Copacetic Comics Company

TODAY! That’s right, the inaugural Construction Junction Comic Con is taking place from 10am to 4pm, today, Saturday, May 16 at, yes, you guessed it, Construction Junction, which is located at 214 North Lexington Street, Pittsburgh PA 15208 (near the East End Food Co-op). Join Copacetic, John Kelly @dummyzine , Cameron Arthur @_cameron_arthur_ , Frank Santoro @hypepupjr and friends for a low key, old school comics get together. >>> FREE ADMISSION <<< Of special note: there will be a comics, creativity and storytelling workshop led by Frank Santoro that starts at noon. Here at Copacetic, we’ve been digging through the archives to bring out stuff from the shop that hasn’t seen the light of day for awhile. See you there!

COPACETIC COMICS CLASSICS # 1 has arrived! The secrets of Ogden Whitney… revealed! Up on the site and: @doomedplanetcomics @spitandahalf @dominocomicbooks Also available at the Construction Junction Comic Con on Saturday May 16th.

Pittsburgh Film-Makers: Fliers Posters Calendars, 1982 - 1984 (facsimile box set) by Bill Boichel A facsimile box set of the fliers, posters and calendars made by Bill Boichel for Pittsburgh Film-Makers during the years when he ran the exhibitions program there. The box contains roughly 100 pieces. This is a limited, hand-signed, hand-numbered edition of 50 copies. <<< Now available up on the site, and in Pittsburgh @fungusbooks and (soon) @doomedplanetcomics ALSO: @bottom.feeder.books is hosting an exhibition of the paste-up originals running from Saturday, April 4 through Sunday, April 26, 2026.

A GARDEN OF THE SPHERES by Linnea Sterte Long in the works (since at least 2021), A Garden of the Spheres is an epic – and stunningly beautiful – work of comics fantasy, of the world-building, science-fictional variety. The world Sterte has built for us here is a world of gods and monsters, one that evokes our pre-industrial past, when humans lived more in harmony with nature, while simultaneously embodying a magical and mythical halcyon age where occurrences and abilities that we, today, would call supernatural are simply presented as de facto, and so constitutes an alternate, fantastical history, a kind of “never was”. This volume is her most substantial work to date, running 336 pages, craft printed on a choice of papers perfectly suited for the work, which allow the colors to recede or advance, to simmer or pop, so as to best convey the moment and mood, all signature bound in a softcover with French-flapped dustjacket; and it's only "Book One”. Take a look! Now up on the site at a special, limited-time, introductory price :)

TONIGHT, Saturday, March 21 at The Harris Theater on Liberty Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, it’s an evening of documentaries by longtime (as in fifty years) local (and legendary, see below) filmmakers Betsy and Joe Seamans. Abide in This Place Awhile: Selected Documentary Work 1976 - 2026 is a program of four documentaries, the most recent of which focuses on Copacetic! It runs just under 100 minutes total. Starts at 7:00pm. Here are the films: Conversations in Rhyme (1979) about children’s folk traditions from Pittsburgh (25 mins) The Journey is This (2009) about Tim Kaulen as Artist of the Year in 2009 (12 mins) You’ve Got to Take Pride in What You Do (2016) about Jeff James, a mule trainer and logger in Middle Tennessee (22 mins) An Alternate Reality (2026) about Bill Boichel and Copacetic Comics (27 mins) ALL Directed by Joe and Betsy Seamans _______ Betsy and Joe began their careers in public television. Their recent filmmaking collaborations have a quiet, meditative style which is reflected in the shorts selected for this screening. Betsy Seamans is a writer and filmmaker who makes documentary films about community and traditional life in the United States. She worked with Fred Rogers for over 30 years as script writer, actor and filmmaker for the MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD program and to produce training materials related to children and community violence. For the past 15 years she and Joe have documented daily life in rural Tennessee. She received a National Endowment for the Arts award in 1971. Joe is a documentary filmmaker by trade, working primarily for the Public Broadcasting Service since 1970 for series like the National Geographic Specials and NOVA for which his credits include producer, writer, and director of photography. Eight years ago, Joe began designing projections for theater and opera, primarily in Pittsburgh, where he has completed fifteen major productions.

BELFAUST restock! Fresh from PIE 2026, courtesy of publisher Cram Books, it’s six of the eight extant issues of this one-of-a-kind hard-to-find hand-printed risograph series by the inimitable David Sandlin! @pie.burgh @cram_books @david_sandlin LIMITED QUANTITIES

PIE 2026 is TOMORROW!! That’s right: On Sunday, March 15, from 11am to 5pm, PIE returns to The Heinz History Center, located at 1212 Smallman St. on the edge of downtown Pittsburgh. @heinzhistory A nexus for small press comics and self-publishing awaits. Exhibitors and Special Guests plus Workshops, Panels and a Mobile Cartoon Museum! ALSO: There will be “Pre-Game Comics Reading” on Saturday evening – TONIGHT! – from 6pm to 8pm at Pullproof Studios, located at 5112 Penn Ave. @pullproof Hit up @pieburgh and/or get all the details at pieburgh.com SEE YOU THERE

ATTN. NYC – TONIGHT: THE REID PALEY TRIO will perform live at Main Drag Music in Brooklyn. Could there be a better way to spend Friday the 13th? We don’t think so.

Coming up next month! Bill Boichel: Pittsburgh Film-Makers Fliers, Posters & Calendars, 1982-1984. An exhibition of the original cut-and-paste flier/poster masters on the occasion of the release of the Copacetic/Mind Cure, Limited Edition, facsimile box set. Opening reception, Saturday April 4th 6-8pm. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, April 26th.

PIE 2026 is THIS Sunday! That’s right: On Sunday, March 15, from 11am to 5pm, PIE - the Pittsburgh Indie Expo - returns to The Heinz History Center, located at 1212 Smallman St. on the edge of downtown Pittsburgh. @historycenter PIE is a nexus for small press comics and self-publishing from all over the map – both figuratively and literally! Get ready for a vast and varied array of Exhibitors along with some Special Guests — plus Workshops, Panels and a Mobile Cartoon Museum! ALSO: There will be “Pre-Game Comics Reading” on Saturday evening (3/14), from 6pm to 8pm at Pullproof Studio, located at 5112 Penn Ave. @pullproofstudio Hit up @pie.burgh and/or get all the details at pieburgh.com SEE YOU THERE!

LOCAS by Jaime Hernandez. ‘Nuff said.

METADOGGOZ! Bérénice Motais de Narbonne published by Drawn and Quarterly HOT OFF THE PRESS! Metadoggoz looks amazing. Outsiders and misfits head to The Gap, where community awaits. >>> now in stock at copacetic || special introductory price!