The first of four volumes collecting the complete weekly "Video Views" columns (1999-2001) by cartoonist, author, and film scholar Bissette covers the endless flow of video and DVD releases from June 1999 to March 2000.

The third in a series collecting the complete weekly "Video Views" columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author and film scholar Stephen R. Bissette covers the video and DVD releases of November 2000 to May 2001. As the Millennium turned, Bissette wrote with perceptive wit and a greater grasp of cinema history than the high-ticket critics. From the slick Hollywood fantasy Frequency to Dogme 95 spawn Dancer in the Dark, he screened 'em all. He covered true indy films and often interviewed the filmmakers themselves. He discussed the revivals and rehashes, the glorious and the ghastly.

The second of four volumes collecting the complete weekly "Video Views" columns (1999-2001) by renowned cartoonist, author, and film scholar Bissette covers the video and DVD releases of January to November 2000.

The fourth volume collecting the complete weekly "Video Views" columns (1999-2001) by Bissette covers May to October 2001, and miscellaneous video and DVD-related articles from this period.

With this volume, "Blur" truly shifts into the 21st century, collecting into book form the best of this award-winning cartoonist's tsunami of online essays and articles from 2005-2007.

Eerie Publications' horror magazines brought blood and bad taste to America's newsstands from 1965 through 1975. Here's the sordid background behind this mysterious comics publisher, featuring astonishingly red reproductions of many covers and the most spectacularly creepy art.

Bissette provides an expansive overview of every aspect of the creation of a graphic novel (in this case, Rick Veitch's seminal "Brat Pack," 1990-1991), including its pop cultural roots, context, and wake; the personal and professional life of its creator; and the behind-the-scenes creative and business decisions that culminated in the publication of the completed serialized original.

For The Untold Story of the 1929-'31 Dracula Stage Tour "Down Under," Aussie writer Daniel Best unearths some fascinating little-known facts on the subject, and his painstaking endeavors to piece together as many as possible of the various scattered pieces of the puzzle that still remain in existence go far in helping the reader envision how these now-largely-forgotten stagings of Dracula in Australia might have been. Interspersed throughout with reproductions of original vintage newspaper advertisements and articles, plus many more seldom-seen images besides, Best's text is illustrated with...