APE Preview: Comics Shopping List

With the Alternative Press Expo (APE) kicking off in San Francisco tomorrow at the Concourse Exhibition Center and lasting through Sunday, it's becoming clear that the show will see the debut of a ton of interesting books and related materials. Some of them will be offered in various limited numbers, which usually means their formal debut will come a bit later but the publisher has had some copies shipped early from the printer to bring some attention to the book, to facilitate an appearance and/or signing, and, of course, to anger their direct market retailing partners.

You will do well by wandering the convention floor where all sorts of gems will reveal themselves, but here are a dozen books that are likely to be available at the show. I might not buy them all, but I'd certainly track them down to take a look.

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King-Cat Classix: The Best of King-Cat Comics and Stories, John Porcellino, hardcover, 382 pages, 1894937910 (ISBN), $29.95

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I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks, Edited by Paul Karasik, Fantagraphics, softcover, 120 pages 1560978392 (ISBN), $19.95

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Elfworld, Various Indy-Comics Superstars, 100-plus pages.

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House, Josh Simmons, Fantagraphics, softcover, 80 pages, 1560978554 (ISBN), $12.95.

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Windy Corner Magazine Vol. 1 #1, Edited by Austin English, Sparkplug Graphics.

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Bookhunter, Jason Shiga, Sparkplug Graphics, 144 pages, $15.

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Percy Gloom, Cathy Malkasian, Fantagraphics, hardcover, 150 pages, 1560978457 (ISBN)

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Micrographica, Renee French, Top Shelf, paperback, 208 pages, 1891830937 (ISBN), $10.

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First In Space, James Vining, Oni Press, paperback, 96 pages, 1932664645 (ISBN), $9.95.

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S'supermini, Tom Neely, Global Hobo, $2.

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Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations, Jeffrey Brown, Chronicle, hardcover, 108 pages, 0811858227 (ISBN), $12.95.

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Johnny Hiro #1, Fred Chao, AdHouse Books, 32 pages, $2.95.

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Everyone except Chronicle Books should be at the show for your direct-purchasing pleasure -- admittedly, I don't know where Elfworld will be headquartered, but it should be a fairly major "book of the show"-type book. The Chronicle book from Jeffrey Brown is one of many you can pick up at your finer comics shops on the floor of the convention.
 
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