Books from Bud Plant

Bud Plant has announced that after 55 years in the comic book and graphic art business, at age 73, he is retiring next year.

 

In the 1970s, Plant played a major role as both wholesaler and retailer in the advent of the direct market (DM), which in turn revolutionized comic book retailing. I remember seeing his catalogs in the 1980s and 1990s, and finding them filled with stuff that was otherwise unavailable back in the era before online ordering. Nowadays his catalogs continue to have items that are of interest to fans of comics and graphic art.

 

Earlier this summer I ordered some items from the Plant catalog:

 

The lead item is a tome by 'Caza,' the pseudonym of Philippe Cazaumayou: 'Arkadi and the Lost Titan.' Published this spring by Humanoids, this is an English-language version of the graphic novel Le Monde d'Arkadi, published in 2024. 

 

The 'Arkadi' comics first were released as nine bande dessinees (Franco-Belgian comics) from 1989 to 2008 by Delcourt. 'Arkadi and the Lost Titan' compiles English-language translations of the nine comics into a very nice hardbound edition.

If you are a fan of comics and graphic art then stopping by the Bud Plant website is recommended, as some items are only going to be available for a limited time, depending on how readily the Plant enterprise is acquired.