SHIPPINg jANUARY 2012

Shipping january 2012
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THE SINCEREST FORM OF PARODY:
THE BEST 1950s MAD INSPIRED SATIRICAL COMICS
edited by John Benson; introduction by Jay Lynch
$24.99 / SC / 208 pgs / FC / 7.25 x 10.25
When MAD became a hit as a comic book in 1953, other publishers were quick to jump
on the bandwagon. For the first time, Fantagraphics collects the best of these comics
in a single, outrageously funny volume. With titles such as FLIP, WHACK, NUTS,
UNSANE, BUGHOUSE, and GET LOST and featuring the work of artists such as Jack
Davis, Will Elder, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Bill Everett, Al Hartley and Bob Powell,
The Sincerest Form Of Parody collects over 30 of the best of these crazy stories, all
reprinted from the original comics, in full color.
POPEYE VOL. 6:
“ME LI’L SWEE’PEA”
by E.C. Segar
$29.99 / HC / 168 pgs / PC / 10.5 x 14.75
It’s finally time for collectors to
add the last “E” to the P-O-P-EY-E spelled out on the spines of
Fantagraphics’ landmark series.
Popeye creator E.C. Segar died
at the age of 43, leaving behind
less than a decade’s worth of
strips and this sixth and final
volume collects not only the
last of the dailies but also 62
splendid full-page, full-color
Sundays. Additional features
include two historical articles by
Popeye expert Rick Marschall, an illustrated Segar-written biography
of Popeye and more rare art and photos.
THE CRUMB
COMPENDIUM
by Carl Richter
$29.99 / SC / 320 pgs / BW / 7 x 9
The Crumb Compendium lists
and organizes all of Crumb’s
published work to date and
serves as the definitive guide to
the work of greatest cartoonist
of all time. Comics, periodicals,
books, catalogs, posters,
juvenilia, cards and all other
printed ephemera are included
along with records and CDs,
buttons, statues and shirts plus
listings of articles and interviews. It will be heavily illustrated, making
this an essential text for all Crumb collectors and scholars and having
had Crumb himself serve as a consultant ensured the most accurate
information.
MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER:
THE STEVE DITKO
ARCHIVES VOL. 3
by Steve Ditko;
edited by Blake Bell
$39.99 / HC / 224 pgs / FC / 7.25 x 9.5
Five years before his
breakthrough as the co-creator
of classic super-heroes such as
Spider-Man and Doctor Strange,
Steve Ditko was turning out
some of the best work of his
career. Mysterious Traveler
collects stories from Tales of
the Mysterious Traveler and
This Magazine Is Haunted
and reprints over 210 full-color pages of Ditko in his early prime.
These are thrilling stories of suspense, mystery, haunted houses, and
unsuspecting victims that have never been properly reprinted- until
now!
CRUISIN’ WITH
THE HOUND:
THE LIFE AND TIMES
OF FRED TOOTÉ
by Spain Rodriguez
$19.99 / SC / 120 pgs / BW / 7.5 x 10.25
Raunchy, hilarious, and often
violent as hell, Cruisin’ With the
Hound is an unsentimental trip
to half a century ago — the antiHappy Days, set to a true rock
’n’ roll beat. The stories range
from Spain’s days as an innocent
young churchgoer to his time as
a member of the Road Vultures
motorcycle gang. Rendered in
slabs of black and white and featuring Spain’s blunt graphic style and
uncompromising gift for caricature.
from Fantagraphics Books
offered again
COMPLETE
CRUMB COMICS
VOL 15
by R. Crumb
$19.99 JAN111200
“Mode O’Day and
Her Pals” includes
all of Crumb’s
contributions to
Weirdo #9 –15, his first experiments
with brush, the first Mode O’Day stories,
the first collaboration with Bukowski,
“Psychopathia Sexualis” and more! COMPLETE
CRUMB COMICS
VOL 13
by R. Crumb
$19.99 JAN111199
IS THAT ALL THERE IS?
by Joost Swarte;
introduction by Chris Ware
$35.00 / HC / 144 pgs / FC / 8.5 x 11
Fantagraphics proudly presents
the first English-language
collection of this Dutch master!
Joost Swarte revitalized
European alternative comics
in the 1970s with a series of
satirical, elegant and beautifully
drawn short stories. Is That All
There Is? will collect virtually
all of his alternative comics
work from 1972 with great pains
taken to match Swarte’s superb
coloring. His techniques include
watercolor, retro duotones and a fiendishly clever use of Zip-a-Tone
screens.
LISTEN, WHITEY!
The Sounds of Black
Power 1965-1975
by Pat Thomas
$39.99 / HC / 224 pgs / FC / 10 x 10
With 90,000 words of text,
accompanied by over 250 fullcolor reproductions of album
covers and 45 rpm singles,
Listen, Whitey! chronicles
the images and sounds of the
Black Power movement which
galvanized black America and
struck fear into the heart of
the white establishment in the
late ’60s and early ’70s. The work of activists and artists such as Huey
Newton, Nina Simone, the Last Poets and many others are examined
along with the musical connections between the Black Power
movement and Bob Dylan, John Lennon and the Partridge Family (!?!).
Crumb’s classic
“social and
environmental”
rants: the nowfamous “A Short History of America”;
gritty “American Splendor” with Harvey
Pekar; the quintissential “My Troubles
with Women”; and the very first “Snoid”
comics! POPEYE VOL 5:
“Wha’s a Jeep?”
by E.C. Segar
$29.99 OCT101016
This volume of the
acclaimed series
concludes the
“Popeye’s Ark” epic
and introduces
two unforgettable characters: the
mysterious, magical Eugene the Jeep
and Popeye’s poppa Poopdeck Pappy!
Plus full-color Sundays & Sappo! STRANGE &
STRANGER:
THE WORLD OF
STEVE DITKO
by Blake Bell
$39.99 MAR083707
The first critical
retrospective
of the work of
the reclusive Spider-Man co-creator
traces his life and career, his stylistic
innovations, and his philosophical
principles, in a lushly-illustrated coffeetable book.
STEVE DITKO
ARCHIVES VOL
2: UNEXPLORED
WORLDS
by Steve Ditko;
edited by Blake Bell
$39.99 JUN101001
More than 200
pages’ worth of
never-before-collected horror and
science-fiction stories from the early
career of a comics great, beautifully
presented in a stunning hardcover
volume. Introduction by series editor
Blake Bell. BUDDY
DOES SEATTLE
New Printing!
by Peter Bagge
$19.99 OCT078068
These legendary
stories from Hate
#1–15 are a defining
icon of Seattle’s
early 1990s culture,
as well as Generation X in general.
Bagge’s riotous tales of the early 1990s
subculture are more hilarious now than
ever. ROY CRANE’S
BUZ SAWYER
VOL 1
by Roy Crane; edited
by Rick Norwood
$35.00 JUL101014
Our series
collecting Crane’s classic strip kicks
off with the WWII years, in which our
titular hero finds high adventure as a
combat pilot, hijinks while home on
leave, and beautiful women at every
turn. With fold-out color Sundays! PRISON PIT Vol 1
New Printing!
by Johnny Ryan
$12.99 AUG090885
The first original
graphic novel from
the master of the
gross-out is an
over-the-top orgy of
escalating ultraviolence and perversity
as intergalactic monster criminals battle
for supremacy in the barren negative
zone of the Prison Pit! LOW MOON
New Printing!
by Jason
$24.99 MAR094249
Five yarns from
the Norwegian
master: the titular
New York Times
serial collected for
the first time and four all-new stories
featuring murder, cavemen, sex, and
alien abduction. Funny, poignant, and
wry, this is Jason at his best.
ALMOST SILENT
by Jason
$24.99 NOV090779
Compiling the soldout Meow, Baby!,
Tell Me Something,
and You Can’t Get
There from Here
graphic novels (as
well as the still-in-print The Living and
the Dead) into one lovely clothbound
hardcover volume. Monsters, romance,
comedy & intrigue from the Norwegian
master.