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CATALOG OF COMICS
2013
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 Kellys Pogo Vol. Two!............51
Amazing new collectors FBIMINIS!...2
...and Sendak and Tardi speak out
in the new Comics Journal!.............98
FBIMINI #17 by Doc Winner FBIMINI #23 FBIMINI #27 by Hans Rickheit
Sharks and Spinach by Noah Van Sciver Sigmund Freud
A complete Popeye sequence written Who Is Dead in Imagine Freud as drawn by an unholy
and drawn by Segars assistant during the White House? amalgamation of Kirby and Panter:
Segars final illness. [Pg 64] Another story about Abraham An unused story that didnt quite
(free with purchase of any Popeye) Lincolns early days that didnt make make it into Folly. [Pg 27]
it into The Hypo. [Pg 34] (free with purchase of Folly)
FBIMINI #18 by S. DeStefano (free with purchase of The Hypo)
Getting Lucky FBIMINI #28
Sketches, unfinished pages, and FBIMINI #24 by Nicolas Mahler
much more from DeStefano and by Jaime Hernandez Angelman Merchandise
Chieffets graphic novel. [Pg 76] Ti-Girls: Roughs and Rejects A full-color selection of clothing items,
(free with purchase of Lucky in Love) A gorgeous selection of roughs, toys, music, and books derived from
penclls, and semi-completed rejected Angelman. [Pg 21]
FBIMINI #19 [discontinued] pages by Jaime for the God & Science (free with purchase of Angelman)
graphic novel. [Pg 16]
FBIMINI #20 by Joe Sacco (free with purchase of FBIMINI #29
The Road to Wigan Pier God & Science) by Lewis Trondheim
Visual essay on George Orwells Ralph Azham covers
chronicle of a journey into the squalor FBIMINI #25 Eight utterly dazzling color cover and
of Englands industrial North. [Pg 91] by Lorenzo Mattotti poster treatments for the Ralph Azham
(free with purchase of any Sacco) Crackle of the Frost materials serialization. [Pg 34]
Sketchbook (free with purchase of Ralph Azham)
FBIMINI 21 by Stan Sakai
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Unbelievably spectacular sketchbook
Groundthumper (including page roughs) from one FBIMINI #30 by Ulli Lust
From the pages of Critters, a never- of Europes most dazzling comics Last Day / First Version
before-reprinted Sakai story starring craftsmen. [Pg 23] Very different, both in content and
Usagi Yojimbos precursor. [Pg 92] (free with purchase of drawing style, first draft of the early
(free with purchase of Crackle of the Frost) pages of Last Day. [Pg 20]
any Sakai book) (free with purchase of Today...)
FBIMINI #26 by Ron Reg, Jr.
FBIMINI #22 by Joe Daly Thank You FBIMINI #31
SOH! A selection of nifty drawings created by Jim Woodring
A strange sketchbook selection from by Reg for supporters of his Cartoon Even More Problematic
Joe Daly, plus a 2-page strip. [Pg 12] Utopia project. [Pg 27] A dozen sketchbook pages that didnt
(free with purchase of (free with purchase of make the Problematic cut. [Pg 36]
any Daly book) The Cartoon Utopia) (free with purchase of Problematic)
with surprising grittiness) and an early co-starring role for Scrooge but
theres 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 Barkss 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
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!
When grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize, theyll find fearless
Mickey all ready to rumble and hes 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
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 Hagios 10 greatest stories,
ranging from 1970s Bianca
to 2007s The Willow Tree
and including the famously
heartbreaking Iguana Girl
and the haunting The
Child Who Comes Home.
All mail-
Also includes a long, candid order copi
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interview with Hagio about her autograp
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entire career. by auth
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 Kurtzmans own favorite, Air Burst) as well as his vivid, narratively-
dense 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 short-
timers 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
Ghost World
by Daniel Clowes
This critically-praised, best-selling original
graphic novel inspired the cult hit movie, depict-
ing 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 grow-
ing up, and more importantly, apart. 80-page
two-color 7 x 10 softcover, $11.95 (GHOSS)
Caricature
by Daniel Clowes
Anchored by the haunting title story, the first
apotheosis of Clowess seminal Eightball se-
ries, 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 fea-
tured in the magazines fiction issue Gy-
necology, 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)
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 (pro-
nounced 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)
Vol. 2: Some More Early Years of Bitter Vol. 7: Hot N Heavy, $19.99 (CR07S)
Struggle, $19.99 (CR02S)
Vol. 9: R. Crumb Vs. the Sisterhood, $19.99
Vol. 3: Starring Fritz the Cat $19.99 (CR03S) (CR09S)
Vol. 6: On The Crest of a Wave, signed h/c, Vol. 13: The Season of the Snoid, $19.99
$75.00 (CR06Z) (CR13S)
R. CRUMB SKETCHBOOKS: Each of these volumes reproduces over 150 pages of Crumbs own private sketchbooks from the early 1960s
to the mid-70s, in chronological order. Theres a wealth of material here: portraits, landscapes, ideas for strips and of course theres girls
galore! VOL. 1: 1964MID-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 1967MID-1968, s/c, $19.95 (CRSK5S); h/c,
$39.95 (CRSK5H); signed h/c, $75.00 (CRSK5Z) | VOL. 6: MID-1968EARLY 1969, s/c, $19.95 (CRSK6S); h/c, $39.95 (CRSK6H);
signed h/c, $75.00 (CRSK6Z) | VOL. 7: MID-19691970, 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: 19721974,
s/c, $19.95 (CRSK9S); h/c, $39.95 (CRSK9H); signed h/c, $75.00 (CRSK9Z) | VOL. 10: 19751977, s/c, $19.95 (CRS10S); h/c, $39.95
(CRS10H); signed h/c, $75.00 (CRS10Z)
Heads or Tails
by Lilli Carr
Harvey and Eisner nominee
Lilli Carrs elegant short
stories read like the gothic,
family narratives of Flannery
OConnor or Carson McCullers, but told visually. Poetic rhythms a coin flip,
a circling Ferris wheel are punctuated by elements of melancholic fanta-
sy pushed forward by character-driven, naturalistic dialogue. The creator of
2008s acclaimed graphic novel The Lagoon cited in many annual critics
lists including Publishers Weekly and USA Todays 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 Carr
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-Harvey-
Award-nominated cartoonist Lilli Carrs first long-form work. For the wise or
pixilatedGrandpa, 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 creatures haunting, ever-
shifting 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 Eu-
ropean 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 artists 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
Every story from Love and Rockets Vol. I (Palomar, Locas and more), plus Jaimes 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. 256288-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)
Locas II
by Jaime Hernandez
One of the most humane, graceful and imaginatively
inexhaustible artists in American popular culture, Jai-
me Hernandez has created in Locas one of the great
American novels of the last 30 years, graphic or oth-
erwise. 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 anti-
authoritarian punkette who quickly becomes Maggies 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)
The Troublemakers
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/advent-
uresofvenus
by Gilbert Hernandez
High Soft Lisp Meet drug dealer Dewey Booth
he cant be punished enough!
by Gilbert Hernandez And what about rock n roll loser
Five six. 128 pounds. Forty- Wes he needs money to start
three twenty-two thirty-six. High his own club. And then theres
soft lisp. Genius level I.Q. Thats ber-stacked Nala she enjoys
sums up Rosalba Fritz Martinez, All mail- humiliating men dumb enough to
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bombshell, former punkette, for- autograp
hed fall for her. This hard-boiled pulp
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mer psychiatrist, Z movie star by
graphic novel will delight long-
in this sexy, urprising graphic time Hernandez fans as well as provide a perfect in-
novel. This book works both as a troduction to newcomers to Hernandezs work. 120-
standalone graphic novel and a page b&w 5.5 x 7.5 hardcover $19.99 (TMAKER)
further exploration of Hernandezs rich world. 144- More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/troublemakers
page b&w 6.5 x 9.75 softcover $16.95 (HIGHSO)
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 Wouldnt Virginia Woolf, a mashup of The Brain
That Wouldnt Die and Whos 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
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 Cant Get
There From Here (Frankensteins 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
Jasons 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 youll 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!
Angelman
by Nicolas Mahler
Angelman is Austrian cartoonist Nicolas Mahlers 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 Com-
ics in a flash of money-grubbing cynicism, Angelmans powers (which include em-
pathy 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 Mahlers trademarked ultra-
minimalism 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
ALSO AVAILABLE: Issues #2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and the most recent #8 of the original com-
ic, $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)
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. Un-
til 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 Pier-
santi. 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 Wil-
son, and a cast of singers and actors premiered Reeds musical POEtry
in Hamburgs Thalia Theater. An ambitious combination of Edgar Allan
Poes poems and stories and Reeds 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 Lo-
renzo Mattotti to visualize this extraordinary collaboration. Mattottis 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
France and Belgium have long been home to some of the greatest classics of all-ages and
childrens 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).
Cinema Panopticum
by T. Ott
A little girl visits an amusement park, but finds ev-
erything too expensive. Finally, behind the roller-
coaster 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 ho-
tel. His awakening is the stuff of nightmares. Other
stories include The Champion, The Experiment,
and The Prophet, each executed in his hallucina-
tory and hyper-detailed scratchboard style. Otts O. Henry-esque plot twists and
intense scratchboard artwork will haunt you long after youve put the book down.104-page b&w 6.5 x
9.25 paperback $16.99 (CINPAS)
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
friends idea about cultural and temporal colli-
sion (the Dal is short for Dallas). No description
will prepare the reader for the confounding visual
and verbal richness of Dal Tokyo, as Panters fa-
mous ratty line collides and colludes with near-
Joycean wordplay, veering from more or less intelligible jokes to dizzying non-sequiturs to surreal eruptions
that can engulf the entire panel in scribbles. One doesnt 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
Folly
by Hans Rickheit
Lovers of art comics know Hans Rickheit from his smashing graphic novel The Squir-
rel Machine (returning in softcover in 2013), but Rickheit has, for over a decade,
been producing his own self-published Xeroxed comics reaching into the deep-
est 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 Jef-
frey 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 dur-
ing the last years before his AIDS-related death in 1992. The graphic novel depicts
Wojnarowiczs childhood of prostitution and drugs on the streets of Manhattan,
through his adulthood living with AIDS, and his anger at the indifference of govern-
ment and health agencies. Originally published as a comic book in 1996 by DCs
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
Cooks visuals give stunning life to Wojnarowiczs words, blending the gritty natu-
ralism 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) AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2013
Also Available: Prison Pit Book One, Prison Pit Book Two, and
Prison Pit Book Three same format: $12.99 each (PPIT01) (PPIT02) (PPIT03)
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 artists longest
humor pieces to date, notably: Graveyard Goofs, in which Ryans hapless antiheroes
Sinus OGynus and Loady McGee exhume the corpse of the recently-deceased Santa
Claus as part of a Top Secret experiment, and Boobs Pooters 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, smores 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, 45, 79, 1114, 24pp. comics, $2.95 each
(ANG2, 45, 79, 1114) More adventures of Loady and Sinus, plus Boobs Pooter (who stars in #12) and more of Johnnys 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. | SHOULDNT 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 todays most acclaimed (and reviled)
humorists. (Sorry, issue #1 is sold out.) | SEE ALSO: Hotwire Comix & Capers, page 38.
Delphine
by Richard Sala
A mysterious traveler gets off the train in a
small village surrounded by a thick sinister for-
est. He is searching for Delphine, who van-
ished 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 Charmings perspective in a contem-
porary 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 AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2013
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 en-
nui and deep curiosity of being a teenager, and this adventurous, silent graph-
ic 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
Like a Lynchian take on Alice in Wonderland, this atmospheric graphic novel fuses
serialized adventure, fantasy and psychological horror, all stamped with Simmonss
signature macabre sensibility. The seeming innocence of Jessicas 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)
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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 ev-
erything. 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 towns
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 over-
come 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 Americas greatest presidents. 192-page b&w 7.25 x 9.25 hardcover $24.99. (HYPO)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/thehypo
Blacklung
by Chris Wright
Blacklung is a sweeping, magisteri-
ally 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 ships captain and instructed to
use his literary skills to aid him in writ-
ing his memoirs. As the captains pro-
tected 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
ALSO BY CAROL TYLER: LATE BLOOMER, 136pp, h/c $28.95 (LATEB) The biggest, richest
and most delightful collection of Tylers work to date. Tales of loss, difficult relatives and question-
able relationships are infused with Tylers rueful humor, pitiless wit and deep empathy. All told, the
three-dozen stories here cement Tylers 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 its autobiographi-
cal, told with Carol Tylers wry humor.
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 Woodrings comics and draw-
ings, Problematic is just the book for you to
put under your pillow and dream on. Filling
at least one pocket-sized Moleskine sketch-
book 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 ma-
terial usable for print, the untamable notions are often the
most interesting ones. There are plenty of them in Prob-
lematic. 300-page b&w 5 x 7 hardcover $28.99 (PROBJW)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/problematic AVAILABLE IN JANUARY 2013
Seeing Things
by Jim Woodring
Jim Woodrings charcoal drawings take the
otherworldly qualities of his comics to a higher
level of clarity and nuance. These crisply ren-
dered 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 col-
lects 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 de-
All mail- light. This new softcover edition features a strik-
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Chocolate Cheeks
by Steven Weissman
Chocolate Cheeks has arrived to disgust and delight comic-book readers
young and old. Sweet Chubby Cheeks and the Pullapart Boy (a 21st Cen-
tury Frankensteins 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
All mail- friends and engage in a holy war. Things go from worse to worst, though,
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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
7.5 x 7.5 softcover $16.99 (CHOCHE)
SPECIAL OFFER: BUY ANY TWO IGNATZES AND GET THE THIRD IGNATZ FREE!
(If ordering online, list your free Ignatzes in the comments field).
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 arent afraid to bare all: Scott (Dilbert) Adams, Sergio (Mad) Aragons, 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) Spie-
gelman, 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, gut-
wrenching viscerality. Hotwire leaps off the page from the get-go with David
Sandlins Infernal Combustion, about boozing it up in a broke-down Caddy,
and Tim Lanes 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. 136-
page 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.
No Straight Lines:
Four Decades of Queer Comics
edited by Justin Hall
This book celebrates the vibrant artistic underground of LGBTQ cartooning by gath-
ering 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 Knig (one of Europes 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 Underground-
era 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
Mome
edited by Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds
MOME was a quarterly anthology showcasing the best new talent of the aughts rising cartoon generation. An-
chored 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,
410); $14.99 each (MOME1122); $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
Wards Humorama work, including a selection of Wards 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 single-
panel 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, Wenzels women carried their weight well, the better to
hold up their ample chests. | AN ORGY OF PLAYBOYS ELDON DEDINI, 220pp. h/c with DVD, $39.95
(DEDINI) The first retrospective collection of Dedinis 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 Playboys Jack Cole, Archies Dan DeCarlo and glamour girl legend Bill Ward, as well as Basil Wolverton, MADs
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.
BLAB!
edited by Monte Beauchamp
The preeminent anthology of
painting and the illustration
arts, BLAB! is a coffee-table
showcase of fine art, illustra-
tion, and comix, and a gold
standard in the work of the pro-
fessional visual arts. BLAB!s list
of contributors past and present
reads like a Whos Who of the
contemporary visual art world
including Mark Ryden, Chris Ware, Gary Panter, Joe Cole-
man, Gary Baseman, Richard Sala, Walter Minus, Doug
Allen, Archer Prewitt, Spain Rodriguez, Stephane Blanquet,
Peter Kuper, Drew Friedman, Jonathon Rosen, Mark Moth-
ersbaugh, 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 issues contents: http://www.fantagraphics.com/blab Volumes 1113, 1518: All 120-page part-color
softcovers, all $19.95 except Vol. 18, $22.95 (BLAB1113, 1518)
BLAB! StorybooKS
This series of original picto-novelettes is curated and designed by Monte Beauchamp, who has selected the
crme de la crme of the art and illustration world from the pages of BLAB! to produce their own full-length
works. Although presented in a faux childrens-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 CHRI by
Walter Minus $14.95 (DARCHE) Sensually illustrated
story of a young woman penning her final goodbye let-
ter 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 (STRU-
WW) A gorgeously stylized adaptation of the cruel
childreans classic by New Yorker cover artist. | SHAG:
A TO Z by Shag $16.95 (SHAGA) 26 stunning origi-
nal 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 chil-
drens picture book.
The second volume in our series, Nancy Likes Christmas features three more
full years of Ernie Bushmillers beloved comic strip (1946-1948), featuring
nearly one thousand meticulously restored daily strips from its post-World-
War 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
Bushmillers 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
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 artists 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 Bells
2008 critically-acclaimed retrospective of Ditkos 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 isnt fair delighted by Charltons 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 Bells insightful
introduction, providing historical background and speaking to Ditkos 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)
Amazing Mysteries:
The Bill Everett Archives Vol. 1
by Bill Everett; edited by Blake Bell
This book collects over 200 pages of Everetts 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 Everetts shop
Funnies, Inc. for such clients as Centaur,
Novelty Press, and Eastern Color, and all
displaying Everetts brilliant cartooning
and energetic storytelling. The Bill Everett
Archives is a stunning companion to Blake
Bells 2010 critically Fire and Water: Bill Everett, The Sub-Mariner and
the Birth of Marvel Comics. This volume follows the format of Bells
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 Everetts 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
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 Publishings Blazing Combat
originally seared newsstands nationwide in 1965 and 66.
Following in the tradition of Harvey Kurtzmans Two-Fisted
Tales and Frontline Combat, Goodwins stories reflected
the human realities and personal costs of war rather than
exploiting the clichs of the traditional mens 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
Young Romance:
The Best of Simon & Kirbys 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)
MORE DENNIS: DENNIS THE MENACE 19591960 (VOL. 5), 672pp. h/c, $24.95 (DENN05) Two more years of great Dennis panels as the
50s wind down.| DENNIS THE MENACE 19571958 (VOL. 4), 672pp. h/c, $24.95 (DENN04) Introducing the anti-Margaret: Gina! |
DENNIS THE MENACE 19551956 (VOL. 3), 672pp. h/c, $24.95 (DENN03) Dennis actually flirts with a girl, exacerbates confronta-
tions between Dad and the police, and stymies hapless baby-sitters. | 19531954 (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 whats in
store for them! | 19511952 (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. | 19511954 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.
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 youve seen
the best of Kurtzman. WRONG!
In 1957, after Kurtzmans 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 com-
mercial disaster (it ran for only 11 issues), the near-forgotten Humbug represents
a peak of not only Kurtzmans 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 re-
tinted or retypeset as needed, all of it meticulously restored allowing even owners of the original cheaply-
printed issues to enjoy the full impact of these creators artistry for the first time. The Humbug collection in-
cludes 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 1870s1940s
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. Scotts Electric Cigarettes from the 1880s Yellow Kid cigars the Campbell Soup
Kids Rose ONeills Jello-O ads Snap, Crackle, and Pop Little Orphan Annies 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
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. OMalley, 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 five-
volume Barnaby series collects the full run of original newspaper strips
from 1942-1952. The first volume collects strips from 1942 and 1943.
Barnabys 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 AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2013
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, Code-
constrained 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 books editor Bill Schelly. (See also page 102 for Schellys
two books on Kubert.) 240-page 7.25 x 10.5 full color hardcover $35.00
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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. Krigsteins 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 Krigsteins
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
Krigsteins personal archives and a comic book checklist of the artists entire body of work round out this
substantial volume. 272-page 7 x 10 full-color softcover $35.00 (MESSA)
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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. 192-
page full-color 7.5 x 10.5 softcover $26.99 (SUPMEN)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/supermen
Mohawk!), killer bees, and Halleys 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, Snoopys 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)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/peanuts18
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 19791980 (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
19771978 (VOL. 14), 344pp. h/c, $28.99 (CPEA14) The first Molly Volley story, Charlie Brown vs. the EPA, and the diminutive Goose
Eggs baseballe team; Alec Baldwin intro. | 19771978 (VOL. 13), 344pp. h/c, $28.99 (CPEA12) Two Snoopy relatives: Spike (from Needles)
and his beloved sister Belle plus the Snoopy/Linus/Truffles love triangle. | 19731974 (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. |
19711972 (VOL. 11), 344pp. h/c, $28.99 (CPEA11) Sally Browns ascending star is celebrated with a cover and an introduction by Broadways
Sally, Kristin Chenoweth. Also: Joe Cool. | 19691970 (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. | 19671968 (VOL. 9), 344pp. h/c, $28.95 (CPEA09) | Franklin and Jos
Peterson debut, plus Snoopy as The Masked Marvel and lots of Peppermint Patty; John Waters intro. | 19651966 (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! | 19631964 (VOL. 7), 344pp. h/c, $28.95 (CPEA07) Over 150 never-before-reprinted strips, including Linuss unsuccessful
run for class president, and Snoopys involvement with a group of fanatical birds. Plus 5 and his sisters debut. Introduction by Bill Melendez,
director of A Charlie Brown Christmas. | 19611962 (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. | 19591960 (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. | 19571958 (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. | 19551956 (VOL.
3), 344pp. h/c, $28.95 (CPEA03) Linus learns to talk, Snoopy begins to explore his eccentricities, Lucys unrequited crush on Schroeder takes final
shape, and more! Matt Groening intro. | 19531954 (VOL. 2), 344pp. h/c, $28.95 (CPEA02) Linus, still a toddler, acquires his blanket; Lucy
proudly assumes the mantle of fussbudget; and Pig-Pen makes his first appearance! Introduction by Walter Cronkite. | 19501952 (VOL. 1),
360pp. h/c, $28.95 (CPEA01) Witness the genesis of a defining pop culture phenomenon of the 20th Century with the premiere volume of the
most ambitious comic strip reprint project ever undertaken. Introduction by Garrison Keillor.
POPEYE VOL. 5: WHAS A JEEP?, 168pp. h/c, $29.95 (POPEY5) Concluding Popeyes Ark, plus War Clouds, and The Search
for Popeyes 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 Popeyes 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: LETS YOU
AND HIM FIGHT, 168pp. h/c, $29.95 (POPEY3) In addition to the dailies and full-color Sundays from 19321934, this volume includes
the never-republished extra-large strips set at the Chicago Worlds Fair and an insightful scholarly essay. | POPEYE VOL. 2: WELL BLOW
ME DOWN, 168pp. h/c, $29.95 (POPEY2) Our second volume covers 19301932 and introduces Segars 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 19281930, 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.
Nuts
by Gahan Wilson
In this thematically
and narratively linked
series of one-page
stories originally
published in the
National Lampoons
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-cap-
wearing 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 Wilsons 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 dont 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. Wilsons
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 disturbingcartoonists 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!
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 Spacehawks 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 Wolvertons quintessential weirdness: strangely repulsive aliens, and
stories of gruesome retribution reminiscent of Wolvertons 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
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-holds-
barred satirist, Brodner is a familiar and beloved
contributor to The New Yorker, Rolling Stone,
The Atlantic, Harpers, The New York Times, and
every other magazine that counts. Freedom Fries
is Brodners 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 Brodners
original art), this volume includes Brodners 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 Coopers 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
Al l m ai l- 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 Hollywoods elite. Among this esteemed crowd is
the great auteur, Oscar-nominated Guillermo del Toro (Pans 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
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 Levines 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 2008s rivals John McCain and Barack
Obama. 128-page b&w 8.5 x 10 softcover $19.99 (AMPRES)
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). Pollards 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 Pollards visual
art and lyrics/poetry. 144-page full-color 10 x 10 hardcover $22.99 (TOWMIR)
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 Citys 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. Williamss new paintings, on display in Conceptual Realism, take
the viewer into the world of subjective theorya 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)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/conceptualrealism
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 Gardens protagonists:
even skinned and turned into a drum, he finds a way to lead his men into battle112-page two-
color 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 appear-
ances 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 Kingfather, husband, politician, deal broker, idealist, pragmatist, inspiration to
millionsbrought to vivid, flesh-and-blood life. In recognition of the advances made
in American social equality that has made it possible to elect Americas 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)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/kingse
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. Burnss 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 hor-
ror. 96-page b&w softcover $16.95 (BIGBA)
El Borbah
Meet El Borbah, a 400-pound private eye who wears a Mexi-
can wrestlers 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 scien-
tists. 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 All mail-
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Ivan Brunetti
HO! The Morally Questionable Cartoons of Ivan Brunetti
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
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MORE IVAN BRUNETTI BOOKS: SCHIZO #4, 56pp, s/c $12.95 (SCHZ4)
Americas 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, Sren Kierkeg-
aard, Franoise Hardy, Louise Brooks and othersplus 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)
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
decades 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. Columbias
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 #34 The
With his continuing comics Clouds
series Uptight, Jordan Crane
continues to prove himself
Above
to be one of the most skilled On their way to
and versatile cartoonists school, Simon and
of his generation. First he his cat Jack keep
maps uncharted territory of taking shortcuts
graphic melancholia with that lead them
a brand new serialized tale through fantasy worlds of wooden monsters and
of infidelity, in sumptuous insatiable appetites. Will they make it back home
greytone; Vicissitude, the first chapter, spans issues safely? The Clouds Above calls to mind everything
3 and 4. Issue 3 also includes the first installment of from Where the Wild Things Are to The Wizard of
Freeze Out, a delightful new all-ages adventure Oz to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, with its
starring Simon & Jack, the boy and cat heroes from depiction of a fantastic world that lurks just around
Jordans classic tale The Clouds Above, while issue the corner from reality and that only children be-
4 marks the return of his serialized tale Keeping lieve exists. 224 full-color 6.5 x 6 trade paperback
Two. Each issue is wrapped up with Cranes $16.95 (CLOUSC)
stunning, to-be-framed, full color covers. Issues 1
and 2 are already out of print! 24-page b&w comics ALSO AVAILABLE: The Clouds Above h/c $18.95
(clouds): We still have a few copies left of this edition, for
$2.75, $3.95 (UPTIG34) just a couple dollars more what a bargain!
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/uptight
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 (Yknow, 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, Deitchs 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 Deitchs mythology, theres 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
Deitchs Pictorama
Kim Deitch, creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Shad-
owland, 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, Deitchs
Pictorama is a testament to the Deitch familys amazing yarn-spinning abilities! Fea-
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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
Dame Darcy
Meat Cake
Alternating between one-off (often cruelly tragic) fairy tales and ongoing romps starring
her eclectic cast of characters, including Effluvia the Mermaid, the roguish rou 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 Watchmens Alan Moore) from the first 11 issues of the
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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 Bechdels Fun Home or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner,
and Frank Stacks 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 havent will find much to admire in the
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convey the slow, inexorable decline in Lars and Rachels
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: I Love
Kinky Online Led Zeppelin
Personal Harvey and Eisner Award-
nominated cartoonist Ellen
Ads Forneys strips are character-
ized by bold, sensual brush-
Ellen Forneys follow-up to
strokes and striking images of
her wildly popular I Love
powerful, butt-kicking wom-
Led Zeppelin is a collec-
en. While most of the stories
tion of cartoons celebrating the sometimes stunning-
sprang from Forneys own inspiration, some are col-
ly crude, sometimes surprisingly sweet online world
laborations with such luminaries as comedian Mar-
of personal classifieds. Forney has for several years
garet Cho, novelist (and Al Gores daughter) Kristin
been illustrating the Seattle alt-weekly The Strang-
Gore, Forneys beloved
ers Lustlab classified ads by interpreting the most
Grandma Florence, writ-
interesting, outrageous, or idiosyncratic ad in that
er and editor Dan Sav-
weeks paper. To cap it off, the collection includes
age, and Camille Paglia,
frank, revealing interviews with some of the adver-
focusing largely on the
tisers conducted by Forney, plus an introduction by
topics of Sex, Drugs, and
the notorious sex advice columnist and novelist (and
Rock n Roll. Introduction
editor of The Stranger) Dan Savage. 168-page b&w
by Sherman Alexie. 112-
hardcover 6 x 6.5 $19.95 (LKINK1)
page b&w/color softcover
9 x 12 $19.95 (ILOVEZ)
Drew Friedman
Any Similarity to Persons Living or
Dead is Purely Coincidental
Finally back in print, Any Similarity... is a collection of Drew Friedmans
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
Bill Griffith
Lost and Found: Comics 19692003
Bill Griffith: Lost and Found collects hundreds and hundreds of pages
of Griffiths 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 artists comix career during the early days of the San
Francisco Underground and his on-again, off-again involvement with
Hollywood and TV; Griffiths running recollections and commentary
serve as a wry and often hilarious counterpoint and context to the stories
themselves. Lost and Found follows Griffiths 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
Griffiths first major character, Mr. The Toad. Previously uncollected later work features Griffiths 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)
ZIPPY COLLECTIONS: Each volume collects a years worth of strips, Sundays in color. | ZIPPY: DING DONG DADDY FROM
DINGBURG, 204pp. s/c, $18.99 (ZDINGD) The tour of Zippys 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) Zippys voice usurped by old comics
characters, Zippy confronts the Grim Reaper, and Zippy realizes Bobs Big Boy isnt God | ZIPPY: CONNECT THE POLKA DOTS,
160pp. s/c, $18.95 (ZPOLKA) Zippy visits his doppelgnger 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 20002003, 128160pp. s/c, $19.95 each (ZIPAN14) Each volume contains a year of black-and-white
dailies and color Sundays, with an informative Pindex of comments and notations from Zippy Central.
Tim Hensley
Wally Gropius
Superficially resembling 1960s teenage
humor comics, Tim Hensleys graphic
novel Wally Gropius is actually an
acute satire of power, celebrityhood,
and modern culture that tells the story
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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. Hensleys dialogue is witty, lyrical, sampled,
dada, and elliptical all in the service of a very bizarre mystery. Theres sex, violence, rock and roll, intrigue,
and betrayal all brought home in Hensleys 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 Canadas
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 Holmess 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 Holmess 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 Hitlers
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
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 Mart. 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
2001s 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.
R. Kikuo Johnson
Night Fisher
This debut graphic novel from an ex-
citing young talent is a compassion-
ate, 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 imma-
ture lives. Johnson explores the rela-
tionships of his characters with natu-
ralistic ease. This intimate and com-
pelling story is drawn in a chiaroscuro
style reminiscent of Milton Caniff com-
bined 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-Grosss semi-
autobiographical 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 friends 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-Grosss work is coupled with a raw but increasingly refined visual vocabulary, expressing
the awkward navet 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)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/amessofeverything
Paul Hornschemeier
All & Sundry
All & Sundry corrals Paul Hornschemeiers work from the last five yearswork previ-
ously ungathered, and in many cases never before seen in print. These works in-
clude: conceptual drawings and comics for a museum exhibit in Paris; an award-
winning 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
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perman; as well as short, illustrated prose thus far seen only in the pages
of the anthology Mome (p. 3233). The collection concludes with exten-
sive selections from sketches and sketchbooks. 208-page full-color 7.5
x 10 hardcover $29.99 (ALLSUN)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/allandsundry
Let Us Be
Perfectly Clear
Culled from the pages of Forlorn Funnies
and other sources, this collection is half com-
posed of Hornschemeiers gloomy comedic
work, and half his just-plain-gloomy work,
presented in an elegantly produced flip-book
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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 theres 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,
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weaves a moving story about family amidst war. Kelsos 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
Tim Kreider
Twilight of the Assholes:
Cartoon and Essays 20052009
As reality gets ever bleaker, Tim Kreiders 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 mans 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. Lanes 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. Its 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 mans idiot. Fred has an eye for the ladies (especially of
the bearded variety), but the only part of themselves theyre willing to share
with him is a carefully placed kneecap. Freds 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)
Mart
The Cabbie: Volume 1
The Cabbie spins off Martin Scorseses 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 Goulds Dick Tracy. And as
Art Spiegelman (the first to publish Marts work in English, in RAW) notes in his
introduction, while Goulds graphic black and white precision and his diagrammatic
clarity live on in Marts work more interestingly, perhaps, so does Goulds
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 hard-
cover $19.99 (cabbi1)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/thecabbie1
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 Crows
Maakies, Sock Monkey and Billy Hazelnuts. Tony
Millionaires 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 (Herg) 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
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 Hold-
ing Company, and the Steve Miller Blues
Band, deploying his unique vibrating col-
ors and hallucinatory, near-illegible let-
tering stand as enduring works of art and
recognizable icons of their time. As if that
wasnt 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 todays the most thoughtful
and accomplished cartoonists. 240-page two-color 8 x 10 hardcover $22.99 (tempe)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/temperance
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
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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 societys, 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 Gar-
bage Pail Kids. He wrote, drew and
syndicated a weekly alternative comic strip in the 1990s, and created a Web Pre-
miere 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 Loves Savage Fury. Plus a
dizzying archival section of Newgardens 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 artists first volume, Monologues for the Coming Plague, ...Black Holes is a
creatively experimental laboratory, comprising a collection of free flowing stream-of-
consciousness gags, strips, and drawings that slowly coalesce into an unexpectedly
compelling and complex narrative. The hints of story that came together in Com-
ing Plague are extrapolated and expanded upon and grow to incorporate some of
Nilsens other outr strips from the anthology MOME, two of which are reprinted here
in expanded form. The book is an audacious investigation into the rhythms of story-
telling, 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 Nilsens Ignatz book The End, page 39.
Diane Noomin
Glitz-2-Go
Glitz-2-Go stars veteran
underground cartoonist Di-
ane Noomins (Young Lust,
Arcade, True Glitz, and
Twisted Sisters, which she
edited) signature character,
DiDi Glitz, the frustrated
middle-aged glamour-
puss and anxiety-ridden
suburban Sisyphus. All
of her stories, beginning
with her debut Restless
Reverie in 1974s Fam-
ily Fun Comics, are finally
back in print for the first time in over 30 years. This book col-
lects all of Noomins best comics, including a few painfully
autobiographical stries where Noomin steps up-
front from behind the character veil, 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 Pettingills work, containing over a hundred of the artists 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)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/pettingill
Joe Sacco
Safe Area Gorazde:
The Special Edition
In the wake of his acclaimed Palestine,
Joe Sacco spent four months in Bosnia
in 19951996, 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 2007s 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 Saccos 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 Spiegelmans 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 worlds 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 wor-
ship. | 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 Saccos
earlier journalistic and autobiographical work, plus a sizable serving of his
satirical strips, many of them never before collected in book form.
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 collectors copies of
the USAGI YOJIMBO COLOR SPECIAL comics #2
and #3: $3.50 (UYCS2, UYCS3)
Vol. 1: The Ronin With all of the earliest Usagi Vol. 5: Lone Goat and Kid Usagi battles ninja
stories laying the groundwork for the saga to come, bats, meets the deadly assassin Lone Goat, and ap-
this is the obvious starting point for new readers. pears in a unique story about a kitemaker. Foreword
152-page softcover $15.95 (UYB01S) by Stan Lee! 142-page softcover $14.95 (UYB05S);
152-page hardcover (with bonus material!) $25.00
Vol. 2: Samurai Usagis origin story is told in
(UYB05H)
the first novel-length tale, plus more short stories!
Introduction by Mark Evanier. 152-page softcover Vol. 6: Circles The four-part title story follows
$16.95 (UYB02S) our hero back to his home village for an epic con-
frontation, plus four more stories. Introduction by Jeff
Vol. 3: The Wanderers Road Seven classic
Smith. 168-page softcover $16.95 (UYB6S)
Usagi short stories packed with action and humor,
including a Ninja Turtles team-up! Introduction by Vol. 7: Gens Story The title story reveals the
Robert Asprin. 152-page softcover $16.95 (UYB03S) origin of the mercenary swordsrhino. Plus the final
fate of the Blind Swordspig, a supernatural tale and
Vol. 4: The Dragon Bellow Conspiracy Usa-
more. Introduction by Sergio Aragons. 168-page
gis first full-length graphic novel centers around a
softcover $16.95 (UYB7S)
plot to overthrow the Shogun! Introduction by Alejan-
dro Jodorowsky. 180-page softcover $16.95 (UYB04S)
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 Clementes
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
Clementes 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 Schrauwens first
American book after having staked out
a reputation over the last decade as one
of Europes most talented storytellers. It
collects seven short stories, each a head-
spinning 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 semi-
autistic, 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
Leslie Stein
Eye of the Majestic Creature
Eye of the Majestic Creature is a collection of semi-autobiographical and fantasy-
based comics that combine dry humor, psychedelia, and emotion to show the
viewpoint of one persons 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, Steins 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 Toot
Although hes best known for his two-fisted tales of the chopper-riding Trashman,
Spains 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
Spains 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 Spains teenage
days in the 1950s, often featuring Fred Toot, 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
Zak Sally
Like a Dog
One mans heartfelt and irreverent record of his time on this rock, Zak Sallys
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. Dont be surprised if you find yourself laughing and crying
as you claw your way through each hard fought page! Of all of Sallys creative
pursuits (including a career in music spanning 15+ years), Like a Dog is the one
hes 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 Sallys 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 Stacks The Adventures of Jesus. Stacks 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 col-
lated 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)
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 Shaws acclaimed,
genre-bending short stories
from MOME, including Look
Forward, First Son of Terra Two,
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by author
in time. Also featured: Galactic Funnels, the 2008
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 Shaws 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
Drew Weing
Set to Sea
In Drew Weings 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
sailors 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,
hes 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 Dor engravings and E. C.
Segars 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
ALSO AVAILABLE: The Comics Journal #301 features a roundtable on Robert Crumbs
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 Deitchs 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
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/tcj302
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 Levins heavily-illustrated, long, and revelatory article about the infamous 1970s Someday Funnies
project which involved 190 of the times 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 B 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 (Alans War, The Photographer), and the
famous 17th century caricaturist Thomas K. Rowlandson is profiled. | THE COMICS JOURNAL #296 $11.99 (CJ296) The annual Best-
of-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 DeBecks classic Barney Google.
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 Goulds Dick Tracy, E.C. Segars Thimble Theatre (which produced Popeye), Frank Kings 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.
Most Outrageous:
The Trials and Trespasses of
Dwaine Tinsley and Chester the Molester
by Bob Levin
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 publications 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 hulk-
ing middle-aged man who craved pre-pubescent girls... And then Tinsleys 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 Tinsleys inflammatory story with uncommon
All mail-
es
insight. 200-page illustrated 6 x 9 softcover $19.99 (MOSOUT)
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MORE BOB LEVIN BOOKS: OUTLAWS, REBELS, FREETHINKERS AND PIRATES, 200-
page 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 re-
lates the suicidal but vastly entertaining attempt by the Air Pirates underground cartoonists col-
lective to bring down Disney via deliberate copyright violation. Lots of illustrations.
Meanwhile
A Biography of Milton Caniff
by R.C. Harvey
Milton Caniff was one of the most influential Ameri-
can 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 Caniffs death in 1988. Meanwhile... traces
Caniffs 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)
Rebel Visions:
The Underground Comix
Revolution 19631975
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 Wil-
son, Robert Williams, and many more. The book is illus-
trated 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, avail-
able 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
FOCUS ON
NEIL GAIMAN
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)
ALSO AVAILABLE: The Comics Journal #169, with an extensive interview with Neil Gaiman, is still available. $6.00 (CJ169)
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 Senators 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 be-
tween 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]
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 record-
review 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 rocks first stateside
mainstream proponents. This unique anthology-biography compiles Nelsons best
works (some of it previously unpublished) while also providing a vivid account of his
life. 512 page hardcover. $29.99 (eveaft)
More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/paulnelson
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, SignificantOb-
jects.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, dis-
carded 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 enter-
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Krazy Kat................................50 McNeill, Malcolm....................21 Pettingill, Norman...................90 Segar, E.C..............................64 Tommaso, Rich.......................31
Kreider, Tim...........................85 Mean.....................................38 Pham, John..........................107 Self-Loathing Comics..............10 Too Soon?..............................78
Krenkel, Roy.............................7 Meanwhile A Biography of Piersanti, Claudio...................23 Set to Sea...............................97 Tosches, Nick.......................110
Krigstein, Bernard.............57, 67 Milton Caniff......................101 Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Setting the Standard: Comics by Toth, Alex...........................7, 61
Kubert, Joe.................7, 55, 102 Meatcake...............................76 Days..................................74 Alex Toth 1952-1954...........61 Town of Mirrors......................70
Kupperman, Michael...............22 Medley, Linda.........................25 Pin-Up Art of Bill Wenzel.........42 Sex, Rock & Optical Illusions....88 Toys in the Basement..............24
Kurtzman, Harvey...............7, 54 Meskin, Mort..........................60 Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo......42 Sexytime...............................109 Trondheim, Lewis....................34
Lagoon, The...........................13 Mess of Everything, A..............82 Pin-Up Art of Humorama........42 Shag......................................43 Troublemakers, The................17
Lane, Tim...............................85 Messages in a Bottle...............57 Pirates and the Mouse...........100 Shag: A to Z...........................43 Twain, Mark...........................22
Langridge, Roger....................85 Mezzo....................................86 Pirus.......................................86 Shaw, Dash............................96 Twentieth Century Eightball.......9
Lasko-Gross, Miss...................82 Mickey Mouse...........................5 Pixy......................................105 Sheep of Fools........................43 Twilight of the Assholes...........85
Last Musketeer, The................19 Millionaire, Tony.....................87 Poe, Edgar Allan Poe..............23 Shouldnt You Be Working?.....28 Two-Fisted Tales.......................7
Last Rose of Summer, The.....113 Minimum Wage....................106 Pogo......................................51 Shroud for Waldo, A...............75 Tyler, Carol........................... l35
Late Bloomer..........................35 Minus Walter..........................43 Pollard, Robert........................70 Sibyl-Anne Vs. Ratticus............24 Uncle Scrooge..........................4
Laura Warholic, or, The Sexual Misery Loves Comedy............73 Ponchione, Sergio...................39 Significant Objects................111 Unclothed Man in the 35th
Intellectual.........................112 Molotiu, Andrei.......................41 Popeye...................................64 Sikoryak, R...........................107 Century A.D.........................96
Left Bank Gang, The...............19 MOME...................................42 Portable Frank, The.................35 Simmons, John.......................30 Underworld..........................107
Legrand, Benjamin.................32 Monologues for Calculating the Portable Grindhouse.............109 Sjunnesson, Lars...................105 Unlovable..............................97
Let Us Be Perfectly Clear..........83 Density of Black Holes..........89 Prince Valiant...................48, 67 Sobel, Marc............................15 Uptight...................................74
Lethem, Jonathan...................61 More Old Jewish Comedians...43 Prison Pit................................28 Sorel, Edward.........................70 Usagi Yojimbo........................92
Levin, Bob............................100 Morrison, Bill........................101 Problematic: Sketchbook Soundtrack: Short Stories Valenti, Kristy..........................15
Levine, David..........................69 Moscoso, Victor......................88 Drawings 2004-2012...........36 1990-1996........................105 Van Cook, Marguerite.............27
Life and Death of Fritz the Cat, Most Outrageous..................100 Pussey!.....................................9 Spacehawk.............................66 Van Horn, Penny...................108
The......................................10 Mother, Come Home..............83 Queen of the Black Black........84 Spain.....................................94 Van Horne, Peter..................109
Like a Dog.............................95 Mr. Twee Deedle....................49 R. Crumb Sketchbooks............11 Special Exits............................77 Van Sciver, Noah....................34
Like a Sniper Lining up His Murder by High Tide...............24 R.I.P.: Best of.............1985-2004 Squa Tront...........................101 Vehlmann, Fabien..................18
Shot.....................................32 Mysterious Traveler.................46 Raisin Pie..............................105 Squirrel Mother, The...............84 Verney, Jean-Pierre.................33
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron.9 Mystic Funnies........................10 Ralph Azham..........................34 Sshhhh!..................................18 Vosburg, Mike......................107
Little Maakies on the Prairie.....87 New Tales of Old Palomar......39 Raven, The.............................23 Staake, Bob............................43 Walker, Mort..........................67
Littlest Pirate King, The............24 New York Mon Amour............32 Rayburn-Maarup, Steffen.........41 Stack, Frank...........................95 Walker, Rob.........................111
Locas II..................................16 Naked Cartoonists..................40 Rebel Visions: The Underground Stearn, Ted...........................107 Wally Gropius........................80
Los Tejanos............................20 Naked Glory........................107 Comix Revolution Stein, Leslie............................94 Wandering Son.........................6
Lost and Found: Comics Nancy....................................44 1963-1975........................104 Sterckx, Pierre.........................26 Ward, Bill...............................42
1969-2003..........................79 Neal, Nate.............................89 Recipe for Disaster................108 Stigmata,................................23 Ware, Chris............................31
Lost Art of Ah Pook, The..........21 Nelson, Paul.........................110 Red Monkey Double Happiness Strange and Stranger: The World Watson, Esther Pearl...............87
Lost Cause.............................20 nEuROTIC............................106 Book, The............................12 of Steve Ditko.......................46 We All Die Alone....................89
Love & Rockets Companion.....15 New Adventures of Jesus, The...95 Reed, Lou...............................23 Strange Case of Edward Gorey, Weasel...................................68
Love & Rockets Covers............15 NEWAVE!...............................40 Reflections..............................39 The....................................104 Weathercraft...........................36
Love & Rockets: New Stories....14 Newgarden, Mark...................89 Reg, Ron, Jr..........................27 Strange Suspense....................46 Weing, Drew..........................97
Love & Rockets Reader............15 Niger.....................................39 Reynolds, Eric.........................42 Strmberg, Fredrik................103 Weird Horrors and Daring
Love & Rockets Sketchbook......16 Night Fisher............................82 Rickheit, Hans.........................27 Struwwelmaakies, Der.............87 Adventures...........................55
Love from the Shadows...........17 Nightmare Alley......................94 Rip, M.D...............................107 Struwwelpeter.........................43 Weissman, Steven...................38
Low Moon..............................19 Nilsen, Anders..................39, 89 Ripple: A Predilection for Tina.. 68 Stuff and Nonsense.................67 Wenzel, Bill............................42
Luba......................................17 Nimrod, The...........................34 Robbins, Trina........................44 Sublife..................................107 Werewolves of Montpellier......19
Lucas, George..........................4 No Straight Lines....................41 Rocky...................................107 Suckle: The Status of Basil.......68 West Coast Blues....................32
Lucky in Love..........................76 Noomin, Diane.......................90 Rogers, Boody......................108 Supermen!.............................61 What I Did..............................19
LUST: Kinky Online Ads...........77 Norman Pettingill: Backwoods Romberger, James..................27 Swain, Carol........................108 What Is All This?...................111
Lust, Ulli.................................20 Humorist..............................90 Rosenkranz, Patrick.........80, 104 Swarte, Joost..........................31 Where Demented Wented.....106
Maakies.................................87 Notes from a Defeatist............91 Roth, Arnold...........................54 Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim White, Mack.........................108
Mac Orlan, Pierre...................24 Number.73304-23-4153-6-96-8, Ryan, Johnny..........................28 Flora...................................69 White Flower Day...................38
Macherot, Raymond................24 The......................................25 Sacco, Joe..............................91 Taint the Meat, Its the Humanity Why Are You Doing This?........19
Mad Night, The......................29 Nuts.......................................65 Sadowski, Greg...........57,61, 67 and Other Stories...................7 Williams, Robert.....................70
Maggie the Mechanic..............14 OConnor, Flannery................57 Safe Area Gorazde.................91 Takako, Shimura......................6 Williamson, Al..........................7
Mahler, Nicolas......................21 Observed While Falling...........21 Sakai, Stan.............................92 Take a Joke............................28 Willie & Joe: Back Home.........56
Mail Order Bride....................81 Old Jewish Comedians...........43 Sala, Richard....................29, 39 Taking Punk to the Masses....110 Willie & Joe: The War Years....56
Mairowitz, David Zane............10 Orgy of Playboys Eldon Sally, Zak.........................39, 95 Tales Designed to Thrizzle.......22 Wilson, Gahan.......................65
Malkasian, Cathy............88, 113 Dedini.................................42 Sams Strip.............................67 Tales from the Crypt.................7 Windsor-Smith, Barry............108
Maltin, Leonard......................62 Oswalt, Patton........................62 Sammy the Mouse..................39 Talk to Her...........................112 Wish You Were Here...............39
Man Who Grew His Beard, Ott, T.....................................25 Sanctuary, The........................89 Tardi, Jacques..................32, 33 Wolverton, Basil......................66
The......................................93 Our Gang..............................51 Sanders, Joe.........................108 Temperance...........................88 Wolverton Bible, The...............66
Manchette, Jean-Patrick..........32 Out of the Shadows................60 Sandlin, David........................43 Templeton, Ty.........................61 Wood, Wallace.........................7
Mark Twains Autobiography Outlaws, Rebels, Freethinkers Sandman Papers, The...........108 Terrble Thompson................106 Woodring, Jim..................35, 36
1910-2010..........................22 and Pirates.........................100 Santiago, Wilfred............93, 107 Theroux, Alexander...104, 110, 112 Wojnarowicz, David................27
Marschall, Rick.......................54 Palestine.................................91 Schauer, Mitch......................107 They Found the Car................39 Wright, Chris..........................35
Mart................................39, 86 Paley, Bruce..........................108 Schelly, Bill.....................55, 102 Things Just Get Away from Yeah!.....................................72
Marzocchi, Leila......................39 Panter, Gary...........................26 Schrauwen, Olivier..................93 You...................................106 Yoe, Craig......................67, 108
Mascots................................106 Parille, Ken...............................8 Schulz, Charles M..............62-63 This Side of Jordan...............113 You Are There........................32
Mattotti, Lorenzo.........13, 23, 39 Passionella.............................67 Schulz, Monte.......................113 Thompson, Kim.................1-116 You Shall Die from Your Own
Mauldin, Bill...........................56 Peculia...................................29 Schwartz, Ben.................78, 100 Three Paradoxes, The..............83 Evil Creation!.......................52
Max.....................................107 Peellaert, Guy.........................26 Scream Queen.......................71 Tillieux, Maurice......................24 Youll Never Know..................35
McCabe, Joe........................108 Penny Century........................14 Scrublands.............................12 Tinsley, Dwaine....................100 Young GODS & Friends........108
McConey................................34 Percy Gloom...........................88 Search for Smilin Ed!, The......75 Tits, Ass and Real Estate........106 Young Hoods in Love..............71
McKenna, Christine...............112 Perla la Loca..........................14 Seduction of Mike, The..........107 Today Is the Last Day of the Rest Zentner, Jorge........................23
McMurray, Jacob..................110 Petey & Pussy........................107 Seeing Things.........................35 of Your Life..........................20 Zwigoff, Terry...................8, 109
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