Every six months or so I dutifully make my way to Dreamhaven Books in south Minneapolis to buy the latest volume of Fantagraphics’ ambitious reprinting of the revered adventure strip, Prince Valiant. Founded in 1977, Dreamhaven is the oldest continuously operating comic shop in Minneapolis, and among the oldest in the United States.
As I’ve noted previously, I’ve collected Prince Valiant in one form or another since I was a teenager in Australia in the late 1970s. I was inspired by my dad, who collected it when he was a teenager in the mid 1950s. The strip itself has been around since 1937, when it was first created by Hal Foster. Other artists and writers have followed in Foster’s footsteps and kept the strip alive for 89 years. You can read about all of these artists and writers (and see their work) at my blog, A Prince Named Valiant.
My most recent visit to Dreamhaven wasn’t just about obtaining the latest volume of Prince Valiant (which, by the way is Volume 30, 1995-1996). I also was hoping to encounter and personally thank Dreamhaven owner Greg Ketter for his vocal and iconic stance against ICE and CPB, the most visible and terrorizing manifestations of the Trump regime’s fascist occupation of Minnesota.
As you can see from this post’s opening image, my hope was realized! It was an honor to meet Greg and thank him for his very public speaking out against, as he says, “the U.S. government attacking its own people.” I have no doubt that Greg’s, well, valiant stance is ongoing, but its most well-known expression took place at the end of January, shortly after the murder by CPB agents of Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti, and was widely covered by local media, including WCCO News . . .
Related Off-site Links:
A Conversation With Greg Ketter of DreamHaven Books – Zach Rabiroff (The Comics Journal, January 30, 2026).
When a Bookshop Owner Turns Anger Into Resistance – MS NOW (January 31, 2026).
Minneapolis Bookstore Owner Goes Viral for Lashing Out at ICE – USA Today, January 28, 2026).
Sales Surge at Minneapolis Bookstore After Resonating Photo of Owner at Protest – Nick Lunemann and Erin Hassanzadeh (CBS News, January 26, 2026).
Greg Ketter Responds to Trump's State of the Union Speech: “I Am Still Angry” – MS NOW (February 25, 2026).
The People of Minneapolis Will Simply Not Let the ICE Thugs Prevail – Dan Simmons (The New Republic, February 5, 2026).
We’re All Minnesotans Now – William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Jim Swift (The Bulwark, February 18, 2026).
What We Can Learn From Minneapolis’ Model of Resistance – Gabriel Furshong (Common Dreams, February 13, 2026).
The Rise of the Rebel Loon Logos – The Nerd of The Rings (February 13, 2026).
Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care – Rashida James-Saadiya (Truthout, February 4, 2026).
The Minneapolis Resistance Will Do Your Laundry – Deborah Copperud (Current Affairs, February 19, 2026).
“Backing Down Isn’t an Option”: Minnesota ICE Shootings Mobilize Americans to Join ICE Observer Groups – Lex McMenamin (The Guardian, January 31, 2026).
Letter From Minnesota: Details From an Occupation – Angela Pelster (Literary Hub, January 29, 2026).
Meet the Minneapolis Parents Patrolling Their Schools Amid ICE Operations – Elizabeth Shockman (MPR News, January 16, 2026).
The Women Holding Minneapolis Together – Anna Moeslein Glamor, January 7, 2026).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts on the resistance to the Trump regime’s fascist occupation of Minnesota:
• Omar Fateh: Quote of the Day – December 4, 2025
• Photo of the Day – December 5, 2025
• Susie Hayward on What’s Happening in Minneapolis
• Doing What We Can to Stop Unjust Arrests of Immigrants
• Great Event, Great Sign, Great Nails
• Christmas Eve Musings
• May We Do Likewise
• “This Is What Fascism Looks Like” – January 7, 2026
• “It Was Murder”: 12 Powerful Responses to the Death of Renée Nicole Good
• Omar Fateh: “Folks Are Waking Up”
• A Good Faith Appeal and a Grim Response
• Why Minnesota?
• Chris Hedges on ICE: “I Have Seen These Masked Goons Before”
• Steven Donziger: “Let’s Get Real . . . ICE Is a Domestic Terrorist Organization”
• Historian Kyle Dekker: “It’s Not Nazi Ideology We Are Fighting. It’s American”
• Knowing Our Rights
• Mike Figueredo on Why Trump Might Be Pushing the U.S. to the Brink of Collapse
• A “Red Alert Moment for American Democracy”
• Dispatches from Occupied Minnesota
• Marianne Williamson on How to Psychologically Endure This Moment
• What Moral Clarity Looks Like in Minnesota This MLK Day
• Nemik’s Eulogy for Renée Nicole Good
• “It Was Never About Keeping America Safe”
• “ICE Out!”: The Minnesota General Strike – 1/23/26
• “This Was a Flat Out Execution”
• “Organized Sustained Systemic Resistance and Self-Defense Are Our Only Options”
• Honoring Alex Pretti
• George Conway: The Trump Administration Is a “Criminal Organization”
• In the Face of Fascist Lies, MN Governor Tim Walz Sets the Record Straight
• Adam Serwer on How “Every Social Theory Undergirding Trumpism Has Been Broken on the Steel of Minnesotan Resolve”
• “Trump Is Scared Shitless”
• “They Were Alive. Then They Were Not”
• Bruce Springsteen and the Streets of Minneapolis in the Winter of ’26
• Craig Mokhiber on the “Imperial Boomerang”: How U.S. War Tactics Abroad Are Now Used at Home
• January Vignettes (2026)
• Honoring Renée Good and the “Astonishing Surge of Courage” of Minneapolis
• A Luminous Celebration of Light, Love and Community
• More Dispatches from Occupied Minnesota
• Memes of the Times – February 2026
• Only the Beginning
• The North Remembers
• “It’s All Lies and Propaganda”
• What This Moment Feels Like in Minnesota
• Quote of the Day – February 23, 2026
• For Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, Silence Is Never an Option
• February Vignettes (2026)
See also:
• A Valiant First Effort, Wouldn’t You Say?
• Journeying Into the Truth . . . Valiantly, of Course!
• Waking Dagobert
• “Like Persephone of Myth”
• Into the Fray
• Something to Think About – November 11, 2014
For more on Prince Valiant, see the following at A Prince Named Valiant:
• How It All Began
• “He Wasn’t a Superhero But He Was a Hero”
• A Valiant First Effort, Wouldn’t You Say?
• John Cullen Murphy on Prince Valiant: “It’s My Duty. I’m Responsible For It”
• Former Prince Valiant Writer Cullen Murphy Interviewed by Terry Gross
• Mark Schultz on Prince Valiant as an American Invention
• Gary Gianni’s Prince Valiant: Looking Good
Celebrating 85 Years of Prince Valiant
• Comics’ Sweeping Graphic Novel, Prince Valiant, Turns 80
• Prince Valiant Celebrates 75th Anniversary
• Something Very Special
• Remembering Episode 3000, 8/7/94
• Thomas Yeates: “My Biggest Thrill is Seeing the Prince Valiant Logo on My Drawings”
• A First for Prince Valiant
• Prince Arn, Son of Valiant and Regent of Camelot
• “We Are the Daughters of the Queen of the Misty Isles and the Prince of Thule”
• The Return of Karen and Valeta
• Galan to the Rescue
• Nathan
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