Comics Christmas Shopping Update

* Star Clipper Comics, a fine retail establishment in St. Louis, offers up their holiday gift recommendations. Just to further underline that this site's Holiday Shopping Guide wasn't meant to be exhaustive and complete, I didn't even know there was an omnibus edition of the Brubaker/Epting Captain America out. I haven't read all of the issues reprinted, but in that world of comics it's generally considered first-rate work.

* here's another release I didn't know about, although from what the anonymous tipster said, it might be one of those releases that kind of slips out without really anyone knowing about it: Mad Archives Vol. 2. This is some of the greatest comics work of the 20th Century. Along with the work in volume one -- which the tipster says is back in print, too, although I can't find evidence for it -- these are the issues that served as the foundation for MAD's long, great run as one of the two or three bedrocks of American humor 1950-2000. Everything from National Lampoon to The Simpsons and everything they've influenced owes a sizable debt to these comics, which are also just kind of awesome and still-funny on their own. This may be what I'm getting for myself this year.
 
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