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Chris C.

Chris Cilla was first hired by Powell's in the year 2000. He has spent most of the years since working in the Gold Room. He is also a cartoonist whose work has been featured in the collections Kramers Ergot (6 & 7), Funny (Not Funny), and Typhon. His full length book The Heavy Hand was published by Portland's Sparkplug Comic Books in 2010. He is usually drinking green tea.

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Wally Gropius: The Umpteen Millionaire
by Tim Hensley
Staff Pick
Torn from the pages of MOME quarterly, this bizarre comic album takes on teen humor comics from an abstract angle, full of head-scratching laughs and razor sharp cartooning. If Mort Walker drew Jim Shaw's dreams for an Archie Comics (Japanese edition... (read more)

List Price $18.99
Your price: $6.95
Used - Hardcover

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The Search for Smilin' Ed
by Kim Deitch
Staff Pick
Original underground cartoonist Kim Deitch spins a hilarious yarn full of obsessive weirdos, investigating the mysterious demise of 1950s children's TV host Smilin' Ed and his sidekick, the gremlin Froggy. Jam packed with incredible visuals, dirty... (read more)

Your price: $16.99
New - Trade Paper

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