LUCKY'S

3972 Main Street, Vancouver, BC (map)
Mon-Th. 1- 6pm, Fri/Sat 12 - 6pm, Sun 12 - 5pm
604-875-9858 luckys@luckys.ca

Lucky's  

 

Lucky's Comics Tour Stop

August 31, 2010

JOHN PORCELLINO AND NOAH VAN SCIVER

Of King-Cat Comic and Blammo fame...



Please join us in welcoming John Porcellino and Noah Van Sciver to Vancouver for a signing, slideshow, and Q & A.
John Porcellino celebrated 20 years of King-Cat Comics & Stories in 2009, and recently released issue 71 of the famed mini-comic. Drawn and Quarterly has published three volumes of his work so far: Map of My Heart, Perfect Example, and King-Cat Classix. In 2005 his Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man (La Mano Press) wo......n the first Ignatz Award for best Anthology or Collection. His work and dedication have been influential on a generation of comic creators, and he's a great guy, come on by to meet him!
Noah Van Sciver has self-publish six issue of Blammo - #6 was recently nominated for an Ignatz Award (2010) for Outstanding Comic. His comics have also appeared in the Mome anthologies, the Comics Journal, and Mineshaft. He too is surely a great guy, and a dedicated and adventurous fellow to boot, to travel this distance to promote his work and meet you, the comic and story loving public.
John and Noah both hail from Denver, Colorado, and are visiting Lucky's as part of a West Coast tour including stops in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque. Come on out to meet them, won't you?

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Coming Events:

 

Aug. 31 6PM: John Porcellino (King-Cat Comics) and Noah Van Sciver (Blammo) travel up from Colorado for a Lucky's appearance!

 

Now in the Gallery: MODEL CITIZEN by Erik Hood. Closing reception Sept 10 7pm during SWARM

 

Oct. 7 6PM: DAVE COOPER on tour and visiting Lucky's to launch BENT, a book of new paintings published by Fantagraphics Books.

 

New Books

  • Wild Kingdom
    Kevin Huizenga
  • Rift
    James Jean
  • Eden
    Pablo Holmberg
  • All My Friends Are Dead
    Avery Monsen and Jory John
  • Indoor Voice
    Jillian Tamaki
  • Clock Without a Face
    Scott Teplin, Mac Barnett, Eli Horowitz
  • Abandoned Cars sc
    Tim Lane
  • Art Forms of the Ocean
    Ernst Haeckel
  • Vancouver Special
    Chales Demers
  • City Of Glass
    Douglas Coupland
  • Jose Guadalupe Posada: Illustrador De Cuadernos Populares
    Mercurio Lopez Casillas
  • Wilson
    Daniel Clowes
  • Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6
    Michael Kupperman
  • Stooge Pile
    Seth Scrivner
  • Dirty Dishes
    Amy Lockheart
  • It Was a War of the Trenches
    Jacques Tardi
  • Baffler Magazine vol. 2 #1
  • Black Blizzard
    Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  • Simpsons/Futurama Crossover deluxe
    James Lloyd
  • Red Book
    David Shrigley
  • Papercutter #12
  • I Want You
    Lisa Hanawalt
  • Night Business #1 and 2
    Benjamin Marra
  • Diamond Comics #4
  • I Want You
    Lisa Hanawalt
  • Art In Time: Unknown Comic Adventures 1940 - 1980
    ed. Dan Nadel
  • Lose #2
    Michael Deforge
  • Hot Potatoe
    Marc Bell
  • Minicomic/postcard set
    Anders Nilsen
  • Ghoulash vol 2
    Sam Hiti
  • Death Day Prologue (hand drawn covers)
    Sam Hiti
  • Equally Superior
    Trio Magnus
  • Boy's Club 3
    Matt Furie
  • Masterpiece Comics
    R. Sikoryak
  • Zeitoun
    Dave Eggers
  • Asterios Polyp
    David Mazzucchelli
  • Tales Designed to Thrizzle vol. 1 HC
    by Michael Kupperman
  • Low Moon
    by Jason
  • Vancouver Matters
    eds. Christa Min, James Eidse, mari Jugita, Joey Giaimo, Lori Kiessling
  • Nine Ways to Disappear
    by Lilli Carre
  • Jan's Atomic Heart
    by Simon Roy
  • Prayer Requested
    by Christian Northeast
  • Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo
  • Low Moon
    by Jason (week of June 22)
  • Thought Cloud Shrines and Always Somewhere Nearby
    by Theo Ellsworth
  • The Macrophenomenal Basketball Almanac
    by freedarko.com
  • Tales From Outer Suburbia
    by Shaun Tan
  • Pohadky
    by Marek Colek and Pat Shewchuk
  • Even the Ghost of the Past
    by Marcel Dzama
  • The Ganzfeld vol. 7
  • Berlin: Book 2
    by Jason Lutes
  • Capacity
    by Theo Ellsworth
  • Ojingogo
    by Matthew Forsythe
  • Otherworld Uprising
    by Shary Boyle
  • Juxtapoz Illustration
    best of anthology of Juxtapoz art, published by Ginko Press
  • We Lost the Battle but not the War
    by Michel Gondry
  • Marcel Dzama
    The Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All
  • Diego Rivera
    The Complete Murals (Taschen Books)
  • Acme Novelty Library 19 and 18.5
    by Chris Ware
  • All We Ever Do Is Talk About Wood
    by Tom Horacek

 


New Games

  • Magic: Rise of the Eldrazi
    booster packs and intro decks
  • Magic Duel Decks
    Phyrexia vs. the Coalition
  • Yu-Gi-Oh
    all the latest greatest booster packs and structure decks and special edition packs including GOLD SERIES 3
  • Pokemon: Soulsilver and Heartgold; Unleashed
    booster packs and theme decks
  • Sports Cards
    newest in hockey and baseball packs
  • Also in stock: Chaotic, Bella Sara, Maple Story, Naruto, Star Wars Miniatures, D&D Miniatures, and more

 

 

 

Bestsellers

  • 1) Bigfoot: I Not Dead
    by Graham Roumieu
  • 2) Tales Designed to Thrizzle
    by Michael Kupperman
  • 3) Footnotes in Gaza
    by Joe Sacco
  • 4) Never Learned Anything From History
    by Kate Beaton
  • 5) Catching the Big Fish
    by David Lynch
  • 6) Zeitoun sc
    by Dave Eggers
  • 7) Louis Riel
    by Chester Brown
  • 8) McSweeney's 33
  • 9) I Can Has Cheezburger? A LOL Cat Collection
    by Professor Happycat
  • 10)Vancouver Matters
    edited by Christa Min, James Eidse, Mari Fujita, Joey Giaimo, and Lori Kiessling