by Moebius & Jodorowsky.

A series of sexually explicit images from premier European artist Moebius, accompanied by the elliptical texts of Jodorowsky. This is a hardcover edition, which has pictures of nudity and sexual situations of an adult nature. 72 pages.

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by Jerome Charyn, François Boucq.

A lost soul in the Ukraine, Billy is drafted by the KGB and sent to New York to steal for the Soviet State. Powerful story and art. A wonderful story and art by the team that created The Magician's Wife, another best-seller.

Catalan Communications, 1991. European graphic novel, in English. 125 pages. Softcover, Full Color, 8½ x 11½

by Alex Varenne.

Erotic artist Alex Varenne, creator of Erma Jaguar, puts his imaginary dream girls through a sparkling itinerary of sexual encounters and sensual landscapes where their roles are constantly assailed by his sly sense of humor.

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by Will Desberg

This tastefully ribald fable chronicles the life of Mickey Loverose and his quest for the perfect woman. After surviving a fatherless childhood, an eccentric mother and English boarding schools, Loverose makes his fortune by providing elegant alibis to philandering aristocrats to give in turn to their wives. But young Loverose is determined to find true love and sets off for exotic lands in an eventful but futile search. Along the way he acquires a mysterious ring that forces his conniving consorts to reveal their true intentions. In Arabia, Loverose succumbs to a sumptuous life of venery, only to discover its consequence: slow and inevitable dissipation. After escaping that pleasure prison, Loverose attempts to breed a perfect mate. He picks the parents and pays for the child's education, but once she reaches age 18, our hero discovers that his breeders (who leave town before the wedding night) have raised a child very different from what he was expecting. Witty and fanciful, this work by two Belgian comics artists combines handsome watercolor illustrations with a well-told and sexy tale.

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by Paringaux and de Loustal

Paringaux and de Loustal ( Love Shots ) are neatly matched collaborators. The interconnections between words and pictures are so well established that it is impossible to just look at the images or read the text. De Loustal draws in the tradition of early 20th-century European artists, de Chirico and Picasso in particular. Paringaux's story recalls modernist French cinema: lots of smoking, sweating and sex, and against the clear-cut happy-ending tradition (not to mention the heterosexual tradition) many Americans are accustomed to in popular fiction. The story involves an American tennis player named Baby and three people who are attracted to her: her German chaperone, Eva, a French soldier named Robert, and an Arab who kidnaps Baby out of love. Baby spends the bulk of the story being passive while others take control of her actions. Eva and Robert appear to be stereotypes--she, the classic lesbian bitch, he, the brave male hero--but Paringaux turns the images on their ear. Eva receives no comeuppance for not being a proper woman, and Robert is an ineffectual drunkard with delusions of chivalry. A fine work from two prime French talents.

As Mankind is under attack from a plague, two people, Christopher Cavallieri and Valerie Haurele, are placed into individual hibernation capsules and sent into space. A thousand years later, Chris is brought back to life and helps the solar system to fight the Trasses, a collective intelligence made up from a race of alien, winged rats. In the process, Chris finds Valerie's capsule and reanimates her. However, during their thousand-year sleep, the two voyagers had kept idealized images of each other. They soon discover that their love cannot withstand the ravages of reality...

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by Silvio Cadelo

Mark-of-the-dog is a tufted son of a murderous breed, with a heart of gold - the strangest character this world has ever seen. Stranger still are the dreams, hearts and tears which are the stuff of this metaphysical thriller. 62 pages. Softcover, Full Color, 8½ x 11½.

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by Philippe Paringaux and Jacques Loustal

In this collection of short stories, the creators perform their jaded ventriloquy on a new assortment of American losers, and a few from other continents as well. From Death Row in Mississippi Delta to New York’s backstage groupie scene, the imagery shuns from eye-level subjective focus to the remorseless leer of the hidden camera. 64 pages. Softcover, Full Color 11 x 9. Catalan, 1990.

From the short-lived Fantasy Flight Publishing comes this beautiful mint copy of a truly rare book. One estimate is that less than 300 copies were distributed when published. Reprints the well-known European comic by Leturgie & Luguy, in English.

Full Color, 48 pages.

by Francois Boucq

In this collection of 11 zany vignettes, contemporary and primitive realities conspire like the red and green lenses of 3-D glasses. The pioneer protagonist of these short, dense forays into the absurd are Everyman mutants in loincloth and polyester, wandering in altered states where condos are liana-choked and tundras boast subway stations.

48 pages. Softcover, Full Color 8½ x 11½.

by Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin

Not unlike contemporary political situations in which terrorism leads to counter-terrorism in a vicious circle this book illuminates the tragedy and monstrosity of violent vengeance on a human scale. The novel starts with the ultimately pointless struggles of left-and right-wing militants in Spain in 1938. Never having forgotten their defeat a terrorist faction returns to the village of Nieves and massacres its inhabitants as the story opens 40 years later. Enraged by the minor coverage given the slaughter journalist Jefferson Pritchard regroups his brigade and resolves to wipe out their old foes from the Black Order. As one crusty old group pursues the other across Europe the distinctions between principles- between left and right- all but vanish into a senseless haze without victors or vanquished leaving only victims.

80 pages. Softcover, Full Color, 8½ x 11, Catalan, 1989.

by Jacques Tardi

French cartoonist Tardi returns with a peculiar protagonist in a very peculiar story. Making a call in lower Manhattan, Walter, who works as a roach exterminator, notices that unlike most buildings in New York City this one has a 13th floor. He decides to take a look around only to overhear, to his dismay, plans for a series of murders. At this point Legrand's storytelling takes a turn for the bizarre as Walter, terrified that these unidentified conspirators are after him, is joined by a lowlife coworker named Luis who may or may not be involved with Walter's pursuers. Tardi's talent for creating a brooding, blighted urban setting is exceptional and his gritty portraits of the city carry the narrative.

by Silvio Cadelo

Silvio Cadelo is an erotic French cartoonist whose surreal work often defies description, using cartoons to create well-paced panel-to-panel action and unearthly sex. What better language for an extraterrestrial to learn about our species than sex? Being an alien flower however, this versatile visitor sees Earth as one big, horny hothouse and he's ready to be planted anywhere!

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by Vittorio Giardino.

Private investigator: a pretty nasty line of work that in the end doesn’t pay as much as you’d think! Luckily, once in a while a client comes along who just happens to be a poor old millionaire paying for youth and starting to have doubts about the faithfulness of the young chick in question; those are the cases where the checkbooks open and the sky’s the limit. Pezzo was waiting for one of these generous donors when . . .

Catalan, 1987. 48 pages. Softcover, Black & White, 8 x 11.

by Miguelanxo Prado

Curious characters on a spit of uncharted island in the middle of nowhere. There's intrigue, sex and, more importantly, Spanish artist Prado's sumptuous illustrations and exquisite use of colors!

by Miguelanxo Prado

Acclaimed Spanish comics artist Prado (Streak of Chalk) presents a stunning collection of graphic short stories surveying the poignancy and instability of a series of unconnected love affairs. These vignettes offer an unsentimental insight into the impermanence of relationships (and the routine solace of sex). One story, Ballad for Sax and Neon, presents a bad writer's dilemma in a dream sequence, providing a glimpse of lyric fantasy and an unpretentious emotional clarity. The book contains nudity and lovemaking, both generally tastefully depicted. Prado's expert color drawings, delicately varied in style and with a rich range of moody ochres, grays and browns, signal and maintain the emotional tone of the stories even better than the writing.

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