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I HAVE A BEER NEXT TO ON THE CAMINO SOME BRiTS…

SO, ARE by Jason YOU ALSO FROM ST. WALKiNG THE YES. JEAN? YES. ON THE CAMiNO? CAMINO JASON’S FIRST LONG-FORM WORK SINCE 2013’S LOST CAT

by JASON The Camino de Santiago is a 500 mile, historic pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern . It is walked by thousands every year, both Christians and non-believers. To mark his 50th birthday, the brilliant Norwegian Jason decided that walking the length of the Camino was what he needed to do. On the Camino is Jason’s memoir of that trek — 32 days and 500 WELL, I TRiED. miles from St. Jean Pied de Port to Finisterre, observing with the eye of an artist, chronicling both the good (people, conversations) and the bad (blisters, bedbugs). Full of quiet incidents, odd encounters, small triumphs, and the occasional setback, On the Camino is the latest by a master cartoonist.

JASON lives in Montpellier, .

“One gets the sense that Jason, like poets writing sestinas, is testing his powers, letting the fierce constraints of the form reveal new possibilities, and it’s a wonderful thing to observe.” iN LOS ARCOS, I CHOOSE A HOSTEL $24.99 Hardcover — The Guardian AND THEN TAKE A WALK… Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary “Jason’s work is poetry. Beautiful and frightening. Redemptive and hopeless. He is the Kafka and Keats HELLO! 192 pages, , 5 ½” x 8” Hi THERE. of the comic world.” — Sherman Alexie HOW’S iT Territory: E • CQ: 32 GOiNG? ISBN 978-1-68396-021-8 “Any new work from Norwegian cartoonist Jason is worthy of a comics fan’s full attention.”

— The AV Club would YOU like • Review attention SOME “One of the medium’s finest storytellers.” — Publishers Weekly OCTOPUS SURE. • Author events PAELLA? WHY NOT? • Digital ARC For more books by Jason, see the following page. • Age range: 15+ iNiTiALLY, I WAS WiTH I GUESS THAT’S YES, THE HOW PEOPLE YOU OTHER KOREANS, ALL MEN. WHAT THE DiD YOU MEET ON BUT THEY WALKED TOO CAMiNO iS ALL MEET? T H E R O A D. FAST AND WOULDN’T WAiT ABOUT. FOR ME. THEN I MET VESNA, AND SHE SAiD, “COME WiTH ME!”

1 MONTHMAY COMING THIS SEASON! NEW EDITIONS OF TWO JASON CLASSICS! I KILLED ADOLF HITLER This 2008 Eisner and -winning classic, unavailable since 2014, is back in print in a newly designed edition! In this full-color graphic novel, Jason posits a strange, violent world in which contract killers can be hired to rub out pests — be they dysfunctional relatives, abusive co-workers, loud neighbors, or just annoyances in general — and as you might imagine, their services are in heavy demand. One such killer is given the unique job of traveling back in time to kill Adolf Hitler in 1939... but things go spectacularly wrong. LOST CAT Unavailable since 2014, Fantagraphics is proud to re-present Jason’s first long-form graphic novel (after years of critically acclaimed and best-selling graphic novellas) in a newly designed edition. A detective is walking down the street. It is raining. He sees a “Lost Cat” poster. A moment later he sees the cat from the photo and calls the number. $16.99 Hardcover A woman answers. They talk and hit it off. When she disappears soon thereafter, the $19.99 Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary expected, ensuing “mystery” takes decidedly unexpected and unconventional turns. Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary 48 pages, full color, 7” x 10” Lost Cat is both a playful take on the classic detective story, and a story about how 160 pages, black and white, 5 ½” x 8” Territory: E • CQ: 48 difficult it is to find a kindred spirit, someone you feel a real connection to — and what Territory: E • CQ: 38 ISBN 978-1-68396-008-9 you do if you lose that person. ISBN 978-1-68396-009-6

ALSO AVAILABLE BY JASON Since 2001, Norwegian-born Jason has been entertaining American readers with “The graphic novel’s cinematic qualities have rarely been so well wielded as they are by the artist known only as Jason.” —-­ Bookslut his beautifully sparse style, dry wit, and often-silent stories. The 2002 Harvey Award winner for “Best New Talent” has gone on to win multiple Eisner and “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 Ignatz Awards and become one of the medium’s most beloved creators. Whitman.”— Sherman Alexie

Hey, Wait... Sshhhh! Why Are You Doing This? The Left Bank Gang Athos in America If You Steal $12.95 Paperback, $16.99 Paperback, $12.95 Paperback, $12.95 Paperback, $24.99 Hardcover, $29.99 Hardcover 2ISBN 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 ISBN 978-1-60699-854-0 MONTHMAY

SONGY OF PARADISE by

THE FOUNDER OF PUNK ART REINVENTS MILTON

Fantagraphics is proud to present a major, all-new book by Gary Panter. Songy of Paradise is an inspired interpretation of John Milton’s retelling of the story of Jesus being tempted by Satan after being baptized by John the Baptist and fasting for forty days and nights in the Judaean Desert. Panter’s version doesn’t rely on Milton’s words, but faithfully follows the structure of Milton’s Paradise Regained, with one notable exception: Jesus has been replaced by a hillbilly, Songy, who is on a vision quest before being tempted by a chimeric Satan figure. Gary Panter is one of America’s preeminent artists, designers, and , whose work defined the L.A. punk scene and the vibrant work of the television show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. Songy of Paradise presents Panter’s singular vision in an ornate, hardcover format that does justice to Panter’s densely packed pages, with a stunning two-color stamping on cloth covers. It $34.99 Hardcover will be an art object, a brilliant literary experiment, and the most eye-popping Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary graphic novel of 2017. 40 pages, black and white, 11 ¼” x 14 ½” Territory: E • CQ: 20 ISBN 978-1-68396-028-7 GARY PANTER was one of the graphic minds behind the award-winning show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, and, as the creator of Jimbo, one of the pillars of the • Author events legendary RAW magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. • Great gift idea • Review attention • Age range: 17+ “Panter has been a leading figure in underground comics for more than 25 years, and he’s had a profound influence on everyone from to . Like R. Crumb, Panter stands as a beacon of artistic and literary genius in the medium.” — Publishers Weekly

“His drawing can be at once wretchedly grotesque, unfathomably charming; he delights in the ALSO AVAILABLE: underbelly and revels in the prosaic.” — Steven Heller Dal Tokyo $35.00 Hardcover ISBN 978-56097-886-2

3 GREAT GIFT IDEAS!

THE COMPLETE PEANUTS Paperbacks $22.99 each or $39.99 per gift box Vol. 1 (1950-1952): ISBN 978-1-60699-763-5 Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Box: Vol. 2 (1953-1954): ISBN 978-1-60699-792-5 ISBN 978-1-60699-793-2 Vol. 3 (1955-1956): ISBN 978-1-60699-835-9 Vols. 3 & 4 Gift Box: Vol. 4 (1957-1958): ISBN 978-1-60699-870-0 ISBN 978-1-60699-871-7 Vol. 5 (1959-1960): ISBN 978-1-60699-921-9 Vols. 5 & 6 Gift Box: Vol. 6 (1961-1962): ISBN 978-1-60699-949-3 ISBN 978-1-60699-978-3

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

PEANUTS EVERY SUNDAY Hardcovers $49.99 each or $79.99 per gift box

Vol. 1 (1952-1955 Vol. 2 (1956-1960 Vol. 3 (1961-1965) Vol. 4 (1966-1970) The 1950s Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-692-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-794-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-872-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-968-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-873-1 The 1960s Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-969-1 MAY

THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1963-1964 (VOL. 7) PAPERBACK EDITION NOT FINAL COVER NOT By Charles M. Schulz; Introduction by Bill Melendez

© PEANUTS WORLDWIDE, LLC WORLDWIDE, PEANUTS © THE COMPLETE PEANUTS LIVES ON

Though the long-running hardcover Complete Peanuts series concluded in 2016 with Vol. 26, the paperback editions continue! “My name is 555 95472 but everyone calls me 5 for short... I have two sisters named 3 and 4.” With those words, Charles Schulz introduced three of the quirkiest characters to the Peanuts universe, the numerically monikered 95472 siblings. They didn’t stay around long, but offered some choice bits of satirical nonsense while they did. As it happens, this volume is particularly rich in never-before-reprinted strips: More than 150 (more than one fifth of the book!) had never seen the light of day since their original appearance until reappearing in The Complete Peanuts. These “lost” strips include $22.99 Paperback Linus making a near-successful run for class president that is ultimately derailed by his religious beliefs (two words: “great” Humor / Comic Strips and “pumpkin”), and Snoopy getting involved with a group of politically fanatical birds. Also in this volume: Lucy creates 320 pages, black and white with spot color, an educational slideshow of Charlie Brown’s faults (it’s so long there’s an intermission!) and Snoopy’s doghouse begins its 8 ¼” x 6 ½” conceptual expansion (the ceiling is so huge that Linus can paint a vast “history of civilization” mural on it). Introduction Territory: F • CQ: 20 by Bill Melendez, animator of A Charlie Brown Christmas. ISBN 978-1-68396-005-8 (Previous hardcover edition: ISBN 978-1-60699-723-0)

• A New York Times best selling series CHARLES M. SCHULZ created nearly 18,000 Peanuts strips from 1950–2000. • Great gift idea • The most beloved of all time “The Complete Peanuts has framed Charles Schulz’s enduring masterpiece about as well any lifelong fan could’ve hoped.” — The A.V. Club • Age range: all ages

5 MONTH 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.

Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “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

Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “Trail of the Unicorn” “Trick or Treat” “The Pixilated Parrot” “Terror of the ” ISBN 978-1-60699-741-3 ISBN 978-1-60699-874-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-834-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-920-2

Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck Walt Disney’s Donald Duck Box Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “” “The ” “The Ghost Sheriff of Last Christmas Gift Set: Set: “Lost in the Andes” and Box Set: “Christmas on Bear ISBN 978-1-60699-535-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-795-6 Gasp” “Christmas on Bear Mountain” “Trail of the Unicorn” Mountain” and “The Old Castle’s 6 ISBN 978-1-60699-953-0 and “A Christmas for Shacktown” $49.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-796-3 Secret” $49.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-714-7 $49.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-796-3 MONTHMAY

WALT DISNEY’S UNCLE SCROOGE: “THE LOST CROWN OF GENGHIS KHAN” by Carl Barks

A DARING EXPEDITION UNDERGROUND, GENGHIS KHAN’S LOST CROWN, AND A RACE FOR BURIED TREASURE!

© 2016 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. Worried about an earthquake that might swallow his money bin, Uncle Scrooge digs deep to secure his fortune — and discovers an underground civilization! Introducing “The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan” the Terries and Fermies — the subterranean who can make earthquakes! Of special note, our presentation of this story restores two pages that were cut from its original publication. Then, Scrooge shanghais Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie to the Himalayas to help him recover “The Lost Crown of Genghis Kahn.” And when Scrooge is hypnotized to go back in time and learn the location of a pirate’s buried treasure, he thinks he’s got a clear shot — until he learns that Donald is also on the trail. And the race is on! Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous situations, and all-around cartooning brilliance. More than 200 pages of stories, each $29.99 Hardcover meticulously restored and newly colored. Insightful story notes by an international Humor / Comics panel of Barks experts. 232 pages, full color, 7 ½” x 10 ¼” Territory: X CQ: 18 ISBN 978-1-68396-013-3 CARL BARKS (1901– 2000) entertained millions around the world with his timeless Great gift idea tales of the Disney Ducks. He is a Disney Legend and has been inducted into the William Randolph Hearst Cartoon Hall of Fame and the Comic Book Hall Facebook: facebook.com/ of Fame. carlbarkslibrary The definitive series collecting the greatest kids’ comic of all time For more volumes in the series, see opposite page. Age range: 5+ “I consider Carl Barks’s comics to be the best form of storytelling I’ve read.” — Jeff Kinney

“A priceless part of our literary heritage.” —

“The of comics.” — Will Eisner

“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

7 MONTH OTHER BOOKS BY

Twentieth Century The Complete Eightball Pussey! $19.99 Paperback, $119.99 Two-volume hardcover $16.95 Paperback, $14.99 Paperback, $9.95 Paperback, ISBN 978-1-56097-436-9 boxed set, ISBN 978-1-56097-458-1 ISBN 978-1-56097-427-7 ISBN 978-1-56097-183-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-757-4

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Patience The Reader: A $29.99 Hardcover, Critical Edition of Ghost World ISBN 978-1-60699-905-9 and Other Stories, with Essays, Interviews, and Annotations (Edited by Ken Parille) 8 $35.00 Flexibound, ISBN 978-1-60699-589-1 MONTHMAY

LIKE A VELVET GLOVE CAST IN IRON by Daniel Clowes

A NEW EDITION OF A CLOWES CLASSIC NOT FINAL COVER

Originally published in 1993, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron was Daniel Clowes’s first long-form graphic novel and was heralded as an instant classic and exists firmly in the canon of great graphic novels. Disturbing, funny, and surreal, it tells the story of a young man, Clay Loudermilk, who stumbles into a screening of a bizarre that wraps him up in a mystery surrounding a series of cult-inspired killings, dubbed “The Harum Scarum Murders.” The subsequent path Loudermilk’s life takes is both a terrifying journey into madness and jaw-dropping tour-de-force of visual imagination fraught with psychosexual and conspiratorial tension. In the wake of Clowes’s 2016 smash hit , and on the eve of the release of Fox Searchlight’s Wilson (adapting Clowes’s book of the same name, with a screenplay by Clowes), Fantagraphics is proud to release this new edition of Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, featuring a new, wraparound painted cover by the artist.

$24.99 Paperback Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary DANIEL CLOWES is the acclaimed cartoonist behind the books Patience, Ghost World, 200 pages, black and white, 7 ¾” x 11 ¼” and many others. He is also an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, PEN Award winner, and a The New Yorker Territory: E CQ: 28 regular contributor to . He lives in Oakland, CA, with his wife and son. ISBN 978-1-68396-015-7 “[Clowes’s] drawings capture a risible procession of weirdos, aliens, and conspiracy nuts and mark him as Digital ARC one of the most talented among the comics artists [of his generation].” Author events — Publishers Weekly Off-the-book-page features “It’s hard to refute its daring originality.” — Booklist

Twitter: @danielclowes “Stunning, eerie, hilarious and surreal.”— Spin Instagram: @daniel_clowes “Brilliant.” — Village Voice Facebook: @danielclowescomics “Must be seen to be believed.” — The Washington Post Age range: 17+ “A -defining masterwork.” — Bookforum

“A nightmare told with absolute clarity: in Slumberland as written by Samuel Beckett. Grade: ‘A’.” — Entertainment Weekly

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THE LADIES-IN-WAITING by Santiago Garcia and Javier Olivares

A GRAPHIC NOVEL FANTASY ABOUT A REAL ART HISTORY MYSTERY.

In 1656, Diego Velázquez, leading figure in the Spanish Golden Age of painting, created one of the most enigmatic works in the history of art: Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-Waiting). This graphic novel, written and drawn by two of Spain’s most sophisticated comics creators, examines its legacy as one of the first paintings to explore the relationship among the viewer, reality, and unreality. (It guest stars Cano, Salvador Dalí, Zurbarán, and many others.) Olivares’s art moves from clear line to expressionistic; from pen nib to brush stokes; from one color palette to another, as The Ladies-in-Waitinguses fiction to explore the ties among artists and patrons, the past and the present, institutions and audiences, creators and creativity. THE LADIES-IN-WAITING Their combined efforts have garnered not only international comics prizes, but Santiago Garcia and Javier Olivares the equivalent of the National Book Award in Spain, where the book has been a commercial and critical sensation. $24.99 Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary 192 pages, full color, 7 ½” x 10 ½” JAVIER OLIVARES was born in Madrid, and draws comics and illustrations for both Territory: E • CQ: 12 children and adults. He started the journal Madriz in the ’80s. SANTIAGO GARCÍA ISBN 978-1-68396-012-6 was born in Madrid and has written comics and about comics for more than twenty years. He was a founding member of U and Volumen. • Review attention • The most acclaimed graphic in recent Spanish history “A graphic novel that delves not only in the biography of an illustrious Spaniard, but into the Spanish character itself.” — El País • Digital ARC • Age range: 15+

ALSO AVAILABLE: Spanish Fever $29.99 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1-60699-944-8

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IN THE PINES: 5 MURDER BALLADS by Erik Kriek

AN INSPIRED CONVERGENCE OF TWO CLASSIC AMERICAN ARTFORMS

In the pines, in the pines where the sun never shines and we shiver when the cold wind blows

The murder ballad holds a rock-solid position in US roots music and the Great American Songbook for decades. Telling the stories of sometimes true and often not-so-true-crimes and other horrific events, they are raw stories full of unrequited love, betrayal, life, and death. The song form stems from the Anglo-Saxon ballad tradition, where stories were orally passed on to a mostly illiterate population. Dutch cartoonist Erik Kriek was inspired by five old and new murder ballads — including songs by modern masters such as Nick Cave, Steve Earle, and Gillian $24.99 Hardcover Welch — and used them as a launching point for five special and ruthless graphic Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary narratives that dig deep into the darkness of Americana, in which guns and religion 136 pages, full color, 8” x 11” maintain an uneasy balance. Territory: E • CQ: 16 ISBN 978-1-68396-011-9 ERIK KRIEK (Amsterdam, 1966) is a cartoonist and illustrator living in the • Digital ARC with his girlfriend and their son. • Review attention

• Great gift idea • Age range: 15+

11 MONTH The Library

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

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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 Life and Times of 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 Scrooge McDuck (Spirit of World” ISBN 978-1-60699-961-5 Enterprise)” ISBN 978-1-60699-927-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-866-3

Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-781-9

Vols. 3 & 4 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-867-0

Vols. 5 & 6 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-962-2 12 MONTHJUNE

WALT DISNEY UNCLE SCROOGE AND DONALD DUCK THE DON ROSA LIBRARY VOL 7: “THE TREASURE OF THE TEN AVATARS” by Don Rosa

© 2016 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2016 © MORE ADVENTURES FROM THE GREAT DON ROSA

In days of yore, Alexander the Great wasn’t great enough to find the famous lost city of Shambhala — but Scrooge McDuck is here to pick up the slack! An awesome Indian treasure lies ahead... but behind lurks the crooked Rajah of Ollieynstan, out to stop Scrooge at any cost! It’s Fantagraphics’ seventh complete, chronological book of Duck adventures by Don Rosa! Don Rosa, among the world’s most beloved modern cartoonists, launched his Carl Barks-inspired comics career in 1987. Famed for his prizewinning “Life and $29.99 Hardcover Times of Scrooge McDuck” (Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, 1995: Best Comics & Graphic Novels / General Serialized Story), Rosa wrote and drew a whopping two decades’ worth of ripping 192 pages, full color, 8 ½” x 11” Scrooge and Donald yarns! And “The Treasure of the Ten Avatars” is just the Territory: X • CQ: 16 beginning! “Attack of the Hideous Space Varmints” finds the McDuck Money Bin ISBN 978-1-68396-006-5 blasting off into the stratosphere... while in “A Little Something Special,” Magica De Spell, Flintheart Glomgold and the Beagle Boys team up to take Scrooge • The Disney Ducks remain among down! Disney’s most popular characters: Presented with brilliant color and a treasure trove of Rosa’s cover art and behind- a brand-new DuckTales TV series the-scenes factoids, these Duckburg epics are back in a definitive, comprehensive starring Scrooge launches on Disney edition for posterity — at a bargain price worthy of Scrooge himself! XD in fall 2017! • A New York Times best-selling series • Digital ARC available DON ROSA (b. 1951) is a 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair International Grand Prize • Age range: All ages winner and 2013 Award Recipient. He lives in .

“The work itself remains essential: More than ‘just’ a Barks homage, Rosa carried the Good Duck Artist’s legacy into legitimately new territory, exposing and massaging the pathos and wicked humor at the core of every good nostalgic exercise.” — The A.V. Club

“While remaining totally true to Scrooge McDuck’s ornery persona, Rosa turned the moody miser into a plucky adventurer worthy of Tintin.” — Publishers Weekly

“Rosa’s Duck comics? They’re great ones.” — School Library Journal

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Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories Classic war stories from Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, 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 50 Girls 50 and Other Stories In 2012, Fantagraphics Books began repackaging the esteemed EC Comics Every science-fiction story from Weird Science and Weird Science-Fantasy of the 1950s in a series of handsome hardcovers devoted to specific artists ISBN 978-1-60699-577-8 and writers, pairing two of the most storied publishers in comics history and ‘Tain’t the Meat... It’s the Humanity and Other Stories Every horror story from Tales From the Crypt introducing the timeless work of EC to contemporary readers. ISBN 978-1-60699-578-5 Fall Guy for Murder and Other Stories Johnny Craig’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 Graham Ingels, Al Feldstein, 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 Weird Fantasy 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 Jack Kamen 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 Reed Crandall 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. 14 ISBN 978-1-60699-982-0 MONTHJUNE

THE THING FROM THE GRAVE AND OTHER STORIES by Joe Orlando and Al Feldstein with Ray Bradbury

CLASSIC CRIME, SHOCKING HORROR — AND OUTRAGEOUS SATIRE!

AND OTHER STORIES BY JOE ORLANDO This special collection features more than 30 EC classics from the pages of Tales From the Crypt, The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, Shock SuspenStories, Impact, and Crime SuspenStories. Of special note is Orlando’s “The Monkey,” the classic realistic EC story about drug addiction, considered to be one of the most cautionary of “the preachies,” and Orlando’s adaptation of Bradbury’s eerily haunting “The Lake,” about a childhood tragedy. This volume also includes the title story “The Thing From the Grave,” a special Orlando frightfest originally printed in 3-D that hasn’t been seen since its original publication more than 60 years ago (and is presented here for the first time in easy-on-the-eyes 2-D). Plus all of Orlando’s Panic stories, including parodies of Mother Goose, TV commercials, and soap operas. Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists’ Library, The Thing From $29.99 Hardcover the Grave And Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror these superbly crafted, classic American comics. 240 pages, black and white, 7 ¼” x 10 ¼” Territory: E • CQ: 16 ISBN 978-1-68396-031-7 JOE ORLANDO (1927–1998; Will Eisner Hall of Fame, 2007) was a prolific illustrator, writer, editor, and cartoonist who rose from artist at EC Comics to • Our New York Times best-selling vice president at DC Comics. ALBERT B. FELDSTEIN (1928–2014) was series collecting the classic EC inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall Of Fame in 2003 and received Comics the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Horror Writers • Great gift idea for horror fans Association in 2011. • Review attention • Age Range: 11+ “All of these books are essential purchases for comics fans. These are the books that best show off how EC took genre stories seriously, striving to create comics that didn’t treat readers as naive or ignorant.” — Times

“It’s never been easier to appreciate the contributions of these iconic inkslingers.” — Tribune

For more volumes in this series, see opposite page.

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THE EC ARTISTS LIBRARY SLIPCASE 3 (VOLUMES 9-12) by Joe Orlando, John Severin, George Evans, and Wallace Wood

COLLECTING FOUR OUTSTANDING VOLUMES IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES

A boxed set of four great books in our acclaimed EC Artists’ Library, which collects the best comics of the 1950s from the greatest mass market comic book publisher in history. Featured are: Judgment Day And Other Stories illustrated by Joe Orlando, Aces High illustrated by George Evans, Bomb Run And Other Stories illustrated by John Severin and Will Elder, and Spawn of Mars And Other Stories illustrated by Wallace Wood. Collectively, that’s more than 100 stories and 900 pages! Plus bonus features and insightful commentary from EC experts. A great gift for the person in your life who’s into great comic art, illustration, and gripping storytelling! $99.99 Four-Volume Hardcover Boxed Set Comics & Graphic Novels / Genre Fiction 904 pages, black and white, 7 ½” x 10 ½” EC COMICS was the greatest mass-market comic book publisher in the Territory: E CQ: 4 history of the art form from the 1940s through the mid-’50s. ISBN 978-1-68396-007-2

Great gift idea and price point (Retail “EC Comics’ output of crime, horror, and war comics have been reprinted and collected BOOKS INCLUDED IN SLIPCARE multiple times, but never like in Fantagraphics’ new ‘EC Comics Library,’ which repackages value = $120) some of the most influential comics ever published in writer/artist-driven volumes, printed in Our EC line features the definitive black and white.” reproduction and packaging of the — The A.V. Club ALSO AVAILABLE: iconic comics brand by celebrating the The EC Artists’ Library individual artists who created them “The EC Comics Library collections display the grace of cartooning.” — The Chicago Tribune Slipcase 1 (Vols. 1–4) The definitive, NYT best-selling library of ISBN 978-1-60699-728-4 classic EC Comics “Fantagraphics has been inventing unique ways to publish [this] treasure trove of ’40s and ’50s crime, horror and war comics.” — The Toronto Star Age range: 11+

The EC Artists’ Library Slipcase 2 (Vols. 5–8) ISBN 978-1-60699-821-2

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ON THE DECAY OF CRITICISM: fantagraphics books THE COMPLETE ESSAYS OF W. M. SPACKMAN ON THE by W. M. Spackman; Edited by Steven Moore TIMELESS ESSAYS ON THE LITERARY ART BY A MASTER DECAY OF NOVELIST CRITICISM: Best known for the sleek, sophisticated novels he wrote in the 1970s and ’80s, THE COMPLETE ESSAYS OF W. M. Spackman was also a literary critic of formidable power and slashing W. M. SPACKMAN wit. Gathered here are all the essays and reviews he published, including those that appeared in his 1967 book of essays On the Decay of Humanism, which one critic praised as “a critical book of astonishing arrogance, brio, and erudition.” Spackman brought wide learning and cosmopolitan savoir-faire to his concerns for how literature is taught and evaluated, processes that he felt desperately needed to be overhauled.

edited by steven moore Ranging from ancient Greek and Latin literature to the latest poetry and novels, these brilliant essays argue that a work of literature should be evaluated on its artistry and craftsmanship, not on its content or ideas. Spackman quotes with approval Nabokov’s belief that “Style and structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are a lot of hogwash,” and insists “aesthetic assessments… $29.99 Hardcover must come before everything else.” On those grounds, he finds such celebrated Literary Criticism / General masters as Leo Tolstoy and Henry James inferior to lesser-known artists like 320 pages, 5 ½” x 9” Henry Green and Ivy Compton-Burnett. His iconoclastic views are supported Territory: E • CQ: 10 with close technical analyses, but in a relaxed style that delights as it instructs. ISBN 978-1-68396-022-5 Spackman provides both a fresh look at the literary canon and a model for writing about it. Spackman’s Complete Essays is a necessary and • Review attention important book for anyone who cares deeply about literary culture. • Digital ARC • Age range: 17+ W. M. SPACKMAN (1905–1990) earned degrees in literature from Princeton and Oxford, and was the author of six novels, for which he was given an award by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters “for stylistic excellence” in 1984. The posthumous publication of his Complete Fiction in 1997 was greeted with rapturous reviews. STEVEN MOORE, who edited Spackman’s Complete Fiction, is the author of The Novel, An Alternative History and, most recently, My Back Pages: Reviews and Essays.

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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 , 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” 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

Vol. 6: “Lost in Lands of Long Ago” Vol. 7: “March of the Zombies” Vol. 8: “The Tomorrow Wars” Vol. 9: “Rise of the Rhyming Man” Vol. 10: “Planet of Faceless Foes” ISBN 978-1-60699-782-6 ISBN 978-1-60699-829-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-868-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-931-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-963-9

Color Sundays Vol. 1: “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 Color Sundays Vol. 2: Vols. 5 & 6 Gift Box Set “Robin Hood Rides ISBN 978-1-60699-783-3 Again!” Vols. 7 & 8 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-869-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-686-7 Vols. 9 & 10 Gift Box Set 18 ISBN 978-1-60699-964-6 MONTHJUNE

WALT DISNEY’S MICKEY MOUSE VOL. 11: “MICKEY VS. MICKEY” by Floyd Gottfredson; edited by

MICKEY BATTLES HIS DEADLY DOUBLE IN THE PENULTIMATE BOOK OF FLOYD GOTTFREDSON’S CLASSIC ADVENTURE STRIP!

© 2016 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. Coming home from a trip, Mickey finds another Mouse in his house. A Mouse who could be his twin... evil twin, that is! The dastardly Miklos has been alienating Mickey’s friends and committing crimes in Mickey’s name. He’s got as a hostage, so Mickey can’t make him stop! Or can he? Send in the clones — here comes a fight to the finish! Floyd Gottfredson, Mickey Mouse artist from 1930–1975, and co-writer gave Disney’s big-eared hero many bouts of self-doubt in the uneasy Cold War years. But only once did Mickey’s very identity face a challenge like this! And “Mickey’s Dangerous Double” is only the start. “Dry Gulch ” becomes a Wild West movie star this volume — and Pegleg attacks the “Isle of Moola-La” for perilous paydirt! $34.99 Hardcover Restored from Disney’s original proof sheets, Mickey Vs. Mickey also includes more than 20 pages of duplicitous extras! Humor / Comic Strips You’ll enjoy behind-the-scenes art, rare publicity material, and clone-worthy commentary by Disney talents! Walt Disney 296 pages, black and white with some color, often said that his studio’s success “all started with a Mouse” — and today Mickey is among the world’s most recognizable 10 ½” x 8 ¾” icons. Now it’s time to rediscover the wild, unforgettable personality behind the icon: Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse. Territory: X CQ: 14 ISBN 978-1-68396-018-8

2012 Will winner: best Hired as a short-term replacement in 1930, FLOYD GOTTFREDSON went on to draw Mickey Mouse for the next 45 years. archival collection

Facebook: facebook.com/ “From the beautifully reproduced strips to the densely packed ancillary features, this must be the book that editors David Gerstein and Fantagraphics’ waltdisneysmickeymouse co-founder Gary Groth wanted for years for their own libraries. Their enthusiasm shows in the wonderfully designed package. This book is highly Digital ARC available recommended for any Disney fan and fans of America’s rich comic strip history.” — Christian Science Monitor Age range: All ages “Gottfredson drew Mickey with a nosy snout and the bright eyes of an adrenalin junkie. The mouse’s diminutive size inspired Gottfredson to have the character attempt daredevil races, leaping stunts, and develop a flurry-fisted fighting style.” —Entertainment Weekly

ALSO AVAILABLE: Color Sundays 1 & 2 Gift Box Set Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-496-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-576-1 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 ISBN 978-1-60699-964-6 19 Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete collection of this epic medieval adventure set in the days of King Arthur. Created by in 1937, the 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

Vol. 11: 1957-1958 Vol. 12: 1959-1960 Vol. 13: 1961-1962 Vol. 14: 1963-1964 The Definitive Prince Valiant ISBN 978-1-60699-828-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-876-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-925-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-925-7 Companion $39.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-306-4 20 $24.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-60699-305-7 MONTHJUNE

PRINCE VALIANT VOL. 15: 1965–1966 by Hal Foster

PRINCE ARN GETS IN OVER HIS HEAD WHILE AN ENEMY PLOTS REVENGE

After traveling the North Atlantic Ocean, shipwrecks and pirate attacks lead Prince Arn and his newly formed crew to the New World, where trade deals soon turn into hostage negotiations. When enemy tribes attack, Arn’s band of Vikings teams up with the Algonquins to repel the invaders, leading to a long-overdue peace treaty and the discovery of the St. Lawrence seaway. Meanwhile, Mordrid plots his revenge and schemes another attack on Camelot when Val and his family are at their most vulnerable. Aleta stirs up gossip when she suffers a case of mistaken identity with a mermaid, the prized Singing Sword is recovered, and Prince Valiant goes on a sensitive mission to find a missing heir. This volume also includes a feature on Bob Fujitani’s run of Prince Valiant stories in the Dell comic books, and a gallery of Valiant covers from books and comics. Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant continues as one of the all-time magnificent romantic $34.99 Hardcover adventure comics ever conceived and Fantagraphics’ reprinting is the loveliest Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy treatment of the strip in the history of publishing. 112 pages, full color, 10 ¼” x 14” Territory: E • CQ: 14 ISBN 978-1-68396-025-6 HAROLD (“Hal”) RUDOLF FOSTER was born in Halifax, NS, in 1892 and passed away in Spring Hill, FL, in 1982. • Eisner Award-nominated series • A perennial classic • Great gift idea “That Foster was the most virtuosic comics artist of his time, there is some merit to the claim.” • Age range: All ages — New York Times

“Hal Foster was an illustrator in the grand tradition of Arthur Rackham and Howard Pyle. Every panel packs a one-two punch.” — Vanity Fair

“One of the greatest comic strips of all time and a peak in visual splendor and breath-taking adventure, the story of Prince Valiant’s 30+ year odyssey is getting a marvelous presentation in Fantagraphics’ series of books.” — The Huffington Post

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FOG OVER TOLBIAC BRIDGE:

TARDI Léo A NESTOR BURMA MYSTERY MALET FOG OVER TOLBIAC BRIDGE by and Léo Malet; translated by Jenna Allen A NESTOR BURMA MYSTERY THE CITY OF LIGHT IS DARK IN THIS PRIVATE EYE CLASSIC

Paris, 1950s. Nestor Burma’s past comes knocking when a young gypsy woman leads him to a hospital where he discovers a recently deceased old buddy from his anarchist days. While Burma has chosen to move onto the (more or less) straight and narrow as a private eye, his friend had stayed on the other side of the law as a counterfeiter and worse. So now it’s up to Burma to avenge his friend, keep the girl safe, and hopefully unravel a mystery whose roots run far and deep back into the past... Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge is the first of four major graphic novels adapted by Tardi from the legendary French crime writer Léo Malet’s original “Nestor Burma” novels, each set in . Tardi’s stylish use of mechanical gray tones provides the book with a lovely period feel which, combined with Tardi’s usual $19.99 Hardcover obsessive visual research, gives it a uniquely personal, authentic quality. Tardi’s Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary adaptation is a cracking good detective yarn and a milestone in comics history. Territory: E CQ: 48 120 pages, black and white, 7 ½” x 10 ½” ISBN 978-1-60699-705-5 JACQUES TARDI, born in 1946, continues to create major new graphic novels from his studio in Paris. LÉO MALET (1909–1996) was a prolific and revered Review attention French crime novelist and surrealist. Digital ARC

Age range: 15+ “Jacques Tardi is a revered comics master.” — Publishers Weekly

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A NEW LOW by ; Introduction by Jesse Pearson

NOT FINAL COVER TORN FROM THE PAGES OF VICE MAGAZINE

For more than a decade, Johnny Ryan (Angry Youth Comix, Prison Pit) has been filling the back page of Vice magazine with some of the most transgressively hilarious and politically incorrect comics to ever grace a glossy, national magazine. A New Low collects this impressive body of work, as well as several other surprises. The victims of Ryan’s skewering satire in this collection include: G.G. Allin, Caddyshack, Bill Cosby, E.T., Everybody Loves Raymond, Ireland, , Kenny G, Kid Rock, D.H. Lawrence, Ted Nugent, Russians, Small Wonder, The Shield, Spain, Two and a Half Men, Vice magazine, Wall Street, and so much more that can’t be so easily categorized (such as “Erotic Art Collecting Squirrel” or “Whorenado,” to name but a few). Johnny Ryan’s utterly unpretentious taboo-tackling is an infectious and hilarious bombardment of political incorrectness, taking full advantage of $19.99 Paperback Original the medium’s absurdist potential for maximum laughs. In an age when the Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary medium is growing up and aspiring to more mature and hoity-toity literary 128 pages, full color, 7 ¼” x 10 ½” heights, Ryan builds on the visceral tradition that cartooning has had on our Territory: E CQ: 48 collective funny for over a century, and A New Low collects almost 100 ISBN 978-1-68396-004-1 full-color examples of Vice’s signature cartoonist. Digital ARC Author events JOHNNY RYAN is the acclaimed creator of the comics Angry Youth Comix Cross promotion with Vice magazine and Prison Pit. He lives in Los Angeles and is the co-creator and co-executive Twitter and Instagram: producer of the Nickelodeon TV series, Pig Boat Banana Cricket. @outlawscumfudge Age range: 18+ “Not to toot our own horn here, but it’s fair to say that his strips are some of the funniest and grossest being published anywhere right now.” — Vice

ALSO AVAILABLE: “Complaining that Ryan’s comics are grossly offensive, stupid and juvenile is like complaining that water is wet: that’s the entire point.” — Publishers Weekly Angry Youth Comix $49.99 Hardcover, ISBN “There aren’t many artists in any field who can match Ryan for sheer surreal creativity. His longer 978-1-60699-811-3 strips suggest a filthy hybrid of the Marx Bros. and Python. Ryan’s work is smart, crammed with ideas, and so funny it will melt your retinas.” — Chicago Reader

“Ryan brings his mixture of scatology, sex, and billingsgate to an acme of noxious hilarity. Vile beyond all credence, this stuff reduces its fans to teary, dribbling idiocy, others to nauseated indignation. High praise, indeed!” — Booklist

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MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS VOL. 2 by Emil Ferris

THE BREAKOUT TITLE OF 2016 CONCLUDES WITH THIS SECOND VOLUME

Can Karen solve Anka’s murder? Why did Karen’s brother Deeze shoot their brother Victor? Did Anka strike a deal with the devil by saving children from the Nazis by prostituting them? Did Karen’s brother Deeze commit fratricide in Vietnam? Taking 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 $34.99 Paperback Original w/ French Flaps best birthday present she could receive is to “feel like there is someone in the Comics & Graphic Novels/ Literary history of the world who has been like me.” 304 pages, full color, 8” x 10 ½” The cast of characters introduced in volume 1 of Emil Ferris’s critically Territory: E • CQ: 10 acclaimed masterwork My Favorite Thing is Monsters experience revelations ISBN 978-1-68396-019-5 and epiphanies that both resolve and deepen the mysteries earlier visited upon them. Visually, the story is told in Ferris’s trademarked style of a breathtakingly • Vol. 1 was PW Big Indie Book of Fall seamless combination of panel sequences and cartoon montages. 2016 and the most acclaimed GN debut of 2016 • Review attention EMIL FERRIS lives in Chicago. She has an MFA from the Art Institute of • Digital ARC Chicago and is a 2010 Toby Devan Lewis Fellow in the visual arts. • Age range: 15+

“Absolutely astonishing.” — Chris Ware

“Once you enter Emil Ferris’s spectacular eye-popping magnum opus, there is no turning back. This ALSO AVAILABLE: is a monster of a book, in the best possible way.” — My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Vol. 1 $39.99 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1- 60699-959-2

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RIPPLE: A PREDILECTION FOR TINA by ; Introduction by David Cronenberg

A NEW EDITION OF A MODERN CLASSIC

Originally published in 2004, Dave Cooper’s breakthrough book is one of the great graphic novels of the 21st century (“Easily the best new book of the year,” hailed the cartoonist in ’04), and remains Cooper’s landmark opus. In Ripple, Martin is a floundering painter desperately attempting to pursue his fine-art inclinations rather than toil in the world of commercial art. He hires a model, Tina, to pose for a series of paintings he dubs “The Eroticism of Homeliness.” Over time, their relationship evolves from a tenuous working relationship to a confused sexual entanglement. Martin’s initial repulsion for Tina slowly turns to attraction, causing him $24.99 Jacketed Hardcover to re-evaluate his own notions of beauty and sexuality. Tina’s motives in Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary working for Martin are slowly turned upside-down as well, leading towards 120 pages, two-color, 9 ½” x 10 ½” the book’s inevitable, explosive ending. Throughout it all, Ripple is a complex Territory: E • CQ: 24 love story poked and prodded from all angles, from Martin and Tina’s ISBN 978-1-68396-026-3 physical and emotional feelings toward each other, Martin’s dishonesty to himself, Tina’s self-loathing, and everything in between. Sad, funny, and • Author events often uncomfortably titillating, Ripple is a remarkably introspective graphic • Digital ARC novel, rendered with kinetic realism. • Age range: 18+ • From the co-creator and co-executive producer of Nickelodeon’s Pig Boat DAVE COOPER lives in Ontario, Canada. Banana Cricket

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

“Cooper’s style fairly drains the sexually explicit story of prurient interest without, however, making it repulsive. Truly and honorably, a graphic novel for adults only.” — Booklist

“Ripple is by no means a love affair you’d want to get close to, but fascinating to watch it crumble from afar.” — The Guardian

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WHEN WE ALL ATE WONDERBREAD by Nicole Hollander

A VETERAN CARTOONIST WRYLY OBSERVES HER OWN CHILDHOOD

Nicole Hollander’s internationally syndicated comic strip, , 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 160 pages, full color, 8” x 11 ¼” NICOLE HOLLANDER’s work has been archived in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Territory: E • CQ: 20 Library at , alongside Roz Chast’s, ’s, and ISBN 978-1-68396-010-2 other greats. She has published fifteen books, and blogs at badgirlchats.com. She lives in Chicago. • Review attention • A debut graphic novel from a feminist “Nicole Hollander is a national treasure.” — The Nation icon

• Great gift idea “The toughest woman in America.” — The Village Voice • Digital PDF • Off-the-book-page features “Because Hollander picked up on stories that were truly significant, it often seems like she could 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.” —

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A few days later, in Massacara… A bus that hurtles After this trip, down a pass at 80, TEN THOUSAND YEARS IN HELL nothing will no brakes, using only ever surprise the ruts to stay on me again! the road… by M. Tillieux; translated by Jenna Allen

PRIVATE EYE GIL JORDAN RETURNS!

We'll catch a You've got taxi. They'll be to come here able to suggest Fantagraphics is proud to follow up 2010’s inaugural edition of Maurice to see it!! a hotel. Tillieux’s classic early-1960s Gil Jordan adventures Murder by High Tide with a new double dose of classic stories. “Ten Thousand Years in Hell” marks a sharp departure from the moody, urban detective thrillers of Jordan’s previous

adventures: Instead, after a feint in that direction, it turns into a rollicking, Lemme outta here!! At that moment, thanks to a This driver is nuttier than private flight, Carlos arrived the first one! All the drivers in Massacara and prepared comedic South American prison escape yarn. are nuts in this country!!! to get in on the action… The second story, “Boom and Bust,” finds the duo’s countryside jaunt turned into an ad-hoc investigation by a spectacular vehicular washout and a suspiciously noisy enclosure. Tillieux’s freewheeling storytelling and masterful

graphics remind the reader why he was considered one of the top Franco- Where are At the Chaco Where's Right here! I they? Hotel! the letter? dunno how, but I know you'll get Belgian cartoonists of the time — indeed, any time. Readers of all ages who the job done and done well! are eager to dig deeper than Tintin and explore the history of other cartoonists working in that distinctive, cleanly drawn comedy/adventure register will $19.99 Hardcover enjoy the Gil Jordan books. Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary

10 96 pages, full color, 8 ¼” x 11 ½” I'm glad to see So you're the fella who laughed you boys! his way to 10,000 years! I'm gonna make you sweat! You're gonna leave Territory: E • CQ: 26 here as dry as tissue paper!” Born in 1921, MAURICE TILLIEUX, was best known for the 16-volume Gil He's a sadist! ISBN 978-1-68396-030-0 Jordan series but he was also a prolific writer for other artists. He died in an automobile accident in 1978. • Digital ARC (PDF) • Perfect for fans of Tintin Assigned to shack number 8, Here's your I have to put up with this center block 2… It's lousy rags! guy for 10,000 years?! “Murder by High Tide is excellent, showing off the strengths of the Eurocomics tradition, with with lice, but they're nothing • Age Range: 11+ compared to the heat! its sprawling narratives spread across small panels, mixing cartoony characters and elaborate backgrounds.” — The A.V. Club

“Murder by High Tide is a ton of fun and the full-color art, beautifully produced and fairly bursting

with sweat beads, stink lines, and other emanate, is an animated delight.” — Booklist You'll see! ALSO AVAILABLE: Spiders big as pie plates! Murder by High Tide, $18.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-451-1

...PUNCHED UP? Enter! The cut's not bad, but I'd say the tailoring could But of course! be punched up a bit…

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Gilbert Hernandez COMICS DEMENTIA

A LOVE AND ROCKETS BOOK

The Love and Rockets Collections Heartbreak Soup Human Diastrophism Beyond Luba and Her Family Ofelia Comics Dementia $14.95 $14.95 $16.95 $18.99 $19.99 $19.99 ISBN 978-1-56097-783-4 ISBN 978-1-56097-848-0 ISBN 978-1-56097-882-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-753-6 ISBN 978-1-60699-806-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-907-3

The “B” Movie Graphic Novels

Chance in Hell $16.95, ISBN 978-1-56097-833-6 Love from the Shadows $19.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-406-1 The Troublemakers $19.99, ISBN 978-1-56097-922-7 MONTHJULY

MARIA M. by Gilbert Hernandez

A CRIME-NOIR MASTERPIECE FROM A LIVING LEGEND

This brutal, original crime from the co-creator of Love and Rockets tells the story of femme fatale Maria M., whose life south of the border is a sordid tale of sex, drugs, violence, and power. When she comes to America for a better life, she marries a drug kingpin, whose son learns Maria’s darkest secret, leading to the most violent gangland bloodbath in organized crime history. Maria M. collects 2013’s Maria M. Book One (now out of print), and the never- before-published Book Two, presenting the complete graphic novel for the first time. Longtime readers of Hernandez’s books will recognize a meta-twist worthy of Maria M.’s pulpy pages: Maria M. doubles as a “biopic” of the mother of Hernandez’s most beloved character: Luba from Love and Rockets!

GILBERT HERNANDEZ lives in Las Vegas, NV with his wife and daughter.

$29.99 Jacketed Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary “Hernandez has become the medium’s David Lynch or Guy Maddin, rolling his personal obsessions and freewheeling abstractions into stories that present as pulp, then take some very weird turns.” 270 pages, black and white, 6” x 8 ¾” — The A.V. Club Territory: E CQ: 24 ISBN 978-1-68396-016-4 “Hernandez is one of the great craftsmen of modern comics.” — The New York Times Book Review

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29 MONTHJULY

VAGUE TALES by Eric Haven

A GENRE MASH-UP FOR MODERN TIMES

While experiencing a succession of bewildering parallel universes, a solitary figure has telepathic encounters with a demonic aviatrix, a wandering crystalline being, a flaming sword-wielding warrior, and a mysterious sorceress, all within the confines of his own apartment. Vague Tales is the debut graphic novel from Eisner Award- nominated cartoonist Eric Haven (UR), who moonlighted as a three-time Emmy- nominated Producer on the TV show MythBusters and has contributed short comic stories for years to esteemed publications such as The Believer and . Haven’s work is dark, absurdist, and deadpan, reflecting the apocalyptic undercurrent of modern times. His inky, rubbery drawings buttress his black, absurdist humor.

ERIC HAVEN lives in Oakland, CA with his wife Diana and two baffling house cats.

“Haven’s tone is lighthearted, thanks to a deliberately stiff, mannered style reminiscent of both Michael $16.99 Hardcover Kupperman and outsider cartoonist .” — Publishers Weekly Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary 64 pages, full color, 6” x 9” “Haven pushes the boundaries of the medium with a dark sense of humor that explores how we are transformed every day – sometimes without even realizing it. The artistic vocabulary is highly personal, the Territory: E • CQ: 56 use of metaphor and symbols a language of Haven’s own invention.” — Broken Frontier ISBN 978-1-68396-032-4

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30 AUGUSTMONTH

WHATSA PAINTOONIST? by Jerry Moriarty

A SURPRISING GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM A REVERED ARTIST

At the age of 76, the painter/cartoonist Jerry Moriarty moved from his studio loft in Manhattan, where he lived and worked for 49 years, to his childhood home in Binghamton, New York, where he spent his first 12 years. The artist uses this as an opportunity to interrogate his past via the act of painting as a mnemonic. He invents the teenaged Sally, based upon his sister Pat, with whom he talks and shares his paintings: “The painting becomes a time machine and I am there in the past visiting my Dad,” he tells her. The book alternates between unconventional pen-and-ink sequential panels that take place in the artist’s present self as he converses with the past; and full-color, acrylic paintings in the manner of David Hockney and Edward Hopper recreating his recollection of that same past. Whatsa Paintoonist? is a masterpiece of concision, remembrance, imagination, and artistry, imbued with the love of life and the love of the artist’s own life. $24.99 Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary 88 pages, black and white and color, JERRY MORIARTY is an artist and teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New 10” x 13” York City. Territory: E • CQ: 16 ISBN 978-1-68396-033-1 “Jerry Moriarty is one of the great geniuses of the comic strip. He has prepared a body of mostly • From the creator of the cult classic, unseen work that is unmatched for its accessibility and humanity in the accepted history of Jack Survives painting and visual narrative. As clear and loud as a distilled recollection, Jerry’s art vibrates with • Review attention a balanced uncertainty that feels as fleeting as life itself; one is left with the sensation of having seen into the mind of the artist himself and, by turn, one’s own memories, which every day grow • Digital ARC more rounded and distant.” — Chris Ware • Age range: 15+

31 MONTH

“Nonconformity comes as second nature to Robert Williams. Famed as one of the original artists alongside but perhaps best known for his 1979 painting Appetite for Destruction, which provided both the title and cover art for Guns N’ Roses’ debut album, Williams is a West Coast art icon and underground culture legend.” — The Guardian

32 AUGUSTMONTH

ROBERT WILLIAMS: THE FATHER OF THE FATHER OF EXPONENTIAL IMAGINATION EXPONENTIAL IMAGINATION DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, & SCULPTURES by Robert Williams; Introduction by Mat Gleason

THE DEFINITIVE BOOK OF A DEFINING FIGURE IN MODERN DRAWINGS, ART PAINTINGS, & SCULPTURES Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination is a comprehensive career- spanning, comprehensive collection of the iconic painter’s fine art, including every one of his remarkable oil paintings along with a presentation of his drawings, sculptures, and works in other media. Simply put, this is the art book of the decade, and the book that Williams has been working toward his entire career. In the late 20th and early 21st century, diverse forms of commonplace and popular art appeared to be coalescing into a formidable faction of new painted realism. The new school of imagery was a product of art that didn’t fit $150.00 Hardcover comfortably into the accepted definition of fine art. It embraced some of the Art / Individual Artists figurative graphics that formal art academia tended to reject: comic books, movie 12” x 14”, full color, 450 pages posters, trading cards, surfer art, hot rod illustration, to mention a few. Territory: E CQ: 5 This alternative art movement found its most apt participant in oneof ISBN 978-1-68396-027-0 America’s most controversial underground artists, the painter, Robert Williams. It was this artist who brought the term “” into the fine arts lexicon, with Review attention his groundbreaking 1979 book, The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams. Williams Great gift idea pursued a career as a fine arts painter years before joining the art studio of Ed Career retrospective “Big Daddy” Roth in the mid-1960s. From this position he moved into the Cross-promotion with Juxtapoz rebellious, anti-war circles of early , as one of the celebrated magazine ZAP cartoonists. Museum shows and author events Featuring an introductory essay by Coagula Art Journal founder Mat Gleason Age range: 17+ along with a new art manifesto and foreword by Williams himself, as well as tons of rare photos and ephemera.

ROBERT WILLIAMS is the founder of Juxtapoz magazine and the subject of a recent documentary, Mr. Bitchin’. He lives in Chatsworth, CA with his wife Suzanne.

33 AUGUSTMONTH

OTHERWORLD BARBARA VOL. 2 Oh ...

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS it feels OTHERWORLD by Where... so nice. BARBARA 2 Moto Hagio MYSTERIES ARE REVEALED IN AN EPIC CONCLUSION

Nanami had sworn to never see her granddaughter, Aoba, again. A despairing Kiriya ...am I? had rejected his father, Tokio. Yet now both are traveling with Tokio to Engaru, where Aoba has slept and dreamt of the island of Barbara for seven years. The poltergeist phenomena become more intense. Aoba seems desperate. Is her world coming to an end? And does that end mean the end of the world, one hundred years in the future? What is the connection between Ezra, Johannes Sera, Paris, Pine, and a senile old man called “Doctor Azzurro?” What truth hides in the ravings of an increasingly unhinged Akemi? In the end, it comes down to a father’s frantic efforts to save the life of his son. But...which son? Who is the dreamer and who is the dreamed? Can the dreamer become the dreamed, and the dreamed the dreamer? We’re in the This is the second (and concluding) volume in Moto Hagio’s critically acclaimed, Martian ocean. monumental science fiction saga which won the “Nebula Award of Japan” (Nihon SG Taisho Award) in 2006. $39.99 Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / / SF 400 pages, black and white, 7 ½” x 10 ½” MOTO HAGIO lives in Tokyo, Japan. But there’s The Martian ocean no ocean Territory: E • CQ: 10 disappeared on Mars. hundreds of millions of ISBN 978-1-68396-023-2 years ago. “Her lines are thin and precise, and her figures are lithe and fashionable. These wispy, curvilinear lines • From the founder of modern Shojo give the book an expressive texture, and , to its benefit, at times resembles the Manga refreshing of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Hagio’s facility with sharply drawn and complex characters cannot help but beam through the heady sci-fi ideas.” – The A.V. Club • Review attention This is Mars’ memory. • Digital ARC “Otherworld Barbara Vol. 1 haunts you like a dream and is the kind of book that could hook an occasional • Age range: 13+ manga reader into the world of Japanese comics for good. Dreamy, complex (but not incomprehensible) memory…? and eerie, it evokes Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Solaris and Lars von Trier’s miniseries The Kingdom in its atmospheric unfurling.” – Paste Magazine

Yes. Does a planet ALSO AVAILABLE: have memories…? Otherworld Barbara Vol. 1 ISBN 978-1-60699-943-1

was simultaneously I told you individual and before. collective. Martian life...

34 AUGUSTMONTH

UNREAL CITY by D.J. Bryant

THE DEBUT GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM A SINGULAR TALENT

Unreal City contains five highly charged stories about relationships: “Echoes into Eternity,” “Evelyn Dalton-Hoyt,” “Emordana,” “The Yellowknife Retrospective,” and “Objet d’Art.” The stories address gender, narcissism, marriage, subjectivity, objectification, and the thin line that divides love from . Bryant’s characters sometimes feel like they are navigating their way through the darkness in an attempt to make sense of love, sex, art, and life. Existential and elliptical, the stories play beautifully against Bryant’s precise and fully-realized artwork, which echoes such masters as and Daniel Clowes. In Unreal City, characters cannot walk into a room without their world turning inside out. Readers will be similarly upended by the discovery of this major new talent.

$16.99 Hardcover D.J. BRYANT has contributed art to comics anthologies Cinema Sewer, Typhon, Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary and . Originally from Alaska, he lives in Seattle, Washington. 72 pages, black and white, 10” x 12 ½” Territory: E • CQ: 24 ISBN 978-1-60699-880-9

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35 AUGUSTMONTH

MY PRETTY VAMPIRE Fantagraphics Books, Inc. by Katie Skelly

Katie MY PRETTY VAMPIRE Skelly A SEX POSITIVE VAMPIRE ROMP

Clover — the “pretty” vampire of the title — is a Bardot-esque blonde who dreams of the (now dead) girl she once was four years ago before becoming a fanged bloodsucker. She is being kept prisoner by her brother, Marcel, who fears Clover will be hunted by the outside world (and who may have other, more selfish motivations as well). Clover’s curiosity, however, will not be suppressed: impetuous, sensual, strong-willed, and fearless, she plans her escape. The resultant havoc would make Dario Argento proud. My Pretty Vampire is a sexy, sophisticated horror romp that heralds author Katie Skelly as a powerful voice in comics. Her inherently sexy work wears its colorful Pop sensibility and keen fashion sense on its sleeve; that her strong visual style and sex-positive attitude is in the service of such strong female characters and emotionally rich work makes for a wonderfully moody, $19.99 Hardcover progressive, and engaging read. Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary 108 pages, full color, 8 ½” x 11” Territory: E CQ: 24 KATIE SKELLY lives in New York City. Her previous books include Nurse Nurse ISBN 978-1-68396-020-1 (Sparkplug, 2012) and Operation: Margarine (AdHouse, 2014).

Review attention Author events “Blending the elongated limbs of Guido Crepax and bulbous bodies of Guy Peellaert, Skelly’s aesthetic is singularly her own. However, there is utility in her style, and her comics don’t simply Digital ARC look good. She uses her paradoxical aesthetic—both heavily cartooned and broadly erotic—to Twitter: @nurse_nurse affect her audience precisely how she wants to.” — The A.V. Club Tumblr: katieskelly.tumblr.com Instagram: @skellyskellyskelly Age range: 18+

36 AUGUSTMONTH

STREET FIGHTING MEN: SPAIN VOL. 1 STREET FIGHTING MEN SPAIN VOL. 1 by by spain rodriguez THE FIRST VOLUME COLLECTING THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THE UNDERGROUND COMIX GREAT

Spain Rodriguez is a legend in comix, whose life story was as exciting as the adventures of his comic book protagonists. Mentored by an artist mom, drawn to comic books and juvenile delinquency, a motorcycle outlaw, an influential artistic force in the , and one of the original seven samurai of Zap Comix, this is the first volume in another historic landmark series from Fantagraphics. His alter ego , Agent of the Sixth International, sworn to fight the oppressor with his brothers and sisters… especially the sisters (ahem). The 170 pages of Trashman stories that Spain drew throughout his career form the backbone of this volume, along with his first hand accounts of riding with the Road Vultures Motorcycle Club (a gang once considered so dangerous that the police chief of Buffalo, New York, declared war on them) and his 1969 series about cop corruption, Manning. This first volume is $29.99 Paperback Original rounded with an informative inside account of Spain’s life and loves in the Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary emerging of New York’s Lower East Side. 280 pages, black and white, 8” x 11 ¼” Territory: E • CQ: 16 ISBN 978-1-68396-029-4 MANUEL RODRIGUEZ (1940–2012), better known as Spain, was one of the • Review attention great American underground cartoonists. • A new historic landmark series from Fantagraphics “Hard-charging biker. Class warfare revolutionary. Pioneering underground cartoonist. • Digital ARC Loving family man. That was Spain Rodriguez.” — Chronicle • Age range: 18+

ALSO AVAILABLE: Cruisin’ with the Hound $19.99 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1-60699- 461-0

37 AUGUSTMONTH

LAST GIRL STANDING by

THE FIRST LADY OF UNDERGROUND COMIX PENS A SWEET AND BLISTERING MEMOIR

Born on the cusp of WWII in 1938, at a time when other little girls dreamed of being nurses and secretaries, Trina Robbins’s ambition was to be a bohemian; and indeed she did. She chronicles a life of sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll — and comics — in Last Girl Standing. Robbins describes her upbringing in Queens, New York, reading comics through her childhood in the 1940s; visiting the EC offices and becoming part of SF (dating at age 16); and posing nude for men’s magazines in the 1950s; living in the Village, over her own boutique where she made clothes for and interacted with rock royalty like David Crosby, Donovan, Cass Elliot; her close relationship with Paul Williams; entering the orbit of underground cartoonists like , R. Crumb, Vaughn Bodé, and , when she started contributing comics to The East Village Other; and, in the ’70s, moving to San Francisco, contending with the phallocentric underground scene, marrying , co-founding $19.99 Paperback Original Wimmen’s Comix, and being invited into Felch Comics (she declined); her work Comics & Graphic Novels / Memoir for the National Lampoon, , and Eclipse in the 1980s; and her 160 pages, illustrated, 6” x 9” crisis as a cartoonist and transformation into an historian and lecturer in the Territory: E • CQ: 36 ’90s and 2000s. ISBN 978-1-68396-014-0 From science fiction to the Sunset Strip, from New York’s underground newspapers to San Francisco’s underground comix: Trina Robbins broke • Review attention the rules and broke the law. From dressing Mama Cass to being pelted with • A major addition to comics history jelly babies as she helped photograph the Rolling Stones’s first US tour, from • Digital ARC drunken New York nights spent with Morrison to producing the very first • Age range: 17+ all-woman comic book, this former Lady of the Canyon takes no prisoners in this heavily illustrated memoir.

ALSO AVAILABLE: The Complete Wimmen’s Comix TRINA ROBBINS lives in San Francisco, CA. She was inducted into the Will $100 Two-volume Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2013. hardcover boxed set, ISBN 978-1-60699-898-4 “Trina Robbins changed the game for women comic artists.” — The Huffington Post

38 AUGUSTMONTH

MICHAEL DORMER AND THE LEGEND OF HOT CURL edited by Michael Powers and Eric Reynolds

AN ICON OF SURF CULTURE GETS HIS DUE

Michael Dormer is synonymous with the California surf counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s. The post-World War II influence of Beatnik poetry, jazz, and art interpretation around the California Coast created a revolution in the Orange County surf world, and no one defined the visual style of this movement more than Michael Dormer. His career as an artist took off in the 1960s, when he created Hot Curl, the mop-haired, knobby-kneed, pot bellied surfer who quickly became a nationwide sensation, appearing regularly in SurfToons magazine (and still appearing regularly in Surfer magazine). He also created the cult classic 1960s TV show Shrimpenstein, an off-beat children’s show featuring a miniature Frankenstein monster, which was a favorite of Sinatra’s. $39.99 Hardcover Michael Dormer and the Legend of Hot Curl is the first-ever retrospective Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary of this unique artist’s work, culled from the late artist’s own archives and 200 pages, black and white and color, collecting all of his Hot Curl comic strips for SurfToons, his designs for 8” x 11” Shrimpenstein, a vast selection of his fine art, and other surprises, such as the Territory: E • CQ: 18 artwork he created for the opening credits of 1964’s Muscle film ISBN 978-1-68396-017-1 starring and .

• Great gift idea • Review attention MICHAEL DORMER (1935-2012) spent most of his life in Ocean Beach in • Digital ARC San Diego, CA, where his artwork remains ubiquitous in the area’s coffee houses, watering holes, and surf shacks. • Age range: 13+

39 AUGUSTMONTH

THE END OF THE FUCKING WORLD By Charles Forsman NEW IN TIME FOR THE CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES EDITION!

Originally release to critical and public acclaim in 2013, Charles Forsman’s graphic novel debut, The End of the Fucking World, will be adapted in 2017 as an 8-episode television drama on the UK’s Channel 4, with distribution via U.S. streaming to follow immediately thereafter (details t.b.a). Fantagraphics is proud to publish this first-ever hardcover edition of TEotFW in conjunction with the televised adaptation. TEotFW follows James and Alyssa, two teenagers living a seemingly typical teen experience as they face the fear of coming adulthood. Forsman tells their story through each character’s perspective, jumping between points of view with each chapter. But quickly, this somewhat familiar teenage experience takes a more nihilistic turn as James’s character exhibits a rapidly forming sociopathy that threatens both of their futures. He harbors violent fantasies and begins to act on them, while Alyssa remains as willfully ignorant for as $19.99 Hardcover long as she can, blinded by young love. Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary Forsman’s story highlights the disdain, fear and existential search that many 176 pages, black-and-white, 5 ¼” x 6 ¾” teenagers fear, but through a road trip drama that owes as much to Badlands Territory: E • CQ: 32 as Forsman’s inviting, deadpan visual style owes to Charles Schulz, creating a ISBN 978-1-60699-983-7 wholly unique narrative tension between form and content. (Previous paperback original edition: 978-1-60699-667-6)

• Soon to be a television series on UK’s CHUCK FORSMAN is arguably the most acclaimed talent to come out of Channel 4 and available via U.S. the Center for Cartoon Studies. A two-time winner, he lives streaming (details t.b.a.) in Hancock, Mass, and is currently creating the Revenger comic book series. • Digital ARC • Age range: 15+ “This debut graphic novel is a haunting odyssey, a visceral comic, full of deeply unsettling violent images and actions, though Forsman’s minimalist style helps keep the focus on the impact of the events, not the horror itself… Forsman has crafted a comic that captures youth, frustration, and that deep, dark feeling that maybe things won’t get better when you get older.” — Publishers Weekly

ALSO AVAILABLE: Celebrated Summer $16.99 Flexibound Original, ISBN 978-1- 60699-685-0

40 INDEX

B Barks, Carl 6-7 M Malet, Léo 22 U Uncle Scrooge 6-7, 12-13 Bradbury, Ray 15 Maria M. 29 Unreal City 35 Bryant, D.J. 35 Melendez, Bill 5 Michael Dormer and the V Vague Tales 30 C Clowes, Daniel 8-9 Legend of Hot Curl 39 Complete Peanuts, The 4-5 Mickey Mouse 18-19 W Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge and Cooper, Dave 25 Moore, Steven 17 Donald Duck 12-13 Cronenberg, David 25 Moriarty, Jerry 31 Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse 18-19 My Favorite Thing is Monsters 24 Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge 6-7 D Disney, Walt 6-7, 12-13, 18-19 My Pretty Vampire 36 Whatsa Paintoonist? 31 Donald Duck 6-7, 12-13 When We All Ate Wonderbread 26 Dormer, Michael 39 N New Low, A 23 Williams, Robert 32-33

E EC Artists Library Slipcase 16 O Olivares, Javier 10 EC Comics Library 14-16 On the Camino 1 End of the Fucking World, The 40 On the Decay of Criticism 17 Orlando, Joe 15 F Feldstein, Al 15 Otherworld Barbara 34 Ferris, Emil 24 Fog Over Tolbiac Bridge 22 P Panter, Gary 3 Forsman, Chuck 40 Pearson, Jesse 23 Foster, Hal 20-21 Prince Valiant 20-21

G Garcia, Santiago 10 R Ripple 25 Gottfredson, Floyd 18-19 Robbins, Trina 38 Robert Williams: The Father of H Hagio, Moto 34 Exponential Imagination 32-33 Haven, Eric 30 Rodriguez, Spain 37 Hernandez, Gilbert 28-29 Rosa, Don 12-13 Hollander, Nicole 2 Ryan, Johnny 23

I I Killed Adolf Hitler 2 S Schulz, Charles M. 4-5 In the Pines 11 Skelly, Katie 36 Songy of Paradise 3 J Jason 1-2 Spackman, W.M. 17 Spain Vol. 1 37 K Kriek, Erik 11 T Tardi, Jacques 22 L Ladies-in-Waiting, The 10 Ten Thousand Years in Hell 27 Last Girl Standing 38 Thing From the Grave and Other Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron 8-9 Stories, The 15 2 Tillieux, M. 27 of the World’s Greatest blisher Cartoo Pu nists Since 1976

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