FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS WINTER 2021 World’sG reat isher of the est Cartoo Publ nists Since 1976 “It’s hard to overstate the revolutionary “Fantagraphics publishes the best comics in transformation Fantagraphics has helped the world.” — Wired bring to comics over its four decades.” — NPR “Fantagraphics is at the forefront of publishing “Since the mid-1970s, Fantagraphics has the most well-sought after, critically acclaimed, published a large and varied line, with new and creatively inspiring work in the field.” works and classic reprints, and has fought to — Complex establish comic books as a form of high art.” — The New York Times “One of the foremost publishers of comics, graphic novels and related works in the world.” “Fantagraphics has consistently published — Publishers Weekly America’s most important comics artists.” — TIME For over 40 years, Fantagraphics has published the very best comics and graphic novels that the medium has to offer. Our mission is to celebrate great cartooning in all of its incarnations, from the form’s early luminaries to contemporary artists currently forging the future of visual storytelling. Not content to rest on our laurels and extensive roster of talented artists, we constantly seek out fresh voices from across the globe. Thus, we honor the rich history of comics while providing a platform for bold new stories, styles, and perspectives that push the boundaries of the medium. Fantagraphics remains peerless in our commitment to be the publisher of the world’s greatest cartoonists. Find out more about Fantagraphics books, cartoonists, and upcoming events on website fantagraphics.com, our blog fantagraphics.com/flog, and on social media @fantagraphics. JANUARY MONSTERS By Barry Windsor-Smith 35 years in the making, the most anticipated graphic novel in recent comics history! The year is 1964. Bobby Bailey doesn’t realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join up. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, it turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. government experimental program, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. Bailey’s only ally and protector, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events Comics & Graphic Novels / that spin out of everyone’s control. As the titular monsters of the title Literary multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story $39.99 Hardcover reaches its emotional and moral reckoning. 380 pages, black-and-white, 8" x 11" Monsters is the legendary project Barry Windsor-Smith has been Territory: E • CQ: 6 working on for over 35 years. A 360-page tour de force of visual storytelling, ISBN 978-1-68396-415-5 Monsters’ narrative canvas is both vast and deep: part familial drama, part espionage thriller, part metaphysical journey, it is an intimate portrait of • Age Range: 18 and up individuals struggling to reclaim their lives and an epic political odyssey • National review coverage & off the book page features across two generations of American history. Trauma, fate, conscience, and redemption are just a few of the themes that intersect in the most • Targeted bookseller outreach ambitious graphic novel of Windsor-Smith’s career. • Targeted librarian & educator outreach Monsters is rendered in Windsor-Smith’s impeccable pen-and-ink • Targeted social media & newsletter technique, the visual storytelling with its sensitivity to gesture and outreach composition is the most sophisticated of the artist’s career. There are • Advance Reading Copies passages of heartbreaking tenderness, of excruciating pain, and devastating • Co-op available violence. It is surely one of the most intense graphic novels ever drawn. Barry Windsor-Smith became known early in his career as a stylistic innovator known for breaking from the Marvel formula with his work on Conan in 1971, and went on to forge a career drawing characters such as Wolverine while establishing himself as an independent cartoonist creating his own stories and characters. His last graphic novels were Young Gods (2004) and The Freebooters (2005). “Windsor-Smith took the comic book scene by storm, changing what comic book art could be. While Neal Adams, Gil Kane, and others brought impressive realism to comics, Windsor-Smith showed that comic book illustrations could also be art. Breathtaking, sweeping, majestic, and intoxicatingly realistic, his work broke down the doors of what was possible in comics.” — Library Journal 3 Monsters 4 Monsters 5 Monsters 6 JANUARY NUFT AND THE LAST DRAGONS, VOLUME 1: THE GREAT TECHNOWHIZ By Freddy Milton In this collection of classic short comics, Nuft the Dragon and his outgoing family are outcasts in a world hostile to dragonkind. Sometimes poignant and sometimes slapstick, in this collection of comics stories, Nuft and his family are pitted against prejudice, scheming slumlords and all-seeing robot overlords! This debut volume collects the stories “The Nufts Move In,” in which the dragon Comics & Graphic Novels / family trades its rural ways for a new life in the big city — but the Humorous tenement they move into is not only falling apart, it’s plagued by $22.99 Paperback Original poltergeists! In “Trouble on George Street,” Nuft gets a job at City 168 pages, full-color, 8" x 10" Hall but quickly discovers that the whole thing is teetering on the Territory: E • CQ: 16 verge of collapse! And in “The Great Technowhiz,” the Technowhiz ISBN 978-1-68396-365-3 watches over all the city’s functions — but who watches over the Technowhiz? Plus a special collector’s bonus — Freddy Milton’s • Age Range: 16 and up very first 8-page Nuft tale. With personal commentary and insight • National review coverage by Freddy Milton. • Targeted social media & newsletter outreach • Co-op available Freddy Milton (b. 1948, Viborg, Denmark) earned his fame in Europe as the writer and illustrator of multitudes of Donald Duck and Woody Woodpecker stories, sometimes in collaboration with fellow Disney artist, Daan Jippes. He debuted Nuft (“Gnuff” in Europe) in his self-published fanzine in 1974. “My dragons openly depict the problems of minorities. They have to conceal their old culture (their wings) to make it in our society.” — Freddy Milton 7 Nuft and the Last Dragons, Volume 1: The Great Technowhiz 8 Nuft and the Last Dragons, Volume 1: The Great Technowhiz 9 JANUARY DISNEY MASTERS VOL. 15: MICKEY MOUSE: NEW ADVENTURES OF THE PHANTOM BLOT © 2021 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2021 © By Paul Murry, Del Connell, and Bob Ogle Disney’s infamous inky bad guy was the first Mouseverse villain to get his own comic book. Now, by popular demand, the whole Silver Age series is collected in one volume! The Phantom Blot — a power-crazed supervillain in a ghostly black Series: Disney Masters cloak — is on the loose, and Mickey, Donald, and Uncle Scrooge Comics & Graphic Novels / must assemble to stop him! From terrifying time travel to usurping Media Tie-In “The Crown of Tasbah,” the Blot will stop at nothing to turn the $34.99 Hardcover world upside down! Classic Disney artist Paul Murry teamed with 252 pages, full-color, 7" x 10" writers Del Connell and Bob Ogle to create seven comic book Territory: X • CQ: 16 issues starring the Blot. In the process, they introduced Goofy’s new ISBN 978-1-68396-411-7 secret identity: Super Goof! Will the Blot move too fast for all our heroes? With allies like Mad Madam Mim, the Beagle Boys, and • Age Range: 14 and up “The Mysterious Mr. X”… he just might! • Targeted social media & newsletter outreach • Co-op available Paul Murry (1911–1989) most notably worked on Mickey Mouse and Woody Woodpecker comics for Dell Publishing and Gold Key Comics. As an animator, he worked on Pinocchio and Dumbo. Del Connell (1918–2011) was a Disney animator/prolific licensed property comics writer for Western Publishing, packager of Dell and Gold Key Comics. He won the Bill Finger Award for Achievement in Comic Writing in 2011. Robert “Bob” Allen Ogle (1926–1984) was a Californian who primarily worked in animation as a voice actor, writer and artist. 10 Disney Masters Vol. 15: Mickey Mouse: New Adventures of The Phantom Blot 11 Disney Masters Vol. 15: Mickey Mouse: New Adventures of The Phantom Blot 12 JANUARY A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER AND OTHER STORIES By George Evans The complete George Evans EC horror collected in one single volume! This volume features “Blind Alleys” — one of the most chilling and famous EC stories (adapted for the 1972 movie Tales From the Crypt) in which a man who abused residents of a home for the blind winds up in an impossibly narrow corridor lined with razor blades as a ravenous dog closes in … In “Gorilla My Dreams” — a terrifying tale in which an innocent man’s brain is transplanted into a gorilla — who is then blamed for the death of his former self and Series: The EC Comics Library hunted down … And our title tale, “A Slight Case of Murder,” in Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror which “four pretty young women” are each gruesomely murdered $34.99 Hardcover inside locked rooms with no way for the killer to get in or out. But 224 pages, black-and-white, 7" x 10" one man thinks he knows who’s behind it … In addition, A Slight Territory: E • CQ: 20 Case of Murder And Other Stories also includes Evans’s unforgettable ISBN 978-1-68396-398-1 adaptation of the Ray Bradbury story “The Small Assassin!” This book superbly showcases these classic comic book stories and • Age Range: 16 and up enhances the reader’s experience with commentary and historical • Targeted social media & newsletter and biographical detail by EC experts.