“An ultra-broad send-up of ‘70’s blaxploitation flicks, Hustle follows the exploits of private dick Boss Karate Black Guy Jones, who’s hired to retrieve a naïve young thing from the clutches of Vatican City porn merchants. The two-fisted tough guy with a yen for Pottery Barn tchotchkes bulldozes his way through an assortment of garishly grotesque thugs, as a razor-brandishing degenerate Pope hits the bars for a night of debauchery.

You haven’t seen such gleefully energetic cartoon slander since the glory days of underground comix.”

See the full review.

All of our NBM graphic novels are 20% off, including Eurotica, as long as your purchase is a minimum of $25. A great occasion for that Holiday cash you just got! …Maybe?

On our sale page you’ll see other special bargains including a number of Pantheon/Random House as well as First Second Graphic Novels we’re close to selling out of.

Comic Mix reviews Malefic, which was then picked by the much larger IMDb:

“His art speaks volumes without a single letter. He works predominantly with acrylic and oil on paper and the work is moving and imaginative. There’s an undercurrent of sensuality in his compositions regardless of setting or impending doom.
Royo fans will certainly rejoice in having new material and a unified library. More casual art fans are encouraged to check this out and see other worlds and ideas conjured up in a compelling way.”

The book is out in stores now.

“Ted Rall is a terrific journalist (“Silk Road to Ruin”), a take-no-prisoners political cartoonist (“America Gone Wild,” to name just one collection, and his work runs in many media outlets) and … gigolo?

There’s sex, sure, but it’s a hard and humiliating way to go, and Rall is brutal as he savages himself and the choices he made.”

So says The San Diego Union Tribune on The Year of Loving Dangerously at comics stores and Barnes & Nobles everywhere.

We’re making a few:

Mijeong, a manhwa, made Popcultureshock’s list of best of 2009:

“Wholly unlike most of the other English-translated manhwa hitting the shelves these days, this volume is a hidden gem, with glimpses of true brilliance that promise a great future for the artist.”

SFSite put The Big Kahn in theirs:

“Kleid’s story reads like something Philip Roth, or perhaps Nathan Englander, would write if they worked in comics.”

The Comics Waiting Room placed our Little Nothings vol.2 in theirs:

“I consider Trondheim to be the best living comics creator in the world right now, and this is him working at his purest form.”

Speaking of Trondheim. John Seven at Reverse Direction puts the Dungeon series in the decade’s best.

Graylight is shipping and is to hit stores very soon. From the author of the well acclaimed Unholy Kinship and House of Clay.  See more and previews.

Season’s Greetings.