• 1st Legion of Utopia

    $9.00$17.99
    The turmoil of the Great Depression galvanized Canadians to rise up and fight for improved labour conditions, social equality and universal healthcare. In the frontier city of Calgary, Holly Burnside and Brian Mah get involved with the founding of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the first national party dedicated to the needs of workers and farmers. Written by James Davidge, art by Bob Prodor and Nick Johnson, cover, lettering and design by Ryan Ferrier graphic novel - 80 pages - Full colour - softcover
  • Escape into dreamy landscapes, terrifying legends, fascinating moments in Canadian history, and quiet romance with our 2019 Book Bundle, which includes all the titles we published this year, right to your doorstep.
  • Our 2020 Book Bundle has all the ingredients for a great escape: tales of supernatural romance, of humour, and of kindness and resilience in the face of insurmountable odds. There's something for the whole family and more, in this collection of our 2020 titles. This 6-book bundle includes: ABC Monstrosity, Necromantic, A Slug Story, Awkward Pause, Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures, and Bogart Creek 2
  • Ryan Harby's love letter to odd humour meets Derek Evernden's laugh-out-loud single panel comics in this convenient bundle. This collection includes: Awkward Pause and Bogart Creek Volume 2
  • From vampires to Norse myth, from the chill of the Canadian North to the peaks and plains of Alberta, this collection of our 2022 books has something (and somewhere) for everyone. This bundle includes 5 books: Siegfried: Dragon Slayer, Bogart Creek Volume 3, Alberta Comics: Home, King Warrior, and VMT
  • A Slug Story

    $9.99$14.99
    WINNER OF THE DOUG WRIGHT 'EGGHEAD' AWARD FOR BEST KID'S BOOK 2021 ALBERTA PUBLISHING AWARDS BEST CHILDREN'S AND YA SHORTLIST 2021 VLA GRAPHIC NOVEL DIVERSITY AWARD 2021 HONOUR LIST Marcus is an enthusiastic boy, but when ridiculed at school, he begins to feel that his best efforts are second rate. His confidence already low, Marcus suffers a serious, virus-induced, brain injury. While in the hospital, and with the help of fellow patient Emily, Marcus learns to embrace the reality of who he is. "A powerful and honest story that goes to places other, more sanitized narratives, do not. It is an important book." - Mike Donachie, Toronto Star ISBN: 9781988903767
  • ABC Monstrosity

    $9.99$19.99
    ALBERTA PUBLISHING AWARDS BEST CHILDREN'S AND YA SHORTLIST 2021 ALBERTA PUBLISHING AWARDS BEST BOOK ILLUSTRATION SHORTLIST 2021

    ABC Monstrosity is a freaky-fun book designed to thrill adults and kids alike with pages that teach and delight all at once. As each new letter is introduced with a drawing of a familiar object or animal, the previous ones are continuously combined to create bizarre and creative monstrosities. Featuring beautifully hand coloured drawings, ABC Monstrosity includes a zany glossary featuring fascinating scientific facts augmented with humour. 

    "The illustrations are just so beautiful...it's such a fun book" - CBC's Anne Logan HC ISBN: 9781988903996 SC ISBN: 9781988903880
  • Alberta Comics: Home

    $12.00$24.99
    2023 ALBERTA BOOK PUBLISHING AWARDS 'BOOK ILLUSTRATION' WINNER A 224 page comics anthology celebrating the comic creators connected to Alberta, featuring 43 short comic stories and cartoons inspired by the theme 'home'. Within the pages you will find a curious mix of pathos, optimism, humour, hope, and reflections on all the different things 'home' really means. Featuring: Jillian Fleck † Theresa Wong † Kat Simmers & Ryan Danny Owen † Spencer Estabrooks † Jarrett Hartnell † Janice Blaine Aaron Navrady † Naomi Fong † Debra King † Cam Hayden  Josh Rose † Lyndon Radchenka † Chris Doucher † Jeff Martin † Jackson Gee † Derek Evernden † Chris Peterson  James Davidge † Chris Twin † Sam Hester † Brett Monro Crista Honey † Nick Johnson † Shannon M. Reeves † Randi Hamel † Sho L. Uehara † Sylvia Moon † Steven Charles Rosia Rick Overwater † Dario Carrasco Jr † Stacey Bru † Kelly Tindall † Mary Haasdyk † John Vooys † Maria Stoian  Zachary Wild † Sean Seamus McWhinny † Simone Stehouwer † Mike Hooves † Luke Moore † Emma McCaul † Jacqueline Huskisson † Rixby Elliot † Henry Hays † Darryl Sinclair  Savannah Tries † Corey Lansdell † Allan Whincup † Chris Michaud † Caanan Grall † Morten Kristiansen † Nicole Gruszecki † Shawn Fehrenbach † Zach Schuster
  • Alice at Naptime

    $10.00$40.00
    ‘A beautiful, visual-poem about motherhood and art.’ A poetic exploration of being both a new mother and an artist, told using her own unique graphic novel and fine art approach. When Alice was born her mother only found time to draw her while she napped. Gradually Alice is multiplied in a tapestry of selves, both large and small, while an overarching narrative whispers through the pages, musing on the meeting of former and future selves. At its core, Alice at Naptime tells a universal story, of a parent pining for past freedoms, while simultaneously descending down a rabbit hole of all-encompassing maternal love. Written and illustrated by Shea Proulx - Full Colour - 192 pages
  • Alice of Spades

    $9.99$24.99
    Alice, heir to the Spade throne, flees her kingdom as revolution erupts. With only her cat, Alice must escape religious zealots, assassins and pirates in a tale of adventure, action and twists. A new full length graphic novel from the Saga of the Jack of Spades.
  • Awkward Pause

    $9.99$19.99
    ALBERTA PUBLISHING AWARDS BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL SHORTLIST 2021 Awkward Pause is an anthology collection from Ryan Harby’s popular online comic series Honey Dill. Softcover - 168 pages ISBN: 9781989754023    
  • Take on your opponent with these classic thumb puppets, perfect for engaging in a Kaiju War of your very own. Only available with purchase of either When Big Bears Invade or Sharkasaurus.
  • Bogart Creek

    $9.99$19.99
    Collecting the best of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden’s laugh out loud funny, single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. Similar in style to The Far Side, Bogart Creek is the laugh out loud book you've been waiting for.
  • Collecting the latest and funniest of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden’s laugh out loud funny, single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. If life scares the hell out of you one minute and cracks you up the next, you’ll feel right at home in Bogart Creek. This product includes Volume 1, 2 & 3 of Bogart Creek.
  • Bogart Creek 2

    $9.99$34.99
    AVAILABLE NOW Collecting the latest and funniest of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden’s laugh out loud funny, single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. If life scares the hell out of you one minute and cracks you up the next, you’ll feel right at home in Bogart Creek. ISBN: 9781988903903
  • Bogart Creek 3

    $9.99$19.99
    Available now Collecting the latest and funniest of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden’s laugh out loud funny single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. If life scares the hell out of you one minute and cracks you up the next, you’ll feel right at home in Bogart Creek.
  • Dive into Canadian history with this collection of historical tales, featuring the War of 1812, the story of Canada's Confederation, one of Alberta's most deadly natural disasters, and the birth of the New Democratic Party. A great gift for teachers, or anyone with a love for history. This collection includes 4 books: The Loxleys and the War of 1812, The Loxleys and Confederation, Frank, and 1st Legion of Utopia
  • Channel Evil

    $6.99$19.99
    A slick and sleazy chat show host gets more than he bargained for when he channels an ancient source of evil, unleashing terror and carnage upon the world. ISBN: 978-0986820045 Pages: 136 
  • A slick and sleazy chat show host gets more than he bargained for when he channels an ancient source of evil, unleashing terror and carnage upon the world. 136 pages
     
  • Collector’s Pins

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    Exclusive collector's pins, available only with purchase.
  • 'Investigating the forgotten corners of our world, one monster at a time.' The first trade paperback in this highly praised comic book series. Featuring the first 4 comic issues, the prologue comic strip (as seen in USA Today), plus a new origin story 'The Trouble With Harry.' 128 pages.
  • The second trade paperback in this highly praised comic book series is here. 'Investigating the forgotten corners of our world, one monster at a time.' Gordon Rennie, PJ Holden, Steven Denton and Jim Campbell return to campus with the next instalment of cryptozoological adventure. Sabbaticals picks up after the events of Monsterology 101, with several team members pursuing their own agendas following their near miss with apocalyptic catastrophe in China and the South Pacific. ISBN: 9781987825015 Pages: 128
  • Volume 10 launches with Doug's well researched insight into the stories and their authors, this is followed by HP Lovecraft's evocative tale of exploration 'The Strange High House in the Mist'. Next we hear Ambrose Bierce's truly chilling 'A Diagnosis of Death', and Jeffery Combs reads Edgar Allan Poe's classic revenge tale 'The Cask of Amontillado'. Disc 2 presents us with Rudyard Kipling's tale of ghosts 'They', before disc 3 takes us down into Arthur Conan Doyle's 'New Catacomb' in his tale of a heartbroken lover's revenge. Jeffery Combs brings us part 3 of Herbert West Reanimator, and Robert Englund rounds off this volume with his sublime reading of Edgar Allan Poe's poem 'The Sleeper'.
  • Volume 11 begins with Doug's well-researched insight into the stories and their authors. This is followed by Edgar Allan Poe’s highly acclaimed gothic romance "Ligeia", Ambrose Bierce's haunting "A Fruitless Assignment", H. P. Lovecraft's dark and disturbing "Pickman's Model", Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sinister masterpiece "Blue John Gap", and more.
  • Volume 12 begins with Doug's well-researched insight into the stories and their authors. This is followed by H.P. Lovecraft's haunting tale of an old man and his violin, as well as a classic tale by Charles Dickens. The volume closes with one of Poe's well-regarded poems, Dreamland.
  • Volume 4 is a feast for crows with such tales as Lost Hearts, The Damned thing, Poe's poem A Dream Within a Dream and a man's descent into depraved madness with his Black Cat to keep him company.
  • Having kicked off the Mummy genre Arthur Conan Doyle's masterpiece, Lot No. 249, simply speaks for itself. In its 80+ minute wake you can experience and end with Poe's heartbreaking poem, For Annie.
  • Special guest Robert 'Freddy Krueger' Englund reads Ambrose Bierce's mesmerizing short story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge with Doug at the helm of a tale that will leave you in fear of walking the streets alone, The Mark of the Beast.
  • Ambrose Bierce plays with time in The Suitable Surroundings, you may think twice before air travel after Doyle's A Horror of the Heights and bringing you a new author with Arthur Machen's The Bowmen.
  • New Guest reader Jeff 'Reanimator' Combs kicks off Lovecrafts Herbert West six part series with From the Dark. Poe gives us a voyage of damnation and Bierce takes the werewolf myth in an unfamiliar direction.
  • Volume 9 launches with "The Ash Tree", M.R. James' insight into an enigmatic woman and her rituals around this mysterious tree. A lost world of ancient evil is explored in Lovecraft's The Nameless City finished off with Poe's classic poem Alone.
  • A madman does not know he is mad after all, and an insane mind would not have the resourcefulness to craft from words, the imagined worlds and circumstances that exist on no plane other than their own mind.

    Only a true genius could put into words comprehensible to the average person, scenes of terror and dread and insanity, the likes of which the world had never known, simply by writing words. His words. To craft words in such a way, in such an order, to make one experience perceptible feelings of fright and madness. Love and loss. Pain and terror. Poe was a genius. A brilliant mind overflowing with scenarios, inventions, successions of events, worlds, landscapes and sounds. Sounds never heard by most human ears and possibly not even his own, but yet making those ears actually hear the sounds through his written words.

    Poe did not simply touch on subjects as uncomfortable as a human mind becoming unhinged, he tore into these subjects with an unabashed and unapologetic quill in hand. Leaving us frightened, appalled, and uneasy, yet completely exhilarated.

    Poe set the standard, well before the standard could be realized, and his works still stand untouched as the exemplar for all others, that may hope to attain even a fraction of his genius.'

    It has been my great pleasure to allow Mr Poe to put words in my mouth, I hope you will enjoy hearing them. We have included one of his stories on each volume of the Spinechillers series, and for good measure, we have also added one of his brilliant poems to most volumes.

  • Introducing classic stories from the original masters of horror, including Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart and HP Lovecraft's The Outsider.
  • This triumphant final volume of Spinechillers begins with Doug's well-researched insights into the stories and their authors.