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WINTER FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS 2 017 of the World’s Greatest blisher Cartoo Pu nists SINCE 1976 “Fantagraphics can absolutely claim a critically important and enduring influence over “On November 14th, 2004, the word ‘zeitgeist’ appeared on my Learn-A-Word-A-Day the growth of literary comics. And this influence goes beyond just being a publisher of desk calendar, and I’ve been straining at the leash to use it ever since. I think I’ve thoughtful, nuanced comics work.” — Publishers Weekly found my moment.” — Dana Gould “I’m just grateful that Fantagraphics exists.” — Neil Gaiman “When the undergrounds had lost their fire, I looked in vain for new sparks. Then Fantagraphics emerged like that proverbial Phoenix or Eagle or Swallow or whatever “In general, [Fantagraphics Publisher Gary Groth] comes across as not a very nice and its anthologies, journals, and original books gave new hope to those of us guy at all. He is the epitome of the angry, arrogant faux intellectual, but inherently wandering in the wilderness. Of course, to my surprise graphic novels are now a major classless fanboy stereotype. He prefers to denounce his many enemies with invective, industry – so many books so little time. But I always make time for the Fantagraphics cheap shots, and slander.” — Comment Posting, Aintitcool.com productions. They are the chronicler of a vintage age of comics and the beacon, too.” — Steven Heller, New York Times “25 years ago, when Booklist first began covering graphic novels, getting review copies from publishers was like pulling teeth. Fantagraphics was the first comics publisher to “They may be a little more amusing, but they’re a client like any of my other clients. enthusiastically cooperate with us, enabling Booklist to draw attention to the work of They have issues and I try to deal with them.” — Our lawyer the Hernandez Brothers, Dan Clowes, and Peter Bagge long before the mainstream media began to take notice.” — Gordon Flagg, Booklist “A book ought to be idiosyncratic and reflect a distinctive personality. And piss off all the right people.” — Gary Groth “Their nurturing of certain cartoonists, like Dan Clowes and the Hernandez Brothers, helped me appreciate those cartoonists.” — Art Spiegelman FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS, INC. Find us online on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Flickr, Goodreads, etc. WWW.FANTAGRAPHICS.COM JANUARY FOUR COLOR FEAR: FORGOTTEN HORROR COMICS OF THE 1950S Edited by Greg Sadowski BACK IN STOCK! IT WASN’T JUST EC, SEE? Originally released in two printings in the Fall of 2010 and Spring of 2011, each of which immediately sold out, Four Color Fear has routinely been our most demanded backlist title for more than five years now, and we’ve listened! Of the myriad genres comic books ventured into during its golden age, none was as controversial as or came at a greater cost than horror; the public outrage it incited almost destroyed the entire industry. Yet, before the watchdog groups and Congress could intercede, during its peak period (1951–54), over fifty titles appeared each month. Apparently, there was something perversely irresistible about these graphic excursions into our dark side, and Four Color Fear collects the finest of these into a single robust and affordable volume. $29.99 Paperback EC is the comic book company most fans associate with horror, but there Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror remains a treasure trove of genuinely disturbing, compulsive, imaginative, at 320 pages, full-color, 7 ½” x 10 ½” times even touching, horror stories presented from a variety of visions and Territory: E • CQ: 18 perspectives. All of the better horror companies are represented, from Ace ISBN 978-1-60699-343-9 to Ziff-Davis. So is a Hall of Fame line-up of comics artists, including L.B. Cole, Jack Cole, Reed Crandall, George Evans, Frank Frazetta, Jack Katz, Al • Our most demanded reprint of the past Williamson, Basil Wolverton, and Wallace Wood. decade Editor Greg Sadowski has sifted through hundreds of rare books to cherry- • Featuring a Who’s Who of Golden Age pick the most compelling scripts and art, and provides extensive background comics talent notes. Digital restoration has been performed with subtlety and restraint, • Great gift idea for horror fans mainly to correct registration and printing errors, with every effort made • Digital ARC to retain the flavor of the original comics, and to provide the reader the • Age range: 15+ experience of finding in the attic a bound volume of the finest examples of the pre-Code era. GREG SADOWSKI is a comics editor and historian living on Orcas Island in Washington’s Puget Sound. “EC is often at the center of the story [of Pre-Code horror comics]... Four Color Fear strives to provide an accessible sampler of everything else. Editor Greg Sadowski is adept at such missions.” — The Los Angeles Review of Books 1 In 2012, Fantagraphics Books began repackaging the esteemed EC Comics of the 1950s in a series of handsome hardcovers devoted to specific artists and writers, pairing two of THE COMICS LIBRARY the most storied publishers in comics history and introducing the timeless work of EC to contemporary readers. Corpse on the Imjin! Came the Dawn 50 Girls 50 ‘Tain’t the Meat... Fall Guy for Murder Sucker Bait Child of Tomorrow Judgment Day and Other Stories and Other Stories and Other Stories It’s the Humanity and Other Stories and Other Stories and Other Stories and Other Stories Classic war stories from All 26 crime and suspense Every Al Williamson and Other Stories Johnny Craig’s crime 25 classic horror stories Al Feldstein’s solo sci- 23 EC sci-fi classics Two-Fisted Tales and shockers created by science-fiction story from Every Jack Davis horror and horror stories from by Graham Ingels, Al fi classics from Weird illustrated by Joe Orlando Frontline Combat, written Wallace Wood for EC Weird Science and Weird story from Tales From Crime SuspenStories and Feldstein, and others. Science and Weird Fantasy and written by Al Feldstein by Harvey Kurtzman ISBN 978-1-60699-546-4 Science-Fantasy the Crypt The Vault of Horror ISBN 978-1-60699-827-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-659-1 and Ray Bradbury ISBN 978-1-60699-545-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-577-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-578-5 ISBN 978-1-60699-658-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-727-7 Bomb Run Zero Hour Aces High Spawn of Mars Grave Business and Forty Whacks The High Cost of Dying The Living Mummy and Other Stories and Other Stories All of George Evans’s and Other Stories Other Stories and Other Stories and Other Stories and Other Stories 34 taut, gritty war stories 22 EC science-fiction aviation war stories Over two dozen of A collection of grisly, A collection of hard-boiled Classic crime, horror and Over 30 classic horror by John Severin with Will classics illustrated by from EC’s Aces High Wally Wood’s best EC shocking horror stories crime and horror drawn by sci-fi from Reed Crandall stories by Jack Davis and Elder, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kamen ISBN 978-1-60699-784-0 science-fiction stories illustrated by Graham Jack Kamen and written by and Al Feldstein. Al Fedlstein. and others. ISBN 978-1-60699-704-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-805-2 Ingels. Al Feldstein. ISBN 978-1-60699-908-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-929-5 ISBN 978-1-60699-749-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-827-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-862-5 JANUARY LAST LAUGH AND OTHER STORIES by Will Elder and Al Feldstein with Ray Bradbury OUTRAGEOUS SATIRE, CLASSIC SCI-FI, AND HORROR! With his obsessive attention to detail and his larger-than-life personality, Will Elder set the standard for precise rendering and abundant sight gags at EC Comics. (“Unquestionably the nuttiest guy that ever walked in the doors here.” — EC publisher William M. Gaines.) This collection includes all 15 of Elder’s Panic stories (EC’s in-house attempt to duplicate MAD), all seven of his science fiction tales (including two Ray Bradbury adaptations in collaboration with John Severin) and more. Elder lends his pen to dead-on satires of “The Night Before Christmas” — which got the first issue of Panic banned in the entire state of Massachusetts — and a variety of popular comic strips, including Li’l Abner and Dick Tracy. Showing his serious side, the team of Severin and Elder adapts two Ray Bradbury stories — “King of the Grey Spaces!” and the classic “The Million-Year Picnic” — along with five other solo Elder tales in the classic EC tradition from the pages of Weird Science $29.99 Hardcover and Weird Fantasy. This volume also includes a special Elder horror story that Comics & Graphics Novels / Horror hasn’t been since its original publication more than 60 years ago. Like every 216 pages, black-and-white, 7 ¼” x 10 ¼” book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists’ Library, Last Laugh And Other Stories Territory: E • CQ: 16 also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic ISBN: 978-1-60699-982-0 stories. • Our New York Times best-selling series collecting the classic EC Comics WILL ELDER (1926–2001), worked for 26 years with Harvey Kurtzman on Little Annie Fanny for Playboy. Known both for his prankish personality and the • Great gift idea fanatic attention to detail he lavished upon his artwork, Elder was instrumental • Perfect for sci-fi and horror fans in the early success of Mad and was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book • Review attention Hall Of Fame in 2003. • Age Range: 11+ ALBERT B. FELDSTEIN (1928–2014) was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall Of Fame in 2003 and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Horror Writers Association in 2011.