This Sunday 7/21 is our first pop up event - Close Encounters at Mojo’s Cafe & Gallery in Troy! Cool comics and cool people! Come on out!

In three weeks come catch us in Troy for the Close Encounters Zine and Comic show, along with a bunch of our friends! We’ll be bringing that good good indie, underground, sci-fi, and horror comics that are our bread and butter! Don’t miss it!

A few years ago Edward @purefollybooks.bsky.social posted pictures of Upstate as a new book he got in. I gave it a shot in instantly loved the series. Just read issue 4. @stephenpellnat.bsky.social this was the best issue yet, your art is out of control great! Felt like David Lapham’s Stray Bullets

Thanks to @zachrabiroff.bsky.social & @comicsjournal.bsky.social for taking the time to talk to me about Pure Folly, the state of comics retail in 2024, and what’s next.

Hexagon Bridge is the debut graphic novel from Richard Blake and it is a gorgeous, euro influenced slab of hard sci-fi! Recommended!

We’ve been waiting with bated breath and PEEP is finally here! Anthology of the year maybe? So many great creators including Sammy Harkham, Alex Schubert, Gabrielle Bell, John Hankiewicz, Brian Chippendale, Katie Skelley, Spain Rodriguez, and plenty more! You know you need it!

Michel Fiffe’s Creating Copra is in now, and for anyone interested in self publishing or creating their own comics, it’s essential.

Santos Sisters #6. “Brilliant and disposable.” Yes. Available now thanks to Greg & Fake and our pals @floatingworld.bsky.social

Chainsaw Man vol 15. The fight against the Fear Devil heats up. Come and get it.

Jay Stephens’ Dwellings was one of our favorite series of last year, and now all the stories are collected in a fancy pants hardcover from Oni Press! Very much recommended.

Any week we get new Love & Rockets is tops in my book! L&R #15 in now!

We love Josh Pettinger’s stuff around these parts, so we’re very stoked to have the first collection of his self published Goiter comics in stock! Digest size! Newsprint! What a perfect comics package! Published by our pals @floatingworld.bsky.social

Buffalo and Western New York pals! Don't miss this!

Always fun to get some new work from Tim Lane! Mythologies & Apocrypha #1 in stock now! Published by our pals @fantagraphics.bsky.social

Thank you @purefollybooks.bsky.social Edward tracked down the Go Team Venture book for me, I genuinely cannot believe I got my hands on a copy!

Finally back in print and available again is Freddy Carrasco’s GLEEM, in a beautiful new edition from @dandq.bsky.social This is the innovative and forward thinking sci-fi you’ve bern looking for!

Some killer fresh finds hitting our used books section today! Why not stop in and see what else is new?

New this week from Box Brown is Legalization Nation! As Cannibas becomes legal in more and more states around the country, Brown delves into the shadowy behind the scenes of politics and big business in the industry.

Out now is Atlas Comics Library vol 2: Venus, collecting ten never before reprinted comics from the Timely/Atlas pre-Marvel era. Simply sublime pre-code horror and sci-fi from Bill Everett and Werner Roth! Published by our friends @fantagraphics.bsky.social Recommended!

Any week where we get new Ashley Wood comics is a great one for sure! 7174 AD #1 is available now!

New Nate Garcia in the house! Hornrim #4 is here. You know you need it!

I excited to have the first comic from local artist Wayne Coe, Freedom Fighter #1, a true crime thriller delving into the assassination of Martin Luther King. Very cool stuff!

Fresh Undrgrounds hitting the bins!

Out now is the Complete Edition of @mattfraction.bsky.social & Chip Zdarsky’s award winning humorous erotic crime comic - Sex Criminals! Jon and Suzie have the power to stop time when they have sex, so obviously the next thing to do is start robbing banks! And it only gets crazier from there.

Thursday restocks! Don’t let a little rain stop you - we’ve got the goods! Stanley! Nate! Crumb! Kerascoet! Pilkey! Matsumoto! Tamaki! Thompson! Hanawalt! Hanselmann! Tamarit! Here til 6 today!

It’s not every day we get copies of RAW in, but boy howdy do we love when we do! RAW #2 featuring Jooste Swarte and the first chapter of Art Spiegalman’ MAUS. Available in store or shipped right to you for a little more. Reach out for questions regarding condition and pricing.

In stock now is the gorgeous new edition of Emily Carroll’s classic horror gn, When I Arrived At the Castle, finally back in print thanks to our pals @silversprocket.bsky.social Highly recommended!

It’s a gorgeous Sunday! We’re here til 5 with the best comics and graphic novels around!

Light It, Shoot It is the new book from Graham Chafee, a 70’s Hollywood Noir set in the film industry. If you’ve enjoyed books like Stray Bullets, or the noir stories of Brubaker & Philips, you should definitely take a look. Published by our friends @fantagraphics.bsky.social

Always a great day when we get some fresh Rich Tommaso comics! Published by our pals @floatingworld.bsky.social , Black Phoenix vol 3 collects a slew of super powered stories! Highly recommended. This is just a perfect comics package.

Sunday Shelfies! We’re here til 5 (ish) today and we’d love to see you!

New this week is Anna, from German artist Mia Oberländer and published by @fantagraphics.bsky.social Anna is a feminist fable of resistance and acceptance.

Heck yeah. Excited to have the new one from Jasper Krents on the rack, Opal and Earl. Krents is one of the most exciting young creators out there and if you haven’t checked out his work yet, what are you even doing?!

Thursday restocks! Burns! Oda! Gauld! Larsen! Telgemeier! Umezz! Hanselmann! McFarlane! Glaubitz! Halbert! Watterson! Ito! Smith! Jansson! We’ve got the good stuff.

Stitches is the new collection of short stories from Hirikatsu Kihara, featuring art and illustrations from the incredible Junji Ito! Available NOW.

How War Begins is the new book of comics journalism from Igort, and published by @fantagraphics.bsky.social Collecting testimonies of Ukrainians during the ongoing Russian invasion, How War Begins is a book that shouldn’t have to exist.

Yeah it’s pretty gross out today, but inside Pure Folky, it’s warm and full of comics! If you’re out and about today be safe, but we’d love to see ya!

Mushroom Knight vol 1 is the debut graphic novel from Oliver Bly, a strange and sumptuous fantasy where a fae knights quest and one girls search for her missing dog collide. Cool stuff here.

Thursday restocks! Miyazaki! Alphona! Henderson! Simmonds! Matsumoto! Segar! Deforge! Sobel! TORIYAMA! It’s a nice afternoon, why not stop by?

Two new ones from our pals @floatingworld.bsky.social this week - Vengeance is for the Living #1 by Keenan Marshall Keller & Alex Delaney and Monster Fan Club #2 from Shaky Kane and friends! Both recommended!

New zine in the shop from artist Fran Lopez. Come check it out! We love supporting independent creators!

Masters of the Nefarious Mollusk Rampage is an irreverent slab of absurdity from French artist Pierre La Police and published by New York Review Comics. First time in English, this truly has to be seen and experienced.

Got a small stack of undergrounds hitting the bins today - Young Lust, Skull, Slow Death, and more!

Available now is a nice little selection of IDW Artist Editions! Simonson Thor 1st edition! Mr Miracle! Kamari vol 1! Peanuts! Starlin Cosmic! All books are gently used. Please reach out for specifics regarding condition and pricing!

Wednesday restocks? Yes! Davis! Telgemeier! Brown! Thurber! Milburn! Eastman! Sacco! Eastman! MIURA!

We’re stocked full of great reads on this fine Saturday so why not stop in and find your new favorite graphic novel?

Friday restocks are here and it’s a beautiful afternoon! Doucet! Umezz! Mizuki! Crumb! Dragotta! Kobabe! Girard! Hernandez! Clowes! Tomine! Sullivan! Svetoft! Baker! Miura! Glaubitz! Matsumoto! Derf! Maillard! Parrish! Fior! All killer, no filler.