Fantagraphics Spring-Summer 2013 Catalog

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Publisher of the Worlds Greatest Cartoonists sinCe 1976
Fantagraphics Books consistently puts out intelligent comics and people could certainly use a larger selection of this sort of serious, innovative stuff. The WashingTon PosT
Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of a burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didnt know existed or wouldnt touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the 60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values. The work of our authors has continued to gain commercial momentum and critical recognition over the last 35 years by combining the social relevance of the previous generation of underground comix artists, an attention to personal and psychological veracity, and formal experimentation and innovation. Ask your sales rep for a copy of our complete backlist catalog, featuring hundreds of contemporary graphic novels. This catalog describes books to be published from April 2013 through August 2013 (plus select recent and backlist titles); prices, release dates, and covers are subject to change. Fantagraphics Books publishes several fine periodicals in addition to the books distributed by W.W. Norton & Co. These are distributed by Diamond Comics Distributors (Timonium, MD) and Last Gasp (San Francisco, CA). For information on these, as well as wholesale discounts and library subscriptions, contact Martin Bland at Fantagraphics Books.
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THE AMAZING, ENlIGHTENING ANd AbsoluTEly TRuE AdVENTuREs oF KATHERINE WHAlEy

by Kim Deitch
$29.99 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary CQ: 18 176 pages, Black-and-white, 11 x 7 ISBN 978-1-60699-631-7
A major graphic novel from a first-rank talent East Coast author appearances Review attention Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 15 +
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KIM DEITCHS FIRST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL FEATURES A TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY HEROINE

This is a story about a girl, born at the beginning of the 20th century. She grows up in a small river town in upstate New York. One day the mysterious Charles Varnay, an eccentric who dresses in the style of an 18th century dandy, comes to town, his sole companion a remarkably intelligent dog named Rousseau. Varnay wants to star Katherine in a movie serial he plans to make, called The Goddess of Enlightenment. Katherine is rather put off when she discovers that he expects her to appear nude in this film. But even more strange is the films subject matter: It has to do with 12 metal cylinders that Varnay claims are actual recordings of the voice of Jesus Christ which, he says, contain an urgent message that the modern world needs to hear! Varnay also claims that his dog, Rousseau, is the product of experiments he has been making in advanced selective breeding. Hes eager to continue these experiments with human subjects; Katherine realizes that hes expecting her to be a part of this, and it worries her... The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley is a full-length graphic novel created in a striking widescreen landscape format that allows Deitch to give full rein to his astonishing graphics.
KIM DEITCH lives in New York, NY, with his wife, the artist Pamela Butler. His books include The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Deitchs Pictorama (in collaboration with his brothers), Shadowland, Alias the Cat, and The Search for Smilin Ed!
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Deitchs Pictorama $18.99 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-56097-952-4 The Search for Smilin Ed! $16.99 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-60699-324-8
Kim Deitch is easily one of the greatest cartoonists in the world, and in the history of the medium. Chris Ware Maybe even more than fellow first-wave underground comics creator Crumb, Deitch has maintained his quality. Marvelous stuff. Booklist The fun of [The Search for Smilin Ed!] is the way it constantly darts back and forth across the line between genuine show-business lore (a favorite Deitch theme) and delirious whole-cloth invention. There are stories within stories, unreliable explainers, secret passageways that lead from one part of the tale to another. Publishers Weekly
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by Samuel R. Delany and Mia Wolff; introduction by Alan Moore

An original graphic novel from a Science Fiction legend Review attention Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 18 +
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A UNIQUE LOVE STORY FROM A SCIENCE FICTION GREAT

The runaway critical and commercial success of Alison Bechdels Fun Home has paved the way for the re-issue of Bread & Wine. Written by black, gay science-fiction writer, professor, and theorist Samuel R. Delany, and drawn by artist/martial arts instructor Mia Wolff, Bread & Wine is a graphic autobiography that flashes back to the unlikely story of how Delany befriended Dennis, and how they became an enduring coupleDelany, a professor at Philadelphias Temple University, Dennis, an intelligent man living on the streets. For casual readers and fans, Bread & Wine is a moving, sexually charged love story, with visuals informed by Wolffs professional physical pursuits. Her blackand-white, pen-and-ink work not only expressionistically represents the characters body language and the bustling New York setting, but is also filled with impish art references and visual puns. The scholarly potential for the book, based on the poem Bread and Wine by the German lyric poet Friedrich Holderlin, not only encompasses queer, African-American, and graphic novel studies, but also exploration in the literary and paraliterary academic fields. This edition includes an introduction by Watchmen writer Alan Moore, commentary by the books protagonists, Zelazny and Dennis, and a new interview with Delany and Wolff.
SAMUEL RAY DELANY, Jr., also known as Chip, is an American writer and Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee (in 2002), and a recipient of four Nebula awards and two Hugo awards over the course of his career. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he is Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. MIA WOLFF obtained her BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in 1973 and ran away to the circus in 1976. She lives in New York City.
Samuel R. Delany is one of the finest living American writers. In this revealing autobiographical love story, told in collaboration with fine artist Mia Wolff, Delanys brilliance shines. Neil Gaiman Wildly eccentric artwork, a storyline thatd make Capote blush... Bread & Wine is smoking-gun proof that comics can go anywhere and do anything. Frank Miller Told simply and methodically like Delanys 1996 memoir, The Motion of Light in Water, the story is subdued yet acutely emotional. It reaches across the boundaries of race and class as well as across hilariously opposed standards of personal hygiene to capture two people in the process of building a life together. Publishers Weekly
CAsTlE WAITING VoluME 2

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by Linda Medley
$29.99 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Fantasy CQ: 20 456 pages, Black-and-white, 5 x 8 ISBN 978-1-60699-633-1 Previous edition: ISBN 978-1-60699-405-4
The definitive edition of the second volume of this YA classic Review attention Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 11+ APRIL
THE SECOND VOLUME OF THIS CLASSIC FANTASY, NOW IN AN EXTENDED AND IMPROVED VERSION
With its long-awaited second volume, Linda Medleys witty and sublimely drawn fantasy eases into a relaxed comedy of manners as Lady Jain settles into her new life in Castle Waiting. Unexpected visitors result in the discovery and exploration of a secret passageway, not to mention an epic bowling tournament. A quest for ladies underpants, the identity of her baby son Pindars father, the education of Simon, Rackham and Chess arguing about the manly arts, and an escape-prone goat are just a few of the elements in this delightful new volume. The book also includes many flashbacks that deepen the stories behind the characters, including Jains earliest romantic entanglements and conflicts with her bratty older sisters, the horrific past of the enigmatic Dr. Fell, and more. Originally released in a slightly shorter version when the series ceased publication, this new edition includes over 60 pages worth of brand new additional story and epilogue, and the entire book has been re-lettered in a livelier, more inviting style for an even more engaging reading experience.
LINDA MEDLEY lives in Portland, OR, where she is currently working on new issues of the Castle Waiting comic book series.
The charming blend of original and well-known fairy tale characters into one slightly dysfunctional castle household only gets better as it progresses. School Library Journal The black-and-white drawings are precisely crafted, with small, endearing touches that render each character entirely unique. The dialogue is clever and filled with subtle grace notes of drollness and humor. The set will be especially appealing to readers of all ages who enjoy seeing and reading traditional fairy tale tropes teased and played with, all with a sense of goodhumored fun. Nancy Pearl, NPR: Books
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THE CoMPlETE PEANuTs 1987-1988

by Charles M. Schulz
$28.99 Hardcover Territory: X HUMOR / Comic Strips CQ: 18 344 pages, Black-and-white, 8 x 7 ISBN 978-1-60699-634-8
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Amongst the top ten most familiar media properties in the world Seven-time Eisner / Harvey Award recipient Over a half-million copies sold in the series The series that launched a comic strip renaissance Author promo at snoopy.com and schulzmuseum.org Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: All Ages
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MORE LITTLE-SEEN 1980s PEANUTS STRIPS FEATURE SALLY, SPIKE, RERUN AND LYDIA.
So what do we have for Peanuts fans this time around? An ill-considered attempt at flirting sends Charlie Brown to the school doctor... Linuss ongoing romance with the too-young Lydia of the many names continues... Snoopy is joined in the trenches by his brother Spike... Sally engages in a career as a playwright by penning the school Christmas play but mixes up Gabriel and Geronimo... A hockey mishap sends Snoopy to the doctor for knee surgery, in a (clearly autobiographical) sequence that lasts only until everyone figures out that dogs dont have knees... Linus and Lucys kid brother Rerun begins to take on the greater role that will lead to him being one of the dominant characters in the 1990s... and Snoopy, inevitably, writes a kiss and tell book. As we reach the 19th (!) book in this epochal, best-selling series collecting arguably the greatest comic strip of all time and head toward the end of the 1980s, Charles Schulz is still as inventive, hilarious, and touching as ever... and this volume even features a surprise format change, as the daily strip switches from its trademark four-square-panels format to a more flexible one-to-four-variable-panels format which, along with Schulzs increased use of gray tones, give this volume a striking, distinctive look.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ was born in Minnesota in 1922 and passed away in 2000. His work lives on at Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA.
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by Anders Nilsen
$19.99 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary CQ: 32 80 pages, Two-color with 16pp. full-color, 8 x 11 ISBN 978-1-60699-635-5
Nilsens previous book was a New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and included on Amazon, Publishers Weekly and NPRs Best-of-2011 lists Review attention Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 15 +
A STUNNING GRAPHIC NOVEL ABOUT LOVE AND LOSS FROM THE CREATOR OF BIG QUESTIoNS
Assembled from work done in Anders Nilsens sketchbooks over the course of the year following the death of his fiance in 2005, The End is a collection of short strips about loss, paralysis, waiting, and transformation. It is a concept album in different styles, a meditation on paying attention, an abstracted autobiography and a travelogue, reflecting the progress of his struggle to reconcile the great upheaval of a death, and finding a new life on the other side. The book blends Nilsens disparate styles, from the iconic simplicity and collaged drawings of his Monologues for the Coming Plague to the finely rendered Dogs and Water and Big Questions. Originally released in magazine form in 2007, The End has been updated and expanded to more than twice its original length, including a 16-page full-color section.
ANDERS NILSEN was born in New Hampshire and now lives in Chicago. He has a BFA in painting and illustration from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
The End is a staggering, bracing read Its the best kind of autobiography, eschewing any sentimental elements and managing to completely free itself of the narrative template thats often overlaid on anecdotal autobiography as a way of making it easier to follow. Rob Clough, Sequart Anders Nilsen must be a genius. Giant Robot Glen David Gold
Nilsen is an exquisite draftsman with incredible patience for textures.
Good doG
by Graham Chaffee
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The first new graphic novel in 20 years from a longtime critical favorite Review attention Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 15 +
AN ALTERNATIVE COMICS MASTER RETURNS WITH AN ENGAGING STORY STARRING DOGS

Good Dog marks the welcome return of alternative cartoonist Graham Chaffee, who, after his successful 2003 collection of short stories, The Most Important Thing and other Stories, took a detour to devote himself to the art of tattooing, before charging back with his new, beautifully conceived graphic novel. Ivan, who is plagued by terrible nightmares about chickens and rabbits, is a good dogif only someone would notice. Readers accompany the stray as he navigates dog society, weathers pack politics, and surveys caninehuman interactions. Good Dogs story and pen-and-ink art are deceptively simple, but Chaffee uses the approachability of the subject matter as a device to explore topics such as independence, security, assimilation, loyalty, and violence. Preteen-and-up dog fanciers, especially, will warm to the well-meaning Ivan and his exploits with a motley assortment of Scotties, Bulldogs, and mutts. Chaffee combines illustrative gravitas with cartooning verve and creates a richly textured, dogs-eye view of the world. The story is a rousing Jack London-esque adventure as well as a moral parable.
GRAHAM CHAFFEE is a professional tattoo artist and cartoonist living in Los Angeles, CA.
sToRM P.: A CENTuRy oF lAuGHTER

Edited by Steffen Rayburn-Maarup and Kim Thompson
$39.99 Hardcover Territory: E HUMOR / Comic Strips CQ: 12 240 pages, Black-and-white with some color, 9 x 12 ISBN 978-1-60699-637-9
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A COFFEE-TABLE CELEBRATION OF THE GREATEST DANISH CARTOONIST WHO EVER LIVED

From the publication of his first cartoon exactly one hundred years ago to his death in 1949, Robert Storm Petersen was not just the most popular cartoonist in Denmark, but one of the countrys most beloved artists and public figures, period: the original Unmelancholy Dane. The hugely prolific Petersen, who signed his work Storm P., created tens of thousands of cartoons, comic strips, illustrations, advertisements, paintings, and short storiesall sharing a sunny but sometimes rueful outlook, with a persistently sharp eye for lifes absurdities. But Storm P. was best known for his hilarious single cartoons, which often returned to a small circle of themes: Philosophical but work-shy hoboes with extravagant names, jovial or sinister but always absent-minded professors, impossible Rube Goldberg-esque inventions, henpecked or delinquent husbands and their irritated wives... as well as amused commentaries on the news stories or trends of the day. Storm P.s work is utterly unknown in the U.S., but the release of this spectacular coffee-table book, on the 100th anniversary of his earliest published cartoons, will soon rectify this. With hundreds upon hundreds of Storm P.s most hilarious and visually dazzling cartoons and comic strips shot directly from original art courtesy of Copenhagens Storm P. Museum, as well as an extensive, generously illustrated biographical introduction highlighting this artists rich creative life (including his involvement in vaudeville and film, and his career as a painter), Storm P.: A Century of Laughter will introduce American readers to one of the great unknown cartooning geniuses of the 20th century.
ROBERT STORM PETERSEN (September 19, 1882 March 6, 1949), Denmarks most famous and beloved cartoonist, was born and lived his whole life in Copenhagen, which now houses an entire museum devoted to his art. He also worked as a vaudeville and film actor, set designer, writer, animator, and illustrator.
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WAKE uP, PERCy GlooM

by Cathy Malkasian
$24.99 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary CQ: 18 200 pages, Two-color, 8 x 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-638-6
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The long-awaited sequel to 2007s award-winning and critically acclaimed Percy Gloom An original, all-new graphic novel from an acclaimed creator Review attention Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: All Ages
A BRAND NEW FULL-LENGTH PERCY GLOOM ADVENTURE

Cartoonist and animator Cathy Malkasian follows up her 2007 graphic novel Percy Gloom (a minor classic) with the further adventures of the small, immortal man with a light-up head. In Wake Up, Percy Gloom, kindhearted Percy awakens from (what he thinks is) a 200-year nap and finds himself in a strange new land. As Percy goes on a quest to locate his mother, he encounters many inspired inventions and bizarre, and sometimes dangerous, characters and situations, such as singing goats and furniture parades. Through it all he pines for his longlost love and soul mate, Miss Margaretbut his love may not be as doomed as he thinks. Malkasians lush and detailed pencil drawings, surreal humor, absurdist characters and stunning visual storytelling ensure that fans of the first graphic novel will find the sequel just as fantastical, touching, and hilarious; new readers will discover a gorgeously rendered world of luminous landscapes, gentle humor, and a cast composed variously of wise, nave, and flawed characters in a wide-ranging story that stands on its own.
CATHY MALKASIAN is an animation director and cartoonist living in Clovis, CA. Her credits include Rugrats, The Wild Thornberrys film (for which she received a British Academy Award nomination), and most recently, over 20 episodes of Curious George for PBS since 2008.
Percy Gloom has all the charm of something like Howls Moving Castle or Yellow Submarine, and Percy and his friends are drawn in a lovely, old-timey way that made me smile on every page. This is a big, solid, handsome hardcover. Cory Doctorow Cathy Malkasians Percy Gloom shines a light on a hidden world, using language and ideas that are daringly naked and vulnerable, evoking something real, rare, and relevant. Such exquisite drawing, in the service of such rich ideas, sustained for such a long, lovely dance! The world looked differently to me after Id finished reading it. Jim Woodring
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WIllARd MullINs GoldEN AGE oF bAsEbAll dRAWINGs 1934-1972

Edited by Hal Brock and Michael Powers
$29.99 Hardcover Territory: E SPORTS / Baseball CQ: 14 200 pages, Black-and-white and color, 9 x 12 ISBN 978-1-60699-639-3
Off the book page features Major review attention Perfect for Dads and baseball fans Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: All Ages
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THE FIRST-EVER RETROSPECTIVE OF THE DEAN OF AMERICAN SPORTS CARTOONING

In Fantagraphics ceaseless effort to rediscover every world-class cartoonist in the history of the medium, we turn your attention to a neglected part of the art formsports cartooningand to its greatest practitionerWillard Mullin. The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, when giants strode their respective fieldsBabe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Aaron in one, George (Krazy Kat) Herriman, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff, Walt (Pogo) Kelly in the otherand Mullin was there, straddling both fields, recording every major player and event in the mid-20th-century history of baseball. Mullin was to baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate and critic, investing them with personality, humanity, dignity, and poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and Mullin had the Brooklyn Bum, his affectionate 1939 character representing the bedraggled figure of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Willard Mullins Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 collects for the first time Mullins best drawings devoted to baseballdepictions of players like Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Yogi Berra, and Sandy Koufax, legendary managers like Casey Stengel and George Steinbrenner, and events like Lou Gehrigs emotional retirement speech on July 4, 1939, for which Mullin not only drew a portrait but composed a poem (which he often incorporated into his cartoons). Mullins fluid line and delicate but vigorous brushwork are shown to beautiful effect, with many drawings reproduced from original art. See why millions of baseball fans from the 30s to the 70s looked forward to Mullins cartoons in their daily paper. Mullins was voted Sports Cartoonist of the Century upon his retirement by his peers, and his legacy has been summed up by New Yorker cartoonist Bob Staake, who wrote, Mullin defined the modern sports cartoon by combining representative portraiture, cartoonish doodlery, and editorial commentarypart news account, part personal observation, his cartoons celebrated sport for its entertainment, cultural, and artistic value.
WILLARD MULLIN (September 14, 1902 December 20, 1978) was an American sports cartoonist most famous for his creation of the Brooklyn Bum, the personification of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. He was widely published: He cartooned daily for Scripps-Howards New York World-Telegram and Sun for decades and was often published in Scripps-Howards twenty papers, as well as in The Sporting News.
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THE sTEVE dITKo ARCHIVEs Vol. 4

by Steve Ditko; edited by Blake Bell
$39.99 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Superheroes CQ: 18 256 pages, Full-color, 7 x 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-640-9
Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 11 +
MORE GREAT 1950s SHOCKERS FROM THE CO-CREATOR OF THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN!
Five years before Steve Ditko began work on his now legendary co-creations for Marvel Comics, the Amazing Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, he was producing some of his best work in near anonymity for Charlton Comics. Like its predecessors, Impossible Tales: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 4 features over 200 meticulously restored full-color pages of Ditko in his early primestories that have never seen a proper reprinting until now, thrilling stories of suspense, mystery, haunted houses, and unsuspecting victims all delineated in Ditkos wildly idiosyncratic, masterful style. This fourth volume ranks as the best in the Archives series to date thanks in large part to the inspiration Ditko took from comics derived from the classic host-narrated radio shows, which gave an extra oomph to his creepy yarns. Moreover, comics such as This Magazine is Haunted and Tales of The Mysterious Traveler bore witness to a veritable explosion in Ditkos ingenuity in terms of manipulating the traditional comic-book page layout. This new level of excellence also manifested itself in his work on other books, such Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds, out of This World, Strange Suspense Stories, and Unusual Tales, all of which are amply represented in this volume.
BLAKE BELL lives in Toronto, Canada with his family. STEVE DITKO continues to create comics in his studio in New York City.
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Mysterious Traveler: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol.3 $ 39.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-498-6
Unexplored Worlds: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 2 $ 39.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-380-4
Stranger & Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko $ 39.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56097-921-0
This exhilarating collection of stories by the comic-book artist who co-created Spider-Man captures all the glorious chills and blood spills from the first two years of his career. Entertainment Weekly Even though hed only been working in comics for a couple of years when he drew these 1956 tales, they already display Ditkos distinctively cockeyed style and his characteristically powerful compositions. [...] As Bell remarks in his insightful introduction, what makes Ditkos early work notable is the dichotomy between what he was given and what he was able to accomplish. Gordon Flagg, Booklist
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ZIPPy: THE dINGbuRG dIARIEs

by Bill Griffith
$29.99 Paperback Original Territory: E HUMOR / Comic Strips CQ: 18 224 pages, Black-and-white with some color, 8 x 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-641-6
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Comprising a full two and a half years worth of dailies and full-color Sundays, The Dingburg Diaries is the third Zippy book featuring tales of Dingburg, the City Inhabited Entirely by PinheadsZippys home town. Theres even a long series of Historical Dingburg strips, chronicling the pinhead population through the years, from 1840, when Dingburgs Town Fool accidentally invented disco, to 1958 when Dingburg Beatniks flourished in the towns Bohemian neighborhood. Like, Yowl, man. God also has his own chapter (and verse). In the guise of a clip art authority figure, he dispenses unwanted advice and conditional love upon the citizens of Dingburg. His tendency to cross-dress reaches new heights when he appears in a performance of Swine Lake, wearing a tutu.
Sacrilegious, yet sensitive. There are large chunks of Mr. The Toad, Zerbina, Little Zippy and the rest of Griffiths cast of characters throughout this expanded collection. Published in a larger 8 by 10 format, The Dingburg Diaries also features a big color section, showcasing Griffiths inventive palette. There are parodies of the paintings of Edward Hopper and Film Noir, and Griffys Top Ten List On Comics and Their Creation a semi-serious mini-tutorial on everything (well, ten things) hes learned in over forty years at the drawing board.
Contemporary readers of Bill Griffiths comic strip, Zippy the Pinhead, know with certainty that the illustrator is one of the most accomplished draftsmen working in comics today, his talents on a par with those of Robert Crumb. His artnuanced shading; economical linework; evocative textures; fidelity to dress, gesture, expression, architecture, automotive design, and the thousand and one other accoutrements of modern lifeis an unfailing daily marvel, especially considering the speed and regularity at which the strip is produced. Paul Di Filippo, Barnes & Noble Review
BILL GRIFFITH lives in Connecticut with his wife, the artist Diane Noomin.
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Bill Griffith: Lost and Found 1969-2003 $ 35.00 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-60699-482-5
Zippy: Welcome to Dingburg $19.95 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-56097-963-0 Zippy: Ding Dong Daddy from Dingburg $19.99 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-60699-389-7
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FAll Guy FoR MuRdER ANd oTHER sToRIEs

by Johnny Craig; edited by Gary Groth
$24.99 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Horror CQ: 16 160 pages, Black-and-white, 7 x 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-658-4
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JOHNNY CRAIG RAISES CAIN IN A COLLECTION OF PITILESSLY NOIR THRILLERS

Surrounded by the ornate, retro, proto-splatter horror graphics of Jack Davis and Graham Ingels and the slick, futuristic sci-fi stylings of Wally Wood and Al Williamson, EC Comics superstar Johnny Craig stood out with his elegant, crisp, contemporary graphic style. And nowhere did this style work more beautifully than in the dozens of superb crime comics he wrote and drew for EC, mostly in Crime SuspenStories (for which he handled the cover and lead-story duties for most of its run). Featuring escaped convicts, murderous husbands and wives, blackmailing maids, scheming nurses, executioners, time bombs, private dicks, and the occasional hatchet killer, the 22 stories in this bookall written and drawn by Craigcomprise a perfect encapsulation of the very best kind of noir writing, stunningly executed (in more than one sense of the word!) by one of the great cartoonists of his (or any) era. And all in eight pages per story! Fall Guy For Murder and other Stories is the first collection to showcase the chronological run of Craigs Crime SuspenStories tales in one criminally convenient package, supplemented with several fascinating essays and informative historical notes on the stories.
JOHN JOHNNY THOMAS ALEXIS CRAIG (born in 1925 in Pleasantville, New York) drew one of the most infamous covers in comic book history: the severed head Crime SuspenStories that was spotlighted at the Kefauver comics hearings. He passed away in 2001.
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KING: THE sPECIAl EdITIoN

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by Ho Che Anderson
$25.00 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary CQ: 12 288 pages, Full-color, 7 x 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-310-1
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Age range: 15 +
A SPECIAL EDITION OF A FANTAGRAPHICS CLASSIC, NOW AT A SPECIAL PRICE

Ho Che Andersons biography of Americas great civil rights advocate Martin Luther King is both a monumental recreation of his tumultuous public life (and death) and an intimate portrait of the man as politician, friend, lover, husband, and father. With the triumphant ascendancy of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States, Martin Luther Kings advocacy for racial equality and the dignity of all men stands as one of the greatest and most successful achievements toward social justice in the 20th century. This Special Edition of King includes the original 240 page graphic novel as well many unique and original additions, including an essay by the author on the making of the book, preliminary sketches, pages of the typescript, visual breakdowns, deleted scenes, and a prelude about race relations in contemporary America entitled Black Dogs.
HO CHE ANDERSON lives in Toronto, ON.
Widely acknowledged as a masterpiece, this award-winning biography invokes Kings flaws, tragedies, and triumphs.
Library Journal Publishers Weekly
[Andersons] effort will convince skeptics of the value of comics as a medium; King is a milestone of biographical comics.
King goes beyond history to examine lifes complications, particularly pertaining to racial relations. King the character becomes the personification of these complications... Rare and vital, Ho Che Andersons King adds a significant contribution to the depth of artistry and subject matter in the world of graphic literature. Time.com
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sAFE AREA GoRAZdE sPECIAl EdITIoN

by Joe Sacco; introduction by Christopher Hitchens
$25.00 Hardcover Territory: E HISTORY CQ: 16 272 pages, Black-and-white with some color, 7 x 10 ISBN: tNEW
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One of the most acclaimed books and bestsellers in Fantagraphics history gets the Special Edition treatment From the creator of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza Age Range: 15 +
JOE SACCOS BEST-SELLING FOLLOW-UP TO PALESTINE NOW AVAILABLE IN A SPECIAL EDITION, AT A SPECIAL PRICE
In the wake of his acclaimed Palestine, Joe Sacco spent four months in Bosnia in 1995-1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories rarely found in conventional news coverage. The book focuses on the Muslim enclave of Gorazde, which was besieged by Bosnian Serbs during the war; Sacco spent four weeks in Gorazde, entering before the Muslims trapped inside had access to the outside world, electricity or running water. Released in 2000, Safe Area Gorazde confirmed Sacco as one of the preeminent journalists of his time, and earned him a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship. Now for its 10th anniversary, Fantagraphics is releasing an expanded hardcover edition which, much like 2007s Palestine: The Special Edition, supplements the original work with page after page of related drawings, on-site sketches, photographs, and transcripts from Saccos notes.
Harrowing and bleakly humorous, Saccos account of life during the Balkan conflict is a timeless portrait of ordinary people caught in desperate circumstances. Its also a work of genius in an unlikely genre: journalism in comic book form. Utne Reader Saccos detailed, personal reporting captures his subject matter more convincingly than photographs or Christiane Amanpour. [Demonstrates] how brilliantly comics can serve as reportage. The New York Times Time
JOE SACCO lives in Portland, OR.
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CREEPING dEATH FRoM NEPTuNE: HoRRoR ANd

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sCIENCE FICTIoN CoMICs by bAsIl WolVERToN
by Basil Wolverton; edited by Greg Sadowski

$39.99 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Horror CQ: 16 288 pages, Full-color, 7 x 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-505-1
Age Range: ALL AGES
NOT FINAL COVER
AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT A UNIQUE COMIC BOOK MASTER

The time has come for a robust volume of Wolvertons comics taken from their original printed sourcethe comic books themselves. A pioneer from the first generation of comic book artists, Wolverton arrived just as publishers began embracing original material, turning away from the newspaper-strip reprints that had been sustaining the industry since its inception. Centaur Publications art director Lloyd Jacquet gave Wolverton his big break in comics in 1938, accepting Meteor Martin for Amazing Man Comics and Space Patrol for Amazing Mystery Funnies. Jacquet soon established an independent comics packager, Funnies, Inc., for which he asked Wolverton to invent a new science-fiction character. The artist came up with the iconic Spacehawk, who made thirty appearances in Target Comics. Prime examples of Wolvertons iconic space hero will be featured in Creeping Death from Neptune. Fed up with the publishers constant meddling with Spacehawk, Wolverton dropped his creation in 1942 and concentrated on humorous features for the rest of the decade. His short-lived return to serious subjects in 1951 resulted in some of the most intense horror and science-fiction stories of the pre-code era, including the classics Brain Bats of Venus, Escape to Death, and Robot Woman, all of which appear in this volume. Created with the full cooperation of the Wolverton estate, Creeping Death from Neptune will also examine, for the first time, the artists personal ledgers and diaries, shedding new light on his working methods and his day-to-day life as a freelance comic book artist. The digital restoration of the printed art will be performed with subtlety and restraint, mainly to correct registration and printing errors, with every effort made to retain the flavor of the original comic books.
BASIL WOLVERTON (born in 1909 in Central Point, Oregon) passed away in 1978 and was elected to the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1991. GREG SADOWSKI is a writer, editor, and designer, living in Washington State.
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The Wolverton Bible $24.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56097-964-7 The Culture Corner $22.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-308-8
Operating in the territory of Rube Goldberg, Wolvertons convoluted plans for achieving his ludicrous goals rely less on mousetrap-like technical gewgaws than the artists signature grotesques, which are laugh-out-loud joy. While a must-have for Wolverton completists, even newcomers will find the humor readily accessible. Publishers Weekly Wolvertons daffy drawings and giddy text are as fancifully barmy as his advice is patently impractical. Booklist
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losT CAT
by Jason; translated by Kim Thompson
$24.99 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary CQ: 24 160 pages, Two-color, 5 x 8 ISBN 978-1-60699-642-3
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NOT FINAL COVER
Jasons most ambitious graphic novel to date Review attention Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 15 +
JASON RETURNS WITH A UNIQUELY QUIRKY FULL-LENGTH DETECTIVE STORY

A detective is walking down the street. It is raining. He sees a Lost Cat poster. A minute later he sees the cat from the photo. He picks it up and goes back to the poster. He calls the number. A woman answers. He turns up at her place and gives her the cat. She invites him in from the rain for a cup of coffee. They talk and find out they have a lot in common: both are divorced and living alone. Some days later he invites her out for a dinner. She accepts. He shows up at the agreed time. She doesnt. He calls her home and knocks on her door. No answer. He asks the neighbors. They havent seen her. She has disappeared. He makes some phone calls and investigates, but cant find her. He gets a new client and has to start working on a new case. In his head he continues their conversation... Lost Cat, the new graphic novel by Jason (after years of graphic novellas of less than 50 pages, arguably his first genuine graphic NOVEL) is both a playful take on the classic detective story, and a story about how difficult it is to find a sister spirit, someone you feel a real connection toand what do you do if you lose that person?
CLiNE, DO YOU REMEMBER ME? I WAS iN THE BOOKSTORE. Do you remember charlotte? Wheres mom? is she mad at me?
JASON hails from Oslo, Norway and resides in the south of France.
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...[F]eisty art-comics publisher Fantagraphics, for its new multivolume hardcover series devoted to Gottfredsons rarely seen comic-strip work, has gone back to the beginning, lavishing upon the cartoonists marvelously fluid, thrillingly kinetic serial adventures the same loving attention the company has brought to its benchmark Complete Peanuts library. Steve Smith, Time Out New York
Walt Disneys Mickey Mouse: Race To Death Valley by Floyd Gottfredson will be warmly received by comics aficionados but should also intrigue Disney animation buffs who arent necessarily plugged into comic strip history. Editors David Gerstein and Gary Groth have not only scoured the planet for the best surviving artwork... theyve provided background essays (by a raft of experts), vintage press materials and artwork to put it into the context of Walt Disneys burgeoning career, and Mickey Mouses budding stardom.... I have a feeling that this book, crafted with such obvious care, will earn Gottfredson a new legion of admirers. Leonard Maltin
Fantagraphics Books, which has previously done such an amazing job of collecting other classic comic strips like Prince Valiant and Peanuts, once again hits it out of the park with this collection.... From the beautifully reproduced strips to the densely packed ancillary features, this must be the book that editors David Gerstein and Fantagraphics co-founder Gary Groth wanted for years for their own libraries. Their enthusiasm shows in the wonderfully designed package. This book is highly recommended for any Disney fan and fans of Americas rich comic strip history. The Christian Science Monitor
WAlT dIsNEys MICKEy MousE

ColoR suNdAys Vol. 1: CAll oF THE WIld
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By Floyd Gottfredson; edited by David Gerstein with Gary Groth

$29.99 Hardcover Territory: E HUMOR / Comic Strips CQ: 14 280 pages, Full-color, 10 x 8 ISBN 978-1-60699-643-0
2012 disney enterprises, inc.
Great gift idea Amongst the top five most familiar properties in the world Dedicated book page at: facebook.com/waltdisneysmickeymouse Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: All Ages
OUR FIRST FULL-COLOR MICKEY MOUSE COLLECTION

Were jumping from black and white to classic coloras Floyd Gottfredsons Mickey Mouse series makes its 1932-35 Sunday strip debut! Bright hues highlight our hero as he enjoys four years worth of wild weekend epics... taking him from Uncle Mortimers Wild West ranch to the icy peak of frigid Mount Fishflake! And in this volume, Mickey is joined by a famous co-star: Donald Duck! Floyd Gottfredson, artist of the Sunday Mickey Mouse from 1932-38, created the most famous Mickey tales ever told in print. These Sunday specialsmany never before reprintedalso feature the work of later Donald Duck master Al Taliaferro. Collectively, they form a collection that fans have been seeking for a lifetime! Highlights include Mickeys Nephews, introducing Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse, and Dr. Oofgays Secret Serum, which turns Horace Horsecollar into a brainwashed wild mustang! Classic gag stories round out the book, offering manic Mouse mischief at a fever pitch. Restored from Disneys art sources and enhanced with a meticulous recreation of the strips original color, Call of the Wild also brings you more than 30 pages of chromatic supplementary features! Youll enjoy rare behind-the-scenes art, vintage publicity material, and fascinating commentary by a prismatic pack of Disney scholars. NOTE: Mickey Mouse Color Sundays: Call of the Wild contains cartoon violence and historically dated content presented in context.
Hired as a short-term replacement on the fledgling Mickey Mouse daily strip in 1930, FLOYD GOTTFREDSON (May 5, 1905 July 22, 1986) went on to draw the feature for the next 45 years. DAVID GERSTEIN is a comic book writer/editor and animation historian specializing in the Disney Standard Characters. GARY GROTH is the co-publisher of Fantagraphics Books.
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Vol. 1: Race to Death Valley $29.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-441-2 Vol. 2: Trapped on Treasure Island $29.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-495-5 Vol. 3: High Noon at Inferno Gulch $29.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-531-0 Vol. 4: House of the Seven Haunts! $29.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-575-4 Walt Disneys Mickey Mouse Vols. 1 & 2 Collectors Box Set $49.99 Hardcovers ISBN 978-1-60699-496-2
Walt Disneys Mickey Mouse Vols. 3 & 4 Collectors Box Set $49.99 Hardcovers ISBN 978-1-60699-576-1
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NEW sCHool
by Dash Shaw
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An all-new, original graphic novel from the author of Bottomless Belly Button Major review attention Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 15 +
STUNNING NEW FULL-COLOR GRAPHIC NOVEL

In this brand new graphic novel from the acclaimed author of Bottomless Belly Button and BodyWorld, Dash Shaw dramatizes the story of a boy moving to an exotic country and his infatuation with an unfamiliar culture that quickly shifts to disillusionment. A sense of being different grows to alienation, until he angrily blames this once-enchanting land for his feelings of isolation. All of this is told through the fantastical eyes of young Danny, a boy growing up in the 90s fed on dramatic adventure stories like Jurassic Park and X-Men. Dannys older brother, Luke, travels to a remote island to teach English to the employees of ClockWorld, an ambitious new amusement park that recreates historical events. When Luke doesnt return after two years, Danny travels to ClockWorld to convince Luke to return to America. But Luke has made a new life, new family, and even a new personality for himself on ClockWorld, rendering him almost unrecognizable to his own brother. Danny comes of age as he explores the island, ClockWorld, and fights to bring his brother home. New School is unlike anything in the history of the comics medium: at once funny and deadly serious, easily readable while wildly artistic, personal and political, familiar and completely new.
DASH SHAW lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently writing and directing an animated feature film, The Ruined Cast.
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Bottomless Belly Button $29.99 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-56097-915-9 The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. $19.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-307-1
Kaleidoscopic... Shaw has a deft touch... Like the very best illustrated fiction, Shaws work moves between pathos and humor, between the fantastic and the familiar. The Christian Science Monitor Dash Shaw creates eclectic, inventive, and technically sophisticated comics that often work along the same principles Ezra Pound expounded for poetry: place two seemingly unlike things together, and readers will create a relationship between them. Publishers Weekly
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PRINCE VAlIANT Vol. 7: 1949-1950

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by Hal Foster; introduction by Thomas Yeates

$35.00 Hardcover Territory: E COMIC STRIPS / Humor CQ: 14 112 pages, Full-color, 10 x 14 ISBN 978-1-60699-645-4
CASTLE ILLWYNDE, THE PICTS, THE MISSIONARIES, AND TOO MANY RED-HAIRED GIRLS
You might think that birth of Prince Valiants son Arn at the end of the previous volume would have slowed down Vals adventuring, but you would be wrong. After the baby has been christened, Valiant and Gawain are dispatched to investigate reports of black magic in Wales, ending up in pitched battle at the aptly-named Castle Illwynde. Then its off to Scotland to battle the Picts, and then home yet again for Val to visit his growing boy. Valiant now enters the 1950s: The Thule winter is hard and bleak, and a prince who has designs on Aleta must be dealt with. Then its another epiclength story, The Missionaries, in which Val and several of his fellow knights and crew travel to Rome on a quest for teachers who might bring Christianity to Thule. The story also features an escape through the Alps, far too many redheaded girls, and a tragic, life-changing event for the young squire Geoffrey (a.k.a. Arf ). And Foster charmingly ends the book with The Prince Arn Story, a three-week sequence narrated by the toddler. Prince Valiant Volume 7, once again shot from stunningly crisp and colorful original printers proofs from Fosters original collection, will also feature the usual wealth of supplements, including another brace of rarely-seen Foster art, and an introduction by the recently-anointed artist of the ongoing Prince Valiant strip, Thomas Yeates.
HAROLD (Hal) RUDOLF FOSTER was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1892 and passed away in his adopted home of Chicago in 1982.
One of the greatest comic strips of all time and a peak in visual splendor and breathtaking adventure, the story of Prince Valiants 30+ year odyssey is getting a marvelous presentation in Fantagraphics series of books... The strip is violent, sexy, serious, droll and above all eyecatching.... Its a worthy presentation for one of the most important and entertaining works in comic strip history. The Huffington Post
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THE squIRREl MACHINE NoW IN PAPERbACK!

by Hans Rickheit
$19.99 Paperback Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary CQ: 22 192 pages, Black-and-white, 7 x 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-646-1 Previous edition: ISBN 978-1-60699-301-9
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THE SOFTCOVER PRINTING OF HANS RICKHEITS HIT PREMIERE GRAPHIC NOVEL

What is The Squirrel Machine? An immutably strange and haunting narrative that transcends known logics and presumptive dream-barriers; A distillation of subconscious beauty and inspired madness; A dangerous object for the incautious; A revelation for the undernourished crypto-seeker; The virgin caress of unconsummated apocalypse; The unspeakable thing that you always knew. Its also the longest and most ambitious graphic novel by legendary obscurantist cartoonist Hans Rickheit, 200 pages of exquisitely rendered pictorial narrative. Meticulous, strange, and hauntingly beautiful, this enigmatic work will ensure the inquisitive reader a spleenful of cerebral serenity that will take exposure to vast quantities of mediocrity to dispel. Set in a fictional 19th Century New England town, the narrative initially details the relationship and maturation of Edmund and William Torpor. But the two brothers quickly elicit the scorn and recrimination of an unamused public when they reveal their musical creations built from strange technologies and scavenged animal carcasses. Driven to seek a concealment for their aberrant activities, they make a startling discovery. Perhaps they will divine the mystery of the squirrel machine...
HANS RICKHEIT was born in 1973, grew up in New England, and currently resides in Philadelphia. He is the author of the graphic novels Chloe and Folly and has appeared in various anthologies, including Paper Rodeo, Hoax, and Kramers Ergot.
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Folly $18.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-509-9
[The Squirrel Machine is ]very dreamlike, rather Hieronymus Boschian, only wryly Freudian a disquieting, disgusting, entrancing reading experience. Ray Olson, Booklist [Folly] is a deranged cabinet of curiosities, full of biomechanical tanks, writhing organic matter, amorphous monsters birthing adorable kittens, men and women in animal masks, and countless tubes, gas masks, sex toys, and pseudo-Victorian apocalyptic landscapes. It would all be too oppressive if Rickheits sense of humor werent so addictive.... a narrative mosaic that pairs sumptuous, horrific imagery against a strange but lighthearted sense of humor. Publishers Weekly
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EVERybody Is sTuPId EXCEPT FoR ME EXPANdEd HARdCoVER EdITIoN

by Peter Bagge
$24.99 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary CQ: 14 144 pages, Full-color, 7 x 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-656-0 Previous edition: ISBN 978-1-60699-158-9
Review attention The first edition was an instant sell out Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 15 +
PETER BAGGES HILARIOUSLY BARBED VISUAL ESSAYS, NOW WITH EXTRA SATIRICAL VENOM
Fans of Peter Bagges generation-defining, satirical fiction may not realize this, but the cartoonist doubles as an opinionated cuss, and has been contributing provocative (but still hilarious) comic-strip opinion pieces to Reason magazine for the last several years...collected in this volume. Although a libertarian by inclination, Bagge is hardly dogmatic, and many of the pieces undermine traditional party lines in favor of a personal, rational and informed take on hot-button issues that will force partisan Democrats and Republicans alike to rethink them. And of course, Bagges well-researched comic strip essays crackle with the same energy and wit that propelled him into the collective Gen X consciousness with his comic book series Hate. Favorite topics include the erosion of our civil liberties (whether the post-9/11 Bush administrations gradual erosion of the Bill of Rights, the insanity of the war on drugs, or nanny-state meddling), ongoing boondoggles of the American public (for professional sports stadiums or ineffective public transportation systems), the Iraq war, so-called art and socalled entertainment, the homeless, politicians both in general and in particular (including the 2008 presidential race and a revelatory one-on-one with Republican not-so-hopeful Ron Paul), and whether citizens should be allowed to own bazookas. Each piece features the voluble Bagge himself front and center as the puzzled, indignant, or deeply conflicted everyman-on-the-street trying to make sense of this 21st Century. And of course, every panel is delineated in Bagges glorious, laugh-out-loud stretchy 4-color cartoon style, making even his disquisitions on some very serious topics go down as smoothly as Buddy Bradleys latest escapade. BONUS: This new edition of the sold-out Everybody Is Stupid features an extra 20 pages of never-before-collected comics, including an epic biography of eccentric libertarian (and Ayn Rand contemporary) Isabel Mary Paterson.
PETER BAGGE lives in Seattle, WA.
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you ARE THERE NoW IN PAPERbACK!

by Jean-Claude Forest and Jacques Tardi; translated by Kim Thompson; introduction by Dr. Bart Beaty
$19.99 Paperback Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary CQ: 24 192 pages, Black-and-white, 7 x 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-648-5 Previous edition: ISBN 978-1-60699-294-4
NOT FINAL COVER
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CLASSIC EURO-COMICS GRAPHIC NOVEL, NOW IN A COMPACT NEW SOFTCOVER EDITION

One of the earliest full-length, standalone graphic novels to be published in Europe, You Are There is an unexpected collaboration between the darkly cynical Jacques Tardi and the playful fantasist Jean-Claude Forest (of Barbarella fame). You Are There is set on a small island off the coast of France, where unscrupulous landowners have succeeded in overtaking the land from the last heir of a previously wealthy family. His domain now reduced to the walls that border the patches of land he used to own, the half-mad fellow prowls the walls all day, eking out a living by collecting tolls at each gate. His seemingly hopeless struggle to recover his birthright becomes complicated as the government sees a way of using his plight for the sake of political expediency, and the romantic intervention of the daughter of one of the landowners (who has her own sordid history with the politician) engenders further difficulties. Set in Tardis preferred early 20th century milieu, You Are There is drawn in his crisp 1980s neo-clear line style, gorgeously detailed, with impossibly deep slabs of black. This new paperback edition features a long introduction by Dr. Bart Beaty, situating You Are There in the context both of the history of French comics and Tardis and Forests oeuvre.
JEAN-CLAUDE FORESTs career in comics stretches far beyond Barbarella, the 1962 sci-fi romp that ushered in the era of adult comics first in France, then worldwideand helped inspire a young JACQUES TARDI to draw adult comics. He died in 1998 at the age of 58. With over 30 graphic novels under his belt, Tardi is considered the leading European cartoonist of the generation that came of age in the 1970s. He lives in Paris with his wife, the singer Dominique Grange, and their cats.
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When this cynical, surreal satire appeared in France in the late 1970s, it was seen as a landmark in the development of the bande dessine; three decades later, it stands to play a similarly valuable role by introducing American readers to one of Europes greatest cartoonists. Booklist Equal parts Beckett and Kafka, [You Are There] explores the conflict between greedy speculators and the last heir of an aristocratic family whose land has been reduced to a series of precarious walls and towers. Tardis intricate, gorgeous art gets better and better until the books spectacular ending. Its an absolute must-read for anyone interested in how European comics got to where they are today. The Onion A.V. Club
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MAY
THE CoMPlETE CRuMb CoMICs Vol. 5:

HAPPy HIPPy CoMIX
THE CoMPlETE CRuMb CoMICs Vol. 8:

THE dEATH oF FRITZ THE CAT
ISBN 978-0-930193-92-8
ISBN 978-1-56097-076-7
Each volume by R. Crumb; introduction by Marty Pahls

$19.99 Paperback Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary CQ: 28 144 pages, Black-and-white with 16pp. full-color, 8 " x 11"
Digital ARCs One of our most popular series in history The most comprehensive Crumb collection in print Age range: 18 +
TWO CRITICAL CRUMB CLASSICS, BACK IN PRINT!

Continuing our ongoing commitment to keep this perennial, canonic series in print, we represent two of most often-demanded volumes in The Complete Crumb Comics. Vol. 5: Happy Hippy Comix spotlights the period from late-1967 through 1969, including the second issue of ZAP Comix, the introduction of Angelfood McSpade, Mr. Natural, a long Fritz story, an alternate version of the Cheap Thrills album cover, and more! Vol. 8: Starring Fritz the Cat features one of Crumbs most notorious comics, The Death of Fritz the Cat, as well as Whiteman Meets Bigfoot, the complete Big Ass #2 and Mr. Natural #2, wild jams and loads of photos! This volume covers the years 1971-1972.
R. CRUMB lives in the South of France with his wife, the artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb.
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Vol. 1: The Early Years of Bitter Struggle $24.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-60699-558-7 Vol. 2: Some More Years of Bitter Struggle $19.99 Paperback ISBN 978-0-93019-362-1 Vol. 3: Starring Fritz the Cat $19.99 Paperback ISBN 978-0-93019-375-1 Vol. 12: Were Livin in the Lap o Luxury! $19.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-56097-264-8 Vol. 13: The Season of the Snoid $19.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-56097-296-9
Vol. 15: Featuring Mode ODay and Her Pals $19.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-56097-413-0 The Book of Mr. Natural $19.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-352-1 The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat $19.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-480-1 Your Vigor For Life Appalls Me: The R. Crumb Letters 1958-1977 $19.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-60699-560-0
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THE AsToNIsHING EXPloITs oF luCIEN bRINdAVoINE

by Jacques Tardi; translated by Kim Thompson
Review attention Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 15 +
JUNE
TARDIS FIRST SOLO GRAPHIC NOVEL, AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME
For his first solo graphic album, serialized in Pilote magazine in 1973, Jacques Tardi created a reluctant protagonist evolving in a steampunkish pre-WorldWar-One milieu of wild inventions and crazy scientists... no, not Adle BlancSec. (She would follow three years later.) Lucien Brindavoine, professional layabout and occasional photographer, is drawn into a wild adventure that takes him to Istanbul, where he ends up in Iron City, in the middle of a titanic struggle for the financial empire headed by the crippled Otto Lindenberg, populated by such eccentric characters as the heroic Oswald Carpleasure, the menacing aeroplane pilot Olga Vogelsang, and Lindenbergs dwarfish handyman Klotz. Brindavoine is drawn in a looser style than Tardi fans are used to, featuring huge, illustrative panels and a rich but limited color palette that makes this one of the most visually distinctive books in Tardis career. The book is rounded off with Flowers in Their Rifles, a far less light-hearted short story of Brindavoine as a soldier fighting in World War One, intended as the first chapter of a saga that was cut short by Tardis split with the publisher. Tardi would later explore World War One far more fully in It Was the War of the Trenches and other booksand as with The Arctic Marauder, he would integrate Brindavoine into the Adle Blanc-Sec continuity. (Much of the third Adle collection coming from Fantagraphics in 2014 focuses on the now crippled Brindavoines miserable post-war existence, until he stumbles across Adle, who we left sleeping in her chemical bath at the end of Volume Two.) The Astonishing Advenures of Lucien Brindavoine is the 11th release in Fantagraphics ongoing effort to bring the work of Tardi, the greatest living European cartoonist, to English-speaking audiences.
JACQUES TARDI lives in Paris, where he is, as always, working on his next graphic novel; his It Was the War of the Trenches won two Eisner Awards in 2011.
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FRAN
MONTH JUNE
by Jim Woodring
An all-new, original graphic novel from an acknowledged master Review attention Woodrings last two books were LA Times book prize finalists Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 11 +
THE SEQUEL TO FRANK AND THE CoNGRESS oF THE ANIMALS FEATURES EVEN MORE STUNNING VISUALS
For the past 20 years or so, Jim Woodrings beloved trilobular chuckbuster Frank has enjoyed one mindbending catastrophe after another in the treacherous embrace of The Unifactor, the land into which he was born and from which escape seemed neither desirable nor likely. And then, abruptly, in 2011s acclaimed Congress of the Animals (the second Woodring orginal graphic novel, following Weathercraft) Frank did leave the Unifactor for uncharted lands beyondwhere, after a string of trials, he acquired a soulmate named Fran. This development raised far more questions than it answered. Would Frank become placid and domesticated? Would he be jilted? Would he turn out to be a dreadful cad? Would he become a downtrodden and exhausted paterfamilias staring vacantly into the dimming fire of life as obnoxious grandchildren pulled his peglike ears and stole his porridge? The answers to these fruitless speculations and many more are delivered in a devastatingly unpredictable fashion in Fran, which is in effect part two of Congress of the Animals. Fans of Frank, connoisseurs of bizarre romance, and spelunkers in the radiant depths of graphic metaphysical psychodrama will want to add this singular cartoon adventure story to their lifetime reading list.
When most people try to employ dream logic in their work they fail miserably but Jim [Woodring] is great at it. The closest thing to a peer he might have is David Lynch but even thats a stretch. Jim Woodring is the only Jim Woodring and no one has done what he does except for him. Nicholas Gazin, Vice
JIM WOODRING lives in Seattle, WA, where he was awarded the 2010 Stranger Genius Award for literature.
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Problematic: Selected Sketchbook Drawings 2004-2011 $28.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-594-5 The Portable Frank $16.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-56097-978-4 Seeing Things $16.95 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-56097-808-4
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THE CAbbIE Vol. 2

by Mart; translated by Katie LaBarbera
JUNE
THE CABBIE RETURNS FOR MORE GRISLY NOIR ACTION

Picking up where Vol. 1 left off, The Cabbie Vol. 2 begins with our hero, still traumatized by the violent events of the first volume that left many dead and his pregnant sister in a coma, seeking out the psychological help of Dr. Faustus who submits him to his own controversial circular dynamization technique that is supposed to literally spin him back to health. But violence and sexual perversion soon rear their heads, as two business magnates and their sons lock horns in a sordid affair that involves pornography and blackmail (and a search for the Philosophers Stone). Moreover, the fact that The Cabbies first fare is promptly machinegunned to death in his cab by terrorists drives him into the recruiting arms of the Guardian Angel Cab Company, a paramilitary taxi company with a fleet of tank-like cabs. But soon our hero is being shot through the leg, tossed off a 34th-story ledge, and forced to swim through a sewer, while paranoia, madness, corruption, sexual degradation, and death by gunshot, greyhound evisceration and molten metal swirl around himall told in Marts eerily perfect Chester Gould-derived style.
Born in 1955, MARTI has been published in the anthologies RAW, Drawn and Quarterly, and Pictopia; an issue of his solo comic Calvario Hills, which appeared under the Ignatz imprint from Fantagraphics in 2007, revived the Cabbie for a new adventure.
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An intriguing throwback to the days of heroes with worldviews defined in terms as rigidly black and white as the panels they battled their way through, this visual and thematic love letter to (and simultaneous critique of) [Chester] Goulds tropes is highly recommended for grownups with a taste for refreshingly lurid pulp fiction. Publishers Weekly
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One of comics revered masters gets a fresh new reprinting worthy of his work and accessible to kids.... This volume finds [Barks] at a creative peak, combining the bold adventuring of Tintin with the wisely cynical view of human weakness of John Stanley.... Despite the dark undertones, the comic expressions and dialogue is still laugh-out-loud funny. A wonderful project that should put Barkss name in front of new generations of admirers. Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
The design and layout of the book is a handy comic-book size hardcover with bright, colorful reproductions of the comics. Besides the comics, there are articles on Barks and analysis on each story... For both newcomers to Barks work and diehard fans, this is a book that any comic book reader would love to find under the Christmas tree. Rich Clabaugh, The Christian Science Monitor
WAlT dIsNEys doNAld duCK: THE old CAsTlEs sECRET

by Carl Barks; edited by Gary Groth
$28.99 Hardcover Territory: X HUMOR / Comic Strips CQ: 20 240 pages, Full-color, 7 x 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-653-9
One of the most beloved bodies of work in comics history Completely restored for new generations Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: All Ages Major review attention The perfect gift book for Disney fans
JUNE
2012 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC
DONALD AND HIS NEPHEWS FACE GHOSTS, WILD WEST VILLAINY, AND MUCH MORE IN NEW COLLECTION
With this volume, The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library loops back to Barkss earlier days, collecting the entirety of Barkss (astounding) 1948 output. The title story, The Old Castles Secret, is notable not just for being the first full-length 32-page adventure instigated by Scrooge McDuck (in his secondever appearance), but for featuring some of Barkss spookiest, lushest settings in old Clan McDuck castle of Dismal Downs. The other long story, The Sheriff of Bullet Valley, plunks Donald and the nephews in the Wild West, with Donald as an overconfident deputy having to deal with some high-tech rustlers. The book also includes the less-known In Darkest Africa, originally published in a giveaway and unreleased for decades. This volume also features an even 10 of Barkss dynamic Walt Disneys Comics and Stories 10-pagers, including Wintertime Wager (the first appearance of a not-yet-lucky-but-still-obnoxious Gladstone Gander); Spoil the Rod (in which the exquisitely named educational professor Pulpheart Clabberhead is brought in to help tame the nephews); Rocket Race to the Moon (a rare full-on adventureinterplanetary, no lessin the short form); Gladstone Returns and Links Highjinks (two more Gladstone yarns); and five more stories... plus a half-dozen hilarious one-page gags. Of course, once again all the stories have been shot from crisp originals, then re-colored (and printed) to match, for the first time since their original release over 60 years ago, the colorful yet soft hues of the originalsand of course the book is rounded off with essays about Barks, the Ducks, and these specific stories by Barks experts from all over the world.
CARL BARKS (March 27, 1901 August 25, 2000) spent most of his century-spanning life in Oregon. In 1987, he was one of the three inaugural inductees in the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame (along with Eisner and Jack Kirby).
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GODDAMMIT, LETS DO A ROCKIN COFFEE TABLE BOOK ABOUT ol OLAF!
SHARE THIS GREAT BUDDHA OF COMICS WITH THE WORLD!
THE POET AND THE CRITICS
THAT STRIP CAN BE THE MOTTO FOR OUR BOOK: WE'RE GONNA GO WHERE GULBRANSSON PISSED, SNIFF AROUND, ADD A COUPLE DROPS OF OUR OWN...
TEENY TINY GREEN SUNGLASSES
THANK GOD, THE BASEMENT HARBORS A ROW OF GULBRANSSONS PEN-AND-INK MASTERPIECES.
IT LOOKS LIKE HE COULD CRACK WALNUTS WITH THAT ASS...
HMM... HE MUST HAVE SET UP AN INGENIOUS SYSTEM OF MIRRORS TO BE ABLE TO SEE HIS BUTT AS HE WASs DRAWING IT...
MIRROR
THIS IS FRAU BIERBAUM, THE LADY OLAF DANCED WITH TIL HE WAS SPEWING SWEAT! CHECK OUT THE INCREDIBLE INKING!
olAF G.: A lIFE IN PICTuREs

by Lars Fiske and Steffen Kverneland; translated by Kim Thompson
Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: All Ages JUNE
A BIOGRAPHICAL GRAPHIC-NOVEL THREE-WAY SHOWCASING A FORGOTTEN NORWEGIAN MASTER

In the early years of the 20th century, the brilliant Norwegian cartoonist Olaf Gulbransson was headhunted by the legendary German magazine Simplicissimus. Thus began one of the great international collaborations, as Gulbransson moved to Bavaria for a decades-long stint as one of the greatest contributors to one of the greatest satirical magazines of all time. A century later, the Norwegian cartoonists Lars Fiske and Steffen Kverneland, enthralled by the genius of Gulbranssons drawings, fascinated by his eccentric existence (a mostly gentle, nature-loving giant who could crack walnuts with his buttocks, and whose favored method of dress was an apron and nothing else), and dismayed by the degree to which hed fallen into oblivion in his native Norway, set out to document his life and art with this hilarious, incisive, informative and ultimately touching work of comics journalism. Traveling to museums, historical locations, and Gulbranssons own former haunts, speaking with relatives, fueled by beer, cigarettes and pork (we are in Germany, after all), dodging German soccer fans, Fiske and Kverneland bring to life a supremely colorful figure in the history of cartooning: Freely mixing Fiskes eye-popping clear-line cubism with Kvernelands virtuoso multi-media caricatures, punctuated by the occasional photograph and many stunning examples of Gulbranssons own elegant, ultra-minimalist drawings, every page of olaf G.: A Life in Pictures is a treat for the eyes and the brain.
THIS IS BAD CRAzINESS! THE BUTTERFLY OF TERROR IS BEATING MY MY CHEST LIKE A DRUM! I WANNA GO HOME! ME TOO! ITS STOPPED BEIN FUN...
SCHERERHOF, 18 SEPTEMBER 1958.
WERE THEY TRYING TO HURT YOU?
thus:
SNIFF GULBRANSSON IS DEAD... SNORK ...SNIFF!
YOU TOSSED AND TURNED LAST NIGHT. WAS SOMETHING WRONG?
THE MEN IN BLACK WERE HERE TO TAKE ME.
YES.
OLAF GULBRANSSON DIED THAT EVENING.
ZWEI BIER BITTE. SNIFF... UND WRST FR MICH BITTE
LARS FISKE (b. 1966 in Oslo, Norway) lives with his wife, the artist Anna Fiske, in Oslo. STEFFEN KVERNELAND (b. 1963 in Haugesund, Norway) lives with his wife, Liv Braathen, in Oslo. The duos follow-up to Olaf G., Kanon, which features new artist biographies (multi-media artist Kurt Schwitters by Fiske, Edvard Munch by Kverneland), will release its fifth volume later in 2012.
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THE HIGH FIdElITy ART oF JIM FloRA

by Irwin Chusid and Barbara Economon
$34.99 Paperback Original Territory: E ART / MUSIC / JAZZ / Literary CQ: 14 180 pages, Full-color, 11 x 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-655-3
JUNE
Perfect for music lovers Gift book appeal Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 11 +
FLORAS COMPLETE RECORD-ALBUM AND RELATED ILLUSTRATIONS!

Since the 2004 publication of The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora, the once-forgotten illustrator has gained recognition as one of the foremost pioneers of a raucous, cartoonish style of commercial art that defines the Mid-Century aesthetic. Two follow-up volumes, The Curiously Sinister Art (2007) and The Sweetly Diabolic Art (2009), captured Floras largely unseen fine art works, spotlighting a variety of themes such as architecture, cats and dogs, science, cars, trainsand the occasional swerve toward gratuitous violence. But one of Floras sustaining loves was music. His 1940s Columbia and 1950s RCA Victor record covers, in which legendary musicians were routinely afflicted with mutant skin tints and bonus limbs, are considered classics of outlandish postCubist caricature. During this period Flora also produced an enormous amount of promotional ephemera, including new release monthlies, trade booklets, ads, and point-of-sale novelties. The now out-of-print Mischievous Art featured Floras known album covers. (No complete discography existed.) Since that books publication, more covers have been found, as well as rough drafts and unused designs. So Flora co-archivists/authors Irwin Chusid and Barbara Economon have compiled a complete collection of Flora covers (including recent discoveries) and unpublished sketches in one volume, augmented by music images not included in previous volumes. The High Fidelity Art of Jim Flora is the definitive anthology of the maestros visual compositions, reflecting jazz, classical, and Latin music. Regarding his jam-packed canvases Flora once said he couldnt stand a static space. Theres nothing static about the images in The High Fidelity Art: they wail, dance, bounce, and swing from the chandeliers. Flora had a knack for grooving with a paintbrush, making art to which you can tap your toes and snap your fingers.
JAMES JIM FLORA was born in 1914 in Ohio and passed away in 1998. IRWIN CHUSID, based in Hoboken, NJ, is a popular WFMU radio personality and producer of landmark reissues of the music of Raymond Scott, Esquivel, The Shaggs, and the Langley Schools Music Project. BARBARA ECONOMON is a digital media specialist at The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN, and a former radio host for KFAI.
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Jim Floras artwork is ultraviolet radiation in tempera and inkit crackles with such energy, it practically sizzles ozoneThis anthology celebrates a visionary whose work is steeped in vari-hued paradoxYet, despite the raucous energy projected in these hyperactive mosaics, a typical Flora freak circus often projects harmony and balancean ordered chaos. Boing Boing For this generation of artists and illustrators, Jim Flora is sort of an unknown creative granddaddy. Floras designs are magically simple distillations of Cubism, Surrealism and cartoon madness, with playful figures and instruments floating in planes of color. The New York Times
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WANdERING soN VoluME 5

JUNE
by Shimura Takako; translated by Matt Thorn

$22.99 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Manga CQ: 24 200 pages, Black-and-white, 7 x 9 ISBN 978-1-60699-647-8
HIGH DRAMA AT THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENTRANCE CEREMONY!

In the latest volume of the acclaimed series about transgendered kids exploring their unfolding identities, weve reached a big event; the junior high school entrance ceremony. The boys wear black uniforms with stand-up collars based on mid-19th century European military uniforms and the girls wear navy blazers, tan skirts, and red ribbon neckties. Enter our heroes; Nitori-kun is forced to wear a boys uniform while Takatsuki-san has to wear a girls! Yet one girlSarashia Chizuru draws stares, whispers, and pointed fingers, because this long-haired beauty is wearing a boys uniform. Both Nitori-kun and Takatsuki-san are awed by the girls courage, but Takatsuki-san is particularly vexed by their own faintheartedness. They envy more than a few other students who experience such liberty in wearing either uniform and ponder what it ultimately means about themselves. Envy and jealousy are prominent themes in Volume 5: Chiba-san is jealous of Takatsuki-san, for whom Nitori-kun still carries a tortch. Maho envies Anna-chans professionalism as a model. And Chii-chans loyal sidekick, Shiri Momoko, is intensely jealous of anyone in whom Chii-chan shows the slightest interest. And so our protagonists set off on the journey to adolescence.
SHIMURA TAKAKO lives in Tokyo, Japan.

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A measured, sensible and sensitive series... Part of Wandering Sons hook is a distanced view at discomfort with ones own body. The manga is written to evoke the feeling of being ill at ease in ones own skin, such that everyone who has went through puberty can sympathize with these characters, regardless of their own relationship with sexual identity issues. As a result, Wandering Son proves to be deeply involving in an unconventional way. Aint It Cool News [Wandering Son] is absolutely fantastic and deserves every one of the awards it will doubtless win. Ted Anderson, The Hub (YALSA)
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VAPoR
by Max; translated by Kim Thompson
JUNE
Digital ARC AGE RANGE: 15 +
A NEW BATCH OF SURREAL PHILOSOPHICAL COMICS FROM THE CREATOR OF BARDN THE SUPERREALIST
Disgusted and appalled with the todays noisy and noisome world in which all is spectacle and surface sensation, Nick flees into the solitude of the desert. But even as he manages to recover some sort of spiritual balance thanks to ascetic regimen of fasting and meditation, Nick is seduced by the most spectacular and mesmerizing spectacle of all time: The procession of the Queen of Saba. In Vapor, the award-winning Spanish cartoonist Max (best known for his 2006 book Bardn the Superrealist) once again engages in delightful philosophical mind games, starring another wildly stylized and endearing protagonist this time deploying a striking, crisp black and white graphic style perfectly suited for this desert-based fantasia.
Whew! Oooh! Aah! Hm Good time to do a little clean-up
OVER HERE! OVER HERE!
Scrub off some of the grime.
This is nice!
I feel like a new man!
MAX lives on the island of Mallorca, Spain, in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Bardn the Superrealist $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56097-759-0
Spanish cartoonist Max uses some of the most cherished pieces of high art as the catalyst for his character Bardins funny and thoroughly humane adventures Max takes what can be impenetrable and uses some fine cartooning to make it accessible and enjoyable. Publishers Weekly If you glimpse traces of Magritte, Goya, and Zap Comix in Maxs exuberant panels, then youre really enjoying yourself. Booklist
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TREAsuRy oF MINI CoMICs VoluME oNE

Edited by Michael Dowers
$26.99 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary CQ: 16 720 pages, Black-and-white with some color, 5 x 7 ISBN 978-1-60699-657-7
JUNE
Review attention Featuring a Whos Who of cartooning talent from the past quarter-century Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 15 +
600+ PAGES OF MINIS FROM DOZENS OF CARTOONISTS ARE FEATURED IN GIGANTIC COLLECTION
Fantagraphics 2010 NEWAVE! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s was such an unexpected hit that it inspired this first of a two-volume set chronicling the art of the mini-comic from the late 1960s to presentThe Treasury of Mini Comics. The Treasury of Mini Comics charts the evolution of the art of mini comics over four decades of deliberate cartoon rebellion. This volume will reproduce some of the best mini comics ever produced by some of the most creative DIY creators in the world (many of whom, of course, have gone on to become familiar names among contemporary comics connoisseurs): Ron Reg Jr., David Lee Ingersoll, Matt Feazell, Molly Kiely, Carrie McNinch, Fiona Smyth, Mark J. Palm, Peter Thompson, David Lasky, Jim Woodring, Colin Upton, Marc Bell, Nate Beatty, Ronald Russell Roach, Leonard Rifas, Justin Green, Gary Arlington, Brad Johnson, Eric Reynolds, Travis Millard, Tim Corrigan, Kelly Froh, Max Clotfelter, Mark Campos, Andy Singer, Lilli Loge, Noah Van Sciver, Chris Cilla, Mark Todd, Esther Pearl Watson, Onsmith, Leela Corman, Steve Willis, Laura Wada, John Porcellino, Tom Hart, Jeffrey Brown, Roberta Gregory, Pat Moriarity, Edd Vick, David Heatley, and many more. In a do-it-yourself world, anything goesboundaries are crossed, envelopes pushed, wounds opened. From the silliest fart or boob jokes to the most deeply felt EMO style poetry, mini comics creators have been uninhibited in their efforts to strive for something fresh, raw, and vital. The Treasury of Mini Comics will be just as groundbreaking as Newave! was disseminating this creative work to a wider and appreciative public.
MICHAEL DOWERS (b. 1950) is an editor, publisher and writer living in Washington State.
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[C]elebrates the entrepreneurial spirit and youthful energy of the early days of self-publishing. ... Newave! is a valuable overview of an overlooked era. Boston Herald [A] fascinating treasure trove of an anthology the book serves as the history of a movement. Publishers Weekly [G]orgeous, utterly essential Newave! is not only an ideal package for such an anthology, its done an immeasurable service to the comics medium as a whole. Beyond that, it also just might realign your synapses [Grade:] A. The Onion A.V. Club
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CHIld oF ToMoRRoW! ANd oTHER sToRIEs

by Al Feldstein; edited by Gary Groth
$24.99 Hardcover Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Science Fiction CQ: 20 160 pages, Black-and-white, 7 x 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-659-1
Review attention Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 15 +
JULY
NOT FINAL COVER
SCIENCE FICTION COMICS FROM THE GLORY DAYS OF CLASSIC COMIC BOOKS
Al Feldstein is best known as the main writer/editor of the EC comics line during the first half of the 1950sand then the editor of Mad Magazine for the first three decades of its existence. But what many dont know or remember is that Feldstein was also an accomplished and distinctive cartoonist, whose comics (which he both wrote and drew, a relative rarity in those days) adorned the pages of many of those selfsame EC comics. His powerfully composed, meticulously inked pages, often featuring grotesque creatures or scenes of ghastly destruction (and some of the greatest stiffly handsome/beautiful specimens of 1950s humanity ever put to paper), were a vital part of the allure of these classic comics. Feldsteins contributions to the first year and a half of ECs two SF titles, Weird Science and Weird Fantasycomprising 16 classic O. Henry-style shock-ending stories with such evocative, vintage title as Things From Outer Space. The Flying Saucer Invasion, Spawn of Venus, Destruction of the Earth, and Am I Man or Machine?will be collected in their integrity in this volume, which will also boast a new interview with Feldstein about his years at EC, focusing in particular in his work on these science fiction titles that were the companys pride and joy (and were killed a few years later by the Comics Code).
ALBERT B. FELDSTEIN (born 1925) is an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine MAD. Since retiring from MAD, Feldstein has concentrated on American paintings of Western wildlife from his home in Jackson Hole, WY.
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NudNIK REVEAlEd!
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by Gene Deitch
$29.99 Hardcover Territory: E FICTION / Literary CQ: 16 128 pages, Full-color, 12 x 9 ISBN 978-1-60699-651-5
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1960s CARTOON STAR GETS HIS OWN BOOK!

Inspired by a real-life incidentgetting his tie caught in a moving Moviola editing machineGene Deitch, cartoonist, animator, memoirist, renaissance man, created Nudnik, his Everyman character, a cross between Candide and Godot. The star of 12 Paramount-produced animated shorts that ran in theatres as an opening to the main movie in 1964 and 1965, Nudnik was one of Deitchs most creatively personal and commercially successful creations in a long career of innovative and successful work, including the award-winning animated versions of Jules Feiffers Munro and Maurice Sendaks Where the Wild Things Are. Nudnik is the well-intentioned, kind, cheerful, but bumbling naf, inspired by and reflecting such archetypal characters as Jackie Gleasons Poor Soul, Charlie Chaplins Tramp, and Charles Schulzs Charlie Brown. He never gets a break, cant do anything right, but somehow muddles through, dignity more or less intact. Nudnik Revealed! finally collects all of Deitchs original drawings, sketches, model sheets, storyboards, and color set-ups that he drew during the Nudnik production season of 64-65, all reproduced from original art, showcasing his lively pencil line and his slick, authoritative pen and ink work. Deitch, a born storyteller and one of the great raconteurs of comics and animation, accompanies the copious examples of art with a running commentaryby turns, funny, spirited, and chock full of historical insights.
Academy Award-winning animator GENE DEITCH defined the dominant animation style of the 1950s as the Creative Director of CBS/Terrytoons, where he created Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog for The Captain Kangaroo Show. He continues to direct from his longtime adopted home of Prague.
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The Cat, a hardcore record collector and jazz purist based on Deitch himself chases down rare platters, argues the superiority of traditional jazz to bebop, and otherwise airs his obsessions Deitchs breezy annotations bolster the cartoons evocation of the postwar jazz scene, and this oversize volume, containing all of the Cat and the covers as well as other drawings, is a hipsters delight nonpareil. Booklist
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PEPPy ANd VIRGINNy IN lAPINolANd

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by Herg; translated by Kim Thompson

A never-before-seen in English classic from one of the greatest cartoonists who ever lived Review attention Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: All Ages
A LONG-LOST CLASSIC FROM THE CREATOR OF TINTIN

Herg is known worldwide for his plucky, globetrotting, strikingly quiffed hero Tintin. But before the runaway success of this character, the struggling Belgian cartoonist created a number of shorter-lived and less well-known series and characters. By far the loopiest were 1934s Peppy and Virginny (Popol and Virginie in the original), a couple of haberdashers who journeyed to the Wild West in search of new clientele, accompanied by their trusty horse Bluebell where they ran into savage Indian tribes, evil bandits, and much more. They experienced only one adventure, but it was a doozy! The crisp, clear line drawing style of the earliest vintage Tintin albums combines with a freewheeling, farcical storyline and engaging funny-animal characters (the leads are bears, the Indians are rabbits with ears for feathers, and the main villain is a bulldog) and gorgeous Euro-album coloring to make this a genuine oddball classic of Franco-Belgian comics, and Fantagraphics is proud to present its first American release (and its first English-language release in two decades). With the Spielberg/Jackson Tintin adaptations and a steady flow of new books about Tintin and his creator (such as last years Adventures of Herg graphic-novel biography), work by Herg remains in high demand and this book shows a fascinatingly idiosyncratic facet of his career. And its a rollicking, hilarious, kid-friendly (if you can give the non-PC 1930s Injuns a pass) read to boot.
HERG (Georges Remi) created the iconic Tintin in 1929, who went on to sell over 160 million copies worldwide. He died in 1983, but his work lives on, inspiring the Herg museum (opened in 2009) in his native Belgium, a Steven Spielberg-directed motion-capture blockbuster in 2011, and a record-setting auction ($1.6 million for a single drawing) in 2012.
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sIbyl-ANNE ANd THE HoNEybEEs

by R. Macherot; translated by Kim Thompson
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THE PLUCKY MOUSE AND HER FRIENDS CONTINUE THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE WICKED RATS
Sibyl-Anne and the Honeybees picks up right where its predecessor left off: With the plucky field mouse and her motley group of friends retrenched on the tiny island in the middle of the lake, surrounded by the marauding hordes of rats. Alas, tiring of the standoff and fearing an imminent attack by sea, the courageous but ill-advised Sergeant Verboten decides to play the hero and sneak off to attempt to destroy the rat flotilla. When he is captured and used as a hostage, tied to the main mast of a rat destroyer no less, its the beginning of a rat-and-mouse game, the tide of which turns only with the appearance of an unexpected, yellow-and-black-striped group of tiny allies whom our heroine has befriended... One of the great classics of Franco-Belgian comics from the pages of the legendary Spirou magazine, Raymond Macherots Sibyl-Anne is being released in English for the first time. Fifty years after its original release, its bucolic charms are as fresh as ever.
During a career that stretched from the 1950s to the 1980s, working for both Tintin and Spirou magazines, RAYMOND MACHEROT (March 30 1924 September 26 2008) created the series Chlorophylle, Clifton, Chaminou, and Sibylline (Sibyl-Anne).
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Macherots plotting is lively and unexpected... Thompsons translation is colloquial and funny and, one can assume, smoothes out some of the originals mid-century social attitudes. Publishers Weekly Macherots animals are cute and full of character, from the porcupine sheriff to the cigar-smoking, shop-keeping bird. Visually they resemble Walt Kellys Pogo, with backgrounds that will look familiar to anybody who ever watched The Smurfs cartoon.... the adorable art, amiable characters, and a thrilling late-story air battle will keep you interested until the end. Best of all are the brief glimpses at domestic country mouse mundanity, like Sibyl-Annes love for baking pies and the aside where she and Boomer talk about how nice a certain table and its parasol are. Paste
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VIP: THE MAd WoRld oF VIRGIl PARTCH

by Virgil Partch; edited by Jonathan Barli
$39.99 Hardcover Territory: E HUMOR / Comic Strips CQ: 12 240 pages, pages, Black-and-white and full-color, 9 x 12 ISBN 978-1-60699-664-5
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ULTRA-STYLISH CARTOONING MASTER FINALLY GETS HIS COFFEE-TABLE BOOK

Only a few months after the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor and the same year that Albert Camus offered the world his bleak vision of mans existence by introducing his philosophical dictum of The Absurd, Virgil Partch burst onto the scene with his own twist on the phrase. Partch was a cartoonist who offered comic counterpoint to the grim headlines and a unique perspective on human nature in the pages of the nations most popular magazines. Known to millions by his jazzy signature, VIP, this comic genius ushered in a new era of the gag cartoonzany, sometimes surreal, always hilariousthat inspired a generation of fellow cartoonists starting in the 1940s and 50s. His madcap style of humor was reflected in the cutting-edge comedic sensibilities of Burns & Allen, Jack Benny, Ernie Kovacs, Bob & Ray, Stan Freberg, and Jean Shepherd, and would position Partch as one of the most prolific gag-men of his day. VIP contributed to an astonishing array of magazines, wrote gags for other cartoonists, illustrated books, album covers, and advertisements, and adorned merchandise including, appropriately, cocktail glasses. VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch is the first time Partchs life and career has been treated in full, collecting amazing artwork from the entire range of his inspired career and featuring his own writings. Reprinted from original art, primary-source publications, and collectors and family archives, VIPs place in the world of cartooning and humor can finally be fully appreciated in this beautiful coffee-table volume.
VIRGIL FRANKLIN PARTCH (October 17, 1916 August 10, 1984) was one of the most prominent and prolific American magazine gag cartoonists of the 1940s and 1950s. His unusual style, surreal humor and familiar abbreviated signature (VIP) made his cartoons distinctive and eye-catching. JONATHAN BARLI is the art director of Rosebud Archives. He designed The Comics Journal 302 and writes about cartooning, most recently an historical essay about Dudley Fisher in Hogans Alley magazine.
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bARRACudA IN THE ATTIC

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by Kipp Friedman; edited by Gary Groth

$26.99 Hardcover Territory: E MEMOIR CQ: 26 220 pages, Black-and-white with photos and illustrations, 6 x 9 ISBN 978-1-60699-650-8
A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF MEMOIR FROM THE LATEST MEMBER OF A COMEDIC DYNASTY
Whether shooting pool with the mobster Crazy Joey Gallo, attending a dinner party hosted by an aged but remarkably spry Groucho Marx, or simply playing doctor with a classmate in the former estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kipp Friedman led a colorful childhood. The youngest son of celebrated writer and satirist Bruce Jay Friedman, Kipp looks back fondly on the amusing and sometimes confusing events and encounters that helped shape his early life in this moving tribute to growing up among a family of creative artistsswept up in the whirlwind of the New York arts scene of the 1960s and 70s. Follow Kipps exploits as bystander and willing participant as he joins older brothers Josh (writer and musician) and Drew (renowned cartoonist and illustrator) as three musketeers on a youthful quest to discover the scariest low-budget horror movies along 42nd Street and Times Square. Delight in their search for classic comic books, monster magazines (and the occasional nudie magazine) at their beloved, dingy Back-Issue Store in midtown Manhattan. Encounter his familys bizarre Cold War-like relationship with their new neighbors in an updated suburban Jewish version of the Hatfields vs. the McCoys. Witness their Marx Brothers-like antics while on an all-expenses-paid junket at the Beverly Hills Hotel courtesy of CBS. The stage shifts from New York City to the Caribbean to the suburbs of Long Island, and from the South of France to Broadway and Hollywood as Kipp retraces his familys defining momentswith the backdrop of his fathers meteoric rise from editor of mens adventure magazines to successful novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. Through it all, Kipp paints a loving portrait of a childhood and family life that is both magical and yet familiar and real. Barracuda in the Attic is truly a family affair, written by Kipp, with a cover illustration by Drew Friedman, an introduction by paterfamilias Bruce Jay Friedman, and an afterword by Josh Friedman, and is copiously illustrated with photos of the family and their literati friends and hangers-on.
KIPP FRIEDMAN (b. 1961) is a photographer and writer. He lives in Milwaukee, WI.
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PERFECT NoNsENsE: THE CHAoTIC CoMICs ANd

GooFy GAMEs oF GEoRGE CARlsoN by George Carlson; edited by Daniel Yezbick
$39.99 Hardcover Territory: E HUMOR / Comic Strips CQ: 16 224 pages, Color and black-and-white, 9 x 12 ISBN 978-1-60699-508-2
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A CAREER-SPANNING CELEBRATION OF ONE OF THE 20TH CENTURYS MOST INNOVATIVE CARTOONISTS

Perfect Nonsense tells the complete story behind one of the most innovative and under-rated Golden Age artists, classic childrens illustrators, and nonsense poets in American history. For more than 50 years, George Carlson created thousands of distinctive and dynamic cartoons, comics, riddles, and games that thrilled both children and adults with their fanciful spirit and nonsensical humor. There has never been a career retrospective of this startling cartoonist and illustratoruntil now! Carlsons inspired cartoonsranging from the intellectual to the surreal place him at home with not only acknowledged masters of American humor like George Herriman, S. J. Perelman, Milt Gross, Bill Holman, and Jack Kent, but also globally celebrated absurdists like Beckett, Pirandello, and his life-long inspiration, Lewis Carroll. Carlson also made his mark as an accomplished designer of more serious themes including magazine covers, political cartoons, advertisements, locomotive and naval illustration, and, most famously, the original book jacket for the first edition of Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind. Now, after more than 15 years of searching, compiling, and conjuring, the incredible depth of George Carlsons artistry and ingenuity finally gets the comprehensive treatment it has so long deserved with copious full color examples of material both exquisite and obscure. Alongside plentiful cartoons, individual drawings, and comics (including Carlsons ghost work on Gene Byrnes Reglar Fellers), this edition offers a meticulously researched critical introduction, rare examples of original art and unpublished projects, and a biographical timeline of Carlsons first three decades as a commercial artist drawing on recently unearthed artifacts from the Carlson family estate. Perfect Nonsense focuses on Carlsons prolific work as a gag cartoonist, childrens illustrator, commercial designer, and art instructor from 1907 to just before World War II. Decades before his celebrated Jingle Jangle Comics, Carlson forever altered the nature of childrens publishing during his tenure as chief artist and designer for the pioneering childrens pulp, John Martins Book. Carlson turned the magazine itself into a toy, filled with seasonal games, holiday cut-outs, curious crosswords, graphic exercises, puzzles, riddles, rebuses, and more. As Carlson himself once observed, his early works brim with a unique spirit of happiness and fun. We have not only captured the very best of that spirit in this collection, but also the many secrets behind its legacy. Loaded with wonder and wit, the creations of George L. Carlson will inspire cartoon and comics aficionados, teachers of childrens media, scholars of American humor, and anyone interested in the ever-evolving landscapes of image and language.
GEORGE CARLSON was born in 1887 and died in 1962 in his hometown of Fairfield, CT.
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5,000 KIloMETERs PER sECoNd

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by Manuele Fior; translated by Kim Thompson

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THE DAYS BEFORE AND AFTER A ROMANCEIN STUNNING WATERCOLOR

Winner of the prestigious Grand Prize of the 2010 Angoulme Comics Festival, 5,000 Kilometers Per Second tellsor almost tellsthe love story between Piero and Lucia, which begins with a casual glance exchanged by teenagers across the street through a window and ends with a last, desperate hook-up between two older, sadder one-time lovers. Executed in stunning watercolors and broken down into five chapters (set in Italy, Norway, Egypt, and Italy again), 5,000 Kilometers Per Second manages to refer to Piero and Lucias actual love story only obliquely, focusing instead on its first stirrings and then episodes in their life during which they are separateda narrative twist that makes it even more poignant and heart-wrenching. 5,000 Kilometers Per Second is another delicate graphic-novel masterpiece from Europe.
MANUELE FIOR was born in Cesena, Italy in 1975. After earning a degree in architecture (Venice, 2000), he moved to Berlin, where he began a career as a cartoonist, illustrator (The New Yorker, Le Monde, Vanity Fair...), and architect. He lives in Paris.
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THE ENd oF THE FuCKING WoRld

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by Charles Forsman
Review attention Debut graphic novel from a major new talent Digital ARC (PDF) Age Range: 15 +
PREMIERE GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM IGNATZ AWARD WINNER

TEotFW follows James and Alyssa, two teenagers living a seemingly typical teen experience as they face the fear of coming adulthood. Forsman tells their story through each characters perspective, jumping between points of view with each chapter. But quickly, this somewhat familiar teenage experience takes a more nihilistic turn as Jamess character exhibits a rapidly forming sociopathy that threatens both of their futures. He harbors violent fantasies and begins to act on them, while Alyssa remains as willfully ignorant for as long as she can, blinded by young love. Forsmans story highlights the disdain, fear and existential search that many teenagers fear, but through a road trip drama that owes as much to Badlands as The Catcher in the Rye. Forsmans inviting, Charles Schulz-influenced style lends a deadpan quality that underscores the narratives tension. The End of the Fucking World is certain to be one of the most talked-about graphic novels of 2013. Forsman is arguably the most acclaimed talent to come out of the Center for Cartoon Studies, a school founded in 2004 by graphic novelist James Sturm and educator Michelle Ollie in White River Junction, VT. Forsman graduated in 2008 and is a two-time Ignatz Award-winner for his self-published minicomic, Snake oil. The End of the Fucking World is his first graphic novel.
The awkwardness, the urgency, the sense of discovery, the sense of revulsion its all true, even if youve never stuck your own hand in a garbage disposal. Sean T. Collins Great stuff. Frank Santoro
CHARLES FORSMAN was born in Pennsylvania in 1982. He lives in Hancock, MA.
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RAy & JoE: THE sToRy oF A MAN ANd HIs dEAd FRIENd
ANd oTHER ClAssIC CoMICs
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by Charles Rodrigues; edited by Bob Fingerman and Gary Groth

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GROSS-OUT HUMOR MASTER FINALLY ANTHOLOGIZED

Fantagraphics is proud to announce the release of the first volume of another great, under-appreciated, quintessentially American cartoonist. Black as sin and decay and perversion is how National Lampoon editor Tony Hendra described the work of Charles Rodrigues. By all accounts, this small, politically conservative, devout Catholic, was a good-natured dumpling of a man. But inside lurked an untapped vein of savage wit that only the National Lampoon saw fit to unleash. Given carte blanche by its young editors, Rodrigues produced a 20-year tsunami of hilarious self-contained comic strips, themed gag spreads, and serials that boggled the mind and challenged all sense of decency and propriety. In this first-ever collection of his comics, readers are treated to the misadventures of conjoined twins The Aesop Brothers; Sam deGroot, a private detective in an iron lung (whose life actually gets worse when he is sprung from his enclosure); Deirdre Callahan, a girl so hideous that to look upon her causes madness and suicide; and the heartwarming (in relative terms) titular tale of Ray and Joe, the saga of a man and his dead best friend. Also included are his brilliant biographies of Marilyn Monroe, Abbie Hoffman, Eugene ONeill, and others. Rodrigues rendered his cast of grotesqueries and nafs in a ragged, unpretty line within dense panels and pages, that perfectly reflects his uniquely bizarre, riotous and repellent world. Charles Rodrigues may be gone and, if not forgotten, insufficiently remembered, and this collection will rectify at least one of those tragedies.
CHARLES RODRIGUES (September 29, 1926 June 14, 2004) was the sick mind behind some of the most outrageous, inventive, and offensive cartoons ever to appear in mass circulation magazines, including Stereo Review, Playboy and (from its very first issue) the National Lampoon. He also created the syndicated strip Casey the Cop and the syndicated panel Charlie.
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PRETTy IN INK: AMERICAN WoMEN CARTooNIsTs 1896-2013

by Trina Robbins
$29.99 Paperback Original Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / History & Criticism CQ: 16 200 pages, Color and black-and-white, 9 x 12 ISBN 978-1-60699-669-0
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THE ULTIMATE COFFE-TABLE-BOOK HISTORY OF WOMEN CARTOONISTS IN AMERICA

With the 1896 publication of Rose ONeills comic strip The old Subscriber Calls, in Truth Magazine, American women entered the field of comics, and they never left it. But, you might not know that reading most of the comics histories out there. Trina Robbins has spent the last thirty years recording the accomplishments of a century of women cartoonists, and Pretty in Ink is her ultimate book, a revised, updated and rewritten history of women cartoonists, with more color illustrations than ever before, and with some startling new discoveries (such as a Native American woman cartoonist from the 1940s who was also a Corporal in the womens army, and the revelation that a cartoonist included in all of Robbinss previous histories was a man!) In the pages of Pretty in Ink youll find new photos and correspondence from cartoonists Ethel Hays and Edwina Dumm, and the true story of Golden Age comic book star Lily Renee, as intriguing as the comics she drew. Although the comics profession was dominated by men, there were far more women working in the profession throughout the 20th century than other histories indicate, and they have flourished in the 21st. Robbins not only documents the increasing relevance of women throughout the 20th century, with mainstream creators such as Ramona Fradon and Dale Messick and alternative cartoonists such as Lynda Barry, Carol Tyler, and Phoebe Gloeckner, but the latest generation of women cartoonistsMegan Kelso, Cathy Malkasian, Linda Medley, and Lilli Carr, among many others. Robbins is the preeminent historian of women comic artists; forget her previous histories: Pretty in Ink is her most comprehensive volume to date.
Retired cartoonist and current comics historian TRINA ROBBINS has been writing graphic novels, comics, and books for over 30 years. She lives in a moldering 103 year-old house in San Francisco with her cats, shoes, and dust bunnies.
One title I havent been able to put down is The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkleys Cartoons from 1913-1940, edited by Trina Robbins... I was blown away by what I discovered within these pages... The images are sexy, glamorous, colorful Brinkley clearly appreciated and understood her subjects, and some of her work made me feel as if I were stepping right into the flapper era. USA Today Brinkley was praised for her writing (its easy to see why: overblown, yet so satisfying; maybe the only word to describe it is delicious) but her drawings made her famous. Each one is an orgiastic, atmospheric feast for the eye... The Brinkley Girls is a tantalizing primer, and a perfect summer read. The New Yorker Comics herstorian Robbins (The Great Women Superheroes) has produced a wonderful tribute to Brinkley, reprinting in full three serials and numerous shorter works with ample biographical background. With their swoon-worthy hair and wardrobes, the Brinkley Girls could kick off a whole new cosplay aesthetic. Library Journal
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EyE oF THE MAJEsTIC CREATuRE Vol. 2

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by Leslie Stein
$18.99 Paperback Original Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary CQ: 48 148 pages, Black-and-white, 7 x 11 ISBN 978-1-60699-672-0
LARRYBEAR HAS MOVED TO THE CITY IN NEW VOLUME

Eye of the Majestic Creature Vol. 2 is the second book collecting Leslie Steins loose, funny and charming autobiographical narratives that combine idiosyncratic fantasy and stark reality. Larrybear, our hero, has moved from the countryside to the city, where she finds work as a shop girl. Quotes from Theodore Dreisers Sister Carrie are sprinkled throughout the story to add humor and poignancy. Stein then takes us back to a childhood in the 80s filled with odd experiences including joining a rock band with older people, sitting in on her mothers AA groups, and the mystery of the disappearing gumballs. Finally, a fun story in which Larrybear and her new friend, Poppin the Flower go on a strange trip to see his father. Let us not forget that Marshmallow, Ping-Ping and Mimolette, Larrys walking and talking instruments, have adventures all their own. Steins gorgeous cartooning, highlighted by incredibly detailed stippling, and her dry sense of humor combine to make one of the most unique and immersive narrative experiences in comics.
LESLIE STEIN, aka larrybear, spends most of her time drawing comics, listening to old time radio shows and playing records in her home in Brooklyn, NY.
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Early in the 20th Century, a beautiful cartoonist, Marcel Duchamp, pretended to be a marginally attractive woman and spent considerable time watching dust accumulate. Early in the 21st Century a beautiful cartoonist, Leslie Stein, pretended to be a funky dweeb and spent considerable time counting sand. Catch my drift? Gary Panter Eye of the Majestic Creature is a wonderful comic book, and really one of the best books that Ive read [this year]. Comic Book Resources Leslie Steins comics inhabit a charming and semi-autobiographical (in the most semi sense of the word) yet surreal, insular world where her best friend and closest confidant is an acoustic guitar. Whats not to relate to? Peter Bagge, creator of Hate
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