Comics nerds rejoice! New Gahan Wilson collection, Mazzucchelli graphic novel

Just today I learned of two upcoming books that have me drooling with comics nerd-lust.

Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons is a three-volume, full-color, slipcased set collecting over 1000 cartoons that Wilson published over the course of 50 years in Playboy. Wilson's macabre, hilarious cartoons would be enough of a draw, but the set will also include his prose fiction and the articles he wrote and illustrated. The book is expensive enough to hurt, and so big it'd be hard to even find a place to stash it around the house... But this is the kind of book you find the cash and the room for. It hits stores later this year. (Click the image at left to buy Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons (Slipcased) (1-3)

David Mazzucchelli is one of the great cartoonists working today - probably one of the greatest cartoonists ever - but so far he has been, in the words of Publisher's Weekly, "a master without a masterpiece." He dazzled superhero fans with his work in the pages of Daredevil before changing his style completely, launching his own comics anthology Rubber Blanket and drawing a stunning adaptation of Paul Auster's novel City of Glass, but he sort of vanished from the comics scene about ten years ago having never produced an original graphic novel. Well, it turns out he's spent the last decade hard at work on Asterios Polyp, a book that Kirkus Reviews has described as "mind blowing." It hits stores next month. (Click the image at left to buy Asterios Polyp.)

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