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THE FANTAGRAPHICS
2013
ULTIMATE
CATALOG OF COMICS
IS PROUD TO WELCOME...
EC COMICS TO ITS LAIR!
inside!
New Peanuts!........62
Daniel Clowes!.........8
New manga!............6
New Disney Ducks by Carl Barks!....4
Love and Rockets’ 30th!.................14
Walt Kelly’s Pogo Vol. Two!............51
Amazing new collectors’ FBI•MINIS!...2
...and Sendak and Tardi speak out
in the new Comics Journal!.............98
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Greetings
Classics
Call to order:
1-800-657-1100
PRESENTING: THE FBI•MINIS!
We are always grateful to readers who buy books directly from us, so we are offering a special treat for
them: Thirty mini-comics (nine of them new since the last
catalog) featuring fascinating, previously-unpublished
(or at least way out of print) sketches, drawings, even full
stories, which are available for FREE with the purchase
of their matching tie-in books.
(If you’re already bought the book in question and
simply must get your hands on its FBI•MINI, we are offering the FBI•MINI’s as giveaways for any purchase of
$50 or more.)
FBI•MINI #1 by David B.
Some technical notes: No more than one copy of
each FBI•MINI per customer — no fair buying four
Jim Woodring books and asking for four Woodring
FBI•MINIs! — but you can request as many different
FBI•MINIs as you want so long as you buy the matching
book (or $50 worth of any other Fantagraphics publications). If ordering by phone or by mail, order the
FBI•MINIs as you would any item; if ordering by email,
list them in the “comments” section.
We are also still offering free signature plates for
many books, while supplies last — check for the little
golden circles all over this catalog.
Happy browsing!
—The Publishers
FBI•MINI #6 by R. Macherot
FBI•MINI #11 by Tardi
“The Trip to the Moon”
Created around the same time as
“The Armed Garden,” a classic fairy
tale, David B. style, never before
released in English. [Pg 71]
(free with purchase of
The Armed Garden)
“Sibyl-Anne’s Christmas”
A full-color holiday short story starring
the plucky mouse and her friends,
newly translated to English exclusively
for this giveaway! [Pg 24]
Sibyl-Anne Vs. Ratticus)
“Unfinished Fatale”
Tardi drew 21 pages of Jean-Patrick
Manchette’s noir thriller Fatale
in the 1980s before the project
was scotched. [Pg 32]
any TWO Tardi books)
FBI•MINI #2 by Peter Bagge
FBI•MINI #7
by Tony Millionaire
FBI•MINI #12
by Jim Woodring
“Prehistoric Bradleys”
Pre-Neat Stuff, pre-Hate Bradleys
comics starring Buddy Bradley, written
and drawn by Peter Bagge. [Pg 72]
(free with purchase of Buddy Does
Seattle or Buddy Does Jersey)
FBI•MINI #3 by Bill Griffith
“Re-Lost, Re-Found”
As huge as Bill Griffith’s omnibus
of his classic underground is, some
stories didn’t make the cut. Here are
12 pages of the best! [Pg 79]
(free with purchase of Lost and
Found collection)
FBI•MINI #4 by Gilbert and
Jaime Hernandez
“Boob Tube Billy”
A selection of Tony Millionaire’s
concept sketches for a so-farunsuccessful bid to get Billy Hazelnuts
animated. [Pg 87]
(free with purchase of any
Millionaire book)
FBI•MINI #8 by Johnny Ryan
“Still More Humorama”
We had too many great Humorama
Pin-Up gags to fit in the book... so
here’s a dozen more! [Pg 42]
(free with purchase of any Pin-Up
Art of... book)
FBI•MINI #9 by Richard Sala
FBI•MINI #14 by Ivan Brunetti
“Unmasked:
44 Portraits”
Over 30 full-color ghoulish and
ghastly portraits from the modern-day
master of the macabre, previously
seen only on his web page!
[Pg 29]
(free with purchase of The Hidden)
FBI•MINI 5 by M. Tillieux
FBI•MINI 10 by Joost Swarte
“Original Jordan Page”
From the Tillieux archives, a facsimile
of a gorgeous original page from
the second story in Murder by
High Tide, with Tillieux’s original
watercolor color indications
on the back! [Pg 24]
Murder by High Tide)
FBI•MINI #13
“Cool Shit from the Pit”
A selection of outrageous character
sketches from Johnny Ryan’s great
Prison Pit series! [Pg 28]
any Johnny Ryan book)
“Before Love and Rockets”
From 30 years ago (last seen in the
out of print LR Sketchbook Vol. 1), a
selection of Jaime’s legendary pre-LR
punk posters and flyers, and a wild
Gilbert “Inez” story. [Pg 14]
any L&R book)
#
“From the Unifactor”
A stash of conceptual sketches,
finished drawings, and other graphics
from Jim Woodring’s masterpiece,
Congress of the Animals! [Pg 36]
Congress of the Animals)
#
“Actually, That Wasn’t
All There Was”
Twelve pages of Joost Swarte’s
earliest published, more
undergroundy comics that didn’t
make it into Is That All There Is? —
newly translated! [Pg 31]
Is That All There Is?)
“The Nancy Auditions Vol. 1”
From the legendary “audition” by
Brunetti to take over the Nancy strip in
a perfect Bushmiller style. [Pg 44]
(free with purchase of Nancy Vol. 1)
FBI•MINI #15 by Alex Toth
“Toth in Black and White”
A couple of the stories printed in
Setting the Standard presented in crisp
black-and-white versions! [Pg 61]
(free with purchase of Setting...)
FBI•MINI #16
“Coming Attractions”
A full-color mini-comic collecting
Golden Age house ads with more
great comic book covers. [Pg 61]
(free with purchase of Action!)
ON THE COVER: Splash page from “...And All Through the House...” by Johnny Craig, from Vault of Horror #35. Copyright © 2012 William M. Gaines Agent, Inc.
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FBI•MINI #17 by Doc Winner
“Sharks and Spinach”
A complete Popeye sequence written
and drawn by Segar’s assistant during
Segar’s final illness. [Pg 64]
(free with purchase of any Popeye)
FBI•MINI #18 by S. DeStefano
“Getting ‘Lucky’”
Sketches, unfinished pages, and
much more from DeStefano and
Chieffet’s graphic novel. [Pg 76]
(free with purchase of Lucky in Love)
FBI•MINI #19 [discontinued]
FBI•MINI #20 by Joe Sacco
“The Road to Wigan Pier”
Visual essay on George Orwell’s
chronicle of a journey into the squalor
of England’s industrial North. [Pg 91]
(free with purchase of any Sacco)
FBI•MINI 21 by Stan Sakai
#
“Groundthumper”
From the pages of Critters, a neverbefore-reprinted Sakai story starring
Usagi Yojimbo’s precursor. [Pg 92]
any Sakai book)
FBI•MINI #22 by Joe Daly
“SOH!”
A strange sketchbook selection from
Joe Daly, plus a 2-page strip. [Pg 12]
any Daly book)
www.fantagraphics.com
FBI•MINI #23
by Noah Van Sciver
“Who Is Dead in
the White House?”
Another story about Abraham
Lincoln’s early days that didn’t make
it into The Hypo. [Pg 34]
(free with purchase of The Hypo)
FBI•MINI #24
by Jaime Hernandez
“Ti-Girls: Roughs and Rejects”
A gorgeous selection of roughs,
penclls, and semi-completed rejected
pages by Jaime for the God & Science
graphic novel. [Pg 16]
God & Science)
FBI•MINI #25
by Lorenzo Mattotti
“Crackle of the Frost
Sketchbook”
Unbelievably spectacular sketchbook
(including page roughs) from one
of Europe’s most dazzling comics
craftsmen. [Pg 23]
Crackle of the Frost)
FBI•MINI #26 by Ron Regé, Jr.
“Thank You”
A selection of nifty drawings created
by Regé for supporters of his Cartoon
Utopia project. [Pg 27]
The Cartoon Utopia)
GREETINGS
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FBI•MINI #27 by Hans Rickheit
“Sigmund Freud”
Imagine Freud as drawn by an unholy
amalgamation of Kirby and Panter:
An unused story that didn’t quite
make it into Folly. [Pg 27]
(free with purchase of Folly)
FBI•MINI #28
by Nicolas Mahler
“Angelman Merchandise”
A full-color selection of clothing items,
toys, music, and books derived from
Angelman. [Pg 21]
(free with purchase of Angelman)
FBI•MINI #29
by Lewis Trondheim
“Ralph Azham covers”
Eight utterly dazzling color cover and
poster treatments for the Ralph Azham
material’s serialization. [Pg 34]
(free with purchase of Ralph Azham)
FBI•MINI #30 by Ulli Lust
“Last Day / First Version”
Very different, both in content and
drawing style, first draft of the early
pages of Last Day. [Pg 20]
(free with purchase of Today...)
FBI•MINI #31
by Jim Woodring
“Even More Problematic”
A dozen sketchbook pages that didn’t
make the Problematic cut. [Pg 36]
(free with purchase of Problematic)
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spotlight:
disney
Call to order:
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Walt Disney’s Donald Duck:
“A Christmas for Shacktown”
by Carl Barks
© 2012 Disney Enterprises, Inc.
The new volume of our Carl Barks collection comes from one of his most
inspired periods: “A Christmas for Shacktown” stays within Duckburg,
featuring a Christmas party for poor children (whose existence is depicted
with surprising grittiness) and an early co-starring role for Scrooge — but
there’s more gold to be found in the volume, in the “The Golden Helmet”
— a quest for a relic that grants the finder ownership of America — and
“The Gilded Man,” which takes up the hunt for a rare stamp in South
America. Plus: ten of Barks’s 10-pagers, and rarely seen one-page Duck
gags... 240-page full-color 7.25” x 10.75” hardcover $28.99 (WDDD02)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/donaldduckchristmas
Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge:
“Only a Poor Old Man”
by Carl Barks; introduction by George Lucas
This second release in our Barks series focuses on Barks’s other great
protagonist: The miserly Scrooge McDuck. It starts off with “Only a Poor Old
Man,” his first big starring story, in which Scrooge’s plan to hide his money in
a lake goes terribly wrong. Plus “Tralla La La” (a.k.a. “the bottle cap story”)
and “Back to the Klondike,” both with behind-the-panels essays about the
creation of these legendary stories. This volume also includes the full-length
“The Secret of Atlantis,” and two dozen short stories and one-page gags —
all newly re-colored in the warm, friendly colors of the classic original comic
books. 240-page full-color 7.25” x 10.75” hardcover $28.99 (WDUS01)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/unclescroogepoorold
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck:
“Lost in the Andes”
by Carl Barks
The premiere release of our widely acclaimed new presentation of Carl
Barks’s classic Duck stories features Barks’s own favorite, “Lost in the
Andes,” (a.k.a. “the square eggs” story”). Plus two Gladstone Gander
stories (including the epic “Race to the South Seas”), two Christmas yarns),
as well as shorts in which Donald plays a TV quiz show contestant who
ends up encased in a barrel of gelatin, a truant officer who matches wits
with his nephews, and a ranch hand who outwits cattle rustlers. “Lost in the
Andes” also features an introduction by noted Barks scholar Donald Ault,
and detailed commentary/annotations for each story. 240-page full-color
7.25” x 10.75” hardcover $24.99 (WDDD01)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/donaldduckandes
PLEASE NOTE: All Disney books are available to North American (U.S. and Canada) customers ONLY, sorry!
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Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Vol. 4:
“House of the Seven Haunts!”
by Floyd Gottfredson
When grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize, they’ll find fearless
Mickey all ready to rumble — and he’s bringing Goofy, Donald Duck,
and Pegleg Pete along for the ride! When Mickey sets out to eject “The
Seven Ghosts” from Bassett Manor, he finds more than just specters
providing the scares. Next, our hero discovers an “Island in the Sky”
— and meets its maker, the atomic scientist Dr. Einmug! Plus the usual
copious supplementary materials, including essays and rare, vintage art.
288-page b&w 10.5” x 8.75” hardcover (with some color) $29.99 (WDMM04)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/mickey4
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Vol. 3:
“High Noon at Inferno Gulch”
ALSO AVAILABLE: The first two volumes of this complete reprint of
Floyd Gottfredson’s classic comedy-adventure Mickey Mouse yarns
feature (in Volume One) the title story “Race to Death Valley” and
(in Volume Two) the title story “Trapped on Treasure Island.” Each
volume includes dozens of pages of features and rare illustrations.
288-page bw 10.5” x 8.75” hardcover (with some color) $29.99
(WDMM01 and WDMM02)
Traveling from Umbrellastan to Texas, our hero dukes it out with Dr.
Vulter, Pegleg Pete, and malicious miser Eli Squinch! Saddle up for
Gottfredson’s two most famous Wild West epics: the title story, and
a “Race for Riches,” run amid rockslides and rustlers, with the brutal
“Bat Bandit!” Back home in Mouseton, the mayhem continues when
Mickey, Donald, and Goofy run a crime-fighting newspaper. Plus the
usual copious supplementary materials, including an appreciation by
the late Bill Blackbeard. 288-page b&w 10.5” x 8.75” hardcover (with
some color) $29.99 (WDMM03)
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Box Sets
The first four volumes of Mickey’s thrilling adventures
from the 1930s, packaged
in beautiful and sturdy slipcases — and priced cheaper
than the individual volumes!
These make perfect gifts and/
or collector’s items. Each set
contains two 10.5” x 8.75”
hardcover volumes for only
$49.99 (MMX1&2 & MMX3&4)
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spotlight:
manga
Call to order:
1-800-657-1100
Wandering Son Volumes 1-4
by Shimura Takako
Fifth grade: the threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood
innocence. Shuichi and his new friend Yoshino have happy homes and loving
families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further
complicates a time of life that is awkward for anyone: Shuichi is a boy who wants
to be a girl, and Yoshino a girl who wants to be a boy. Shimura Takako portrays
Shuishi and Yoshino’s very private journey with affection, sensitivity, gentle humor,
and grace. Volume 1 introduces the protagonists and the friends and family whose
lives intersect with their own. Volume 2 showcases understanding new friends for
Shuichi and Yoshino, and an eventful class trip. In Volume 3, secrets have been
revealed (for better or for worse),
and in the latest installment, Volume 4 (available in February
2013), love is all around — especially for Nitori. 208-page b&w 7.5” x 9.5” hardcovers
$19.99 each (WSON01, WSON02, WSON03, WSON04) or all four
for $59.99 (WSONPK)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/wanderingson4
The Heart of Thomas
by Moto Hagio
A boys’ boarding school in Germany, sometime in the latter part of the 20th Century.
Fourteen-year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his
death immediately after sending a single, brief letter to a male schoolmate: To Juli,
one last time / This is my love / This is the sound of my heart / Surely you must
understand. Inspired by Jean Delannoy’s 1964 film Les Amitiés Particulières, this story
of romance, secrets and betrayals within an all-boy school is so delicate, complex,
enigmatic and compelling it can be found near or at the top of any list of classic shojo
manga. Translated by manga scholar Matt Thorn and packaged with the same loving
attention to detail as Hagio’s Eisner Award nominated A Drunken Dream, The Heart
of Thomas is the most eagerly anticipated manga translation of the new decade. 524page b&w 7” x 9.25” hardcover (with some color) $39.99 (HEATHO)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/heartofthomas
ALSO BY MOTO HAGIO: A DRUNKEN DREAM AND OTHER STORIES, $24.99 (DRUNKD)
Nominated for an Eisner Award, A Drunken Dream and Other Stories is a stunning, 288-page collection
of Hagio’s 10 greatest stories,
ranging from 1970’s “Bianca”
to 2007’s “The Willow Tree”
and including the famously
heartbreaking “Iguana Girl”
and the haunting “The
Child Who Comes Home.”
Also includes a long, candid
interview with Hagio about her
entire career.
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EC Comics
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Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories
by Harvey Kurtzman et al.
© 2012 William M. Gaines Agent, Inc.
The creation of MAD would have been enough to cement Harvey Kurtzman’s reputation as one of the titans of American comics, but Kurtzman also created two other
comics landmarks: the scrupulously-researched and superbly-crafted war comics
Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat. Kurtzman employed some of the finest
of the EC artists including Jack Davis, John Severin, and Wallace Wood (each of
whom will be featured in his own collection), but his vision came through clearest
in the dozen or so stories he both wrote and drew himself, in his uniquely bold,
slashing, cartoony-but-dead-serious style (“Stonewall Jackson,” “Iwo Jima,” “Big
‘If’,” and Kurtzman’s own favorite, “Air Burst”) — as well as his vivid, narrativelydense covers, all 23 of which are reproduced here in full color. This collection also
includes a dozen stories written and laid out by Kurtzman for such stellar EC “shorttimers” as Alex Toth, Joe Kubert, and Gene Colan, plus a selection of essays by EC
scholars and a vintage Kurztman interview. (See page 99 for the Comics Journal
Library special edition about Kurtzman.) 240-page b&w 7” x 10” hardcover (with some color) $28.99 (CORIMJ)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/corpseontheimjin
Came the Dawn
We’re excited to launch this new line
of classic EC reprints, with, for the very
first time, author-specific books. Here’s
what’s coming up!
Although best known for his science fiction stories, Wallace
Wood applied his preternaturally
lush brushwork to over two dozen EC stories in the thematically
horror/crime/suspense
genres
— all collected here in one of the
two premiere releases in Fantagraphics’ highly-anticipated new
EC line. These tales range from
supernatural shockers from the
pages of Tales From the Crypt
and The Haunt of Fear (“The Living Corpse,” “Terror Ride,” “Man
From the Grave,” “Horror in the Freak Tent”) to often pointedly contemporary crime thrillers from Crime SuspenStories
(“The Assault,” “The Whipping,” and “Confession,” which
was singled out for specific excoriation in Seduction of the
Innocent, thus giving it a special cachet), but the breathtaking art and whiplash-inducing shock endings are constants
throughout. Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC line,
“Came the Dawn!” features extensive essays and notes
on these classic stories from EC. 240-page b&w 7” x 10”
hardcover $28.99 (CAMDAW)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/camethedawn
‘Tain’t the Meat,
It’s the Humanity
and Other Stories
by Jack Davis
Every single Davis story
from Tales From the
Crypt. 208-page b&w
7” x 10” hardcover
$28.99 (TAINT)
(coming in February)
50 Girls 50 and Other Stories
by Al Williamson
The complete Al Williamson EC comics, including Frazetta and Krenkel collaborations.
264-page b&w 7” x 10” hardcover $28.99
(50GIRL) (coming in February)
by Wallace Wood, Al Feldstein et al.
and Other Stories
Fall Guy for Murder
and Other Stories
by Johnny Craig
Shock and horror from
Crime SupenStories and
elsewhere! 168-page
b&w 7” x 10” hardcover $28.99 (FALLGU)
(coming in May)
SPECIAL! Order the first five books in
the EC series for ONLY $99:
the EC “FIRST FIVE” SET (FIVEEC)
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New &
Recent Releases
Call to order:
1-800-657-1100
The Daniel Clowes Reader
edited by Ken Parille
A central figure in the emergence of the graphic novel, Daniel Clowes has set the
standard for literary cartooning. This collection collects ten full Clowes comics stories (including “Blue Italian Shit,” “LIke a Weed, Joe”; such previously-unreprinted
stories as “Justin M. Damiano” and the prose manifesto “Modern Cartoonist”; and
the entirely of Ghost World) and includes more than a dozen highly accessible critical essays that examine his comics and place his body of work within numerous
biographical, artistic, and cultural contexts (such as the DIY movement, Generation
X, and the traditions of super-hero, humor and alternative comics). Rounding out
the volume are interviews in which Clowes talks at length about his life, career,
creative process, and the collection’s stories. 300-page b&w/color 6” x 9” softcover
$29.99 [DCREAD]
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/clowesreader
AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2013
Ghost World: The Special Edition
by Daniel Clowes
This deluxe edition of our most popular book ever expands the original graphic
novel — which tells the story of two best friends, Enid and Rebecca, facing the
prospect of growing up and apart — from 80 pages into a 288-page, behind-thescenes tour through the making of both the classic book and the subsequent hit
film. Including a new introduction and several pages of new strips by Clowes, as
well as over 200 pages of “extras”:
the Oscar-nominated screenplay by
Clowes and Terry Zwigoff, dozens
of pages of never-before-collected
ephemera, including unused concept drawings, notes, movie posters,
foreign edition covers, merchandise, artwork created for the
movie by Clowes, Sophie Crumb and the cast, and much
more, all annotated by Clowes. Truly lavish, definitive and
comprehensive. 288-page full-color hardcover 7.5” x 10.75”
NEW LOW PRICE! $25.00 (GHSPEC)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/ghostworldse
Ghost World
by Daniel Clowes
This critically-praised, best-selling original
graphic novel inspired the cult hit movie, depicting the lives of Enid and Becky, two angst-ridden
teenage girls on the cusp of adulthood, unsure of
their next steps, and facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart. 80-page
two-color 7” x 10” softcover, $11.95 (GHOSS)
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Caricature
by Daniel Clowes
Anchored by the haunting title story, the first
apotheosis of Clowes’s seminal Eightball series, Caricature includes eight other dramatic
short stories, including “Green Eyeliner” —
originally commissioned by Dave Eggers for
Esquire as the first work of comics to be featured in the magazine’s fiction issue — “Gynecology,” “Blue Italian Shit,” the fully painted
“The Gold Mommy,” and more. These stories
have drawn comparisons to Nabokov for their complex naturalism and sense of
humor, and are close in spirit to his recent serial in the New York Times Sunday
Magazine, "Mr. Wonderful." 100-page b&w/color 7” x 10” softcover, $16.95 (CARIS)
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
by Daniel Clowes
Disturbing and surreal, Clowes’s very hallucinatory tale of murder, madness, pornography and longing contains images and situations that will haunt you in your
dreams. 144-page b&w 7” x 10” softcover, $19.95 (VELVET)
Pussey!
by Daniel Clowes
This hilarious classic is a brutal and scathing peek into the insular, pathetic world
of the comic book industry, as seen through the eyes of antihero Dan Pussey (pronounced “Poosay”), creator of the smash superhero comic “Nauseator.” Clowes
presents the complete saga of Young Dan Pussey from cradle to grave, mercilessly
skewering the business and medium of comics, bouncing from art to commerce to
culture high and low. No one emerges unscathed, and we mean no one. 64-page
b&w 7.25” x 11” softcover, $9.95 (PUSSC)
Twentieth Century Eightball
by Daniel Clowes
Collects the best of Clowes’s short humor strips from 1988 to 1996 (from Eightball
and elsewhere) into one definitive softcover package, bringing these hilarious comics back into print at last — many recolored for this volume! Includes such seminal
comics and rants as “Art School Confidential” (see page 109 for the screenplay of
the movie version), “I Hate You Deeply,” “Ugly Girls,” “Why I Hate Christians,” “My
Suicide,” and over three dozen more, as well as several short strips drawn especially
for this book. 100-page b&w/color 7” x 10” softcover, $19.00 (20CEN)
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Recent Releases
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The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat
by R. Crumb
Created by an adolescent R. Crumb in the late 1950s, Fritz the Cat rose
to fame — along with his creator — during the underground comix
revolution of the 1960s, and remains Crumb’s most well-known character and an internationally recognized icon of 1960s culture. Fritz is
a feline, freewheeling chiseler who allowed Crumb to express some
of his most acidic commentary on American culture. Tragicomedy,
farce and satire all rolled into one, The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat
chronicles the very best of Fritz’s adventures from his early days as an
idealistic college student to his ultimate fate as a jaded, burned-out superstar, including Crumb’s infamous send-off of the character in the wake
of Ralph Bakshi’s animated feature film, an experience and project that completely
dissatisfied Crumb. Finally collected in a single volume, these Fritz stories are a
funny, insightful, authentic record of a tumultuous period in American life, with humor and compassion by the most well-respected cartoonist of all time. 96-page b&w hardcover $19.99 [FRITZH]
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/lifeanddeathfritz
The Book of
Mr. Natural
This collection features over 120
pages of vintage Crumb comics
starring the white-bearded, diminutive sage-cum-charlatan, ranging from charming, free-wheeling
early ‘70s stories to the disturbing, controversial ‘90s
stories (as seen in the Crumb movie). 128-page b&w
6.25” x 10.75” hardcover $19.99 (BOOKMH)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/mrnat-uralhc
Self-Loathing
Comics #1
WAREHOUSE FIND! Robert and
Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s hilarious
depiction of their lives in France.
This was Robert’s first post-HUP
comic, and the last comic produced prior to Terry Zwigoff’s
Crumb documentary, which made Robert the most
famous artist in America. Follow Crumb in “A Day in
the Life,” which begins the moment he awakens at 6
a.m. and follows him through a busy day of drawing, eating, cleaning up cat vomit, jogging with Aline,
visiting the post office, and throwing out a bunch of
unwanted comic books. And, of course, there’s a little
sexual fantasizing thrown in for good measure, followed by a day in the life of Aline’s existence! (Sorry,
#2 is sold out.) 32-page b&w comic $3.50 (SELF1)
Kafka
David Zane Mairowitz’s brilliant
text and the illustrations and comic
panels of Robert Crumb (himself
no stranger to self-loathing and
alienation), help us to understand
the essence of Kafka and provide
insight beyond the cliché “Kafkaesque.” The book includes a brief but inclusive biography as well as the plots of many of his works, all
illustrated by Crumb. 176-page b&w 6.25” x 8.5” softcover $12.95 (RCKAFK)
Mystic Funnies #2
A book-length story centering on an
unfortunate everyman named “The
Moron” in “Bad Karma,” an epic
quest for the answer to the question
“What’s it all mean??” Co-featuring
“Fairy Godmother” and “Mr. Natural,” who wants to talk to you about
the power of the media, man. Sorry, #1 and #3 are
sold out. 36-page b&w comic $4.95 (MYST2)
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The Complete Crumb Comics
Crumb has accumulated a massive oeuvre scattered
among countless comics and anthologies. In 17 fat
volumes to date, The Complete Crumb Comics has
collected all of this work, from his juvenilia through
his prime 1980s Weirdo days, all the way up to Hup!
(which will one day be released as its own collection) — including lots of rare illustration work and
similar goodies. Sorry, several of the books are currently out of print, but Volume 2 and 3 are about to
be re-released, with more on the way. All softcover
unless specified!
Vol. 2: “Some More Early Years of Bitter
Struggle,” $19.99 (CR02S)
Vol. 3: “Starring Fritz the Cat” $19.99 (CR03S)
Vol. 6: “On The Crest of a Wave,” signed h/c,
$75.00 (CR06Z)
Vol. 7: “Hot ‘N’ Heavy,” $19.99 (CR07S)
Vol. 9: “R. Crumb Vs. the Sisterhood,” $19.99
(CR09S)
Vol. 13: “The Season of the Snoid,” $19.99
(CR13S)
R. CRUMB SKETCHBOOKS: Each of these volumes reproduces over 150 pages of Crumb’s own private sketchbooks from the early 1960s
to the mid-‘70s, in chronological order. There’s a wealth of material here: portraits, landscapes, ideas for strips and of course there’s girls
galore! VOL. 1: 1964–MID-1965, h/c, $39.95 (CRSK1H) | VOL. 2: MID-1965 — EARLY 1966, s/c, $19.95 (CRSK2S); h/c, $39.95
(CRSK2H); signed h/c, $75.00 (CRSK2Z) | VOL. 3: 1966, h/c, $39.95 (CRSK3H); signed h/c, $75.00 (CRSK3Z) | VOL. 4: LATE 1966
— EARLY 1967, h/c, $39.95 (CRSK4H); signed h/c, $75.00 (CRSK4Z) | VOL. 5: EARLY 1967–MID-1968, s/c, $19.95 (CRSK5S); h/c,
$39.95 (CRSK5H); signed h/c, $75.00 (CRSK5Z) | VOL. 6: MID-1968–EARLY 1969, s/c, $19.95 (CRSK6S); h/c, $39.95 (CRSK6H);
signed h/c, $75.00 (CRSK6Z) | VOL. 7: MID-1969–1970, s/c, $19.95 (CRSK7S); h/c, $39.95 (CRSK7H); signed h/c, $75.00 (CRSK7Z) |
VOL. 8: FALL 1970 — FALL 1972, s/c, $19.95 (CRSK8S); h/c, $39.95 (CRSK8H); signed h/c, $75.00 (CRSK8Z) | VOL. 9: 1972–1974,
s/c, $19.95 (CRSK9S); h/c, $39.95 (CRSK9H); signed h/c, $75.00 (CRSK9Z) | VOL. 10: 1975–1977, s/c, $19.95 (CRS10S); h/c, $39.95
(CRS10H); signed h/c, $75.00 (CRS10Z)
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Dungeon Quest Book Three
by Joe Daly
In 2011’s Dungeon Quest Book Two, we left our heroes, Millennium Boy, Steve,
Lash and Nerdgirl as they began their initiation into the mysteries of Atlantis
under the tutelage of the androgynous forest mystic, Bromedes. In this third
book — at 288 pages, an extra huge one! — our heroes complete their studies
and are guided towards further quests in Rufford Park and beyond, to the Zuur
Plateau. They must survive a perilous cliff path, discover moon shrines, battle
wild Womraxes, endure knock-out gas, hypnagogic visions, nakedness and
deprivation and, finally, embark on a desperate and courageous mission to
rescue Nerdgirl from cruel Forest Bandits and retrieve their stolen equipment. Joe
Daly’s hilarious and utterly unique series
features rousing adventure and ass-kicking
action — all staged in front of fantastic
backdrops replete with strange vegetation,
ancient ruins and steampunk imagery. 288-page b&w 6” x
8.25” softcover $19.99 [DUNQU3]
ALSO AVAILABLE: Dungeon Quest Book One (DUNQUE) and
Book Two (DUNQU2): 136-page b&w 6” x 8.25” paperback
$12.99 each.
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/dungeonquest3
The Red Monkey Double
Happiness Book
by Joe Daly
Set in Cape Town, South Africa, The Red Monkey
Double Happiness Book is stuffed to the gills with
mystery, suspense, action, adventure, conspiracy
theories, cool cars, and excellent weed as Dave and his freeloading pal Paul, wellmeaning stoners in the tradition of Cheech & Chong and Harold & Kumar, thwart
criminal malfeasance even as they ponder the larger questions, such as “What
steps can I personally take to help protect the Earth and the species that inhabit
it?” (though most people’s answers to these questions don’t involve sword fights
and hovercrafts). Joe Daly brings a refreshingly original — and hilarious — voice
to the comics medium, a dry, deadpan wit anchored in everyday reality combined
with unnervingly deranged plots, rendered with a hyper-detailed, half-realistic and
half-cartoony Tintin-style crispness. 112-page full-color 7.75” x 10.25” hardcover
$22.99 (REDMON)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/redmonkey
ALSO BY JOE DALY: SCRUBLANDS, 128pp. s/c, $16.95 (SCRUB) Off-
beat, hallucinatory, often hilarious strips ranging from representational Jim
Jarmusch-like scenarios to wild visual excursions, albeit linear ones — a unique
mix of deadpan absurdity and surreal imagery. Eisner Award nominee for Best
Graphic Album!
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Heads or Tails
by Lilli Carré
Harvey and Eisner nominee
Lilli Carré’s elegant short
stories read like the gothic,
family narratives of Flannery
O’Connor or Carson McCullers, but told visually. Poetic rhythms — a coin flip,
a circling Ferris wheel — are punctuated by elements of melancholic fantasy pushed forward by character-driven, naturalistic dialogue. The creator of
2008’s acclaimed graphic novel The Lagoon — cited in many annual critics’
lists including Publishers Weekly and USA Today’s Pop Candy — is back with a
stunningly designed and packaged collection of some of the most poetic and
confident short fiction being produced in comics today. 200-page full-color 7”
x 9” softcover $19.99 [HEATAI]
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/headsortails
The Lagoon
by Lilli Carré
A family is seduced by a mysterious creature's siren song that can be heard
emanating from the lagoon after dark in talented young Eisner-and-HarveyAward-nominated cartoonist Lilli Carré’s first long-form work. For the wise —or
pixilated—Grandpa, the song reminds him that, in the time he has left, he must
pause to respect, appreciate, and fear nature. The song hints at something that
Zoey, the daughter, is too young to fully grasp. And the song lures the sexually
frustrated mother, and eventually, her husband, into danger. Older teen and
adult readers are invited to imagine the enigmatic creature’s haunting, evershifting tune as it reverberates through weedy waters, eventually escaping the
lagoon to creep into windows at night. 80-page b&w hardcover 7.25” x 9.25”
$14.99 (LAGOON)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/lagoon
Interiorae
by Gabriella Giandelli; introduction by Lorenzo Mattotti
A high-rise apartment building in an unnamed European city. Its inhabitants come and go, meet each
other, talk, dream, regret, hope... in short, live. A
ghostly, shape-shifting anthropomorphic white rabbit
roams from apartment to apartment, surveying and
keeping track of all this humanity... and at the end of every night, he floats down to
the basement where he delivers his report to the “great dark one.” Lushly delineated
in color penciled halftones, this moody graphic novel was originally serialized in our
acclaimed “Ignatz” series of upscale saddle-stitched booklets in duotone form (see
page 39), but this complete edition restores the artist’s original striking full-color
work, and features an introduction by Lorenzo Mattotti. 144-page full-color 7.5” x
10” softcover $14.99 [INTERI]
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/interioraesc
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Love & Rockets: New Stories #5
by Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez
How do you follow up a one-two punch like Jaime Hernandez’s stunning
two-part masterpiece “The Love Bunglers” from LRNS #3 and #4, which sent
Maggie and Ray’s relationship in a startling new direction, as well as providing some mind-blowing revelations about Maggie’s (and her family’s) past? If
you’re Jaime, you deftly move sideways and switch focus to other characters,
specifically Ray’s ex, the rambunctious “Frogmouth” — and a new character,
Tonta, the Frogmouth’s visiting half-sister. On the other-brother side, Gilbert
Hernandez celebrates L&R’s 30th anniversary by bringing one of his
current characters (“Killer,” granddaughter to the legendary Luba)
into the Palomar milieu in a story that showcases a fictionalized
“movie” Palomar (starring Fritz as a combination of Luba and
Tonantzín), even as it brings back a number of the classic Palomar
characters for real!
ALSO AVAILABLE: LRNS #1-4, featuring
Jaime’s “Ti-Girls Adventures” in #1-2,
Gilbert’s wordless “Hypnotwist” in #2, and
“King Vampire” in #4. Each is a 104-page
b&w 6.625” x 9” softcover $14.99 (LNRS01,
LNRS02, LNRS03, LNRS04, LNRS05)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.
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Every story from Love and Rockets Vol. I (“Palomar,” “Locas” and more), plus Jaime’s stories from Vol.
2, collected in a series of 9 handsome and compact softcovers, offered here at a special package price!
With Maggie the Mechanic, Heartbreak Soup, The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S., Human Diastrophism, Perla La
Loca, Beyond Palomar, Penny Century, Esperanza, and the “mixed bag” of Amor Y Cohetes. The ultimate
Love and Rockets gift item! See below for individual volumes. 256–288-page b&w softcovers 7.5” x 9.25”
$99.99 (LRLPK3)
START HERE! MAGGIE THE MECHANIC (Locas Vol. 1) by Jaime Hernandez 288 pages $14.95 (MAGGS1)
THE GIRL FROM H.O.P.P.E.R.S (Locas Vol. 2) by Jaime Hernandez 256 pages $14.95 (HOPPS2)
PERLA LA LOCA (Locas Vol. 3) by Jaime Hernandez 256 pages $16.95 (PERLA3)
PENNY CENTURY by Jaime Hernandez 256 pages $18.99 (PENNYC)
ESPERANZA by Jaime Hernandez 248 pages $18.99 (espera)
START HERE! HEARTBREAK SOUP (Palomar Vol. 1) by Gilbert Hernandez 292 pages $14.95 (HBSOU1)
HUMAN DIASTROPHISM (Palomar Vol. 2) by Gilbert Hernandez 288 pages $14.95 (HUMDI2)
BEYOND PALOMAR (Palomar Vol. 3) by Gilbert Hernandez 288 pages $16.95 BPALO3)
AMOR Y COHETES by Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez 276 pages $16.99 (AMORYC)
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The Love & Rockets The Love & Rockets
Companion: 30 Years Reader: From
Hoppers to Palomar
(and Counting)
edited by Marc Sobel & Kristy Valenti
edited by Marc Sobel
The Love and Rockets
Companion: 30 Years
(and Counting) contains three incredibly
in-depth and candid
interviews with creators Gilbert, Jaime
and Mario Hernandez: conducted by Neil
Gaiman, Gary Groth
and more. This book
has foldout family
trees for both Gilbert’s
Palomar and Jaime’s Locas storylines; unpublished
art; a character glossary; highlights from the original
series’ anarchic letters columns; timelines and more.
The obsessive-yet-accessible detail and high production values make it
a must-have! 240page b&w 7.5”
x 9.25” softcover
$24.99 (LRCOMP)
The Love and Rockets
Reader started as a
series of answers to
the deceptively simple
question: “what makes
Love & Rockets so
great?” In six years, it
quickly grew into a meticulously researched
study containing indepth analysis of the
series. Marc Sobel
delves into the comics’ themes, symbols and influences. Organized into
seven main chapters, the book includes: the Hernandez Brothers’ comics roots, such as the Southern
California punk scene, self-publishing, and their vital
partnership with Fantagraphics; an examination of the Hernandez Brothers’
ill-fated Mister X, a sci-fi collaboration;
a review of Mario’s solo book, Brain Capers; and a paradigm-changing analysis of Gilbert’s vastly underappreciated
erotic graphic novel, Birdland. As an
“extra,” the book includes Jaime’s very
first published work: “Another Time,
Another Place,” from 1977. 304-page
b&w 7.5” x 9.25” softcover $24.99
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/lrcompanion AVAILABLE
IN FEBRUARY 2013
(LRREAD)
AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2013
Love & Rockets: The Covers
by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez
The Covers is a beautiful, oversized art book featuring over 150 iconic Love &
Rockets comic book covers. From the very first cover of the very first issue in
1982, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have created artwork that has subverted,
contradicted and celebrated the history of the comic book medium, inviting fans
and readers into their world. Amazingly, many of the covers created by Gilbert
and Jaime Hernandez for the various iterations of Love & Rockets over the past
30 years have never been collected, or only reprinted in black and white. Not
only is this problem now rectified, Love & Rockets: The Covers will present them
without trade dress (logos, marketing hype, etc.) allowing the original cover illustrations to communicate on their own. A perfect gift for fans of the series.
200-page full-color 10” x 13” softcover $35.00 (LRCOVS)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/lrcovers
AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2013
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God and Science:
Return of the Ti-Girls
by Jaime Hernandez
Originally serialized in Love and Rockets:
New Stories, “Ti-Girls Adventures” was both
a rollickingly creative super-hero joyride that
ranged from the other side of the universe to
Maggie’s shabby apartment, and a genuinely dramatic fable about madness,
grief, and motherhood as Penny Century’s decades-long quest to become a
genuine super-heroine is fulfilled. God and Science brings in many older characters from Jaime’s universe, in addition to some new characters to fall in love
with. This “director’s cut” version includes a full 30 new pages in addition to the original 100-page epic, including four new full-color
faux Ti-Girls covers, several expansions of scenes, and an epilogue. 136-page b&w 8.75” x 11.25” hardcover $19.99 (GODSCI)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/godandscience
Locas II
by Jaime Hernandez
One of the most humane, graceful and imaginatively
inexhaustible artists in American popular culture, Jaime Hernandez has created in Locas one of the great
American novels of the last 30 years, graphic or otherwise. Written and drawn over a quarter century from 1981 to 2007 in the pages
of the legendary comic book series Love and Rockets, these stories (complete in two
huge volumes — sorry, the first one is currently sold out) tell the story of Maggie
Chascarrillo, a bisexual, Mexican-American woman attempting to define herself in
a community rife with class, race and gender issues, and Hopey Glass, a feisty antiauthoritarian punkette who quickly becomes Maggie’s on-again, off-again lover
and a constant presence in her life throughout the book. Presented in a larger
format on deluxe coated paper for an even more immersive reading experience!
424-page b&w 8” x 11” hardcover $49.95 (LOCAS2)
MORE HERNANDEZ BROS. BOOKS: LOVE & ROCKETS SKETCHBOOK, 160pp. h/c $19.98 (LRSK2H) A fascinating look into the Bros.’
work processes, from the earliest ideas all the way to finished artwork | LOVE
& ROCKETS TRADING CARDS, 36 full-color cards, $6.48 (LRTRC)
An invaluable reference for anyone who’s ever had trouble keeping track of
the comic’s ever-expanding cast! | FEAR OF COMICS, 120pp. s/c $12.95
(FEARCO) Collects Gilbert’s inventive “kick out the jams” strips. Surreal fantasy, blackout shorts, and uncategorizable stuff, all vintage Beto! | DICKS AND
DEEDEES, 96pp. h/c $18.95 (DICDEE) All-Jaime book includes “Election
Day,” “Everybody Loves Me, Baby,” “The Race,” and the revelatory Penny Century biography “Bay of Threes.” | GHOST OF HOPPERS, 120pp. h/c $18.95
(GHOSTH) Maggie confronts her past. | THE EDUCATION OF HOPEY
GLASS, 144pp. h/c $19.99 (EHOPEY) Another all-Jaime volume: Ray’s romantic
life takes twists and turns with “The Frogmouth,” and Hopey Glass settles down
to a domesticated life… sort of. Visit our website at www.fantagraphics.com/
loveandrockets for details about other Hernandez Bros. comics and books!
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The Adventures of Venus Chance in Hell
by Gilbert Hernandez
This super-affordable little
hardcover collects all the
previously uncollected “Venus” stories from Measles
and elsewhere, in which
Luba’s niece creates and
collects comic books, walks
through a scary forest,
plays soccer, schemes to
get the cute boy she likes, laments the snowlessness
of a California Christmas, and travels to a distant
planet. Plus a new story done just for this book! 96page b&w 7.75” x 7.75” hardcover $9.99 (ADVVEN)
Gilbert Hernandez’s first original graphic novel from Fantagraphics tells the story of a little
orphan girl who lives in the slum
of slums. Our heroine is adopted
by a decent man who raises her
well, and she eventually marries a
kind, well-to-do man, only to discover that she can’t relate to the
good life and the comforts it provides. 120-page
5.5” x 7.5” b&w hardcover $16.95 (CHANCE)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/adventuresofvenus
The Troublemakers
High Soft Lisp
“Five six. 128 pounds. Fortythree twenty-two thirty-six. High
soft lisp. Genius level I.Q.” That’s
sums up Rosalba “Fritz” Martinez,
bombshell, former punkette, former psychiatrist, “Z” movie star
— in this sexy, urprising graphic
novel. This book works both as a
standalone graphic novel and a
further exploration of Hernandez’s rich world. 144page b&w 6.5” x 9.75” softcover $16.95 (HIGHSO)
Luba
Luba collects the entirety of the
post-Palomar tales, showcasing
Gilbert Hernandez’s wicked wit
and great compassion. Tales of
sex, violence and rock ’n’ roll rub
elbows with stories of love, sensitivity, and understanding — and
thanks to the miraculous alchemy
of Hernandez’s peerless storytelling, what emerges is a coherent, exciting, funny
portrait of one of the richest group of fictional characters ever to spring from a cartoonist’s mind. 600page b&w 7” x 10.25” hardcover $39.99 (LUBAHC)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/luba
Meet drug dealer Dewey Booth
— he can’t be punished enough!
And what about rock ’n’ roll loser
Wes — he needs money to start
his own club. And then there’s
über-stacked Nala — she enjoys
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More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/troublemakers
Love From the
Shadows
The third in Gilbert Hernandez’s
line of original hardcovers featuring Love and Rockets’ “Fritz” in
her guise as a Z-movie actress is a
trippy hardboiled thriller that stars
Fritz in no fewer than three roles.
The story weaves in and out of reality and hallucination, and possibly
back in forth in time... 120-page
b&w 5.5” x 8.5” hardcover $19.99 (LOVSHA)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/lovefromtheshadows
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Isle of 100,000 Graves
by Fabien Vehlmann and Jason
Five years ago, little Gwenny’s
father found, inside a bottle,
a map with instructions on
how to reach the mysterious
Isle of 100,000 Graves and
its legendary treasures —
and then he vanished. Now
Gwenny, having stumbled
across another bottle-shipped
map, enlists the dubious help
of a shipful of pirates, sets out
to find the island, and her long-lost dad. Little does
she realize that the Isle is the location of a secret school for executioners and torturers, where apple-cheeked
youngsters are taught the finer points of extracting information from prisoners… and then putting an end to
their lives in a variety of gruesome ways. And they’ve reached the point in their studies where theory should
ideally give way to practice, so an influx of uninvited visitors comes as a blessing to the faculty. And yes, this
story (in which Jason works with a writer for the first time) is a comedy. Albeit a dark one. 56-page full-color
7.25” x 10.25” softcover $14.99 (islgra)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/isleofgraves
Athos in America
by Jason
Another original collection of full-color graphic novellas in the
format of Low Moon, Athos in America takes its title from one
story, a prequel of sorts to The Last Musketeer, in which the
seemingly ageless swashbuckler turns up in a bar in 1920s
New York and relates the tale of how he went to Hollywood to
play himself in a film version of The Three Musketeers. Another
tie-in with a previous Jason story occurs in “The Smiling Horse,”
in which the characters from “&” in Low Moon haplessly attempt to kidnap a woman.
Also in this volume: “The Brain That Wouldn’t Virginia Woolf,” a mashup of The Brain
That Wouldn’t Die and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, told in reverse chronological
order; the Bukowski pastiche “A Cat From Heaven” that shows an unexpectedly dark
side to Jason; “Tom Waits on the Moon,” in which we follow four people (one of them
a scientist working on a teleportation machine) until something goes terribly wrong; and “So Long Mary Ann,”
a prison-escape love-triangle story. 200-page full-color 5.5” x 8.5” hardcover $24.99 (athame)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/athosinamerica
MORE JASON BOOKS: BLACK AND WHITE PAPERBACKS: SSHHHH!
120pp. s/c, $16.99 (SSHHH) A sharp suite of short tales, ranging from the funny to the terrifying to the surreal to the touching, all told entirely in pantomime.
Jason’s clean, deadpan art style hides a wealth of emotion and human complexity,
leavened with a wicked wit. | HEY, WAIT… 68pp. s/c, $12.95 (HEYWAI) A tale
of childhood friendship and tragedy, and the terrible lingering aftereffects thereof.
Love and Rockets co-creator Gilbert Hernandez calls this one of the best graphic
novels ever, and it made Sherman Alexie cry — fair warning.
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Jason Conquers America
by Jason
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of
the first publication of Jason’s work
on this side of the pond, we present
a collector’s compilation of 18 pages
of never-before-reprinted-in-the-U.S.
Jason shorts; interviews with Jason
and his colorist Hubert; a complete
checklist of Jason’s work Stateside;
and fond tributes to the beloved
Norwegian cartoonist by Kim Deitch,
Mike Allred, and Rich Tommaso.
SPECIAL OFFER: Buy any two Jason
books from this catalog and we will toss in Jason Conquers
America for free! 32-page full-color 6.5” x 10.25” comic
book $4.99 (jascon)
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HARDCOVER OMNIBUSES: WHAT I DID, 272pp b&w h/c with a two-color section $24.99 (WHATID) Collects Hey, Wait...,
Sshhhh!, and the otherwise out-of-print two-color period detective novel The Iron Wagon. | LOW MOON, 216pp full-color h/c $24.99
(LOWMOO) Five full-color short stories, including the hilarious title Western (originally seen in the New York Times). | ALMOST SILENT,
304pp. h/c, $24.99 (ALMSIL) Four Jason graphic novels (of which three are otherwise out of print) in one big collection — You Can’t Get
There From Here (Frankenstein’s love triangle), Tell Me Something, Meow, Baby! (a collection of shorts), and The Living and the Dead (see left).
COLOR PAPERBACKS: THE LAST MUSKETEER, 48pp. s/c, $12.95 (LASMUS) Living in present-day Montpelllier, France, an ageing
Athos is drawn back into action by a Martian invasion. A mash-up of two Alexanders — Dumas and Raymond — with an additional dose of
Jason’s patented deadpan wit and pathos [see below]. | THE LEFT BANK GANG, 48pp. s/c, $12.95 (LEFTBG) Set in 1920s Paris, this is a
deliciously inventive re-imagining of the great literary figures of the period (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Pound, and Joyce) as anthropomorphic
graphic novelists. And then the story twists into a Killing/Reservoir Dogs-style heist caper! | WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? 48pp. s/c,
$12.95 (WHYARE) Imagine a long-forgotten, never-produced Alfred Hitchcock “wrong man” thriller screenplay discovered, adapted and
filmed by Jim Jarmusch and you’ll have some idea of the unique flavor of this graphic novel. | I KILLED ADOLF HITLER 48pp. s/c,
$12.95 (IKILLA) A contract killer, used to rubbing out dysfunctional relatives, abusive co-workers, loud neighbors, or just annoyances in
general, is given the unique job of traveling back in time to kill Adolf Hitler in 1939... but things go spectacularly wrong. | Werewolves
of Montpellier 48pp s/c $12.99 (WEREWO) Pretty much exactly what you would expect from a book written and drawn by Jason
carrying that title!
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Jack Jackson’s American History:
Los Tejanos and Lost Cause
by Jack Jackson
Fantagraphics, which published Los Tejanos in 1981, is proud to bring Jack Jackson’s graphic histories of Texas back into print in a series of three volumes, each
reprinting two of his long narratives. Los Tejanos shows Texas’ fight for independence through the tragic story of tejano Juan Seguín. The 1998 Lost Cause documents the violent reaction to Reconstruction by Texans through an examination of
the Taylor-Sutton feud, which raged across South Texas, embracing two generations and causing untold grief, and the gunslinger John Wesley Hardin, who swept
across Texas killing Carpetbaggers, Federal soldiers, and Indians. This edition
includes an essay by and interview with Jackson about the controversy Lost Cause
generated, and an introduction by the novelist Ron Hansen. 320-page b&w 7.25”
x 10” hardcover $35.00 (LOSTEJ)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/lostejanos
AVAILABLE IN JANUARY 2013
Beta Testing the Apocalypse
by Tom Kaczynski
Tom Kaczynski’s comics riff on dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments. Beta Testing includes
approximately 10 stories from MOME and elsewhere, including “The New,” created expressly
for this book. “The New” is set in a third-world
megalopolis that creaks under the pressure of
explosive growth. The story follows a starchitect
as he struggles to impose his vision on the metropolis. 136-page full-color 6.5” x
9.5” flexibound paperback $19.99 (BETAPO)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/betatesting
Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
by Ulli Lust
In 1984, a punked-out Austrian teenager set out for a
wild hitchhiking trip across Italy. This powerfully talented
cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer
and delivered a long, sensitive, autobiographical masterpiece. Miraculously combining a perfect memory for
both emotional and physical detail, Ulli Lust meticulously
shows the who, where, when and how of a sometimes
dangerous and sometimes exhilarating journey. Considered one of the very finest examples of the new breed of
graphics novels coming from Europe. Today is the Last
Day of the Rest of Your Life won the 2011 Angoulême
“Revelation” prize. 460-page 2-color 6.75” x 9” softcover $35.00 (LASDAY)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/todayishtelastday AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2013
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Angelman
by Nicolas Mahler
Angelman is Austrian cartoonist Nicolas Mahler’s sardonic take on super-heroes,
their fans, the businessmen behind them, the current media obsession with them,
not to mention their fancy-ass “Ultimate” collections. Created by Korporate Comics in a flash of money-grubbing cynicism, Angelman’s powers (which include empathy and the ability to be a good listener) prove less than adequate to deal with
the sinister threat of the insane plastic-surgeon villain Gender Bender — or for that
matter with the fickleness of fashion, the rapacious super-heroine Lady Dentata,
the increasingly desperate re-boot attempts by Korporate Comics, a disastrously
bad movie adaptation… all delineated in Mahler’s trademarked ultraminimalism and with his drier-than-dry wit. 96-pages 7” x 9.75” full
color hardcover $18.99 (ANGELM)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/angelman
The Lost Art of Ah Pook /
Observed While Falling
by Malcolm McNeill
In 1970, William S. Burroughs and artist Malcolm McNeill began a
small collaborative project which led to a booklength meditation on time,
power, control, and corruption and specifically,
the Mayan god of death,
Ah Pook. While the book
was never finished in its
intended form, McNeill
created nearly a hundred
paintings and illustrations that are finally seeing the light of day in The
Lost Art of Ah Pook. (Burroughs’ text will not be included.) As a separate
but complementary book, Observed While Falling is an account of the
personal and creative interaction that defined the Burroughs and McNeill
collaboration, Ah Pook Is Here. The memoir chronicles the events that surrounded it, the reasons it was abandoned, and the unusual circumstances that brought it back to life. Observed While Falling presents a unique
view of the creative process
that will be of interest to artists,
writers and general readers
alike. LOST ART: 144-page
full-color 13” x 11” hardcover
$35.00 (LOSART) OBSERVED
WHILE
FALLING:
304page b&w 6” x 9” hardcover
$29.99 (OBSWHI)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/lostartofahpook
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Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 2
by Michael Kupperman
In the spirit of two-ness, Michael Kupperman’s second allcomics collection of surreal slapstick and crazy non-sequitur
goofiness features two of Kupperman’s recurring duos: America’s favorite mustachioed physicist/writer double team of
Twain and Einstein (solving new crimes and barreling through
exciting new adventures),
and
the crime-fighting
team of Snake
and
Bacon
(“Sssssssssssss!”), who make a special return just to star in Reservoir
Dogs 2. Elsewhere in this volume
the crusty Quincy, M.E. makes his comic book debut, struggling
through the fantastic landscapes of his own dreams in “Quinception.” Also: The Jungle Princess battles rhino traders… Slightly
cursed merchandise... Cockney grave robbers... Cowboy Oscar
Wilde... The origin of The Hamanimal... Plus a photocomic starring comedian Julie Klausner: “Voyage To Narnia.” 176-page
full-color 7.25” x 10” hardcover
$24.99 (THRO2)
ALSO AVAILABLE: Issues #2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and the most recent #8 of the original comic, $4.50 each (THRIZ2, 4, etc.). Issues #1-4 are collected in the luxurious and durable
Tales Designed to Thrizzle Volume 1 — and even better, Kupperman has taken
the original two-color printing and made the entire book full color, and Robert Smigel
provided the introduction! 160-page full-color 7.25” x 10” hardcover $24.99 (THRO1)
Mark Twain’s Autobiography:
1910-2010
by Michael Kupperman
The version of the autobiography they
tried to suppress! See how Mark Twain
hunted the Yeti (“Come out here and face
me, you snow-covered coward!”), met the
Six Million Dollar Man, had a love affair
with Mamie Eisenhower (“Boy oh boy,
this lady was one hot dish”), was directly
responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, took LSD, and accidentally
became involved in X-rated films. This volume is augmented by dozens of hilarious
new Kupperman illustrations, and several
full comics stories. 128-page two-color
5.75” x 8” hardcover $19.99 (mtwain)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/marktwain
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The Crackle of the Frost
by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jorge Zentner
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art
When confronted with his girlfriend’s request that they have a child together,
Samuel fled that relationship. But now, a
year later, when he receives a letter from
Alice announcing she is expecting a baby,
old emotions flare up and he embarks on
a long journey to see Alice again — to reopen, or perhaps close forever, that important chapter of his life. The Crackle of
the Frost is the story of what he sees, hears, experiences, and learns during that
journey; combining the narrative drive with lush full-color paintings to create a
graphic-novel masterpiece, as if Edward Hopper had suddenly decided to
jump into comics. 120-page full-color 8”x 10” hardcover $19.99 (CRAFRO)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/crackleofthefrost
Stigmata
by Lorenzo Mattotti and Claudio Piersanti
He lives day to day and hand to mouth, this shambling lug of a man, wrestling with
his demons, picking up work where he can, and drinking himself into oblivion. Until one days his palms begin to bleed… These newfound stigmata lose him his job,
and he ends up as part of a traveling carnival, where he even finds love. But his
past catches up with him — violently so. Has he lost his last chance at redemption?
This stunning graphic novel, executed in a mad, expressionistic swirl of black lines,
is the result of a unique collaboration between the preeminent Italian cartoonist/
graphist Lorenzo Mattotti (RAW, The New Yorker, and the graphic novels Fires and
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and the award-winning Italian screenwriter Claudio Piersanti. 192-page b&w 7.25” x 9.25” hardcover $19.99 (stigm)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/stigmata
The Raven
by Lou Reed, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lorenzo Mattotti
In 2000, veteran rock ‘n’ roller Lou Reed, legendary director Robert Wilson, and a cast of singers and actors premiered Reed’s musical POEtry
in Hamburg’s Thalia Theater. An ambitious combination of Edgar Allan
Poe’s poems and stories and Reed’s reinterpretations of same (with a
few classic Reed songs integrated for good measure), POEtry bridged the
centuries to provide a unique vision of beauty and horror for the dawning
21st century. For the definitive book version compiling the songs, verses
and narratives that comprise POEtry/The Raven, Reed commissioned Lorenzo Mattotti to visualize this extraordinary collaboration. Mattotti’s vivid,
abstracted and enigmatic artwork brings out all the terror and beauty of
this centuries-spanning masterwork. 188-page full-color 9” x 9” softcover
$19.99 (ravens)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/theraven
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France and Belgium have long been home to some of the greatest classics of all-ages and
children’s comics. This collection of books features vintage examples from the 1950s and
1960s as well as more recent works by contemporary cartoonists such as David B. (Epileptic).
Murder by High Tide
Sibyl-Anne Vs. Ratticus
by Maurice Tillieux
by Raymond Macherot
Imagine the beautifully crisp
images of Hergé (Tintin) put
in service of wise-cracking,
fast-paced detective stories
— punctuated with scenes
of spectacular vehicular
mayhem — and you’ll see
why Gil Jordan is still considered a masterpiece in
Europe. Jordan is a nattilydressed but tough-as-nails
private eye, seconded by his
trusty ex-burglar assistant Crackerjack and his eccentric friend Inspector Crouton. This premiere volume
(watch for the sequel in 2013!) includes the
murder-mystery title story and “Leap of
Faith,” featuring a vengeful, mysteriously escaped convict with apparent
superhuman powers. 96-page full-color
8.5” x 11” hardcover $18.99 (giljo)
Sibyl-Anne and Boomer
live in blissful peace in the
countryside until the evil
Ratticus, evicted from his
previous residence, sets
his eye on the quiet acre
that the couple share with
their friends (a porcupine,
a crow, and a rabbit). After an unsuccessful attempt
to infiltrate the quiet little
community in drag, the devious Ratticus engineers the takeover of a neighboring rat colony and builds it into an army that sweeps
Sibyl-Anne and her friends off their homestead and
onto an island. Battles by land, by sea,
and even by air ensue, until finally the
wicked are defeated and peace is restored. 64-page full-color 8.5” x 11”
hardcover $16.99 (siban1)
Toys in the Basement
The Littlest Pirate King
by Blanquet
by David B. & Pierre Mac Orlan
Blanquet has been delighting and terrifying American
readers with his hypnotically slick, ultra-detailed
creepiness for years. So it
makes perfect sense that
his first graphic novel to be
published in the U.S. would
be... a children’s book! Our
hero, attending a Halloween party in an embarrassing pink bunny costume,
stumbles across a secret underground society of
damaged, forgotten, and angry toys in the basement of his friend’s house — including the terrifying
Amelia, a towering sentient assemblage of broken
toy parts out for revenge! Imagine Toy Story adapted
by David Lynch and Charles Burns and you’ll have
a good idea of what this is like. 32-page full-color
8.25” x 11” hardcover $14.99 (TOYSIN)
For decades they have
roamed the seas, this shipload of undead pirates. They
are desperate to die, but a
malevolent God refuses to
allow them their final release. Until one day, having
exterminated yet another
ship of the living, they come
across a little pink baby.
Adopting him as their mascot and dubbing him their
“Littlest King,” they continue their journeys. But eventually the King begins to grow up... The Littlest Pirate
King is David B.’s first full-color graphic novel to be
released in English (see page 71 for his The Armed
Garden collection), and his vivid palette combines with
his stunningly elegant graphics to create a magical
yarn that can be enjoyed by young and old alike. 48page full-color 8.25” x 11” hardcover $16.99 (LITTPK)
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softcover edition
by Linda Medley
Castle Waiting is the
story of an isolated,
abandoned castle, and
the eccentric inhabitants who bring it back
to life. A fable for modern times, it is a fairy
tale that’s not about
rescuing the princess,
saving the kingdom, or
fighting the ultimate war between Good and Evil — but about being a hero in your
own home. Linda Medley lavishly illustrates Castle Waiting in a classic visual style
reminiscent of Arthur Rackham and William Heath Robinson. Blending elements from a variety of sources —
fairy tales, folklore, nursery rhymes — Medley tells the story of the everyday lives of fantastic
characters with humor, intelligence, and insight into human nature. Castle Waiting can be
read on multiple levels and can be enjoyed by readers of all ages, especially young girls.
472-page b&w 5.5”x 8” paperback $24.99 (CASTLS)
ALSO AVAILABLE: Castle Waiting Volume 1 in its original hardcover edition for $29.99. (CASTLE)
NOTE: Castle Waiting Volume 2 is currently out of print, but will be replaced with an expanded,
improved edition in March. You can pre-order it for $29.99 (CASTL2). Castle Waiting Volume II
#16-18 (CWAI16, 17, 18) — the epilogue not in the original GN — are now available for $3.95 each,
or $8.00 for all three.
Cinema Panopticum
by T. Ott
A little girl visits an amusement park, but finds everything too expensive. Finally, behind the rollercoaster she eyeballs a small booth with the words
“CINEMA PANOPTICUM” written on it. Inside there
are boxes with screens. Every box contains a movie,
and the price is right: one coin. She puts her money
in the first box: “The Hotel” begins. A traveler goes
to sleep in what seems to be an otherwise empty hotel. His awakening is the stuff of nightmares. Other
stories include “The Champion,” “The Experiment,”
and “The Prophet,“ each executed in his hallucinatory and hyper-detailed scratchboard style. Ott’s O. Henry-esque plot twists and
intense scratchboard artwork will haunt you long after you’ve put the book down.104-page b&w 6.5” x
9.25” paperback $16.99 (CINPAS)
ALSO BY THOMAS OTT: The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8, 104pp. h/c $28.95
(73304) Thomas Ott’s first and to date only long-form graphic novel, and the most insanely
difficult to Google, is a dystopian nightmare; very few copies left! | R.I.P.: BEST OF 1985-2004,
192 pp. h/c/ $28.99 (RIPOTT). The long-awaited omnibus collection of T. Ott’s short shockending horror stories, collecting a dozen twisted tales of murder, suicide, oppression, terror,
mutilation, and nuclear annihilation in one darkly beautiful volume.
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The Adventures of Jodelle
by Guy Peellaert and Pierre Bartier
Best known for his collage-style images of celebrities (Rock Dreams) and classic record covers (David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs and The Rolling Stones’ It’s
Only Rock ’N’ Roll), the Belgian painter, illustrator and cartoonist Guy Peellaert
created one of the very earliest adult graphic novels in 1965. The Adventures
of Jodelle melded the bold compositional skills of a top pop-art-era draftsman with a unique sensitivity to the comics medium, as applied to a sexy satirical spy adventure set in an Asterix-style fantasy Rome/Las Vegas featuring
both billboards and vampires.
Jodelle has been restored and
re-colored digitally to improve
on the original’s color separations, as well as re-translated
and re-lettered, and features an
analytical/contextual essay by
the brilliant French art and comics critic and historian Pierre
Sterckx — plus a huge (80-page!) selection of never-beforeseen archival art reproductions, sketches, photographs accompanying an extensive biographical essay by
Peellaert’s son Orson. It is printed as a lush, oversized hardcover, in a way that highlights the eye-popping,
psychedelic color. 160-page full-color 10” x 13” hardcover $45.00 (ADVJOD)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/adventuresofjodelle
Dal Tokyo
by Gary Panter
Gary Panter began imagining Dal Tokyo, a future
Mars that is terraformed by Texan and Japanese
workers, as far back as 1972, appropriating a
friend’s idea about “cultural and temporal collision” (the “Dal” is short for Dallas). No description
will prepare the reader for the confounding visual
and verbal richness of Dal Tokyo, as Panter’s famous “ratty line” collides and colludes with nearJoycean wordplay, veering from more or less intelligible jokes to dizzying non-sequiturs to surreal eruptions
that can engulf the entire panel in scribbles. One doesn’t read Dal Tokyo; one is absorbed into it and spit out
the other side. Presented in a lush, huge format. 220 pages 16.25” (yes!) x 6.25” black & white hardcover
$35.00 (DALTOK)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/daltokyo
ALSO AVAILABLE FROM GARY PANTER: Jimbo’s
Inferno, 40 pp., h/c, $29.95 (JIMINH) Jimbo in
Purgatory 40 pp., h/c, $29.95 (JIMBO), beautiful,
gigantic (11” x 15” and 12” x 17.25”) hardcovers
collecting Panter’s eyeball-singeing Dürer-meetsJack-Kirby re-interpretation of Dante’s Inferno
starring Jimbo featuring UFO’s, giant robots, and
such philosophical puzzlers as “Why do so many
recreational activities involve smoke and heat?” (Both
also available with a limited signed plate by Panter for
$50.00 each.)
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The Cartoon Utopia
by Ron Regé, Jr.
Ron Regé, Jr. is a very unusual yet accomplished
storyteller whose work exudes a passionate moral,
idealistic core that sets
him apart from his peers.
The Cartoon Utopia is his
Magnum Opus, in which,
the “Utopians” of the future world attempt to send
messages through consciousness, outside of the constricts of time
as we understand it, in the form of art, music and storytelling...
144 pages 10” x 12” black & white hardcover $24.99 (CARUTO)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/cartoonutopia
Folly
by Hans Rickheit
Lovers of art comics know Hans Rickheit from his smashing graphic novel The Squirrel Machine (returning in softcover in 2013), but Rickheit has, for over a decade,
been producing his own self-published Xeroxed comics — reaching into the deepest cupboards of the back-mind and culling these strange artifacts. Finally, these
scattered elements have been compiled into a compact, lushly illustrated bedside
reader. Give your cerebellum a tug and become a spelunker of the subconscious
as we trespass among the scorched archaic wastelands of the offspring of apes
and fools. Immerse yourself in the nocturnal meanderings of unnamed
protagonists. Ponder the uncomfortable sexuality of the twins, Cochlea
& Eustachia. Recoil at the doings of a dwarfish malefactor in “Hail Jeffrey” — or simply stare at the pretty pictures. 144-page b&w 7” x 10”
paperback with some color $18.99 (FOLLY)
7 Miles a Second
by James Romberger, David Wojnarowicz, and Marguerite Van Cook
7 Miles a Second is the story of lthe egendary artist David Wojnarowicz, written during the last years before his AIDS-related death in 1992. The graphic novel depicts
Wojnarowicz’s childhood of prostitution and drugs on the streets of Manhattan,
through his adulthood living with AIDS, and his anger at the indifference of government and health agencies. Originally published as a comic book in 1996 by DC’s
Vertigo Comics, 7 Miles a Second was an instant critical success, but struggled
to find an audience amongst the typical Vertigo readership. Romberger and Van
Cook’s visuals give stunning life to Wojnarowicz’s words, blending the gritty naturalism of Lower East Side street life with a hallucinatory, psychedelic imagination
that takes perfect advantage of the comics medium. 68-page 9” x 12 full-color
hardcover $19.99 (7MILES)
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Prison Pit: Book Four
by Johnny Ryan
Prison Pit blends Johnny Ryan’s fascination with WWE wrestling, grindhouse
cinema, first person action video games among other things into a showcase of
brutal violence. As always, a plot summary of the fourth installment of the hugely
popular sci-fi-prison-planet-gore-fest-slugfest-a-thon serial must, in order to be
presentable to normal, decent human beings, be cut into fine Belgian lace. And so,
with apologies: “Cannibal F***face discovers the only way to escape the Caligulon
is to brainf*** the Slorge and create a giant, brainless oafchild that only
knows how to annihilate everything in its path. And what happens
when the Slugstaxx show up and use their nightj*** to turn this
mindless monster against CF? Total F***ing Mayhem.” 104 pages
6.5” x 8.5” black & white softcover $12.99
Also Available: Prison Pit Book One, Prison Pit Book Two, and
Prison Pit Book Three same format: $12.99 each (PPIT01) (PPIT02) (PPIT03)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/prisonpit4
Take a Joke
by Johnny Ryan
Before Prison Pit, Ryan garnered a considerable following via his humor anthology Angry
Youth Comix. Take a Joke collects the stories from the last four issues of this series as well
as many strips created for the wildly-popular Vice. It features several of the artist’s longest
humor pieces to date, notably: “Graveyard Goofs,” in which Ryan’s hapless antiheroes
Sinus O’Gynus and Loady McGee exhume the corpse of the recently-deceased Santa
Claus as part of a Top Secret experiment, and “Boobs Pooter’s Jokepocalypse,” starring
a coprophiliac version of Godzilla who destroys the world with hilarious jokes and crazy
pranks. All this plus the infamous “The Day The New Yorker Came to Town”, plus a
handy index to help you find things like “ass angels,” “s’mores crucifix” and “Yeti-tit
earmuffs.” 128-page b&w 7” x 10” softcover with some color $18.99 (takejo)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/takeajoke
MORE JOHNNY RYAN BOOKS AND COMICS: ANGRY YOUTH COMIX VOL. 2 #2, 4–5, 7–9, 11–14, 24pp. comics, $2.95 each
(ANG2, 4–5, 7–9, 11–14) More adventures of Loady and Sinus, plus Boobs Pooter (who stars in #12) and more of Johnny’s miscreants and
their reprehensible buffoonery. | BLECKY YUCKERELLA, 104pp. s/c, $11.95 (BLECKY) Johnny serves up a generous portion of piss,
vomit, snot, farts, toe jam, b.o. and ear-wax jokes starring his adorably repugnant heroine and her pals in this first collection. | BACK IN
BLECK (BLECKY YUCKERELLA VOL. 2), 104pp. s/c, $11.95 (BLECK2) And Bleckier than ever! | COMICS ARE FOR IDIOTS!,
104pp, s/c $11.99 (CIDIOT) The third all-Blecky collection. | FUC_ _ _U, _SS_ _LE: Blecky Yuckerella Vol. 4 , 104pp, s/c
$11.99 (BLECK4) The fourth and final all-Blecky collection. | SHOULDN’T YOU BE WORKING? #2, 80pp. comics $5.95 (SWORK2)
Created while Ryan was working at a urological clinic, this comic provides a look into the mind of one of today’s most acclaimed (and reviled)
humorists. (Sorry, issue #1 is sold out.) | SEE ALSO: Hotwire Comix & Capers, page 38.
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Delphine
by Richard Sala
A mysterious traveler gets off the train in a
small village surrounded by a thick sinister forest. He is searching for Delphine, who vanished leaving behind one clue. In his newest
chiller, Richard Sala takes on the tale of Snow
White and stands it on its head, retelling from
Prince Charming’s perspective in a contemporary setting. No insipid saccharine coating
of Disney animation magic here but plenty of
blood. Panels full of it. 128-page duotone 7.25” x 10” hardcover $24.99 (DELPHI)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/delphinehc
Mad Night
Judy Drood and her reluctant
companion Kasper Keene try to
unravel a string of mysterious occurrences and heinous murders in
the usually tranquil Lone Mountain
College. Gothic horror, madcap
comedy, and an old-fashioned
murder mystery. 232-page b&w 7” x 10” softcover
$18.95 (MNIGHT)
The Hidden
Is this the end of the world?
How did it happen? Why
did it happen? There is one
man who knows... Take a
walk with the dazed survivors
of a mysterious worldwide
catastrophe — whom a terrible truth awaits. The
Hidden is the full-color, unadulterated horror graphic
novel that Sala fans have been waiting for: — and
Sala’s painted artwork has never looked better (or
more gruesome). 120-page full-color 8” x
8” hardcover $19.99 (hiddrs)
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The Chuckling
Whatsit
Ace detective Judy Drood and
her reluctant companion Kasper
Keene try to solve a string of
heinous murders in the usually
tranquil Lone Mountain College.
Gothic horror, madcap comedy, and an old-fashioned murder mystery coalesce perfectly in this chilling graphic novel. 200-page b&w 7” x 10” softcover
$16.95 (CHUCK)
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Peculia and the
Groon Grove
Vampires
Night is coming and the local baby-sitters club needs an extra sitter. That strange new family is expecting four warm bodies, not three — one for each
member of their household… each sharp-toothed,
bloodthirsty, undead member of their household!
80-page b&w 6” x 8” softcover $9.95 (PECGGV)
Peculia
Sala’s adventuress of the macabre
faces down monsters, zombies,
witches, madmen, evil children and
a villainess who may be in love with
her, in this delightful collection. 96page b&w 7” x 10” softcover with
some color $12.95 (PECULA)
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The Furry Trap
by Josh Simmons
Josh Simmons returns with a harrowing collection of modern horror short
stories that could curl the toes of a
corpse in a state of rigor mortis. From
the title creatures in “Night of the Jibblers” to the witches and ogres of
“Cockbone,” to the depraved, caped
crusading antihero in “Mark of the
Bat,” Simmons is a master of creating
terrifying beasts that inspire nightmarish horrors. Collectively, these skincrawling masterpieces complement
each other in a way that only heightens the anxiety and dread
pouring from page to page. Just remember: You’ve been warned.
140-page full-color 8.25” x 10.25” hardcover $24.99 (FURTRA)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/furrytrap
House
by Josh Simmons
In the thick of a dense wood, a young man comes upon a decrepit house and
two teen-aged girls. Deciding to explore the abandoned house together, the
trio makes strange discoveries: a mysterious portrait, hidden passages, and
an entire group of cottages submerged in a giant sinkhole. The deeper the trio
explores into the house, the more tense and ominous the situation becomes,
until misfortune leads to terror and tragedy. Simmons captures the aloof ennui and deep curiosity of being a teenager, and this adventurous, silent graphic novel demonstrates the solid strength of this young cartoonist's storytelling
ability. House is a visual and formal tour de force that proclaims Simmons a major
cartooning talent of the new century. 80-page b&w 7” x 9” softcover $12.95 (HOUSJS)
Jessica Farm
by Josh Simmons
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Like a Lynchian take on Alice in Wonderland, this atmospheric graphic novel fuses
serialized adventure, fantasy and psychological horror, all stamped with Simmons’s
signature macabre sensibility. The seeming innocence of Jessica’s world quickly falls
away and her humble farmhouse is soon revealed to be a complex labyrinth inhabited
by a strange variety of creatures: some whimsical, some sexual, some despairing and
some malevolent. This ambitious experiment in world-building is the first installment
of a decades-long, life-spanning comics project. 96-page b&w 7” x 8.75” softcover
$14.99 (JFARM1)
SEE ALSO: Josh Simmons contributes to our Mome anthologies, page 42
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Is That All There Is?
by Joost Swarte; introduction by Chris Ware
By
appropriating
and
subverting Tintin creator
Hergé’s classic “clear line”
style, Joost Swarte revitalized
European alternative comics
in the 1970s with a series of
satirical, musically elegant,
supremely
beautifully
drawn short stories — often
featuring
his
innocent,
magnificently-quiffed Jopo
de Pojo, or his orotund
scientist character, Anton
Makassar. Under Swarte’s own exacting supervision, Is
That All There Is? will collect virtually all of his alternative
comics work from 1972 to date, including the RAW
magazine stories that brought him fame among
American comics aficionados in the 1980s. Especially
great pains have been taken to match Swarte’s superb
coloring, which includes stories executed in watercolor,
comics printed in retro duotones, fiendishly clever use
of Zip-a-Tone screens, and much more. (There’s even
a story about how to color comics art using those screens, with Makassar as the teacher.) Other noteworthy
stories include Swarte’s take on an episode from Hergé’s early days, a Fats Domino story, a tribute to
the legendary “Upside-Downs” strip, and a story titled simply “Modern Art.” Chris Ware provides
an appreciative foreword. 144-page full-color 8.5” x 11”softcover $25.00 (isthaS)
ALSO AVAILABLE (limited quantities): Hardcover version $35.00 (isthaT)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/isthatallthereis
The Cavalier Mr. Thompson
by Rich Tommaso
Welcome To Big Spring, Texas and The Cavalier Hotel. A place brimming with all
manner of colorful characters – horse thieves, roughnecks, shady lawmen, con men,
oil barons, gamblers, bootleggers, flappers,
dappers, wildcatters, railroad men, drunkards
and murderers... Nick Ford, The Cavalier’s
new hotel dick keeps a sharp eye on folks who
may cause trouble. Along with number one
son, Sam Hill, The Cavalier should have been
easy to patrol and kept duty free of any unsavory activity. That is, until Ross Thompson – a
slick operator from Chicago — turned everything upside down. Now you’ll have to crack
open this here book for yourself to find out just how he done it... 144page 6” x 9” two-color softcover $16.99 (CANMRT)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/cavaliermrthompson
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Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot
by Jacques Tardi and Jean-Patrick Manchette
Martin Terrier, ice-cold mercenary-turned-contract-killer, has his future all
mapped out: He has just executed what he intends to be his final job and is
ready to move on to the next phase of his life, which involves discreet retirement
accompanied by a long-lost girlfriend. But Terrier’s employers are emphatically
not pleased with his decision, old enemies begin to re-emerge, and soon Terrier
is forced to once again ply his brutal trade. Manchette (the author of West Coast
Blues, also available in a stunning adaptation by Jacques Tardi — see below)
claimed to have written the novel in an attempt to emulate the ultraviolent,
hellbent-for-leather, pitch-black ambiance of Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly,
and Tardi matches him bullet for bullet and blow for blow.
As The Village Voice noted of the original novel (La Position
du tireur couché, released in English under the title The
Prone Gunman by City Lights in 2001), “Thirty pages before
the finale, it’s hard not to wonder how the book could
possibly end... But the book does end, in circumstances far
worse than you might easily imagine, on a note of extraordinary bleakness.”
104-page black-and-white 7.75” x 10.75” hardcover $18.99 (snilin)
ALSO AVAILABLE: West Coast Blues 80-page b&w 7.5” x 10.5” hardcover $18.99
(WESBLU)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/likeasniper
New York
Mon Amour
by Jacques Tardi, Bejamin Legrand,
and Dominique Grange
New York Mon Amour
includes the story that
introduced Tardi to
American readers two
decades ago, “Manhattan,” and other
tales of the Big Apple
in one spectacular
volume including the
novel-length
“Cockroach Killer.” This violent, surreal conspiracy
thriller, starring a hapless exterminator named Walter, features a striking two-color black-and-red technique unique in
Tardi’s oeuvre, and remains one of the cartoonist’s
most startling, confounding works. New York Mon
Amour is rounded off with two short stories written
by Dominique Grange. 84-page two-color 8.25” x
10.75” hardcover $19.99 (NEWYOR)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/newyorkmonamour
You Are There
by Jacques Tardi and J.-C. Forest
One of the earliest
full-length, standalone
graphic novels to be
published in Europe,
You Are There (Ici Même)
was serialized in the
early 1980s and then
released in book form.
Thirty years later, this
dark, funny, consistently
surprising masterpiece
has finally been translated into English. Written
by Barbarella creator Jean-Claude Forest, You Are
There is an imaginative satire with a Beckettian twist,
culminating in an apocalyptic, hallucinatory finale.
Set in Tardi’s preferred early 20th century milieu,
You Are There is drawn in his crisp 1980s neo-“clear
line” style, gorgeously detailed, elegantly stylized,
with impossibly deep slabs of black: You Are There
is a feast for both the eyes and the brain. 196-page
b&w 8.25” x 10.75” hardcover $26.99 (YOUARE)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/
youarethere
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The Extraordinary Adventures of
Adèle Blanc-Sec / The Arctic Marauder
by Jacques Tardi
Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War
I Paris and a parody of same, Adèle Blanc-Sec has been
enchanting, thrilling, and puzzling readers worldwide
through four decades. In the premiere installment, Adèle
becomes involved in an interlocking series of mysteries
that involve a revived
pterodactyl, a frightful
on-stage murder, and a
demon from the depths
of hell — plus of course
moronic gendarmes and a climax atop the
Eiffel Tower. The second volume features
mummies, mad scientists, cavemen, and a
very definitive ending! The Arctic Marauder,
an “icepunk” Jules Verne pastiche executed
in an extraordinary faux-woodcut scratchboard style, ties into the Adèle series in ways we’d rather not spoil here!
ADELE VOL. 1: 96-page full-color 8.5” x 11.5” hardcover $24.99 (ADELE1)
ADELE VOL. 2: same format and price (ADELE2) THE ARCTIC MARAUDER:
64-page b&w 8.5” x 11.5” hardcover $16.99 (ARCMAR)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/adele2
Goddamn This War! and
It Was the War of the Trenches
by Jacques Tardi and Jean-Pierre Verney
Created 15 years after his masterpiece It Was the War of the Trenches, Tardi’s
Goddamn This War! is no mere sequel or extension, but a brand new graphic novel
that can be read entirely on its own. Deploying a more
recent pen-ink-and-watercolor technique Tardi’s splintered narrative covers all six years of the war from the
point of view of an unnamed soldier. The bold colors
of the early chapters fade into a grimy monochromatic
haze as the war drags on. Includes an extensive year-byyear historical text section written by Tarid’s WWI historian Jean-Pierre Verney, along with stunning rare photographs from his personal collection. 152-page full-color
7.25” x 10.5” hardcover $24.99 (GODDAM). IT WAS THE
WAR OF THE TRENCHES remains Tardi’s towering, harrowing, double-EisnerAward-winning masterpiece on the subject. 120-page b&w 7.75” x 10.5” hardcover $24.99 (WARTRE)
ALSO AVAILABLE: The Comics Journal #302 features a brand new, book-length interview with Tardi!! $30.00 (CJ302)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/goddamnthiswar
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The Hypo:
The Melancholic Young Lincoln
by Noah Van Sciver
The debut graphic novel from Noah Van Sciver follows
the twentysomething Abraham Lincoln as he loses everything. Moving towns with little to his name, he is
quickly given a place to stay by a womanizing young
bachelor. Lincoln begins friendships with the town’s
lawyers and politicians; even courting a young woman.
But, as time passes and uncertainty creeps in, young
Lincoln battles depression (which he calls “the hypo”), culminating in a nervous
breakdown that threatens his life. Dense crosshatching and an attention t o
detail help bring together this original telling of a man driven to overcome all obstacles and become the person he strives to be. All the
while unknowingly laying the foundation of character he would use
as one of America’s greatest presidents. 192-page b&w 7.25” x 9.25” hardcover $24.99. (HYPO)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/thehypo
Ralph Azham Vol. 1:
“Why Would You Lie to Someone You Love?”
by Lewis Trondheim and Brigitte Findakly
Within his tiny village, Ralph Azham
is
considered
a
useless,
insolent
lay-about — particularly since he was
supposed to be a
Chosen One. (Things didn’t work out.) Yet his few unique abilities (he can
predict births and deaths) suggests there is more than meets the eye. And
when the terrifying Horde stages a raid on his village, Ralph
takes the young villager Raoul under his (literal) wing and sets out for adventure... Funny yet serious, wildly inventive, the prolific Trondheim’s latest venture features stunningly rich coloring by
his longtime collaborator Brigitte Findakly, and is presented in a distinctive “landscape” format.
96-page full-color 8.25” x 6.375” hardcover $14.99 (RALAZ1)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/ralphazham1
ALSO BY LEWIS TRONDHEIM: McCONEY BOOK 1:
HARUM SCARUM, 48pp. s/c, $10.95 (MCCON1) and McCONEY BOOK 2: THE HOODOODAD, 48pp. s/c, $10.95
(MCCON32) Two full-length, full-color stories in the European
format by Trondheim featuring his bunny. | APPROXIMATE
CONTINUUM COMICS, 160 pp., $18.99 (APPROX) Upon
its publication 20 years ago, this beautifully-drawn book set the
standard for the honest, often hilarious chronicling of a cartoonist’s life. | THE NIMROD #4-7, 32pp., $3.95 each (NIMR04-07) All-Trondheim comics, including a McConey story in #4 and “Genesis
Apocalypto” in #5 (warning: #6-7 serialize Approximate Continuum). | See also MOME #6–8 (page 42) for his “At Loose Ends” serial.
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Blacklung
by Chris Wright
Blacklung is a sweeping, magisterially conceived, visually startling tale
of violence, amorality, fortitude, and
redemption, one part Melville, one
part Peckinpah. After an act of terrible
violence, the teacher is brought before
the ship’s captain and instructed to
use his literary skills to aid him in writing his memoirs. As the captain’s protected confidant the teacher bears witness to monstrous brutality, relentless cruelty,
strange wisdom, and a journey of redemption through loss of faith. Blacklung is a
story that could only exist in sequential pictures — densely textured, highly stylized,
delicately and boldly rendered drawings that is, taken together, wholly original.
128-page b&w 9” x 12” hardcover $24.99 (BLACKL)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/blacklung
You’ll Never Know Book 3:
Soldier’s Heart
by Carol Tyler
You’ll Never Know is the
first graphic novel by Carol
Tyler.
Stunningly
rendered
in detailed inks and subtle
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watercolors, it tells the story
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relationship with her World War
II veteran father, and how his war experience shaped her childhood and
affected her relationships in adulthood. “You’ll Never Know” refers not
only to the title of her parents’ courtship song from that era, but also to the
many challenges the author encountered in uncovering the difficult and
painful truths about her Dad’s service. In one of the most eagerly-anticipated graphic novels of 2012, the
third and final volume, “Soldier’s Heart,” concludes the story in a way that is both surprising and devastating.
128-page 12” x 10.25” full color hardcover $24.99 (NEVKN3)
ALSO AVAILABLE: You’ll Never Know Book 1 and 2 (same format), $24.99 each (NEVKNO) and (NEVKN2)
More info & previews (Book 3): www.fantagraphics.com/youllneverknow3
More info & previews (Book 2): www.fantagraphics.com/youllneverknow2
More info & previews (Book 1): www.fantagraphics.com/youllneverknow
ALSO BY CAROL TYLER: LATE BLOOMER, 136pp, h/c $28.95 (LATEB) The biggest, richest
and most delightful collection of Tyler’s work to date. Tales of loss, difficult relatives and questionable relationships are infused with Tyler’s rueful humor, pitiless wit and deep empathy. All told, the
three-dozen stories here cement Tyler’s reputation as a cartoonist to be reckoned with. | THE JOB
THING, 72pp, s/c $7.95 (JOBAB) The subtitle is “stories about shitty jobs” and it’s autobiographical, told with Carol Tyler’s wry humor.
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Problematic
Sketchbook Drawings 2004 – 2012
by Jim Woodring
If you are one of the fortunate thousands
who enjoy untangling the enigmatic images
that fill Jim Woodring’s comics and drawings, Problematic is just the book for you to
put under your pillow and dream on. Filling
at least one pocket-sized Moleskine sketchbook a month since 2004, Problematic is bursting full of concept
sketches, figure studies, finished drawings, revenge portraits
and scene tryouts. While Woodring found some of the material usable for print, the untamable notions are often the
most interesting ones. There are plenty of them in Problematic. 300-page b&w 5” x 7” hardcover $28.99 (PROBJW)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/problematic
Congress of the
Animals
by Jim Woodring
An act of casual rudeness
sets into motion a chain
of events which propels
Frank into a world where
he is on his own at last;
and like so many who
leave home, Frank finds
himself contending with
realities of which he had
no previous inkling. In
Congress of the Animals
we are treated to the
pitiful spectacle of Frank
losing his house, taking a factory job, falling in
with bad company, fleeing the results of sabotage,
escaping the Unifactor in an amusement park ride,
surviving a catastrophe at sea, traveling across
hostile terrain toward a massive temple seemingly
built in his image, being and intervening in an ageold battle in a meadow slathered in black and yellow
blood. And when he finally knocks on opportunity’s
door he finds... Suffice to say he finds what most of us
would like to find. 104-page b&w 7.25”
x 9.75” hardcover $19.99 (congan)
com/congress-oftheanimals
Weathercraft
by Jim Woodring
Weathercraft
is
Jim
Woodring’s first fulllength graphic novel,
and it features the same
hypnotically
gorgeous
linework and mystical
iconography seen in his
earlier work. The iconic
Frank has only a brief
supporting appearance
in Weathercraft, which
stars Manhog, Woodring’s pathetic, brutish
everyman (or everyhog). After enduring 32 pages
of almost incomprehensible suffering, Manhog
embarks upon a transformative journey and attains
enlightenment. He wants to go to celestial realms
but instead altruistically returns to the unifactor
to undo a wrong he has inadvertently brought
about... Weathercraft also co-stars Frank’s cast of
beloved supporting characters, including Frank’s
Faux Pa and the diminutive, mailbox-like Pupshaw
and Pushpaw; it is both a fully independent story
that is a great introduction to Woodring’s world,
and a sublime addition to, and extension of, the
Frank stories.104-page b&w 7.5” x 9.5” hardcover
$19.99 (WEATHE)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/weathercraft
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softcover edition
by Jim Woodring
Readers who haven’t
discovered Jim Woodring’s Frank stories will
find a treat waiting for
them in the pages of this
book. Since publication
in 1991 of the awardwinning, epoch-making
“Frank in the River,”
these lusciously hypnotic
fables have dazzled
cartoon lovers the world
over. Frank is a generic anthropomorph who lives in a world of mysterious and dangerous beauty. Propelled by
forces beyond his control, including his own unquenchable curiosity, he finds himself in one bizarre escapade
after another, frequently involving the loathsome Manhog or the power-hungry Whim. Luckily, Frank has a
protector and ally in the form of his feisty godling companion, Pupshaw. Frank’s adventures are told in a
series of nearly wordless cartoon stories that draw readers deep into a hallucinatory mindscape governed
by a profound interior logic that raises The Frank Book to a level above fantasy. Available in a new softcover
edition! 352-page b&w 8.75” x 11.25” softcover with a color section $34.99 (FRANSC)
Seeing Things
by Jim Woodring
Jim Woodring’s charcoal drawings take the
otherworldly qualities of his comics to a higher
level of clarity and nuance. These crisply rendered images reflect his life-long obsession
with hidden worlds, alternate realities and the
inexplicable resonance of the unprecedented
and irrational in lucid art. Seeing Things collects the most toothsome of these drawing.
“The Portfolio in Color” appears like a rainbow
at the end of all this exalted storminess to send
readers out into the world whistling with delight. This new softcover edition features a striking all-new cover design. 104-page b&w/color 8.5” x 11” softcover $16.95 (SEETHS)
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MORE FROM JIM WOODRING: THE
PORTABLE FRANK, 200pp., $16.99
(PFRANK) A compact and dazzling col-
lection of the very best “Frank” stories,
personally chosen by Woodring!
SEE ALSO: The Comics Journal Special
Editions, page 104.
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Barack Hussein Obama
by Steven Weissman
Barack Hussein Obama is not a graphic
novel. It’s neither a biography nor an experiment, but a whole, fully-realized parallel America, a dada-esque, surrealistic
satirical vision that is no more cockeyed
than the real thing, its weirdness no more
weird, its vision of the world no more terrifying, where the zombie-esque simulacra
of Joe Biden and Hillary and Newt and
Obama wander, if not exactly through the
corridors of power, through an America
they made and have to live in, like it or
not. Before you lose your will to vote, read
Barack Hussein Obama. 112-page full-color 7.25” x 9.25” hardcover
$22.99 (BARHUS)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/barackhusseinobama
Chocolate Cheeks
by Steven Weissman
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Chocolate Cheeks has arrived to disgust and delight comic-book readers
young and old. “Sweet” Chubby Cheeks and the Pullapart Boy (a 21st Century Frankenstein’s monster for kids) are driving each other crazy. They go
camping, start a business, form a band, join a team, try to make some new
friends and engage in a “holy war.” Things go from worse to worst, though,
when the two boys find a cat—or is it a bird?—one hot summer day in a
tale that ratchets up the horror and suspense to a truly shocking conclusion
(which may not be suitable for the youngest readers). 120-page full-color
(CHOCHE)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/chocolatecheeks
MORE STEVEN WEISSMAN BOOKS: CHEWING
GUM IN CHURCH, 104pp. s/c, $14.95 (CHEWG)
The Yikes kids “settle” into a daily routine of cruelty,
failure, jealousy, bitterness, gluttony, sloth, violence, arrogance, and stupidity in a series of full color one-page
All mailAll mailstrips. | THE KID FIRECHIEF, 96pp. s/c, $12.95
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back in time) on his selfless mission of firefighting. Printed red on yellow. | WHITE FLOWER DAY, 112pp. s/c,
$14.95 (WHITEF) Pulllapart Boy has a run-in with his smarty-pants cousin, College Boy; Li’l Medusa demonstrates why she has such a hard time
making friends; and Li’l Bloody joins up with the Li’l Tin Stars on a scary journey through the wilderness. | DON’T CALL ME STUPID, 96pp.
s/c, $12.95 (DONST) Meet the whole Yikes gang in this first collection! | CHAMPS, 96pp. s/c, $12.95 (CHAMP) It’s competitive action as you
like it, when the Tournament of Big Wheels comes to the Yikes kids’ neighborhood, and touring champion Johnny Takagi enters into a rivalry with
Li’l Bloody. | MEAN, 128pp, s/c $16.95 (MEANC) Collecting Weissman’s early, self-published, unpublished, and otherwise rare “Yikes” comics,
featuring all your favorites: Li’l Bloody and Pullapart Boy, X-Ray Spence and Kid Medusa…
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THE IGNATZ SERIES
Presenting the greatest assemblage of international cartooning ever under one imprint! The Ignatz Series is
a collection of internationally-produced comics designed midway between comic book “pamphlets” and
graphic novels, at a very reasonable price, all printed in a deluxe, oversize two-color format of jacketed
saddle-stitched comics on thick, deluxe stock. All books in the Ignatz Series are 8.5” x 11”, duotone or black
& white, 32 pages.
BAOBAB #1–3 by Igort, $7.95 each (BAOBA1–3) Partly the story
of an orphaned Japanese child, partly a graphic noval à clef about a
George Herriman-like cartoonist of a century ago inventing the medium of fantasy comic strips. | CALVARIO HILLS by Marti, $7.95
(CALVH1) America seen as a racist, corrupt, gun-happy wasteland, in
a fabulously dark neo-Chester Gould style... plus new adventures of
the legendary “Cabbie” (For more by Martí, see the new release of
The Cabbie Vol. 1 on page 86.) | CHIMERA #1 by Lorenzo Mattotti, $7.95 (CHIME1) A wordless fantasia of birth, death, gods,
gods, monsters, and humans, rendered in Mattotti’s astonishingly
gorgeous, hyperexpressive ink-line style. (For more by Mattotti, see
his new releases Stigmata and The Raven on page 23.)| DELPHINE
#2–4 by Richard Sala, $7.95 each (DELPH2–4) In a twisted retelling of Snow White, a lost traveler searches for his lost love and
battles witches, werewolves, and a pack of sinister dwarfs. (For much
more by Sala, see page 29.) | THE END #1 by Anders Nilsen, $7.95
(END01) This concept album is a meditation on paying attention, an
abstracted autobiography and a travelogue, drawn in disparate styles,
from iconic to finely rendered. (For more by Nilsen, see his work in
Mome on page 42 and his book Monologues for Calculating the Density
of Black Holes on page 89.) | GANGES #1–4 by Kevin Huizenga,
$7.95 each (GANGE1–4) New clear-line autobiographical stories by
one today’s hottet talents. (For more, see page 82.) | GROTESQUE
#1–4 by Sergio Ponchione, $7.95 each (GROTE1–4) Ponchione has
created a lushly delineated surrealistic mythology in these stories.
(See also his full-color short stories in recent issues of MOME on
page 42.) | INSOMNIA #1–3 by Matt Broersma, $7.95 each (INSOM1–3) An interrelated trio of noir-ish crime tales executed in Matt
Broersma’s crisp, abstracted style. | INTERIORAE #1–4 by Gabriella Giandelli, $7.95 each (INTER1–4) Strange things are happening
in an apartment house, including a walking, talking, dream-stealing,
invisble white rabbit. (See page 13 for the full-color book version.) |
NEW TALES OF OLD PALOMAR #1–3 by Gilbert Hernandez,
$7.95 each (NTOOP1–3) Gilbert Hernandez returns to his beloved
Central American village with all-new stories. (More Palomar on
pages 14 and 17.) | NIGER #1–3 by Leila Marzocchi, $7.95 each
(NIGER1–3) A tiny intruder causes consternation in a community
of forest birds in this ecological fable. | REFLECTIONS #1–3 by
Marco Corona, $7.95 each (REFLE1–3) Part old lady’s memoir of
her youth, part pirate story (!), done in alternating black-and-white
linework and lush two-color washes, Reflections will surprise you.
| SAMMY THE MOUSE #1–3 by Zak Sally, $7.95 each (SAMMY1–3) Surreal funny-animal antics from the creator of Like a Dog
(see page 95). | WISH YOU WERE HERE #1 (“The Innocents”)
and #2 (“They Found the Car”) by Gipi, $7.95 each (INNOC1,
TFOUND) A series of interlocking short stories, by turns haunting
and thrilling, featuring a group of characters coming to terms with a
past that refuses to stay buried...
SPECIAL OFFER: BUY ANY TWO IGNATZES AND GET THE THIRD IGNATZ FREE!
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Anthologies
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NEWAVE!
The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s
edited by Michael Dowers
NEWAVE! is a gigantic collection of the best small press cartoonists to emerge
in the wake of the first-generation underground cartoonists. By the 1980s this
DIY phenomenon became known as Newave Comix. Unrestrained by commercial
boundaries or editorial edicts, their work was particularly innovative and
experimental, a pioneering force that sowed the seeds for the alternative comix
scene today. This obese little tome includes the obscure and the “famous” alike,
featuring seminal work from Daniel Clowes, Fred Hembeck, Gary Panter, Rick
Geary, Mary Fleener, XNO, Jim Blanchard, Sam Henderson, J.R. Williams, Steve
Willis, Doug Allen, Gary Leib, Mack White, and dozens more, plus a historical
introduction and interviews by editor Michael Dowers. 892-page (yes!) b&w 5” x
7” hardcover $24.99 (NEWAVE)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/newave
Naked Cartoonists
edited by Gary Groth
In an irreverent twist to the fine art tradition of The Nude, this unique and original
collection presents a “stripped”-down version of the infamous “Gallery of Rogues”
exhibit of cartoonist self-portraits at Ohio State University. The all-star cartoonists
inside aren’t afraid to bare all: Scott (Dilbert) Adams, Sergio (Mad) Aragonés, Will
(The Spirit) Eisner, Will (Mad) Elder, Jules (Village Voice) Feiffer, Al (Mad Fold-Ins)
Jaffee, Lynn (For Better Or For Worse) Johnston, Bil (Family Circus) Keane, Russell
(Broom-Hilda) Myers, Charles (Peanuts) Schulz, Jeff (Bone) Smith, Art (Maus) Spiegelman, Mort (Beetle Bailey) Walker, Gahan (The New Yorker) Wilson, and over
50 more! Also includes biographies for each artist, and a foreword by Frank Stack.
156-page full-color 6.25” x 8.25” hardcover $22.99 (NAKCAR)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/nakedcartoonists
Hotwire Comics #3
edited by Glenn Head
Anything goes in Hotwire, eschewing literary high-mindedness for pure, gutwrenching viscerality. Hotwire leaps off the page from the get-go with David
Sandlin’s “Infernal Combustion,” about boozing it up in a broke-down Caddy,
and Tim Lane’s bit of freight-hopping grit, “Spike.” Mary Fleener returns with “The
Judge,” a true tale about her own life fending out thugs... with a .38! Meanwhile,
Hotwire captain Plus more knockout work by Rick Altergott, Matti Hagelberg,
Johnny Ryan, Mats?!, Max Andersson, Sam Henderson, Steve Cerio, Doug Allen,
J. Bradley Johnson, Blanquet, Michael Kupperman, Danny Hellman, Mack White,
Lorna Miller, David Paleo, Christian Northeast, Karl Wills and Jays Pulga. 136page b&w/color 9” x 12” softcover $22.99 (HOTW3)
ALSO AVAILABLE: Hotwire Comix #1 $19.99 (HOTW1) and Hotwire Comix #2 $19.99
(HOTW2), featuring more great, outrageous comics.
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No Straight Lines:
Four Decades of Queer Comics
edited by Justin Hall
This book celebrates the vibrant artistic underground of LGBTQ cartooning by gathering together a huge collection of excellent stories that can be enjoyed by all. No
Straight Lines showcases major names such as Alison Bechdel, Howard Cruse (Stuck
Rubber Baby), and Ralf König (one of Europe’s most popular cartoonists), as well as
high-profile, crossover creators who have flirted with the world of comics, such as
legendary NYC artist David Wojnarowicz and media darling and advice columnist
Dan Savage. No Straight Lines also spotlights many talented creators who never
made it out of the queer comics ghetto, but produced amazing work that deserves
wider attention. These comics have forged their aesthetics from the influences of
underground comix, gay erotic art, punk zines, and the biting commentaries of drag
queens, bull dykes, and other marginalized queers; they have analyzed their own
communities, and their relationship with the broader society; they are smart, funny,
and profound. 328-page b&w and color 7.75” x 10.25” hardcover $35.00 (NOSTRL)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/nostraightlines
Abstract Comics
edited by Andrei Molotiu
Beginning with the experiments of Saul Steinberg, artists have played with the
possibility of comics containing little to no representational imagery. Abstract Comics
is the first collection devoted to this budding genre. It gathers experiments in the form
by cartoonists primarily known for other types of comics — psychedelic Undergroundera excursions by R. Crumb and Victor Moscoso are followed by pieces by Gary
Panter, Patrick McDonnell, Lewis Trondheim, James Kochalka, J.R. Williams, and
Warren Craghead — alongside little-known pioneers and recent creators devoted
to perfecting the form. Abstract Comics gathers work from around the globe and
highlights a wide variety of approaches that result in work that is graphically bold
and often surprisingly humorous or emotionally disturbing. 232-page b&w/color
8.5” x 11” hardcover $39.99 (ABSTRA)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/abstractcomics
From Wonderland With Love
edited by Steffen Rayburn-Maarup
This eye-popping anthology introduces adventurous readers to 19 exciting talents
from Denmark, most of whom are taking their first bow on the English-speaking
stage. Nikoline Werdelin’s stunning, Eisner Award-nominated “Because I Love You
So Much” is a slice-of-life daily strip about a suburban couple who discover their
daughter is being molested. Julie Nord’s elegantly drawn “From Wonderland With
Love” is a modernistic riff on Alice in Wonderland, and Ib Kjeldsmark’s “Sloth” is a
riotously punk-inflected day-glo duo-toned road trip. Plus visually explosive silent
comics by Mårdøn Smet, sinister Lynchian surrealism, a watercolored animal fable,
a meticulous nightmare yarn...176- page b&w/color 8” x 11.25” softcover $29.99
(WONLOV)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/fromwonderland
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Mome
edited by Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds
MOME was a quarterly anthology showcasing the best new talent of the aughts’ rising cartoon generation. Anchored by a core roster of contributors, the series also featured surprise guests, as well as gorgeous design by
Jordan Crane. MOME was conceived as a contemporary literary journal, though one that told its stories via the
medium of comics, rather than prose. 120-136-page b&w/color 7” x 9” softcovers $14.95 each (MOME1, 2,
4–10); $14.99 each (MOME11–22); $24.99 (MOME23) Visit fantagraphics.com for a full rundown of each volume.
PIN-UPS
edited by Alex Chun et al.
THE GLAMOUR GIRLS OF BILL WARD, 176pp. s/c, $24.95 (BWARDS) Features the best o
f
Ward’s Humorama work, including a selection of Ward’s famously buxom telephone girls, mostly shot from
original art and printed in stunning full color. | The Classic Pin-up Art of Jack Cole, 104pp. s/c,
$18.99 (CLASJS) Justly celebrated as the creator of Plastic Man, Jack Cole created some of his most beautiful
work for the Humorama line of pin-ups — so beautiful that his next stop would be Playboy! (See page 67 for
more Cole.) | THE PIN-UP ART OF DAN DECARLO VOLUME 2, 216pp. s/c, $18.95 (DANDC2) So nice
we had to go to the same well twice! More saucy pin-ups from one of the all-time great cute-girl artists — sorry,
Volume One is sold out. (See also Bill Morrison's DeCarlo biography, Innocence and Seduction, on page 101). |
THE GLAMOR GIRLS OF DON FLOWERS, 296pp. s/c, $19.95 (FLOWER) Flowers had one of the most
fluid lines ever to grace the comics page, and nowhere was this more evident than in his quintessential singlepanel pin-up cartoon, the aptly named Glamor Girls. | THE PIN-UP ART OF BILL WENZEL, 216pp. s/c,
$18.95 (WENZEL) Wenzel set himself apart from his peers with his decidedly more Rubenesque rendering of
the female form. Aloof secretaries or smoldering vixens, Wenzel’s women carried their weight well, the better to
hold up their ample chests. | AN ORGY OF PLAYBOY’S ELDON DEDINI, 220pp. h/c with DVD, $39.95
(DEDINI) The first retrospective collection of Dedini’s work gathers in one volume the most sophisticated,
elegant — and funny — gag panels of the past six decades. Also includes an exclusive documentary DVD! |
THE PIN-UP ART OF HUMORAMA, 216pp. s/c, $19.99 (PINHU1) A selection of girlie pin-ups published
in the 1950s by Abe Goodman (brother to Marvel Comics publisher Martin Goodman!) is his cheap little
magazines by the likes of Playboy’s Jack Cole, Archie’s Dan DeCarlo and glamour girl legend Bill Ward, as well as Basil Wolverton, MAD’s
Dave Berg (“The Lighter Side”), and future syndicated cartoonists Bill Hoest (The Lockhorns) and Brad Anderson (Marmaduke). Plus
Foreword and bonus pinup by noted purveyor of comics raunch Howard Chaykin.
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BLAB!
edited by Monte Beauchamp
The preeminent anthology of
painting and the illustration
arts, BLAB! is a coffee-table
showcase of fine art, illustration, and comix, and a gold
standard in the work of the professional visual arts. BLAB!’s list
of contributors past and present
reads like a Who’s Who of the
contemporary visual art world
including Mark Ryden, Chris Ware, Gary Panter, Joe Coleman, Gary Baseman, Richard Sala, Walter Minus, Doug
Allen, Archer Prewitt, Spain Rodriguez, Stephane Blanquet,
Peter Kuper, Drew Friedman, Jonathon Rosen, Mark Mothersbaugh, Sue Coe, Camille Rose Garcia, David Sandlin, Bob Staake, Skip Williamson, Tim Biskup, Shag and
many more. Plus vintage novelties and oddities and other surprises. Visit our website for a detailed description
of each issue’s contents: http://www.fantagraphics.com/blab Volumes 11–13, 15–18: All 120-page part-color
softcovers, all $19.95 except Vol. 18, $22.95 (BLAB11–13, 15–18)
BLAB! StorybooKS
This series of original “picto-novelettes” is curated and designed by Monte Beauchamp, who has selected the
crème de la crème of the art and illustration world from the pages of BLAB! to produce their own full-length
works. Although presented in a faux children’s-book format, these books are aimed squarely at adults and
young adults. 10” x 10” hardcovers $14.95 each except as noted. OLD JEWISH COMEDIANS (OLDJEW, $14.95),
MORE OLD JEWISH COMEDIANS (MORJEW,
$16.99), EVEN MORE OLD JEWISH COMEDIANS
(OLDJEW, $14.95) all by Drew Friedman: Portraits of
Jewish comedians born before 1930 from Milton Berle
to Henny Youngman. Who pays retail? Buy all three
for the bargain price of $39.99 (JEWBAR) — and see
more great Friedman work on page 78! | THE MAGIC
BOTTLE by Camille Rose Garcia, $14.95 (MBOTTL)
A creepy fairytale: Lulu Blackenshoe finds a magic bottle
containing an old pirates’ map that shows the way to
the Peppermint Islands... | DARLING CHÉRI by
Walter Minus $14.95 (DARCHE) Sensually illustrated
story of a young woman penning her final goodbye letter to her lover. | AN ALPHABETICAL BALLAD OF
CARNALITY by David Sandlin $14.95 (ALHPAB)
A rhyming “sintemental education” in 26 easy steps. |
STRUWWELPETER by Bob Staake $14.95 (STRUWW) A gorgeously stylized adaptation of the cruel
childrean’s classic by New Yorker cover artist. | SHAG:
A TO Z by Shag $16.95 (SHAGA) 26 stunning original paintings by the modern master of “cocktail art.” |
SHEEP OF FOOLS by Sue Coe and Judith Brody,
$14.95 (SHEEPF) Scathing PETA-approved attack on
transoceanic livestock transportation, told as a children’s picture book.
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The Brinkley Girls
by Nell Brinkley; edited by Trina Robbins
For over 30 years Nell Brinkley’s gorgeous
girls pirouetted, waltzed, Charlestoned,
vamped and shimmied their way through
the pages of William Randolph Hearst’s
newspapers, captivating the American
public with their innocent sexuality. This
sumptuously designed oversized hardcover
edition collects Brinkley’s breathtakingly
spectacular, exquisitely colored full page art
from 1913 to 1940, including silent movie
serial inspired adventures, flapper comics,
and the pulp magazine inspired “Heroines
of Today,” plus photos, reproductions
of her heretofore unseen paintings, and
much more, including a typically informative and insightful biographical
introduction from Robbins! 136-page full-color 9.75” x 13.25” hardcover
$29.99 (BRINKG)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/brinkleygirls
Nancy Likes Christmas
by Ernie Bushmiller; introduction by Bill Griffith
The second volume in our series, Nancy Likes Christmas features three more
full years of Ernie Bushmiller’s beloved comic strip (1946-1948), featuring
nearly one thousand meticulously restored daily strips from its post-WorldWar II graphic high point — superbly crafted but not yet quite stylized into
the almost machine-life sleekness of later decades. And what can you say
about the jokes in Nancy other than that, contrary to its reputation for a zen-like, ultra-square oddness,
many of them are actually just extremely funny? Nancy Likes Christmas is topped off with a new introduction
by Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith, a lifelong fan of Nancy and admirer of
Bushmiller’s genius, and once again designed with pop-art snap and crackle by
Fantagraphics senior designer Jacob Covey. 360-page b&w 8.5” x 8.5” Flexibound
softcover $24.99 (NANV02)
ALSO AVAILABLE: Nancy Is Happy, featuring every strip from 1943-1945 and an introduction
by the one and only Daniel Clowes. 360-page b&w 8.5” x 8.5” Flexibound softcover $24.99
(NANV01)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/nancylikeschristmas
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Captain Easy: Soldier of Fortune Vol. 3
Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips 1938–1940
by Roy Crane
Long before the first superhero, Roy Crane’s courageous, indomitable, and
cliff-ganging rough guy served as the template for characters that later defined
comic books, and set the aesthetic standards for the newspaper strip. This third
of four oversized, full-color volume of Captain Easy reprints features what many
consider the absolute peak of the series: “Temple of the Swinks,” in which Wash
and Easy discover an ancient temple with statues of an unknown animal called a
swink... a real-life specimen of which shows up! In other stories, Wash and Easy
sail for Singapore
aboard a dhow
with a cargo of
wild
animals,
crash
land
a
plane
on
an
island inhabited
by
(inevitably)
pirates and (just as inevitably) beautiful women,
and sail the South Seas in a schooner whose
villainous captain plans to rob them. When they
return to America, Wash Tubbs’ pet swink draws huge crowds and a reputation for being worth a million
dollars. Then Wash and Easy travel to Peru to rescue an American lost in the jungle and, in the cover-featured
story, Easy goes deep sea diving in search of a beautiful girl’s lost diamond. 138-page full-color 10.5” x
14.75” hardcover $39.99 (CEASY3)
ALSO AVAILABLE: Volume 1 (1933–1935) and Volume 2 (1936–1937) $39.99 each (CEASY1) and (CEASY1)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/captaineasy3
Buz Sawyer Vol. 2:
Sultry’s Tiger
by Roy Crane
With this volume’s Buz Sawyer dailies from 1945 to 1947, Roy Crane
truly hit his stride both as a writer and as a cartoonist. World War II
has ended; with so many pilots mustered out at the end of the war,
jobs for pilots are hard to find, and Buz’s record as a “hot-shot” pilot
does not recommend him to commercial airlines. He finally finds the
perfect job as a troubleshooter, flying to trouble spots all over the
world. He encounters Sultry, the beautiful and dangerous woman
he met on a Japanese-held island during the war; he travels to the
arctic to stop the Mad Baron, an insane exNazi; and, in the only adventure to combine
the daily and Sunday story lines, he teams up
with his old pal Roscoe Sweeney to discover a
fabulous ancient Mayan treasure. (This book
reprints the Sunday pages from this adventure
in full color for the first time.) 210-page b&w 9” x 8.5” hardcover $35.00 (BUZSA2)
ALSO AVAILABLE: Buz Sawyer Vol. 1: The War in the Pacific $35.00 (BUZSA1)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/buzsawyer1
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Mysterious Traveler:
The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 3
by Steve Ditko; edited by Blake Bell
Mysterious Traveler: The
Steve Ditko Archives Vol.
3 continues to showcase
the artist’s 1950s work,
in a series that began
with the 2009 Strange
Suspense:
The
Steve
Ditko Archives Vol. 1 and
the 2010 Unexplored
Worlds: The Steve Ditko
Archives Vol. 2 — both
following up on Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko, Blake Bell’s
2008 critically-acclaimed retrospective of Ditko’s career. For the first time,
spectacular full-color reprints of stories are on display from the peak period of
his career as an artist. Five years before his breakthrough at Marvel with Spider-Man,
Ditko was churning out horror and sci-fi stories for Charlton Comics. But “churning
out” isn’t fair — delighted by Charlton’s creative laissez-faire attitude, Ditko in fact
created some of of the best work of his career for such books as Tales of the Mysterious
Traveler and This Magazine Is Haunted. The book also features editor Bell’s insightful
introduction, providing historical background and speaking to Ditko’s influence and his
unique craft. 224-page full-color 7.25” x 9.5” hardcover $39.99 (UNEXWO)
ALSO AVAILABLE: Ditko Archives Vol. 1: Strange Suspense, same format and price
(SSUSP1), Ditko Archives Vol. 2: Unexplored Worlds, same format and price (UNEXPL)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/ditkoarchives
Strange and Stranger:
The World of Steve Ditko
by Blake Bell
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Steve Ditko is best known as the co-creator, with Stan
Lee, of Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, and other classic
Marvel and DC characters. But, in the context of
Steve Ditko’s 50-year career in comics, his creative
involvement with Spider-Man is merely the tip of the
iceberg. Strange & Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko
is a coffee table art book tracing Ditko’s life and
career, his unparalleled stylistic innovations, and his
strict adherence to his philosophical principles, with
lush displays of obscure and popular art from the
thousands of pages of comics he’s drawn over the
last 55 years. 216-page full-color 9” x 12” hardcover
$39.99 (SSDTK)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/strangeandstranger
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Amazing Mysteries:
The Bill Everett Archives Vol. 1
by Bill Everett; edited by Blake Bell
This book collects over 200 pages of Everett’s earliest, never-before-reprinted work
from titles such as Amazing Mystery Funnies (1938), Amazing-Man Comics (1939),
Target Comics (1940), Heroic Comics
(1940), and Blue Bolt Comics (1940).
These titles feature an endless array of
great vintage Everett characters such as
Amazing-Man, Hydroman, Skyrocket
Steele, Sub-Zero, The Chameleon, and
many more, all produced by Everett’s shop
Funnies, Inc. for such clients as Centaur,
Novelty Press, and Eastern Color, and all
displaying Everett’s brilliant cartooning
and energetic storytelling. The Bill Everett
Archives is a stunning companion to Blake
Bell’s 2010 critically Fire and Water: Bill Everett, The Sub-Mariner and
the Birth of Marvel Comics. This volume follows the format of Bell’s
Steve Ditko Archives series (see facing pgae): never-before-reprinted,
beautifully restored, full-color stories from one of comic books’ greatest visionaries and most accomplished
artists. Also includes an introduction by Bell that delves even deeper into Everett’s life, fiery personality, and
the history of the era. 224-page full-color 7.25” x 9.5” hardcover $39.99 (AMAMYS)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/amazingmysteries
Fire & Water:
Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics
by Blake Bell
In 1939, Marvel Comics launched its comics line with a four-color magazine
starring a daring new antihero: The Sub-Mariner. As created by the great Bill
Everett, the Sub-Mariner was an angry half-breed
(half-man, half sea-creature) who loathed and
fought against all mankind — until he joined the
Allied Forces to defeat the Nazis during World War
II. The Sub-Mariner alone would have insured any
cartoonist’s place in comics history. But Everett was
a master of many kinds of comics: romance, crime,
humor, and horror (for which he produced work of
such beauty that he ranks with the legendary EC
artists artists). Compiled with the aid and assistance
of Everett’s family, friends, and cartoonist peers,
this is an intimate biography of a troubled man; an eye-popping collection
of Everett’s comics, sketchbook drawings, and illustration art (including
spectacular samples from his greatest published work as well as never-beforeseen private drawings); and an in-depth look at his involvement in the birth of the company that would
revolutionize pop culture forever: Marvel Comics! 216-page full-color 9” x 12” hardcover $39.99 (FIRWAT)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/fireandwater
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Prince Valiant Vol. 6: 1947–1948
by Hal Foster
Hal
Foster’s
masterpiece
of
adventure enters its second decade
as Valiant and Aleta journey to
“The New World,” a 16-month epic
that allows Foster to draw some of
his spectacular native Canadian
backgrounds, and during which
Aleta gives birth to Arn and acquires
her Indian nurse, Tillicum. Most of
the rest of the book is taken up
with the action-packed five-month
sequence “The Mad King,” during
which Val, back at Camelot,
confronts the evil, fat little King
Tourien of Cornwall. This volume is
rounded off with an essay by Foster scholar Brian M. Kane (The
Prince Valiant Companion) discussing Foster’s depiction of “Indians”
as it relates to other interpretations of the times, accompanied by
various graphic goodies such as a previously unpublished camping
cartoon by Foster from circa 1915, some of Foster’s Mountie
paintings, Foster’s own map of Val’s voyage to/from the New World, more rare photos and art — and a
spectacular fold-out of an original watercolored Foster page! As always, this volume is shot directly from
Foster’s personal collection of syndicate proofs, their glorious colors restored to create an unprecedentedly
sumptuous reading experience. 112-page full-color
10.5” x 14.25” hardcover $35.00 (Princevaliant6)
Also available: Prince Valiant Vol. 1 (1937–1938),
Prince Valiant Vol. 2 (1939–1940), Prince Valiant
Vol. 3 (1941–1942), Prince Valiant Vol. 4 (1943–
1944), and Prince Valiant Vol. 5 (1945–1946) (PVAL01,
PVAL02, PVAL03, PVAL04, PVAL05).
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/princeval
iant6
The Definitive Prince Valiant Companion
by Brian M. Kane
Compiled by award-winning Foster biographer Brian M. Kane, The Definitive Prince
Valiant Companion updates the original version’s story synopsis section with over
thirty years of material and newly compiles rare and new articles such as a never
before reprinted newspaper feature from 1949; Foster’s final interview; interviews
with Foster’s successors John Cullen Murphy, Gary Gianni and Mark Schultz; a
new, in-depth article by Kane on Foster’s artistic influences; a Foreword by comics
historian Brian Walker; and an Introduction by Ray Bradbury. The icing on the cake:
a sixteen-page color section of carefully selected strips from the entire run of the
comic. 160-page b&w/color 8.5” x 11” hardcover $39.99 (PVCOMH); softcover
$24.99 (PVCOMS)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/valiantcompanion
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Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture
by Jack Davis
Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture features the greatest collection — in
both quantity and quality — of Jack Davis’s work ever assembled! It includes work
from every stage of his long and varied career: excerpts of satirical drawings from
his college humor ’zine, The Bull Sheet; examples of his comics work from EC,
MAD, Humbug, Trump, and obscure work he
did for other companies in the 1950s such
as Dell; movie posters including It’s a Mad,
Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Bad News Bears,
Woody Allen’s Bananas, and others; LP jacket
art for such musicians as Spike Jones and
Ben Cooler; cartoons and illustrations from
Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Time, TV Guide,
Esquire, and many others; unpublished illustrations and drawings Davis did as self-promotional pieces, proposed comic
strips that never sold (such as his Civil War epic “Beaureagard”), finished
drawings for unrealized magazine projects — and even illustrations unearthed in the Davis archives that the artist himself can’t identify! 192-page
full-color 10” x 13” hardcover $49.99 (ARTJAC)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/artofjackdavis
Mr. Twee Deedle:
Raggedy Ann’s Sprightly Cousin — The Forgotten
Fantasy Masterpiece of Johnny Gruelle
by Johnny Gruelle; edited by Rick Marschall
Unjustly forgotten by history and
never before reprinted since its first
appearance in America’s newspapers
from 1911 to 1914, Raggedy Ann
creator Johnny Gruelle’s Mr. Twee
Deedle is a classic of comic-strip
fantasy fully on the level of Little
Nemo in Slumberland (which it was in
fact created to replace when Nemo was
stolen by a rival paper). This huge volume presents
the first year of this forgotten masterpiece as well as selected episodes
from later years, as well as special drawings, promotional material,
and related artwork. The title character is a magical wood sprite
who befriends the strip’s two human children, Dickie and Dolly.
Gruelle depicts a charming, fantastical child’s world, filled with light
whimsy and outlandish surrealism. The artwork is among the most
stunning to ever grace an American newpaper page, and Gruelle’s
painterly color (reproduced with the usual eye-popping Fantagraphics quality in a huge format) makes
every page look like it was created on a canvas.128-page full-color 14” x 18” hardcover $75.00 (MRTWEE)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/mrtweedeedle
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Krazy & Ignatz 1922–1924
“At Last My Drim of Love Has Come True”
by George Herriman; introduction by Bill Blackbeard
...as have readers’ dreams of a “komplete” set of Krazy Kat Sundays! The 13th
and last of the Fantagraphics collections of Sunday Krazy Kat strips features three
years of classic Kat strips, plus the complete year of Us Husbands (a little-seen
domestic-comedy strip Herriman did in the 1920s as a sideline), as well as the
first look in a century at what might be Herriman’s very first continuing strip! Plus
more rare art including an undated Sunday strip presented here for the first time,
the rarely-seen 10-week Saturday run of full-color strips, an article on the Krazy
Kat ballet, and updated and expanded “DeBaffler” endnotes explaining some of the arcana behind the strip’s
jokes. 264-page black-and-white 9” x 12” paperback with extensive color sections $24.99 (KRIG13)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/krazy1922-1924
MORE KRAZY KAT KOLLECTIONS: KRAZY & IGNATZ
IN COLOR: 1943–1944, 120pp. s/c, $19.95 (KRIG10) In
addition to the full-color, full-page Sundays, this final volume
(chronologically speaking) features scores of late daily strips
and more rare artwork, and a concluding essay by editor Bill
Blackbeard. | 1941–1942, 120pp. s/c, $19.95 (KRIG9) Two
full years of Herriman Krazy Kat Sunday strips in color...what
more could you want? Well, there is also a smartly written essay by Jeet Heer on George Herriman’s exquisite use of language, another rare
photo of Herriman, and another spectacular never-before-seen Herriman color piece. But mostly it’s the strips, 104 gorgeous, splendid,
touching, mystifying, hilarious masterpieces. | 1939–1940, 120pp. s/c, $19.95 (KRIG8) “A Brick Stuffed with Moom-bims” features more
Herriman paintings... and of course two years’ worth of strips. | 1937–1938, 120pp. s/c, $19.95 (KRIG7) “Shifting Sands Dusts Its Cheeks
in Powdered Beauty” is the second color volume, with half-dozen or so pages’ worth of never-before-seen Herriman memorabilia squozen in.
| 1935–1936, 120pp. s/c, $19.95 (KRIG6) “A Wild Warmth of Chromatic Gravy” collects the very first full-color Sunday Krazy Kat strips
beginning in June 1935. With a flood of rare art and a revelatory essay by journalist and critic Jeet Heer. | KRAZY & IGNATZ IN BLACK &
WHITE: 1933–1934, 120pp. s/c, $19.95 (KRIG5) “Necromancy by the Blue Bean Bush” is adance with nearly two full years of the Sunday
Krazy Kat — the last year before the switch to color —snug between multiple pages of Herriman extras. | 1931–1932, 120pp. s/c, $19.95
(KRIG4) “A Kat Alilt with Song” includes rare Herriman extras such as early strips, gag cartoons, vignettes of the Coconino Kast of Kharacters
drawn for Kat fans, and more, in addition to two full years of Sunday strips. | 1929–1930, 120pp. s/c, $19.95 (KRIG3) “A Mice, a Brick, a
Lovely Night” is back in print again! | 1927–1928, 120pp. s/c, $19.95 (KRIG2) “Love Letters in Ancient Brick” is the second black and white
volume and includes a fascinating essay on the series' ties to the vaudeville tradition. | 1925–1926, 120pp. s/c, $19.95 (KRIG1) “There Is A
Heppy Lend Fur Fur A-Waay” is the first Fantagraphics volume, collecting what many consider to be Herriman’s prime. |1919–1921, 160pp.
s/c, $24.99 (KRIG12) “A Kind, Benevolent, and Amiable Brick” collects yet another three years worth of Kat strips. | 1916–1918, 160pp. s/c,
$24.99 (KRIG13) “Love in a Kestle or Love in a Hut” The first three years of the Krazy Kat Sunday! | Krazy & Ignatz: The Kat Who Walked
in Beauty, 114pp. h/c, $29.95 (KATBEA) A unique, 15” x 11”, hardcover stand-alone collection of some of the most graphic and brilliantly
conceived daily strips ever created, along with many other gems, including the very first stand-alone Krazy & Ignatz strips and more rarities.
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Krazy & Ignatz: “First Sundays”
by George Herriman; introduction by Bill Blackbeard
“First Sundays” collects the three Krazy & Ignatz softcover
books which comprehensively compile the first nine years
(1916 through 1924) of Krazy Kat Sunday strips, under one
set of hardcovers. The covers to the original three softcover
books are not included, but literally everything else is,
including nine years’ worth of black-and-white masterpieces
(and 10 color strips), plus all the bonuses (other rare strips
such as Herriman’s recently-discovered very first continuing
series, and the entire Us Husbands). 600-page black-and-white 9” x 12”
hardcover with some color $95.00 (KRIGH1)
ALSO AVAILABLE: Krazy & Ignatz: “Third Sunday” Deluxe Hardcover (1935–
1944) 600-page full-color 9” x 12” hardcover $95.00 (KRIGH3) [Sorry, Second Sunday
is sold out and will NOT be reprinted; check eBay and Amazon.com’s sellers for copies.]
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/krazysundays1
The Complete Pogo Vol. 2:
“Bona Fide Balderdash”
by Walt Kelly; edited by Carolyn Kelly
Even though Pogo had been in syndication for less than two years as this
volume begins, Walt Kelly’s long professional experience (including seven
years creating Pogo stories for comic books) had him at the peak of his
powers, and this book features page after page of gorgeously drawn,
hilarious vaudevillian dialogue and action among the swamp denizens, as
well as Kelly’s increasingly sharp-tongued political satire — especially on
display during the 1952 election season. New arrivals include Tammanany
the Tiger, the voluble P.T. Bridgeport, the sinister Sarcophagus MacAbre
Uncle Antler the bull moose... and the bats Bewitched, Bothered, and
Bemildred. The two years of daily strips in this volume have been collected
before but in now long out of print books; and even there they were not
as meticulously restored and reproduced as here! “Bona Fide Balderdash”
also reprints, for the first time ever in full color, the two years of Sunday pages, carefully
restored and color-corrected, shot from the finest copies available. This second volume
also includes a new introduction by the legendary author, recording artist, and satirist Stan
Freberg. 356-page b&w and color 11” x 9” hardcover $39.99 (CPOGO2)
ALSO AVAILABLE: The Complete Pogo Vol. 1: “Into the Wild Blue Wonder” (same
format and price, CPOGO1) $39.99 — and the Pogo Vols. 1/2 Box Set (CPOGB1), $69.99
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/pogo2
ALSO BY WALT KELLY: OUR GANG VOLUMES 1, 3,
and 4. Before he rose to fame with Pogo, Walt Kelly created literally hundreds of pages of comics featuring the
“Little Rascals” of film fame. Each book collects a slew
of these classics, with covers by Jeff (Bone) Smith. 112pg
full-color 7” x 10” s/c $12.99 (OURGA1 and OURGA2)
$14.99 (OURGA3 and OURGA4)
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Blazing Combat
written and edited by Archie Goodwin
Written and edited by Archie Goodwin and drawn by such
luminaries as Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, John Severin,
Alex Toth, Al Williamson, Russ Heath, Reed Crandall,
and Gene Colan, Warren Publishing’s Blazing Combat
originally seared newsstands nationwide in 1965 and ’66.
Following in the tradition of Harvey Kurtzman’s Two-Fisted
Tales and Frontline Combat, Goodwin’s stories reflected
the human realities and personal costs of war rather than
exploiting the clichés of the traditional men’s adventure
genre. In addition to sparklingly crisp reproductions of
the complete run scanned from original negatives, this
collection includes interviews with Goodwin and the
original publisher James Warren, who discuss the death of Blazing Combat and market censorship as well as the
creative gestation of the series. 208-page b&w 8” x 10” softcover $19.99 (blazsc)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/blazingcombatsc
I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! /
You Shall Die From Your Own Evil Creation!
Comics and More Comics of Fletcher Hanks
edited by Paul Karasik
The superhero Stardust gazes down at evil-doers from space and doles out ice
cold slabs of poetic justice with his wizardry. A villain out to kidnap all the heads
of state gets turned into a giant head, himself… no body, just a head! The jungle
protectress, Fantomah, looks like Jean Harlow in a skin-tight black negligee.
But when she sees evil transpire, her head transforms into a flaming skull and
she tosses the villain to gorillas who graphically tear the guy limb from limb.
Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the inkwell.
Fletcher Hanks worked for only a few years in the earliest days of the comic book
industry (1939–1941), and his work was largely forgotten for decades. But among
aficionados he is legendary. Hanks drew in a variety of genres depicting sciencefiction saviors, white women of the jungle, and he-man loggers. Cartoonist Paul
Karasik has spent years tracking down these obscure and hard to find stories
buried in the back of long-forgotten comic book
titles; in so doing, he also uncovered a dark secret: why Hanks disappeared from
the comics scene. These Eisner Award winning books collect all of his known
stories, plus an Afterword which solves the mystery
of “Whatever Happened to Fletcher Hanks,” the
mysterious cartoonist who created a hailstorm of tales
of brutal retribution... and then vanished. I Shall
Destroy: 120-page full-color 8.5” x 11” softcover
$19.95 (ISHALL) You Shall Die: 224-page full-color
8.5” x 11” softcover $24.99 (YSHALL)
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Young Romance:
The Best of Simon & Kirby’s Romance Comics
by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon
Together, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created such classic two-fisted comic series as
Captain America, Boys’ Ranch, The Newsboy Legion, and The Boy Commandos.
But few people realize that one of their greatest successes — from 1947, when
they singlehandedly created the genre, to the end of the 1950s — was... romance
comics! In such best-selling titles as Young Love and Real Western Romances,
Simon and Kirby delighted a generation of girls and women (and probably a
fair number of boys and men as well) with hundreds of charming and endlessly
inventive stories of love and heartbreak. And now, for the first time since their
original publication in the 1940s and 1950s, 21 of these classics have been
meticulously restored and are printed herein — in full, glorious color. So get out
your handkerchiefs and enjoy the trials, tribulations, tragedies and triumphs of
Suzi, Marjorie, Annaliese, Toni, Kathy, Sari... and 15 other star-crossed young
lovers from half a century ago. 208-page full-color paperback $29.99 (YOUROM)
Dennis the Menace
by Hank Ketcham
Dennis vaults into the 1960s with his anarchic
spirit still intact. As always, this book is a series
of unrelated panel gags (with the exception of
one week-long story involving Dennis’s mildmannered grandpa), but what gags! Hank
Ketcham is legendary for being one of the most exquisitely skilled cartoonists of
all time, and each and every panel is a small masterpiece of design and draftsmanship. Dennis’s foils in this ling-running and beloved strip — his long-suffering
parents, their neighbors the Wilsons, his dog Ruff, his best pal Joey, his nemesis
Margaret, and a seemingly endless parade of babysitters, as well as hapless shopowners, policemen, teachers, and family friends — all come to realize that it’s
Dennis’s world... they just live in it! 672-page b&w 5.5” x 6.25” hardcover $24.99 (DENN06)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/dennis6
MORE DENNIS: DENNIS THE MENACE 1959–1960 (VOL. 5), 672pp. h/c, $24.95 (DENN05) Two more years of great Dennis panels as the
’50s wind down.| DENNIS THE MENACE 1957–1958 (VOL. 4), 672pp. h/c, $24.95 (DENN04) Introducing the anti-Margaret: Gina! |
DENNIS THE MENACE 1955–1956 (VOL. 3), 672pp. h/c, $24.95 (DENN03) Dennis actually flirts with a girl, exacerbates confrontations between Dad and the police, and stymies hapless baby-sitters. | 1953–1954 (VOL. 2), 672pp. h/c, $24.95 (DENN02) An elderly
neighboring couple (him cranky, her sweet) begins to appear now and again... poor George and Martha Wilson, little do they realize what’s in
store for them! | 1951–1952 (VOL. 1), 624pp. h/c, $24.95 (DENN01) The first volume captures Dennis’ debut in 16 American newspapers
on March 14, 1951. With a foreword by Patrick McDonnell (Mutts) and an introduction by Brian Walker. | 1951–1954 BOXED SET,
$39.95 (DBX1&2) The first two hardcover volumes of the Complete Dennis the Menace, comprising the entire first four years of the strip, are
assembled in a gorgeous, durable slipcase.
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Humbug
by Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Arnold Roth, Al Jaffee, and Jack Davis
If you know Harvey Kurtzman from EC Comics, MAD, Little Annie Fanny, or even
“Goodman Beaver,” The Jungle Book, and “Hey, Look,” you may think you’ve seen
the best of Kurtzman. WRONG!
In 1957, after Kurtzman’s acrimonious departure from MAD (and his brief fling
with Hugh Hefner on the short-lived Trump), Kurtzman enlisted a handful of his
friends to co-create and co-publish a magazine called Humbug. Although a commercial disaster (it ran for only 11 issues), the near-forgotten Humbug represents
a peak of not only Kurtzman’s work, but of his compadres: Will Elder, Jack Davis,
Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth. With no publisher to rein them in, this little band of
creators produced some of the most trenchant and engaging satire of American
culture ever to appear on American newsstands.
Now, at last, the entire run of Humbug is being reprinted, in cooperation with
the surviving cartoonists, in a deluxe format (two superb hardcovers in a slipcase),
much of it reproduced from the original art or original photostats, some of it retinted or retypeset as needed, all of it meticulously restored — allowing even owners of the original cheaplyprinted issues to enjoy the full impact of these creators’ artistry for the first time. The Humbug collection includes a historical article by Kurtzman/EC scholar John Benson and publisher Gary Groth; a long, hilariously
discursive interview with two of the surviving artists, Jaffee and Roth; and a “how we restored Humbug” visual
featurette. 476-page two-color 8” x 10” slipcased hardcover set $60.00 (HUMBUG)
SPECIAL EDITION w/ insert signed by Jaffee, Roth and Davis! $100.00 (HUMBSE)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/humbug
Drawing Power:
A Compendium of Cartoon
Advertising 1870s–1940s
edited by Rick Marschall and Warren Bernard
The history of the genre known as Cartoon
Advertising is addressed for the first time in the
oversized, full-color, 128-page, fully illustrated
book Drawing Power. This landmark volume
features the work of iconic cartoonists doing
work that mostly has been lost to history, by
the nature of its in-the-moment splashes. There
are examples by Thomas Nast, Joseph Keppler, .F Opper, Bud Fisher, George
Herriman, John Held, Jr., Charles Dana Gibson, Percy Crosby, Peter Arno, Gluyas
Williams, Milton Caniff and over 60 other cartoonists. Generous portfolios are
devoted to the substantial work in the genre by R F Outcault, Dr. Seuss, cartoon
sheet music, and more. Many famous products and many famous campaigns
and slogans — but also forgotten gadgets and outrageous claims — are found
in Drawing Power. Dr. Scott’s Electric Cigarettes from the 1880s… Yellow Kid cigars… the Campbell Soup
Kids… Rose O’Neill’s Jello-O ads… Snap, Crackle, and Pop… Little Orphan Annie’s Ovaltine… Mr Coffee
Nerves… they are all here! Other “pitchmen” include Popeye, Mickey Mouse, Barney Google, Walt &
Skeezix, and more! 128-page full-color 9.5” x 13” softcover $28.99 (DRAWP)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/drawingpower
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Barnaby Vol. 1
by Crockett Johnson; designed by Daniel Clowes
Cartoonist Crockett Johnson (of Harold and the Purple Crayon) created a
comic strip about a precocious five-year-old named Barnaby Baxter and
his fairy godfather Jackeen J. O’Malley, a cigar-chomping, bumbling
con-artist with a tenuous grasp on magic. Co-edited by Johnson
biographer Philip Nel and Fantagraphics Associate Publisher Eric
Reynolds, with art direction by graphic novelist Daniel Clowes, this fivevolume Barnaby series collects the full run of original newspaper strips
from 1942-1952. The first volume collects strips from 1942 and 1943.
Barnaby’s deft balance of fantasy, political commentary, sophisticated
wit, and elegantly spare images expanded our sense of what comic strips can do. 336-page 10.5” x 6.75”
b&w with some color hardcover $35.00
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/barnaby1
Weird Horrors and Daring Adventures:
Joe Kubert Archives Vol. 1
edited by Bill Schelly
Joe Kubert was one of the greatest American cartoonists of all time, known best
for the work he did for DC Comics’ Sgt. Rock, Enemy Ace, and Tarzan in the
1960s-1970s — but he had produced a significant amount of non-super hero
genre comics since the 1940s. Since these stories were created in the pre-Comics
Code era, they are more thrilling, violent and sexy than much of his later, Codeconstrained work with titles like: Cowpuncher, Three Stooges, Eerie, Planet Comics, Meet Miss Pepper, Jesse
James, Crime Does Not Pay, Weird Thrillers, and Police Lineup. As with Fantagraphics’ acclaimed Steve Ditko
and Bill Everett Archives series, Weird Horrors and Daring Adventures boasts state-of-the-art restoration and
retouching, plus historical notes and an essay by the book’s editor Bill Schelly. (See also page 102 for Schelly’s
two books on Kubert.) 240-page 7.25” x 10.5” full color hardcover $35.00
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/kubertarchives1
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Willie & Joe: Back Home
by Bill Mauldin; edited by Todd DePastino
In the summer of 1945, a great tide of
battered soldiers began flowing back to
the united States from around the globe.
Though victorious, these exhausted men
were nevertheless too grief-stricken over
the loss of comrades, too guilt-ridden
that they had survived, and too numbed
by trauma to share in the country’s
euphoria. Most never saw a ticker-tape
parade, or stole a Times Square kiss.
All they wanted was to settle back into
quiet workaday lives without fear. How
tragic that the forces unleashed by World War II made this simple
wish impossible. Willie & Joe: Back Home brilliantly chronicles the
struggles and disillusionments of these early postwar years and, in
doing so, tells Bill Mauldin’s own extraordinary story of his journey
home to a wife he barely knew and a son he had only seen in
pictures. The drawings capture the texture and of this confusing
time: the ubiquitous hats and cigarettes, the domestic rubs, the
rising fear of another war, and new conflicts over Civil Rights, civil liberties, and free speech. This second
volume of Fantagraphics’ series reprinting Mauldin’s greatest work identifies and restores the dozens of
cartoons censored by Mauldin’s syndicate for their attacks on racial segregation and McCarthy-style “witch
hunts.” Mauldin pleaded with his syndicate to let him out of his contract so that he could return to the simple
quiet life so desired by Willie & Joe. The syndicate refused, so Mauldin did battle, as always, through pen and
ink… 288-page b&w 8” x 10” hardcover $29.99 (MAULD2)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/willieandjoebackhome
Willie & Joe: The WWII Years
by Bill Mauldin; edited by Todd DePastino
During WW II, the closest most Americans ever came to combat was through the
cartoons of Bill Mauldin, the most beloved enlisted man in the U.S. Army. The new
paperback edition of the sold-out 2008 two-volume, deluxe hardcover set brings
together Mauldin’s complete works from 1940 through the end of the war under
one cover. This collection of over 600 cartoons, most never before reprinted, is
more than the record of a great artist: it is an essential chronicle of America’s
citizen-soldiers from peace through war to victory. Bill Mauldin knew war because
he was in it. He had created his characters, Willie and Joe, at age 18, before Pearl
Harbor, while training with the 45th Infantry Division and cartooning part-time
for the camp newspaper. His brilliant send-ups of officers were pure infantry, and
the men loved it. Mauldin’s cartoons and captions recreated on paper the fully
realized world of the American combat soldier. Willie & Joe is edited by Todd
DePastino, Mauldin’s official biographer, who also contributes an introduction and running commentary by
DePastino, providing context for the drawings, pertinent biographical details of Mauldin’s life, and occasional
background on specific cartoons (such as the ones that made Patton howl). 704-page b&w 7” x 9” softcover
(sorry, the two-volume hardcover set is sold out) with some color $39.99 (MAUL1S)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/willie&joewwII
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Messages in a Bottle:
Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein
edited by Greg Sadowski
Bernard Krigstein began his career as an unremarkable journeyman cartoonist
during the 1940s and finished it as a respected fine artist and illustrator — but
comics historians know him for his explosively creative 1950s, during which he
applied all the craft, intelligence and ambition of a burgeoning “serious” artist to
his comics work, with results that remain stunning to this day. Krigstein’s legend
rests mostly on the 30 or so stories he created for the EC Comics, but dozens of
stories drawn for other, lesser publishers such as Rae Herman, Hillman, and Atlas
(which would become Marvel) showcase his skills and radical reinterpretation of
the comics page, in particular his groundbreaking slicing and dicing of time lapses
through a series of narrow, nearly animated panels.
Greg Sadowski has assembled the very best of Krigstein’s
comics work, starting with his earliest creative rumblings,
through his glory days at EC (including the legendary
“Master Race”), to his final, even more brilliantly radical stories for Atlas Comics —
running through every genre popular at the time, be it horror, science fiction, war,
western, or romance (but no super-heroes). Legendary EC colorist Marie Severin,
in her last major assignment before her retirement, has recolored 15 stories for
this edition. The remainder has been taken from printed comics, digitally restored
with subtlety and restraint. This edition reprints the out-of-print 2004 hardcover B.
Krigstein Comics, with a number of stories re-tooled and improved in terms of reproduction, and several new
stories added. It also contains an extensive set of historical and editorial notes by Sadowski. Page stats from
Krigstein’s personal archives and a comic book checklist of the artist’s entire body of work round out this
substantial volume. 272-page 7” x 10” full-color softcover $35.00 (MESSA)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/messagesfromabottle
Flannery O’Connor: The Cartoons
edited by Kelly Gerald
Flannery O’Connor was among the greatest American writers of
the 20th century; in the Southern tradition of Eudora Welty and
William Faulkner, she wrote such classic novels and short stories as
Wise Blood and “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Well known for her
tantalizing brand of Southern Gothic humor and her Catholicism,
the real surprise is learning this much beloved icon did not set
out to be a fiction writer, but a cartoonist. Flannery O’Connor:
The Cartoons emphasizes O’Connor’s most prolific period as a
cartoonist, her high school and college publications in the early
1940s. While many of these images lampoon student life and the
WWII home front, something much more is happening. Worked
in both pen & ink and linoleum cuts, her acidic observational
cartoons form a visual precursor to her prose. Her cartoons are a creative threshing floor for experimenting
techniques that are deployed later with such great success in her fiction.152-page 10.25” x 8.5” two-color
hardcover $22.99 (FLANNO)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/flanneryoconnor
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Out of the Shadows
by Mort Meskin; edited by Steven Brower
See for yourself why Mort Meskin earned the admiration and
respect of his peers (“A genius” — Carmine Infantino; “A great
talent” — Jack Kirby) for his atmospherically charged work, his
masterful use of form and composition to convey mood and
action, his noirish use of light and shadow to create suspense.
This, the first-ever collection of Meskin’s comics, surveys his
work from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and makes a strong
case for his amazing ability to stamp his own fresh visual imprimatur across a wide
variety of genres: superheroes (The Black Terror, The Fighting Yank, a never-before
published Golden Lad), adventure (the origin of Sheena, Queen of the Jungle),
science fiction (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet) — plus horror, kid gangs, crime, Western — even romance!
Rescued from the fading obscurity of old, yellowing comic books, this deluxe volume meticulously reproduces
his work from the best available sources. 200-page full-color 7.5” x 10.5” paperback $26.99 (OUTSHA)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/fromshadow
From Shadow to Light:
The Life and Art of Mort Meskin
by Steven Brower
From Shadow to Light: The Life and Art of Mort Meskin is a coffee-table art book,
biography, and critique of one of the 20th century’s most influential and unjustly
neglected Golden Age comic book artists, a man who worked side by side with
giants such as Jerry Robinson and Jack Kirby, and whose three-decade career
— which included romance, crime, and Western comics, as well as the original
Sheena of the Jungle — spanned from the 1940s to the 1960s. His drawing ability,
chiaroscuro technique, and storytelling skills are considered by connoisseurs of the
form to be among the most sophisticated of his time — on a par with peers such
as Joe Kubert and Steve Ditko. (Meskin’s fans and admirers include Jim Steranko,
Alex Toth, Carmine Infantino, and Kirby.) From Shadow to Light compiles for the
first time the best of Meskin’s art from his comic book career, his post-comics
advertising career, and his fine art — including many pages reproduced from
original art. 220-page full-color 9” x 12” hardcover $39.99 (SHADOW)
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SUPER-HEROES:
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GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES, 80pp. s/c, $8.95 (GCBHC)
In 1965, Jules Feiffer wrote what is
arguably the first critical history of
the comic book superheroes of the
late 1930s and early 1940s. This
seminal essay was a turning point
for the public’s understanding of
the genre; we are pleased to present
this compact, affordable reprint.
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Setting the Standard:
Comics by Alex Toth 1952–1954
by Alex Toth; edited by Greg Sadowski
Alex Toth’s influence on the art of comic books is incalculable. Toth came to the
medium with a fresh eye, and enough talent and discipline to graphically strip
it down its to its bare essentials. His efforts reached fruition at Standard Comics
in the early 1950s, creating an entire school of imitators and establishing Toth
as the “comic book artist’s artist.” Setting the Standard collects the entirety of
this highly influential body of work, which covers virtually every genre, in one
huge volume. The book also includes a vintage, typically feisty Toth interview; a
full story reproduced from Toth’s original artwork; and extensive historical and
critical notes for every story. And of course every page of Setting the Standard has
been restored to bring Toth’s unsurpassed graphics and page designs
into full clarity, making this an essential edition for anyone with an
appreciation of the art of graphic storytelling. 432-page full-color
7.5” x 10.5” softcover $39.99 (SETSTA)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/settingthestandard
Action! Mystery! Thrills!
edited by Greg Sadowski; introduction by Ty Templeton
Majestic, iconic, chaotic, or downright weird, a classic comic book cover has an
irresistible appeal, and Action! Mystery! Thrills! celebrates this unique cultural icon
by selecting 160 of the greatest examples from the Golden Age of comics and
printing them, meticulously restored, full-sized on glossy paper. Every comic book
genre from superhero to detective to Western to funny animal is represented, as are
such geniuses as Carl Barks, Charles Biro, Dick Briefer, L.B. Cole, Jack Cole, Reed
Crandall, Will Eisner, Bill Everett, Lou Fine, Walt Kelly, Jack Kirby, Mac Raboy, and
Alex Schomburg. A copious endnotes section offers biographies and
commentaries on each artist and cover. 240-page full-color 7.5” x
10.5” softcover $29.99 (ACTMYS)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/actionmystery
Supermen!
edited by Greg Sadowski; introduction by Jonathan Lethem
Supermen! collects the best and the brightest of this first
generation of super-heroes, including Jack Cole, Will Eisner,
Bill Everett, Lou Fine, Fletcher Hanks, Jack Kirby, Jerry Siegel,
Joe Shuster, and Basil Wolverton. Beautifully designed and
restored in full color, Supermen! contains twenty full-length
stories, ten full-sized covers, vintage promotional ads, and
comprehensive end notations by editor Greg Sadowski,
making it indispensable to anyone interested in the origins
of superheroes and the history of the comic book form. 192page full-color 7.5” x 10.5” softcover $26.99 (SUPMEN)
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Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking
by Charles M. Schulz
This special pocket-sized hardcover (an ideal stocking-stuffer, if we dare point out
the obvious) features two classic, near-forgotten non-syndicated-strip Peanuts sequences. “Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking” (created in 1963 for Good Housekeeping) comprises 15 original panels featuring the Peanuts cast of the time (including Frieda, Violet, and even Shermy) while “The Christmas Story” (created in 1968
for Woman’s Day) focuses on Lucy and Linus,with the Van Pelt siblings explaining the
holiday to Snoopy. 56-page 6” x 6” three-color hardcover $9.99 (CBXMAS)
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The Complete Peanuts
1985–1986
by Charles M. Schulz; introduction by Patton Oswalt
PEANUTS © 2012 Peanuts Worldwide LLC
It’s the 1980s: hanging out at the mall, “punkers” (Snoopy with a
Mohawk!), killer bees, and Halley’s Comet. Schulz pokes fun at runaway
licensing with the introduction of “Tapioca Pudding”... Peppermint Patty
wins the “All-City School Essay Contest”… Charlie Brown, Linus, Sally
and Snoopy go to “rain camp” and “survival camp”… Sally gives Santa
Claus a heart attack… Charlie Brown poses in a “swimsuit issue”… plus
the return of Molly Volley, Snoopy’s accidental destruction of his dog
house, and lots of strips set in the desert starring the one and only Spike!
344-page 8.5” x 7” black & white hardcover $28.99 (CPEA18)
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The Complete Peanuts
1983–1984
by Charles M. Schulz; introduction by Leonard Maltin
Snoopy launches an expedition to save Spike from fearsome rubber
band-wielding coyotes. The Peppermint Patty-Marcie-Charlie Brown
love triangle of overlapping unrequited love heats up (well, kind of),
while Linus denies that he is Sally’s “Sweet Babboo.” Charlie Brown
agrees to join Peppermint Patty’s team the “Pelicans” but as a mascot… and Peppermint Patty manages to be held back in school and
still go on a European trip with her dad. All this plus appearances
from Franklin, Rerun, and the rest of the gang! 344-page 8.5” x 7”
black & white hardcover $28.99 (CPEA17)
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The Complete Peanuts Gift Boxed Sets
The first 16 volumes of The Complete Peanuts are available in
these deluxe “two-fer” gift box sets. Not only do you get a superb Sethdesigned slipcase free (and yes, it’s a different design on each one),
but you save money over the cost of the individual volumes. And they’re
ideal gift items! (Note: Two sets are currently not available.)
Box Set 1 (1950–1952 and 1953–1954) $49.95 (PBX1&2)
Box Set 2 (1955–1956 and 1957–1958) $49.95 (PBX3&4)
Box Set 3 (1959–1960 and 1961–1962) $49.95 [REPRINTING SPRING 2013]
Box Set 4 (1963–1964 and 1965–1966) $49.95 [REPRINTING FALL 2013]
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Box Set 9 (1983–1984 and 1985–1986) $49.99 (PB17&18)
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THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1981-1982 (VOL. 16), 344pp. h/c, $28.99 (CPEA16) Snoopy
brothers Spike and “Marbles” step up, two major baseball stories; Lynn Johnston intro. | THE
COMPLETE PEANUTS 1979–1980 (VOL. 15), 344pp. h/c, $28.99 (CPEA15) Charlie
Brown in the hospital, a Beagle Scout odyssey, and the Peppermint Patty/“Pig-Pen” romance; Al Roker intro. | THE COMPLETE PEANUTS
1977–1978 (VOL. 14), 344pp. h/c, $28.99 (CPEA14) The first “Molly Volley” story, Charlie Brown vs. the EPA, and the diminutive “Goose
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and his beloved sister Belle — plus the Snoopy/Linus/“Truffles” love triangle. | 1973–1974 (VOL. 12, 344pp. h/c, $28.99 (CPEA12) Includes
the classic “Mr. Sack” Charlie Brown sequence, plus the first appearance of Rerun Van Pelt; lots of tennis strips, thus a Billie Jean King intro. |
1971–1972 (VOL. 11), 344pp. h/c, $28.99 (CPEA11) Sally Brown’s ascending star is celebrated with a cover and an introduction by Broadway’s
Sally, Kristin Chenoweth. Also: Joe Cool. | 1969–1970 (VOL. 10), 344pp. h/c, $28.99 (CPEA10) Three “Great Beagle” storylines, Miss Othmar
goes on strike, and a great WWI Flying Ace cover; Mo Willems intro. | 1967–1968 (VOL. 9), 344pp. h/c, $28.95 (CPEA09) | Franklin and José
Peterson debut, plus Snoopy as “The Masked Marvel” and lots of Peppermint Patty; John Waters intro. | 1965–1966 (VOL. 8), 344pp. h/c,
$28.95 (CPEA08) Snoopy as World War I Flying Ace and frustrated writer (“It was a dark and stormy night...”). Also, first appearances of Roy and
Peppermint Patty! | 1963–1964 (VOL. 7), 344pp. h/c, $28.95 (CPEA07) Over 150 never-before-reprinted strips, including Linus’s unsuccessful
run for class president, and Snoopy’s involvement with a group of fanatical birds. Plus “5” and his sisters debut. Introduction by Bill Melendez,
director of A Charlie Brown Christmas. | 1961–1962 (VOL. 6), 344pp. h/c, $28.95 (CPEA06) Introducing Frieda and her “naturally curly hair.”
Sally starts kindergarten, Linus gets glasses and swoons over Miss Othmar. Introduction by Diana Krall. | 1959–1960 (VOL. 5), 344pp. h/c,
$28.95 (CPEA05) Snoopy takes up residence atop his doghouse, Linus has his first all-night pumpkin-patch vigil, Lucy sets up her 5-cent psychiatry
booth, and Sally debuts! Whoopi Goldberg intro. | 1957–1958 (VOL. 4), 344pp. h/c, $28.95 (CPEA04) Peanuts enters its golden age as Linus
becomes increasingly dependent on his blanket, and is antagonized by the blanket-stealing Snoopy; Jonathan Franzen intro. | 1955–1956 (VOL.
3), 344pp. h/c, $28.95 (CPEA03) Linus learns to talk, Snoopy begins to explore his eccentricities, Lucy’s unrequited crush on Schroeder takes final
shape, and more! Matt Groening intro. | 1953–1954 (VOL. 2), 344pp. h/c, $28.95 (CPEA02) Linus, still a toddler, acquires his blanket; Lucy
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Popeye Vol. 6: “Me Li’l Swee’Pea”
by E.C. Segar
This final volume starts
off in grand style with
“Mystery
Melody,”
featuring the ter-rifying
return of the shapeshifting Sea Hag. Olive
Oyl, Wimpy, Poopdeck
Pappy, the Jeep, the
newly
domesticated
Goon, and Toar all
appear in this fourmonth epic. Other
stories
include
the
melodramatic “A Sock
for Susan’s Sake” (Popeye becomes the protector of a girl who lives on
the streets), Popeye’s boxing duel with King Smacko, the return of Thimble
Theatre’s original star Castor Oyl as a detective who solves the case of “Plastic Pan,” the Poopdeck Pappy
yarn “Wild Oats” (culminating in a six-month prison sentence for the rambunctious oldster), “The Valley
of the Goons” (in which Popeye is shocked to discover who the new leader of the Goons is), and the selfexplanatory “King Swee’Pea.” And that’s just the dailies! Popeye Volume 6 also includes 62 splendid full-page
full-color Sundays, featuring further adventures of Popeye and an epically surreal six-month interplanetary
voyage for Sappo, the star of Popeye’s “top strip.” The supplementary features include two historical
articles by Popeye expert Rick Marschall (one on Popeye’s translation to the world of licensing
and merchandising, and one on Segar’s place in comics and pop culture history), an illustrated
Segar-written biography of Popeye originally serialized in newspapers of the time, and more
rare art and photos. 160-page color/b&w 10.5” x 14.75” hardcover $29.99 (POPEY6)
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POPEYE VOL. 5: “WHA’S A JEEP?,” 168pp. h/c, $29.95 (POPEY5) Concluding “Popeye’s Ark,” plus “War Clouds,” and “The Search
for Popeye’s Poppa,” which introduces Poopdeck Pappy, and is followed up by the self-explanatory “Civilizing Poppa”... | POPEYE VOL.
4: “PLUNDER ISLAND,” 168pp. h/c, $29.95 (POPEY4) Indisputably Popeye’s greatest adventure, an eight-month, Sundays-only epic
co-starring the terrifying Sea Hag and Goon, presented here for the first time in its uncut full-color glory. | POPEYE VOL. 3: “LET’S YOU
AND HIM FIGHT,” 168pp. h/c, $29.95 (POPEY3) In addition to the dailies and full-color Sundays from 1932–1934, this volume includes
the never-republished extra-large strips set at the Chicago World’s Fair and an insightful scholarly essay. | POPEYE VOL. 2: “WELL BLOW
ME DOWN,” 168pp. h/c, $29.95 (POPEY2) Our second volume covers 1930–1932 and introduces Segar’s second greatest character:
Wimpy, the most likable lowdown cad ever to grace the comics page. | POPEYE VOL. 1: “I YAM WHAT I YAM,” 182pp. h/c, $29.95
(POPEY1) In this first volume, covering 1928–1930, Popeye makes his debut and quickly becomes the centerpiece of a series of adventures
involving the mysterious Whiffle Hen, the Sea Hag, a murderous gambler, and a house with strange powers. Castor Oyl attempts to turn
Popeye into a boxing champion in a series of hilarious Sunday strips.
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Nuts
by Gahan Wilson
In this thematically
and narratively linked
series of one-page
stories
originally
published
in
the
National
Lampoon’s
“Funny Pages” section
throughout the 1970s,
the master of the macabre eschewed his usual ghouls, vampires, and
end-of-the-world scenarios for a wry, pointed look at growing up normal
in the real, yet endlessly weird world. Watch as our stoic, hunting-capwearing protagonist (known only as “The Kid”) copes with illness, disappointment, strange old relatives, the
disappointment of Christmas, life-threatening escapades, death, school, the awfulness of camp, and much
more — all delineated in Wilson’s roly-poly, sensual, delicately hatched line. “Nuts” was (partly) collected in
a now long-out-of-print volume back in 1979. This new hardcover edition reprints every single “Nuts” story
from the Lampoon (as sequenced by the artist), rescuing over two dozen pages from oblivion, with a critical
essay about the strip by Gary Groth. If you don’t remember what it was like being a child, this book will bring
it all back… for good or for ill! 144-page black-and-white 8” x 8” hardcover $19.99 (NUTSGW)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/nuts
Gahan Wilson:
Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons
by Gahan Wilson; introductions by Neil Gaiman and Hugh Hefner
Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read, and beloved cartoonists
in the history of the medium. His playfully sinister take on childhood, adulthood,
men, women, and monsters has appeared in every issue of Playboy from the
December 1957 issue to today. Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons
features not only every cartoon Wilson drew for Playboy, but all his prose
fiction and text-and-art features that have
appeared in that magazine as well. Wilson’s
notoriously black sense of comedy is on
display throughout the book; he leaves
no sacred cow unturned and peels back
the troubling layers of modern life with
his incongruously playful and unnerving
cartoons, assailing our deepest fears and
our most inane follies. Although Wilson is known as an artist who relishes
the creepy side of modern life, this three-volume set truly demonstrates the
depth and breadth of his range and is a testament to one of the funniest—
and wickedly disturbing—cartoonists alive. Featuring introductions by Neil
Gaiman and Hugh Hefner. 942-page full-color 3-volume hardcover box set
with slipcase NEW LOW PRICE $75.00 (GWILSO); special Collectors Edition
with exclusive letterpress print and set of facsimile Gahan Wilson holiday
cards to Hugh Hefner NEW LOW PRICE $100.00 (GWILSC)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/gahanwilson
“I thought I told you never to enter this room!”
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Spacehawk
by Basil Wolverton
Basil Wolverton
is one of the
greatest, most
idiosyncratic
talents in comic
book history.
Best
known
for his humorous grotesqueries in MAD magazine, it is his science-fiction
character Spacehawk that fans have most often demanded be collected.
Spacehawk features every story from Spacehawk’s intergalactic debut in
1940 to his final, Nazi-crushing adventure in 1942. The closest thing to
a costumed action hero Wolverton ever created, Spacehawk is still infused
with Wolverton’s quintessential weirdness: strangely repulsive aliens, and
stories of gruesome retribution reminiscent of Wolverton’s peer, Fletcher
Hanks (see page 52). Spacehawk had no secret identity, no fixed base of
operations, and no sidekicks or love interests. His mission: to protect the
innocent and to punish the guilty as a dark counterpart to Buck Rogers and
Flash Gordon. 272-page 9.25” x 13” full-color softcover $39.99
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/spacehawk
The Wolverton Bible
The Culture Corner
by Basil Wolverton
by Basil Wolverton
Best known for his grotesque,
“spaghetti
&
meatballs”
humor cartooning, Wolverton
has been regarded as one of
the spiritual grandfathers of
underground and alternative
comix. But from 1953 through
1974, Wolverton, a deeply
religious man, wrote and
illustrated a narrative of the
Old Testament (including over 550 illustrations),
some 20 apocalyptic illustrations inspired by the
Book of Revelations, and dozens of cartoons and
humorous illustrations for various Worldwide
Church publications. Many of the illustrations in
this book are regarded as Basil Wolverton’s finest
work. Still others have never been published, and
some of the humorous drawings printed here rival
Wolverton’s work in MAD magazine. While supplies
last, all orders for The Wolverton Bible will also
receive, FREE, a set of 10 Wolvertoons Postcards
(also available for purchase separately)! 320-page
b&w 8” x 10” hardcover $24.99 (WOLBIB)
Did you ever wonder
how to stop brooding if
your ears are protruding?
Or how to snore without
being a bore? Or for the
masochists among you,
how to sit on a tack? If
conundrums like these have perplexed and mystified
you, the remedy is at hand: cartooning genius Basil
Wolverton’s “Culture Corner,” an indispensable
guide to demystifying life’s most worrisome and
disconcerting social quandaries. Each of these
strips, which originally ran in Fawcett’s Whiz Comics
(starring Captain Marvel) from 1945 to 1952, is a
miniature masterpiece of scandalous visual humor.
This complete collection is the first time this littleknown feature has been reprinted since its original
publication over 60 years ago, and also includes
Wolverton’s original pencil versions of each strip,
which have been carefully preserved over the years,
and demonstrate a looser, more spontaneous
interpretation of the finished strips. 160-page fullcolor 9” x 6.75” hardcover $22.99 (CULTCO)
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BETSY AND ME
In this syndicated gag strip,
Plastic Man genius Jack Cole
stripped his style down to
classic late-1950s elegance
for this breezy domestic farce
about a middle-class urban couple and their genius
son. 104-page softcover $14.95 (betame)
Will Elder
CHICKEN FAT
WAREHOUSE FIND! A spectacular
collection of sketches, drawings,
and full paintings from the vaults of
the MAD genius. 96-page softcover
$14.95 (CHICKE)
Jules Feiffer
PASSIONELLA
This collection of ’50s and ’60s Feiffer
classics includes his re-telling of “Cinderella,” with Marlon Brando as Prince
Charming and Marilyn Monroe in the
title role, and “Kept,” the story of a man
who discovers the secret of seduction.
180-page hardcover $19.95 (PASSIO)
Hal Foster
PRINCE VALIANT
Hal Foster’s Sunday comic strip was a
feast for eyes and spirit alike, keeping
readers rapt with thrilling adventures
from the Age of King Arthur. Two 48page softcovers available: Vol. 21,
30, $16.95 each (VAL21, VAL 30)
A.B. Frost
Stuff and Nonsense
The first extensive reprinting of comics stories by celebrated American
illustrator and pioneer of the comic
strip A.B. Frost (1851–1928), with
a variety of stories that highlight
Frost’s extraordinary skill at caricature and slapstick humor. 200-page
hardcover $24.95 (STUNON)
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Milt Gross
HE DONE HER WRONG
This unabridged edition of the
1930 graphic masterpiece combines hilariious slapstick, tragic
heartbreak, heroism and villainy,
character development, high emotions and raucous thrills, alll without a single word
of text. 256-page softcover $16.95 (HEDONE)
Greg Sadowski
B. KRIGSTEIN VOL. 1
A gigantic retrospective/biography/
critical assessment of one of the
most important cartoonists in the
history of comics, created with
full access to Krigstein’s archives
and files. Reproduces several full
Krigstein comics stories and many of his commercial
assignments, as well as his fine art paintings. 240page full-color hardcover; few left! (See also page
57!) $49.95 (BKRIG1)
Mort Walker & Jerry Dumas
SAM’S STRIP
This hilarious early-1960s
meta-comic strip from
Beetle
Bailey
creator
Mort Walker and Jerry
Dumas featured walk-on
appearances by Krazy Kat,
Popeye, Dagwood, Charlie
Brown, and dozens of other classic characters.
This volume collects all 500-plus strips. 208-page
softcover $22.99 (SAMSTR)
Craig Yoe
THE GREAT ANTI-WAR
CARTOONS
Featuring a stunning variety of work,
from the hands of Francisco Goya to
Art Young, from Robert Minor to Ron
Cobb, and from Honoré Daumier
to Robert Crumb, as well as page
after page of provocative images from such titans as
James Montgomery Flagg, C.D. Batchelor, Edmund
Sullivan, Boardman Robinson, William Gropper,
Maurice Becker, George Grosz, Rick Griffin, and
many more. 184-page b&w 9” x 12” softcover
$24.99 (WARCAR)
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Freedom Fries
by Steve Brodner
For close to four decades, Steve Brodner has been
the most savage editorial cartoonist/illustrator
working in the United States. A superlative
craftsman as a political cartoonist (he doubles
as a celebrity caricaturist) and a no-holdsbarred satirist, Brodner is a familiar and beloved
contributor to The New Yorker, Rolling Stone,
The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New York Times, and
every other magazine that counts. Freedom Fries
is Brodner’s absurdly nightmarish journey through
the last 30 years of American politics (up to 2004). What a cast of characters:
Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II. And those are just the
presidents! In addition to the hundreds and hundreds of mostly full-color cartoons (all shot from Brodner’s
original art), this volume includes Brodner’s own acid-tipped commentary and behind-the-scenes scoops (the
Martha Stewart anecdote alone is priceless), plus a handful of unpublished cartoons that were just too hot to
handle (targeting the Pope and Rush Limbaugh, among others), a “Bushanos” fold-out, and an introduction
by Lewis Lapham. 240-page full-color 9” x 12” softcover $29.95 (FREEDF)
Bent
by Dave Cooper
Dave Cooper’s work has found a devoted and
passionate following with visitors to his solo gallery
shows in Los Angeles and New York in recent years.
Cooper continues to obsess and fixate over his bizarre
procession of milky figures as they crawl and wriggle into hidden meadows,
jungles and cities. Everything in this world seems to be undulating and overripe
— the multi-colored Jell-O vegetation, the billowing clouds, and the twitching,
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pencil sketches, and photographs from the past five years, many of which enjoy
homes in the collections of influential collectors and some of Hollywood’s elite. Among this esteemed crowd is
the great auteur, Oscar-nominated Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth and the Hellboy movies), who provides
an enthusiastic, thoughtful introduction. 80-page full-color 10.25” x 9” hardcover $22.99 (BENT)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/bent
ALSO BY DAVE COOPER: WEASEL #7: UNDERBELLY, 48pp. h/c, $22.95 (UNDERB) Another collection trib-
utes to pillowy female forms, featuring over 50 of Cooper’s
luminescent oil paintings and lush drawings. | WEASEL
#6: OVERBITE, 44pp. h/c, $16.95 (WEAS6) “Paintings
and Drawings of Mostly Pillowy Girls”: this coffee-table
artbook, Cooper’s first, showcases his sometimes disturbingly cute canvases of young women. | RIPPLE: A PREDILECTION FOR TINA, 120pp. s/c, $14.95 (RIPPLE) A floundering painter hires
a homely model to pose for a series of “erotic” paintings. Over time, their relationship evolves into a confused sexual entanglement. Introduction by David Cronenberg. | SUCKLE: THE STATUS OF BASIL, 136pp. s/c, $14.95 (SUCKL) Suckle is a bizarre travelogue through a
nightmarish cartoon landscape. Born from a strange vulvic eruption in the desert, Basil sets off on a tangled, twisted quest through the wilds
of sex, disease, religious belief and urban living. But mostly sex. Cooper’s first graphic novel remains one of his very best.
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BEASTS! Books 1 & 2
edited and designed by Jacob Covey
A Who’s Who of the contemporary art world, collectively crafting a menagerie of mythological creatures, monsters, beasts
and things that go bump in the night, superbly conceived
and designed by Jacob Covey. Each volume assembles a
unique line-up of 90-plus artists depicting a unique set of
beasts. Contributors to the series include luminaries such as
Art Chantry, Jay Ryan, James Jean, Jesse LeDoux, Marc Bell,
Mat Brinkman, Sammy Harkham, Seonna Hong, Souther
Salazar, Tim Biskup, and Tom Gauld in Book 1; and Brian
Chippendale, Craig Thompson, Jim Woodring, Femke Hiemstra, Lauren Weinstein, Mark Todd, Travis Lampe, Tom Neely, Dash Shaw, Yuko Shimizu, and Tomer Hanuka
in Book 2; plus dozens of your favorite artists from the Fantagraphics roster (Al Columbia, Jaime Hernandez,
Peter Bagge, etc.) and many, many more. Visit our website for the full roster of contributors to each volume, as
well as preview images and more: http://www.fantagraphics.com/beasts Book 1: 200-page full-color 8” x 8”
softcover $24.99 (BEAS1S); Book 2: 216-page full-color 8” x 8” hardcover $34.99 (BEAS2H)
The Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim Flora
edited by Irwin Chusid and Barbara Economon
Our third coffee-table art book celebrating one of the great overlooked paintbox
fantasists of the twentieth century, a visionary whose work is steeped in vari-hued
paradox. Flora’s figures are fun while threatening; playful yet dangerous; humorous
but deadly. His helter-skelter arabesques are clustered with strangely contorted critters
of no identifiable species, juxtaposed amid toothpick towers and trombones twisted
into stevedore knots. Yet, despite the raucous energy projected in these hyperactive
mosaics, a typical Flora freak circus often projects harmony and balance — an
ordered chaos. This volume of Floriana features paintings, drawings, and sketches
from the 1940s through the 1990s — many never previously published or exhibited;
more artifacts from the artist’s 1940s tenure in the Columbia Records art department; and vintage newspaper and
magazine illustrations. 180-page full-color 11” x 10” softcover $34.99 (SWEART)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/sweetlydiabolic
American Presidents
by David Levine
David Levine is perhaps the most influential caricaturist of
the late twentieth century. His devastating wit and delicately
cross-hatched drawing have exposed the venality of the Nixon
administration, the phoniness of the Reagan years, the duplicity
of the Clinton era, and the evil of the Bush cabal. Now for
the first time, the best of Levine’s five decades of portraits of
American Presidents and their administrations are gathered in
a comprehensive and visually dynamic book. From John Adams to George Bush; from
John Quincy Adams to George W. Bush; from the Great Emancipator to the Great
Society, Levine has captured them all, up to 2008’s rivals John McCain and Barack
Obama. 128-page b&w 8.5” x 10” softcover $19.99 (AMPRES)
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Town of Mirrors
by Robert Pollard
Robert Pollard is the Dayton, Ohio singer-songwriter, who was the leader and
creative force behind the legendary indie rock group Guided by Voices, one of the
most influential bands of its generation. In addition to being a prolific songwriter/
recording artist, Pollard is a gifted and prolific visual artist, working mostly in
the medium of collage (not surprising, given his interest in sound collage as a
recording artist). Pollard’s collages are the visual equivalent of his poetic and
imagistic lyrics, surreal and reminiscent of the collages of artists ranging from Jack
Kirby to Winston Smith. Town of Mirrors collects the very best of Pollard’s visual
art and lyrics/poetry. 144-page full-color 10” x 10” hardcover $22.99 (TOWMIR)
Just When You Thought Things
Couldn’t Get Any Worse
by Edward Sorel
Edward Sorel is widely recognized as America’s premier illustrator. He has also
indulged, over the last 30 years, in his first love — making comic strips. Sorel’s
strips are iconoclastic, cynical, and universally excoriating. No target escapes his
watchful wrath: politicians, theological dynasties, ideologues left and right, lawyers,
publishers, and the usual gang of movers and shakers (nor does he spare himself).
Sorel proves he is that most dangerous of creatures — a cartoonist with a chip
on his shoulder, an inveterate troublemaker, a burner of bridges. This is the first
compilation of Edward Sorel’s comic strips, beautifully designed to complement his
classic drawing style. 144-page b&w/color 8” x 10” softcover $18.95 (JUSTWH) SEE
ALSO: The Comics Journal Library Vol. 4, page 99.
Conceptual Realism
by Robert Williams
This oversized coffee-table art book is a catalog accompanying Robert Williams’
Fall 2009 solo exhibition of new work debuting at New York City’s prestigious Tony
Shafrazi Gallery and touring throughout 2010. The book features approximately
25 new paintings, complete with essays on each piece by the artist, insights
into the process behind each painting (including sketches, underpaintings,
etc.), and many other surprises, including an introduction by painter, tattoo
artist and international tattoo cultural advocate Don Ed Hardy. It was Williams
who brought the term “lowbrow” into the fine arts lexicon, becoming a nexus
around which the seminal elements of West Coast Outlaw culture slowly started
to aggregate. Williams’s new paintings, on display in Conceptual Realism, take
the viewer into the world of subjective theory—a mock realm of violated graphic
physics, and the next logical step into abstract thought. 80-page full-color 11.5”
x 13.25” softcover $24.99 (CONREA)
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David B.
The Armed Garden
David B. gives full rein to his fascination with history, magic and gods, not to mention
grand battles, in this literate, witty, and absorbing collection of stories — all based
on historical fact, or at least historical legend, and delineated in a striking stylized
two-color format. “The Veiled Prophet,” set during the 8th century (the time of Harun
al-Rashid, the Caliph of 1001 Nights fame), tells the story of a lowly Persian fabric
dyer who becomes a prophet and great leader — and within a year his followers have
defeated seven armies sent to stop him! “The Armed Garden,” set in the 15th century,
relates the bloody quest for a Paradise on Earth by a humble Prague
blacksmith who has been visited by Adam and Eve. And “The Drum Who
Fell in Love” picks up the story with one of “Garden’s” protagonists:
even skinned and turned into a drum, he finds a way to lead his men into battle…112-page twocolor 7.5” x 10.75” hardcover $19.99 (armgar)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/armedgarden
ALSO BY DAVID B.: BABEL #1-2, $7.95 (BABEL1-2) In this spin-off of his
award-winning masterpiece Epileptic in the “Ignatz” format, David B. focuses
once again on his relationship with his ailing brother, but delves deeper into their
fantasy life and obsession with history. See also pages 42 for David B.’s appearances in MOME (note that these are the stories collected in The Armed Garden),
page 24 for his The Littlest Pirate King kids’ graphic novelette, and page 39 for
other releases in the “Ignatz” series. (Issue #1 is almost sold out!)
Ho Che Anderson
King: The Special Edition
Ho Che Anderson spent over 10 years researching, writing, and drawing King,
a monumental graphic bio-graphy that liberates Martin Luther King Jr. from the
saintly, one-dimensional, hagio-graphic image so prevalent in pop culture. Here
is King—father, husband, politician, deal broker, idealist, pragmatist, inspiration to
millions—brought to vivid, flesh-and-blood life. In recognition of the advances made
in American social equality that has made it possible to elect America’s first black
President, Fantagraphics Books has published King: The Special Edition, a newly
designed volume that includes nearly 100 additional pages of “extras,” including a
new prologue and epilogue; artist diary excerpts and background notes; preparatory
sketches; discarded images and pages; an interview with the author; and excerpts
from the draft of the script. 288-page full-color 6.625” x 9.75” hardcover NEW
LOW PRICE $25.00 (KINGSE)
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ALSO BY HO CHE ANDERSON: YOUNG HOODS IN LOVE,
80pp, s/c $9.95 (YHOOD) Gritty urban tales including a teenage
on the cusp of discovering the wonders of sex, a prostitute
searching for true love, a woman on a murder spree. | SCREAM
QUEEN, 56pp, s/c $3.99 (SQUEEN) The original Scream Queen
at a great bargain price. | SCREAM QUEEN: SAND & FURY,
144pp, s/c $16.99 (SANDFU) Another great psychological horror
comic from Ho Che Anderson.
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Peter Bagge
Hate Annual
The new ninth issue features the first full-length
Buddy story in ten years:
just when things are
starting to look idyllic for
our heroes, a family crisis forces Lisa to re-unite
with her Seattle-based
parents and brings Buddy and their young son
Harold along with her —
and Buddy quickly learns why she’s been avoiding
them for 20-odd years! Plus more! Two other back
issues of these 32page b&w/color
comics are available as well but
going fast! Hate
Annual #1, 7, 9:
$4.95 each (HATA1,
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Buddy Does
Seattle
These legendary stories,
from the classic first fifteen
issues of Bagge’s Hate
comic, are a defining icon
of Seattle’s early 1990s
culture (the Seattle Weekly
has written, “20 years
from now, when people
wonder what it was like
to be young in the 1990s Seattle, the only record
we’ll have is Hate” — and in fact now it is 20 years
from then), as well as Generation X in general. This
is the first time these hilarious stories, starring the
hapless Buddy Bradley and his cast of loser cohorts
(including the neurotic Lisa, the too-good-for-him
Valerie, and the ineffable hustler/mooch Stinky),
have ever been available under one cover, and
never have they been available at such a low price.
Bagge’s riotous tales of the early 1990s subculture
— and yes, an aspiring “grunge” band is part of the
proceedings — are more hilarious now than ever.
340-page b&w 6” x 9” softcover $19.99 (BUDSEA)
Buddy Does
Jersey
This sequel to Buddy Does
Seattle describes the arc of
Buddy’s East Coast experience after he slinks home
to his native New Jersey
with his tail between his
legs. Watch Buddy contend
with running a small business with a less-than-reliable partner; reintegrate
with his dysfunctional family; deal with his girlfriend
Lisa’s brief conversion to lesbianism and subsequent
breakup with Buddy; and witness the shocking final
fate of the exuberant Stinky. Originally released in
color, these stories are here presented in
the pristine black-and-white of earlier Buddy
stories, in order to better show off the crisp
beauty of inker Jim Blanchard’s linework.
With a long introduction by Bagge and a
hilarious cartoon foreword by Johnny Ryan.
(These are the stories that precede and set up
the Hate Annual continuity.) 352-page b&w
6” x 9” softcover $16.95 (BUDJER)
Yeah!
(Art by Gilbert
Hernandez)
Written by Bagge and
drawn by Gilbert Hernandez (with some assists by
Bagge himself, Eric Reynolds, and Jaime Hernandez
— who inks an entire chapter), this fun, very much allages comic (originally published by an imprint of DC Comics) stars a struggling
Josie and the Pussycats-esque intergalactic rock band
from New Jersey. Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go’s says,
“Reading Yeah! is a bit like reading my life story.”
224-page b&w 7” x 10.25” softcover $19.99 (YEAH)
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Charles Burns
Big Baby
An impressionable young boy named Tony Delmonte lives in a seemingly typical
American suburb until he sneaks out of his room one night and becomes entangled in
a horrific plot involving summer camp murders and backyard burials. Burns’s clinical
precision as an artist adds a sinister chill to his droll sense of humor, and his affection
for 20th-century pulp fiction permeates throughout this masterpiece of modern horror. 96-page b&w softcover $16.95 (BIGBA)
El Borbah
Meet El Borbah, a 400-pound private eye who wears a Mexican wrestler’s tights and eerie mask. Subsisting entirely on
junk food and beer, he smashes through doors and skulls as he stalks a perfectly
realized film-noir city filled with punks, geeks, business-suited creeps and mad scientists. Charles Burns effortlessly spins pulpy yarns with gritty punchlines and pictures
so perfect they must have existed in some collective memory of junk drama. 96-page
b&w softcover $16.95 (ELBORB)
Ivan Brunetti
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Hoping to further increase his irrelevance to the esteemed world of graphic novels
and thus cement his status as “former cartoonist,” the saturnine Ivan Brunetti
has compiled HO!, which collects the vast majority of his morally questionable,
aesthetically confused — and absolutely gut-busting — “gag” cartoons. Introduction
by comedian Patton Oswalt (The King of Queens, Comedians of Comedy). 112page black & white 6” x 6” hardcover $19.99 (IVANHO)
Misery Loves Comedy
Misery Loves Comedy collects the first three issues of the legendary comic book series Schizo in their entirety, as well as a host
of miscellaneous flotsam and jetsam from various anthologies, c.
1992–2005. These are comics for those who enjoy witnessing one
man’s sanity in its final death rattle, swinging its tail from anhedonia to schadenfreude and back again. Also: lots and lots of filthy
jokes. 172-page b&w/color 7” x 10” hardcover $19.95 (MISLOV)
MORE IVAN BRUNETTI BOOKS: SCHIZO #4, 56pp, s/c $12.95 (SCHZ4)
America’s most beloved depressed cartoonist gets off the couch and back to
making us laugh at his misery! Brunetti taps into his academic side with strips
on biographical and historical subjects such as Piet Mondrian, Søren Kierkegaard, Françoise Hardy, Louise Brooks and others—plus his usual kvetching—
in this giant oversized comic. | SCHIZO #3, 24pp, BARGAIN PRICE 99 cents
(SCHZ3) A laugh-out-loud outpouring of misanthropy and self-loathing,
drawn with fiendish skill. (NOTE: Reprinted in Misery Loves Comedy)
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Al Columbia
Pim & Francie: “The Golden Bear Days”
This gorgeous grimoire is
part alchemy, part art book,
part storybook, part comic
book, and part conceptual
art from the pen of Al
Columbia. Collecting over a
decade’s worth of “artifacts,”
excavations, comic strips,
animation stills, storybook covers, and much more,
this broken jigsaw puzzle of a book tells the story of
Pim & Francie, a pair of childlike, male and female
imps whose irresponsible antics get them into horrific,
fantastic trouble. Their loosely defined relationship only
contributes to the existential fear that lingers underneath
the various perils they are subjected to. Columbia’s
brilliant, fairytale-like backdrops hint at further layers of
reality lurking under every gingerbread house or behind
every sunny afternoon. Never have such colorful, imaginative vistas instilled such an atmosphere of dread,
and with such a wicked sense of humor. 240-page full-color 8.25” x 8.25” hardcover $28.99 (PIMFRA)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/pimandfrancie
Jordan Crane
Uptight #3–4
With his continuing comics
series Uptight, Jordan Crane
continues to prove himself
to be one of the most skilled
and versatile cartoonists
of his generation. First he
maps uncharted territory of
graphic melancholia with
a brand new serialized tale
of infidelity, in sumptuous
greytone; “Vicissitude,” the first chapter, spans issues
3 and 4. Issue 3 also includes the first installment of
“Freeze Out,” a delightful new all-ages adventure
starring Simon & Jack, the boy and cat heroes from
Jordan’s classic tale The Clouds Above, while issue
4 marks the return of his serialized tale “Keeping
Two.” Each issue is wrapped up with Crane’s
stunning, to-be-framed, full color covers. Issues 1
and 2 are already out of print! 24-page b&w comics
$2.75, $3.95 (UPTIG3–4)
The
Clouds
Above
On their way to
school, Simon and
his cat Jack keep
taking
shortcuts
that lead them
through fantasy worlds of wooden monsters and
insatiable appetites. Will they make it back home
safely? The Clouds Above calls to mind everything
from Where the Wild Things Are to The Wizard of
Oz to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, with its
depiction of a fantastic world that lurks just around
the corner from reality and that only children believe exists. 224 full-color 6.5” x 6” trade paperback
$16.95 (CLOUSC)
ALSO AVAILABLE: The Clouds Above h/c $18.95
(clouds): We still have a few copies left of this edition, for
just a couple dollars more — what a bargain!
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/uptight
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Kim Deitch
The Search for
Smilin’ Ed!
Originally created in 1997
and 1998 for the underground
anthology Zero Zero, The
Search for Smilin’ Ed has
Deitch once again burrowing
into the nooks and crannies
of vintage American popular
culture. Launched on his latest
investigation by a remark from
his brother about a shared
childhood favorite (“Y’know, I heard that when Smilin’
Ed died... his body was NEVER found!”), Deitch begins
to uncover some truly amazing things about the kiddie-show host and his malevolent sidekick, Froggy the
Gremlin. Meanwhile, Deitch’s muse and nemesis Waldo the Cat abandons Deitch to hang out with some
demon buddies, and soon both Waldo and Deitch are closing in on the mysteries of Smilin’ Ed and Froggy.
Ranging across the entire 20th century, replete with flashbacks, stories within stories, and guest appearances
from other Deitch regulars, The Search for Smilin’ Ed is a narrative whirligig that shows Deitch at his wildest
and woolliest. For those whose heads have started to spin at the complexity of Deitch’s mythology, there’s an
essay on the subject, and a full-color double fold-out guide to “The Kim Deitch Universe.” Plus a brand new
story starring Waldo in his 21st century post-Alias the Cat state of domestic bliss, stumbling across an army of
(French-) talking beavers. 144-page b&w 6.75” x 9.75” paperback $16.99 (SMILIN)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/smilined
Deitch’s Pictorama
Kim Deitch, creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Shadowland, Alias the Cat and Boulevard of Broken Dreams,
has recruited his siblings Simon and Seth to produce a
unique, all-new “picto-fiction” pocket book. Alternating
between heavily illustrated near-comics stories and outright prose pieces, Deitch’s
Pictorama is a testament to the Deitch family’s amazing yarn-spinning abilities! FeaAll mailes
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Thompson [see page 106], Tom and Jerry) Deitch. 240-page b&w 6” x 8” paperback $18.99 (PICRAM)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/deitchspictorama
MORE FROM KIM DEITCH: WAREHOUSE FIND! A
SHROUD FOR WALDO, 64pp., s/c, $7.95 (SHROUD) In
A Shroud for Waldo, the origin of Waldo — and his uncertain
fate — are revealed for the first time. But can this drunken
low-life of a cat be trusted to prevent the Apocalypse? With a
little supernatural help from Jesus Christ himself, Waldo just
might succeed! Introduction by Jim Woodring.
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Stephen DeStefano & George Chieffet
Lucky in Love Book One:
“A Poor Man’s History”
“I was fifteen in 1942, and I was five foot three, which is the tallest I ever was.
I had jet black hair and a smile as big as day.” Readers and moviegoers have
read and seen many growing-up-in-the-bigcity- then-being-drafted-into-WorldWar-II tales, both real and fictional, but none with the visual pizzazz and feisty
humor of Lucky in Love. Co-created
by George L. Chieffet (script) and
veteran cartoonist and animator
Stephen DeStefano (plot and
art), Lucky in Love is almost the
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drawn in a supremely confident, lively, cartoony black-and-white
style that recalls Milt Gross as well as classic Disney animation
and comics, Lucky in Love is a unique coming-of-age story that
follows its lovable eponymous hero Lucky Testatuda from his
rascally teen years in Hoboken, New Jersey’s Little Italy
to his induction into the air force and subsequent
wartime experiences. 120-page one-color 7” x 10”
hardcover $19.99 (LUCKY1)
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Dame Darcy
Meat Cake
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Alternating between one-off (often cruelly tragic) fairy tales and ongoing romps starring
her eclectic cast of characters, including Effluvia the Mermaid, the roguish roué Wax
Wolf, Igpay the Pig-Latin pig, Stregapez (a women who speaks by dispensing Pez-like
tablets through a bloody hole in her throat), the mischievous Siamese twins Hindrance
and Perfidia, Scampi the Selfish Shellfish, the stalwart Friend the Girl, and the blonde
bombshell Richard Dirt, all delineated in her inimitable luxurious scrawl, Meat Cake is
like a peek into the most creative, deranged dollhouse you ever saw. This is an expanded
reprint of the out of print hardcover with more stories (including “Hungry Is the Heart,”
the legendary collaboration with Watchmen’s Alan Moore) from the first 11 issues of the
beloved comic. 240-page b&w 7” x 10.25” paperback $22.99 (MEATCS)
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COMICS FROM DAME DARCY: MEATCAKE #3, 24-pp. comic, $2.50
(MEAT03) MEATCAKE #13, 14, 16–17, 32-pp. comics, $3.95 each (MEAT13,
14, 16, 17) None of these (except #3) collected in the book! Issue #14 offers histo-
ries of rock star witches Clara Bow and Cleopatra, tips on how to “exercise” one’s
demons, and a magical-doll story. Issue #16 profiles Rudolph Valentino, the secret
language of flowers, love spells, and spells for mermaid hair, plus...sex magic! In
#17 God is revealed to the Faeiry Sisters — so of course they get into a fight over
it. Also, Trixxie Roxx stars in “The Horrors of Fame.”
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Joyce Farmer
Special Exits
Joyce Farmer, best known for co-creating the Tits ’n Clits comics anthology in
the 1970s (a feminist response to the rampant misogyny in underground comix)
spent 11 years crafting her first full-length comic: Special Exits, a stunning graphic
memoir in the vein of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner,
and Frank Stack’s Our Cancer Year, about caring for her dying father and
stepmother, Lars and Rachel. Special Exits gracefully deals with the hard reality of
caring for aging loved ones: those who are or who have been in similar situations
might find comfort in it, and those who haven’t will find much to admire in the
bravery and good humor of parents and daughter. Dense, detailed, and drawn
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pace that not only helps to
convey the slow, inexorable decline in Lars’ and Rachel’s
health, but perfectly captures the timbre of the exchanges
between a long-married couple: the affectionate bickering,
the gallows humor, the occasional querulousness, and the
love and acceptance beneath it all. “It had a powerful effect
on me,” says R. Crumb; “towards the end I actually found
myself moved to tears.” 208-page b&w 8” x 10” hardcover
$26.99 (SPECEX)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/specialexits
Ellen Forney
LUST:
Kinky Online
Personal
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Ellen Forney’s follow-up to
her wildly popular I Love
Led Zeppelin is a collection of cartoons celebrating the sometimes stunningly crude, sometimes surprisingly sweet online world
of personal classifieds. Forney has for several years
been illustrating the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger’s “Lustlab” classified ads by interpreting the most
interesting, outrageous, or idiosyncratic ad in that
week’s paper. To cap it off, the collection includes
frank, revealing interviews with some of the advertisers conducted by Forney, plus an introduction by
the notorious sex advice columnist and novelist (and
editor of The Stranger) Dan Savage. 168-page b&w
hardcover 6” x 6.5” $19.95 (LKINK1)
I Love
Led Zeppelin
Harvey and Eisner Awardnominated cartoonist Ellen
Forney’s strips are characterized by bold, sensual brushstrokes and striking images of
powerful, butt-kicking women. While most of the stories
sprang from Forney’s own inspiration, some are collaborations with such luminaries as comedian Margaret Cho, novelist (and Al Gore’s daughter) Kristin
Gore, Forney’s beloved
Grandma Florence, writer and editor Dan Savage, and Camille Paglia,
focusing largely on the
topics of Sex, Drugs, and
Rock ‘n’ Roll. Introduction
by Sherman Alexie. 112page b&w/color softcover
9” x 12” $19.95 (ILOVEZ)
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Drew Friedman
Any Similarity to Persons Living or
Dead is Purely Coincidental
Finally back in print, Any Similarity... is a collection of Drew Friedman’s
earliest comic strips and illustrations, featuring his most obsessively stippled
black-and-white panels and his most hilarious wise-guy takes on the stars
and demi-stars and never-quite-stars of that swamp we like to call showbiz.
In these strips, many of them written by his brother Josh Alan Friedman
(both are sons of the legendary Bruce Jay Friedman: humor genes will tell!),
the artist works out his obsession with such celebrities as Jim Nabors, Frank
Sinatra Jr., Joe Franklin, Bob Hope, the Three Stooges, Andy Griffith... and
Ed Wood, Jr. film star Tor Johnson, whom Friedman actually catapulted
back into some sort of semi-fame when these strips were first published in
the 1980s. Friedman is the kind of pop-culture aficionado whose teasing
adoration can often be mistaken for mockery or contempt. But who but a
worshipful fan would lavish quite so many dots on the loving delineation of these greats’ every pimple and
wrinkle? 88-page b&w 9.25” x 12.25” hardcover $19.99 (ANYSIM)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/anysimilarity
Too Soon?
“Too Soon?” you ask?
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Friedman’s illustrations,
caricatures and portraits
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scathing work from some of the most popular
publications including Time, Newsweek, The
New Yorker, The New York Times, Rolling Stone,
Entertainment Weekly, The New Republic, The
Weekly Standard, Blab! and more — yes, even Field
& Stream. Too Soon? casts its net over the entirety of
the forced-smiling-celebrity/politico congregation,
political animals on one side of the aisle, showbiz
beasts on the other... and the sad, innocent victims
of their crimes that languish in the middle. Too
Soon? is naturally replete with liver spots, wrinkles,
burst capillaries, blood, sweat and tears. No one is
spared, no matter which side of the aisle he or she
inhabits. Too Soon? is in fact not TOO SOON — it’s
about time. 200-page full-color 8” x 10” hardcover
$29.99 (TOOSOO)
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The Fun
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This comprehensive collection of premier caricaturist Drew Friedman’s
best comic strips, illustrations, and mug shots
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showbiz has-beens, ugly old white men, nefarious
politicians, debauched celebrities, the ubiquitous
Lord of Eltingville, etc. Most of the work is from the
1990s, and shows Friedman’s gradual phasing
out of his famous (and
amazing) black-and-white
stipple look to his current
(and equally amazing)
lush watercolor style. The
book is topped off with a
detailed, career-spanning
biographical introduction
by Ben Schwartz and a
foreword by Daniel Clowes. 136-page b&w/color
softcover 8” x 10.5” $16.95 (FUNNEV)
SEE ALSO: Drew Friedman’s BLAB! Storybook series of “Old Jewish Comedians” portrait books, page 43.
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Bill Griffith
Lost and Found: Comics 1969–2003
Bill Griffith: Lost and Found collects hundreds and hundreds of pages
of Griffith’s early underground comics, most of them long out of print
and unavailable. Lost and Found is not only a gargantuan treasury of
these underground comix — hand-picked by the artist himself — but a
mini-memoir of the artist’s comix career during the early days of the San
Francisco Underground and his on-again, off-again involvement with
Hollywood and TV; Griffith’s running recollections and commentary
serve as a wry and often hilarious counterpoint and context to the stories
themselves. Lost and Found follows Griffith’s career from New York to
San Francisco in chapters like “New York: The East Village Other
and Screw”; “The Arcade Years”; “First Zippy Appearances”;
“Young Lust”; “Cast of Characters: Claude Funston, Mr. The
Toad, Shelf-Life, The Toadettes, Alfred Jarry and the Griffith
Observatory.” And while the vast majority of the book consists
of non-Zippy comics, Lost and Found also features the earliest,
never-before-collected appearances of Zippy from 1971 to 1974, when Zippy was primarily a sidekick for
Griffith’s first major character, Mr. The Toad. Previously uncollected later work features Griffith’s comics for
High Times, The National
Lampoon, Arcade, The San
Francisco Examiner and
The New Yorker. 310-page
b&w 8” x 10” softcover
with an extensive color
section $39.99 (LOSFOU)
More info and previews:
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“ZIPPY” COLLECTIONS: Each volume collects a year’s worth of strips, Sundays in color. | ZIPPY: DING DONG DADDY FROM
DINGBURG, 204pp. s/c, $18.99 (ZDINGD) The tour of Zippy’s hometown Dingburg continues in the latest collection of recent Zippy
daiies and Sundays. | ZIPPY: WALK A MILE IN MY MUU-MUU, 160pp. s/c, $18.95 (ZWALK) Zippy’s voice usurped by old comics
characters, Zippy confronts the Grim Reaper, and Zippy realizes Bob’s Big Boy isn’t God… | ZIPPY: CONNECT THE POLKA DOTS,
160pp. s/c, $18.95 (ZPOLKA) Zippy visits his doppelgänger atop the Leaning Tower of Pizza, talks Republicanism with several symbolic
elephants, deconstructs King Kong… | ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?, 128pp. s/c, $12.95 (AREWE) An all-original trip on the Freeway of
Fun with Zippy, Griffy, Half-Life, Ernie Bushmiller, Jean-Paul Sartre, et al. | ZIPPY: FROM HERE TO ABSURDITY, 128pp. s/c, $19.95
(ZIPFHA) Zippy weaves in and out of "Bushmiller Country" (the land formerly inhabited by Nancy) and suddenly begins spouting foreign
languages! | ZIPPY ANNUAL 2000–2003, 128–160pp. s/c, $19.95 each (ZIPAN1–4) Each volume contains a year of black-and-white
dailies and color Sundays, with an informative “Pindex” of comments and notations from Zippy Central.
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Tim Hensley
Wally Gropius
Superficially resembling 1960s teenage
humor comics, Tim Hensley’s graphic
novel Wally Gropius is actually an
acute satire of power, celebrityhood,
and modern culture that tells the story
of the titular character, who bears
a closer resemblance to a teenaged
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whose name he shares. Wally is the human Dow Jones, the heir to a vast petrochemical conglomerate.
When the elder Thaddeus Gropius confronts Wally with the boilerplate plot ultimatum that he must marry
“the saddest girl in the world” or be disinherited, a yarn unravels that is part screwball comedy and part
unhinged parable on the lucrativeness of changing your identity. Hensley’s dialogue is witty, lyrical, sampled,
dada, and elliptical — all in the service of a very bizarre mystery. There’s sex, violence, rock and roll, intrigue,
and betrayal — all brought home in Hensley’s truly inimitable style. Created during an era when another
well-off “W” was stuffing the coffers of the morbidly solvent, Wally Gropius transforms futile daydreams and
nightmares into the absurdity of capital. Originally serialized in Fantagraphics’ house anthology Mome, the
story is presented here in a larger format with additional, previously unseen material. 64-page full-color 10”
x 12.5” hardcover $18.99 (WALLGR)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/wallygropius
Rand Holmes
The Artist Himself:
A Rand Holmes
Retrospective
edited by Patrick Rosenkranz
In his heyday, Rand Holmes was Canada’s
most revolutionary artist. His hippie hero
Harold Hedd became the spokesman of
the emerging counterculture as he avoided
work, explored free love, and flouted drug laws. Created with the full cooperation of Holmes’s family, this
book is an intimate and expansive account of a very private man who expressed his deepest feelings in the
then disreputable medium of comix. Richly illustrated with drawings, comic strips, watercolors, and paintings
that span Holmes’s whole career, from the hot rod cartoons he drew as a teenager, dozens of covers for the
Canadian alternative newspaper Georgia Straight, pornographic cartoons for the sex tabloid Vancouver Star,
to complete comic stories from Slow Death Funnies, Dope Comix, All Canadian Beaver, Death Rattle, Grateful
Dead Comix, and many more. The full-length Harold Hedd comic novels, Wings Over Tijuana and Hitler’s
Cocaine, are reprinted in their entirety together for the first time. 328-page b&w/color 8” x 10” paperback
$39.99 (ARTRAN)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/artisthimself
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Kevin Huizenga
Ganges Vol. 4
Can you make an exciting comic out of insomnia? Kevin Huizenga rises to the
challenge as he depicts his alter ego Glenn Ganges wrestling with sleeplessness,
trying to trick it by reading a particularly abstruse book, obsessively breaking his
past, present and future life into ever more hallucinatory, complex grids, and
wandering around his darkened house trying not to wake up his wife. Also: Loose
cat action! Huizenga continues to spotlight his everyman Glenn Ganges (previously
seen in the acclaimed Drawn and Quarterly Showcase and Or Else) with this suite
of all-new stories created for the superb “Ignatz” line of periodicals (see page 39)
which also featured new work by Gilbert Hernandez, Richard Sala, and Martí. The
three earlier volumes are also available, including the visually breathtaking second
one, which juxtaposes musings on the dot-com era boom wih
videogame graphics. 32-page two-color 8.5” x 11” jacketed
saddle-stitched comic $7.95 (GANGE4)
ALSO AVAILABLE: GANGES #1, #2 and #3 (same format, same
price): (GANGE1) (GANGE2) (GANGE3)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/ganges
Mark Kalesniko
Freeway
In his first new graphic novel since
2001’s acclaimed Mail Order Bride,
Mark Kalesniko delivers a 416-page
tour de force chronicling a single day
in the life of his recurring alter ego,
Alex Kalienka. Stuck in a horrendous
traffic jam on his way to his increasingly miserable job as an animator at Babbitt
Jones Studios, a burnt-out and depressed Alex rages, reminisces, fantasizes and
hallucinates. Flashbacks to his earliest days as a starry-eyed young animator
snagging his dream job, through the increasingly depressing political battles and
creative compromises, with a love affair gone badly wrong along the way, alternate
with scenes of an increasingly agitated present-day Alex, who imagines a series of increasingly violent deaths for
himself. Woven into this narrative fabric is a series of imagined moments from two generations ago, a golden
age of animation, when an earlier Alex made his entry into a much different Babbitt Jones — as imagined by
the increasingly despondent present-day Alex. 416-page b&w 7” x 10” paperback $28.99 (FREEWA)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/freeway
ALSO BY MARK KALESNIKO: MAIL ORDER BRIDE, 264pp. s/c $19.95 (MAILOR) A lonely
comic-shop owner expects his Asian mail-order bride to fulfill his stereotypical fantasy, but she turns
out to be much more complex than that in this sharp and affecting look at their prickly relationship.
ALEX, 250pp. s/c $19.95 (ALEXC) This prequel of sorts to Freeway is an existential exploration of
depression and the healing power of art as a man faces the realization that accomplishing his career
goals is no route to inner peace.
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R. Kikuo Johnson
Night Fisher
This debut graphic novel from an exciting young talent is a compassionate, hard-nosed coming-of-age story,
an unsentimental portrait of that most
awkward period between adolescence
and young adulthood, and that rarest
of things: a mature depiction of immature lives. Johnson explores the relationships of his characters with naturalistic ease. This intimate and compelling story is drawn in a chiaroscuro
style reminiscent of Milton Caniff combined with the sensual ink work of Paul Pope or Jessica Abel.
144-page b&w 7” x 10” softcover $12.95 (NIGHTF)
SEE ALSO: R. Kikuo Johnson also contributes to our Mome anthologies, page 42.
Miss Lasko-Gross
A Mess of Everything
The second volume in Miss Lasko-Gross’s semiautobiographical trilogy picks up where Escape from
“Special” left off: self-effacing non-conformist Melissa
is now in high school, where the stakes are higher
as she copes with an anxiety-induced drug habit, an
anorexic best friend, alienating her friends with her
uncomfortable honesty, and accidentally breaking
her best guy friend’s heart. Eventually, her woes cause
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settle for a safer, more secure routine. The unsentimental truthfulness that is the
hallmark of Lasko-Gross’s work is coupled with a raw but increasingly refined visual vocabulary, expressing
the awkward naïveté and inexperience of a young girl with the keen insights of a mature artist and resulting
in an intense, honest, and funny memoir. 232-page full-color 6” x 9” softcover $19.99 (MESSEV)
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ALSO BY MISS LASKO-GLASS: ESCAPE
FROM “SPECIAL,” 136pp, s/c $16.95
(ESCAPE) The first part of the coming of age
trilogy (which continues with the new release
A Mess of Everything), Escape from “Special”
chronicles Melissa’s childhood right up to the
point of her entry into high school.
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Paul Hornschemeier
All & Sundry
All & Sundry corrals Paul Hornschemeier’s work from the last five years—work previously ungathered, and in many cases never before seen in print. These works include: conceptual drawings and comics for a museum exhibit in Paris; an awardwinning book cover design; the serialized tale of divine intervention, non-linearity,
and social webs “Huge Suit Visits the People”;
comics and illustrations created for various
high-profile publications; covers and designs
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of the anthology Mome (p. 32–33). The collection concludes with extensive selections from sketches and sketchbooks. 208-page full-color 7.5”
x 10” hardcover $29.99 (ALLSUN)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/allandsundry
The Three Paradoxes
An intricate and complex autobiographical comic: Paul, in the comic, draws a
character Paul who is trying to finish a story called “Paul and the Magic Pencil.”
We zoom out of that story to the creator, Paul, who leaves to walk with his father,
bringing his camera in order to fulfill a promise to his girlfriend to photograph the
places that affected him as a child. Each “chapter” of the story is drawn in a completely different style, and yet it all comes together as one story: a story questioning
change, progress, and worth within the author’s life. 80-page full-color 6.5” x 8.5”
hardcover $16.95 (TPARAD)
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Culled from the pages of Forlorn Funnies
and other sources, this collection is half composed of Hornschemeier’s gloomy comedic
work, and half his just-plain-gloomy work,
presented in an elegantly produced flip-book
format with two front covers. 136-page fullcolor 6.5” x 8.5” hardcover $19.95 (LETUS)
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ALSO BY PAUL HORNSCHEMEIER: MOTHER COME
HOME, 128pp. full-color h/c, $22.99 (MCHOME) With
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clean, distinctive art and poignant storytelling, Hornschemeier’s widely acclaimed debut graphic novel is a quietly stunning tale of a father and son struggling, by varying degrees of
escapism and fantasy, to come to terms with the death of the
boy’s mother. Long out of print and now available for the first
time in hardcover.
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Megan Kelso
Queen of the Black Black
Before her comics were serialized in the New York Times Sunday Magazine or
released by Fantagraphics, Megan Kelso was a classic DIY cartoonist/publisher,
who crafted and self-published her popular minicomic Girlhero from 1991 to
1996. Queen of the Black Black, which collects these early Girlhero strips (as well
as a few from other sources), provides an engrossing chronicle of an ambitious
young cartoonist carefully developing her own unique style and approach.
Kelso scrutinizes bicycle messengers, venereal diseases, infidelity, unwanted
pregnancies, temporary work assignments, family reunions, and classroom
daydreams in subtle and unexpected manners, setting herself technical
challenges such as depicting music in comics (the virtuoso “The Daddy Mask,”
with its sensuous gray swirls of sound on the page), integrating lettering into
artwork in creative ways, and generally working her way toward what would
become her mature style. The title story, “Queen of the Black Black,” rendered in lush gray tones, explores
the fraught relationship between the ageing, demanding queen of a fairy-tale realm and a hornblower whom
she takes under her wing. And there’s even an early “Artichoke Tale”! 160-page black-and-white 7” x 9.25”
softcover $19.99 (qublbl)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/queenblack
Artichoke Tales
Having proved herself a master of the
cartoon short story with Queen of the Black
Black and The Squirrel Mother. Megan
Kelso expands her range by creating a
family saga spanning three generations
and an entire continent. Artichoke Tales
is a coming-of-age story about a young
girl named Brigitte whose family is caught
between the two warring sides of a civil war,
a graphic novel that takes place in a world
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Influenced in equal parts by Little House
on the Prairie, The Thorn Birds, Dharma Bums, and Cold Mountain, Kelso
weaves a moving story about family amidst war. Kelso’s visual storytelling,
combining delicate linework with rhythmic, musical page compositions, creates a dramatic tension between
intimate, ruminative character studies and the unflinching depiction of the consequences of war and carnage.
176-page one-color 6.5” x 8” hardcover $22.99 (arttal)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/artichoketales
ALSO BY MEGAN KELSO: THE SQUIRREL MOTHER, $16.95
(SQUIRR) Kelso’s latest 136-page collection of graphic short stories features
personal stories about the travails of adolescence and stories about the idea
of America and American history, including a trilogy of short stories about
Alexander Hamilton. Full color.
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Tim Kreider
Twilight of the Assholes:
Cartoon and Essays 2005–2009
As reality gets ever bleaker, Tim Kreider’s humor becomes increasingly apocalyptic
and hilarious. He juxtaposes the Biblical Christ with His blonde, flag-draped,
machine-gun-toting American incarnation in “Jesus vs. Jeezus,” proposes a third
political party that represents Americans’ real values in “The Sex Party,” draws the
dead Saddam Hussein as a mischievous invisible imp still causing trouble, and
envisions the officials of the Bush administration getting their comeuppance in the
grisly fashion of Dick Tracy villains. Kreider mocks not only the evil and hapless
Bush but the fecklessness of progressives, the imbecile bigotry of radical Islam,
and, most of all, the dumb bovine complacency of the American voter. Twilight of the Assholes is an hysterical
chronicle of the end of the Era of Darkness, and, believe it or not, a heartening document of one man’s loss and
tentative restoration of faith in democracy. 288-page b&w 8” x 9.5” softcover $28.99 (twilig)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/twilightassholes
Tim Lane
Abandoned Cars
A debut collection of graphic short
stories, noir-ish narratives that is united
by their exploration of the great American
mythological drama. Lane’s desperate and
haunted characters exist on the margins
of society — alienated, floating in the void
between hope and despair, confused but
introspective. Some of them are experiencing the aftermath of an existential
car crash... Others have gone off the deep end, or were never anywhere but
the deep end. It’s an America depicted as a subdued and haunted Coney
Island, made up of lost characters — boozing, brawling, haplessly shooting
themselves in the face, and hopping freight trains in search of Elvis. 168-page
b&w 7” x 9.5” softcover $18.99 (ABCASC).
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/abandonedcars
Roger Langridge
Fred the Clown
The signature creation of New Zealand cartoonist Roger Langridge, Fred the
Clown is the thinking man’s idiot. Fred has an eye for the ladies (especially of
the bearded variety), but the only part of themselves they’re willing to share
with him is a carefully placed kneecap. Fred’s misadventures are a curious
balance of bleakness and joyful absurdism; the universe may dump on Fred
from a great height, but he never gives up. Part Samuel Beckett, part Tex
Avery, Fred the Clown is beautifully drawn, utterly inspired lunacy. 192-page
b&w 6” x 8.25” softcover $16.95 (FREDC)
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Mezzo & Pirus
King of the Flies Vol. 2:
The Origin of the World
Set in a suburb that is both nowhere and everywhere, King of the Flies is a
glorious bastard, combining the intricacy and subtlety of the best European
graphic novels with a hyperdetailed, controlled noir style derived from the finest
American cartoonists. Mezzo and Pirus, previously best known in Europe for a
series of cynical, brutal gangster stories, have abandoned their guns and gals
for this cycle of suburban stories, but in King of the Flies the violence has just (for
the most part) been interiorized. King of the Flies first appears to be a series of
unrelated short stories, each starring (and narrated by) a different protagonist,
but it soon becomes obvious that these seemingly disparate episodes weave
together to form a single complex narrative, with events
that are only glimpsed (or even referred to) revisited from different perspectives —
revolving around Eric, a ne’er-do-well, drug-taking teenager at war with his stepfather
and, apparently, the whole world. King of the Flies is designed as a trilogy of albums,
which will combine to form a single graphic novel of stunning intricacy and intensity (the
third one is due at the end of 2013). 64-page full-color 9” x 12.5” hardcover $18.99
(KINGF2)
ALSO AVAILABLE: King of the Flies Vol. 1, “Hallorave”: $18.99 (KINGF1)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/kingoftheflies2
Martí
The Cabbie: Volume 1
The Cabbie spins off Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver with a graphic style that
unapologetically appropriates and even refines the brutal slabs of black,
squashed perspectives, and grotesque approach to human physiognomy (and its
ability to withstand punishment) that define Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy. And as
Art Spiegelman (the first to publish Martí’s work in English, in RAW) notes in his
introduction, while “Gould’s graphic black and white precision and his diagrammatic
clarity live on in Martí’s work… more interestingly, perhaps, so does Gould’s
depravity.” Indeed, The Cabbie is even more savage than the legendarily brutal
Dick Tracy, with its pimps, whores, petty thieves, corrupt businessmen, all swirling
around the ingenuously violent “Cabbie” whose self-administered “upstanding citizen”
status entitles him — in his view — to even more shocking acts of violence! 64-page b&w 9” x 12” hardcover $19.99 (cabbi1)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/thecabbie1
ALSO BY MARTI: CALVARIO HILLS, $7.95 (CALVH1) The eponymous main
story mashes together elements of Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Washington
D.C., is a conspiracy fantasia in which the sinister NRA (spearheaded by Charlton
“Preston”) attempts to sabotage the election to mayor of Marion “Parry,” while an
imprisoned gangster kingpin schemes to enlist an army of crackheads to put him
over the top. The back-up is the first chapter of an all-new “Cabbie” story in which
our naively heroic protagonist’s fare turns out to be the disgraced President of the
nation.
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Tony Millionaire
500 Portraits
500 Portraits collects for the first time over
two decades of portrait work by the beloved
and award-winning creator of Drinky Crow’s
Maakies, Sock Monkey and Billy Hazelnuts. Tony
Millionaire’s gorgeous fountain pen illustrations,
which mingle naturalistic detail with strong
doses of the fanciful and grotesque, include the
famous (Bob Dylan), the infamous (Abu Ghraib
soldier/model Lynndie England), the fictional
(Yoda), the animal kingdom (a cockroach), and
everything in between. Literary figures (Hemingway), literary characters
(Don Quixote & Sancho Panza), Hollywood legends (Steven Spielberg),
comics icons (Hergé) and historical figures (Hitler) also figure prominently.
Many of these 500 portraits were created for The Believer, the magazine
founded by Dave Eggers that Millionaire has helped define visually with his
signature portraits of interview subjects in every issue since the magazine
started. But it also includes dozens if not hundreds of illustrations from
various other publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker,
Ephemera Press Historical Maps, The Wall Street Journal, and others, as
well as hilarious Millionaire reminscences. 192-page b&w 7.5” x 5.75”
hardcover $22.99 (500por)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/500portraits
Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird
Billy Hazelnuts transmutes nursery rhymes and the golem myth into a
storybook about Becky, girl scientist, her friend Billy Hazelnuts (who
was created from cooking ingredients by tailless mice), and their journey to find the missing moon while battling an evil steam-driven alligator with a seeing-eye skunk. Millionaire fuses the darker spirit of older
fairy tales with an absurdist adventure story, throws gender politics into
the mix, and brings it to life with his dementedly charming, meticulous drawing style and breathtaking imagination. 104-page b&w 6.5” x 9” hardcover
$19.99 (BILHA2)
ALSO AVAILABLE: The original Billy Hazelnuts graphic novel: 104-page b&w 6.5” x 9” hardcover
$19.95 (BILHAZ)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/billyhazelnuts2
TONY MILLIONAIRE “MAAKIES” BOOKS: LITTLE MAAKIES
ON THE PRAIRIE, 120pp, h/c $19.95 (LITMAK) The most recent
colletion of Millionaire’s Maakies hilarious strips, picking up where
Wrinkled Knees leaves off. | MAAKIES WITH THE WRINKLED
KNEES, 120pp, h/c $19.95 (WRINKN) Another great collection
of Millionaire hilarity, still in the unwielde extra-wide format. |
DRINKY CROW’S MAAKIES TREASURY, 272pp. h/c, $29.99
(MAATRE) Two more years! | DER STRUWWELMaakies,
96pp. h/c, $19.95 (DERSTR) The earliest collection available.
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Victor Moscoso
Sex, Rock & Optical Illusions
No one better represents the psychedelic
1960s and 1970s than Victor Moscoso,
whose posters for such bands as The
Grateful Dead, Big Brother & the Holding Company, and the Steve Miller Blues
Band, deploying his unique “vibrating colors” and hallucinatory, near-illegible lettering stand as enduring works of art and
recognizable icons of their time. As if that
wasn’t enough, Moscoso was a seminal
underground cartoonist, a charter member of the Zap gang whose
gorgeously surreal near-narratives puzzled a generation of hippies.
This career-spanning retrospective covers both his lives, from his earlist (1966) poster work to his most recent
graphic experimentation. Includes a preface by Milton Glaser and an introduction by Steve Heller. 144-page
full-color 9” x 12” hardcover $34.95 (SEXRRO)
Cathy Malkasian
Temperance
Do ideas of war and enemies hold a people
together? Is a culture of conflict too seductive not
to be irresistible? These are the questions Cathy
Malkasian explores in her brilliant second graphic
novel, Temperance. After a brutal injury in battle,
Lester has no memory of his prior life. For the next
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Blessedbowl, that elevates him as a hero. Blessedbowl is a cultural convergence
of lies, memories, stories, and beliefs. Its people thrive on ideas of persecution,
exceptionality, and enemies, convinced that war lurks just outside their walls. They have come to depend on
Lester, their greatest war hero, to lead the charge once the Final Battle begins… Malkasian creates a densely
textured social context, masterfully conveying the idiosyncratic physical domain with its spiraling structures
and quasi-medieval architecture along with intimate yet plastic portraits of her characters in a rich, tonal
pencil line. Temperance is a galvanizing work of empathy and violence by one of today’s the most thoughtful
and accomplished cartoonists. 240-page two-color 8” x 10” hardcover $22.99 (tempe)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/temperance
ALSO BY CATHY MALKASIAN: PERCY GLOOM, h/c,
$18.95 (PERCYG) In Malkasian’s stunning 174-page debut
graphic novel, lazy-eyed little Percy struggles to overcome
the loss of his wife to a lotharian cult leader. Animation
director Malkasian creates a dense and believable, totally
original milieu for this fantastical tale, executed in
stunningly subtle two-color tones.
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Nate Neal
The Sanctuary
In his first full-length graphic novel, Nate Neal explores the primal mysteries and
sordid inner workings of a Paleolithic cave-dwelling tribe, creating an original
“silent” reading experience by using symbols instead of words. When a mysterious
nomad girl is offered up as an item of trade, she seeks refuge by forming a
tenacious friendship with the local cave-painter turned outcast. Together they set
out on a dangerous mission to bring truth to their corrupt tribe with the help of
their new discovery (via some psychotropic mushrooms): drawings that tell a story.
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inspiration, and communication is in conflict with tradition and law, and the novel
dramatizes the moral imperative of man facing the truth even at the cost of his, and society’s, lives. Introduction
by Dave Sim. 200-page b&w 7.5” x 10” softcover $22.99 (SANCTC)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/sanctuary
Mark Newgarden
We All Die Alone
He was in the first issue of RAW
magazine. He co-created the Garbage Pail Kids. He wrote, drew and
syndicated a weekly alternative comic strip in the 1990s, and created a “Web Premiere Toon” for The Cartoon Network called “B. Happy.” This career-spanning
collection from Mark Newgarden includes samples of all of this, as well as his
legendary surreal RAW-published Nancy mashup “Love’s Savage Fury.” Plus a
dizzying archival section of Newgarden’s graphic and conceptual influences that
is worth the price of the book by itself. Edited by Dan Nadel, designed by Helene
Silverman, and featuring fuzzy covers. 224-page b&w and full-color 7.5” x 8.5” hardcover $28.95 (WEALLD)
Anders Nilsen
Monologues For Calculating the Density of Black Holes
Like the artist’s first volume, Monologues for the Coming Plague, ...Black Holes is a
creatively experimental laboratory, comprising a collection of free flowing stream-ofconsciousness gags, strips, and drawings that slowly coalesce into an unexpectedly
compelling and complex narrative. The hints of story that came together in Coming Plague are extrapolated and expanded upon and grow to incorporate some of
Nilsen’s other outré strips from the anthology MOME, two of which are reprinted here
in expanded form. The book is an audacious investigation into the rhythms of storytelling, the blurring of media, and an exercise in reconciling contrasts. It is playful,
provocative and serious all at once — another tour de force by Big Questions creator
Anders Nilsen. 400-page monochrome/full-color 5” x 8” softcover $22.99 (MCALBH)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/monologues2
SEE ALSO: Anders Nilsen’s “Ignatz” book The End, page 39.
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Diane Noomin
Glitz-2-Go
Glitz-2-Go stars veteran
underground cartoonist Diane Noomin’s (Young Lust,
Arcade, True Glitz, and
Twisted Sisters, which she
edited) signature character,
DiDi Glitz, the frustrated
middle-aged
glamourpuss and anxiety-ridden
suburban Sisyphus. All
of her stories, beginning
with her debut “Restless
Reverie” in 1974’s Family Fun Comics, are finally
back in print for the first time in over 30 years. This book collects all of Noomin’s best comics, including a few painfully
autobiographical stries where Noomin steps upfront
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and
a few collaborations with husband Bill Griffith, co-starring a certain Pinhead. So mix yourself
up a mai tai and kick back with a fistful of Glitz! 128-page b&w 7” x 10” softcover with some color $19.99 (GLITZ2)
Norman Pettingill
Norman Pettingill:
Backwoods Humorist
Norman Pettingill was an avid trapper and fisherman from
Northern Wisconsin, and a self-taught artist. In 1947, at
the age of 51, he began creating hundreds of pen-and-ink
drawings and marketed many of them as postcards, printing and
distributing them himself. He combined a gift for the fine detail
and verisimilitude of illustration with the visual exaggeration and
outrageous wit of cartooning. By merging his fascination with
nature and backwoods culture with his wild sense of humor,
he depicted an out-of-control hillbilly wonderland of talking grizzlies, dancing morons, nightclubs, giant
mosquitoes, tumble-down shacks, pipe smoking grannies, google-eyed drunks, hilarious hunting mishaps
and moonshine soaked fishermen! Pettingill reveled in exposing the commercialization of outdoor activities
and demythologizing the myth of the outdoorsman. His landscapes and drawings of wild animals could
be breathtakingly wondrous, and even his most grotesque depictions of hillbillies were fused with a love
and respect for the rituals of a primitive life in the boondocks. This book is the first published retrospective
of Pettingill’s work, containing over a hundred of the artist’s best and rarely seen drawings, printed in an
oversized format under a unique cover printed on genuine plywood, with a biographical essay by editor Gary
Groth, an introduction by Robert Crumb, and an appreciation by Johnny Ryan. 144-page full-color 12” x 9”
hardcover $39.99 (NORPET)
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Joe Sacco
Safe Area Gorazde:
The Special Edition
In the wake of his acclaimed Palestine,
Joe Sacco spent four months in Bosnia
in 1995–1996, immersing himself in
the human side of life during wartime,
researching stories rarely found in
conventional
news
coverage.
The
book focuses on the Muslim enclave of
Gorazde, which was besieged by Bosnian
Serbs during the war; Sacco spent four weeks in Gorazde, entering before
the Muslims trapped inside had access to the outside world, electricity or
running water. Released in 2000, Safe Area Gorazde confirmed Sacco
as one of the preeminent journalists of his time, and earned him a 2001
Guggenheim Fellowship. Now for its 10th anniversary, Fantagraphics is releasing an expanded hardcover
edition which, much like 2007’s now out of print Palestine: The Special Edition, supplements the original work
with page after page of related drawings, on-site sketches, photographs, and transcripts from Sacco’s notes.
272-page b&w (with some color) 7.5” x 10” hardcover $29.99 (SAFESE)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/gorazdese
Palestine
Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank
and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews
with Palestinians and Jews), Palestine was the first major comics work of political
and historical nonfiction by Sacco, whose name has since become synonymous
with this graphic form of New Journalism. Like Safe Area Gorazde, Palestine
(whose sequel, Footnotes in Gaza, was released in 2009 to great acclaim) has
been favorably compared to Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus for its
ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically sensitive subject matter
within the confines of the comic book medium. Sacco has often been called the
first comic book journalist, and he is certainly the best. This edition of Palestine
also features an introduction from renowned author, critic, and
historian Edward Said (Peace and Its Discontents and The Question
of Palestine), one of the world’s most respected authorities on the
Middle Eastern conflict. 288-page b&w 7” x 10” paperback $24.95 (PALESC)
MORE JOE SACCO BOOKS: BUT I LIKE IT, 120pp. h/c with CD, $24.95
(BLIKEI) Sacco covers the rock ‘n’ roll beat in this collection that includes his
tour diary with punk band the Miracle Workers (including bound-in CD!)
plus biting satirical strips, blues bios, concert posters, and Rolling Stones worship. | SAFE AREA GORAZDE, 216pp. s/c, $19.95; (SAFES) This critically
acclaimed volume focuses on Gorazde, the Muslim held enclave besieged
by Bosnian Serbs during the war, where Sacco spent a month during his
5-month Bosnian sojourn. | NOTES FROM A DEFEATIST, 216pp. s/c,
$19.95 (NODEF) This massive book finally collects the entirety of Sacco’s
earlier journalistic and autobiographical work, plus a sizable serving of his
satirical strips, many of them never before collected in book form.
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Stan Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo
An astonishingly exciting and engaging
series about a warrior rabbit in Feudal
Japan, the wandering and masterless
samurai named Miyamoto Usagi, a.k.a.
Usagi Yojimbo! Lethal sword battles are
followed by moments of quiet humor,
and horror and suspense alternate with
slapstick. The Eisner Award-winning
Usagi Yojimbo has been going strong
for over 20 years, and Fantagraphics is
pleased to keep the first seven collected
volumes of this perennial all-ages favorite in print! Each volume
measures 6” x 9”. See below for listing of individual volumes.
ALSO AVAILABLE: The last few collector’s copies of
the USAGI YOJIMBO COLOR SPECIAL comics #2
and #3: $3.50 (UYCS2, UYCS3)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/usagi
Vol. 1: “The Ronin” With all of the earliest Usagi
stories laying the groundwork for the saga to come,
this is the obvious starting point for new readers.
152-page softcover $15.95 (UYB01S)
Vol. 2: “Samurai” Usagi’s origin story is told in
the first novel-length tale, plus more short stories!
Introduction by Mark Evanier. 152-page softcover
$16.95 (UYB02S)
Vol. 3: “The Wanderer’s Road” Seven classic
Usagi short stories packed with action and humor,
including a Ninja Turtles team-up! Introduction by
Robert Asprin. 152-page softcover $16.95 (UYB03S)
Vol. 4: “The Dragon Bellow Conspiracy” Usagi’s first full-length graphic novel centers around a
plot to overthrow the Shogun! Introduction by Alejandro Jodorowsky. 180-page softcover $16.95 (UYB04S)
Vol. 5: “Lone Goat and Kid” Usagi battles ninja
bats, meets the deadly assassin Lone Goat, and appears in a unique story about a kitemaker. Foreword
by Stan Lee! 142-page softcover $14.95 (UYB05S);
152-page hardcover (with bonus material!) $25.00
(UYB05H)
Vol. 6: “Circles” The four-part title story follows
our hero back to his home village for an epic confrontation, plus four more stories. Introduction by Jeff
Smith. 168-page softcover $16.95 (UYB6S)
Vol. 7: “Gen’s Story” The title story reveals the
origin of the mercenary swordsrhino. Plus the final
fate of the Blind Swordspig, a supernatural tale and
more. Introduction by Sergio Aragonés. 168-page
softcover $16.95 (UYB7S)
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Wilfred Santiago
21: The Story of Roberto Clemente
No other baseball player dominated
the 1960s like Roberto Clemente
and no other Latin American player
achieved his numbers. He played
like a man possessed, fielding
superbly, unleashing his rifle arm,
and hitting in clutch situations.
Despite his aesthetic brilliance,
he faced prejudice throughout
his career and was given his due
only after his unexpected and
tragic death in a 1972 plane crash. 21 chronicles Clemente’s
life from his early days growing up in rural Puerto Rico, the
highlights of his career (including the 1960s World Series
where he helped the Pirates win its first victory in 33 years, and his 3000th hit in 1972 during the last official
at-bat of his life) as well as his private life and public mission off the field. Wilfred Santiago captures the grit of
Clemente’s rise from his impoverished Puerto Rican childhood, to the majesty of his performance on the field,
to his fundamental decency as a human being in a drawing style that combines realistic attention to detail and
expressive cartooning. 200-page two-color 5.75” x 7.5” hardcover $22.99 (21gn)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/21clemente
Olivier Schrauwen
The Man Who Grew His Beard
The Man Who Grew His Beard is Belgian
cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen’s first
American book after having staked out
a reputation over the last decade as one
of Europe’s most talented storytellers. It
collects seven short stories, each a headspinning display of craft and storytelling
that mixes early twentieth-century comics
influences like Winsor McCay with a
thoroughly contemporary voice that provokes and entertains with
subversively surreal humor and subtle criticism of twentieth-century
tropes and images. The stories themselves, though each stands alone,
are intertwined thematically, offering peeks into the minds of semiautistic, achingly isolated men and their feverish inner worlds and
how they interact and contrast with their real environment. Though
Schrauwen (whose work has been seen in several issues of MOME)
taps “surrealist” or “absurdist” impulses in his work, you will not
read a more careful and precise collection of stories this year. The
stories include “Hair Types” (a hilarious piece that explores the pseudoscientific classification of personality
as a function of hair), “Chromo Congo,” “The Task,” “The Lock,” “The Cave,” and “The Imaginist.”
112-page full-color 8.5” x 10.25” softcover $19.99 (mwgh)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/manwhogrew
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Leslie Stein
Eye of the Majestic Creature
Eye of the Majestic Creature is a collection of semi-autobiographical and fantasybased comics that combine dry humor, psychedelia, and emotion to show the
viewpoint of one person’s world internally and externally. The story follows a young
girl, Larrybear, and her talking acoustic guitar Marshmallow on their adventures
through the countryside, Chicago, San Francisco and New York. While Larrybear
struggles to connect with strangers, her friends, and her family to various degrees
of success, her growing population of anthropomorphic friends have adventures
of their own. You get a glimpse of her past life when she visits her home town of
Chicago, trying to relate to old friends who have not matured since high school,
as well as her family (which includes her Hippopotamus father and his harem of
ex-wives, two brothers, and Salsa-dancing mom). In the present, she moves to
New York to find work for a time, resulting in many
hilarious and drunken adventures with her new coworkers at a cell phone
decorating shop, and her old friend Boris, who shares with her his P.G.
Wodehouse books, as well as his “Incredible Hulk” weed. Drawn in shades
of gray using the near-deceased practice of stippling, Stein’s imagery draws
you into her world for a complete and engrossing experience. 128-page
b&w 7.5” x 11” paperback $18.99 (eyemaj)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/eyeofthemajestic
Spain
Cruisin’ with the Hound:
The Life and Times of Fred Tooté
Although he’s best known for his two-fisted tales of the chopper-riding Trashman,
Spain’s blunt graphic style and uncompromising gift for caricature, rendered in
eye-punishing slabs of black and white, work equally well for subtler fare — such
as these memoirs of his misspent youth. Cruisin’ with the Hound ranges from
Spain’s days as an innocent young churchgoer to his time as a member of the
Road Vultures motorcycle gang, with stops along the way for his discoveries of
science fiction and other, more adult pursuits (“The Birth of Porn”) — as well as
the “The Education of an Underground Cartoonist,” describing his journey from
a pimply Captain Marvel-reading scribbler to his arrival as a professional artist.
But the heart of this collection is a cycle of stories (originally published in Blab!) set during Spain’s teenage
days in the 1950s, often featuring Fred Tooté, a wild, flaky character in whose company some of his wildest
escapades occurred. 120-page b&w 7.5” x 10.25” paperback $19.99 (cruhou)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/cruisinwiththehound
ALSO BY SPAIN: NIGHTMARE ALLEY, $14.95 (NIGALL) An adaptation of
the long out-of-print 1930s cult novel of the same name by William Lindsay
Gresham, the story is a study of the lowest depths of showbiz and its sleazy
inhabitants and environs, the dark, shadowy world of a second rate carnival
filled with cheap hustlers, scheming grifters, and Machiavellian femmes
fatales: The book depicts the rise of Stan Carlisle from a carnival mentalist to a
successful “spiritualist,” preying on the rich and gullible matrons of society, to
his eventual fall and total disintegration..
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Zak Sally
Like a Dog
One man’s heartfelt and irreverent record of his time on this rock, Zak Sally’s
unflinchingly veracious book is both direct and oblique, which we find rather
miraculous considering the messy and murky waters of human experience it
manages to navigate. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself laughing and crying
as you claw your way through each hard fought page! Of all of Sally’s creative
pursuits (including a career in music spanning 15+ years), Like a Dog is the one
he’s been working a lifetime
toward. This hardcover book
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issues of his Eisner-nominated
self-published series Recidivist and in publications like
Mome, The Drama, Your Flesh, Dirty Stories, and more. Like
a Dog also includes extensive “liner notes” by the artist,
previously unpublished material, and an introduction by
John Porcellino. 134-page color/b&w 7” x 10.5” hardcover
$22.99 (LIKDOG)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/likeadog
SEE ALSO: Zak Sally’s “Ignatz” title Sammy the Mouse, on page 39.
Frank Stack
The New Adventures of Jesus
Underground comics were known for their satirical assaults on beliefs held dear
by middle America. None was more witty or biting than the very first underground
comic ever published: Frank Stack’s The Adventures of Jesus. Stack’s strip first saw
print in Texas counterculture and college publications, and in 1964, Texas Ranger
editor Gilbert Shelton (who would later go on to create the little-known Fabulous
Furry Freak Brothers) made 50 photocopies of about a dozen strips, stapled and collated the pages, designed a cover and distributed it to friends around campus. In this
witty addendum to the New Testament, Jesus fulfills his promise “to reward the just
and punish the unjust,” yet returns to Earth with remarkably little fanfare. He soon
realizes he may have postponed his second coming a bit too long, arriving when the
planet has fallen into a dangerously advanced state of decrepitude, i.e., the late 20th
Century. Nonetheless, Jesus is determined to carry out his sacred obligation. Fantagraphics Books is proud to
collect, for the first time, over 40 years worth of The New Adventures of Jesus — including a brand new story by
Stack. This edition also features an introduction by R. Crumb and a preface by Gilbert Shelton. 160-page b&w
7.5” x 9.75” softcover $19.95 (NEWADV)
MORE FRANK STACK: Naked Glory, 96pp., s/c, $12.95 (GLORY) Naked women! Lots and lots of naked women, fleshed out with
consummate skill by Frank Stack in this lovely softcover. Sensuous, provocative and sometimes downright lubricious, rendered in
a variety of media, from smoky pastels to intricate etchings, by one
of comics’ most classically elegant draftsmen — with 16 pages of
color plates.
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Dash Shaw
The Unclothed Man in the
35th Century A.D.
One part MOME collection, one part authorized IFC Channel spinoff, the first
quar-ter of this hardcover collects the work — storyboards, scripts, character
designs, etc. — that Shaw has created for a series of original shorts airing on
IFC.com in Nov. 2009. The latter
3/4ths collect Shaw’s acclaimed,
genre-bending
short
stories
from MOME, including “Look
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Ignatz Award nominee for “Outstanding Story,” about the
parasitic relationship between an artist and his lover/mentor;
“Satellite CMYK,” a sci-fi mindwarp that ingeniously drives
the narrative through Shaw’s masterful control of color, and
“Making the Abyss,” a fictionalized story of a surreal film set
filled with nuclear tanks, hot tubs, and blind ambition. Plus
a new 20-page story. 104-page full-color 7” x 9” hardcover
$19.99 (UNCMAN)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/unclothedman
Bottomless Belly Button
This astonishing debut is one
of the year’s most lauded
graphic novels. Bottomless
Belly Button is a comedydrama that follows the dysfunctional adventures of the
Loony Family. After 40-some
years of marriage, Maggie
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sparking a week-long family
reunion at the creepy (and possibly haunted) family beach
house. In a six-day period rich with atmospheric sequences, these characters stumble blindly around one another,
often ignoring their surroundings and consumed by their
own daily conflicts. Shaw’s masterfully-paced visual storytelling explores the interconnecting relationships among
the characters with small gestural details and nuanced
expressions that bring the characters to vivid and intimate
life. (Note: This book is available with two different covers. When ordering, please indicate your preference
for “Mom” or “Dad.”) 720-page monochrome 6” x 8.5” softcover $29.99 (BOTTBB)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/bbb
SEE ALSO: Dash Shaw also contributes to our MOME anthologies, page 42.
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Esther Pearl Watson
Unlovable Vol. II
Loosely based on a teenager’s
diary from the 1980s found
in a gas-station bathroom,
Unlovable is the remarkable
story of Tammy Pierce, as filtered
through the pen of Los Angeles
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finishes Tammy’s tragicomic sophomore year of high school in
1985. In the epic saga that is Unlovable, Tammy finds herself
dealing with tampons, teasing, crushes, The Smiths, tube socks,
facial hair, lice, celibacy, fantasy dream proms, gym showers,
skid marks, a secret admirer, prank calls, backstabbers, winter
ball, barfing, narcs, breakdancing, hot wheels, glamour shots,
roller coasters, Halloween costumes, boogers, boys, boy crazy feelings, biker
babes, and even some butt cracks. Tammy’s life isn’t pretty, but it is endlessly
charming and hilarious. 416-page two-color 5.75” x 5.75”
hardcover $22.99 (unlova)
ALSO AVAILABLE: Unlovable Volume I (same format),
$22.99 (unlov2) — or buy the Complete Unlovable Box
Set for only $39.99 (unlovb)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/unlovable2
Drew Weing
Set to Sea
In Drew Weing’s debut graphic novel,
the central character is a big lug and an
aspiring poet who runs up tabs at the
local bars by day and haunts the docks
by night, writing paeans to the seafaring
life. When he gets shanghaied aboard a
clipper bound for Hong Kong, he finds the
sailor’s life a bit rougher than his romantic
nautical fantasies. He helps rebuff a pirate
assault, survives a gunshot to the eye, and learns to live — and love
— a Conradian life on the sea, all the while writing poetry about
pirates, bad food, unceremonial funerals, foreign ports, and unexpected epiphanies. By the end of his life,
he’s found satisfaction in living a life of adventure and finding a receptive and appreciative readership.
Drawn in an elaborate crosshatched style that falls somewhere between Gustave Doré engravings and E. C.
Segar’s Popeye, Set to Sea is part rollicking adventure, part maritime ballad told in visual rhyme. 144-page
b&w 5.5” x 6.25” hardcover $16.99 (SETSEA)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/settosea
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The Comics Journal #302
The Comics Journal has been, for more than 35 years, the standard bearer of
critical inquiry, discriminating taste, vigorous debate, and serious discussion of
comics as art. The multiple award-winning magazine provides its international
readership with an eclectic mix of journalism, commentary, interviews,
reprints of classic comics and newspaper strips, historical essays, and reviews
of contemporary work. Previously published as a bi-monthly magazine, The
Comics Journal has adapted to the digital revolution by expanding its size and
recasting itself as an annual book, a cross between a literary journal and a
coffee table art book with the critical content of the former and the design and
print quality of the latter. And now it’s time for the second volume!
Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) granted his last extensive
interview to Gary Groth/The Comics Journal #302 — a fascinating, rambling
conversation that ranks with the most intimate, informative, and fascinating
chats the magazine has ever run. And on the flip side, the legendary French
cartoonist Jacques Tardi talks extensively about his life and his work in his
first major interview in over a decade (and his first to be translated into English), and offers an extensive
preview of his stunning new memoir about his father’s days as a WWII prisoner of war. Also: New comics
from Lewis Trondheim and Joe Sacco; a classic kids’ comics roundtable spearheaded by Art Spiegelman,
with contributions from (among others) Jeff Smith and Seth; the great Bob Levin unravels the history of Robert
Crumb’s eccentric lawyer Albert Morse; Roy Crane’s “How to Draw Buz Sawyer” tutorial; new details and
revelations from the 1950s comics Senate hearings; and much, much more. 672-page b&w 6.75” x 8.5”
softcover $30.00 (cj302) AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2013
ALSO AVAILABLE: The Comics Journal #301 features a roundtable on Robert Crumb’s
controversial Book of Genesis, and an interview witih the seminal underground cartoonist; Al
Jaffee and Michael Kupperman in conversation; Joe Sacco on Footnotes in Gaza; sketchbooks
from Jim Woodring, Stephen Dixon, and Tim Hensley; Gene Deitch’s Gerald McBoingBoing
comics; and criticism and analysis. 640-page b&w 6.75” x 8.5” softcover $30.00 (cj301)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/tcj301
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BACK ISSUES OF THE COMICS JOURNAL: THE COMICS JOURNAL #300 $14.99 (CJ300) A spectacular anniversary issue featuring
intergenerational dialogues between the cream of the cartooning biz: Huizenga/Spiegelman, Sally/J. Hernandez, Shaw/Mazzucchelli, Rall/
Bors, Borgman/K. Knight, H.C. Anderson/Chaykin, Harkham/Menu, Quitely/Gibbons, Bechdel/Novgorodoff, and more. | THE COMICS
JOURNAL #299 $11.99 (CJ299) Bob Levin’s heavily-illustrated, long, and revelatory article about the infamous 1970s “Someday Funnies”
project which involved 190 of the time’s greatest cartoonists and writers and never came to fruition — until, in part thanks to this aricle, it
did! | THE COMICS JOURNAL #298 $11.99 (CJ298) Interviews with the Eisner Award-winning Gabriel Bá and Fabio Moon, and with
Perry Bible Fellowship creator Nicholas Gurewitch — plus a rather startling chat with Trevor Von Eeden. | THE COMICS JOURNAL #297
$11.99 (CJ297) A career-spanning interview with Mort Walker, plus a chat with Emmanuel Guibert (Alan’s War, The Photographer), and the
famous 17th century caricaturist Thomas K. Rowlandson is profiled. | THE COMICS JOURNAL #296 $11.99 (CJ296) The annual Bestof-the-Year issue, including interviews with Dash Shaw, Frank Quitely, David Hajdu, and cover girl Lynda Barry, plus a look at the Finnish
comics scene. | THE COMICS JOURNAL #295 $11.99 (CJ295) The feature inteview is Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man and Lost), plus
Paul Karasik chats with Gipi. | THE COMICS JOURNAL #294 $11.99 (CJ294) Interviews with wordless cartoonists Mark Tatulli (Lio) and
Jason, plus a full-color gallery of Billy DeBeck’s classic Barney Google.
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The Comics Journal Specials
WINTER 2002, 156pp. s/c, $19.95 (cjs02) Joe Sacco contributes a new cover, a new strip,
and is the subject of a long interview. Taking full advantage of the coffee-table size and color
capacity, text-and-visual features include an appreciation by Jim Woodring on the great turnof-the-century cartoonist T.S. Sullivant, with many examples of Sullivant’s virtuoso pen and
ink work; an essay by Don Phelps (Reading the Funnies, see below) on Smokey Stover, with a
generous portion of full color Smokey Stover strips; an appreciation of the obscure newspaper
cartoonist W.E. Hill by Bill Griffith with examples of Hill’s fullpage Sunday strips; and an excerpt from the second chapter
of B. Krigstein, a critical biography of Bernard Krigstein from
Fantagraphics.
THE COMICS JOURNAL SPECIAL 2005, 180pp. s/c, $24.95 (CJS05W) Nearly half of
this volume is devoted to Manga; another large chunk examines Vaughn Bodé in articles by
Bob Levin, Donald Phelps, and George Beahm. The theme of the comix section this volume
is “Seduction,” inspiring new work from Bill Griffith, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez,
Arnold Roth, and many others. Also includes an essay on Milt Gross, by Bill Blackbeard.
The Comics Journal Library
JACK KIRBY, 132pp. s/c, $18.95 (KIRBY) This monumental book collects a variety of Kirby-related writings from The Comics Journal, with rare and full-color art, exclusive interviews, fascinating essays, and an overview of his long fight to get his original art back from Marvel Comics. | R. CRUMB, 120pp. s/c, $18.95 (RCRUMB) Collecting four long out-of-print interviews
in an oversized artbook format. An absorbing oral history of comics in the latter half of the 20th century, from an artist who
single-handedly shaped it to a great extent. | DRAWING THE LINE, 156pp. s/c, $22.95 (DRAWL) This volume gathers together the epic, exhaustive Journal interviews with four of the sharpest social commentators of our times: Ralph Steadman, Jules
Feiffer, Edward Sorel, and David Levine. With a full-color gallery of rarely seen work. | THE WRITERS, 280pp. s/c, $18.95
(WRITER) A collection of in-depth Journal interviews with writers who led the ascendancy of writer-driven mainstream
comic books: Chris Claremont, Steve Gerber, Len Wein, Steve Englehart, Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, Denny O’Neil,
and Alan Moore. | HARVEY KURTZMAN, 124pp. s/c $19.95 (HARVEY) Every stage of Kurtzman’s career is represented
in this richly illustrated book, beginning with his entry into comics via superhero stories, World War II-era Army cartoons, his
first collaborations with John Severin and Will Elder at Prize Comics Western, and his groundbreaking period at EC as editor
of Two-Fisted Tales, Frontline Combat and Mad. Kurtzman’s post-Mad career at Trump, Humbug, and Help! is also examined
in depth. Plus obscurities unearthed from Kurtzman’s solo freelance career — from Children’s Digest, Pageant, U.S. Crime,
and Why — most of which
haven’t been seen since
their original publication.
All of which illustrate
the most informative and
compelling interviews with
Kurtzman ever published.
MORE INSIGHTFUL WRITING ON COMIC STIPS: READING THE FUNNIES, 308pp. s/c, $19.95 (READI)
Winner of the prestigioius American Book Award! Frequent Comics Journal contributor Donald Phelps, whom Art
Spiegelman has called “our great poet of the poetics of comics,” provides insightful essays on popular classics such as
Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theatre (which produced Popeye), Frank King’s Gasoline Alley, B.
Kliban, Major Hoople, Harrison Cady, and more. His keen eye discerns the sublime qualities of this most American
art form with wit and refreshing candor.
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The Best American Comics
Criticism
edited by Ben Schwartz; cover by Drew Friedman
Comics and graphic novels truly came into their own at the end of the 20th century,
but the critics took a decade to catch up. This thick book collects the best commentary
on comics from these last ten years. Contributors include John Hodgman, Jeet Heer,
Daniel Clowes, Donald Phelps, Jonathan Franzen, Peter Bagge, Chris Ware, Seth,
David Hajdu, Douglas Wolk, and editor Ben Schwartz, while the subjects tackled
include Epileptic, Daniel Clowes’s David Boring and Ice Haven, Jimmy Corrigan:
The Smartest Kid on Earth, Jack Kirby’s “Fourth World” series, Persepolis, Peanuts,
Krazy Kat, the earliest days of super-hero comics, Fun Home, the 9/11 comics, Little
Orphan Annie, Spider-Man, the forgotten comics of John Stanley, Gasoline Alley,
comics pioneer Rodophle Töpffer, Lynda Barry, Kavalier and Clay, Mort Weisinger
and Julius Schwartz. Plus Daniel Clowes in conversation with Jonatham Lethem,
Frank Miller in conversation with Will Eisner, Alan Moore chatting about Steve Ditko,
interviews with Tatsumi, Chester Brown, Kim Deitch, and Will Elder, and much, much
more. 232-page illustrated 7” x 9” softcover $19.99 (BAMCOM)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/bestamerican
Most Outrageous:
The Trials and Trespasses of
Dwaine Tinsley and Chester the Molester
by Bob Levin
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In May 1989, Dwaine Tinsley stood at the summit of an unlikely career. A high school
dropout and ex-con from trailer-trash circumstances, Tinsley rose to be cartoon editor
for Hustler magazine, helping spearhead that publication’s fight against the forces
of censorship and repression that sought to overthrow the political and cultural gains
of the 1960s. His primary personal contribution was “Chester the Molester,” a hulking middle-aged man who craved pre-pubescent girls... And then Tinsley’s teenage
daughter accused him of years of sexual abuse. And the prosecution in his ensuing
criminal trial cast boxes full of his cartoons against him. This thought-provoking,
unforgettable book fearlessly examines Tinsley’s inflammatory story with uncommon
insight. 200-page illustrated 6” x 9” softcover $19.99 (MOSOUT)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/mostoutrageous
MORE BOB LEVIN BOOKS: OUTLAWS, REBELS, FREETHINKERS AND PIRATES, 200page softcover $16.95 (OUTLAW) In these profile/essays, Levin explores the back roads of creative
genius in as off-beat a collection of characters as are likely to be found outside a carnival midway,
fashioning powerful arguments for the value of unfettered expression. | THE PIRATES AND THE
MOUSE, 272-page h/c $24.00 (PIRMOU) This hilarious but scrupulously researched volume relates the suicidal but vastly entertaining attempt by the “Air Pirates” underground cartoonists’ collective to bring down Disney via deliberate copyright violation. Lots of illustrations.
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Innocence and Seduction:
The Art of Dan DeCarlo
by Bill Morrison
Though best known as the definitive Archie Comics artist and creator of Josie and
the Pussycats, DeCarlo also brought his unique style to dozens of other characters
including Millie the Model, Willie Lumpkin, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Big Boy,
Batman and even the Simpsons. This book presents a fitting tribute to the life
and art of one of the world’s all-time best cartoonists in a wide-ranging career
retrospective, lavishly designed with over 300 illustrations. Included are rare
World War II-era cartoons, original Humorama pinups, seldom-seen newspaper
strips, examples of his justly famous commercial comics work, and of course, lots
and lots of those fabulous DeCarlo girls! 208-page full-color 9” x 12” softcover
$34.95 (INNSED)
SEE ALSO: Dan DeCarlo pin-up books on page 42!
Meanwhile…
A Biography of Milton Caniff
by R.C. Harvey
Milton Caniff was one of the most influential American cartoonists of the 20th century. He rose to
prominence during World War II when the trenchant
pragmatic patriotism of his Terry and the Pirates
strip warmed hearts and steeled nerves on the home
front as well as the battlefront. He went on to create
Steve Canyon, which ran from 1947 to Caniff’s death in 1988. Meanwhile... traces
Caniff’s life from the cradle to the grave, examining the artistic innovations and
work routines of a nationally distributed cartoonist whose career was central to the
development of the art form. It also serves as a history of the medium and reveals
the inner workings of the syndicate business (at which Caniff was as expert as he was
at cartooning). 952-page 6” x 9” hardcover $34.95 (MILBIO)
Squa Tront #13
edited by John Benson
Five years in the making, Squa Tront returns with a profusion of rare and interesting features from the EC era: the story behind Basil Wolverton’s first EC art;
Howard Nostrand’s last interview; art from the unpublished third issue of Flip;
Jack Davis’s WWII cartoons; plus EC era art by Wallace Wood, John and Marie
Severin, Harvey Kurtzman, and Roy Krenkel. The longest running EC historical
magazine and a perfect companion to Fantagraphics’ new series of EC reprints
(see page 7). 48-page b&w and color 8.5” x 11” softcover $9.99 [SQTR13]
ALSO AVAILABLE: Squa Tront #10 (Feldstein interview, a Wood/Krigstein/Kurtzman
panel, and more) $7.95) [SQTR10]
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The Art of Joe Kubert
edited by Bill Schelly
Joe Kubert’s career literally traverses the
history of comics, beginning in 1938 when
he became a professional at age 12, to
today as one of the greatest draftsmen
working in the field. The Art of Joe Kubert
is a deluxe, full-color coffee table book that
honors this legendary creator with beautifully
reproduced artwork from every phase of
his career as well as critical commentary
by the book’s editor, comics historian and
Kubert biographer Bill Schelly. Schelly’s text
parallels the visual evolution of the artist’s
work, tracing his life and career from his
early days drawing Hawkman in the Golden
Age, to his creation of Tor, his involvement in creating 3-D comics in
the 1950s, his tour de force stints on DC’s war comics — Sgt. Rock, The
Unknown Soldier and the groundbreaking Enemy Ace — in the 1960s,
to illustrating the adventures of Tarzan in the 1970s. And before finding
a creative safe haven at DC Comics in the ’50s, Kubert drew for many
smaller and more obscure companies, including Holyoke, Quality, Fiction
House, Harvey, St. John, and others — all of which are represented, including a 50-page section of comicbook stories in the horror, crime, and SF genres from the pre-Comics Code era, reprinted in full color for the
first time. 232-page full-color 9” x 12” hardcover $39.99 (ARTKUB)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/artofjoekubert
Joe Kubert: Man of Rock
by Bill Schelly
Joe Kubert’s extraordinary career
spans the history of the comic book
in America: he began drawing
comics in 1938, just as Superman
made his debut in Action Comics
#1, and continues to be one of
the most vital cartoonists working
today, writing and drawing both
mainstream comic book characters
as well as, more recently, graphic
novels of his own conception. This
insightful book provides a unique,
behind-the-scenes look at the career of one of the most distinctive, dynamic artists in the history of comics, covering all facets of Kubert’s creative life: artist,
writer, innovator, entrepreneur, and educator. Man of Rock is
a full-bodied biography intended to be read and enjoyed by
anyone interested in the history of American popular culture.
220-page b&w 6” x 9” softcover $19.99 (MROCK)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/manofrock
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Jewish Images in the Comics
by Fredrik Strömberg
In his third book to examine different cultural aspects of our society as
mirrored in comics, Fredrik Strömberg shines the spotlight on more than
150 comic strips, comic books and graphic novels from all over the world,
stretching over the last five centuries. The book is divided into chapters on
Anti-Semitism, the Old Testament, the Holocaust, the Golem and much
more, featuring everything from such well-known graphic novels as Art
Spiegelman’s Maus to much more obscure but no less culturally interesting
examples of how Jewish culture has been depicted in comics — for better
or for worse (sometimes for far worse). A short essay and a representative
illustration accompany each comics sample. The book is augmented by a
context-setting introduction as well as an extensive source list and bibliography. 424-page 6” x 6” b&w hardcover $26.99 [JEWIMG]
Black Images in the Comics
by Fredrik Strömberg; introduction by Charles Johnson
This book spotlights over 100 comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels
to feature black characters from all over the world. The book begins with the
appalling images of blacks as ignorant “coons” in syndicated strips (Happy
Hooligan and The Katzenjammer Kids), and continues with the colonialist
images of Tintin in the Congo and the offensive Ebony character in Will
Eisner’s otherwise classic The Spirit from the ’40s and ’50s. Earnest attempts
at ’60s integration are seen in such strips as Peanuts, and the book wraps
up with the increased visibility in current comics, especially in work by black
creators such as Aaron McGruder’s pointed The Boondocks. A short essay
and a representative illustration accompany each comics sample. The book is
augmented by a context-setting introduction as well as an extensive source list
and bibliography. 304-page 6” x 6” b&w softcover $19.99 [blimgs]
The Comics Go To Hell
by Fredrik Strömberg; cover by Jaime Hernandez
The Devil is one of the most potent and longest-lived icons in the history
of human civilization. Fredrik Strömberg examines how cartoonists through
the ages have used the myths about the Devil. Comics featured in this book
include the infamous Jack T. Chick tracts, Hellblazer, Love & Rockets, The
Checkered Demon, Donald Duck, Mephisto, The
New Adventures of Jesus, The Demon, Futurama,
Preacher, Hot Stuff The Little Devil, Castle
Waiting, Sandman, The Book of Leviathan,
Swamp Thing, Spawn, Uncanny X-Men, Tintin,
and Lady Death. Like Strömberg’s previous
books from Fantagraphics, this book is designed
for maximum browsability, with each spread
featuring a short essay on a comic next to a representative panel of the work at
hand. 360-page 6” x 6” b&w hardcover $18.95 [comicg]
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Rebel Visions:
The Underground Comix
Revolution 1963–1975
by Patrick Rosenkranz
This is a provocative chronicle of the guerilla
art movement that changed comics forever.
Rosenkranz spent over 30 years researching
this book and acquiring the cooperation of
every significant underground cartoonist who
worked throughout this period, including
Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Bill Griffith,
Art Spiegelman, Jack Jackson, S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, and many more. The book is illustrated with many never-before-seen drawings by all of the
underground cartoonists and exclusive photographs. This is
the definitive book on a memorable and historic era, available for the first time in paperback in this newly designed,
expanded and revised edition. 292-page full-color 9” x 12” softcover $34.99 (REBVSC)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/rebelvisionssc
The Strange Case of Edward Gorey
by Alexander Theroux
Drawing on exclusive interviews conducted
with the artist shortly before his passing in
2000, National Book Award-nominee Alexander Theroux combines artistic analysis, personal reminiscence (the two were
friends and neighbors for over 25 years),
and an intimate familiarity with Gorey’s
oeuvre to create the most revealing and
intimate portrait yet of the beloved but
reclusive and enigmatic artist. Originally
released in paperback in 2000 but out
of print for most of the last decade, this
very expanded re-release is an essential book for all Gorey fans and scholars, and Theroux’s own opinionated cantankerousness makes for an entertaining pas de deux between the two great originals. 160-page b&w
6” x 9” hardcover $14.99 (EDWGOR)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/gorey
ALSO BY ALEXANDER THEROUX: THE ENIGMA OF
AL CAPP, $6.95 (ENIGMA) Theroux traces Capp’s transformation from a brilliantly funny social advocate creator
of the American myth into a much darker, haunted man
who adopted the conservative politics he once criticized.
64-page softcover.
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Rick Altergott
DOOFUS OMNIBUS and THE
LIZARD OF OZ
A cult favorite, Doofus is the most
dismaying comic you'll find this
decade, in which Altergott delineates
with scrupulous, classical zip-a-toned
detail the exploits of the world's biggest
dork. This book is in short supply, so act now! 112-page
softcover $16.95 (DOOFUS)
Altergott & Bordeaux
RAISIN PIE
Bordeaux wraps up the small-town serial “Maple Valley Public Library” and
the awkward teen romance “Queen
of the Geeks," while Doofus continues
his search for his missing friend Henry
Hotchkiss in the epic “Blessed Be.” Issues #1–4 also available. 32-page b&w comics $3.50
each (RAISP1–5)
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Peter Bagge
THE BUDDY BRADLEY STORIES
Although we’ve since collected these
stories into big “omnibus” editions (see
page 8), we still have copies of these
older editions (which are slightly larger,
in some cases available as hardcovers,
and in the case of the last three, in full
color) in stock.
BUDDY GO HOME (#16–20) full color, $16.95 (BUDHO)
BUDDY’S GOT THREE MOMS (#21–25) full color,
$16.95 (BUDGO)
BUDDY BITES THE BULLET (#26–30) full color, $16.95
(BUDBIT)
Special Offer: BUDDY COLOR PACK: All three full
color Buddy books (Home/Moms/Bullet) for only $29.99!
(BUDPK)
Jim Blanchard
BEASTS AND PRIESTS
Jessica Abel
SOUNDTRACK:
SHORT STORIES 1990–1996
Containing the best of Abel's self-published Artbabe (plus other rarities), this
book features her original takes on the
young hipsters and seekers that populate her work — much of it widely available here for the first time! 100-page softcover $12.95
(SNDTRK)
Max Andersson &
Lars Sjunneson
BOSNIAN FLAT DOG
The 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia.
A grenade shell from a Sarajevo souvenir shop. A
refrigerator with the frozen mummy of Tito... These serve
as the starting point for a journey down the collective
unconscious of the Balkans, created by two expatriate
Swedish cartoonists working as one (very sick) brain.
112-page softcover $13.95 (BOSNIA)
Max Andersson
PIXY
A wildly inventive, sharply satirical
graphic novel epic of safe sex suits,
buildings that eat people, drunken foetuses with bazookas, money that shits
on you, and recyclable bodies. 72page softcover $11.95 (PIXY)
COMICS: Death and Candy
Hilarious and grim fairy tales including the continuing adventures of the
accident-prone Car-Boy and other
stories. 32pp. each; #1–4, $4.95
More than ten years’ worth of pointillist portraiture of the world’s most legendary scene-makers, including Duke
Ellington, Redd Foxx, Frances Farmer,
Lemmy Kilmister, Ron Jeremy, Frank Sinatra, Nell Carter, Dean Martin and so many, many more. 64-page
softcover $9.95 (BEASTS)
Mark Bodé
LIZARD OF OZ
Continuing after Vaughn Bode’s
death, son Mark Bode crafts one lush
last book-length romp with some
favorite characters in a fantasy setting.
56 page softcover $12.95
Charles Burns
COMICS: Even though the Pantheon
edition of Black Hole is available, we
still have collector’s editions copies of
the serialized Black Hole comic #2,
6–10, with front and back covers not in
the collection. 32pp., 99 cents each
(BLAH2, 6-10)
Sophie Crumb
BELLY BUTTON COMIX #2
Thrill to these vivacious autobiographical stories of a woman living her early
20s in Paris and Berkeley, with stories
of young love, cell phones, and sexual frustration! 32-page comic $4.95
(BBUTT2)
each (DEAT1–4)
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John Cuneo
MINIMUM WAGE BOOK ONE
NEUROTIC
Master illustrator John (Rolling Stone,
Mother Jones, The Atlantic) Cuneo
has spent years creating page after page of weird,
perverse, erotic, hilarious, and disgusting images in
his sketchbooks. nEuROTIC is a sharply designed little
volume that collects the very best of his humorous
erotica. 96-page full-color hardcover $19.95 (NEUROT)
Gene Deitch
TERR’BLE THOMPSON
Prior to his Oscar-winning animation
career, Gene Deitch created one of
the most unusual comic strips of the
1950s, about a very odd little boy and his time-traveling
adventures with great historic figures. 104-page softcover $18.95 (TERRBT)
Ray Fenwick
MASCOTS
A collection of impressionistic full-color
paintings and stories taking place on
found book covers, playing with lettering
and language in an absurd manner.
128-page hardcover $22.99 (MASCOT)
Debbie Drechsler
DADDY’S GIRL
Debbie Drechsler’s account of her
abuse at the hands of her father, told
from the point of view of an adolescent,
is one of the most searingly honest and
profoundly disturbing uses of the comics medium in its
history. 88-page hardcover $14.95 (DGIRLH)
Bob Fingerman
BEG THE QUESTION
The definitive collection of Fingerman’s
breakout comic series about twentysomething bohemians making their way
through the twists and turns of New York
life, with added graytones and bonus
material! 240-page softcover $16.95
(BEGTHS)
CONNECTIVE TISSUE
If William Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, H.P.
Lovecraft, and Harvey Kurtzman ever
collaborated, the result might resemble
Bob Fingerman’s bold confection of
words and pictures—the copiously
illustrated prose novel Connective
Tissue. 134-page hardcover $22.95
(CONTIS)
This “lost” early version of the beginning
of Beg the Question was edited out of
the book. Few copies available of this
bit of Fingerman apocrypha! 72-page
softcover $9.95 (MWAG)
Eve Gilbert
TITS, ASS AND REAL ESTATE
Populated by junkies, grifters, hustlers,
strippers, pimps and various strains of
victims and criminals, this collection
of autobiographical stories is a biting,
satirical portrait of America as seen
from the lower depths. 96-page softcover $12.95 (TITSAS)
Leah Hayes
FUNERAL OF THE HEART
Debut graphic novel features several
short stories told in scratchboard.
Obsessive animals and unnerving
deaths rack the pages of this tour-deforce. 120 page softcover $14.95 (FHEART)
HOLY MOLY
Hayes’ debut comic is an old and
affecting sketchbook done while the
artist should have been paying attention
in class, a profoundly more interesting
used of class time. 40-page softcover
$4.95 (HOLYMO)
Rory Hayes
WHERE DEMENTED WENTED
The conttroversial cartoonist Rory
Hayes ws a self-taught dynamo of
the underground comix revolution —
comics’ great primitive. This is the first
retrospective of Hayes’s career and
includes a career-spanning essay by Savage Pencil and
an interview with Hayes himself. 144-page softcover
$22.99 (DEMWEN)
Walt Holcombe
THINGS JUST GET AWAY FROM
YOU
Blessed with a lovely bouncy, rubbery
SpongeBob SquarePants-y style, and
beloved by fellow cartoonists like Seth
and Chris Ware, Walt Holcombe tells wildly imaginative
stories of love gained and (often) lost. 216-page
hardcover $24.95 (TJUST)
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Kaz
DUH: UNDERWORLD VOL. 4
$9.95
The fourth collection of Kas’z comic
strip, Underworld, is stuffed with
almost-parodies of famous comic strip
characters, A Pogo for punks, real holdyour-bowels funny. 96 page softcover
(UNDWO4)
Wilfred Santiago
IN MY DARKEST HOUR
The Age of Anxiety has never been
better depicted in comics form than
in this graphic novel that explores the
inner life of its protagonist, a Latin
American transient who confronts
feelings of inadequacy, anger, guilt, and alienation.
128-page softcover $14.95 (INMYD)
Martin Kellerman
Mitch Schauer Et al.
ROCKY VOLUME I:
THE BIG PAYBACK
RIP, M.D.
Mitch Schauer and Mike Vosburg team
up on this creepy all-ages adventure
following an eleven-year old boy
who is an accidental Monster Doctor!
88 page paperback $12.99 (RIPMD)
The first volume of this riotous series
features Rocky’s beginnings as a struggling cartoonist. Sex, swearing and grisly one-night
stands galore. 112-page softcover $12.95 (ROCKY)
Rocky Volume II:
Strictly Business
More hilarious boozing, screwing around,
swearing, and pop-culture obsessing from
Sweden’s finest daily strip! 120-page
softcover $12.95 (ROCK2)
John Kerschbaum
PETEY & PUSSEY
John Kerschbaum’s new graphic novel
reads very much like a Loony Tunes
cartoon—if all of the anthropomorphic
animals were kvetching, balding, foulmouthed misanthropes. 128-page
hardcover $19.99 (PETPUS)
R. Sikoryak
THE SEDUCTION OF MIKE
Before Masterpiece Comics, Sikoryak
cut his satirical teeth with this chronicle
of the career of “Mike,” a “supporting
character,” as told through a series of
comic-book cover pastiches from the
late 1930s to the undergrounds of the
1960s and beyond, all impeccably parodied. 48-page
two-color paperback $8.95 (SEDUC)
Frank Stack
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF
JESUS: THE SECOND COMING
Jesus is back in this collection of the
very first underground comic ever published. Introduction by Robert Crumb;
preface by Gilbert Shelton. 160-page
Max
BARDÍN THE SUPERREALIST
In a series of vignettes, gags,
illustrations, text pieces, and dream
stories, Bardín examines, questions,
defends his own beliefs, convictions
and philosophies while tangling with
the “Andalusian Dog” and the Holy
Trinity. 80-page full-color hardcover $14.95 (BARDIN)
John Pham
SUBLIFE
This graphic novel anthology
series features atmospheric science
fiction, apocalyptic stories and
wordless comics by John Pham.
Issue 1 (64 pages) $8.99 (SUBLIF); Issue 2 (48 pages)
$7.99 (UBLIF2)
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softcover $19.95
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NAKED GLORY
$12.95 (GLORY)
Naked women! And lots of ‘em,
fleshed out with consummate skill in
this gorgeous collection. Sensuous and
provocative, these stunning women
sizzle with passion. Rendered in a variety of media, from smoky pastels to
intricate etchings. 72-page softcover
Ted Stearn
FUZZ AND PLUCK: SPLITSVILLE
Stearn’s bear-and-rooster duo return
in this graphic novel featuring Quioxtic
quests and questionable gladiator
events. 280-page hardcover $24.99
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Backlist
C. Swain & B. Paley
Barry Windsor-Smith
A comics memoir of sex, drugs
and rock ‘n’ roll, a life lived in the
countercultural margins, from the
Summer of Love to the punk years.
136-page hardcover $19.99 (GIRAFF)
Superficially resembling the 1960s
Thor, Young GODS is sexy, ribald
and funny, as three errant gods with
mismatched goals and personalities
seek fun across the universe. 192page hardcover $29.95 (YOUGOD)
GIRAFFES IN MY HAIR
Carol Swain
FOODBOY
A loss and hope, friendship, and faith;
when Ross ends up alienated after an
encounter with a troupe of Evangelists,
his friend Gareth must to try to help
him. 80-page softcover $9.95 (FOODB)
Penny Van Horn
YOUNG GODS & FRIENDS
THE FREEBOOTERS
A lively, character-driven graphic narrative set in a fantastic, ancient milieu;
a riotous, unexpected and postmodern
take on the “barbarian” genre. Lots of
previously unseen material. 184-page
hardcover $29.95 (FREEBO)
ADASTRA IN AFRICA
RECIPE FOR DISASTER
Short stories and vignettes, mostly
autobiographical,
part
mystical
exploration, depicting incidents from the
author’s life, in painstaking scratchboard
style. 88-page paperback $9.95 (RECIP)
Originally conceived for X-Men, this story
was re-invented by Windsor-Smith and
recast with his character Adastra as a
compelling, touching and magnificently
drawn fable, with informative and
amusing extras! $15.00 (ADASTR)
White & Groth, eds.
Craig Yoe, ed.
An historical account of the high crimes
and misdemeanors of the administration
of George W. Bush, as told by an international assemblage of world-class cartoonists. 200-page softcover $18.95 (BUSHJ)
The weird and sexy world of Boody
Rogers, a cowboy cartoonist of the
Golden Age, is collected in this tome.
144-page paperback $19.99 (BOODY)
THE BUSH JUNTA
BOODY: THE BIZARRE COMICS
OF BOODY ROGERS
FOCUS ON
NEIL GAIMAN
Neil Gaiman: The Sandman Papers
edited by Joe Sanders
Twelve wide-ranging essays of criticism, exploration, and appreciation that grapple with
questions of how script and art combine to make The Sandman an especially complex,
rewarding comic. 280-page softcover $18.95 (SANDPA)
Neil Gaiman:
Hanging Out with the Dream King
edited by Joe McCabe
Artists, writers, editors, and musicians share their thoughts on working with Gaiman and
present a unique mosaic portrait of the writer whose name has become synonymous with
modern fantasy. Illustrated with many unpublished photos and comic pages. Signed edition
limited to 1,000 copies! 280-page softcover $17.95 (HANDKS); hardcover signed by Gaiman $39.95 (HANDKZ)
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Sexytime
The Post-Porn Rise of the Pornoisseur
by Jacques Boyreau and Peter Van Horne
An oversized coffee table book celebrating the art of the 1970s porn movie
poster, collecting over 100 of the most outrageously over-the-top examples of
the era, pristinely remastered. It includes “classics” like The Sex-Ray Machine,
Candy Goes to Hollywood, and The Senator’s Daughter starring such ’70s porn
stalwarts as Annie Sprinkle, John Holmes, and Seka. This is the book for those
who harbor a healthy, passionate yet tortured curiosity and appreciation, in
short, a total jones for retro design mixed with brazen sexuality. Selected with
heat sensitive attention to detail and accompanied by a brain-ripping narration
by Jacques Boyreau, this collection of movie posters from the golden age of
American porn is a portrait of taboo-busting 1970s “porno chic” erotomania.
96-page 10.75” x 14.25” full-color hardcover $29.99 [SEXYTI]
Portable Grindhouse
The Lost Art of the VHS Box
by Jacques Boyreau
Harken back to those thrilling days of
yesteryear when the advent of rental
videos astonished the movie-going
consumer who could only feed his
addiction by going to the theater or
watching chopped up movies in between commercials on TV. Portable
Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS
Box is a feast for exploitation cognoscenti, reprinting some of the most louche, decadent,
minimo-pervo artwork to ever grace a VHS box, featuring such movies as From Beyond, Penitentiary II, Beast
of the Yellow Night, Cop Killers, Bay of Blood, Escape from Death Row, and Cocaine Wars. Throughout, editor
Jacques Boyreau succinctly narrates the household-piercing story of VHS. Portable Grindhouse is published in
a VHS “format,” slyly packaged inside a facsimile VHS box, and contains almost a hundred reproductions of
VHS art with commentary. 200-page 5.5” x 9.25” full-color paperback $19.99 [PGRIN1]
Art School Confidential
by Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff
Art School Confidential, Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff’s major motion picture
follow-up to Ghost World, follows Jerome (Minghella), an art student who dreams
of becoming the greatest artist in the world. The film expands on a short comic
story by Clowes that was originally published in his comic book series Eightball
(and later collected in the book Twentieth Century Eightball — see page 8) though
features an entirely new narrative only tangentially resembling the original comic.
This scrapbook/screenplay also features the shooting script for the film, including
several scenes edited out from the final cut. It also boasts two full-color sections
jammed with photos, artwork (much by Clowes), and many other surprises. 204page 6” x 6.5” b&w and color paperback $14.95 [ARTSCH]
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music
The Grammar of Rock
One of America’s least compromising satirists takes a comprehensive look at the
colorful language of pop lyrics and the realm of rock music in general, from the best
to the worst, with encyclopedic insight and probing wit. In a way that no one else
has ever done, with his usual encyclopedic insights into the state of the modern lyric,
Theroux focuses on the state of language — the power of words and the nature of
syntax — in The Grammar of Rock. He analyzes its assaults on listeners’ impulses by
investigating singers’ styles, pondering illogical lunacies in lyrics, and deconstructing
the nature of diction and presentation in the language. 352-page 6” x 9” hardcover
$28.99 [GRAMRO)
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Taking Punk To The Masses:
From Nowhere To Nevermind
by Jacob McMurray
A visual and oral history of Grunge, the Seattle Sound, and the underground punk
subculture that redefined music in the late 1970s and 1980s, represented through the
collection of Experience Music Project, Seattle’s museum of music and popular culture,
pulling from a permanent archive of 800+ filmed oral history interviews and 140,000
artifacts — instruments, costumes, posters, records and other ephemera—dedicated
to rock ’n’ roll. These artifacts are put into context by the stories of those that lived
it: Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh, Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart, X’s
Exene Cervenka, Sub Pop founders Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman, Black Flag’s
Henry Rollins, Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, and nearly 100 others. Includes an exclusive
DVD with hours of interviews. 248 page paperback with DVD. $29.99 (takpun)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/takingpunk
Everything Is An Afterthought:
The Life And Writings Of Paul Nelson
by Kevin Avery; Foreword by Nick Tosches
In the ‘60s, Paul Nelson pioneered rock & roll criticism with a first-person style of
writing that would later be popularized as “New Journalism.” In the early 1970s,
Nelson signed the New York Dolls to their first recording contract, then settled back
down to writing criticism at Rolling Stone as the last in a great tradition of recordreview editors. Championing the early careers of artists like Bruce Springsteen,
Jackson Browne, Rod Stewart, Neil Young, and Warren Zevon, Nelson not only wrote
about them but often befriended them. He was also one of punk rock’s first stateside
mainstream proponents. This unique anthology-biography compiles Nelson’s best
works (some of it previously unpublished) while also providing a vivid account of his
life. 512 page hardcover. $29.99 (eveaft)
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Significant Objects
edited by Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker
Significant Objects represents the latest plot twist to the story
of a very unlikely project that began as an experiment, turned
into an experimental literary magazine secretly published on
eBay, and currently raises money for youth tutoring nonprofits.
Founded by Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker, SignificantObjects.com has published an extraordinary series of 200 stories
and counting — by William Gibson, Curtis Sittenfeld, Sheila
Heti, Colson Whitehead, Nicholson Baker, Meg Cabot, Gary
Panter, Ben Katchor, Lydia Millet, Jonathan Lethem, and other
talented writers — about ordinary stuff like novelty items, discarded souvenirs, and tasteless kitchenware picked up cheap
at thrift stores and yard sales. The goal: To see if commissioning great stories about these insignificant things
would increase their value — as measured in actual eBay auctions. The experiment, in short, was a smash
hit. As will be the Significant Objects book, which features 100 moving, absurd, surprising, and always entertaining stories from the project’s three volumes. It will change the way you look at things, forever. 242-page
paperback $24.99 (SIGOBJ) [Choose your cover: Cow creamer or bunny candle]
The Last Vispo Anthology:
Visual Poetry 1998-2008
edited by Nico Vassilakis and Craig Hill
Fantagraphics spotlights the intersection of art and language in this innovative new
collection that gathers the work of visual poets from around the world into one
stunning volume. The alphabet is turned on its head and inside-out and the results
culminate in a compilation of daring and surprising verbo-visual gems. The collection
extends the dialectic between art and literature that began with ancient “shaped text,”
medieval pattern poetry, and dada typography, pushing past the concrete poetics
of the 1950s and the subsequent mail art movement of the 1980s to its current
incarnation. Rather than settle into predictable, unchallenged patterns, this vibrant
poetry seizes new tools to expand the body of work that inhabits the borderlands of
visual art and poetic language. The Last Vispo Anthology features 148 contributors
from 23 countries on five continents. It includes 12 essays that illuminate the abundant history and the state
of vispo today. 336-page color and b&w Flexibound $39.99 (LASVIS)
What is All This? Uncollected Stories
By Stephen Dixon
Fantagraphics Books is proud to present this incredible volume of short stories,
a massive collection of vintage Dixon. Dixon’s finely chiseled sentences cut to the
quick of people’s lives. None of these stories have been collected in any book; they
have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals over almost 40 years and Dixon has entirely rewritten all of them. Dixon admirers will be cheered to learn that
these stories comprise a wholly original work. 566-page softcover $29.99 (WHATIS)
“This mammoth collection presents five decades of Dixon: sex, frustration, and attempts at deeper communication, mostly missed... There are echoes of Ernest Hemingway and prefigurings of Raymond Carver’s
lower-middle-class minimalism... these stories are a testament to an impressive career spent too much under
the radar.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery
A penetrating examination of a country that, for many, seems alien and distanced
from the modern world. For Theroux, the country and its people become a puzzle.
His fascination with their language, manners, and legacy of occupation and
subordination leads him to a revelatory examination of Estonia’s peculiar place
in European history. This travelogue of his months abroad brims with anecdotes
of Theroux’s encounters with the Estonian people and his fellow Americans, whom
he at times feels more alienated than the frosty, humorless Europeans. 352-page
hardcover. $24.99 (ESTONI)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/estonia
“Theroux reads like a thoroughly modern avatar of 18th Century literature. He puzzles like Sterne, spins
adventures like Fielding, bends genres like Defoe, and holds forth like Dr. Johnson.” — Jonathan Franzen
Talk to Her
by Kristine McKenna
Talk to Her is McKenna’s second collection (the first was 1999’s Book of Changes)
of favorite interviews culled from her files, and the book reveals her highly intimate technique as an interviewer. That she manages to get such candor out of
her subjects is remarkable. The stunning list of interview subjects includes: Filmmaker Robert Altman; Jackie Onassis’s cousin Edie Beale; punk rocker and poet
Exene Cervenka; the musician Elvis Costello; surf guitar legend Dick Dale; the
postmodern critic Jacques Derrida; John (Johnny Rotten) Lydon; cartoon journalist
Joe Sacco; and many more, plus an interview with Orson Welles’s assistant about
the great one’s last days. Talk to Her also includes portraits of each interview subject by some of the best cartoonists in the world, including Daniel Clowes, Charles
Burns, Phoebe Gloeckner, Jason T. Miles, Tony Millionaire, Jeff Wong and others.
264-page paperback $16.95 (TALKTO)
“Kristine has a rare talent for catching her subjects being themselves and saying things they care about.” — Beck
Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual
This is a compendious satire, a bold and inquisitorial circuit-breaking
examination of love and hate, of rejection and forgiveness, of the sacred
and the profane, of trust and romantic disappointment, of the terrors of
contemporary life. Theroux’s maximalist and pyrotechnic prose style and
seaching intellect are the chief attractions—a whirlwind of outrageous comedy,
nuanced philosophical insight, winsome love scenes, flame-throwing tirades,
subtle theological musings, and an unflinching genius for a profound, if
merciless, look at the human condition. 824-page hardcover $29.95 (lauraw)
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The Big Town
by Monte Schulz
The story of a failed businessman whose dreams of prosperity hinge on the secret
proposition of a millionaire industrialist and a dangerous relationship he finds
with a poor orphan girl chasing love in the great American metropolis. Harry
Hennesey’s hopes of success, both in his household and the world, have driven
him to sell his small town home and take his chances in the big city. The Big Town
evokes a lost era through language and flamboyant characters reminiscent of
Fitzgerald, Dos Passos, Ring Lardner, etc. Yet it’s also eerily relevant to our own
time with its study of the role of business, crime, morality, and love in our lives.
360-page hardcover. $29.99 (BIGTOW)
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The Last Rose of Summer
by Monte Schulz; cover by Cathy Malkasian
Three strong-minded women related by marriage form an uneasy household in the
summer of 1929. Forced by her husband Harry to uproot their two small children
from Illinois and take up residence in East Texas, Marie Hennesey struggles to find
a place not only within her mother-in-law’s home but in a Southern town whose
troubling unfamiliarities compound her marital woes and homesickness. As summer
wears on, the conflicts among these women are exacerbated by a child murder
that sends shockwaves of fear and mistrust throughout the community, particularly
between the town’s white residents and a black shantytown across the river. An
ever-increasing sense of dread culminates in the arrival of a terrible storm whose
aftermath reveals poignant and unexpected truths about these three women living at
a time when America was poised on the brink of economic catastrophe. 322-page
hardcover $29.99 (LASTRO)
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This Side of Jordan
by Monte Schulz; cover by Al Columbia
A thoroughly American novel told in the voice of a lost generation hurtling toward
the Great Depression, evoking a long ago America of crowded Main Streets
and tourist camps, miles of cornfields, rural churches, and musty parlors. It ends
on the fairgrounds of a traveling wagon circus that beckons an unlikely trio—a
sociopathic gangster, a consumptive farm boy, and a grandiloquent dwarf—
toward a startling resolution. The narrative of this novel has the momentum of
a freight train, but told in the seductive, rhythmic tradition of Southern lyricism
reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor and Truman Capote, and filled with vivid,
outsized literary characters. 320-page hardcover $22.99 (SIDJOR)
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index
7 Miles a Second....................27
21: The Story of Roberto
Clemente.............................93
50 Girls 50 and Other Stories...7
500 Portraits...........................87
Abandoned Cars....................85
Abel, Jessica.........................105
Abstract Comics......................41
Action! Mystery! Thrills!...........61
Adastra in Africa...................108
Adventures of Jodelle..............26
Adventures of Venus, The........17
Alex.......................................81
All & Sundry...........................83
Almost Silent...........................19
Altergott, Rick.......................105
Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality,
An.......................................43
Amazing Mysteries..................47
American Presidents................69
Amor Y Cohetes.....................14
Anderson, Ho Che..................71
Andersson, Max....................105
Angelman..............................21
Angry Youth Comix.................28
Any Similarity to Persons Living or
Dead…................................79
Approximate Continuum
Comics................................34
Arctic Marauder, The..............33
Armed Garden, The................71
Art of Joe Kubert, The...........102
Art School Confidential.........109
Artichoke Tales.......................84
Artist Himself, The: A Rand
Holmes Retrospective............80
Athos in America....................18
Ault, Donald.............................4
Avery, Kevin.........................110
B., David..........................24, 71
B. Krigstein Vol. 1...................67
Babel.....................................71
Back in Bleck..........................28
Bagge, Peter...................72, 105
Baobab..................................39
Barack Hussein Obama..........38
Bardín the Superrealist..........107
Barks, Carl...............................4
Barnaby.................................55
Bartier, Pierre.........................26
Beasts!...................................69
Beasts and Priests.................105
Beauchamp, Monte.................43
Beg the Question..................106
Bell, Blake........................46, 47
Belly Button Comix................105
Benson, John........................101
Bent.......................................68
Berg, Dave,..............................7
Bernard, Warren.....................54
Best American Comics Criticism,
The....................................100
Beta Testing the Apocalypse....20
Betsy and Me..........................67
Beyond Palomar.....................14
Big Baby.................................73
Big Town, The.......................113
Billy Hazelnuts........................87
BLAB!.....................................43
Black Hole............................105
Black Images in the Comics...103
Blackbeard, Bill.............5, 50, 51
Blacklung...............................35
Blanchard, Jim.....................105
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Blanquet.................................24
Blazing Combat......................52
Blecky Yuckerella....................28
Bodé, Mark..........................105
Boody: The Bizarre World of
Boody Rogers.....................108
Book of Mr. Natural, The.........10
Bordeaux, Ariel.....................105
Bosnian Flat Dog..................105
Bottomless Belly Button............96
Boyreau, Jacques..................109
Brinkley, Nell..........................44
Brinkley Girls, The...................44
Brodner, Steve........................68
Broersma, Matt.......................39
Brophy, Judith........................43
Brower, Steven........................60
Brunetti, Ivan..........................73
Buddy Bites the Bullet............105
Buddy Does Jersey..................72
Buddy Does Seattle.................72
Buddy Go Home...................105
Buddy’s Got Three Moms......105
Burns, Charles................73, 105
Burroughs, William.................21
Bushmiller, Ernie.....................44
Bush Junta, The....................108
But I Like It.............................91
Buz Sawyer.............................45
Cabbie, The...........................86
Calvario Hills....................39, 86
Came the Dawn and Other
Stories...................................7
Caniff, Milton.......................101
Capp, Al..............................104
Captain Easy..........................45
Caricature................................9
Cartoon Utopia, The...............27
Castle Waiting........................25
Cavalier Mr. Thompson, The....31
Champs.................................38
Chance in Hell........................17
Charles M. Schulz: Li’l
Beginnings...........................62
Charlie Brown’s Christmas
Stocking...............................62
Chewing Gum in Church........38
Chicken Fat............................67
Chieffet, George.....................76
Chimera.................................39
Chocolate Cheeks...................38
Chuckling Whatsit, The...........29
Chun, Alex.............................42
Chusid, Irwin..........................69
Cinema Panopticum...............25
Clouds Above, The..................74
Clowes, Daniel..8-9, 55, 78, 109
Coe, Sue................................43
Colan, Gene............................7
Cole, Jack........................42, 67
Columbia, Al..................74, 113
Comics Are for Idiots!.............28
Comics Go to Hell................106
Comics Journal, The..........98-99
Complete Crumb Comics, The.11
Complete Peanuts, The......62-63
Complete Pogo, The...............51
Conceptual Realism................70
Congress of the Animals.........36
Connective Tissue.................106
Cooper, Dave.........................68
Corona, Marco.......................39
Corpse on the Imjin! and Other
Stories...................................7
Covey, Jacob..........................69
Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack
Cole....................................42
Crackle of the Frost, The.........23
Craig, Johnny...........................7
Crane, Jordan........................74
Crane, Roy.............................45
Crime SuspenStories.................7
Cruisin’ with the Hound...........94
Crumb, Robert...................10-11
Crumb, Sophie.................8, 105
Culture Corner.......................66
Cuneo, John.........................106
Daddy’s Girl.........................106
Daly, Joe................................12
Dal Tokyo...............................26
Daniel Clowes Reader, The.......8
Darcy, Dame..........................76
Darling Chéri.........................43
Davis, Jack...................7, 49, 54
Death and Candy.................105
DeCarlo, Dan.................42, 101
Definitive Prince Valiant
Companion, The..................48
Deitch, Gene..................75, 106
Deitch, Kim............................75
Deitch, Seth............................75
Deitch, Simon.........................75
Deitch’s Pictorama..................75
Delphine..........................29, 39
Dedini, Eldon.........................42
Dennis the Menace.................53
DePastino, Todd.....................56
DeStefano, Stephen................76
Dicks and Deedees.................16
Disney, Walt.........................4, 5
Ditko, Steve............................46
Dixon, Stephen.....................111
Donald Duck............................4
Don’t Call Me Stupid...............38
Doofus Omnibus, The...........105
Dowers, Michael.....................40
Dragon Quest........................12
Drawing Power.......................54
Drechsler, Debbie.................106
Drinky Crow’s Maakies
Treasury..............................87
Drunken Dream, A...................6
Duh: Underworld 4...............107
Dumas, Jerry..........................67
Economon, Barbara................69
Education of Hopey,................16
El Borbah...............................73
Elder, Will........................54, 67
End, The.................................39
Enigma of Al Capp, The........104
Escape from Special................82
Esperanza..............................14
Estonia: A Rumble Through the
Periphery...........................112
Even More Old Jewish
Comedians..........................43
Everything Is an Afterthought.110
Extraordinary Adventures of
Adele Blanc-Sec, The............33
Eye of the Majestic Creature....94
Fall Guy for Murder and Other
Stories...................................7
Farmer, Joyce.........................77
Fear of Comics.......................16
Feiffer, Jules.....................60, 67
Feldstein, Al..............................7
Fenwick, Ray.........................106
Findakly, Brigitte.....................34
Fingerman, Bob....................106
Fire & Water...........................47
Flora, Jim...............................69
Flowers, Don..........................42
Folly.......................................27
Foodboy...............................108
Forest, Jean-Claude................32
Forney, Ellen..........................77
Foster, Hal.......................48, 67
Frank Book, The.....................35
Frazetta, Frank.........................7
Fred the Clown.......................85
Freebooters, The...................108
Freedom Fries.........................68
Freeway.................................81
Friedman, Drew........43, 78, 100
Friedman, Josh Alan...............78
From Shadow to Light.............60
From Wonderland With Love...41
Frontline Combat......................7
Frost, A.B...............................67
Fuc- --u –ss—le......................28
Fun Never Stops, The..............78
Funeral of the Heart..............106
Furry Trap, The.......................30
Fuzz and Pluck: Splitsville......107
Gaiman, Neil...........15, 65, 108
Gahan Wilson: Five Years of
Playboy Cartoons.................65
Ganges............................39, 81
Garcia, Camille Rose..............42
Ghost of Hoppers...................16
Ghost World.............................8
Giandelli, Gabriella..........13, 39
Gil Jordan..............................24
Gilbert, Eve..........................106
Gipi.......................................39
Giraffes in My Hair...............108
Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S., The...14
Glamor Girls of Don Flowers...42
Glamour Girls of Bill Ward......42
Glenn, Joshua......................111
Glitz-2-Go..............................90
God and Science....................16
Goddamn This War!...............33
Goodwin, Archie.....................52
Gorey, Edward.....................104
Gottfredson, Floyd....................5
Grammar of Rock, The..........110
Grange, Dominique................32
Great Anti-War Cartoons, The.67
Great Comic Book Heroes,
The......................................60
Gresham, William Lindsay.......94
Griffith, Bill.............................79
Gross, Milt.............................67
Grotesque..............................39
Groth, Gary......................1-116
Gruelle, Johnny......................49
Hagio, Moto.............................6
Hall, Justin.............................41
Hanging Out with the Dream
King..................................108
Hanks, Fletcher.......................52
Harum Scarum.......................34
Harvey, R.C..........................101
Hate Annual...........................72
Haunt of Fear, The....................7
Hayes, Leah.........................106
Hayes, Rory..........................106
He Done Her Wrong...............67
Head, Glenn..........................40
Heads or Tails........................13
Heart of Thomas, The...............6
Heartbreak Soup....................14
Hefner, Hugh.........................65
Hensley, Tim...........................80
Hernandez, Gilbert...14-17, 39, 72
Hernandez, Jaime......14-16, 103
Hernandez, Mario..............14-15
Herriman, George.............50-51
Hey, Wait…............................18
Hidden, The...........................29
High Soft Lisp.........................17
His Wife Leaves Him.............111
HO! The Morally Questionable
Cartoons of Ivan Brunetti......73
Holcombe, Walt....................106
Holmes, Rand.........................80
Holy Moly.............................106
Hoodoodad, The....................34
Hornschemeier, Paul...............83
Hotwire Comics......................40
House....................................30
Huizenga, Kevin...............39, 81
Human Diastrophism..............14
Humbug.................................54
Hypo, The..............................34
I Killed Adolf Hitler..................19
I Love Led Zeppelin.................77
I Shall Destroy All the Civilized
Planets!................................52
Igort.......................................39
In My Darkest Hour...............107
Innocence and Seduction......101
Innocents, The........................39
Insomnia................................39
Interiorae.........................13, 39
Is That All There Is?.................31
Isle of 100,000 Graves...........18
It Was the War of the
Trenches..............................33
Jack Davis: Drawing American
Pop Culture..........................49
Jack Jackson’s American
History.................................20
Jackson, Jack.........................20
Jaffee, Al................................54
Jason................................18-19
Jason Conquers America........19
Jessica Farm...........................30
Jewish Images in the Comics.103
Jimbo’s Inferno.......................26
Jimbo in Purgatory..................26
Job Thing, The........................35
Joe Kubert: Man of Rock.......102
Johnson, Charles..................103
Johnson, Crockett...................55
Johnson, R. Kikuo...................82
Just When You Thought Things
Couldn’t Get Any Worse.......70
Kaczynski, Tom.......................20
Kafka.....................................10
Kalesniko, Mark......................81
Kane, Brian M........................48
Karasik, Paul..........................52
Kaz......................................107
Kellerman, Martin.................107
Kelly, Carolyn.........................51
Kelly, Walt..............................51
Kelso, Megan.........................84
Kerschbaum, John................107
Ketcham, Hank.......................53
Kid Firechief, The....................38
King of the Flies......................86
King: The Special Edition.........71
Kominsky-Crumb, Aline..........10
Krazy & Ignatz........................50
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Kreider, Tim...........................85
Krenkel, Roy.............................7
Krigstein, Bernard.............57, 67
Kubert, Joe.................7, 55, 102
Kupperman, Michael...............22
Kurtzman, Harvey...............7, 54
Lagoon, The...........................13
Lane, Tim...............................85
Langridge, Roger....................85
Lasko-Gross, Miss...................82
Last Musketeer, The................19
Last Rose of Summer, The.....113
Late Bloomer..........................35
Laura Warholic, or, The Sexual
Intellectual.........................112
Left Bank Gang, The...............19
Legrand, Benjamin.................32
Let Us Be Perfectly Clear..........83
Lethem, Jonathan...................61
Levin, Bob............................100
Levine, David..........................69
Life and Death of Fritz the Cat,
The......................................10
Like a Dog.............................95
Like a Sniper Lining up His
Shot.....................................32
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron.9
Little Maakies on the Prairie.....87
Littlest Pirate King, The............24
Locas II..................................16
Los Tejanos............................20
Lost and Found: Comics
1969-2003..........................79
Lost Art of Ah Pook, The..........21
Lost Cause.............................20
Love & Rockets Companion.....15
Love & Rockets Covers............15
Love & Rockets: New Stories....14
Love & Rockets Reader............15
Love & Rockets Sketchbook......16
Love from the Shadows...........17
Low Moon..............................19
Luba......................................17
Lucas, George..........................4
Lucky in Love..........................76
LUST: Kinky Online Ads...........77
Lust, Ulli.................................20
Maakies.................................87
Mac Orlan, Pierre...................24
Macherot, Raymond................24
Mad Night, The......................29
Maggie the Mechanic..............14
Mahler, Nicolas......................21
Mail Order Bride....................81
Mairowitz, David Zane............10
Malkasian, Cathy............88, 113
Maltin, Leonard......................62
Man Who Grew His Beard,
The......................................93
Manchette, Jean-Patrick..........32
Mark Twain’s Autobiography
1910-2010..........................22
Marschall, Rick.......................54
Martí................................39, 86
Marzocchi, Leila......................39
Mascots................................106
Mattotti, Lorenzo.........13, 23, 39
Mauldin, Bill...........................56
Max.....................................107
McCabe, Joe........................108
McConey................................34
McKenna, Christine...............112
McMurray, Jacob..................110
McNeill, Malcolm....................21
Mean.....................................38
Meanwhile… A Biography of
Milton Caniff......................101
Meatcake...............................76
Medley, Linda.........................25
Meskin, Mort..........................60
Mess of Everything, A..............82
Messages in a Bottle...............57
Mezzo....................................86
Mickey Mouse...........................5
Millionaire, Tony.....................87
Minimum Wage....................106
Minus Walter..........................43
Misery Loves Comedy............73
Molotiu, Andrei.......................41
MOME...................................42
Monologues for Calculating the
Density of Black Holes..........89
More Old Jewish Comedians...43
Morrison, Bill........................101
Moscoso, Victor......................88
Most Outrageous..................100
Mother, Come Home..............83
Mr. Twee Deedle....................49
Murder by High Tide...............24
Mysterious Traveler.................46
Mystic Funnies........................10
New Tales of Old Palomar......39
New York Mon Amour............32
Naked Cartoonists..................40
Naked Glory........................107
Nancy....................................44
Neal, Nate.............................89
Nelson, Paul.........................110
nEuROTIC............................106
New Adventures of Jesus, The...95
NEWAVE!...............................40
Newgarden, Mark...................89
Niger.....................................39
Night Fisher............................82
Nightmare Alley......................94
Nilsen, Anders..................39, 89
Nimrod, The...........................34
No Straight Lines....................41
Noomin, Diane.......................90
Norman Pettingill: Backwoods
Humorist..............................90
Notes from a Defeatist............91
Number.73304-23-4153-6-96-8,
The......................................25
Nuts.......................................65
O’Connor, Flannery................57
Observed While Falling...........21
Old Jewish Comedians...........43
Orgy of Playboy’s Eldon
Dedini.................................42
Oswalt, Patton........................62
Ott, T.....................................25
Our Gang..............................51
Out of the Shadows................60
Outlaws, Rebels, Freethinkers
and Pirates.........................100
Palestine.................................91
Paley, Bruce..........................108
Panter, Gary...........................26
Parille, Ken...............................8
Passionella.............................67
Peculia...................................29
Peellaert, Guy.........................26
Penny Century........................14
Percy Gloom...........................88
Perla la Loca..........................14
Petey & Pussy........................107
Pettingill, Norman...................90
Pham, John..........................107
Piersanti, Claudio...................23
Pim & Francie: “The Golden Bear
Days”..................................74
Pin-Up Art of Bill Wenzel.........42
Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo......42
Pin-Up Art of Humorama........42
Pirates and the Mouse...........100
Pirus.......................................86
Pixy......................................105
Poe, Edgar Allan Poe..............23
Pogo......................................51
Pollard, Robert........................70
Ponchione, Sergio...................39
Popeye...................................64
Portable Frank, The.................35
Portable Grindhouse.............109
Prince Valiant...................48, 67
Prison Pit................................28
Problematic: Sketchbook
Drawings 2004-2012...........36
Pussey!.....................................9
Queen of the Black Black........84
R. Crumb Sketchbooks............11
R.I.P.: Best of.............1985-2004
Raisin Pie..............................105
Ralph Azham..........................34
Raven, The.............................23
Rayburn-Maarup, Steffen.........41
Rebel Visions: The Underground
Comix Revolution
1963-1975........................104
Recipe for Disaster................108
Red Monkey Double Happiness
Book, The............................12
Reed, Lou...............................23
Reflections..............................39
Regé, Ron, Jr..........................27
Reynolds, Eric.........................42
Rickheit, Hans.........................27
Rip, M.D...............................107
Ripple: A Predilection for Tina.. 68
Robbins, Trina........................44
Rocky...................................107
Rogers, Boody......................108
Romberger, James..................27
Rosenkranz, Patrick.........80, 104
Roth, Arnold...........................54
Ryan, Johnny..........................28
Sacco, Joe..............................91
Sadowski, Greg...........57,61, 67
Safe Area Gorazde.................91
Sakai, Stan.............................92
Sala, Richard....................29, 39
Sally, Zak.........................39, 95
Sam’s Strip.............................67
Sammy the Mouse..................39
Sanctuary, The........................89
Sanders, Joe.........................108
Sandlin, David........................43
Sandman Papers, The...........108
Santiago, Wilfred............93, 107
Schauer, Mitch......................107
Schelly, Bill.....................55, 102
Schrauwen, Olivier..................93
Schulz, Charles M..............62-63
Schulz, Monte.......................113
Schwartz, Ben.................78, 100
Scream Queen.......................71
Scrublands.............................12
Search for Smilin’ Ed!, The......75
Seduction of Mike, The..........107
Seeing Things.........................35
Segar, E.C..............................64
Self-Loathing Comics..............10
Set to Sea...............................97
Setting the Standard: Comics by
Alex Toth 1952-1954...........61
Sex, Rock & Optical Illusions....88
Sexytime...............................109
Shag......................................43
Shag: A to Z...........................43
Shaw, Dash............................96
Sheep of Fools........................43
Shouldn’t You Be Working?.....28
Shroud for Waldo, A...............75
Sibyl-Anne Vs. Ratticus............24
Significant Objects................111
Sikoryak, R...........................107
Simmons, John.......................30
Sjunnesson, Lars...................105
Sobel, Marc............................15
Sorel, Edward.........................70
Soundtrack: Short Stories
1990-1996........................105
Spacehawk.............................66
Spain.....................................94
Special Exits............................77
Squa Tront...........................101
Squirrel Mother, The...............84
Sshhhh!..................................18
Staake, Bob............................43
Stack, Frank...........................95
Stearn, Ted...........................107
Stein, Leslie............................94
Sterckx, Pierre.........................26
Stigmata,................................23
Strange and Stranger: The World
of Steve Ditko.......................46
Strange Case of Edward Gorey,
The....................................104
Strange Suspense....................46
Strömberg, Fredrik................103
Struwwelmaakies, Der.............87
Struwwelpeter.........................43
Stuff and Nonsense.................67
Sublife..................................107
Suckle: The Status of Basil.......68
Supermen!.............................61
Swain, Carol........................108
Swarte, Joost..........................31
Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim
Flora...................................69
T’ain’t the Meat, It’s the Humanity
and Other Stories...................7
Takako, Shimura......................6
Take a Joke............................28
Taking Punk to the Masses....110
Tales Designed to Thrizzle.......22
Tales from the Crypt.................7
Talk to Her...........................112
Tardi, Jacques..................32, 33
Temperance...........................88
Templeton, Ty.........................61
Terr’ble Thompson................106
Theroux, Alexander...104, 110, 112
They Found the Car................39
Things Just Get Away from
You...................................106
This Side of Jordan...............113
Thompson, Kim.................1-116
Three Paradoxes, The..............83
Tillieux, Maurice......................24
Tinsley, Dwaine....................100
Tits, Ass and Real Estate........106
Today Is the Last Day of the Rest
of Your Life..........................20
index
115
Tommaso, Rich.......................31
Too Soon?..............................78
Tosches, Nick.......................110
Toth, Alex...........................7, 61
Town of Mirrors......................70
Toys in the Basement..............24
Trondheim, Lewis....................34
Troublemakers, The................17
Twain, Mark...........................22
Twentieth Century Eightball.......9
Twilight of the Assholes...........85
Two-Fisted Tales.......................7
Tyler, Carol........................... l35
Uncle Scrooge..........................4
Unclothed Man in the 35th
Century A.D.........................96
Underworld..........................107
Unlovable..............................97
Uptight...................................74
Usagi Yojimbo........................92
Valenti, Kristy..........................15
Van Cook, Marguerite.............27
Van Horn, Penny...................108
Van Horne, Peter..................109
Van Sciver, Noah....................34
Vehlmann, Fabien..................18
Verney, Jean-Pierre.................33
Vosburg, Mike......................107
Walker, Mort..........................67
Walker, Rob.........................111
Wally Gropius........................80
Wandering Son.........................6
Ward, Bill...............................42
Ware, Chris............................31
Watson, Esther Pearl...............87
We All Die Alone....................89
Weasel...................................68
Weathercraft...........................36
Weing, Drew..........................97
Weird Horrors and Daring
Adventures...........................55
Weissman, Steven...................38
Wenzel, Bill............................42
Werewolves of Montpellier......19
West Coast Blues....................32
What I Did..............................19
What Is All This?...................111
Where Demented Wented.....106
White, Mack.........................108
White Flower Day...................38
Why Are You Doing This?........19
Williams, Robert.....................70
Williamson, Al..........................7
Willie & Joe: Back Home.........56
Willie & Joe: The War Years....56
Wilson, Gahan.......................65
Windsor-Smith, Barry............108
Wish You Were Here...............39
Wolverton, Basil......................66
Wolverton Bible, The...............66
Wood, Wallace.........................7
Woodring, Jim..................35, 36
Wojnarowicz, David................27
Wright, Chris..........................35
Yeah!.....................................72
Yoe, Craig......................67, 108
You Are There........................32
You Shall Die from Your Own
Evil Creation!.......................52
You’ll Never Know..................35
Young GODS & Friends........108
Young Hoods in Love..............71
Zentner, Jorge........................23
Zwigoff, Terry...................8, 109
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