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“It’s hard to overstate the revolutionary “ publishes the best 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 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 .

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 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 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 creating his own stories and characters. His last graphic novels were Young Gods (2004) and The Freebooters (2005).

“Windsor-Smith took the scene by storm, changing what comic book art could be. While , , 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

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NUFT AND THE LAST DRAGONS, VOLUME 1: THE GREAT TECHNOWHIZ By

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, ) earned his fame in as the writer and illustrator of multitudes of and stories, sometimes in collaboration with fellow Disney artist, . 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

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8 Nuft and the Last Dragons, Volume 1: The Great Technowhiz

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DISNEY MASTERS VOL. 15: : NEW ADVENTURES OF BLOT

© 2021 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2021 © By , 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 in a ghostly black Series: Disney Masters cloak — is on the loose, and Mickey, Donald, and 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 ’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 , 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 . 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.

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11 Disney Masters Vol. 15: Mickey Mouse: New Adventures of The Phantom Blot

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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 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. outreach • Co-op available George Evans (1920–2001) turned his fascination with aircraft and aviation pioneers into an artistic expertise that had few rivals. His work as a World War II aircraft mechanic informed his depiction of all kinds of airplanes in breathtaking aerial acrobatics. Besides EC, he worked for Warren, DC and Marvel. He was the regular artist on the newspaper strip Secret Agent Corrigan (a.k.a. Secret Agent X-9) from 1980 until his retirement in 1996.

“EC Comics’ output of crime, horror, and have been reprinted and collected multiple times, but never like in Fantagraphics’ new ‘EC Comics Library,’ which repackages some of the most influential comics ever published in writer/artist-driven volumes, printed in black-and-white.” — The A.V. Club

“The EC Comics Library collections display the grace of cartooning.” — The Chicago Tribune

“Fantagraphics has been inventing unique ways to publish [this] treasure trove of ’40s and ’50s crime, horror and war comics.” — The Toronto Star

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14 A Slight Case of Murder and Other Stories

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WALT DISNEY’S UNCLE SCROOGE: “ISLAND IN THE SKY” THE COMPLETE DISNEY LIBRARY

© 2021 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2021 © By Carl Barks

In this collection of internationally acclaimed Duck comics, Uncle Scrooge has adventures in outer space and on the high seas!

When Uncle Scrooge decides to seek out a safe new place to store his money, he sets his sights on an asteroid. But the asteroid he chooses holds a secret that he wasn’t counting on! Series: The Complete Carl Barks Then, the Beagle Boys construct an unstoppable mechanical Disney Library behemoth to crack open Scrooge’s Money Bin and steal all his cash Comics & Graphic Novels / in “The Paul Bunyan Machine.” And, in “All at Sea,” Scrooge, Media Tie-In Donald, and the nephews set sail on a windjammer to collect $10 $29.99 Hardcover million in gold — but there be pirates on the high seas! Plus: the 200 pages, full-color, 7" x 10" oddball inventions of the ever-eccentric Gyro Gearloose! Each page Territory: X • CQ: 16 of these collections is meticulously restored and newly colored, with ISBN 978-1-68396-401-8 insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. • Age Range: 14 and up • Targeted social media & newsletter Carl Barks (1901–2000) spent most of his life in Oregon. In outreach 1987, he was one of the three inaugural inductees in the Will • Co-op available Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame (along with Eisner and ). He’s also a Disney Legend.

“Enormously well crafted and equally enormously entertaining, timeless comedy adventures … the perfect gift for just about any reader of comics, regardless of age, background, or experience.” — School Library Journal

“A priceless part of our literary heritage.” — George Lucas

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17 Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: “Island In the Sky” The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library

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THE GRANDE ODALISQUE By Bastien Vivès, Florent Ruppert, Jérôme Mulot

In this graphic novel, two art thieves bring in a third wheel to tackle their biggest caper yet.

Alex and Carole, friends since childhood, are now (literal) partners in crime. But the heist — to steal the Ingres painting Grande Odalisque from the Louvre in Paris — is too much for the duo to handle, so they bring in Clarence, a bureaucrat’s son with a price on his head by a Mexican drug cartel and, more importantly, an arms dealer. Next is Sam, a stunt motorcyclist and boxer by trade, who proves trigger happy with tranquilizer darts. Using soda can Comics & Graphic Novels / smoke bombs, rocket launchers, and hang gliders, Alex, Carole, Crime and Mystery and Sam set off a set of circumstances that results in a battle with $24.99 Hardcover the French Special Forces — and their partnership, which was on 124 pages, full-color, 9" x 12" the rocks, will never be the same again. Ruppert and Mulot, two Territory: E • CQ: 18 of the most innovative comic creators in the world, team up with ISBN: 978-1-68396-402-5 multiple Angouleme prize winner Bastien Vivès to bring you this impossibly funny, violent, and sexy action-packed thriller. • Age Range: 18 and up • National review coverage • Targeted bookseller outreach Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot are best known for their comics collaborations together; each French artist both writes and • Targeted librarian & educator outreach draws. The two met at the National School of art in Dijon and • Targeted social media & newsletter began publishing their creations in their fanzine Del Adventure. outreach Together, they won the Revelation Prize from the Angoulême • Advance Reading Copies International Comics Festival for Barrel of Monkeys (Panier • Co-op available de Singe). They began publishing the crime fiction le Grande Odalisque in 2012. The sequel, Olympia, will be published by Fantagraphics in 2022.

Bastien Vivès is a Parisian who has drawn or collaborated on more than a dozen graphic novels since his published debut in 2006. The Angoulême Comics Festival granted Vivès the Revelation Prize in 2009 and the prize for best series in 2015.

“Erotic thriller, feminist manifesto, drawn video game, Houellebecquian manifesto on art, The Grande Odalisque is also a postmodern tribute to the Japanese animated series, Cat’s Eye.” — Le Point

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SHIT! | DON’T BELIEVE IT!

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HYPNOTWIST By

Collects (and expands!) the graphic novellas “Hypnotwist” and “Scarlet by Starlight” from Love and Rockets: New Stories.

In the -winning wordless comic (silent movie?) “Hypnotwist,” Hernandez’s B-movie star Fritz plays a character who doesn’t seem to be going anywhere — until she puts on a pair of glittery pumps. Her wanderings become increasingly surreal as she confronts motherhood, alcoholism, a sinister smiley face, cruelty, and her worst fate. “Killer” cameos! Includes 16 pages of previously unpublished, additional material. “Scarlet by Starlight” is a B movie that’s Star Trek meets Heart of Darkness. “Scientists,” Comics & Graphic Novels / or colonizers, are doing research, surrounded by “primitive” fauna Literary they affectionately nickname or treat like pests. Fritz plays Scarlet, $24.99 Hardcover a peaceful, catlike humanoid with a mate and children. When she 96 pages black-and-white, 6" x 8" becomes infatuated with one of the scientists, the fragile web of Territory: E • CQ 24 relationships explodes into violence and death, calling into question ISBN: 978-1-68396-204-5 who the “advanced, civilized” creatures really are. • Age Range: 18 and up • National review coverage Gilbert Hernandez lives in Las Vegas, NV, with his wife and • Targeted bookseller outreach daughter. He is co-creator of the long-running, award-winning, • Targeted librarian & educator and critically acclaimed series Love and Rockets. outreach • Targeted social media & newsletter outreach “Hernandez is one of the great craftsmen of modern comics.” • Advance Reading Copies — New York Times Book Review • Co-op available “Hernandez has become the medium’s David Lynch or Guy Maddin, rolling his personal obsessions and freewheeling abstractions into stories that present as pulp, then take some very weird turns.” — The A.V. Club

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NOBODY LIKES YOU, GRETA GRUMP By Cathy Malkasian

In this middle grade graphic novel from the acclaimed animator/cartoonist, Greta and her friend (and pet turtle!) have to solve the mystery of Friendlytown.

Greta is a handful. She rips the heads off her dolls, lashes out at the other kids at her school, and tries her weary parents’ . But when her parents buy her a turtle named Nobody, this dapper companion teaches her to soften her grumpy ways. Now, Nobody must team up with Greta and her new friend Gabby to Juvenile Fiction / Comics & solve a disturbing mystery: Why have the kindhearted people of Graphic Novels / Fantasy Friendlytown suddenly become so mean — and what can they do $22.99 Paperback Original with to make Friendlytown friendly again? Along the way they discover French Flaps the solution: “Kind words, true words, and smiles.” 204 pages, full-color, 6" x 8" In NoBody Likes You, Greta Grump, Eisner Award-nominated Territory: E • CQ: 14 cartoonist Cathy Malkasian tells a story that is equal parts high- ISBN 978-1-68396-405-6 flying adventure and deeply felt allegory on the goodness of human nature. Through lush, candy-colored imagery, she conjures an • Age Range: 8 to 12 inventive fantasy world in the vein of Miyazaki, filled with all • National review coverage manner of delightful wonders — including tech whiz cats, ornery • Targeted bookseller outreach gopher librarians, and gangs of squirrels in matching sweater vests. • Targeted librarian & educator Ultimately, the warmhearted core of this middle grade graphic outreach novel makes it perfectly calibrated to the present moment, when • Targeted social media & newsletter the need for us to look after one another is stronger than ever. outreach • Advance Reading Copies • Co-op available Cathy Malkasian is an animation director and cartoonist. Her credits include Rugrats, The Wild Thornberrys film (for which she received a British Academy Award nomination), and episodes of Curious George for PBS.

“[Malkasian’s]” consistently showed an eagerness to walk the line between fabulist fiction and social satire.” — Glen Weldon, NPR

“Malkasian creates beautiful and strange pictures.” — Paste

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26 NoBody Likes You, Greta Grump

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CRASHPAD By

This fine art monograph/faux underground comic facsimile is a psychedelic trip through the hippie movement.

In 2017, Gary Panter created an art installation, Hippie Trip, inspired by his first visit to a head shop in 1968. It expanded his mind to the possibilities of psychedelic art and music, analog crafts and drug culture. Crashpad is an extension of that installation and a riff on creators such as Zap’s R. Crumb, , Robert Williams and other icons of that era. An art object itself, it will be reproduced as both a deluxe, oversized hardcover reproducing Panter’s pages at full size on heavy art paper, Art / Individual Artists / as full-color facsimiles of the originals. In addition, Crashpad will be Monographs printed as an old-fashioned and stapled black-and-white (with color $39.99 Hardcover with comic book covers) underground comic book, on newsprint, approximately 6 insert ¾” x 9 ¾”, inserted into a sleeve within the hardcover so it can be 44 pages with 36 page comic book, removed and enjoyed on its own. color and black-and-white, 11" x 14" Territory: E • CQ: 24 ISBN 978-1-68396-416-2 Gary Panter has lived in Brooklyn since 1985. A multimedia/ fine artist, his pioneering, post-underground comix work helped • Age Range: 18 and up define the movement in venues such as Raw, • National review coverage and his aesthetic remains influential. He is a Cullman Study • Targeted bookseller outreach Center fellow and a recipient of a Daimler/Chrysler design • Targeted social media & newsletter award and a Pollock/Krasner Foundation grant. He also has three outreach Emmys for his design work on the classic PeeWee’s Playhouse • Advance Reading Copies television series. • Co-op available

“In Panter’s drawings, a line is not the shortest path between two points, but a slow, wavering one, a termite’s crawl with endless detours and distractions… this line is the constant. It intensifies his viewers’ gaze, forcing them to reexamine forms they thought they knew.” — Art in America

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THE THUD By Mikael Ross

This is a YA graphic novel, told from the perspective of a person with a developmental disorder, set in a real village operated by people with special needs.

There’s a real village in Germany called Neuerkerode that is operated by people with mental disabilities — the local restaurant, the local bar, the local supermarket. The author spent two years living 3 or 4 days a week there, researching and getting to know its townsfolk, and the result is an empathetic depiction. This graphic novel is told Young Adult Fiction / Disabilities entirely from a developmentally impaired boy’s perspective. Noel & Special Needs had always lived with his mother in Berlin, until one day tragedy $19.99 Paperback Original with strikes and he finds himself alone for the first time. A man with a French Flaps beard tells him he can’t stay in the apartment anymore and takes 128 pages, full-color, 8" x 10" him to a place with so many strangers — Who can he trust? Who Territory: E • CQ: 12 does he like? Who loves him? ISBN 978-1-68396-406-3

• Age Range: 14 and up Mikael Ross was born in 1984 in Munich. • National review coverage • Targeted bookseller outreach • Targeted librarian & educator “A masterpiece.” — Der Spiegel outreach • Targeted social media & newsletter outreach • Advance Reading Copies • Co-op available

High- wayyy Huh? Mumsie, to what’s ’at? AC/DC. They’re coming to hell! Berlin… One sec… there’s something …in September. stuck… And guess who’s going to see them together!

Happy birthday, Us, Mumsie! my little Us us us! monster! 31

Munch

Munch

Yes. But Forever also forever You have to We’ll be together Yes. Of and ever? Forever say it! forever. and course. and ever. ever You’re such Right? a pain. Of course we’ll and ever? stay together.

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Mumsie?

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Mumsie’s sleeping on the floor. But sleeping happens in bed!

Bad.

Bad. Bad.

And blood … there’s blood, too … blood on the floor … Stop. I have to calm down. blood shouldn’t be there.

Flip.

Think… must think…

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BLEEDING SKULL!: A 1990s TRASH-HORROR ODYSSEY By Joseph A. Ziemba, Annie Choi, and Zack Carlson

The only book you’ll ever need on 1990s trash- horror cinema, brought to you by the maniacs behind Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film!

Bleeding Skull!: A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey is a celebration of the most obscure, bizarre, and brain-busting movies ever made, featuring 250 in-depth reviews that have escaped the radar of people with taste and the tolerance of critics. Goregasm! I Was a Teenage Serial Killer! Satan Claus! Die Hard Dracula! This book gets deep into gutter-level, no-budget horror, from shot-on-VHS revelations $34.99 Paperback Original (Eyes of the Werewolf) to forgotten outsider art hallucinations (Alien Performing Arts / Film / Guides & Beasts). Reviews It’s all here: David “The Rock” Nelson, Mexican Freddy Kruegers, 256 pages, partial color, 8" x 10" shapeshifting Hare Krishna demons who crash a BBQ, and two Territory: E • CQ: 16 dinosaurs that dump body parts into a tiny swimming pool. And ISBN 978-1-68396-186-4 it’s all curated by the enthusiastic minds behind BleedingSkull.com, • Foreword written by legendary trash- the world’s foremost authority on trash obscurities. Jam-packed horror filmmaker Mark Polonia with rare photographs, advertisements, and VHS sleeves (most of • Book tour and screening of Bleeding which have never been seen before), Bleeding Skull!: A 1990s Trash- Skull! A 1990s Trash-Horror Mixtape Horror Odyssey is an edifying, laugh-out-loud guide to the dusty at Alamo Drafthouse theaters across inventory of the greatest video store that never existed. the US • Online at BleedingSkull.com • Twitter: @bleeding_skull, Instagram: Joseph A. Ziemba is the founder of Bleedingskull.com and the @bleedingskull, Facebook: facebook. director of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) and genre com/bleedingskull programming at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas. • Promotional online videos leading up to the release Annie Choi is the author of Shut Up, You’re Welcome and Happy • Podcast appearances and interviews Birthday or Whatever. She is a contributing writer and editor of • Age range: 18+ Bleeding Skull, and has been a featured storyteller on The Moth. She lives in New York City. Zack Carlson is the co-author of Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film and a writer on multiple series for the Adult Swim network. He was producer/host of the Vice series Outsider and is one of the schmoes behind Fantastic Fest, the nation’s largest genre film festival. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN By Mannie Murphy

In this graphic memoir, what begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author’s 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon’s dark history of white nationalism.

Murphy is a Portland native who has a genuine affection for River Phoenix, and her heart-racing descriptions of scenes like the Comics & Graphic Novels / infamous campfire kiss My Own Private Idaho serves as a moral Biography & Memoir anchor to a deeply amoral history. Murphy details the relationship $24.99 Hardcover between white supremacist Tom Metzger, former KKK Grand 216 pages, two-color, 7" x 10" Wizard and founder of the White Aryan Resistance, and the Territory: E • CQ: 14 “Rose City” street kids like Ken Death that infiltrated Van Sant’s ISBN 978-1-68396-410-0 films — a relationship that culminates in an infamous episode of Geraldo. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, with wet, blue • Age Range: 18 and up ink washes, this story brilliantly weaves 1990s alternative culture • National review coverage — from Kurt Cobain to William Burroughs to Keanu Reeves to • Targeted bookseller outreach the Red Hot Chili Peppers — with two centuries of the Pacific • Targeted librarian & educator Northwest’s shameful history as a hotbed for white nationalism: outreach from the Whitman massacre in 1847; to the Ku Klux Klan’s role • Targeted social media & newsletter in Portland’s city planning in the early 1900s; to the shameful outreach treatment of African Americans displaced in the 1948 Vanport • Advance Reading Copies flood; and through the 2014 armed standoff with Cliven Bundy’s • Co-op available cattle ranch. The other protagonist in this story is Murphy herself, a gender queer kid trying to process all of this.

Mannie Murphy is an artist living in Portland, OR.

“This crucial, original work relates a local history with candor and insight and is a gem not to be missed. It uses the book’s complete form — its sensitive art, its skilled storytelling, its mistakes and indie structure — to capture a dark tale of youth via the observations of a wise narrator recalling what happened both as an adult now and, uniquely, as a kid when it went down.” — Lambda Literary

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DISNEY MASTERS VOL. 16: DONALD DUCK: JUMPIN’ JUPITER! By

© 2021 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2021 © Fantagraphics continues to bring internationally beloved Disney Duck comics to the English- speaking world — this volume highlights Bottaro’s Rebo, sci-fi bad guy!

If you were Donald Duck, and the raging King Rebo of Saturn attacked your town — would you hire Rebo’s enemies from Jupiter to defend you? What if, as payment, the Jovians wanted to eat your Series: Disney Masters rich Uncle Scrooge’s money? And what happens when Daisy joins Comics & Graphic Novels / the intergalactic battle? Media Tie-In maestro Luciano Bottaro, building on the $29.99 Hardcover Carl Barks tradition, spun wild, thrilling, and near-psychedelic 180 pages, full-color, 7" x 10" Duckburg tales for decades! This volume also features “Quest for Territory: X • CQ: 16 the Virtual Duck,” as well as another story in which Dr. Zantaf — ISBN 978-1-68396-414-8 Scrooge’s and Donald’s mad scientist foe from Earth — returns!

• Age Range: 14 and up • Targeted social media & newsletter Luciano Bottaro (1931–2006) was an Italian comic book artist outreach whose avant-garde style was appreciated across Europe. • Co-op available

“Fantagraphics continues to expand its line of well curated, beautifully designed collections of classic . The publisher’s latest effort is the Disney Masters series.” — School Library Journal

“All of the Disney Masters stories look sensational.” — Duck Talks

“An impressive line of classic Disney comics collections” — Smash Pages

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we’re but you trapped, men! if only do, o king! flip the we had a little light… switch!

salutations, rebo -- great s.l.u.g.* of saturn! welcome to my undersea city!

* supreme leader and unquestioned general!

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who are you? and your run you know me? I am zantaf! of shameful defeats, dr. zantaf -- to you! bogey man!

breathless moments later…

so he defeated you last?

[ack!] that awful duck!

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RED ROCK BABY CANDY By Shira Spector

Self-described as “an infertile, high-femme, low income, non-biological Jewish mom, dyke drama queen, and ectopic pregnancy survivor,” the author tells her story in this formally innovative graphic memoir.

Shira Spector literally paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful 10 years of her life, encompassing her tenacious struggle to get pregnant, the emotional turmoil of her father’s cancer diagnosis and eventual death, and her recollections of past relationships with Comics & Graphic Novels / her parents and her partner. Set in a kaleidoscope of Montreal and Red Rock Baby Candy Biography & Memoir Toronto, unfolds as one of the most formally $29.99 Hardcover inventive comics in the history of the medium. It begins in subtle, 216 pages, full-color, 8" x 12" tonal shades of black ink, introduces color slowly over the next Territory: E • CQ: 14 50 pages until it explodes into a glorious full color palette. The ISBN 978-1-68396-404-9 irreverent characters begin to bloom and to live life fully, resurrecting the dead in order to map the geography among infertility, sexuality, • Age Range: 16 and up choice, and mortality. The drawing is visceral, symbolic, and • National review coverage & off the naturalistic. The visual storytelling eschews traditional comics book page features panels in favor of a series of unique page compositions that convey • Targeted bookseller outreach both a stream of consciousness and the tactile reality of life, both • Targeted librarian & educator the subjective impressions of the author at each moment of her life outreach and the objective series of events that shape her narrative. It is the • Targeted social media & newsletter most formally revolutionary visual storytelling since Emil Ferris’s outreach My Favorite Thing is Monsters. • Advance Reading Copies • Co-op available Shira Spector is a Jewish Canadian lesbian cartoonist whose work has been widely anthologized and exhibited in the Toronto area, where she resides. She has a BFA in Fibres (with Distinction) from Concordia University in Montreal.

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SCOOP SCUTTLE AND HIS PALS: THE CRACKPOT COMICS OF By Basil Wolverton; Edited By Greg Sadowski

Collects, for the first time, the complete adventures of four of the influential Mad magazine cartoonist’s more arcane comics creations: Scoop Scuttle, Mystic Moot, Bingbang Buster, and Jumpin’ Jupiter — restored, as they’ve never been seen before! Comics & Graphic Novels / Humorous In this rip-roaring retrospective, Basil Wolverton’s often warped $29.99 Paperback Original imagination combines with his outlandishly wacky visual humor to 192 pages, full-color, 8" x 10" fascinate and delight It collects the ultra-rare treasures Scoop Scuttle, Territory: E • CQ: 14 Mystic Moot, Bingbang Buster, and Jumpin’ Jupiter — as they’ve ISBN 978-1-68396-397-4 never been seen before! Due to the rock-bottom printing methods • Age Range: 16 and up of 10¢ comic books, Wolverton’s intricate line work was routinely obscured, and often obliterated. In this collection, every effort has • National review coverage been made to restore the art to its original splendor, and to at last • Targeted social media & newsletter outreach present the uniquely detailed graphics of this justly revered comic book master. • Co-op available

Basil Wolverton was born near Medford, Oregon in 1909 and died in 1978. His Fantagraphics-published books include Basil Wolverton’s Culture Corner and The Wolverton Bible, and his work is featured in Supermen!: The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936–1941.

Greg Sadowski is a writer, editor, and designer (Creeping Death from Neptune, Brain Bats of Venus, B. Krigstein, Supermen!, Four Color Fear) living on the Jersey shore.

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YOUNG SHADOW By Ben Sears

In this graphic novel, Bolt City has a new protector — and YA has a brilliant new talent!

Young Shadow usually protects sci-fi Bolt City by making deliveries for the food bank and rescuing pets. But one night, he discovers the Sludge Team, a conspiracy composed of a CEO of a chemical plant, trust-fund punks, and suspicious cops. To stop their evil plan, Young Shadow must don a couple of batons, knee pads, and a small black mask, and team up with Spiral Scratch — another benevolent protector in the fight — and metal-clad nuns. Drawn in bold yellows and blacks, this is a socially conscious YA action/ adventure kid tale.

Young Adult Fiction / Comics Ben Sears is a cartoonist and musician from Louisville, Kentucky. & Graphic Novels / Action & He has previously been published by Image, Boom, and Koyama Adventure Press. He is a designer for the new Netflix animated series $16.99 Paperback Original with Midnight Gospel. French Flaps 128 pages, full-color, 6" x 10" Territory: E • CQ: 16 “Sears creates comics that are easy for kids to enjoy with their ISBN 978-1-68396-412-4 crisp cartooning, bright colors, and clever sense of humor, but he also includes rich thematic content that makes his books a more • Age Range: 14 and up substantial read for adults.” — The A.V. Club • National review coverage • Targeted bookseller outreach “Imagine Indiana Jones as told by Hayao Miyazaki.” — The Guardian • Targeted librarian & educator outreach “Ben Sears’ Young Shadow has all the charm of Charles Schulz and • Targeted social media & newsletter outreach the excitement of Jack Kirby. The Dogs of Bolt City are safe with • Advance Reading Copies Young Shadow on patrol!” — Glen Murakami () • Co-op available “Young Shadow builds itself through warm little moments to question the implicit legitimacy of an authority forever scaling up violence. A carefully crafted story that subtly blends magic, where reading about ‘ground control’ and ‘civilian pacification’ hits close to home, and where corporations reveal themselves once more as nastily distant, evil robotic guilds.” — Emma Rios (Pretty Deadly)

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VISUAL CRIME By Jerry Moriarity

This graphic novel is Jerry Moriarty’s tribute to fine artists who make their living in commercial art.

Rotart Sulli is a painter who illustrates crime fiction. In the first of two stories that comprise Visual Crime, Sulli gets a call from the publisher who gives him an assignment for Visual Crime Magazine, which comes with a peculiar requirement: Sulli is to stay at Hotel Ace in room 611 until his assignment is finished. He completes the assignment in the basement of the hotel but not without coming to blows with a janitor with a penchant for chucking toys into the furnace. In the book’s second story, Sulli is once again hired to Comics & Graphic Novels / illustrate a crime story; and once again, it comes with a peculiar Crime & Mystery demand: he’s told to place the finished work “in your back window $24.99 Hardcover — it will be seen.” In between these two stories are a dozen short 96 pages, full-color, 10" x 13" stories occupying a single page, all illustrated by paintings by Sulli. Territory: E • CQ: 22 Painted panel sequences alternate with Moriarty’s rough-hewn, ISBN 978-1-68396-408-7 proletarian pen and ink panels amidst the luminous, Hopperesque • Age Range: 16 and up paintings by Rotart Sulli, creating a portrait of the artist working • National review coverage alone in a mysterious and uncertain world, creating stunning images that transcend the melodramatic stories they illustrate. • Targeted social media & newsletter outreach • Co-op available Jerry Moriarity is a painter and cartoonist (self-described as “paintoonist”) from New York. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pratt institute, and his best known work in cartooning is the comic Jack Survives. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

“Jerry’s comics pages are composed with the elegant precision of an Edward Hopper painting.”— Art Spiegelman

“Jerry Moriarty is one of the great geniuses of the . For lack of a better word, it’s poetry — I believe the first that comics has ever seen — and poetry as fresh and affecting now as when first drawn.” —

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BEATNIK BUENOS AIRES By Diego Arandojo and Facundo Percio

This atmospheric graphic novel captures the rollicking arts scene of ’60s Buenos Aires.

When night falls in Buenos Aires, the city comes alive. Artists flock to cafes and dives to exchange ideas, listen to music, watch outré performance art, pen poetry, fall in love. In these raucous, smoke- filled rooms, the bohemian heart and soul of this vibrant city, a conflagration of creative energy burns. With the improvisational pacing of a jazz performance, Beatnik Buenos Aires follows the lives of writers, painters, musicians, sculptors, and performers as they wend their way through these hubs of creative life, seeking out inspiration and grappling with their craft. Set in 1963, this graphic Comics & Graphic Novels / novel celebrates a time in Argentine history when its art scene Historical Fiction blossomed. $19.99 Paperback Argentine creators Diego Arandojo (writer) and Facundo Percio 96 pages, black-and-white, 8" x 10" (illustrator) come together to weave the rich tapestry of this mecca Territory: E • CQ: 24 of artistic expression. Arandojo’s staccato dialogue lends a poetic ISBN 978-1-68396-403-2 quality to these lively, often mysterious characters, while Percio’s raw and expressive charcoal drawings perfectly capture the rough • Age Range: 16 and up charm of this eclectic community of artists and the seedy, smoky • National review coverage locales they inhabit. Romantic, dangerous, and brimming with life • Targeted bookseller outreach — Buenos Aires in the time of the beatnik. • Targeted librarian & educator outreach • Targeted social media & newsletter Diego Arandojo is an Argentine writer, award-winning film and outreach TV documentarian, and filmmaker. After receiving a scholarship • Advance Reading Copies from the National Endowment of the Arts in 2001, he went on • Co-op available to author such books as The Secret Life of Empanadas (2014), run the digital magazine Lafarium, and co-direct and co-edit a science fiction film.

Facundo Percio is an Argentine comics artist located in Buenos Aires. He’s worked with writers such as and Warren Ellis, and has drawn Star Wars comics.

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