Pure Folly Books

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!

Well this is exciting!

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.

No one can answer that but you, my friend.

Looks sick man!

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!

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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!