Young Lions by Blaise Larmee [Special Custom Cover Edition]. $25, 96 pages, PLEASE NOTE: each copy features a handmade, collaged cover on original 2010 edition, each copy different, no reserves or preferences considered for which cover you get. 

An early work by one of this century's most thoughtful, complex, and (this is an understatement) worth reading comic makers. Everything is Larmee's work fufills Edward Gorey's belief that all great art is never about what it presents itself as. Here, in a 'debut' graphic novel published in 2010, the work appears to be a naturalistic cartoon novella, with highly accomplished but very contemporary drawing. The story can be enjoyed on those terms, or as a critical statement about the very idea of such a book.