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orld’sG re WINTER 2020 isher of the W atest Cartoo Publ nists BOOKS & COMICS WINTER 2020 WINTER 2020 7563 lake city way ne • seattle, wa 98115 • usa telephone: 206-524-1967 • fax: 206-524-2104 customer service: 800-657-1100 [email protected] • www.fantagraphics.com Distributed to the book trade in the In Japan: In Singapore, Malaysia: General Inquiries United States by: [email protected] Rockbook – Gilles Fauveau Pansing Distribution Pte Ltd Sales & Distribution Martin Bland W.W. NORTON AND COMPANY, INC. Expirime 5F 10-10 Ichibancho 1 New Industrial Road [email protected] 500 Fifth Avenue Chiyoda-ku Times Centre Publicity Jacq Cohen New York, NY 10110 102-0082 Tokyo Singapore 536196 [email protected] Tel.: 212-354-5500 Japan Tel (65) 6319 9939 Marketing Jennifer Chan Fax: 212-869-0856 Tel: (81) 90 9700 2481 Fax (65) 6459 4930 [email protected] Order Dept. Tel.: 800-233-4830 Tel: (81) 90 3962 4650 email: [email protected] Events Emily Silva email: [email protected] Order Dept. 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Editorial Assistance Kristy Valenti, RJ 664 Annette Street Tel (852) 2413 5322 Casey, Mike Catron, and Conrad Groth Toronto, ON M6S 2C8 Fax (852) 2413 7049 Tel.: 416-516-0911 email: [email protected] Catalog Design & Production Fax: 416-516-0917 Paul Baresh, Justin Allan-Spencer, Toll-free fax: 1-888-563-8327 In People’s Republic of China: Keeli McCarthy, and Jacob Covey Email: [email protected] www.mandagroup.com Everest Internationl Publishing Services Printed in Canada Wei Zhao, Director In Australia and New Zealand: 1-1-2002 Wang Jing SOHO No. 1 East Futong Avenue John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. Chaoyang District 42 McDougall Street Beijing 100102 Milton, Queensland 4064 Tel: (86) 10 5707 6180 Tel (61) 7 3859 9755 Fax: (86) 10 5707 6128 Fax (61) 7 3859 9715 Mobile: (86) 13 6830 18054 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] JANUARY MAN AND SUPERMAN AND OTHER STORIES By Harvey KurtzmaN All of Harvey Kurtzman’s rare EC genre fiction in a MAN AND single volume! SUPERMAN Before he created Mad, before he created his scrupulously researched and AND OTHER STORIES BY HARVEY KURTZMAN emotionally wrenching war comics (Two-Fisted Tales, Frontline Combat), Harvey Kurtzman got his start at EC with his meticulously crafted science fiction, crime, and horror stories. This latest volume in The Fantagraphics EC Artists’ Library collects all of Kurtzman’s rarely seen early EC stories, mainly from the pages of Weird Science and Weird Fantasy, but also from Tales from the Crypt, Haunt of Fear, Vault of Horror, and Crime SuspenStories. Kurtzman illustrates twist-ending stories written by Al Feldstein, including “Lost in the Microcosm,” “The Man Who Raced Time,” and “Atom Bomb Thief.” $29.99 Hardcover But unlike most other EC artists, Kurtzman also often wrote and drew his Comics & Graphic Novels / Science own stories, as in “The Radioactive Child,” “The Last War on Earth,” and Fiction our title story, “Man and Superman” — a cautionary tale about the how the 180 pages, black and white, 7¼" × 10¼" laws of physics would impact a real-world superhero, delivered in Kurtzman’s Territory: E • CQ: 24 uniquely bold, slashing, cartoony-but-dead-serious style. ISBN 978-1-68396-275-5 Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists’ Library, Man And Superman and Other Stories features extensive essays and notes on these classic • Age Range: 14 and up stories written by EC experts. • Targeted social media & newsletter outreach Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame artist/writer/editor HARVEY KURTZMAN • Co-op available (1924–1993) created the all-time greatest satirical comic book (Mad), the most widely-read adult comic strip (“Little Annie Fanny” in Playboy), and one of the earliest graphic novels (The Jungle Book, 1959). The annual Harvey Awards are ALSO AVAILABLE: named in his honor. Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad And Revolutionized “Harvey Kurtzman has been the single most significant influence on a couple of generations of Humor In America comics artists” — Richard Corliss, Time $34.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-761-1 For more books in the EC Comics Library, see pages 20–21. 1 JANUARY NOW #8: THE NEW COMICS ANTHOLOGY By VarIouS; EdIted By ErIc ReyNoldS The 2018 Eisner Award-nominated anthology series continues with another entirely self-contained collection of short comics genius! Now enters its third year of existence firmly established as the pre-eminent anthology of first-rate comics talent from around the globe. Focusing on short stories and eschewing typical genre fiction, every issue is an entirely self-contained cross-section of the best comics has to offer, at a price point that is unrivaled in contemporary comics publishing. Previous issues have featured such acclaimed voices as Eleanor Davis, Dash Shaw, Gabrielle Bell, Noah Van Sciver, Tommi Parrish, Sammy Harkham, Ben Passmore, M. Dean, Julian Glander, and many other internationally revered practicioners of the form. $9.99 Paperback Original Comics & Graphic Novels / erIc REYNoldS is the Associate Publisher of Fantagraphics Books and lives in Anthologies Seattle, WA with his wife and daughter. 128 pages, full color, 7⅛" × 10⅛" Territory: E • CQ: 48 ISBN 978-1-68396-276-2 “Editor Eric Reynolds has assembled a group of cartoonists who are fiercely confident in their unique approaches to comic book storytelling.” — The A.V. Club • Age Range: 16 and up “Now graphically encapsulates series editor Reynolds’s subversive yet tactically balanced • A 2018 Eisner Award nominee approach to the craft of editing. ” — Los Angeles Review of Books • Targeted social media & newsletter outreach “It’s like a special comic art festival just for you and your cat, without the agonizing small talk.” — Broken Frontier • Contributor signings & festival events • Co-op available For previous issues in this series, see page 22. 2 JANUARY POISON FLOWERS & PANDEMONIUM By RIcHard Sala The master of comics macabre returns with three new graphic novellas in one! In this special Richard Sala omnibus, you get not one, not two, but three new books in one! First up is “The Amazing Adventures of Fantomina Fantomella,” a graphic novella of vengeance and non-stop action. Priest and his mob thought Fantomina was dead. So how is it that she’s come back? And how is it that no one can seem to stop her from taking her brutal revenge on the city’s evil oppressors? This non-stop action thriller features another determined and unstoppable heroine from the cartoonist who created such strong, independent females in Peculia, Violenzia, and Cat Burglar Black. Meanwhile, in “Cave Girls Of The Lost World,” a group of young women are suddenly stranded on a strange plateau when their plane goes down $22.99 Paperback Original en route to school. They soon realize they are cut off from civilization in Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror a land forgotten by time and rife with dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and 200 pages, full color, 7" × 9¾" apemen — but these intelligent, brave, and resourceful women are ready to Territory: E • CQ: 20 rumble! This quirky, campy adventure story is a showcase for Sala’s lovely ISBN 978-1-68396-274-8 watercolor artwork and his love of b-movies. The third and final section is “Monsters Illustrated.” A young woman • Age Range: 14 and up enters a strange old bookstore and begins reading a catalog of monsters from • National review coverage every corner of the earth and beyond. This “book within a book” is presented • Targeted social media & newsletter with watercolor and ink drawings. What will happen when the young woman outreach reaches the end of the book and why is the bookstore owner looking at her • Advance Reading Copies with such curious eyes? Poison Flowers & Pandemonium will please fans of Richard Sala’s quirky and • Co-op available offbeat works three times over and perhaps introduce him to a whole new audience. rIcHARD SALA lives in Berkeley, CA. “Sala’s work feels both vintage and fresh, a nod to its influences while managing to stand on its own. His work is instantly recognizable as his, perhaps the greatest benchmark of an artist.” — Electric Literature “Brilliantly atmospheric art, full of shadows and spikes.” — Booklist For other books by Richard Sala, “To read a Richard Sala comic is an experience both jarring and fun.