D+Q Is Having A Big Sale As Well



This makes me kind of feel bad I spent so much time yesterday using the Top Shelf sale as a springboard for talking about the richness of comics as a consumer's experience right now. Drawn and Quarterly is a constant contender for comics publisher of the year and is yet another advertiser on this site, so if I were to skip mentioning their sale entirely it would seem like I'm being mean. And as much as you can assemble a mighty reading pile from Top Shelf's offerings, since everything at D+Q is on sale it's obvious you can do the same there. I can't imagine a better Christmas gift for the right person than three Aya volumes for under $30, or a bunch of Moomin books for a similarly discounted price. It's hard to conceive of a more noble pursuit than pursuing the under-appreciated David Collier's work into various nooks and crannies throughout the catalog. And so on.

The thing that struck me, though, looking at the catalog, is how many comic books there are. Although D+Q has been moving away from classic-format comic books for years, it was hard not to see Seth's recent, mournful, opening essay in the new yearbook version of Palookaville as the actual moment when comics became not a diminishing option for the publisher but part of its past, with maybe one or two exceptions proving the rule. I miss them already. Not only did D+Q start out publishing a lot of great comic books, including the last several issues of one of the five all-time great underground/alt-comics series, Yummy Fur, its run of comic books even as fans started to move away from them were as beautifully designed and as perfect a little suite of pop culture packages as there has been made available in the last quarter century. Is there a better-looking little comic book than that re-run of Ed The Happy Clown? Holy crap. I would have bought that comic book if reading the interior pages sprayed acid onto my fingers. Also, and I'm a bad person for mentioning this, but a company moving away from a format with such an apparent degree of finality means that what they did publish has become something of a complete set for the collector in you to go out and snag. That's my long way around of saying that I looked at every comic book offered in their sale and came up with about $135 getting you every available D+Q infantryman in what ended up being a doomed war.


 
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