed Cowboys & Aliens cost an estimated $163 million.

The Smurfs which was panned by movie reviewers was given a score of an A in exit polls but Cowboys & Aliens received a B.

Captain America: The First Avenger came in third, bringing in $25 million in it’s second week.  That’s brought it’s total in North America to $116.8 million.

Cowboys & Aliens was the final “comic book” movie of the summer, so we’ll see how it and Cap pans out over the next few weeks before we declare winners and losers.

NBM in September: We’re all Stargazing Dogs

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NBM’s program for this September, which is being solicited for in comics bookstores now, headlines a first for us: a Japanese manga. And not just any manga, one that has been a smash bestseller there with over 400,000 copies sold:

Stargazing Dog
Takashi Murakami
A moving manga that is a major best-seller in Japan, selling now over 400,000 copies and being made into a movie. Oto-san is down and out. Life has conspired against him, nothing coming together the way he wished, so he sets out with his car to just get away from it all. All people around him have abandoned him in indifference but as we discover along with him, the one he can count on utterly and completely is a dog he just adopted who follows him blindly, faithfully and completely, to the end, lightening up his new adventure into the unknown.
6×9, 128pp, B&W trade paperback, $11.99
ISBN 978-1-56163-612-9

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While we’re at it, don’t forget our beautiful and well reviewed Korean Manhwa:

Mijeong and Run, Bong-Gu Run by Byun Byung-Jun

Buja’s Diary by Seyeong O

Meanwhile in Eurotica:

SIZZLE #51
Cornnell Clarke’s Peanut Butter vol.5 wraps up and more of Omaha the Cat Dancer, Barbarian Chicks and Gambedotti. All in full color now!
Quarterly, 48pp., full color, $5.95

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And our sister Papercutz has these goodies for September, starting with a launch of a charming Trondheim treat:


MONSTER CHRISTMAS
Lewis Trondheim – writer and artist
By the artist of Dungeon and Little Nothings, a charming new series for kids! Peter and Jean, two mischievous kids, love to draw monsters. They create Kriss, with three legs, four arms, and ten mouths, who escapes from the sheet of paper and becomes the family’s new pet! For Christmas, Jean and Peter go on vacation to the mountains with their parents. Kriss is supposed to stay at home, but he manages to make the trip on the roof of the car. Suddenly an avalanche blocks the road, caused by a monster in hot pursuit of… Santa Claus! It’s up to the kids and their pet monster to Save Santa and Christmas! But it looks like this other monster can eat Kriss for breakfast!
8 x 10, 32pp., full-color hardcover: $9.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-288-5

And a new Garfield and Smurfs!

GARFIELD & Co #3 “Catzilla”
By Jim Davis and Mark Evanier, writers
Ellipsanime/Dargaud Media, artists
Adapted by Cedric Michiels
It’s Halloween, and Garfield has dresses up as “Catzilla,” a fierce wild cat that lives at the zoo, to go out Trick or Treating. What Garfield doesn’t know is that the real Catzilla has escaped from the zoo and the police are searching for it, leading to a wild case of mistaken identity! Will Garfield end up in a zoo? And what will Jon and Odie do if they run into Catzilla? Also featuring the stories “Underwater World” and “Perfect Pizza.”
6½ x 9, 32pp., full-color hardcover: $7.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-278-6

THE SMURFS  #8 “The Smurf Apprentice”
Peyo – writer and artist
Yvan Delporte, writer
Gos, artist
A smurf wants to emulate Papa Smurf, and decides the best way to do so would be to practice magic. So, the smurf sneaks into Gargamel’s lab and steals instructions for a magic potion. The smurf foolishly drinks the potion and is turned into a monstrous lizard that all of the smurfs fear. Can Papa Smurf create an antidote? Or will the Smurfs be seeing green for the rest of their lives? Also featuring the stories “Smurftraps” and “Halloween.”
6 ½ x 9, 56pp., full-color paperback: $6.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-279-3
6 ½ x 9, 56pp., full-color hardcover: $10.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-280-9

THE SMURFS #1-3 Boxed Set
Peyo – writer and artist
Yvan Delporte, writer
Volumes 1 through 3 collected into one boxed set with close to 150 pages of comics! Value priced at under 20 dollars. Includes the Purple Smurfs, The Magic Flute and the Smurf King.
6½ x 9, 184 pages, full-color paperback: $17.99
ISBN:  978-1-59707-273-1

DISNEY FAIRIES #1-4 Boxed Set
Paola Mulazzi, Augusto Machetto, Giulia Conti, writers
Emilio Urbano, Elisabetta Melaranci, Andrea Greppi, Gianluca Barone, artists
Collecting the first four volumes of the hit Papercutz DISNEY FAIRIES graphic novels with close to 300 pages of full-color comics!
5 x 7½, 320 pages, full-color paperback: $29.99
ISBN:  978-1-59707-272-4

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ALL OF THESE CAN BE ORDERED THROUGH YOUR COMICS BOOKSTORE NOW!

NBM: July 2011 Solicitations

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LITTLE NOTHINGS, VOL. 4: “My Shadow in the Distance”
Lewis TRONDHEIM
Trondheim’s popular pithy and ironic little slices of life are back! Newsarama says of it: “So long as Trondheim continues creating work as strong as this, the comics world will be a bright place.””Smart and well-executed” says the Comics Reporter. Buzz has been tremendous! Posted in rotation on NBM’s blog.
6×9, 128pp., full color trade pb with flaps, $14.95,
ISBN 978-1-56163-609-9
Little Nothings strips are being posted 3 times a week right now all coming from this book and you can see from that he’s got a whole section devoted to his trip to the US which are hilarious.
EUROTICA in July has:
THE BAYBA SET
2 volume banded set
Roberto BALDAZZINI
Young Bayba is ripening into a hot she-male as she is brought under the severe tutelage of demanding dominas. Elegant and thoroughly tongue-in-cheek utter kink. Large format.
Includes Bayba Domina in Red and Bayba, Lady Brown.
9×12, 96pp, full color, trade pbs in a banded set: normally $25, specially priced at $19.99.
ORDER FROM YOUR COMIC BOOKSTORE TODAY! Or directly from us online.
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And while we’re at it, PAPERCUTZ our sister co. has these to offer in July:
NANCY DREW The New Case Files #3
“Together with the Hardy Boys”
Gerry Conway, writer
Sho Murase, artist
For the first time in comics Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys team up! There’s trouble in River Heights – Nancy Drew’s longtime boyfriend Ned Nickerson, has run off into the waiting arms of Dierdre Shannon. But that’s not the worst of it. Someone has been secretly plotting against Nancy for some time and those schemes are about to come to frightful fruition. It’s more trouble than Nancy Drew can handle on her own, which is why she needs the Hardy Boys’ help. Just one problem: Joe and Frank no longer want to work together! Will the Undercover Brothers agree to play nice and help the Girl Detective? Or will this be their last case?
6 x 9, 64pp., full-color paperback: $7.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-262-5
Also in Hardcover at $13.99, ISBN 978-1-59707-263-2
THE SMURFS #7
“The Astrosmurf”
Peyo – writer and artist
Fifty years ago, man set off into outer space. Now, a Smurf sets foot on another planet… Or does he? Could it possibly be a smurfspiracy to fool Dreamy Smurf into becoming the Astrosmurf? Or has Dreamy Smurf gone where no Smurf has gone before? We’re not telling, and neither are the little green men known as the Swoofs! No matter what, “The Astrosmurf” is out of this world! Also: Gargamel returns to sink “The Smurf Submarine”!
6 1/2 x 9, 56pp., full color paperback: $5.99,
ISBN: 978-1-59707-250-2
Also in collector’s hardcover: $10.99,
ISBN 978-1-59707-251-9

NBM: April 2011 Solicitations

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Here’s what we’ve got being solicited for in comics stores this month, to ship in April:

The Dungeon series takes a much lighter turn after its increasingly dark stories:

DUNGEON Monstres
Vol. 4: Night of the Ladykiller
Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim,
J-E. Vermot-Desroches, Yoann
Vulture sorcerer Horus, a ladykiller? Who knew? Yet, as the first story in this volume shows, he is accused of impregnating a slew of women. The second story takes a much lighter tone starring Grogro the big always hungry goofball seen in many stories before, especially in the Parade series. Here, he’s the hero, or at least tries to be, on a mission to fix a mess with a bunch of beer brewers. Question is: will he solve the problem… or just eat (and drink) it?
6 1/2 x 9, 96pp., full color trade pb.: $14.99, ISBN 978-1-56163-608-2

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You can also  order this month from your comics store the previous volume 3 in this series AND, just in time for Easter, Brooke Allen’s irresistible and highly acclaimed debut A Home for Mr. Easter.

EUROTICA meanwhile will offer an elegant and steamy collection of Chinese erotic comics:

The Jade Door
Chaiko & other Chinese artists
Erotic stories from ancient China by leading Chinese artists. Beautiful Asian women opening themselves to forbidden temptations, delicately rendered in exquisite watercolors and painting. A beautiful and very arousing album from the Middle Kingdom.
9 x 12, 64pp., full color hardcover: $17.99,
ISBN 978-1-56163-606-8

And stores will be able to reorder for you our other top erotica: First Time and The Story of O.

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And so you know as well, our sister Papercutz has this for April:

THE SMURFS #6
“The Smurfs and the Howlibird”
Peyo – writer and artist/
Gos – writer

The Howlibird is coming, and the Smurfs are going! When one of Papa Smurf’s experiments goes terribly wrong, it indirectly leads to the creation of the high-flying terror known as the Howlibird — a monster determined to destroy all Smurfs! Also, the return of Gargamel in “The Smurf Express”!

6 1/2 x 9, 56pp., full color paperback: $5.99,
ISBN: 978-1-59707-260-1
Also in collector’s hardcover: $10.99,
ISBN 978-1-56163-261-836

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CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #13 “Ivanhoe”
By Sir Walter Scott
Adapted by Mark Wayne Harris and Ray Lago

Mark Wayne Harris adapts the classic novel that brought the Age of Chivalry to dramatic life and added to the mythology of Robin Hood. Ray Lago’s beautiful full-color renderings depict all the romance and ation of this timeless tale in an impressively dynamic fashion. Lago’s breath-taking watercolor work makes “Ivanhoe” one of the most handsomely illustrated editions in CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED history.

61/2 x 9, 56pp,. full-color hardcover: $9.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-248-9

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NBM in March: Sizzle goes full color

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First: we’ve added quite a few new books from Random House (Pantheon, etc…) and First Second to our 50% sale! The Eternal Smile by Gene Yan and Derek Kirk Kim (also $8.50!), a whole bunch of fun Sardine in Outer Space volumes ($7.50) and more. See it all here. Most have very few copies left so come and get ’em before they disappear. Keep checkin’ also as we’ll add some more over the next few days.

NBM’s news this month comes from its EUROTICA side:

Our quarterly adult comics magazine SIZZLE which previews many of its graphic novels goes from black & white to full color throughout!

Best yet: the price stays the same at $5.95!

The magazine has been regularly featuring the works of Kevin Taylor (Girl), Christian Zanier (Banana Games), Cornnell Clarke (Peanut Butter), as well as Barbarian Chicks & Demons. But of late it’s also added the best-selling author from the Spanish Kiss comics magazine Atilio Gambedotti (Room-Mates, 4 Girlfriends) with a new series Three of a Kind. This issue will also feature a new hot artist from Kiss: Mapp and It Could Happen to You. From China, a beautiful story from a graphic novel coming in April The Jade Door making the magazine truly international. Omaha the Cat Dancer will also continue, albeit in its usual black & white.

Time to rediscover this magazine of quality adult comics which has been surprisingly stable in its circulation through these turbulent times for magazines.

For more info and previews (you must be over 18) click here and then click on the Coming Up in March banner on the left.

By the way, we want to remind you Eurotica has its own blog now where such authors as Zanier, Clarke and Taylor regularly participate with their latest creations.

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Meanwhile, for a completely younger audience, we’ll take this opportunity to inform you of what’s up over at our sister co. Papercutz:

This month a nutty spoof of Twilight is featured.

PAPERCUTZ SLICES #2 “Breaking Down”
Stefan Petrucha, writer
Rick Parker, artist
The team that brought you the best-selling Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid cuts up the best-selling series starring love-sick vampires and jealous werewolves! The “Twilight Saga” gets sliced up in this unauthorized parody of the blockbuster book and movie series! For fans sick of glittery vampires and wonky werewolves, here’s an hilarious antidote.
6½  x 9, 64pp., full-color paperback: $6.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-244-1; PREVIEWS

THE HARDY BOYS The New Case Files #2 “Break-Up!”
Gerry Conway, writer
Paulo Henrique, artist
The world-famous Hardy Boys have been solving mysteries together for years, but the unthinkable has happened – Joe and Frank have decided to no longer work together. Like Lennon and McCartney, Martin and Lewis, and Sonny and Cher, all things must pass. Will they continue as agents of A.T.A.C. (American Teens Against Crime) separately? And will Joe and Frank still be effective as solo crime fighters?
6½  x 9, 64pp., full-color paperback: $6.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-242-7; PREVIEWS

THE SMURFS  #5 “The Smurfs and the Egg”
Peyo and Yvan Delporte, writers
Peyo, artist
What is the secret of the egg? The annual event known as “Smurf Day” is near, and Papa Smurf wants to celebrate by making a big cake. The Smurfs gather all of the ingredients for the cake, but are missing an egg. When two Smurfs find an egg in the forest and bring it back, the other Smurfs soon learn that it is a magic egg that grants wishes! Soon all of the Smurfs are making unwise wishes and the entire village is a mess. It’s up to Papa Smurf to find a way to restore calm. Also featuring “The Fake Smurf,” where the evil wizard Gargamel finds a way to infiltrate the Smurf Village – by becoming a Smurf himself!
6½  x 9, 64pp., full-color paperback: $5.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-246-5
6½  x 9, 64pp., full-color hardcover: $10.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-247-2

Free Comic Book Day 2011 – The Gold Books

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Free Comic Book Day on May 7th, 2011

Ape Entertainment

KIZOIC PRESENTS: KUNG FU PANDA/RICHIE RICH FLIP BOOK

Archaia Entertainment

DARK CRYSTAL/MOUSE GUARD FLIP BOOK

Archie Comics

BETTY & VERONICA

BOOM! Studios

DARKWING DUCK/RESCUE RANGERS FLIP BOOK

Dark Horse Comics

AVATAR: LAST AIRBENDER/STAR WARS: CLONE WARS FLIP BOOK

DC Comics

A SPECIAL TOP SECRET PROJECT TOO BIG TO ANNOUNCE!

Image Comics

ROBERT KIRKMAN KID-FRIENDLY TITLE

IDW Publishing

LOCKE & KEY

Marvel Comics

SPIDER-MAN

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GERONIMO STILTON & THE SMURFS FLIP BOOK

NBM: January 2011 Solicitations

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Here’s what we’ve got planned for January. Unfortunately, as far as ordering these through your comic bookstore goes, it gets tricky: Diamond distributors decided NOT to carry these banded specially priced sets!

SO, that means you can only get them through us and some comic stores who order directly from us (ask them)! Here goes:

BIGGER NOTHINGS:
THE LITTLE NOTHINGS SET Vols. 1-3
Lewis TRONDHEIM
Now in a specially priced banded set of the 3 volumes, Trondheim’s popular little slice of life vignettes are collected together. “It’s very gently funny but splendidly assured and evocative of place — if a friend had drawn you a page of it as a letter, you’d treasure it forever” said The New York Times Book Review of this strip.
3 volumes banded together, 6×9, 384 pp., full color trade pbs with flaps, $39.99 (normally $45), ISBN 978-1-56163-599-3

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ORDINARY VICTORIES SET
Manu LARCENET
One of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the decade is now available in a specially priced banded set of the 2 volumes. This is the story of Marc, a photographer who’s tired, of a very patient chick he meets, of banal horrors and of his pain-in-the-neck cat.
It’s the story of his art thrown against heavy anxiety attacks; of a really cute woman in his small town who seems to take to him against all odds; of the old neighbor, a peaceful likable fellah until you get to know his disturbing role in the war…
Called one of five best graphic novels by TIME magazine on its release, it was also a Booklist top 10 graphic novel of the year: “Superb marriage of literary realism and comics.” “Like any great work of art, it is possible to hold the pages up and through them, see the world” said Comic Book Resources.
2 volume set banded together, 61/2 x 9, 248 pp, full color trade pbs, $29.99 (normally $32),
ISBN 978-1-56163-600-6

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And from Eurotica, this one comics stores will be able to order through Diamond:

OMAHA The Cat Dancer, set of vols. 1-7
Reed WALLER, Kate WORLEY
Now’s your chance to own the entire run of this best-selling classic of comics erotica at a very special price. Omaha is remarkable in that it blends intelligent and captivating story with well-rounded funny animal characters as well as totally guilt-free joyously rendered sex!
Bundled set of 7 volumes, 8 1/2×11, B&W, trade pbs., 816 pp., $75 (normally over $90!) ISBN 978-1-56163-601-3

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Meanwhile, back at Papercutz (all of these available through Diamond):

THE SMURFS #4 “The Smurfette”
Peyo – writer and artist/ Yvan Delporte – writer
For the first time in the Papercutz SMURFS graphic novels, the one and only Smurfette makes her dramatic debut! Here’s the original comics story that introduced her to the world. Where she comes from and how she first appeared may surprise her many fans! What sinister role did the wicked Gargamel play in her arrival? And how did Papa Smurf get involved in a way that would change Smurfette forever? This is the story Smurf fans have been waiting for!
6x 9, 64pp., full color paperback: $5.99, ISBN: 978-1-59707-236-6
Also in collector’s hardcover: $10.99, ISBN 978-1-56163-237-3

GERONIMO STILTON  #7 “Dinosaurs in Action”
By Geronimo Stilton
The Pirate Cats have had their plans foiled by Geronimo Stilton time and time again, due to the help from Geronimo’s friend Professor Volt. The Pirate Cats decide to better their odds by getting rid of Professor Volt, kidnapping him and leaving him in the Cretaceous Period – a time when the earth was occupied by dinosaurs! Geronimo and his friends must travel back in time 140 million years to save Professor Volt from literally becoming a part of history!
6½ x 9, 56pp., full color hardcover: $9.99
ISBN: 978-1-59707-239-7

CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED  #12 “The Island of Dr. Moreau”
By H.G. Wells
Adapted by Steven Grant and Eric Vincent
One of H.G. Wells’s most visionary tales, “The Island of Dr. Moreau” relates the disturbing tale of Pendrick, a shipwrecked naturalist who unwittingly discovers a horrific scientific and social experiment that is creating a mutant race of hideous creatures, half-human and half-beast. Terrifying and spellbinding, Wells’ masterpiece warns of the catastrophe that could result when man recklessly tampers with nature. Eric Vincent’s artwork vividly summons up the nightmarish life in Dr. Moreau’s tortured world.
6½  x 9, 56pp,. full-color hardcover: $9.99
ISBN 978-1-59707-235-9

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