{"title":"Fiction \u0026 Literature","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"quoteDetails\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"quoteText\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ― \u003cspan class=\"authorOrTitle\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Octavia E. Butler \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bloodchild-and-other-stories","title":"Bloodchild and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e“An outstanding short story collection . . . [Butler] is an impressive writer whose work displays how science fiction readily transcends the perceived stylistic limitations of the genre.”—\u003cem\u003eSt. Petersburg Times\u003c\/em\u003e “\u003cem\u003eBloodchild\u003c\/em\u003e is a compelling and horrifying novella . . . 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Told ultimately from the collective point of view of another species, \u003cem\u003eSensation\u003c\/em\u003e plays with the elements of the Simulacrum we all already live in: media reports, businessspeak, blog entries, text messages, psychological evaluation forms, and the always fraught and kindly lies lovers tell one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Nick Mamatas continues his reign as the sharpest, funniest, most insightful and political purveyor of post-pulp pleasures going. 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Its principal artist and editor, Gilbert Shelton, whose Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers would be enjoyed in many editions across the world, brought to the project his Texas pals Frank Stack and Jack Jackson. Also on hand, among others, were Chicago comics innovators Jay Lynch and Skip Williamson. Together, these and other contributors issued a veritable artistic manifesto: a new vernacular art had arrived!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA half century after its original appearance, \u003cem\u003eRadical America Komiks \u003c\/em\u003eretains its rebellious spirit and its rollicking humor. Dopey but also militantly antimilitarist, the comics in this reprinted volume speak to the ideas, sentiments, and artistic experiments of a generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLongtime underground artist Jay Kinney, coeditor of the satirical series Young Lust and Anarchy Comics, adds a foreword, and \u003cem\u003eRadical America \u003c\/em\u003eeditor Paul Buhle offers an extensive introduction to the saga of comic art, radical and otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGilbert Shelton attended university in Austin, TX, where he became editor of the student magazine, \u003cem\u003eThe Texas Ranger\u003c\/em\u003e. This was to prove Shelton’s last “real job.” For in 1967, after contributing to various underground comix with his earliest character, Wonder Wart-Hog, and designing posters for rock concerts, Shelton created the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. In 1969 he and some friends from Texas moved to San Francisco to set up Rip Off Press from which Freak Brothers strips were soon syndicated, borrowed (or stolen!) by a host of American underground newspapers and magazines. Shelton currently lives in Paris, France, with his wife and three cats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Buhle was the editor of \u003cem\u003eRadical America \u003c\/em\u003ein the late 1960s. He has edited comics biographies of figures including \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM1MzI3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/emma-goldman\" title=\"Emma Goldman\"\u003eEmma Goldman\u003c\/a\u003e, Che Guevara, Rosa Luxemburg, and Isadora Duncan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJay Kinney was an active participant in the underground comics movement from 1968 through the ‘70s and into the ‘80s. 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