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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF FRITZ THE CAT By

The comics that made Crumb famous — against his will.

Robert Crumb’s first great character — rivaled only by Mr. Natural — was Fritz the Cat, the horny, hip-talking feline, whose success (especially after the release of the 1972 animated movie, which Crumb loathed) caused Crumb to kill him off. The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat is back in print as an inexpensive hardcover and as a companion to The Book of Mr. Natural. It contains all the Fritz stories from the earliest sketch- book-drawn tales (“Hey, Ol’ Cat!” and “Fritz Comes On Strong”), to the wild adventure stories (“Special Agent for the C.I.A.”), to the classic “peak” Fritz stories (“Fritz the No-Good”), all the way to the despairing “Fritz the Cat, Superstar,” with its infamous ice-pick ending. Plus, an introduction by Crumb, sketchbook pages, and more.

$19.99 Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary R. CRUMB lives in the South of with his wife, the artist Aline 96 pages, black and white, 8” x 10 ½” Kominsky-Crumb. Territory: E • CQ: 26 ISBN 978-1-60699-480-1 (Previous edition: “Crumb is perhaps the most influential of his or any generation.” — The Paris Review ISBN 978-1-56097-117-7) “Fiercely honest and riskily confessional. He has forged a genuinely grown-up approach in which • Digital ARC (PDF) sexuality is openly explored. Yet what makes him a powerful artist is his ability to draw with • An underground classic accuracy and beauty.” — • Back in print after several-year absence • Age Range: 18+

ALSO AVAILABLE: The Book of Mr. Natural $19.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-352-1 Kafka $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56097-806-0

1 SEPTEMBER

THE BLOODY CARDINAL By Richard Sala

A series of grisly murders echo the work of the master criminal, The Bloody Cardinal. But, he’s dead! Or is he?

The reign of terror is over and the mad master criminal, known as The Bloody Cardinal, is presumed to be — finally — dead. After a long spree of violence and destruction, he was trapped by police in an abandoned asylum which burnt to the ground. The charred remains found in the ashes were presumed to have been his. However, he left behind a journal which has become highly sought after by some very obsessive and dangerous individuals. The hunt for The Bloody Cardinal’s diary has been tied to a string of violent, unsolved murders. Who is behind these crimes? One of his few surviving followers? The members of a true-crime club called S.T.A.B. (Study And Theory of Aberrant Behavior)? The psychic sleuth Doctor Sun? Or could it be The Bloody Cardinal himself, back from the grave and seeking revenge? $16.99 Paperback Original Richard Sala is the modern master of witty and clever mystery and & Graphic Novels / Crime & comics and graphics novels, and this latest thriller is as delightful as it is Mystery wickedly smart and funny, with some of Sala’s finest dialogue and wordplay in 92 pages, full color, 7” x 9 ¾” the service of his always lovingly rendered pages. Territory: E • CQ: 24 ISBN 978-1-68396-037-9

• Review attention RICHARD SALA lives in Berkeley, CA. • Digital ARC available

• Social: richardsala.tumblr.com “To read a book by Richard Sala is an experience both jarring and fun. Good for a rainy day or a • Author website: http:// stormy night.” — Publisher’s Weekly hereliesrichardsala.blogspot.com/ “Richard Sala is an artist, a superb craftsman, and a very funny man.” — Gahan • Instagram: @richardsala_art • Age range: 16+

ALSO AVAILABLE: Violenzia and Other Deadly The Hidden Amusements $19.99 Hardcover, $16.99 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1-60699-386-6 ISBN 978-1-60699-885-4 In a Glass Grotesquely $19.99 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1-60699-797-0 2 SEPTEMBER THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1965–1966 (VOL. 8) 1963–1966 (VOLS. 7 & 8) WORLDWIDE, LLC. WORLDWIDE, NOT FINAL COVER NOT PAPERBACK EDITION PAPERBACK GIFT BOX By Charles M. Schulz By Charles M. Schulz Introduction by Hal Hartley Introductions by Bill Melendez & Hal Hartley © PEANUTS © PEANUTS $22.99 Paperback $39.99 Paperback Box Set Humor / Comic Strips & Cartoons Humor / Comic Strips Cartoons 320 pages, black and white with spot color, 8 ¼” x 6 ½” 640 pages combined, in a custom slipcase Territory: F • CQ: 20 Territory: F • CQ: 8 ISBN 978-1-68396-038-6 ISBN 78-1-68396-039-3 (Previous hardcover edition: ISBN 978-1-56097-724-7) (Previous hardcover edition: ISBN 978-1-56097-868-8)

Snoopy and the gang live on in these paperback editions of the best-selling series!

We are now in the mid-1960s, one of Schulz’s peak periods of creativity (and one third of the way through the strip’s life!). Snoopy has become the strip’s dominant personality, and this volume marks two milestones for the character: the first of many “dogfights” with the nefarious Red Baron, and the launch of his writing career (“It was a dark and stormy night...”). Two new characters — the first two from outside the strip’s regular little neighborhood — make their bows. Roy (who befriends Charlie Brown and then Linus at summer camp) won’t have a lasting , but upon his return from camp he regales a friend of his with tales of the strange kids he met, and she has to go check them out for herself. Her name? Peppermint Patty.

CHARLES M. SCHULZ created nearly 18,000 Peanuts strips from 1950–2000.

“The Complete Peanuts has framed Charles Schulz’s enduring masterpiece about as well any lifelong fan could’ve hoped.” — The A.V. Club • The New York Times best-selling series continues in paperback! • Great gift idea • The most beloved of all time • Age range: all ages • : @SchulzMuseum / @snoopy • Instagram: @snoopygrams/ @schulzmuseum

For more volumes in this series, see page 5.

3 $29.99 EACH THE COMPLETE PEANUTS IN HARDCOVER (INTRODUCTION AUTHOR IN PARENTHESES)

1950–1952 (Garrison Keillor) 1953–1954 (Walter Cronkite) 1955–1956 () 1957–1958 (Jonathan Franzen) 1959–1960 (Whoopi Goldberg) 1961–1962 (Diana Krall) 1963–1964 (Bill Melendez) ISBN 978-1-56097-589-2 ISBN 978-1-56097-614-1 ISBN 978-1-56097-647-9 ISBN 978-1-56097-670-7 ISBN 978-1-56097-671-4 ISBN 978-1-56097-672-1 ISBN 978-1-56097-723-0

1965–1966 (Hal Hartley) 1967–1968 (John Waters) 1969–1970 (Mo Willems) 1971–1972 (Kristin Chenoweth) 1973–1974 (Billie Jean King) 1975–1976 (Robert Smigel) 1977–1978 (Alec Baldwin) ISBN 978-1-56097-724-7 ISBN 978-1-56097-826-8 ISBN 978-1-56097-827-5 ISBN 978-1-60699-145-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-286-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-345-3 ISBN 978-1-60699-375-0

1979–1980 (Al Roker) 1981–1982 () 1983–1984 () 1985–1986 (Patton Oswalt) 1987–1988 (Garry Trudeau) 1989–1990 (Lemony Snicket) 1991–1992 (Tom Tomorrow) ISBN 978-1-60699-438-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-471-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-523-5 ISBN 978-1-60699-572-3 ISBN 978-1-60699-634-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-680-5 ISBN 978-1-60699-726-0

1993–1994 (Jake Tapper) 1995–1996 (RiffTrax MST3K) 1997–1998 (Paul Feig) 1999–2000 () Comics & Stories (Jean Schulz) ISBN 978-1-60699-773-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-818-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-860-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-913-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-957-8

BOX SETS 1950–1954 Gift Box Set 1963–1966 Gift Box Set 1975–1978 Gift Box Set 1987–1990 Gift Box Set $49.99 EACH ISBN 978-1-56097-632-5 ISBN 978-1-56097-868-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-376-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-681-2 1955–1958 Gift Box Set 1967–1970 Gift Box Set 1979–1982 Gift Box Set 1991–1994 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-56097-687-5 ISBN 978-1-56097-948-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-472-6 ISBN 978-1-60699-774-1 1999–2000 and Comics & 1959–1962 Gift Box Set 1971–1974 Gift Box Set 1983–1986 Gift Box Set 1995–1998 Gift Box Set Stories Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-56097-774-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-287-6 ISBN 978-1-60699-573-0 ISBN 978-1-60699-861-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-958-5 THE COMPLETE PEANUTS IN PAPERBACK PEANUTS EVERY SUNDAY HARDCOVERS

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Vol. 1 (1950-1952): ISBN 978-1-60699-763-5 Vol. 2 (1953-1954): ISBN 978-1-60699-792-5 Vol. 3 (1955-1956): ISBN 978-1-60699-835-9 Vol. 4 (1957-1958): ISBN 978-1-60699-870-0 Vol. 5 (1959-1960): ISBN 978-1-60699-921-9 Vol. 6 (1961-1962): ISBN 978-1-60699-949-3 Vol. 7 (1963-1964): ISBN 978-1-68396-005-8

Vol. 1 (1952-1955 Vol. 2 (1956-1960 Vol. 3 (1961-1965) ISBN 978-1-60699-692-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-794-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-872-4

Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Box: ISBN 978-1-60699-793-2 The 1950s Box Set Vols. 3 & 4 Gift Box: ISBN 978-1-60699-873-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-871-7 Vol. 4 (1966-1970) The 1960s Box Set Vols. 5 & 6 Gift Box: ISBN 978-1-60699-968-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-969-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-978-3

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SNOOPY VS. THE RED BARON CHARLIE BROWN’S CHRISTMAS STOCKING SNOOPY’S THANKSGIVING WAITING FOR THE GREAT PUMPKIN BATTER UP, CHARLIE BROWN! $24.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-906-6 $9.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-624-9 $9.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-778-9 $9.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-772-7 $9.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-725-3 SEPTEMBER

COSPLAYERS: PERFECT COLLECTION By Dash Shaw

From the writer / director of the acclaimed 2017 feature film My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, this expanded edition of the 2016 Cosplayers hardcover now includes over 30 pages of new material, including the original High School Sinking story that inspired the film!

Cosplayers is a distinctive, instant classic from one of the most acclaimed voices of his generation, and will be released around the same time as Shaw’s feature film, which stars Jason Schwartzman, , Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph, and Susan Sarandon, and goes into wide release in 2017 after delighting audiences and critics at the 2016 Toronto and New York Film Festivals. This expanded paperback edition also includes the 2016 single issue comic book, A Cosplayers Christmas, which did not appear in the hardcover edition, as well as the original short story that inspired the film. Cosplayers is cartoonist Dash Shaw’s ode to that defining element of fandom, the $19.99 Paperback “costume play” of so many anime and comic conventions. Artfully celebrating both the Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary culture’s obvious theatricality and uniquely D.I.Y. beauty, as well as its often awkward 180 pages, full color, 5 ¾” x 8 ½” conflation of fantasy and reality, Cosplayers explores these delicate psychological Territory: E • CQ: 24 balancing acts via a series of interconnected short stories surrounding two young ISBN 978-168396-040-9 women, Annie and Verti (the latter is also a main character in Shaw’s film, voiced (Previous hardcover edition: by Maya Rudolph, connecting the two works) who combine their love of cosplaying ISBN 978-1-60699-948-6) with their love of social media and film in order to deepen their relationship with the popular culture they celebrate. Cosplayers depicts their stories in an affectionately • Author events and festival appearances ALSO AVAILABLE: funny way, celebrating how much more inclusive and humanistic fandom can be • Cross-promotion and tie-in with Shaw’s Doctors The Unclothed Man in than most of the stories and characters it is built upon. Featuring plenty of easter the 35th Century A.D. 2017 feature film, My Entire High School $16.99 Paperback eggs for fans of the broader culture as well as being the perfect entry point for those Original $19.99 Hardcover Sinking Into the Sea completely befuddled by it. ISBN 978-1-60699-803-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-307-1 • Animated trailer promoting the book New School • Tumblr: dashshaw.tumblr.com/ $39.99 Hardcover DASH SHAW lives in Richmond, VA. He was a 2010 Sundance Labs fellow and a ISBN 978-1-60699-644-7 • Twitter: @DashShaw 2014–2015 Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library. • Digital ARC available • Age range: 15 + “Kaleidoscopic ... Shaw has a deft touch ... Like the very best illustrated fiction, Shaw’s work moves between pathos and humor, between the fantastic and the familiar.” — The Christian Science Monitor “Cosplayers will strike a chord with anyone who turns to reading as an escape, be they lit-nerd, comic geek, messageboard troll, or a little mixture of all of the above.” — HTML Giant “I’ve seen the future of comics and its name is Dash Shaw.” — David Mazzucchelli 6 SEPTEMBER

GROSZ By Lars Fiske

Grosz is a series of short nearly wordless comics, arranged chronologically, that form a biography of the caricaturist best known for his visualization of the Weimar Republic.

George Grosz (1893–1959) was a German fine artist, cartoonist, and teacher who drew from pop culture, was active in the Dada and New Objectivist movements, and was an influence for artists like .(His antiwar painting, Eclipse from the Sun, would inspire Vietnam protesters.) In this graphic biography, written and drawn by Fiske, angular art lays Kandinsky-like lines over scenes set in anything-goes, post– Berlin: connecting, emphasizing, tracing movement. Curves evoke the fleshy sex of Grosz’s work. (Fiske channels the exuberance and fascination with line that typified Grosz’s work, and more generally early to mid-century art movements.) Symbolically, Fiske uses two colors—red for Berlin, a slash of Grosz’s lipstick, a of $19.99 Hardcover tie—and green for the jazz and trains of New York, where Grosz would flee Biography / Artists from Nazi . Fiske’s thoughtful Grosz is a far cry from the plodding 80 pages, full color, 8 ½” x 11” pedantry of the graphic hagiographies that earnestly clutter library shelves; it’s Territory: E • CQ: 16 a work of art in its own right. ISBN 978-1-68396-041-6

• Review attention LARS FISKE was born in Oslo in 1966. He is most well-known for his books Matje: • Both art history and a work of art debutante, Matje-ismen, Kom, sä löper vi!; the latter won the Norwegian government’s unto itself awards for Book of the Year and Best Picture Book in 2003. Fiske collaborated with • Digital ARC available Steffen Kverneland to create Olaf G, a comics biography about cartoonist Olaf Gulbransson; and, Canon, a series of comic books which focus on 19th century • Author website: http://fiske.no/ German artist Kurt Schwitters. He is married to fellow cartoesonist Anna Fiske. • Age range: 15+

“My drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment. I drew drunkards: puking men, men with clenched fists cursing at the moon. ... I drew a man, face filled with fright, washing blood from his hands ... I drew lonely little men fleeing madly through empty streets... I drew soldiers without noses; war cripples with crustacean-like steel arms; two medical soldiers putting a violent infantryman into a straitjacket made of a horse blanket ... I drew a skeleton dressed as a recruit being examined for military duty. I also wrote poetry.” — George Grosz

7 SEPTEMBER

FANTAGRAPHICS STUDIO EDITION: ’S By Hal Foster

Like having a comic art museum in your own home.

Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant is an undisputed masterpiece of comics art. AN UNPUBLISHED INTERVIEW WITH HAL FOSTER

Painstakingly researched and illustrated, Foster spent more than 50 hours a By Robert Porfirio

week crafting every Sunday page. It is no wonder that legendary comics artists n 1972, Robert “Bob” Porfirio (1938–2014) began conducting interviews with several comics creators as part of his doctoral dissertation research at Yale University. During the course of his research, Porfirio’s dissertation committee requested that he abandon comics and select a different topic. Porfirio went on to complete his Idissertation on , and became one of the leading international scholars and writers on that subject. Porfirio gave all of his tapes and research on comics to such as , , , , and countless State University, Fullerton, where he taught. Unfortunately, that material has gone missing. What is known to have survived is this transcript of his interview with Harold R. “Hal” Foster (which, sadly, is incom- plete), a transcript of his interview with and copies of tapes of his interviews with and . Missing from the archives are Porfirio’s in - terviews with , , , , , , , , Jack Kirby, Dennis O’Neil, Joe more admired, respected, and studied his pages. Foster was and remains an Orlando and . Porfirio’s interview with Hal Foster is printed here for the first time, and appears with the permission of the Porfirio family. artist’s artist, which is why he is in five artistic Halls of Fame — more than Harold Foster Interview work—something to shoot at. But after I began Prince Valiant, I priate to be of that period—the architecture, the horses, the equip- by Robert Porfirio wanted to be alone. Didn’t want others to see me stealing from all ment, the customs. Everything has to be of the fifth century. That’s August 1972 the good authors. time and place. If it happens to be Rome, for instance, there’s the flat top pines, the long straight up-and-down cedars and the archi- ROBERT PORFIRIO: I don’t know whether this is the case or not, but PORFIRIO: Well, one of the fellas I interviewed—Gardner Fox, I tecture. The Canadian scenes were familiar to me because of my any other cartoonist or illustrator. Each one of his Sunday pages stands as a my wife just remarked that Mr. Foster may live out so far [so as] to dis- think—said whether you’re an artist or a writer it’s a lonely job insofar early life in Canada. I like to make a complete picture. courage people from visiting. I said I had noticed that so many people as even if you are stuck in a room with others, they’re in your world— who have had similar experience [who were] very active, have tended you’re really immersed in it. In that sense it’s the same as if you are a film PORFIRIO: You’re so much identified with the advent of realism and now to move away from the large cities. [The] comic strip in particular, editor, or a writer or a painter. There is that moment of introspection fine draftsmanship in comics, but I’d like to jump ahead a little and ask and even the comic book, began in the central urban area, but so many when you have to be by yourself. I guess one thing I was hinting at, not what have you drawn on to depict the type of very realistic figures within are now out in the sticks of California. I have interviewed quite a few in to put words in your mouth, but I’ve noticed that within the comic book the conventions of the medium? I’m thinking of . Was it inherent testament to the unparalleled beauty of visual narrative art. California, in addition to those out here, and I don’t know if it says any- milieu it is always urban, always set in the city, where quite often the or was it foreign to you at the time? Even with Prince Valiant you went thing about the strip or what? people who write comic strips are. It wasn’t until the advent of the ad- back in history. What were some of your resources? venture strips Tarzan and that there were rural settings. HAL FOSTER: I think it’s according to the personality of the car- Now that I think of it, you never really were in that kind of Rip Kirby or FOSTER: Well, Tarzan was all imagination, and I started to do a lot toonist. Some of us can only work when we have others around Dick Tracy milieu. of research as the story was given to me. Outside of the firstTarzan us—activity, conversation and things like that. We need that. book, it was written by [George A. Carlin] at United Features. He Fantagraphics’ recent reprints of the Prince Valiant strip, scanned from While others find that that interferes with their line of thought. At FOSTER: I don’t know why that is. Of course, as I said, to me a wrote a fairly good story. It was highly exaggerated, but he had no first I worked in a studio with a lot of other artists, which was quite background is very important—it’s time and place with me. You idea of the terrain or Africa, and I’m a stickler for putting the truth original color engraver’s proof sheets, have received international acclaim, beneficial always seeing others working and seeing a lot of good see, my strip’s time is the fifth century. Everything has to be appro- into it. So I had to study the vegetation and climate. I wanted to and now we are printing the Holy Grail of comics art. The Fantagraphics $175.00 Hardcover Studio Edition of Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant is a 192-page collection scanned Comic Strips & Cartoons from Foster’s original art and printed in full color, capturing every nuance of 192 pages, full color, 17” x 23 ¼” Foster’s masterly brush strokes. Each page is so rare that the sum total of the Territory: E • CQ: 1 original art reprinted in this book would likely cost millions. From Foster’s ISBN 978-1-60699-897-7 very first Prince Valiant page to his very last, the public will be treated to a selection of some of the most iconic and beautiful comic art ever made. This • Great gift idea collection also includes a never before published interview with Foster. • Gorgeous, oversized die cut hardcover • Collecting a museum’s worth of original art HAROLD (“Hal”) RUDOLF FOSTER was born in Halifax, NS, in 1892 and • Limited edition, never to be reprinted passed away in Spring Hill, FL, in 1982. • Age range: 10+

8 SEPTEMBER

IN DEFENSE OF NAKED WOMEN: ESSAYS AND DRAWINGS ON HOW TO SURVIVE THE END OF THE WORLD By Mr. Fish

A much-needed intellectual punch in the face to the new political order.

What do you get when you cross a fistful of pens and an enormous stack of blank paper with somebody who resents the sweet-smelling muzzle of good manners and polite conversation, will go to his grave insisting that phuck is not a four-letter word, has never been able to hold a 9 to 5 job for more than handful of meager months, who regularly permits himself the crude grace of giving a shit about absolutely everything and who delights in always saying the wrong $29.99 Paperback Original thing at the right time in contempt of every expectation that the Politics / Current Events naked truth is at all obscene? 180 pages, full color, 9” x 12” You get In Defense of Naked Women (Essays and Drawings on How Territory: E • CQ: 16 to Survive the End of the World) by Mr. Fish, a collection of cartoons, ISBN 978-1-60699-042-3 illustrations, personal essays, culture-war correspondence and interviews with famous intellectual and artistic outlaws, who, like • Review attention the author, are just trying to defuse the apocalyptic bomb that is the • Digital ARC miracle of our Creation. Drawn, painted, and collaged in Mr. Fish’s • Age range: 17+ many virtuosic styles, Naked Women is an eloquent take-no-prisoners response to American political life.

MR. FISH lives in Philadelphia, PA. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, The Village Voice, Truthdig, The Atlantic and the LA Times.

9 SEPTEMBER

FRED THE CLOWN IN... “THE IRON DUCHESS” By Roger Langridge

Fred the Clown is fit as a fiddle and looking for love in this ode to slapstick cinema from an acclaimed cartoonist.

This nearly wordless romp from master cartoonist Roger Langridge is the author’s paean to the silent, heartbreaking slapstick comedies or the teens and ’20s, spun for a contemporary audience, starring his most popular character. It finds our hero Fred pitching the woo to a lovely equestrian. But with matrimony-minded fathers, boorish beaus, and malicious mad scientists interfering at every opportunity, what’s a clown—and his faithful pig companion—to do? Langridge’s velvety grays evoke the silent films of his patron saint, Buster Keaton (and, in this volume particularly, the latter’s masterpiece, The General). His craft is at a zenith, and captures every screwball twist and turn of the heiress’s and our hero’s romantic roundabout. Though he has garnered considerable acclaim the past few years for his $19.99 Paperback Original brilliant takes on licensed properties as The Muppet Show, , Betty Boop, Humor / Comic Strips & Cartoons and Marvel Monsters, Langridge is at heart a cartooning auteur, whose books 96 pages, black and white, 6 ¾” x 10” for Fantagraphics have earned nominations for Eisner, Harvey, Reuben, and Territory: E • CQ: 20 Ignatz Awards. ISBN 978-1-68396-043-0

• Author events and festival ROGER LANGRIDGE is a New Zealand born cartoonist currently living in appearances Britain. • Review attention • Digital ARC available “Every so often, lightning strikes — and nails Fred the Clown right in the tokhes. Such is the • Author website: http://hotelfred. essence of New Zealand-born London cartoonist Langridge’s sublimely feckless creation that it’s blogspot.com/ a wonder a bolt ever strikes elsewhere. Langridge’s art is as funny as his writing and also, despite • Twitter: @hotelfred the pretense that Fred merits no sympathy, touching.” — Booklist • Age range: 13+

10 SEPTEMBER

JOHNNY APPLESEED By Paul Buhle and Noah Van Sciver

This is the first biography of the green dreamer of the American Frontier, the legendary John Chapman, from noted Brown University scholar Paul Buhle and graphic novelist Noah Van Sciver.

John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, is the stuff of legend; he spread the seeds of apple trees from Pennsylvania to Indiana. Along with apple trees, he offered the seeds of nonviolence and vegetarianism, good relations with the indigenous peoples, and peace among the settlers. He was one of the New World’s earliest followers of the Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg. The story of John Chapman is a counter-narrative to the glorification of violence, conquest, and prevailing notions of how the West was won. It differentiates between the history and the half-myths of Johnny Appleseed’s $19.99 Hardcover life and work: His apples, for instance, were prized for many reasons, but none Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction more so than for the making of quick and easy “hard” cider. He was also a real 112 pages, black and white, 8 ½” x 12 ¼” estate speculator of sorts, purchasing potentially fertile but unproven acres Territory: E • CQ: 16 and then planting saplings before flipping the land. ISBN 978-1-68396-044-7 Yet, he had less interest in financial gain — and yes, this is an accurate part of the mythology — than in spreading visions of peace and love. Johnny • Review attention Appleseed brings this quintessentially American story to life in comics form • A valuable addition to American history through the deft skills of biographer Paul Buhle (Radical America, The Beats) • Digital ARC available and -winning graphic novelist Noah Van Sciver. • Author events and festival appearances • http://noahvansciver.tumblr.com/ • Twitter: @NoahVanSciver PAUL BUHLE is a retired Senior Lecturer at Brown University and has authored of many books. He is the authorized biographer of C. L. R. James and lives • Instagram: van_sciver_comics Madison, Wisconsin. NOAH VAN SCIVER is the prolific and acclaimed • Age range: 15+ graphic novelist currently living in Columbus, Ohio.

ALSO BY NOAH VAN SCIVER: Fante Bukowski Book Two $16.99 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1-68396-001-0 Disquiet $19.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-928-8 Saint Cole $19.99 Flexibound, ISBN 978-1-60699-817-5 The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln $24.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-619-5 11 MONTH THE LIBRARY In 2011, Fantagraphics Books — the world’s Carl Barks. For the first time, read the complete premiere publisher of classic cartooning — works of one of the medium’s greatest artists in partnered with Disney Publishing Worldwide affordably priced, hardcover volumes. to release the complete Duck comics of artist

“Lost in the Andes” “A Christmas for Shacktown” “The Old Castle’s Secret” “Christmas on Bear Mountain” ISBN 978-1-60699-474-0 ISBN 978-1-60699-574-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-653-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-697-3

Christmas Gift Box Set: “Christmas on Bear Mountain” “Trail of the Unicorn” “Trick or Treat” “The Pixilated Parrot” “Terror of the ” and “A Christmas for Shacktown” ISBN 978-1-60699-741-3 ISBN 978-1-60699-874-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-834-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-920-2 $49.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-714-7

Gift Box Set: “Lost in the Andes” and “Trail of the Unicorn” $49.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-796-3

Gift Box Set: “Christmas on Bear Mountain” and “The Old Castle’s Secret” $49.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-796-3

Gift Box Set: “” and “The Seven Cities of Gold” $49.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-875-5 “Only a Poor Old Man” “The Seven Cities of Gold” “The Lost Crown of Genghis “The Ghost Sheriff of Last ISBN 978-1-60699-535-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-795-6 Khan” Gasp” 12 ISBN 978-1-68396-013-3 ISBN 978-1-60699-953-0 SEPTEMBER WALT DISNEY’S DONALD DUCK

“THE SECRET OF HONDORICA” “THE PIXILATED PARROT” & “TERROR OF THE BEAGLE BOYS” By Carl Barks GIFT BOX SET © 2016 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2016 © $29.99 Hardcover By Carl Barks Humor / Comic Strips Cartoons $49.99 Two-volume slipcased edition 200 pages, full color, 7 ½” x 10 ¼” Humor / Comic Strips Cartoons Territory: X • CQ: 18 400 pages combined, full color, 7 ½” x 10 ¼” ISBN 978-1-68396-045-4 Territory: X • CQ: 6 ISBN 978-1-68396-046-1

The Disney Ducks go on a perilous jungle quest and start a risky business!

When Uncle Scrooge loses some valuable papers in a plane crash in the jungles of Hondorica, he sends Donald and his nephews to rescue them. But wily cousin Gladstone Gander gets wind of the expedition and decides to get there first! Then Donald becomes a sales agent for the Break & Bruise Insurance Co. and sells a policy to Uncle Scrooge. But Scrooge is determined to collect, so Donald has to become his bodyguard to protect him from harm. And when the Junior Woodchuck boys are challenged by the Chickadee Patrol girls to build a wilderness bridge, Donald’s efforts to help put him in danger — and the boys have to choose between rescuing him and winning the contest. Then Scrooge decides to see who is worthy to inherit his vast business empire, so he gives one company to Donald and one to Gladstone to see who can manage them best. Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous situations, and all-around cartooning brilliance. Over 160 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored, with insightful story notes by a panel of Barks experts. This fall also brings, as always, a new slipcased gift set for the holidays of two of our previous volumes: “The Pixilated Parrot” and “Terror of the Beagle Boys” (Vols. 9 and 10 for those keeping track at home).

CARL BARKS (1901–2000), one of the most brilliant cartoonists of the 20th century, has entertained millions around the world with his timeless tales of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge. Among many other honors, he was named a Disney Legend and has been inducted • Great gift ideas into the William Randolph Hearst Cartoon Hall of Fame and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. • Facebook fan page at facebook.com/carlbarkslibrary • The definitive series collecting the “There are few storytellers in comics history that are more revered than Carl Barks, a titan figure who was one of three inaugural members in the Will Eisner Comic Book greatest kids’ comic of all time Hall of Fame — the other two were Jack Kirby and Eisner himself, who once called Barks ‘the Hans Christian Andersen of comics’.” —

• Age range: 5+ “A priceless part of our literary heritage.” —

13 SEPTEMBER

PEPPY IN THE WILD WEST A cougar… by Hergé

A lost all-ages classic by the creator of Tintin

Created by Hergé, the titan of European comics, when he was drawing the first few Tintin adventures, Peppy in the Wild West is a lighthearted, freewheeling, What to do! Wait! My magnifying glass! farcical, and briskly paced adventure featuring anthropomorphic characters and some of the loopiest takes on tried and true tropes of the Old West that you’ve ever seen. When his hat business fails, the adventurous bear Peppy heads west to start a new life. Brimming with good-natured naiveté and a dash of all-American grit, Peppy, accompanied by his sweet wife, Virginny, and his faithful steed, Here! Take a good Bluebell, find an idyllic patch of grass somewhere in California, where Peppy’s look, why don’t you! hats start a craze among the local Rabbit-Ears tribe. Threatened by the influence of foreign goods on the local feather headdress economy, the chief declares war and mobilizes the tribe, but Peppy’s screwball defense — involving a Gatling gun with arrows, canned goods, and a well- $16.99 Hardcover placed magnet — works. What follows is a rollicking cascade of one darned Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic thing after another — not one but two kidnappings, a river full of gold, a Novels bulldog outlaw, and even a side trip to Santa Barbara! He slipped! 56 pages, full color, 8 ¼” x 11” There! First serialized in black and white in 1934, this is the first publication of Territory: E • CQ: 24 Peppy in the Wild West and the only English translation since 1969. ISBN 978-1-68396-047-8

• For the Tintin completist • Great gift idea HERGÉ (1907–1983), the pen name of Georges Remi, was a Belgian cartoonist and the creator of the world-renowned Adventures of Tintin. • Review attention • Digital ARC available • Age range: all ages

14 OCTOBER

FANTAGRAPHICS STUDIO EDITION: CHARLES BURNS’ BLACK HOLE by Charles Burns

The first ever showcase of original art from a master cartoonist’s Magnum Opus.

Charles Burns’s graphic novel Black Hole is one of the medium’s most iconic works of the 21st century, a towering achievement by a master cartoonist, and perennial classic some 15 years after its initial release. Set in suburban Seattle during the mid-1970s, it’s the story of a strange plague that has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The premise lends itself to metaphorical interpretations as well as functioning as a perfect outlet to mine teen ennui and puberty-induced anxiety. This Fantagraphics Studio Edition showcases Burns’s original art for the book, featuring exact reproductions of over 150 of his original pages, at $150.00 Hardcover their actual size. While appearing to be in black & white, each page has Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror been scanned in full color to retain the integrity and fidelity of the actual 160 pages, black and white, 14 ½” x 19 ½” original art, warts and all. It includes several full chapters from the book as Territory: E • CQ: 1 well as selected excerpts that showcase Burns’s impeccable sense of design, ISBN 978-1-68396-048-5 composition, and execution. Hypnotically beautiful and horrifying, Black Hole is a genuine American classic and this is the closest most of us will ever • Collecting a museum’s worth of original get to sitting in the author’s studio. art from one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time • Limited edition, never to be reprinted CHARLES BURNS grew up in Seattle, where Black Hole is set, and lives in • Great gift item Phildelphia, PA. • Age range: 17+

“Burns’s art is inhumanly precise, and he makes ordinary scenes as creepy as his nightmare visions of a world where intimacy means a life worse than death.” — Publishers Weekly

15 OCTOBER

CARTOON CLOUDS By Joseph Remnant

A coming-of-age graphic novel debut.

Joseph Remnant’s first original graphic novel, Cartoon Clouds, follows recent art school graduate, Fallon, and his three friends as they try to navigate that anxiety-fueled time between finishing college and trying to figure out what the hell they’re going to do with the rest of their lives. With a mountain of debt and no clear path to financial or emotional stability, Seth struggles to find a creative direction that won’t leave him homeless. In this world of fashion-conscious art snobs, talentless social media “gurus,” and drug-addled, trust fund hipsters, he tries to hold on to the few meaningful relationships he has when the institution that held them together is no longer a part of their lives. Drawn in a naturalistic style while never losing its essential cartoon idiom and written as an ongoing conversation among the characters that uncannily captures the preoccupations, fears, and ambitions of twentysomethings $22.99 Hardcover embarking upon their life, the philosophical nature of Cartoon Clouds is Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary reminiscent of the films of Éric Rohmer or . Cartoonist 164 pages, black and white, 7” x 9 ½” Joseph Remnant has been a prominent presence in the cartooning scene over Territory: E • CQ: 10 the last decade, self-publishing his own comic book Blindspot, illustrating ISBN 978-1-60699-939-4 ’s acclaimed Cleveland, and appearing in such magazines as The Believer. • The first solo graphic novel from the artist of Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland • Author website: http://josephremnant. tumblr.com/ JOSEPH REMNANT lives in Los Angeles, CA. • Twitter: @JosephRemnant • Instagram: @josephremnant “His artwork is compelling, textured and assured in a way that a lot of cartoonists never quite • Author events and festival achieve.” —Tom Spurgeon appearances • Digital ARC • Review attention • Age range: 15+

16 OCTOBER

RUN FOR IT: STORIES OF SLAVES WHO FOUGHT FOR THEIR FREEDOM by Marcelo D’salete

Unforgettable stories of ordinary slaves who rebelled against oppression.

Run For It — a starkly stunning graphic novel by internationally acclaimed illustrator Marcelo d’Salete — is one of the first literary and artistic efforts to face up to ’s hidden history of slavery. Seen through the eyes of its victims, Run For It tells of ordinary slaves who rebel against their masters. Run For It’s vivid illustrations and magic realism transcend mere history, engaging the reader’s poetic imagination through stories of individual suffering caused by the horrors of slavery. Originally published in Brazil — where it was nominated for three of the country’s most prestigious comics awards — Run For It has received rave reviews worldwide, including The Huffington Post. These intense tales offer a tragic and gripping portrait of one of history’s darkest corners. It’s hard to look away. $24.99 Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Historical Fiction 180 pages, black and white, 6 ¾” x 9 ½” MARCELO D’SALETE is an acclaimed illustrator, professor, and historical author. He lives in . Territory: E • CQ: 16 ISBN 978-1-68396-049-2

• Review attention • Strong historical interest • Digital ARC available • Author website: http://www.dsalete. art.br/ • Twitter: @marcelodsalete • Age range: 15+

17 Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories Classic war stories from Two-Fisted Tales and , written by THE COMICS LIBRARY ISBN 978-1-60699-545-7 Came the Dawn and Other Stories All 26 crime and suspense shockers created by Wallace Wood for EC ISBN 978-1-60699-546-4 In 2012, Fantagraphics Books began repackaging writers, pairing two of the most storied publishers in 50 Girls 50 and Other Stories Every science-fiction story from Weird Science and Weird the esteemed EC Comics of the 1950s in a series of comics history and introducing the timeless work of EC to Science-Fantasy handsome hardcovers devoted to specific artists and contemporary readers. ISBN 978-1-60699-577-8 ‘Tain’t the Meat... It’s the Humanity and Other Stories Every horror story from Tales From the Crypt ISBN 978-1-60699-578-5 Fall Guy for Murder and Other Stories ’s crime and horror stories from Crime SuspenStories and The Vault of Horror ISBN 978-1-60699-658-4 Sucker Bait and Other Stories 25 classic horror stories by , , and others. ISBN 978-1-60699-827-4 Child of Tomorrow and Other Stories Al Feldstein’s solo sci-fi classics from Weird Science and ISBN 978-1-60699-659-1 Judgment Day and Other Stories 23 EC sci-fi classics illustrated by and written by Al Feldstein and ISBN 978-1-60699-727-7 Bomb Run and Other Stories 34 taut, gritty war stories by with , Harvey Kurtzman, and others. ISBN 978-1-60699-749-9 Zero Hour and Other Stories 22 EC science-fiction classics illustrated by ISBN 978-1-60699-704-8 All of George Evans’s aviation war stories from EC’s Aces High ISBN 978-1-60699-784-0 Spawn of Mars and Other Stories Over two dozen of Wally Wood’s best EC science-fiction stories ISBN 978-1-60699-805-2 Grave Business and Other Stories A collection of grisly, shocking horror stories illustrated by Graham Ingels. ISBN 978-1-60699-827-4 Forty Whacks and Other Stories A collection of hard-boiled crime and horror drawn by Jack Kamen and written by Al Feldstein. ISBN 978-1-60699-862-5 The High Cost of Dying and Other Stories Classic crime, horror and sci-fi from and Al Feldstein. ISBN 978-1-60699-908-8 The Living Mummy and Other Stories Over 30 classic horror stories by Jack Davis and Al Feldstein. ISBN 978-1-60699-929-5 Voodoo Vengeance and Other Stories Featuring 25 Johnny Craig horror classics. ISBN 978-1-60699-965-3 The Million Year Picnic And Other Stories Featuring every one of Will Elder’s non-Kurtzman EC collaborations. ISBN 978-1-60699-982-0 OCTOBER

DADDY LOST HIS HEAD AND OTHER STORIES By Jack Kamen and Al Feldstein with Ray Bradbury

Scheming spouses, , voodoo, and an ancient mummy’s curse!

Jack Kamen’s characters plot, scheme, and steal, but find their plans thwarted by magic, monsters, and madness. Famed for his deft delineations of beautiful, scheming women, handsome jealous husbands, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen returns with a collection of classic EC horror tales from The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear. In the title tale, a cruel stepfather sends his stepdaughter to bed without her supper, but the old crone next door gives the hungry girl a candy figure made in the likeness of her father … In “What the Dog Dragged In” — one of the EC’s earliest adaptations of a Ray Bradbury story — a wheelchair-bound blind woman asks her faithful dog to go find her fiancé, unaware that he had been killed in an auto accident… In “Loved to Death,” a rejected suitor spends one $29.99 Hardcover dollar to buy a potion that makes a woman fall in love with him, but when it Comics & Graphics Novels / Horror works too well he discovers the price of the antidote is more than he can afford 192 pages, black and white, 7 ¼” x 10 ¼” … Plus over 20 more tales of madness and horror as only EC can do them! Territory: E • CQ: 12 Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists’ Library, Daddy Lost His ISBN: 978-1-68396-050-8 Head and Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces. • Our New York Times best-selling series collecting the classic EC Comics • Great gift idea JACK KAMEN (1920–2008) began his career as a pulp illustrator and spent his • Review attention last professional decades as an illustrator, but he is best remembered for his half- • Official website: http://www.eccomics. decade at EC Comics (and his 1982 contributions to the EC-inspired movie, com/ ). He is the father of inventor . ALBERT B. FELDSTEIN • Twitter: @EC_comics (1928–2014) was an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work • Instagram: @ec_comics at EC and, from 1956 to 1984, as editor of Mad magazine. • Age Range: 11+

ALSO AVAILABLE: AND OTHER STORIES BY JOE ORLANDO The Thing From The Grave and Other Stories illustrated by Joe Orlando ISBN 978-1-60699-658-4

19 OCTOBER

HOUSE OF WOMEN By Sophie Goldstein

Science fiction meets psychosexual drama when four women try to bring “civilization” to the natives of a remote planet on the fringes of the known universe.

When Sarai and her fellow emissaries from the Empire disembark from their ship, they find themselves on an unknown planet teeming with life and mystery. The natives, whom they intend to “civilize,” are not as malleable as expected and their only other human contact, a man with some unexpected genetic modifications, only causes further conflict within their ranks. Something dark is growing in Mopu. The only is whether the danger that will undo the women’s delicate camaraderie is outside the gates—or within. House of Women is Goldstein’s second solo graphic novel, following 2015’s $29.99 Hardcover The Oven (AdHouse Books), which appeared on many year-end “Best of” lists, Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy including Publisher’s Weekly and Slate. House of Women showcases Goldstein’s 200 pages, black and white, 8 ½” x 10” remarkable self-assurance as a cartoonist and is certain to be one of the most Territory: E • CQ: 12 acclaimed releases of 2016. ISBN: 978-1-68396-051-5

• The 2013 Ignatz Award winner for SOPHIE GOLDSTEIN is a 2013 graduate of the Center for Cartoon Studies. “Outstanding Minicomic” Her work has appeared in various publications including Best American Comics • Review attention 2013 and The Pitchfork Review. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA. • Digital ARC available • Author events and festival appearances “Goldstein’s stunningly crisp, clean line is elegant but also functional. Her use of black and white contrasts, especially in depicting long shots of environments, is used to often dizzying or menacing • Author website: http://www. effect. Despite these visual pyrotechnics, her use of gesture and expression is what’s most redinkradio.com/ remarkable about her art.” — Rob Clough • Instagram: @redinkradio • Twitter: @redinkradio “An affecting, lingering read.” — Gary Tyrrell • Age range: 15+ “Sophie Goldstein’s artwork looks very simple, but it’s the kind of simplicity that’s complexity boiled down to a potent concentrate.” — The New York Times Book Review

20 OCTOBER

HOW TO READ : 6. SLUGGO THE ELEMENTS OF COMICS IN THREE EASY PANELS By and ; PropsThe Cast & Special Effects

“Most strips reflect the personality of the man who creates them; I think I was pretty much like Introduction by James Elkins Sluggo when I was a kid.” — , 1949

A. Context B. Text Sluggo Smith literally slugged his way into Nancy’s orbit Sluggo’s scope widened a bit as well; he became a versa- Sluggo’s character flaws have often landed him as the butt on January 24, 1938. (Ironically, he was depicted heroically, tile, multifaceted, all-purpose little tough guy. By the post- of a joke. Umpteen gags have been crafted around Sluggo’s punishing an anonymous snowball sniper.) Before Sluggo war years Sluggo could be called upon to behave respectably sluggishness, infidelity, mischievousness, cowardice, and entered the picture, Nancy was occasionally seen in the at a birthday party, although if Bushmiller took him to a hubris. Here Sluggo is cast in the role of the bullying menace. company of other pint-size suitors, including the mop-head- society ball a bit of might still leak out (especially He is intent on forcing his game on whomever he encounters ed “Herman” and the nattily appointed “Stewart.” But it was when the gag demanded). — ready or not. In one of his rare fashion decisions, Sluggo Sluggo’s macho that won Nancy’s fair heart from the Some aspects of Sluggo have always been kept inten- wears black. Today he is clearly “The Bad Guy.” This is the real . last panel of their first daily, and the pair have remained tionally murky. He is known to live in a ramshackle home First Sluggo faces left, then right, and finally he faces inseparable (if not entirely compatible) forever after. (See on the other side of the tracks complete with holes, patch- left again but now veering forward, toward the reader, in Appendix 5: Enter Sluggo, page 166.) es, and mice, though with no apparent adult supervision, three-quarter view. Remember that his dialogue remains Over the years Sluggo evolved … slightly. He started out evidently an orphan on the fringes of society. (A shiftless exactly the same, so his movements here produce a visual as a streetwise little tough guy from the Bronx via central “Uncle Harry” appeared just once, a week after Sluggo’s de- counterpoint to the text’s established rhythm. In the final casting (this was the same year the Dead End Kids began but, and vanished without a trace.) Yet Sluggo attends the showdown, as he advances forward he has become twice the their careers at Warner Bros.). Costumed in patched, over- same school as Nancy and takes part in all the same mid- size as in the previous panel, twice as threatening. Sluggo sized hand-me-downs, Sluggo proved an instant irritant to dle-class social events and activities. (Once, pressed on the gets so aggressive here that he obliterates the bottom part Aunt Fritzi’s glamorous domestic equilibrium (remember, point of Sluggo’s mysterious finances, Bushmiller unchar- of his own balloon, surging off the newsprint as he moves in at the time this was still her strip he was crashing). His acteristically allowed, “I assume he delivers groceries on for the kill. Notice his expression: at first he is filled with ec- bad manners and rough edges provided class friction gags Saturday or something like that.”) static glee as he “shoots” the two children. In the last panel for months, but Bushmiller soon realized that this gamin What is kept sketchy in background detail is more this glee is augmented with menace as he confidently stalks Everything that you need to know about reading, making, had greater potential. A regular sidekick/boyfriend/foil of than made up for in personality detail: Sluggo, with his his prized victim. But the rules of his game are about to be Nancy’s own size and age offered clear and practical ben- innumerable faults and failings, is easily the most consis- changed. efits for the strip. With Sluggo’s inclusion in the cast, the tent, well-delineated character in Nancy. Not surprisingly, gag premises widened exponentially and the balance of in some European markets (such as France and Italy) that Moral: Attractive character traits are often not positive the strip crucially tipped from Nancy’s sideline interac- imported Nancy after World War II, Sluggo was given star ones. tions with the adult world of Aunt Fritzi to one of children’s billing (Arthur et Zoe, Arturo e Zoe), with Nancy relegated and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy preoccupations. to second banana. strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik

and Mark Newgarden’s groundbreaking work How to Read 82 83 Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the

language of comics through the deconstruction of a single 7. NANCY strip. No other book on comics has taken such a simple yet methodical approach to laying bare how the comics medium $29.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E really works. No other book of any kind has taken a single Art / Techniques / Cartooning work by any artist and minutely (and entertainingly) pulled it apart like this. How to Read Nancy is a completely new

276 pages, black and white, 9” x 12 ¼” PropsThe Cast & Special Effects How to Read Territory: E • CQ: 12 approach toward close-reading art. In addition, “All of my characters are conceived in desperation.” — Ernie Bushmiller, 1948 Nancy is a thoroughly researched history of how comics A. Context B. Text ISBN 978-1-60699-361-3 For many decades Nancy maintained a stellar position her sass, creativity, cunning resourcefulness, and constant In this strip Bushmiller fortified the reader’s identification identification with Nancy as we project our own emotions in the syndication rankings of American comic strips, re- physical activity — all of which directly stemmed from with Nancy through some shrewd sleight of hand. As one onto her blank slate (or is it vice versa?). Her hidden features portedly never dipping below sixth place in overall reader her utility as a vehicle for Bushmiller’s gags. Perhaps this enters the strip, past the ruled, hard-edged panel border, the likewise keep the reader guessing at her intended thoughts are made, from their creation at the drawing board to their popularity. With an audience in the tens of millions, Nancy blank-slate aspect of the Nancy persona holds the key to first figure encountered is Nancy herself — who, in turn, is and heighten the surprise of the last panel’s payoff. became one of the most recognizable cartoon characters her overwhelming appeal. Taken with such an active, capa- depicted looking into the space just past the ruled, hard- In the last panel, Nancy responds with intelligence, of the twentieth century. Yet as a recognizable personality ble, spunky character, readers from every background on the edged border of the fence. The reader looks in on someone strength, and compassion — and perhaps just a smidgen of Nancy remains maddeningly hard to sum up. planet readily identified with this leading lassie. looking in further. She is our surrogate at once. In effect, passive-aggressive sadism (small wonder so many grown Nancy is generally mischievous (but kind), bright (but “You’d be surprised how many letters I get asking me we become Nancy, bearing witness to Sluggo’s massacre. By women remember Nancy so fondly). Like generations of fic- no A student), impudent (but no delinquent), impulsive (but who’s Nancy? Where’s her mother and father? What’s the panel 2, we have assumed her point of view entirely. tional Western heroes, she remains stoic and aloof yet big- ultimate destination at the bookstore. Textbook, art book, not foolhardy), jealous (but forgiving), and fickle (yet ulti- story on Sluggo?” Bushmiller complained to an interviewer We do not see Nancy’s face in these panels because we ger than life while assuming command; clearly justice will • Review attention mately consistent). She is generally cast as a problem solver, in 1973. “The problem is I don’t know.” do not need to. Even the most casual reader will recognize prevail and the true varmint will get his in the end (or, more in contrast to Sluggo’s role as a problem starter — though Who’s Nancy? She is us. the featured player without benefit of her particular facial likely, the face). both are perpetually open to a complete reversal. She is the arrangement of dots and lines. By eliminating expression, de facto daughter of Fritzi Ritz, yet her actual parentage is Bushmiller exploits the technique of the deadpan perform- Moral: Engaging characters remind us of ourselves. • Soon to be a perennial in comics monogram, dissection, How to Read Nancy is a game chang- never addressed. Her most memorable characteristics are er and allows for some reader participation. We deepen our scholarship er in understanding how the “simplest” drawings grab us • Author appearances t.b.a. and never leave. Perfect for students, academics, scholars, and casual fans. • Author website: http://www.laffpix.com/ 84 85 • Age range: 15+ PAUL KARASIK lives in Martha’s Vineyard, MA. MARK NEWGARDEN lives in , NY.

“Not only does How to Read Nancy give insight into Bushmiller’s brilliance, it’s also a great, concise educational [book] about visual storytelling through the analysis of a single strip.” — Boing Boing

21 OCTOBER

MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS VOL. 2 by Emil Ferris

The breakout graphic novel of 2016 concludes with this second volume.

Vol. 2 takes place in tumultuous and violent in the summer of 1968. Young Karen attends the Yippie-organized Festival of Life in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she continues to investigate her neighbor’s recent death and discovers one last cassette tape that sheds light upon Anka’s heroic activities in Nazi Germany. She wrestles with her own sexual identity, and tells her good friend, Sam Silverberg, that the best birthday present she could receive is to “feel like there is someone in the history of the world who has been like me.” The cast of characters introduced in Volume 1 of Emil Ferris’s critically $34.99 Paperback Original w/ French Flaps acclaimed masterwork My Favorite Thing is Monsters experience revelations Comics & Graphic Novels/ Literary and epiphanies that both resolve and deepen the mysteries earlier visited upon 304 pages, full color, 8” x 10 ½” them. Visually, the story is told in Ferris’s trademarked style of a breathtakingly Territory: E • CQ: 10 seamless combination of panel sequences and cartoon montages. ISBN 978-1-68396-019-5

• Vol. 1 was PW Big Indie Book of Fall EMIL FERRIS lives in Chicago. She has an MFA from the Art Institute of 2016 and the most acclaimed GN debut Chicago and is a 2010 Toby Devan Lewis Fellow in the visual arts. of 2016 • Review attention “Absolutely astonishing.” — • Digital ARC • Author website: http://emilferris.com/ “Once you enter Emil Ferris’s spectacular eye-popping magnum opus, there is no turning back. This • Twitter: @emilferrisdraws is a monster of a book, in the best possible way.” — • Instagram: @emilferris “No one has ever made a comic like Emil Ferris’s assured, superhumanly ambitious two-part debut • Age range: 15+ graphic novel… It threatens not merely to exceed established standards of excellence, but to set new ones.” — The Guardian

“Ferris’s mastery of comics, her pyrotechnic drawings, and her nested narratives are already ALSO AVAILABLE: placing her among the greatest practitioners of the form.” — My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Vol. 1 “One of the most profound, ambitious and accomplished creative works to appear in any medium $39.99 Paperback Original, this decade.” — Forbes ISBN 978-1-60699-959-2

22 OCTOBER

ZAHHAK: THE LEGEND OF THE SERPENT KING By Hamid Rahmanian and Simon Arizpe

A pop-up book like you’ve never seen before!

For the first time ever, a tale from the Persian Book of Kings springs to life in this stunningly produced and ingeniously crafted pop-up book. Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King retells the myth of the misguided Prince Zahhak who is easily swayed by the devil to murder his father and usurp the throne. Cursed with monstrous snakes that grow out of his shoulders, the Serpent King grows infamous throughout the land for his treachery and oppression. He rules for one thousand years before the noble and valiant Feraydun gains the strength and army to defeat the unjust King. The fantastic world of Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King literally pops off the page with intricately crafted spreads, two pop-up folds per page, and complex construction that will delight readers young and old with every turn $39.99 Hardcover of the page. Literature / Middle Eastern 18 pages, full color, 10” x 7 ½” Territory: E • CQ: 8 HAMID RAHMANIAN is a 2014 John Guggenheim Fellow. His narrative and ISBN 978-1-60699-889-2 documentary films have premiered at Venice, Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, and IDFA film festivals. His works have been televised on PBS, Sundance Channel, • Great gift idea IFC, Channel 4, BBC, DR2, and Al Jazeera. He illustrated the 2013 best-selling • Printed BLAD available 2013 Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings. He lives in Brooklyn. • Author websites: www. hamidrahmanian.com/ and SIMON ARIZPE is an award-winning paper engineer and illustrator in Brooklyn, http://www.simonarizpe.com/ NY. He has worked on many acclaimed pop-up books. His work has been shown at • Age range: all ages the and has been acquired by the Smithsonian Institute.

“Hamid Rahmanian brings new, vivid life to the epic tales of the ancient Persian kings.” — The Atlantic

23 THE LIBRARY

Before becoming an icon, Mickey Mouse gained fame as a rough-and-tumble, two-fisted action hero. His greatest feats of derring-do took place in this comic strip, written and drawn by Floyd Gottfredson, one of the greatest cartoonists of the 20th century.

Vol. 1: “Race to Death Valley” Vol. 2: “Trapped on Treasure Island” Vol. 3: “High Noon at Inferno Gulch” Vol. 4: “House of the Seven Haunts!” Vol. 5: “Outwits the Phantom Blot” Vol. 6: “Lost in Lands of Long Ago” ISBN 978-1-60699-441-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-495-5 ISBN 978-1-60699-531-0 ISBN 978-1-60699-575-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-736-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-782-6

Vol. 7: “March of the Zombies” Vol. 8: “The Tomorrow Wars” Vol. 9: “Rise of the Rhyming Man” Vol. 10: “Planet of Faceless Foes” Vol. 11: “Mickey Vs. Mickey” Color Sundays Vol. 1: ISBN 978-1-60699-829-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-868-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-931-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-963-9 ISBN 978-1-68396-018-8 “Call of the Wild” ISBN 978-1-60699-576-1

Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-496-2 Vols. 3 & 4 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-576-1 Vols. 5 & 6 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-783-3 Vols. 7 & 8 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-869-4 Vols. 9 & 10 Gift Box Set Color Sundays Vol. 2: ISBN 978-1-60699-964-6 “Robin Hood Rides Again!” Color Sundays 1 & 2 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-686-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-576-1 OCTOBER

THE FLOYD GOTTFREDSON LIBRARY WALT DISNEY’S MICKEY MOUSE VOL. 12: “THE MYSTERIOUS VOLS. 11 & 12 DR. X” GIFT BOX SET By Floyd Gottfredson By Floyd Gottfredson $49.99 Hardcover Box Set

© 2016 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2016 © $35.00 Hardcover Humor / Comic Strips Cartoons Humor / Comic Strips Cartoons 296 pages, black and white (w/ some color), 10 ½” x 8 ¾” 544 pages combined, in a custom slipcase Territory: X • CQ: 14 Territory: X • CQ: 6 ISBN 978-1-68396-055-3 ISBN 978-1-68396-056-0

The Will -winning series continues to showcase the adventure trip that made a hero out of Mickey!

When Mickey’s best pal vanishes without a trace, even crazy Cousin Clabberwort can’t find him — till he turns up in a government lab, packing a genius IQ and a pet pygmy cow! Just what does Mouseton’s dippiest dawg—now known as “Dr. X”—have in store for the world? Does Mickey dare to find out? This climactic book of Gottfredson serials also finds Mickey plagued by Uncle Gudger, the one-man circus—and Gilhooley, the pitiless king of the leprechauns! Floyd Gottfredson and co-writer infect Mouseton with the super-hi-tech of the Sputnik era, in this final volume of narrative Mickey strips. Restored from Disney’s original proof sheets, The Mysterious Dr. X also includes more than 30 pages of top-secret extras! You’ll enjoy behind-the-scenes art, Gottfredson’s rare Christmas comics, and commentary by Disney’s own scientific geniuses! • Featuring most recognizable cartoon character in the world! • Digital ARC available Hired as a short-term replacement in 1930, FLOYD GOTTFREDSON went on to draw Mickey Mouse for the next 45 years. • Age range: All ages “From the beautifully reproduced strips to the densely packed ancillary features, this must be the book that editors 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 America’s rich comic strip history.” — Christian Science Monitor

“Gottfredson drew Mickey with a nosy snout and the bright eyes of an adrenalin junkie. The mouses diminutive size inspired Gottfredson to have the character attempt daredevil races, leaping stunts, and develop a flurry-fisted fighting style... This beautiful [series] gives the Great Rodent his humanity.” — Entertainment Weekly

25 The Library

A comprehensive series of hardcover books collecting the internationally revered Disney Duck stories by , presented to American audiences for the first time.

and

and “The Universal Solvent” The DON ROSA Library Vol. 6 THE DON ROSA LIBRARY VOL. 4 “The Last of the Clan McDuck”

“The Last of the Clan McDuck” “The The DON ROSA Library Vol. 4 Universal Solvent” “The

Vol. 1: “” Vol. 2: “Return to Plain Awful” Vol. 3: “Treasure Under Glass” Vol. 4: “The Last of the Clan Vol. 5: “The Richest Duck in the Vol. 6: “The Universal Solvent” ISBN 978-1-60699-742-0 ISBN 978-1-60699-780-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-781-9 McDuck” World” ISBN 978-1-60699-961-5 ISBN 978-1-60699-866-3 ISBN 978-1-60699-927-1

BACK IN and STOCK!

“The Treasure of the Ten Quitars” “The Universal Solvent” “The

The DON ROSA Library Vol. 7

Vol. 7: “The Treasure of the Ten Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Box Set Vols. 3 & 4 Gift Box Set Vols. 5 & 6 Gift Box Set Avatars” ISBN 978-1-60699-781-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-867-0 ISBN 978-1-60699-962-2 ISBN 9781-68396-006-5

26 OCTOBER

WALT DISNEY UNCLE SCROOGE AND DONALD DUCK THE DON ROSA LIBRARY VOL. 8: THE DON ROSA LIBRARY “ESCAPE FROM FORBIDDEN VALLEY” VOLS. 7 & 8: GIFT BOX SET By Don Rosa By Don Rosa $29.99 Hardcover $49.99 Hardcover Box Set

© 2017 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2017 © Humor / Comic Strips Cartoons Humor / Comic Strips Cartoons 208 pages, full color, 8 ½” x 11” 376 page combined, in a custom slipcase Territory: X • CQ: 12 Territory: X • CQ: 6 ISBN 978-1-68396-053-9 ISBN 978-1-683-96-054-6

DuckTales meets Jurassic Park in this latest Rosa masterpiece!

In search of rare Amazonian nutmegs, Scrooge and Donald approach deadly Forbidden Valley... a lost world of live dinosaurs whom Donald once stampeded! Now the long-suffering locals get revenge by throwing Donald in with the dinos—and only Scrooge can save him from becoming a Jurassic blue-plate special! It’s Fantagraphics’ eighth complete book of Duck adventures by Don Rosa! Don Rosa (born June 29, 1951), among the world’s most beloved modern cartoonists, launched his Carl Barks-inspired comics career in 1987. Famed for his prizewinning “Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck” (Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, 1995: Best Serialized Story), Rosa wrote and drew a whopping two decades’ worth of ripping Scrooge and Donald yarns! And “Escape from Forbidden Valley” is just the start! In “The Quest for ,” Scrooge, Gyro, and Magica De Spell hunt for a legendary gold-making machine... and in “The Black Knight,” master thief Arpin • The Disney Ducks remain among Lusene arrives to rob Scrooge’s money bin — or destroy it! Disney’s most popular characters: Presented in brilliant color and a treasure trove of Rosa’s cover art and a brand-new DuckTales TV series behind-the-scenes factoids, these Duckburg epics are back in a definitive, starring Scrooge launches on Disney comprehensive edition for posterity—at a bargain price worthy of XD in fall 2017! Scrooge himself! • Twitter: @donrosa • Age range: All ages DON ROSA (b. 1951) is a 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair International Grand Prize winner and 2013 Bill Finger Award recipient. He lives in .

27 NOVEMBER

THE BATTLE OF CHURUBUSCO: AMERICAN REBELS IN THE MEXICAN- AMERICAN WAR By Andrea Ferraris

A soldier under fire has a crisis of conscience in this remarkable work of historical fiction.

Today, Churubusco is just a quiet residential suburb of Mexico City, but in 1847 it was the stronghold of the San Patricios, a motley battalion of soldiers — even including some runaway American slaves — who deserted the to join with Mexico for a cause they knew was suicidal but nonetheless believed was profoundly just. Many newly arrived Europeans — including Irish, Spaniards, Germans, Italians, and Poles — fought for the U.S. during that war. Promised citizenship and a parcel of land for their service, they found themselves involved in a war fomented by the U.S. to take California from Mexico. $29.99 Hardcover In The Battle of Churubusco, Andrea Ferraris uses a bold charcoal technique Comics & Graphic Novels / Historical to tell the story of the San Patricios through the eyes of Gaetano Rizzo, a Fiction 22-year-old Sicilian immigrant to America who joins the U.S. Army in pursuit 200 pages, full color, 6 ¾” x 9 ½” of the American dream. But once he sees the cruelty he is being ordered to Territory: E • CQ: 12 inflict upon the people of Mexico — no different from what he had escaped ISBN 978-1-68396-057-7 from in his home country — he has a crisis of conscience. Is the American dream worth staining himself with all that blood? • Review attention The character of Gaetano Rizzo is based on the real-life Garretson Roberts • Strong historical interest (as his name was Anglicized at Ellis Island), a U.S. soldier born in Sicily and • Digital ARC available hanged in Churubusco June 13, 1847 for desertion. • Age range: 15+

ANDREA FERRARIS (b. 1966, Genoa, Italy) has worked for Disney for over 20 years and also draws Donald Duck stories for the Danish publisher Egmont. He lives in Paris.

“Churubusco is a compelling book about the lengthy and winding paths behind the most radical political choices.” — Il Manifesto

“A poignant work of great beauty.” — Le Coin de la Limule

28 NOVEMBER

DREW FRIEDMAN’S CHOSEN PEOPLE By Drew Friedman; Foreword by Merrill Markoe

America’s greatest living portrait artist presents his favorite subjects.

Featuring over 100 of Drew Friedman’s hyper-realistic portraits of the greats, the near-greats, and the not-so-greats, created over the past decade. Artists, cartoonists, comedians, musicians, actors, politicians, the famous and the infamous, these chosen people are just that: People chosen to be rendered by the man Boing Boing calls “The greatest living portrait artist.” Subjects include Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Frank Zappa, Johnny Cash, Robert Crumb, , , , Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns, Chris Ware, , Marc Maron, Redd Foxx, Gilbert Gottfried, The Marx Brothers, Phil Silvers, Lord Buckley, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner, and, of course, Friedman favorite, Shemp Howard. No one $19.99 Hardcover is spared the loving Friedman treatment, including Drew Friedman himself! Art / Subjects & Themes / Portraits 136 pages, full color, 6” x 7 ½” Territory: E • CQ: 16 DREW FRIEDMAN lives with his wife and collaborator, K. Bidus, in an ISBN 978-1-68396-059-1 undisclosed bunker.

• Author events and festival appearances “Drew Friedman is a genius illustrator, a genius comics artist.” — Marc Maron • Digital ARC available “Friedman is known for adroitly capturing gesture, mood, and psychological nuance in vivid • Age range: 12+ portraits somehow combining elements of and realism … Each of his portraits feels so • Author website: http://www. alive, it is like being welcomed into each artist’s private world.” — The Atlantic drewfriedman.net/ “Drew Friedman is my favorite artist.” — Howard Stern

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Heroes of the Comics $34.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-731-4 Too Soon? Famous/Infamous More Heroes of the Comics Faces 1995-2010 $34.99 Hardcover, $29.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-960-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-357-6 Any Similarities to Persons Living The Fun Never Stops: An or Dead is Purely Coincidental Anthology of Comic Art 1991-2006 $19.99 Hardcover, $16.95 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1-60699-521-1 ISBN 978-1-56097-840-4

29 NOVEMBER

THE COMPLETE CREPAX VOL. 3: EVIL SPELLS By Guido Crepax

In this collection of erotic comics, Valentina encounters the baddest witch of them all: Baba Yaga!

The third volume of Fantagraphics’ monumental collection of Guido Crepax’s comics collects the “Baba Yaga” storyline, which recasts the witch of folklore (it was adapted for the screen in 1973 starring Carroll Baker as the middle- aged, villainess). Under Baba Yaga’s influence, a doll, Annette, comes to life; Valentina and her lover, Philip, are forced to act out the fairy tale Bluebeard; and Philip must fight the witch in her lair to save their kidnapped child. Evil Spells also features the famed Italian cartoonist’s sinuous adaptations of several literary masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, and a giallo genre take on Edgar $75.00 Hardcover Allan Poe. Accompanying the stories are notes providing historical context, Comics & Graphic Novels / Erotica and an article by the director of the film. The oversized format and exacting 424 pages, black and white with some reproduction standards perfectly showcase Crepax’s virtuosic composition, color, 10 ¼” x 14” design, and draftsmanship, as well the boundless visual imagination that has Territory: E • CQ: 6 inspired several generations of cartoonists and designers. ISBN 978-1-68396-058-4

• Collecting the work of an international icon in comics, fashion, erotica, and GUIDO CREPAX was born in Milan in 1933 and died in 2003. He began design contributing comics to the Italian magazine Linus in 1965, and went on to become one of Italy — and Europe’s — most celebrated and important • Great gift idea cartoonists. • Review attention • Digital ARC available • Age range: 18+ “Crepax’s audacious visual techniques, which combine sensual linework, fluid storytelling, and innovative panel breakdowns, strongly influenced both his contemporaries and subsequent generations of comics artists, and they look as strikingly bold today as they did a half-century ago.” ALSO AVAILABLE: — Booklist Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, & Other Horror Stories ISBN 978-1-60699-890-8 Vol. 2: The Time Eater & Other Stories ISBN 978-1-60699-973-8

30 NOVEMBER

in the apartment THE COMPLETE CREPAX VOLS. 1 & 2 above… You maybe must be she’s home? punished! The GIFT BOX SET other day she didn’t seem to be By Guido Crepax there, either… instead…

Ah, no…! I forgot I asked This new boxed set collects over 800 pages of the complete her if there was a box to ship those works of the famed erotic Eurocartoonist, including his first magazines…

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Come on… Come on, Frankenstein, and Other Horror Stories and The Time Eater and Other Stories) Potemkin! it’s just me and you now…

$150.00 Hardcover Box Set — just in time for holiday sales! 230 GUIDO CREPAX Comics & Graphic Novels / Erotica Vol. 1 features, in addition to the artist’s unique take on the eponymous literary works by Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, a half dozen Valentina stories Hey, you 864 pages combined, in a custom horse! pening to you? Come on!crazy Come old on!!! slipcase influenced by the French New Wave, including several never before collected. What’s hap In this sci-fi themed Vol. 2, photographer Valentina goes to space, battles Territory: E • CQ: 2 - ISBN 978-1-68396-073-7 androids, and discovers an astronaut in her garden, on top of many other surprises. • Collecting the first two volumes (of a projected ten) of The Complete Crepax • Great gift idea GUIDO CREPAX was born in Milan in 1933 and died in 2003. He began • Age range: 18+ contributing comics to the Italian magazine Linus in 1965, and went on to become one of Italy — and Europe’s — most celebrated and important cartoonists.

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31 NOVEMBER

ECONOMICS IN WONDERLAND: SAVING CAPITALISM

One of the most dangerously deceptive ideas is that corporations, but they don’t protect the accumulated the free market is natural and neutral. skills of American workers. ROBERT REICH’S CARTOON The traditional economic debate imagines two parts Big Wall Street Banks and their executives are to our economy. A private sector, that’s the free bailed out when they can’t pay what they owe, but THE CARTOON GUIDE TO A POLITICAL WORLD market and a public sector, that’s government. not homeowners who can’t meet their mortgage In this cartoon version, the free market pays payments. American industries are allowed to GONE MAD AND MEAN people and distributes goods and services in a consolidate into huge near monopolies. Big , GUIDE TO A POLITICAL natural or neutral way. And government intrudes big pharma, major airlines, health insurers, Wall on the market by regulating the services and also Street banks, big agriculture, giant retailers, like taxing some of what businesses and individuals earn Wal-Mart. But workers who want to join together and then redistributing it. in trade unions face all sorts of obstacles. They’re Much of what conservatives and liberals fired with impunity and more states adopt so called debate is how much government intrusion into Right to Work Laws that undermine unions. WORLD GONE MAD the so-called free market is acceptable to achieve These are some of the rules of the so-called an economy that works for most of us. But this “free market.” If our democracy were working as cartoon version leaves out a critical point. There’s it should, rules of the market would help most of no free market in nature. The free market is a us. Instead, as income and wealth is concentrated bunch of rules created and enforced by government. at the top over the last 40 years, so has the power Elected officials, agency heads and judges make the to make the rules of the market by influencing the AND MEAN rules and sometimes change them. They create the politicians regulatory heads and even the courts and market. And the real issue is who the rules benefit, the lawyers who appear before them with the result who they hurt and who has the most influence over that the market is rigged for the benefit of the few. making them. So if we really want to reduce the savage inequalities For example, the market provides bankruptcy and insecurities most people are experiencing, we by Robert Reich protection for big corporations and billionaires shouldn’t be swayed by the myth of a neutral free allowing them shed their debts, including labor market. contracts. But no bankruptcy protection for college We must make the market work for us rather graduates overburdened with student debt. Trade than for only a few at the top. And to do that, we agreements protect the intellectual property of large must exert the power that is supposed to be ours. Cartoon essays by a champion of liberal values and one of Time’s “Ten Most Effective Cabinet Secretaries of the Twentieth Century.” ROBERT REICH Who knew that Robert Reich, the former U.S. Secre- tary of Labor, and a frequent commentator and debater on RYAN IS WRONG

Now that is speaker of the house, keep 4: turn Medicaid and other federal programs for CNBC and The Daily, is also a skilled cartoonist? Anyone a wary eye out for Ryan’s 7 favorite ideas. They’re the poor into block grants for the states and then $19.99 Hardcover also cropping up among Republican presidential let the states decide how to allocate them. In other candidates, so keep two wary eyes out. Here they words, give Republican state legislatures and gover- are in under 2 minutes. Number 1: reduce the top nors slush funds to do with as they wish. Number who watches his podcast, viewed on his Inequality Media income tax rate to 25% from the current 39%. A 5: turn Medicare into vouchers that don’t keep up Politics / Current Events terrible idea. It’s a huge windfall to the rich at a with increases in health care costs. In effect, cutting time when the rich already take home a large share Medicare for the elderly. Another awful idea. 6: deal of total income than at any time since the 1920s. with rising social security costs by raising the retire- 120 pages, black and white w/ color, website, that’s who. For years, Reich has taken a large Number 2: cut corporate taxes to 25% from the ment age for social security. Bad. This would make current 35%. Another bad idea. A giant sop to cor- social security even more regressive since the poor porations, the largest of which are already socking don’t live nearly as long as the rich. 7 and finally: let away $2.1 trillion in foreign tax shelters. Number the minimum wage continue to decline as inflation 8 ¼” x 10 ½” sketchpad and a magic marker on speaking tours to help 3: slash spending on domestic programs like food eats it away. Wrong again. Low-wage workers need stamps and education for poor districts. What? Al- a higher minimum wage. These 7 ideas will harm ready 22% of the nation’s children are in poverty. most Americans. Ryan is wrong. Territory: E • CQ: 12 teach the most important topics of the day with illustra- These cuts would only make things worse. Number ISBN 978-1-68396-060-7 tions. What do we do about student debt, social security, and gerrymandering? Every week, Reich delivers an infor- • Author website: http://robertreich.org/ mal lecture accompanied by a quick-draw cartoon illustrat- • Twitter: @RBreich / @inequalityfilm ing the major points of his talk. • Facebook: Robert Reich Economics in Wonderland is a collection of both his mini • ARC available essays and the cartoons he drew to illustrate them. Read the text, follow the cartoon. Reich is well known as a tire- less advocate of liberalism, and tackles the most volatile issues in our country’s uncertain future — minimum wage, voting rights, wealth distribution, war, how to talk to relatives on the other side of the political spectrum — with only a felt-tipped marker and his signature wit. Reich’s erudite talks are collected here for the first time, accompanied by his clean-line and confident cartoons, clearly explaining the consequences of the disastrous policies of global austerity with humor, insight, passion, and warmth.

ROBERT B. REICH is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. He has written the best sellers Aftershock, The Work of Nations, Beyond Outrage, and his most recent, Saving Capitalism. He is also a founding editor of American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, Inequality for All.

32 NOVEMBER

FAB 4 MANIA By

The memoir of a 13-year-old girl’s Beatles obsession and the concert of a lifetime!

Critically acclaimed cartoonist Carol Tyler (Soldier’s Heart) recreates the exhilaration and excitement of Beatlemania at its height in 1965, her personal obsession with , and the odyssey that leads her to the famous Beatles Chicago concert later that year. Told in the voice of its 13-year-old author, Fab 4 Mania is a facsimile of the diary that Carol Tyler kept throughout 1965. It includes hundreds of new images drawn by the author depicting her life from that period and retains the precociousness, rebelliousness, and frustrations surrounding her Beatles obsession, culminating in her trip to Chicago on August 20th to see the Beatles in concert. Fab 4 Mania is more than a memoir recounting her own private Beatlemania. $29.99 Paperback Original It’s a look into the life of a teenager from a working class family whose love of Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction music awakens her senses and opens her up to the world beyond that of small- / Biography & Memoir town Fox Lake, . The book brims with rich period details, humor, 272 pages, color, 8” x 10 ½” insight, and beautiful drawings capturing the of the time. It is also about Territory: E • CQ: 10 the Beatles, of course, as seen through the eyes of a young, giddy teenager and ISBN 978-1-68396-061-4 a reflective, adult artist, and the joy the band gave and continues to give. • Review attention • The new book from 2016’s CXC Master Cartoonist and Slate Studio Prize CAROL TYLER lives in Cincinnati, OH. winner • A wonderfully literary addition to the “With her playful, fluid brush line and busy patchwork of watercolor woodgrain, Tyler’s art looks annals of Beatlemania like the past feels.” — Publishers Weekly • Author events • Digital ARC available • Twitter: @carolcomix • Age range: 15+

ALSO AVAILABLE: Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father $39.99 Paperback, ISBN 978-1-60699-896-0

33 NOVEMBER

I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS By Charles Forsman

Sexual repression and super powers in small town America, from the creator of The End of the Fucking World.

Sydney seems like a normal, rudderless 15-year-old freshman. She hangs out underneath the bleachers, listens to music in her friend’s car, and gets into arguments with her annoying little brother — but she also has a few secrets she’s only shared in her diary. Like how she’s in love with her best friend Dina, the bizarre death of her war veteran father, and those painful telekinetic powers that keep popping up at the most inopportune times. After his first two critically heralded graphic novels, Celebrated Summer and The End of the Fucking World (recently adapted into a TV show on the UK’s Channel 4 and soon to be streaming stateside on Netflix), Forsman once again expertly channels the teenage ethos in a style that evokes classic comic strips while telling a powerful story about the intense, and sometimes violent, $14.99 Paperback Original tug of war between trauma and control. I am Not Okay with This collects all Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary of Forsman’s self-published minicomic series into one volume. It comments 160 pages, black and white, 6” x 8” naturally on familial strain, sexual confusion, and PTSD in his usual straight- Territory: E • CQ: 16 faced-but-humorous style, and firmly stakes his place among the world’s best ISBN 978-1-68396-062-1 young cartoonists.

• Review attention • Digital ARC CHARLES FORSMAN lives in Massachusetts with his partner and fellow • Author website: http://charlesforsman. cartoonist, Melissa Mendes. com/

• Twitter: @CharlesForsman “Forsman captures youth, frustration, and that deep, dark feeling that maybe things won’t get better • Instagram: @charlesforsman when you get older.” — Publishers Weekly

ALSO AVAILABLE: The End of the Fucking World $19.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-983-7 Celebrated Summer $16.99 Flexibound, ISBN 978-1-60699-685-0 34 NOVEMBER

PEANUTS EVERY SUNDAY 1971-1975 By Charles M. Schulz

WORLDWIDE, LLC. WORLDWIDE, Five years of vintage color Peanuts Sundays in a deluxe coffee table edition!

Since their original publication, Peanuts Sundays have almost always been collected and reprinted in black and white. But

© PEANUTS © PEANUTS many who read Peanuts in their original Sunday papers remain fond of the striking coloring, which makes for a surprising- ly different reading experience. These early-1970s strips showcase Schulz at his philosophical and illustrative peak in one gorgeous, full-color coffee table book. Linus, Charlie Brown, Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, Sally, Patty, and Schroeder are all present, and the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. Peanuts Every Sunday: 1971-1975 has been scrupulously re-colored to match the original syndicate coloring — allowing readers once again to plunge back into Charles Schulz’s marvelous world.

$49.99 Hardcover Humor / Comic Strips Cartoons CHARLES M. SCHULZ (1922-2000) lives on at the Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA. 288 pages, full-color, 13 ¼” x 9 ½” Territory: F • CQ: 6 “Charles M. Schulz was an innovative genius. There is not much in Peanuts that is shallow or heedless.” — Garrison Keillor ISBN 978-1-68396-063-8 “Highly recommended to any Peanuts fan.” — Salon

• Great gift ideas “These are beautiful books. Full color dust jackets and numbered bindings make for books that look great next to each other on the shelf. But you’ll need a • Age range: All ages big shelf. ...[F]or the fan, they are a collection absolutely worth having.” — Boing Boing

For more books in the Peanuts Every Sunday series, see page 5

35 Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete collection of this epic medieval adventure set in the days of King Arthur. Created by Hal Foster in 1937, the Prince Valiant comic strip continues to this day.

Vol. 1: 1937–1938 Vol. 2: 1939–1940 Vol. 3: 1941–1942 Vol. 4: 1943–1944 Vol. 5: 1945–1946 ISBN 978-1-60699-141-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-348-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-407-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-455-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-484-9

Vol. 6: 1947–1948 Vol. 7: 1949–1950 Vol. 8: 1951–1952 Vol. 9: 1953–1954 Vol. 10: 1955-1956 ISBN 978-1-60699-588-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-645-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-699-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-735-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-800-7

The Definitive Prince Vol. 11: 1957-1958 Vol. 12: 1959-1960 Vol. 13: 1961-1962 Vol. 14: 1963-1964 Vol. 15: 1963-1964 Valiant Companion ISBN 978-1-60699-828-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-876-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-925-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-925-7 ISBN 978-1-68396-025-6 $39.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-306-4 36 $24.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-60699-305-7 NOVEMBER

PRINCE VALIANT VOL. 16: 1967–1968 by Hal Foster

The original Game of Thrones

Prince Valiant is sent on a mission to track down a missing, lovesick heir, but when his retrieval is too late, Val becomes a practiced mentor to the reluctant leader. On his way back to Camelot, Val befriends Sir Reynolde, a waggish actor whose equestrian skills gain King Arthur’s attention and whose masterful impersonations get him into a long-distance love triangle. In-fighting amongst family members and knights alike wages in the Hall of Champions, all while young Arn goes berserk under the incantation of the feral forest people. Val leads a slave rebellion, Aleta plots against the greedy governors that have lunged the Misty Isles into dangerous complacency, and the royal children discover romance. Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant continues as one of the all-time magnificent ever conceived and Fantagraphics’ reprinting is the loveliest treatment of the strip in the history of publishing. $34.99 Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy 112 pages, full color, 10 ¼” x 14” Territory: E • CQ: 14 HAROLD (“Hal”) RUDOLF FOSTER was born in Halifax, NS, in 1892 and ISBN 978-1-68396-064-5 passed away in Spring Hill, FL, in 1982.

• Eisner Award-nominated series “That Foster was the most virtuosic comics artist of his time, there is some merit to the claim.” • A perennial classic — New York Times • Great gift idea • Age range: All ages “Hal Foster was an illustrator in the grand tradition of and … Every panel packs a one-two punch.” — Vanity Fair

37 NOVEMBER

PRINCE VALIANT VOLS. 1-3 GIFT BOX SET By Hal Foster

This first-ever Prince Valiant boxed set collects over six years of Hal Foster Sunday strips along with tons of supplementary art, photos, and essays!

Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant is one of the most magnificent adventure comics ever and Fantagraphics’ reprinting is the loveliest treatment of the strip in the history of publishing. Despite being one of our most popular series, we have never produced a holiday gift box set until now, and this deluxe package includes the first three volumes of the series, collecting the first six years of Foster’s run, from 1937 through 1942!

$100.00 Hardcover Box Set HAROLD (“Hal”) RUDOLF FOSTER was born in Halifax, NS, in 1892 and passed away in Spring Hill, FL, in 1982. Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy 336 pages combined, full color, in a custom slipcase “One of the greatest comic strips of all time and a peak in visual splendor and breath-taking Territory: E • CQ: 4 adventure, the story of Prince Valiant’s 30+ year odyssey is getting a marvelous presentation in ISBN 978-1-68396-072-0 Fantagraphics’ series of books.” — The Huffington Post

• Collecting the first three volumes of the hugely popular series • Great gift idea • Age range: 18+

38 NOVEMBER

POGO: THE COMPLETE SYNDICATED COMIC STRIPS VOL. 4 “UNDER THE VOLS. 3 & 4

NOT FINAL COVER NOT BAMBOOZLE BUSH” GIFT BOX SET By ; Foreword by By Walt Kelly; Forewords by Neil Gaiman & $45.00 Hardcover $75.00 Hardcover Box Set Humor / Comic Strips Cartoons Humor / Comic Strips Cartoons 344 pages, color and black and white, 7 ¼” x 10 ½” 688 pages combined, in a custom slipcase Territory: E • CQ: 6 Territory: E • CQ: 3 ISBN 978-1-60699-863-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-864-9

Pogo is back! Vote Pogo! In addition to presenting all of 1955 and 1956’s daily Pogo strips complete and in order for the first time anywhere (many of them once again scanned from original syndicate proofs, for their crispest and most detailed appearance ever), Pogo: The Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 4 also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years, presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections 60 years ago — plus the usual in-depth “Swamp

NOT FINAL COVER NOT Talk” annotations by R.C. Harvey, spectacular samples of Kelly’s work scanned from original art, and a whole lot more! And, for the holidays, we’re also releasing a handsome slipcased set of this volume and Vol. 3!

WALT KELLY was born in 1913 and passed away in 1973. His legacy lives on thanks in part to the efforts of his daughter, Carolyn, who runs Kelly Studios today.

“This comes as a genuine gift to anyone who loved Pogo and, it is to be hoped, as an introduction for younger readers to what many people believe was the best comic strip ever drawn in this country.” —

“You can see the influence Pogo had on Doonesbury and Calvin & Hobbes...” —The Huffington Post

• An Eisner Award-winning series • Great gift idea • Review attention • Age range: all ages

ALSO AVAILABLE: Vol. 1: ISBN 978-1-56097-869-5 Vol. 2: ISBN 978-1-60699-584-6 Vol. 3: ISBN 978-1-60699-694-2 Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Set: ISBN 978-1-60699-629-4 39 NOVEMBER

ZEGAS By Michel Fiffe

From the creator of the cult comic book series Copra comes this surprising work of literary fiction.

Zegas details the surreal urban adventures of the recently orphaned Zegas siblings. The ambitious Emily and her moody brother, Boston, are young adults who confront their new relationship dynamic in the face of a family tragedy that never gets talked about. The world of Zegas is set in a hyper- stylized landscape, but the down-to-earth characters and their conflicts are what anchor the story. At its core, Zegas is a collection of interactions that map out Emily and Boston’s most primal concerns: survival, sex, and mortality. This is the first graphic novel for Fantagraphics by the popular creator and self-publisher of the ongoing comic book series Copra.

$19.99 Paperback Original Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary MICHEL FIFFE lives in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to his continuing work on 96 pages, full color, 8 ½” x 11 ½” Copra, he has written for and The Comics Journal. Territory: E • CQ: 18 ISBN 978-1-68396-065-2 “If Brendan McCarthy and Joost Swarte collaborated on a Love and Rockets strip, the result would be something like Zegas.” — Bleeding Cool • Review Attention • Digital ARC Available “Fiffe has crafted a gem, a comic whose every line of dialogue and ink is both refined and bursting • Author Events with enthusiasm.” — Matt Seneca

• Author website: http://michelfiffe.com/ “Fiffe’s appropriation of the visual language of the psychedelic and superheroic world serves to • Instagram: @mfiffe convey the fast movement of hyperbolic joy of life.” — • Twitter: @MichelFiffe • Age range: 15+

40 DECEMBER

THE LIE AND HOW WE TOLD IT by Tommi Parrish

An emotionally astute coming-of-age graphic novel from a remarkable new voice.

During a painful night that no one really wants to be having, a friendship in the last stages of decay creaks under the strain of a fumbling encounter between its two estranged participants, leaving them even more lonely and uncertain than before. Parrish’s first graphic novel for Fantagraphics is a visual tour de force, always in the service of the author’s ever-prevalent themes: navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships. Parrish makes emotionally loaded painted comics about everyday relationships, doubts, and anxieties. The psychological acuity in the work pairs perfectly to the graphic style. The Lie and How We Told It is a remarkably resonant work from an exciting new voice in contemporary graphic novels.

$19.99 Hardcover TOMMI PARRISH is a cartoonist, illustrator, and art editor based in Montreal, Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary QC. 90 pages, full color, 8 ¼” x 11 ½” Territory: E • CQ: 24 ISBN 978-1-68396-067-6 “There is a real complexity here, as doubt cradles the doubted at the end. So, while doubt punishes us and chips away at our confidence, it also cares for us ... or thinks it does.” —The Guardian • Review attention “With surefooted confidence, Parrish doesn’t shy away from anything, delving deeper and deeper • Digital ARC available into distressing psyches.” — The Comics Journal • Author events and festival appearances • Tumblr: http://tommipg.tumblr.com • Instagram: @tommi-pg • Age range: 17+

41 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER

2014 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE • 2013 DIAMOND GEM AWARD NOMINEE • WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 GRAPHIC NOVELS OF 2013 • #3, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY COMIC WORLD CRITICS POLL • SPIN’S 18 BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2013 • AND MUCH MORE!

“Being in an comic is cool enough to freeze hot water.” —Fab Five Freddy “This is the comic of all time.” —Biz Markie “Ed Piskor is the sh#t!!” —De La Soul “Captures the personalities, imagery and milestones with a hilarity and efficiency that no other medium could.” —Billboard Magazine “Gripping.” —NPR Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1: 1970s–1981 Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2: 1981–1983 Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 3: 1983–1984 ISBN 978-1-60699-690-4 Introduction by Charlie Ahearn ISBN 978-1-60699-848-9 “One of the defining histories of hip-hop.” ISBN 978-1-60699-756-7 —The Daily Beast “Dope, yo.” —Washington Post “The amount of research and history Piskor packs into this book is mind boggling.” –The Huffington Post “Piskor has introduced scores of music fans to comics by serializing the series for free on BoingBoing, but these stories look even better in Fantagraphics’ printed collections.” —Los Angeles Times “It’s a great story and Piskor tells it immaculately well.” —Bill Adler (co-author, Def Jam: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label) “ [Piskor] lovingly draws the origin stories of hip-hop’s legendary superheroes. Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the Russell Simmons/ Rick Rubin crossover team-up are rendered like something between The and Wild Style.” Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 4: 1984–1985 Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1-2: Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 3-4: —Rolling ISBN 978-1-60699-940-0 1975–1983 Gift Box Set 1983–1985 Gift Box Set $59.99 Two-volume hardcover $59.99 Two-volume hardcover slipcase slipcase with exclusive comic book ISBN 978-1-60699-941-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-791-8

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MUDFISH: AN HONEST WORK OF FICTION by Ed Piskor

The creator of Hip Hop Family Tree delivers a darkly comic and personal graphic novel.

Mudfish is the remarkable new graphic novel from the acclaimed creator of the best selling Hip Hop Family Tree series. But whereas HHFT takes a macro view in telling the story of an entire movement, Mudfish is a revealing biographical study of one boy, Rod Spike, set mostly during his tumultuous years of adolescence. Mudfish is several things: an unflinchingly unsentimental depiction of the confusion and anxiety brought on by adolescence; a frank depiction of growing up in a mixed race household in a predominantly African American neighborhood in Pittsburgh; a harrowing story of suffering from a long-undiagnosed disease that at times seemed certain to cut a life way too short; and a story of a young man whose burgeoning intellectual and creative curiosity makes him acutely aware of a deck stacked against him despite his determination to transcend those limitations. $22.99 Hardcover Mudfish is at turns hilarious and heartbreaking, though it never veers into Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary melodrama or sentimentality. It is one of the most brutally frank and darkly 144 pages, full color, 6” x 9” comical depictions of childhood and adolescence ever depicted in the comics Territory: E • CQ: 24 form, and certain to be one of 2017’s most acclaimed and talked about releases. ISBN 978-1-68396-069-0

• Review attention ED PISKOR lives in Pittsburgh, PA. • From the New York Times best selling author of Hop Hop Family Tree • Author events and festival “Being in an Ed Piskor comic is cool enough to freeze water.” — Fab Five Freddy appearences • Author website: http://www.edpiskor. com/ • Twitter: @EdPiskor • Instagram: @ed_piskor • Digital ARC available • Age range: 15+

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THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WALLACE WOOD VOLUME 2 Edited by and J.

The triumphs and tragedies of one of the world’s greatest cartoonists revealed by the ones who knew him best.

Who was WALLACE WOOD? The maddest artist of Mad magazine? The man who saved Marvel’s Daredevil? The self-publishing pioneer of ? The greatest artist of them all? The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2 is an oversized, visually stunning, and intimate portrait of one of the most mythic figures in American cartooning. Bursting with a cornucopia of gorgeous artwork and photos, this volume features a fascinating Rashamon- like collection of vivid remembrances by Wood’s friends, colleagues, assistants, and loved ones. $39.99 Hardcover Even as they explore the playful spirit and psychological twists of this Literary Criticism / Comics & Graphic complicated of American pop culture, they frankly discuss his Novels struggles with censorship and alcoholism and his slide into the realm of 232 pages, full color, 10” x 12” pornography. Carefully compiled over more than three decades by Wood Territory: E • CQ: 10 assistant Bhob Stewart, The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2 completes ISBN: 978-1-68396-068-3 this remarkably revealing and intimate portrait of a legendary comics creator. Contributors include , , , Paul • Great gift idea Krassner, Flo Steinberg, Tom Sutton, Bill Pearson, , and Paul • Review attention Levitz. A special tribute gallery includes artwork by Robert Crumb, Dan • Age Range: 17+ Clowes, Michael T. Gilbert, Al Feldstein, , Michael Cho, Drew • Netflix has brought Daredevil to a Friedman, and . broad new audience

WALLACE WOOD (1927–1981) is a legendary comic book creator for EC, Marvel, DC, and Tower Comics, an early key Mad magazine artist and a trailblazing underground publisher. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992. BHOB STEWART (1937–2014) was an American

Introductions by & writer, editor, cartoonist, and filmmaker who contributed to an amazing variety THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WALLACE of publications over a span of five decades. He passed away during production ALSO AVAILABLE: WOOD VOLUME 1 of this book. J. MICHAEL CATRON is a co-founder and senior editor at The Life and Legend of Fantagraphics Books. Wallace Wood Volume 1 edited by Bhob Stewart and J. Michael Catron The Life and Legend Of Wallace Wood $39.99 Hardcover, ISBN “ offers a rounded portrait of a conflicted creator. Editors 978-1-60699-815-1 Bhob Stewart and J. Michael Catron have by structuring the book as a series of essays by eminent comics scholars and talents wisely chosen to spotlight a number of different kinds of tributes to the 44 artist.” — The AV Club DECEMBER

NIGHT BUSINESS By Benjamin Marra

1983… The City… At Night…. It’s Time For Business! This is the long-awaited collection of Marra’s career-launching cult comic book series, including the never-published conclusion!

Night Business is a tale of urban intrigue, savage murder, and street justice from fan favorite Benjamin Marra (the Terror Assaulter). A knife-wielding killer is on the loose, committing extreme acts of violence on exotic dancers. Only one man has a will powerful enough to stop this psychopath: Johnny Timothy. But can Johnny mete out his vengeance before more innocent victims have to die? Born from the crucible of 1980s trash culture and exploitation entertainment and focused like a laser through the prism of Marra’s brain comes his longest graphic novel to date: a nasty brew of revenge, power, and passion, about serial $24.99 Hardcover killers, vigilante strippers, and dangerous men raining street justice upon their Comics & Graphic Novels / Crime & enemies. Mystery 240 pages, black and white, 7” x 10 ¾” Territory: E • CQ: 12 BENJAMIN MARRA lives in Toronto, Canada. ISBN 978-1-68396-070-6

• Author events “A deadpan tribute to ’80s exploitation films … it’s the first comic we’ve read in a while that begs to be turned into a straight-to-video movie starring Tom Berenger and Rae Dawn Chong.” — GQ • Review attention • Digital ARC available “Strippers, vice cops, serial killers, guidos all mix it up in pre-Giuliani New York. Like Douglas Sirk directing an Abel Ferrara .” — Sammy Harkham • Author website: http://www. benjaminmarra.com/ “New Wave Hookers meets Death Wish III.” — Drug Front Records • Instagram: @benjamin_marra “I love his stuff.” — • Twitter: @_benjaminmarra_ • Age range: 18+

ALSO AVAILABLE: Terror Assaulter $14.99 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1-60699-883-0 American Blood $19.99 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1-60699-952-3

45 DECEMBER

SPARRING WITH : COLLOQUIES ON COMIC ART AND AESTHETICS Edited by Gary Groth

Collecting a dozen interviews and conversations conducted by the legendary Silver Age artist from 1969 to 1988.

Gil Kane drew every major comic book character in his 50-year career — from Spider-Man and the Hulk to and — and conceived and drew independent “graphic novels” long before the term had any meaning to the larger public. He was also a fascinating raconteur and a formidable analyst, critic, and theorist of comics, a medium he loved. Kane was as good a talker as he was a draughtsman, infinitely curious about the comics form and just as critical of the industry itself, and would seize any opportunity to engage with other artists about the subjects he was most passionate about. Included in this collection are interviews conducted $22.99 Paperback Original by Kane with a wide array of cartoonists: newspaper strip artists Hal Foster Literary Criticism / Comics & Graphic (Prince Valiant), Walt Kelly (Pogo), and (Scorchy Smith); fellow Novels comics creators Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Everett, Denny O’Neil, Howard 272 pages, illustrated, 6” x 9” Chaykin, and ; underground cartoonists Robert Crumb and Territory: E • CQ: 12 Jack Jackson; and the literary critic Donald Phelps. ISBN 978-1-68396-071-3 These conversations range from the collegial to the contentious. On full A phenomenal survey of 20th Century display is Kane’s critical acuity, trademark wit, vast knowledge of popular cartoonists conducted by one of the culture, and a civilized eagerness to engage in opinions contrary to his own. ROBERT CUMB greats His objective was to gain insight into the medium and the artists who worked • Review attention within it. Sparring With Gil Kane is practically a Master Class on the comics form. • Of historic / academic interest to Comics scholars and students • Age range: 15+ GIL KANE (1926–2000) was a whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes and the for DC Comics, and created the independently published precursors to the graphic novel, His Name Is... Savage! and . He is in both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame. GARY GROTH is the President and co-founder of Fantagraphics Books.

WALT KELLY 46 47 INDEX

Ferraris, Andrea 28 Life and Legend of Wallace Tyler, Carol 33 A American Blood 45 Ferris, Emil 22 Wood, The 44 Any Similarities to Persons Fiffe, Michel 40 U Uncle Scrooge 12 Living or Dead 29 Fish, Mr. 9 M Marra, Benjamin 45 Unclothed Man in the 35th Arizpe, Simon 23 Fiske, Lars 7 Melendez, Bill 3 Century A.D., The 6 Forsman, Charles 34 Mickey Mouse 24-25 B Barks, Carl 12-13 Foster, Hal 8, 36-38 More Heroes of the Comics 29 V Valentine for Charlie Brown, A 5 Batter Up, Charlie Brown! 5 Fred the Clown in… “The Iron Mudfish 43 Van Sciver, Noah 11 Battle of Churubusco, The 28 Duchess” 10 My Favorite Thing is Monsters 22 Violenzia and Other Deadly Black Hole 15 Friedman, Drew 29 Amusements 2 Bloody Cardinal, The 2 Fun Never Stops, The 29 N New School 6 Bradbury, Ray 18-19 Newgarden, Mark 21 W Waiting for the Great Pumpkin 5 Buhle, Paul 11 G Gaiman, Neil 39 Night Business 45 Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge and Burns, Charles 15 Goldstein, Sophie 20 Donald Duck 26-27 Gottfredson, Fred 24-25 P Parrish, Tommi 41 Walt Disney’s Donald Duck 12-13 C Cartoon Clouds 16 Grosz 7 Peanuts 3-5, 35 Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse 24-25 Catron, J. Michael 44 Groth, Gary 46 Peanuts Every Sunday 5, 35 Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge 12-13 Celebrated Summer 34 Peppy in the Wild West 14 Wood, Wallace 44 Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking 5 H Hartley, Hal 3 Peters, Mike 39 Complete Crepax, The 30-31 Hergé 14 Piskor, Ed 42-43 Z Zahhak: The Legend of the Complete Peanuts, The 3-5 Heroes of the Comics 29 Pogo 39 Serpent King 23 Cosplayers 6 Hidden, The 2 Prince Valiant 8, 36-38 Zegas 40 Crepax, Guido 30-31 Hip Hop Family Tree 42 Crumb, Robert 1 House of Women 20 R Rahmanian, Hamid 23 How To Read Nancy 21 Reich, Robert 32 D D’Salete, Marcelo 17 Hypo, The 11 Remnant, Joseph 16 Disney, Walt 12-13, 24-27 Rosa, Don 26-27 Disquiet 11 I I Am Not Okay With This 34 Run For It 17 Doctors 6 In a Glass Grotesquely 2 Donald Duck 12-13 In Defense of Naked Women 9 S Saint Cole 11 Drew Friedman’s Chosen People 29 Sala, Richard 2 J Johnny Appleseed 11 Schulz, Charles M. 3-5, 35 E EC Comics Library, The 18-19 Shaw, Dash 6 Economics in Wonderland 32 K Kamen, Jack 18-19 Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron 5 Elkins, James 21 Kane, Gil 46 Snoopy’s Thanksgiving 5 End of the Fucking World, The 34 Karasik, Paul 21 Soldier’s Heart 33 Kelly, Walt 39 Sparring with Gil Kane 46 F Fab 4 Mania 33 Stewart, Bhob 44 Fantagraphics Studio Edition 8, 15 L Langridge, Roger 10 Fante Bukowski Two 11 Lie and How We Told It, The 41 T Terror Assaulter (O.M.W.O.T.) 45 Feldstein, Al 18-19 Life and Death of Fritz the Cat, The 1 Too Soon? 29

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