Little by little the Schulz Library is always expanding its collection.

Thanks to generous donations from publishers, artists, and collectors the world over, our collection is abundant and unique. From our selection of contemporary graphic novels, to our out-of-print and rare collections of gag cartoons and classic newspaper strips, the Schulz Library is a dream come true for the cartoonist bibliophile.

Have a look at some of this week’s newest arrivals!

Opium – Daniel Torres 

Opium is an over-the-top absurdist 1980’s pastiche from Spain.  In Opium, Daniel Torres, one of Spain’s most prominent clear line cartoonists, seamlessly blends hard-boiled detective fiction with retro-science-fiction motifs and colonial imperialism.

Opium sees the citizens of “the city” assaulted in both overt and covert ways by ‘Sir Opium’, an insidious master of menace and his gang of evil doers. Though peace in “the city” is in jeopardy, the clear-headed, clean-cut decency of TV host Ruben Plata and his faithful girlfriend, Blanche White, prove a match for the ‘Sir Opium’.

Replete with 1950s fashions, flying cars and Rock-and-Roll, this Pop-culture melange is a raucous and racy graphic delight. Torres has cleverly concocted a daftly sophisticated, fantastic piece of cartooning from Spain’s forward thinking 1980’s underground.

Definitely worth taking a dip into this juicy caper published by Les Humanoides Associes.

Polaroids de Jeunes Filles – Jean-Philippe Delhomme

Polaroids de Jeunes Filles presents fashion illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme‘s celebrated series, Polaroids de Jeunes Filles. Delhomme began the series early in his career in 1987 for the French fashion magazine, Glamour.  Over time in the 1990s, his playfully childish figures became synonymous with visual wit and cleverness and his polaroids series became a thing of legend.

Delhomme created this series of illustrations to make little jokes via tongue-in-cheek portraits of the readers. The idea was to depict girls reading the magazine, describing themselves in a slightly pretentious or naive way.

Highly recommended for those looking for heartfelt wit and style.

Zeke Raconte des Histoire – Cosey 

Published in 1999 by Aire Libre, Zeke Raconte des Histoires represents one of Bernard Cosendai(Cosey)’s formal experiments in graphic storytelling. This work marks a departure in Cosey’s adherence to traditional of adventure comics structures.

The main story concerns a mother and daughter’s search for their missing son, Zeke. Interestingly this main plot is punctuated by a series of brightly colored image sequences that tell other, absurd, abstractly related stories.

Given the noticeably splintered narrative, Zeke Raconte des Histoires represents the later period of Cosey’s career. In this period he moved away from working on serialized work and changed his focus to experimenting with narrative and imagery through one shots. Fascinated by the synthetic magic that happens during the immediate and intuitive act of reading comics, Cosey’s aim with Zeke Raconte des Histoires  was to explore a the idea of familial bonds and the archetypal quest through a challenging, abstractly intertwined narrative.

Recommended for the adventurous reader looking for lusciously challenging comics.

Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre – Batton Lash

Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre features the law practice of Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd, two humans who specialize in serving the legal needs of monsters and other supernatural beings. Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, is the first collection of Lash’s Wolff and Byrd comic strip series. It is a delight to have this volume in our library.

This 64-page book, originally published in 1987 by Andrion Books, contains strips that appeared in The National Law Journal and The Brooklyn Paper in the mid-1980s. In these strips Wolff & Byrd defend a vampire dentist, encounter a young man possessed by Clarence Darrow, and deal with ghosts, witches, time travelers, werewolves, and the undead.

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