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The Complete C Comics by Joe Brainard & Co.

The New York Review of Books publication of the complete collection of Joe Brainard's legendary C Comics has arrived!  There were only two issues of C Comics published – in 1964 & 1965 – but that was still enough to create quite a splash.  Unsurprisingly, given their unprecedented – and somewhat abstruse – conflation of comics and poetry, they had low print runs and have been quite hard to come by (not to mention expensive) for years. But no longer!  

This hefty, oversize hardcover – with the accent on the vertical, measuring 8 1/2" x 14" – replicates the original dimensions of the first issue (the second issue was published in the standard 8 1/2" x 11" size and is also reproduced here at its original size, bracketed with 1 1/2" gray bars at top and bottom).  This edition also includes a foreword by Ron Padgett and an essay by comics historian Bill Kartalopolous, who details the creation (and creators) of C Comics.