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THE RETURN OF SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS by NOT FINAL COVER NOT The Evil Queen seeks her revenge against Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs! © 2017 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2017 © To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantagraphics Books presents, for the first time, a very special collection of the princess’s adventures, never before available in English — and all drawn by the grandmaster of Italian , Romano Scarpa. After the events of the movie, Prince Charming leaves Snow White in the care of the Seven Dwarfs while he leaves for an expedition with the king. But the Evil Queen is back, and she traps Snow White and the dwarfs in the form of statuettes, awaiting the return of the Prince — and her chance to kill him in front of his one true love! Then, the Dwarfs build a special diamond throne for the Princess, but when it vanishes, they set out to find the thief — even as the Queen prepares a $19.99 Paperback Original special orchid for Snow White to steal away her youth and beauty. Jiminy Comic & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In Cricket makes a special guest appearance. 160 pages, full color, 8” x 11 ½” Also: what is the secret of the eighth dwarf — and why are the Dwarfs Territory: X • CQ: 10 turning on each other and destroying their little cottage in the wood? ISBN 978-1-68396-075-1 Disney’s The Return of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a wonderful, engaging treat that will be enjoyed by any Disney fan, young or otherwise, • Disney is celebrating Snow White’s superbly illustrated in the classic Disney style. 80th anniversary throughout 2017 • Disney Princess is one of Disney’s most popular product lines, yet this is ROMANO SCARPA (1927–2005) is considered by many to be the one of the few comic collections in grandmaster of Italian Disney comics. Trained as a fine artist and an the category architect, he left his own animation studio in 1953 to draw original comics • A single, “done-in-one” omnibus of stories for the Italian Disney magazine . He is most famous work, making it a great gift idea for for his stories starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Snow White. kids and Disneyana fans alike. None of his Snow White stories have ever before appeared in English. • Age range: 5+

1 NOW AVAILABLE!

NOW #1 Edited by Eric Reynolds

A new, ongoing showcase of the world’s best contemporary comics talent.

We live in a golden age of quality comic art and stories. Graphic novels have never been more popular. But where to start? Now is an affordable and ongoing anthology of new comics that appeals both to the comics-curious as well as the serious aficionado. In the age of long-form graphic novels, Now is a platform for short fiction, experimentation, and for showcasing diversity in the comics field. Fantagraphics is proud to launch this showcase of all-new short comics fiction with a lineup of established and up-and-coming talent from around the globe. The first issue includes new work from acclaimed creators such as Eleanor Davis (How to Be Happy), Noah Van Sciver (Fante Bukowski), Gabrielle Bell (Lucky), Dash Shaw (Cosplayers), Sammy Harkham (Crickets), and Malachi Ward (Ancestor), as well as international stars such as J.C. Menu, $9.99 Paperback Original Conxita Herrerro, Tobias Schalken, and Antoine Cossé. Plus, strips from Comics & Graphic Novels / rising stars Tommi Parrish, Sara Corbett, Daria Tessler, and newcomer Kaela Anthologies Graham, as well as a gorgeous painted cover by artist Rebecca Morgan. With 128 pages, full color, 7 ¼” x 10 ⅛” a frequency of three times a year, Now is the brainchild of Fantagraphics Territory: E • CQ: 50 Associate Publisher Eric Reynolds, who previously edited 22 volumes of the ISBN 978-1-68396-052-2 fondly remembered anthology from 2005–2011.

• Low price point with focus on short stories make every issue an easy entry ERIC REYNOLDS is the Associate Publisher of Fantagraphics Books and lives point in Seattle, WA. • Ongoing series: 3x year • Featuring a diverse mix of emerging and established talent • Author events • Review attention • Digital ARC • Age range: 16+

2 JANUARY

TRUMP’S A B C By Ann Telnaes

A classy book with all the best words. Amazing. Tremendous. . A board book for haters and losers. Believe us.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning political Ann Telnaes has over the last 20 years skewered injustice, inequality, sham, hypocrisy, racism, misogyny, and corruption with her incendiary combination of elegance, wit, and moral suasion. Indeed, from the Clinton years on, no administration has been spared her fierce pen line and fiery indignation. $14.99 Hardcover One Clinton, two Bushes, and an Obama were mere warm-ups for a 32 pages, Black-and-white, Board Book, President who is truly worthy of her excoriating satirical skills. The election of 7” x 7” Donald Trump has inspired Telnaes to create a fitting response, her first original Humor / Comic Strips & Cartoons book — Trump’s A B C, a children’s board book for adults that chronicles the Territory: E • CQ: 24 high points (or low points, if there’s a difference) of Donald Trump’s first six ISBN 978-1-68396-078-2 months in office. Written in a sing-songy rhyme and drawn in her beguilingly impeccable ink line, each page is a miniature critique and exposé of Donald • An original book from a Pulitzer Prize- Trump and his janissaries, poltroons, and dissemblers, illustrating his public winning editorial cartoonist policies, his personal defects, his ethical dysfunction, and the consequences • Review attention of his Presidency on the lives of Americans — in a format that is cleverly • Author events designed to reflect the commander-in-chief’s attention span and mental level. • Great gift idea • Age range: 16+ ANN TELNAES is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist who lives in Washington, D.C. Her work appears regularly in The Washington Post, The Globe, The Times, Newsday, and many other papers.

“After more than a decade of daily cartooning, national syndication, the Pulitzer, and a crowd of other awards, her outrage is undiluted, and illuminates all her drawings with power, cogency, and moral force.” — Ben Sargent

“Proceed with caution…the intelligence, wit and insight of her work, delivered through stunning art could very well bring about enlightenment along with great entertainment. You’ve been warned.” — Wiley Miller (Non Sequitur)

3 THE COMPLETE LIBRARY

Jaime and celebrate 35 years of Love and Rockets in 2018. This towering and beloved body of work remains a must-have for any discerning comics lover, and this comprehensive trade paperback series is the place to start.

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MAGGIE THE MECHANIC HEARTBREAK SOUP THE GIRL FROM H.O.P.P.E.R.S. HUMAN DIASTROPHISM PERLA LA LOCA BEYOND $14.95 | ISBN 978-1-56097-784-1 $14.95 | ISBN 978-1-56097-783-4 $14.95 | ISBN 978-1-56097-851-0 $14.95 | ISBN 978-1-56097-848-0 $16.95 | ISBN 978-1-56097-883-1 $16.95 | ISBN 978-1-56097-882-4 The ground zero stories of The first half of Gilbert’s Centered on “The Death of Palomar’s idyll is broken by Jaime drops a narrative Collects two acclaimed spunky Maggie, her brash acclaimed magical-realist Speedy,” one of L&R’s peaks, a serial killer, the modern bomb on Hopey (and us) graphic novels: “Poison best friend and sometimes tales of Palomar, the Central with wrestling and world’s intrusions, and a in “Wigwam Bam”; Maggie River” (Luba’s life story) lover Hopey, and their American hamlet, and its the love triangle of Maggie, shocking death. contends with her inner and “Love and Rockets X” friends. memorable inhabitants. Hopey, and Ray Dominguez. demons and... marriage? (an Altman-esque story set in L.A.).

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AMOR Y COHETES PENNY CENTURY ESPERANZA LUBA AND HER FAMILY OFELIA COMICS DEMENTIA $16.99 | ISBN 978-1-56097-926-5 $18.99 | ISBN 978-1-60699-342-2 $18.99 | ISBN 978-1-60699-449-8 $18.99 | ISBN 978-1-60699-753-6 $18.99 | ISBN 978-1-60699-806-9 $19.99 | ISBN 978-1-60699-907-3 All of the stand-alone, non- In “Whoa, Nellie!,” Maggie An older and wiser Maggie After leaving Palomar, The sisters, the kids, and Comics Dementia collects un- “Locas” and non-“Palomar” settles in with her pro- faces down her demons, Luba and her clan move to the cousins are all settled expected treasures, oddities, stories from the original Love wrestler aunt for a while, Hopey becomes a teacher, America, where they become comfortably in and rarities from outposts of & Rockets series (1982–1996). then it’s back to chills and and Ray tussles with the more and more intertwined after leaving Palomar in Luba the Love and Rockets galaxy, spills with the old gang. volatile Vivian. with Luba’s sisters and Her Family. by one of Earth’s greatest (bodybuilder Petra and living , Gilbert therapist/film star Fritz) and Hernandez. their families. Plus: Venus! JANUARY

ANGELS AND MAGPIES: THE LOVE AND ROCKETS LIBRARY VOL. 13 by

Love throughout the ages in Hernandez’s latest collection.

The sublime, the superpowered, and the senior citizen converge inAngels and Magpies, which collects the Gods and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls and Love Bunglers storylines from the Love and Rockets: New Stories series, as well as Hernandez’s 2006 serial for . In the latter, Maggie pays a visit to Queen Rena, who is living out her twilight days on an island after a lifetime as a wrestler and an adventuress. In the Ti-Girls segment, superheroics get a screwball spin when Angel of Tarzana and Maggie square off against Dark Penny Century. In “Love Bunglers,” held as perhaps Hernandez’s $19.99 Paperback Original greatest masterpiece in his thirty-year career, and one of the great graphic Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary novels of all time (the story won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the 260 pages, black and white, 7 ½” x 9 ¼” category and was hailed by Slate and Publishers Weekly as one of Territory: E • CQ: 20 the best stories of the year), the past and present converge as Maggie and Ray’s ISBN 978-1-68396-090-4 reunion is threatened by long-buried family secrets.

• Digital ARC • Author events and festival appearances JAIME HERNANDEZ has been co-creating Love and Rockets since 1981. He • 2017 marks the 35th anniversary of Love lives in Alta Dena, CA. and Rockets! • Age Range: 16+ “I don’t really understand why the material of Love and Rockets isn’t widely regarded as one of the finest pieces of fiction of the last 35 years. Because it is.” —

“Since 1981, with pitch-perfect dialogue and impeccable draftsmanship, Hernandez has conveyed more entertaining (and poignant) drama than just about any contemporary filmmaker or novelist. There’s a word for what this guy is doing with his life’s work — can someone give him a MacArthur grant and make it official?” — Village Voice

“Jaime Hernandez keeps hitting home runs. It’s almost like he doesn’t know how to stop… It’s that good, heartbreaking, and breathtaking in even measure. It’s just about perfect, and you can put that on the book flap.” — The A.V. Club

See opposite page for more volumes in the complete Love and Rockets library.

5 Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories Classic war stories from Two-Fisted Tales and , written by Harvey THE COMICS LIBRARY Kurtzman 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 the esteemed EC Comics of the 1950s in a series 50 Girls 50 and Other Stories of handsome hardcovers devoted to specific artists and writers, pairing two of the most storied Every science-fiction story from Weird Science and Weird Science-Fantasy ISBN 978-1-60699-577-8 publishers in comics history and introducing the timeless work of EC to contemporary readers. ‘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 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 , , 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 Aces High 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 ’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 Daddy Lost His Head And Other Stories Featuring over two dozen classic EC horror tales from the pen of Jack Kamen. ISBN 978-1-698396-050-8 JANUARY

MASTER RACE AND OTHER STORIES By Bernard Krigstein and Al Feldstein with Ray Bradbury

32 EC classics by a master designer and storyteller.

Bernard Krigstein is widely hailed as a virtuoso of graphic invention and psychological acuity in comics. His earned his reputation at EC Comics, and this volume collects most of that work, including his two most highly regarded stories: “Master Race” and “The Flying Machine” (the latter is based on a gem by Ray Bradbury). “Master Race” was a breakthrough story for Krigstein and EC in both subject matter — a former Nazi concentration camp officer realizes a former inmate has recognized him as they ride together in a New York City subway car — and Krigstein’s delineation, pacing, and depiction of time, motion, and rising tension. Others include: “Slave Ship,” an unpublished science fiction tale that was only discovered in the decades following EC’s demise; “The Monster From The Fourth Dimension,” a rarely seen horror/science fiction shocker; and $29.99 Hardcover other Krigstein crime, horror, war, and science fiction stories from the full Tales From the Crypt, Crime SuspenStories, Shock Comics & Graphic Novels / Crime gamut of EC titles, including SuspenStories, Aces High Incredible Science Fiction 232 pages, black and white, 7 ¼” x 10 ¼” , and . Like every book in the Master Race and Other Stories Territory: E • CQ: 12 Fantagraphics EC Artists’ Library, also features ISBN: 978-1-68396-094-2 essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces.

• Our New York Times best-selling series collecting the classic EC Comics BERNARD KRIGSTEIN (1919–1990) was trained as a classical painter, but • Great gift idea early on he recognized the artistic potential of the comics medium. He was • Review attention inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003. • Instagram: @ec_comics • Age Range: 11+ ALBERT B. FELDSTEIN (1928–2014) was an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work, from 1956 to 1984, as editor of Mad magazine. He 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.

7 ALSO AVAILABLE FROM JASON Since 2001, Norwegian-born Jason has been entertaining American readers with his beautifully sparse style, dry wit, and often-silent stories. The 2002 winner for “Best New Talent” has gone on to win multiple Eisner and Ignatz Awards and become one of the medium’s most beloved creators.

Hey, Wait... Sshhhh! Why Are You Doing This? The Left Bank Gang Athos in America $12.95 Paperback, $16.99 Paperback, $12.95 Paperback, $12.95 Paperback, $24.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-56097-463-5 ISBN 978-1-56097-497-0 ISBN 978-1-56097-655-4 ISBN 978-1-56097-742-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-478-8

If You Steal I Killed Adolf Hitler Lost Cat On the Camino $29.99 Hardcover $16.99 Hardcover $19.99 Hardcover $24.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-854-0 ISBN 978-1-68396-008-9 ISBN 978-1-68396-009-6 ISBN 978-1-68396-021-8 JANUARY

TWO COLLECTIONS, CONTAINING SEVEN JASON CLASSICS, BACK IN PRINT!

WHAT I DID What I Did collects three of Jason’s acclaimed 1990s graphic novels into a handsome, definitive omnibus format. Hey, Wait..., which was the first of Jason’s books to be translated to English, tells the story of two childhood friends. A dreadful event midway through the story changes their lives forever, and the story becomes the summary of lives lived, wasted, and lost. Sshhhh! is one of Jason’s virtuoso silent performances, the cradle-to-grave life of one of his bird-headed characters, containing a wealth of emotion and human complexity, leavened with a wicked wit. Rounding out the book is The Iron Wagon, an ingenious murder mystery set in early-20th-century , adapted from a classic Norwegian novel by Stein Riverton. ALMOST SILENT Almost Silent packages four classic, mostly pantomime Jason graphic novels into one compact, hardcover omnibus collection. “You Can’t Get There from Here,” the longest $24.99 Hardcover $24.99 Hardcover story of the book, tells the tale of a love triangle involving Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary Monster, and The Monster’s Bride. Tell Me Something is a brisk, near-silent graphic 272 pages, black and white with spot 304 pages, black and white with spot novelette about love lost and found again, told with a tricky mixture of forward- and color, 6 ¼” x 8 ½” color, 6 ¼” x 8 ½” back-flashing narrative. Meow, Baby is a collection of short stories and gags, and finally, Territory: E • CQ: 16 Territory: E • CQ: 16 The Living and the Dead is a hilariously deadpan take on the traditional Romero-style ISBN 978-1-60699-414-6 ISBN 978-1-60699-315-6 zombie thriller. • Age Range: 15+ • Age Range: 12+ “When I read Jason for the first time, I was just as excited and devastated as the first time I read the poems of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Jason’s work is poetry.” — Sherman Alexie

“One of the medium’s finest storytellers.” — Publishers Weekly

9 JANUARY

NOW #2 Edited by Eric Reynolds

A new, ongoing showcase of the world’s best contemporary comics talent.

The second issue of Now (see page 2 for the first issue) showcases a cover by digital artist Robert Beatty, as well as more than 100 pages of all new short fiction by a host of established and upcoming talent, including: Canadian artist and musician Nick Thorburn (of the bands Unicorns and Islands); Spanish cartoonist Roberta Scomparsa, making her English language debut; Crickets cartoonist Sammy Harkham; Dutch cartoonist Tobias Schalken; Los Angeles graphic novelist Graham Chaffee (Good Dog, To Have and To Hold); plus several other surprises to be announced. Now is not just a collection of new comics, it’s a showcase of the diversity of talent in today’s golden age of cartooning.

ERIC REYNOLDS is the Associate Publisher of Fantagraphics Books and lives $9.99 Paperback Original in Seattle, WA. Comics & Graphic Novels / Anthologies 128 pages, full color, 7 ¼” x 10 ⅛” Territory: E • CQ: 50 ISBN 978-1-68396-076-8

• Low price point with focus on short stories make every issue an easy entry point • Ongoing series: 3x year • Featuring a diverse mix of emerging and established talent • Author events • Review attention • Digital ARC • Age range: 16+

10 FEBRUARY

BLAZING COMBAT By and various artists

A new, expanded edition of a legendary anti-war classic.

Blazing Combat is the controversial comic book from the Vietnam War era. Its legend and influence has only grown throughout the years — and has far outlasted the people who tried to suppress it. Enshrined in the annals of comics history as a hard-hitting series produced by some of the top talents of the 20th century, it was excoriated for daring to present a politically incorrect point of view at a time before the anti-war movement had gained any traction. For being ahead of its time, it was yanked from the newsstands. The stories in Blazing Combat are among the best comics stories about war ever published. Written and edited by comic book Hall of Famer Archie Goodwin, Blazing Combat was drawn by fellow comic book Hall of Famers Frazetta, Wallace Wood, John Severin, , Al Williamson, Russ $29.99 Hardcover Heath, Reed Crandall, and . Building on the tradition of & Graphic Novels / Historical Kurtzman’s much-lauded EC titles, Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, Fiction Goodwin’s stories offer striking personal insights into the minds and emotions 228 pages, black and white with color, of individual soldiers and civilians. Covering wars from ancient times through 8” x 10” Vietnam, Blazing Combat, unlike much of the popular media of the time, Territory: E • CQ: 10 underscored the very madness of war itself in starkly personal terms. ISBN 978-1-68396-084-3 Blazing Combat’s brief shining moment ended when certain wholesalers perceived a lack of patriotism over the Vietnam War story entitled “Landscape” • Digital ARC (PDF) — which follows the thoughts of a Vietnamese rice farmer who pays the • Great gift idea ultimate price for simply living where he does — which was considered anti- • Back in print after a several-year war agit-prop by the more hawkish members of the business community. absence In addition to collecting all four issues, this new expanded edition is • Age range: 14+ rounded out with exclusive interviews about the series with Goodwin and publisher James Warren and a cover gallery featuring all of Frazetta’s painted covers for the series. “A high-water mark of the war-comics genre.” — Booklist

“This republication of the four-issue Warren war ARCHIE GOODWIN (1937-1998) was an writer who magazine features work that you can’t easily buy was also widely regarded by his peers as the “best-loved comic book editor, ever.” anywhere else, is historically significant, and He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1998. offers its buyers a lot of very good comics… Simply a handsome, well-presented selection.” — The Comics Reporter

11 FEBRUARY

COMPULSIVE COMICS By Eric Haven

An absurdist take on familiar comic book genres.

Compulsive Comics collects the very best Eric Haven’s singular brand of inverted-comic book-consciousness and genre-bending short stories. Haven’s comics, at first glance, look like standard genre fiction, but upon closer reflection become as disorienting as a house of mirrors, as layers are peeled back and worlds behind worlds are revealed. Haven undermines the expectations of familiar comic book genres, whether science fiction, western, fantasy, or even autobiography. “The Glacier” is about a lone scientist making a startling discovery in the ice, though quickly becomes a meditation on man’s insignificance in the universe. “Mammology” begins as a wordless comic about the dinosaurs before catapulting forward to the author’s present day apartment, where a secret, ancient war between reptiles and mammals is revealed. The volume’s most controversial story, “I Killed Dan Clowes” is an epic $19.99 Paperback Original conflation of autobio and fantasy.While driving around Oakland, ruminating Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy on the history of underground comics in the Bay Area, the main character 124 pages, black and white with color, fatally hits acclaimed graphic novelist . After convincing his 6” x 9” partner to help him hide the body, he immediately goes on to accidentally kill Territory: E • CQ: 32 another fan favorite, . The two spirits meet in the afterlife and, ISBN 978-1-68396-085-0 because God likes their comics, are able to return to Earth to exact revenge. Haven’s surrealist, self-reflexive, and superbly rendered comics surprise at • Digital ARC (PDF) every turn and showcase an inherent joy for the comics medium. • Author events • Review attention • Age range: 16+ ERIC HAVEN lives in Oakland, CA, with his wife Diana and two baffling house cats. He has moonlighted as a three-time Emmy-nominated producer of the TV show MythBusters and a contributor to The Believer and . ALSO AVAILABLE: Vague Tales “Science fiction, conspiracy theory and horror provide a thin veil against which Haven shows us $16.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-68396-032-4 our world through new eyes. Occasionally, a third eye is used.” — The Daily Crosshatch

“Eric Haven’s anthology of short comics is crammed with wit, weirdness, and a ballsy attitude to the medium and its recurrent themes.” — Grovel

12 FEBRUARY

GODHEAD By Ho Che Anderson

The author of King is back with a remarkably timely work of anti-corporate sci-fi.

Godhead’s cinematic opening scene introduces us to a righteous kidnapper verbally whipsawing the bound CEO of a multinational corporation in an abandoned factory. It only accelerates from there, ricocheting from the streets of a working-class African-American community to the glimmering halls of corporate America to a mobile scientific laboratory located in the Pacific Ocean. A sprawling contemporary with a science-fiction edge, Godhead explores the collision course between science and religion when a corporation creates a device that can talk to God. Is this humanity’s salvation or the equivalent of a Doomsday machine? Godhead is Ho Che Anderson’s most conceptually and thematically $24.99 Paperback Original ambitious graphic novel to date, his first in over ten years.Visually, he employs Comics & Graphic Novels / Science a variety of drawing techniques from tonal images to stark black and white Fiction to full color painting, in order to convey a thriller that ranges from intimate 192 pages, black and white and color, domestic drama to globalist corporate intrigue. 8” x 10” Territory: E • CQ: 14 ISBN 978-1-68396-080-5 HO CHE ANDERSON lives in Toronto, ON.

• Review attention • Digital ARC (PDF) • Author events • Age range: 16+

13 FEBRUARY

WHY ART? by Eleanor Davis

Acclaimed artist Eleanor Davis expands our understanding of what art is and can be in this graphic novel treatise.

What is “Art”? It’s widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the concept falls under such an absurdly large umbrella and can manifest in so many different ways. Art can be self indulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil, or expressive, or any number of other things. But how can it truly make lasting, positive change? In Why Art?, acclaimed graphic novelist Eleanor Davis (How To Be Happy) unpacks some of these concepts in ways both critical and positive, in an attempt to illuminate the highest possible potential an artwork might hope to achieve. A work of art unto itself, Davis leavens her exploration with a sense of humor and a thirst for challenging preconceptions of art worthy of Magritte, instantly drawing the reader in as a $14.99 Paperback Original willing accomplice in her quest. Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary 200 pages, black and white with spot color, 5 ½” x 6 ¾” Territory: E • CQ: 16 ELEANOR DAVIS lives in Athens, GA, with her husband and fellow cartoonist, ISBN 978-1-68396-082-9 Drew Weing.

• Review attention “Imaginative and funny and fanciful, but it’s also very thoroughly worked out. She’s not afraid to be • Digital ARC (PDF) clear.” — Françoise Mouly • From the best selling author of How To Be Happy “I challenge anyone not to want to live in the world Eleanor creates.” — It’s Nice That • Scholarly appeal “Eleanor Davis’s comics have a visual narrative that’s as smooth as butter...” — Kirkus Reviews • Age range: 14+ “A major cartooning talent.” —

ALSO AVAILABLE: How To Be Happy $24.99 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-60699-740-6

14 FEBRUARY

TOTAL JAZZ By Blutch

Blutch riffs on two quintessentially American art forms in this collection of jazz-themed comics.

In this freewheeling collection of short stories and vignettes, the famed French cartoonist examines not only the music, but the nature of the jazz subculture. The grumpy festival goer, the curmudgeonly collector, and many other fan “types” are the targets of his unerring gimlet eye. Drawn in a range of styles as improvisational as Coltrane and Mingus — everything from loose linework to tight pen and ink to gestural pencils — Blutch captures the excitement of live performance, the lovelorn, and the Great Jazz Detective, who is out but not down.

Christian Hincker, better known by his pseudonym BLUTCH, is a French cartoonist who has been a prominent figure in European comics since the late $19.99 Hardcover 1980s. Known for his scratchy pen-and-pencil drawings and masterful storytell- Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary ing, Blutch won the Grand Prix at Angoulême in 2009, and was the president of 96 pages, black and white, 8” x 10 ⅜” the 2010 Angoulême International Comics Festival. Territory: E • CQ: 28 ISBN 978-1-68396-086-7 “Blutch’s work has tremendously inspired myself and an endless line of cartoonists, humbled by the virtuosity of his lush brushwork. It’s long overdue for his books to be translated into English.” • Review attention — Craig Thompson (Blankets) • Digital ARC (PDF) • One of ’s most esteemed comic authors • Age range: 16+

15 MARCH

FLAYED CORPSE AND OTHER STORIES By Josh Simmons

A terrifying and dizzying anthology of

Acclaimed graphic novelist and master of modern horror Josh Simmons (Black River) returns with a harrowing and genre-bending collection of short stories. Simmons’s disturbing and often provocative stories work as straight examples of the form as well as blackly humorous, satirical riffs on a genre. His uncompromising commitment to exploring the intersection of abomination and hilarity is admirable, and Flayed Corpse and Other Stories contains more than two dozen of examples of Simmons’s deft voice and vision. The individual stories in Flayed Corpse stand on their own as mini- masterpieces, but collectively complement each other in a way that only heightens the anxiety and dread pouring from page to page. Flayed Corpse $24.99 Hardcover also collects several collaborations between Simmons and other cartoonists, Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror including James Romberger, Anders Nilsen, Tara Booth, Eroyn Franklin, Tom 180 pages, color and black and white, Van Deusen, and Eric Reynolds, amongst others. 8” x 10” Territory: E • CQ: 22 978-1-68396-081-2 JOSH SIMMONS lives in Portland, OR.

• Digital ARC “Nihilistic, apocalyptic fiction seems a dime a dozen in today’s landscape, but Simmons manages • Author events and festival appearances to shock most jaded readers by giving you the sense that anything horrible can and will happen.” • Review attention — Mental Floss • Age range: 18+ “Simmons is no stranger to creating atmospheric horror, using dense black-and-white linework…

ALSO AVAILABLE: setting a scene better than any horror movie could.” — Publishers Weekly Jessica Farm Vol. 1 The Miami Herald $16.99 Paperback Original “Simmons is a grimly witty take-no-prisoners storyteller.” — ISBN 978-1-60699-923-3 Jessica Farm Vol. 2 $16.99 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-60699-924-0 Black River $18.99 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-60699-833-5 The Furry Trap $24.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-536-5 16 MARCH

MUDBITE By

After a several year sabbatical from comics, Dave Cooper returns with an all-new graphic novel!

Eddy Table, the star of Mudbite, first appeared the early ’90s in Cooper’s award-winning underground comics series, Weasel. His stories were based on baffling dreams and reveled in a unique sort of logical nonsense. Mudbite compiles two all-new Eddy Table stories, “Mud River” and “Bug Bite,” in which Eddy returns to his roots, acting as Dave’s alter ego in these dreamlike narratives. In “Mud River,” Eddy makes a foolish mistake, causing a sweet, innocent Amazon to bonk her head, turning her into a $19.99 Hardcover very impressionable automaton. Of course, Eddy can’t resist taking advantage of this unexpected development, even as a Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy river of mud approaches. In “Bug Bite,” Eddy has brought his family on a vacation to Europe, but he’s soon distracted by 72 pages, full color, 10” x 6” a series of manifestations of his own obsessions ­— voluptuous women, mysterious and collectible “microdevices,” and a Territory: E • CQ: 18 strange, impromptu jam session. When he loses his family entirely, he’s led into a dark, slimy corridor inhabited by shiny ISBN 978-1-68396-087-4 black eels. What is their connection to the microdevices? And how will all this his family? Mudbite marks the first new graphic novel by fan favorite Dave Cooper in more than 15 years, marking a welcome • Digital ARC (PDF) return to the medium that he made his name in before focusing on fine art and television, where he has focused most of • The first new book in years from a fan his creative energy since. favorite • Age range: 16+ DAVE COOPER lives in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the co-creator (along with ) of the Nickelodeon animated series, Pig Goat Banana Cricket.

“Whenever Dave Cooper publishes a new book, I would be surprised if 90 percent of the other artists working in the comics field aren’t embarrassed and intimidated by his imagination, originality, and drawing ability.” —

“Dave Cooper: Canadian. Artist. Perverse, naive, crepuscular and obsessively texture-driven. Brilliant.” — Guillermo Del Toro

ALSO AVAILABLE: Ripple: A Predilection for Tina $24.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-68396-026-3

17 MARCH

BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON By Dash Shaw

A 10th anniversary re-release of one of the great graphic novels of the 2000s.

Dash Shaw’s artistic profile has never been higher, with the release of an acclaimed feature film in 2017 (My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea) and yet another acclaimed graphic novel (Cosplayers) to add to an already impressive body of work. And now, 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the book that started it all: Bottomless Belly Button, which vaulted Shaw into the first ranks of contemporary comics makers when released in 2008. Bottomless Belly Button is a comedy-drama that follows the dysfunctional adventures of the Loony Family. After 40-some years of marriage, Maggie and David Loony shock their children with their announcement of a planned divorce, sparking a week long family reunion at the family’s possibly haunted beach house. The eldest child, Dennis, struggles with his parents’ decision while facing relationship issues of his own, and embarks on a quest to discover $29.99 Paperback the truth and searches through clues, trap doors, and secret tunnels in an Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary attempt to find an answer. In a six-day period rich with atmospheric sequences, 720 pages, spot color, 6 ¼” x 8 ½” these characters stumble blindly around one another, often ignoring their Territory: E • CQ: 8 surroundings and consumed by their own daily conflicts. Fantagraphics is ISBN 978-1-56097-915-9 proud to re-release this landmark graphic novel. • Digital ARC (PDF) • Author events and festival appearances DASH SHAW lives in Richmond, VA with his wife and daughter. • Review attention • Age range: 18+ “Stunningly conceived and executed… Masterfully using the comics medium to juggle all the different characters, weaving their stories together seamlessly, Shaw allows the Loonys’ emotions ALSO AVAILABLE: to play out naturally without forced resolutions, leaving a wistful hopefulness that feels just as Cosplayers: Perfect Edition conflicted and confusing as every family is.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) $14.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-68396-040-9 “Shaw renders in comics situations and characters identical with those of mainstream realistic Doctors novels and movies and handles them with the sensitivity and humor of the best humanist novelists $16.99 Paperback Original and filmmakers.” — Booklist (starred review) ISBN 978-1-60699-803-8 New School $39.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-644-7 The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. $19.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-307-1 18 MARCH

CANNON By Wallace Wood

America’s answer to James Bond, from the legendary Wallace Wood!

Meet John Cannon, the perfect agent and America’s exploitative answer to James Bond. Initially brainwashed by the terrifying and voluptuous Madame Toy to be “the perfect assassin” for the Red forces, Cannon was eventually rescued and brainwashed (again) by the CIA until he had no emotions whatsoever. Under the employ of the CIA, Cannon experiences action like no other agent! Undercover and under the covers, Cannon endures nude torture by beautiful women, explosive gunplay, naked catfights, -crunching plastic surgery, Hitler, nihilistic lovemaking, Weasel the spy, naked women, death from above, and more naked women! Take that, 007! $35.00 Hardcover Cannon, by the legendary Wallace Wood (Mad, EC Comics, Daredevil), appeared every week for two-and-a-half years Comics & Graphic Novels / Crime & Mystery in Overseas Weekly, a newspaper distributed exclusively to U.S. Military bases around the world. Uncensored by commercial 296 pages, black and white, 11” x 7 ½” editorial restrictions, Wood pulled out all the stops producing a thrilling and salacious Cold War spy serial run amok with Territory: E • CQ: 12 brutal violence and titillating sex all in an effort to boost morale and support our troops! ISBN 978-1-60699-702-4

• Back in print after a several-year absence WALLACE WOOD (1927-1981) was a legendary cartoonist and trailblazing underground publisher. He was inducted into the • A perennial favorite Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992. • Great gift idea • Age range: 18+ “Wood’s alternately claustrophobic and desolate brushwork lurches into life: spreading puddles and slanting rain, Rock Hudson jawlines and Jane Wyman curves, vertiginous angles, hallucinatory things with too many eyes.” — Tribune

ALSO AVAILABLE: “Pow! Zam! Comics aren’t for kids anymore because of Cannon! Cannon is like a punch in the face with a cement-filled giant salami.” — Gilbert Hernandez The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Vol. 1 “I bow to no man in my appreciation for Cannon.” — Daniel Clowes $39.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-815-1 The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Vol. 2 $39.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-68396-068-3 Wallace Wood Presents: Shattuck $24.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-914-1

See also various titles in the EC Comics Library, page 6.

19 MARCH

WHEN WE ALL ATE WONDERBREAD by Nicole Hollander; introduction by

A veteran cartoonist wryly observes her own childhood.

Nicole Hollander’s internationally syndicated , , ran for thirty years. When We All Ate Wonderbread is veteran cartoonist Hollander’s first graphic novel, a coming-of-age story starring the gangsters, the glamourous, the bed bugs, the (enviable) Catholic girls, the police, the jukebox, the fortune teller, and the blue Hudson—the family car, always at the ready for frequent drives into better neighborhoods. Much of the milieu and many of the characters who inhabited Hollander’s progressive comic strip, Sylvia, originated in her childhood neighborhood; not only does this illustrated memoir give insight into how Hollander developed her style and wit, it’s a chronicle of a Chicago community that has since disappeared into an expressway.

$29.99 Paperback Original Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary NICOLE HOLLANDER’s work has been archived in the Billy Ireland Cartoon 160 pages, full color, 8” x 11 ¼” Library at , alongside ’s, ’s, and Territory: E • CQ: 20 other greats. She has published fifteen books, and blogs at badgirlchats.com. She ISBN 978-1-68396-010-2 lives in Chicago.

• Review attention • A debut graphic novel from a feminist “Nicole Hollander is a national treasure.” — The Nation icon “The toughest woman in America.” — The Village Voice • Great gift idea • Digital ARC (PDF) “Because Hollander picked up on stories that were truly significant, it often seems like she could • Off-the-book-page features see into the future.… Political satirists are valuable national resources, and feminist political • Age range: 15+ cartoonists should be protected as an endangered species.” — Ms. Magazine

“For thirty years, long before Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, my friend Nicole Hollander has been one of our nation’s leading satirists. That means that she is in the business of telling the truth and making it funny. She is right about almost everything.” —

20 APRIL

BLACKBIRD DAYS By Manuele Fior; Translated by Jamie Richards

A contemporary master of the comics form showcases his versatility in this collection of short literary fiction.

With the release of his -nominated graphic novel 5,000 KM Per Second in 2016 and this year’s equally acclaimed The Interview, Italian cartoonist Manuele Fior has established himself as one of the unequivocally great graphic novelists working today. Blackbird Days further underscores Fior’s virtuosic talents with this diverse collection of ten short stories created over the past decade for various anthologies and international magazines. The title story, “Blackbird Days” — set in the same world as The Interview — tells the story of an engineer, anxious about being caught for a crime, who is asked to inspect something unusual at a marble quarry. Blackbird Days also showcases Fior’s passion for architecture and international settings: stories are about a recently relocated father who loses his young son in Berlin’s Tempelhof Park (“Help!”); a maligned teacher who abandons her students on a class trip $24.99 Hardcover to Paris (“Class Trip”); a young woman writing about her first impressions of Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary Oslo (“Postcard from Oslo,” a story which directly relates to 5,000 KM Per 104 pages, full color, 7” x 10” Second); a couple tries to enjoy a vacation in Southern after receiving bad Territory: E • CQ: 18 news (“Postcard from Salento”); a man suffering violently in France during 978-1-68396-083-6 WWI (“The Story of Gabriel C.”); the painter Arnold Böcklin visiting the • Digital ARC baths on Ischia before painting his famous masterpiece, “The Island of Death” (“The Painter”); and, an immigrant grandmother’s tale of how she escaped • Review attention war in Indochina. Blackbird Days is rounded out with an autobiographical • Age range: 16+ snapshot of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Fior’s current home of Paris, and a final divertissement in which two giant robots battle it out in metropolitan Paris.

ALSO AVAILABLE: MANUELE FIOR was born in Italy and currently lives in Paris, where he is The Interview working on his next graphic novel. $24.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-986-8 “Through his narrative restraint and graphic acuity, Fior makes the experiences of a single man 5,000 KM Per Second seem as important as the fate of mankind.” — Booklist $22.99 Hardcover 978-1-60699-666-9 “[Fior’s work is] full of unadulterated emotion, as stingingly sad as it is deeply hopeful.” — Publishers Weekly

21 APRIL

DIE LAUGHING by André Franquin

Cathartic black comedy from a master cartoonist.

What do you do when you find yourself gazing into the abyss of modern life? Laugh, says André Franquin, the master French cartoonist. A collection of stand-alone strips, Die Laughing highlights the psychological torments of human existence, from the daily futility of the rat race to the global horrors of nuclear annihilation. Executed in stark black and white, Franquin’s loose-but-meticulous linework features expressionistic shadows and silhouettes that infuse his depressed, repressed, and oppressed characters with a disturbing manic energy. Die Laughing takes aim at everyone and everything in this scathing critique of modern life, but is particularly ruthless toward animal abusers, the military industrial complex, and death penalty enthusiasts. Prepare yourself to be exquisitely uncomfortable. Businessmen skipping $19.99 Hardcover • Territory: E merrily across the bodies of workers to get ahead, racehorses murdering their Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary jockeys, fighter jets turning into excrement mid-air, cannibals in love: Die 72 pages, black and white, 8 ¾” x 11 ¼” Laughing is filled with visual gags and gag-inducing visuals that will haunt Territory: E • CQ: 20 you. ISBN 978-1-68396-091-1

• Review attention • Digital ARC (PDF) André FRANQUIN (1924–1997) was a trailblazer during Belgian’s Golden Age • Age range: 14+ of comics and a deep influence on the generation that followed. He was the first recipient of the Angoulême International Comic Festival’s coveted Grand Prize in 1974.

“Franquin is a great artist. Next to him, I’m just a mediocre cartoonist.” — Hergé (Tintin)

22 APRIL

KRAMERS ERGOT 10 Edited by Sammy Harkham

“A cartoonist should be angry at the world” —

COVER The preeminent art hits double digits and returns with the first new volume since 2016! Every new volume of Kramers is a bona fide event in the comics world, and this new, oversized volume is certain to FORTHCOMING turn heads, with 18 of the very best cartoonists in the world contributing new pieces, including none other than R. Crumb (The Book of Genesis)! Also TOP SECRET included: Anna Haifich, Noel Frieberg, Adam Buttrick, , Andy Burkholder, Lale Westvind, Will Sweeney, Dash Shaw, James Turek, Rick Altergott, CF, Aisha Franz, , Ron Regé Jr., and John Pham, as well as a contribution from editor Sammy Harkham, as well!

SAMMY HARKHAM lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and children, where he also creates the ongoing comic magazine, Crickets. $29.99 Paperback Original Comics & Graphic Novels / Anthologies “This groundbreaking comics anthology has defined a generation of comics artists.” — Publishers 120 pages, full color, 11” x 14” Weekly Territory: E • CQ: 16 ISBN 978-1-68396-089-8

• Review attention • Digital ARC (PDF) • Author events • Age range: 18+

ALSO AVAILABLE: Kramers Ergot 9 $45.00 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1606999127

23 THE LIBRARY In 2011, Fantagraphics Books — the world’s premiere publisher of classic cartooning — partnered with Disney Publishing Worldwide to release the complete Duck comics of artist Carl Barks. For the first time, read the complete works of one of the medium’s greatest artists in affordably priced, hardcover volumes.

Vol. 5 “Christmas on Bear Vol. 6 “The Old Castle’s Vol. 7 “Lost in the Andes” Vol. 8 “Trail of the Unicorn” Vol. 9 “The Pixilated Parrot” Mountain” Secret” ISBN 978-1-60699-474-0 ISBN 978-1-60699-741-3 ISBN 978-1-60699-834-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-697-3 ISBN 978-1-60699-653-9

Christmas Gift Box Set: “Christmas on Bear Mountain” and “A Christmas for Shacktown” $49.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-714-7 Vol. 10 “Terror of the Beagle Vol. 11 “A Christmas for Vol. 12 “Only a Poor Old Vol. 13 “Trick or Treat” Boys” Shacktown” Man” ISBN 978-1-60699-874-8 Gift Box Set: “Lost in the Andes” ISBN 978-1-60699-920-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-574-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-535-8 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: “Only a Poor Old Man” and “The Seven Cities of Gold” $49.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-875-5

Gift Box Set: “The Pixilated Parrot” and “Terror of the Beagle Boys” Vol. 14 “The Seven Cities Vol. 15 “The Ghost Sheriff of Vol. 16 “The Lost Crown of Vol. 17 “The Secret of $49.99, ISBN 978-1-68396-046-1 of Gold” Last Gasp” Genghis Khan” Hondorica” ISBN 978-1-60699-795-6 ISBN 978-1-60699-953-0 ISBN 978-1-68396-013-3 ISBN 978-1-68396-045-4 APRIL

WALT DISNEY’S DONALD DUCK: “THE LOST PEG LEG MINE” By Carl Barks

A spooky lost mine, a runaway train, and a trip to the stars!

In our title story, Uncle Scrooge, Donald, and the nephews are hot on the trail of a pair of old saddlebags filled with gold nuggets — stashed in an abandoned mine and guarded by ! Next, Huey, Dewey, and Louie hear a news report about a runaway train and apply their Junior Woodchuck engineering knowledge to figure out how to prevent it from crashing — but no one will listen! Then Donald dons a suit of armor with a rubber sword for a costume party, but he embarrasses Daisy and becomes the object of scorn and ridicule — until a pair of lions break free! And when Gyro Gearloose invents a virtual reality headset, Donald and the boys find themselves menaced by fearsome creatures on other worlds. $29.99 Hardcover Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of imaginative exuberance, Humor / Comics high-concept hijinks, and all-around cartooning brilliance. 192 pages, full color, 7 ½” x 10 ¼” Over 160 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly Territory: X • CQ: 18 colored. Insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. ISBN 978-1-68396-093-5

• Great gift idea CARL BARKS (1901-2000), one of the most brilliant cartoonists of the 20th • Facebook fan page at facebook.com/ century, has entertained millions around the world with his timeless tales of carlbarkslibrary Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge. Among many other honors, he was named • The definitive series collecting the a Disney Legend and has been inducted into the William Randolph Hearst greatest adventure comic of all time Cartoon Hall of Fame and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. • A New York Times best selling series • Age range: 5+ “This is classic art and storytelling from a master of the form.” — New York Journal of Books

“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 Hall of Fame — the other two were Jack Kirby and Eisner himself, who once called Barks ‘the Hans Christian Andersen of comics’.” — Los Angeles Times

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

“I consider [Carl Barks’s comics] to be the best form of storytelling I’ve read.” — Jeff Kinney

“Enormously well crafted and equally enormously entertaining, timeless comedy adventures … the perfect gift for just about any reader of comics, regardless of age, background, or experience.” — School Library Journal 25 APRIL

LAND OF THE SONS By

This post-apocalyptic graphic novel by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist is part morality tale, part coming-of-age saga.

Two pre-adolescent brothers scavenge a post-apocalyptic landscape for anything that might help each other and their father exist for one more day. Although their survival hangs in the balance, the boys are obsessed with only one thing — the diary their father keeps. They’ve never been taught to read or write, but they have a hunch that the scribbles might answer their questions. When their father suddenly dies, the brothers set out to find someone who can finally decipher the notebook’s secrets. Land of the Sons is Gipi’s most artistically accomplished work to date, juxtaposing the stark savagery of the narrative with the Italian master’s dense and expressive line work. While similar tonally, Sons, unlike Lord of the Flies, lays the groundwork for humanity overcoming sheer brutality and personal $29.99 Hardcover desires, while commenting on the fragile state of masculinity and human Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary nature itself. 288 pages, black and white, 6 ¾” x 9 ½” Territory: E • CQ: 16 ISBN 978-1-68396-077-5 GIPI (Gianni Pacinotti) is an Italian cartoonist whose Notes for a War Story won “Best Book” at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. He also teaches • Review attention and has directed a film, 2011’s The Last Man on Earth. • Digital ARC • Age range: 16+

26 APRIL

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 Chicago 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 . 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 events and festival appearances “Once you enter Emil Ferris’s spectacular eye-popping magnum opus, there is no turning back. This • Author website: http://emilferris.com/ is a monster of a book, in the best possible way.” — Alison Bechdel • Twitter: @emilferrisdraws “No one has ever made a comic like Emil Ferris’s assured, superhumanly ambitious two-part debut • Instagram: @emilferris graphic novel… It threatens not merely to exceed established standards of excellence, but to set • Age range: 15+ 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.” — The New Yorker 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

27 INDEX

A Almost Silent 9 L Land of the Sons 26 Anderson, Ho Che 13 Love and Rockets 4, 5 Angels and Magpies 5 M Master Race and Other Stories 7 B Barks, Carl 24, 25 Mudbite 17 Bechdel, Alison 20 My Favorite Things is Monsters 27 Blackbird Days 21 Blazing Combat 11 N Now 2, 10 Blutch 15 Bottomless Belly Button 18 R Return of Snow White and the Bradbury, Ray 6, 7 Seven Dwarfs, The 1 Reynolds, Eric 2, 10 C Cannon 19 Compulsive Comics 12 S Scarpa, Romano 1 Cooper, Dave 17 Shaw, Dash 18 Simmons, Josh 16 D Davis, Eleanor 14 Some Examples of Different Artworks 14 Die Laughing 22 Disney, Walt 1, 24, 25 T Telnaes, Ann 3 Donald Duck 24, 25 Total Jazz 15 Trump’s A B C 3 E EC Comics 6, 7 W Walt Disney’s Donald Duck 24, 25 F Feldstein, Al 6, 7 What I Did 9 Ferris, Emil 27 When We All Ate Wonderbread 20 Fior, Manuele 21 Why Art? 14 Flayed Corpse and Other Stories 16 Wood, Wally 19 Franquin, André 22

G Gipi 26 Godhead 13 Goodwin, Archie 11

H Harkham, Sammy 23 Harven, Eric 12 Hernandez, Gilbert 4, 5 Hernandez, Jaime 4, 5 Hollander, Nicole 20

J Jason 8, 9

K Kramers Ergot 10 23 Krigstein, Bernard 7 orld’sG re isher of the W atest Cartoo Publ nists Since 1976

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