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NOW: THE NEW COMICS ANTHOLOGY #4 By Various; Edited by Eric Reynolds

A new, ongoing showcase of the world’s best cartoonists.

Debuting in 2017 to widespread acclaim and commercial success, this fourth issue of Now continues the mission already established: to present over 100 pages of all new short comics fiction by a host of established and up-and-coming talent from around the globe. This issue is scheduled to include: Trenton Doyle Hancock (who contributes this issue’s cover), J.C. Menu, Roman Muradov, María Medem, Walt Holcombe, Rebecca Kirby, Noah Van Sciver, Jesse Reklaw, Matthias Lehmann, Walker Tate, Nick Thorburn, and many other surprises. With an incredibly diverse line-up and unbelievable price point, find out why Now is the most talked-about comics anthology in years.

ERIC REYNOLDS is the Associate Publisher of Fantagraphics Books and lives $9.99 Paperback Original in Seattle, WA with his wife and daughter. Comics & Graphic Novels / Anthologies 120 pages, full color, 7 ⅛" x 10 ⅛" Territory: E • CQ: 48 “Editor Eric Reynolds delivers on the hype with NOW, a quarterly magazine-format comics ISBN 978-1-68396-121-5 anthology featuring a wide-ranging roster of international artists. At $9.99 for more than 120 pages, it’s a far better value than most of the ongoing comics on stands. The styles shift wildly over • Low price point and focus on short the course of each issue, and Reynolds has assembled a group of cartoonists who are fiercely confident in their unique approaches to comic book storytelling.” – The AV Club stories make every issue a great sampler of contemporary comics “Reading through this book made me realize just how much I’d missed having a top-quality • Author events anthology available on a consistent basis at a price that didn’t break the bank. I wish it had • Review attention happened sooner, absolutely — but I’m glad it’s happening Now.”— Daily Grindhouse • Digital ARC by request • Age range: 16+

ALSO AVAILABLE: Now #1 ISBN 978-2-68396-052-2 Now #2 ISBN 978-1-68396-076-8 Now #3 ISBN 978-1-68396-099-7

1 SEPTEMBER

MICKEY MOUSE: THE GREATEST ADVENTURES By Floyd Gottfredson with Walt Disney, Merrill De Maris, and Bill Walsh

Who knew? Way back in comics’ Golden Age, Mickey Mouse wasn’t just a cartoon star—he was a death-defying, crime-stopping, daily strip hero! Dive into this book and see Mickey race to a Wild West gold mine with Pegleg Pete, battle the evil Rhyming Man for an atom-smashing machine, and stop a horrible hypnotist from hexing half of Mouseton. And that’s just the start! Fantagraphics is celebrating 90 years of Mickey Mouse’s adventures by assembling the best stories from its 14-volume Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse series. In this spectacular popular edition there are several extra-wild, extra-beloved adventure stories embellished with beautiful modern color and re-formatted for an easy read: “Mickey Mouse in Death Valley,” “The Gleam” $49.99 Hardcover and more! Humor / Cartoons & Comic Strips 304 pages, full color, 8 ½" x 11" Territory: X • CQ: 8 Hired as a short-term replacement in 1930, FLOYD GOTTFREDSON went ISBN 978-1-68396-122-2 on to draw Mickey Mouse for the next 45 years.

• Mickey Mouse remains Disney’s most beloved superstar—with the current “Gottfredson drew Mickey with a nosy snout and the bright eyes of an adrenalin junkie. The mouse’s Mickey Mouse TV series by Paul diminutive size inspired Gottfredson to have the character attempt daredevil races, leaping stunts, Rudish now a sensation on Disney and develop a flurry-fisted fighting style… [Gottfredson gave] the Great Rodent his humanity.” — Channel and online! Entertainment Weekly • Volume 1 of Fantagraphics’ Floyd Gottfredson Library: Over 30,000 copies sold! • Great gift idea for Disneyana fans • Age range: 5+ • Digital ARC by request

For more books in this series, see page 28

2 SEPTEMBER WALT DISNEY’S DONALD DUCK NOT FINAL COVER NOT “THE BLACK PEARLS OF “A CHRISTMAS FOR SHACKTOWN” TABU YAMA” & “TRICK OR TREAT” GIFT BOX SET

© 2018 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2018 © By Carl Barks By Carl Barks $29.99 Hardcover $49.99 Hardcover Boxed Set Humor / Cartoons & Comic Strips Humor / Cartoons & Comic Stripsn 200 pages, full color, 7 ½" x 10 ¼" 468 pages combined, full color, 7 ½" x 10 ¼" Territory: X • CQ: 18 Territory: X • CQ: 6 ISBN 978-1-68396-123-9 ISBN 978-1-68396-124-6

An exploding volcano, a dinosaur stampede, and a rocket race around the world!

In our title story, it’s Christmastime, and Donald, Uncle Scrooge, and the nephews are searching for rare black pearls on a remote island. But when their boat is sucked into an underwater cavern, they find themselves facing the fury of the island’s volcano! Then, to do battle against an invasive bug species, Donald and the boys head off to the uncharted jungles of the Amazon rainforest to bring back the bug’s natural enemy species. But a mystery foe, out to foil their mission, sends a crocodile stampede their way — which is only a warm-up to the stampede of dinosaurs they face when they get to The Forbidden Valley. No, it’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature! Also, when Gyro Gearloose invents a rocket to enter an “Around-the-World-in-80-Minutes” race, Donald agrees to pilot the ship — but he doesn’t know that his opponent is none other than Gladstone Gander — whose infernal luck never lets him lose! Carl Barks delivers another 170 pages of imaginative exuberance, rollicking high adventure, and all-around cartooning brilliance, in addition to insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. But that’s not all! We also have a double dose of further Donald Duck adventures! This season’s Carl Barks Library gift box collects our earlier volumes, A Christmas for Shacktown and Trick or Treat in a sturdy slipcase at a special price that even Uncle Scrooge would approve!

CARL BARKS (1901-2000), one of the most brilliant cartoonists of the 20th century, is a Disney Legend and has been inducted into the William Randolph Hearst Cartoon Hall of Fame and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. • Great gift ideas • Facebook fan page at facebook.com/ “Enormously well crafted and equally enormously entertaining, timeless comedy adventures … the perfect gift for just about any reader of comics, regardless of age, carlbarkslibrary background, or experience.” — School Library Journal • The definitive series collecting the greatest all ages adventure comic of all time • Age range: 5+ For more books in this series, see page 29

3 SEPTEMBER

TWISTS OF FATE By Paco Roca; Translated by Erica Mena

A fresh look at WWII from a 2017 Eisner Award nominee.

Using the vivid, yet previously undocumented, memories of Miguel Ruiz, a Spanish veteran exiled in France, award-winning graphic novelist Paco Roca reconstructs World War II through an international lens. Ruiz was a member of “La Nueve,” a company of men that went straight from fighting for their homeland in the Spanish Civil War to battles spanning the globe in WWII. Their trek across Europe and Africa was spurred on for years by their love for their country and hate for brutal dictatorships. With threads that seamlessly connect the present and the past, Ruiz’s stories that make up Twists of Fate are often filled with both horror and humor, hope and grief, giving those who only know the American side of World War II a brand-new, and often startling, perspective. The artist behind the Eisner-nominated Wrinkles (now a critically acclaimed animated movie on Netflix), Roca returns with a major graphic novel that $34.99 Hardcover features his trademark narrative mastery that blends compassion, humanity, Comics & Graphic Novels / Historical and sensitivity. Already winning worldwide awards and being called by one Fiction critic “the Spanish Maus,” Twists of Fate is much more than one forgotten 328 pages, full color, 7" x 9 ¾" hero’s personal story. It’s a necessary and timely look into what we remember Territory: E • CQ: 10 and why we forget, a reminder that everyone has a tale to tell, and an ode to a ISBN 978-1-60699-125-3 generation that bravely stood up to, and beat back, violent fascism.

• A major new book by one of the most internationally acclaimed graphic PACO ROCA (Francisco Martínez Roca) was born in Valencia, Spain in 1969. novelists working today • Review atention “Roca’s visual style is an appealing, effective amalgamation of cartoonishness and realism... • Twitter: @paco_roca distinguished by its gentle humor and sympathetic if ultimately unsparing compassion.” — • Digital ARC by request Booklist • Age Range: 15+

ALSO AVAILABLE: Wrinkles $19.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-932-5

4 SEPTEMBER THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1969-1970 (VOL.10) 1967-1970 GIFT BOX SET WORLDWIDE, LLC. WORLDWIDE, NOT FINAL COVER NOT (VOLS. 9 & 10) By Charles M. Schulz; By Charles M. Schulz; Introduction by Mo Willems Introductions by John Waters & Mo Willems © PEANUTS © PEANUTS $22.99 Paperback $39.99 Paperback Boxed Set Humor / Comic Strips & Cartoons Humor / Comic Strips & Cartoons 320 pages, black and white, 8 ¼" x 6 ½" 640 pages combined, black and white, 8 ¼" x 6 ½" Territory: F • CQ: 20 Territory: F • CQ: 8 ISBN 978-1-68396-126-0 ISBN 978-1-68396-127-7 (Previous hardcover edition: ISBN 978-1-56097-827-5) (Previous hardcover edition: ISBN 978-1-56097-948-7)

Woodstock propels Peanuts into the 1970s!

He turns up first as Snoopy’s secretary, then gradually becomes a good friend whom Snoopy helps to fly south... but it’s not until June 22, 1970, that the little bird gains a name, in a perfect salute to the decade that ends with this volume: Wood- stock! In other timely stories, Peppermint Patty runs afoul of her school’s dress code (those sandals!), Lucy declares herself a “New Feminist,” and Snoopy returns to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm on a speaking engagement! Vol. 10 also features an introduction by renowned children’s book author Mo Willems. As always for the fall, we are also offering a gift box edition collecting this season’s Vol. 10 and spring’s Vol. 9!

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

“The Complete Peanuts has framed Charles Schulz’s enduring masterpiece about as well any lifelong fan could’ve hoped.” — The A.V. Club

• Our most beloved series of all time continues in paperback! • Great gift idea • Digital ARC by request • Age range: all ages

For more books in this series, see pages 30-31 5 SEPTEMBER

PENGUINS By Nick Thorburn

A relentlessly surprising exploration of the language of comics.

Told almost entirely without words, Penguins is one of the most playfully original graphic novels in recent memory. As author Nick Thorburn explains, “Penguins go through a lot of hell that could be avoided if they had the ability to fly. This cruel irony lends itself to humor, as well as sadness. Death and the desperate search for love and companionship seem so tethered to life as a penguin, as well as for humans, and so the goal was to bridge those two and make them funny.” Relying on visual expression and the physical movement of his penguin characters, as well as the formal properties of sequential drawings (with penguins routinely moving within and without each page’s panel borders), Penguins is a series of interconnected short strips that, without words or human characters, does more to showcase the breadth of emotion we as humans experience than most prose novels. $24.99 Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary 288 pages, mostly black and white, NICK THORBURN (b. 1981) is a Canadian musician, cartoonist, and actor 7 ¼" x 9 ¾" best known for fronting numerous bands such as the Unicorns, Islands, Reefer, Territory: E • CQ: 12 and Human Highway. Penguins is his first graphic novel. He lives in Los Angeles. ISBN 978-1-68396-128-4

• Original graphic novel • Review attention • Author events and festival appearances • Digital ARC by request • Age range: 15+

6 SEPTEMBER

ROLY POLY By Daniel Semanas

A wickedly original and contemporary sci-fi graphic novel.

This debut graphic novel by Brazilian cartoonist Daniel Semanas is a candy-colored, visualtour de force that draws from influences as diverse as American Pop Art, Korean “K-pop,” internet culture, and Manga. Set in South Korea in the near future, it tells the story of Phanta, a young Korean fighter who has a fiercely competitive relationship with her brother. In a effort to top his popularity on the internet, she embarks on a psychedelic journey into an underground drug cult in hopes of becoming the new member of a popular K-pop group. She gets more than she bargained for, however. Roly Poly is a story about faith and perception, and how believing in something can unconsciously influence the people around you and yield unexpected results—such as wishes coming true. $19.99 Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction 150 pages, full color, 8" x 8" DANIEL SEMANAS (b. 1987) is a Brazilian cartoonist and animator. He has previously done commercial Territory: E • CQ: 18 work for MTV and the Lollapalooza music festival. ISBN 978-1-68396-129-1

• Original graphic novel “Daniel Semanas is one of the bright young talents emerging from the comics hotbed of Brazil. His work is thrilling and inventive— • Review attention Combining K-pop, anime, and deceptively rich compositions into a new and unique storytelling style. Roly Poly is highly recommended. • Author events and festival I’m a big fan.” — Paul Pope appearances “Daniel Semanas is proposing something new. Roly Poly is a psychedelic pop visual blast.” — Rafael Grampá • Digital ARC by request • Age range: 13+

7 OCTOBER

BASTARD It’s okay... What do you I can take care of that want me to By Max de Radiguès part myself... talk about?

A mother and son “Bonnie & Clyde” star in this original thriller!

After taking part in a historic heist — 52 simultaneous robberies at the same time, in the same city — May and Eugene are now on the run not only from the law and double-crossed former accomplices, but also their violent past. What makes these criminals so surprising is that they are a young mother and her preteen son. Thus begins the intense, yet touching, Bastard, Max mmm... de Radiguès’s Fantagraphics debut and a book already nominated for the prestigious noir award at the 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival. Bastard traces the deadly escape of May and Eugene as they crisscross the A trucker with Why don’t you United States, encountering mysterious truckers, ambitious bandits, and a Gucci shirt talk about that? senior citizens living off the grid in the Southwest. The duo race to get to and a tie... their stolen cash and simply survive as masterful flashbacks clue us into how they got into this deadly situation in the first place. Both bloody and tender, $14.99 Paperback Original de Radiguès focuses on the familial relationship as much as the exhilarating Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary plot elements, and his clear-lined style adds depth to the brutality as well as 192 pages, black and white, 6" x 7 ½" the moments of maternal love. Full of plot twists and high tension, Bastard Territory: E • CQ: 18 is a hard-boiled page-turner introducing an adolescent anti-hero that you’re I’m sorry... I know I’m not the best ISBN 978-1-68396-130-7 mom for you... sure not to forget. • Original graphic novel • Review attention MAX DE RADIGUÈS (b. 1982) is a cartoonist from Belgium and also runs the • Author events and festival publishing house L’employé du Moi. His previous work has been translated in appearances English by Conundrum and One Percent Press. He lives in Brussels. • Digital ARC by request I thought I could give you I thought that if I loved you, more than what I had it would be enough... • Age range: 16+ growing up. “Max de Radiguès is an example of the ultimate cartoonist. Storytelling distilled with purpose and care. No line is wasted and his characters feel tangible and loved.” — Charles Forsman (The End of the Fucking World)

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8 OCTOBER

FANTE BUKOWSKI THREE: A PERFECT FAILURE By Noah Van Sciver NOT FINAL COVER NOT Fante returns for one final grab at the brass ring of literary fame and fortune.

After another year of living in the great American Midwest, self-styled literary superstar-to-be Fante Bukowski engages in a final showdown between his father and his dreams, is hired to ghostwrite a teen celebrity’s memoir, and attends his first local zine fest. Meanwhile, there are hidden forces working behind the scenes to push Fante Bukowski into the critical and financial success he’s always longed for, despite his continued lack of talent. In this third and final installment of the fan-favorite series, Van Sciver once again seizes the opportunity to skewer his symbol of the self-important male figure.With an ear for hilarious dialogue and no end of grist for the mill, Van Sciver’s pointed skewering of literary pretention and fatuous “mansplainers” $16.99 Paperback Original has garnered multiple Eisner Awards nominations and made Bukowski more Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary popular than he could have ever hoped. 120 pages, full color, 6" x 9" Territory: E • CQ: 20 ISBN 978-1-68396-131-4 NOAH VAN SCIVER (b. 1984) currently resides in Columbus, OH.

• Original graphic novel • Review attention “Van Sciver has established himself as a thoughtful cartoonist with a talent for exploring the complexities of the human condition with a pointed sense of humor, and Fante Bukowski • Van Sciver is a Featured Guest at the Two highlights the combination of desperation and foolhardiness that makes this character an 2018 Comic-Con International especially compelling trainwreck.” — The A.V. Club • Additional author events and festival appearances “Fante Bukowski Two is Van Sciver’s funniest work by far, littered with deadpan humour. ... Van • Digital ARC by request Sciver just continues to get better and better — you need this book.” — The Quietus • Age range: 18+

ALSO AVAILABLE: Fante Bukowski Two ISBN 978-1-68396-001-0 Saint Cole ISBN 978-1-60699-817-5 Johnny Appleseed ISBN 978-1-68396-044-7 The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln Disquiet ISBN 978-1-60699-619-5 ISBN 978-1-60699-928-8 9 OCTOBER

DRAWN TO BERLIN: COMIC WORKSHOPS IN REFUGEE SHELTERS AND OTHER STORIES NOT FINAL COVER NOT FROM A NEW EUROPE By Ali Fitzgerald

A compassionate mix of memoir and graphic journalism.

Ali Fitzgerald, an American cartoonist living and working in Berlin, began teaching comics-making to refugees at an emergency shelter. People who are fleeing their homes, now warzones, arrive at the shelter and draw images of tragic violence and careful optimism: rafts and tanks, flowers, and the Eiffel Tower. In the eight years she’s been in Germany, Fitzgerald experienced the highs of the creatively hopeful, along with the deep depression of the $24.99 Hardcover disillusioned, all while waiting to stumble onto her own glory like the great Memoir Modernists before her. In the gigantic plastic bubble that is the refugee center, 196 pages, black and white, 6 ¼" x 7 ¼" worlds collide and echo, and Fizgerald’s story entwines the complex themes Territory: E • CQ: 14 of political and personal displacement. Her drawings are compassionate ISBN 978-1-68396-132-1 and unflinchingly intimate, perfectly visualizing the fantasy of her Bohemia • Original graphic memoir crumbling in a globalized city. Drawn to Berlin is a stunning graphic memoir • Review attention about what you find when you attempt to help lost people. • Off-the-book-page features • Author events and festival ALI FITZGERALD’s weekly comic, “Bermuda Square,” in New York appearances Magazine’s The Cut, is the first in its history. Before that she did a weekly strip • Digital ARC by request for McSweeneys.net. She has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and Europe, • Age range: 15+ been featured in the New York Times and Art in America, and her comics have appeared in the New Yorker, Huffington Post, and Bitch Magazine. Born in Oakland, CA, she graduated with an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and lives in Berlin.

“Consistently personal, perverse and damned interesting.” — Glasstire

”There’s something of Charles Burns in her style, and of Roz Chast in her language…” — Illustration Adventures

“She’s the real deal.” — Harry Bliss

10 OCTOBER

POGO: THE COMPLETE SYNDICATED COMIC STRIPS VOL. 5: “OUT OF THIS WORLD AT HOME” By Walt Kelly; Foreword by Jake Tapper NOT FINAL COVER NOT A timeless classic that never seemed more timely.

In addition to presenting all of 1957 and 1958’s daily Pogo strips complete and in order for the first time anywhere (many of them once again scanned from original syndicate proofs, for their crispest and most detailed appearance ever), Pogo: The Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 5 also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years, presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections over 60 years ago! Pogo Vol. 5 also includes a foreword by lifelong Pogo fan and CNN anchor Jake Tapper, a man well positioned to speak to Kelly’s unique gift for making the right people uncomfortable. This volume also includes the usual in-depth “Swamp Talk” annotations by R.C. Harvey, spectacular samples of Kelly’s work scanned from original art, and a whole $39.99 Hardcover lot more! Humor / Comic Strips & Cartoons 344 pages, color and black and white, 7 ¼" x 10 ½" Territory: E • CQ: 6 WALT KELLY was born in 1913 and passed away in 1973. ISBN 978-1-68396-133-8

• An Eisner Award winning series “This comes as a genuine gift to anyone who loved Pogo and, it is to be hoped, as an introduction for younger readers to what many people believe • Great gift idea was the best comic strip ever drawn in this country.” — The Washington Post • Review attention “In these uncertain times, Pogo feels necessary, feels relevant, feels ever-more-right.” — Neil Gaiman • Age range: 5+

ALSO AVAILABLE: Vol. 1: ISBN 978-1-56097- 869-5 Vol. 2: ISBN 978-1- 60699-584-6 Vol. 3: ISBN 978-1- 60699-694-2 Vol. 4: ISBN 978-1- 60699-863-2 Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Box: ISBN 978-1-60699-629-4 Vols. 3 & 4 Gift Box: ISBN 978-1-60699-864-9

11 OCTOBER WALT DISNEY UNCLE SCROOGE AND DONALD DUCK

THE DON ROSA LIBRARY VOL. 10: “THE OLD CASTLE’S OTHER SECRET” By Don Rosa

Scrooge McDuck fights for the Treasure of the Knights Templar! © 2018 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2018 © The medieval Knights Templar were a monastic army with a super-rich treasury—and their official treasurers were the Clan McDuck! Now Scrooge is off to his family castle in Scotland to see if an impossible stash is hidden there... but why is his feisty sister, Matilda, out to stop him? Find out in Fantagraphics’ tenth and final volume of Duck adventures by Don Rosa! And the title story, “The Old Castle’s Other Secret,” is just one of this volume’s legendary tales! In “The Dream of a Lifetime,” Donald and the Beagle Boys take a trip through Scrooge’s subconscious mind, while in “The Prisoner of White Agony Creek,” Scrooge and Glittering Goldie have the $29.99 Hardcover ultimate showdown! Presented with brilliant color and a treasure trove of Humor / Cartoons & Comic Strips Rosa’s cover art and behind-the-scenes factoids, these Duckburg epics are back 224 pages, full color, 8 ½" x 11" in a definitive, comprehensive edition for posterity—at a bargain price worthy Territory: X • CQ: 12 of Scrooge himself! The ISBN 978-1-68396-134-5 Also, this fall we also are proud to offer the fifth and final boxed set in Don Rosa Library, collecting last season’s Vol. 9 and this season’s Vol. 10!

• Featuring the same beloved characters as Disney XD’s new DuckTales series! DON ROSA (b. 1951), among the world’s most beloved modern cartoonists, • Digital ARC by request launched his Carl Barks-inspired comics career in 1987. He lives in Kentucky. • Age range: 5+

“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.” — School Library Journal

For more books in this series, see page 34

12 OCTOBER WALT DISNEY UNCLE SCROOGE AND DONALD DUCK

THE DON ROSA LIBRARY VOLS. 9 & 10 GIFT BOX SET By Don Rosa

The final Rosa Library boxed set, plus the first two reprinted by popular demand!

This fall we are proud to offer the fifth and final boxed set in The Don Rosa Library, collecting last season’s Vol. 9 and this season’s Vol. 10! In addition, we are also re-releasing the first two boxed sets, which have been out of © 2018 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2018 © print since last fall! Each set includes a custom hardcover slipcase unique to each set, and features well over 400 pages of Rosa’s beloved Duck adventures!

DON ROSA (b. 1951), among the world’s most beloved modern cartoonists, launched his Carl Barks-inspired comics career in 1987. He lives in Kentucky.

$49.99 Hardcover Boxed Set Humor / Cartoons & Comic Strips REPRINTED BY 448 pages combined, full color, 8 ½" x 11" POPULAR DEMAND! Territory: X • CQ: 6 ISBN 978-1-68396-135-2 Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-781-9 • Great gift idea for Disney fans Vols. 3 & 4 Gift Box Set • Featuring the same cast as Disney ISBN 978-1-60699-867-0 XD’s DuckTales series! • Age range: 5+ STILL AVAILABLE!

Vols. 5 & 6 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-962-2 Vols. 7 & 8 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-68396-054-6

For more books in this series, see page 34

13 OCTOBER

MICKEY MOUSE: THE PHANTOM BLOT’S DOUBLE MYSTERY By Romano Scarpa with Guido Martina NOT FINAL COVER NOT Mickey and Goofy battle the fiendish Phantom Blot in an action-packed collection of classics! © 2018 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ENTERPRISES, DISNEY 2018 © Danger! Danger! Mickey’s diabolical arch-enemy—the Phantom Blot—is on the loose! But when Mickey, Goofy, and Chief O’Hara set out to stop his crime spree, there’s something they don’t know: the Blot has Mickey hypnotized— and as good and evil clash in a spooky old house, our hero is unknowingly doing the bad guy’s bidding! When Disney Legend Floyd Gottfredson stopped creating new Mickey Mouse adventure serials in 1955, Italian Disney artist-writer Romano Scarpa picked up the Mickey mantle—telling decades’ worth of legendary tales himself! Now Fantagraphics is anthologizing Scarpa’s best. And beyond “The Blot’s Double Mystery,” this volume features Mickey on a wild sea adventure $29.99 Hardcover in “The Eternal Flame of Kalhoa”—and Scrooge McDuck facing down his old Humor / Cartoons & Comic Strips flame, Brigitta MacBridge, in “The Last Balaboo”! 184 pages, full color, 7 ¼" x 10 ¾" Territory: X • CQ: 16 ISBN 978-1-68396-136-9 ROMANO SCARPA (1927-2005) remains one of the world’s most acclaimed Disney cartoonists. • The fifth volume in our new Disney Masters series • Mickey Mouse remains Disney’s most beloved superstar—with the current Mickey Mouse TV series by Paul Rudish now a sensation on Disney Channel and online! • Also featuring Scrooge McDuck, star of Disney XD’s DuckTales series! • Digital ARC by request • Age range: 5+

DISNEY MASTERS DISNEY MASTERS DISNEY MASTERS DISNEY MASTERS COLLECTOR’S BOX SET #1 COLLECTOR’S BOX SET #2 GIFT BOX SET #1 GIFTBOX SET #2

Featuring Vol. 1: Mickey Mouse: The Delta Featuring Vol. 3: Mickey Mouse: The Case Featuring Vol. 1: Mickey Mouse: The Delta Featuring Vol. 2: Donald Duck: Uncle Dimension by Romano Scarpa and Vol. 2: of the Vanishing Bandit by Paul Murry and Dimension and Vol. 3: Mickey Mouse: The Scrooge’s Money Rocket and Vol. 4: Donald Donald Duck: Uncle Scrooge’s Money Rocket Volume 4: Donald Duck: The Great Survival Case of the Vanishing Bandit Duck: The Great Survival Test by Luciano Bottaro Test by Daan Jippes and Freddy Milton ISBN 978-1-68396-151-2 ISBN 978-1-68396-152-9 ISBN 978-1-68396-153-6 ISBN 978-1-68396-154-3

$59.99 Hardcover Boxed Sets With the release of the fifth volume in our Disney Masters series (see previous page), we offer the first Humor / Cartoons & Comic Strips four volumes of this landmark series in two different box-set configurations — one series for collectors 400 pages combined, full color, (two separate box sets) and one box set each for fans who prefer the adventures of Donald Duck or 7 ¼" x 10 ¾" Territory: X • CQ: 2 Mickey Mouse. Collectors will be interested in Disney Masters Collector’s Box Set For Duck lovers, get the all-Donald Disney Masters Gift Box Set #1 — featuring Volumes 1 and 2 — and Disney Masters Collector’s #2 — featuring our first two Donald Duck volumes (Donald Box Set #2 — featuring Volumes 3 and 4. Duck: Uncle Scrooge’s Money Rocket and Donald Duck: The Great Survival Test). For Mouse lovers, get the all-Mickey Disney Masters Gift Box Set #1 — featuring our first two Mickey Mouse volumes (Mickey Either way, you get the standout work of some of the most Mouse: The Delta Dimension and Mickey Mouse: The Case of the internationally acclaimed Disney artists. Each single volume Vanishing Bandit). boasts around 200 pages. OCTOBER

JAMES WARREN, EMPIRE OF MONSTERS: THE MAN BEHIND CREEPY, VAMPIRELLA, NOT FINAL COVER NOT AND FAMOUS MONSTERS By Bill Schelly

The definitive biography of one of comics’ most influential publishers.

James Warren was the visionary publisher of Famous Monsters of Filmland, the magazine that fueled the movie monster craze of the 1960s, and inspired such future filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Joe Dante. Warren went on to publish Help!, Harvey Kurtzman’s satirical magazine which featured early work by Gloria Steinem, Terry Gilliam, Robert Crumb and Diane Arbus. With Creepy and Eerie, Warren popularized the black-and-white comics magazine, a new form of comics for older readers published outside $29.99 Hardcover the strictures of the Comics Code Authority, and ran covers by the legendary Biography / Artists and Entertainment painter Frank Frazetta before Frazetta was a superstar. Warren’s magazines 272 pages, color illustrations, 6" x 9" established a new category of popular fiction, a transitional step toward the Territory: E • CQ: 12 graphic novel. They included art by over 30 Hall of Fame talents such as ISBN 978-1-68396-147-5 Wallace Wood, Steve Ditko, Alex Toth, Neal Adams, Bernie Wrightson, Al Williamson and many others. His most famous creation (co-created with • Review attention Forrest J. Ackerman) was the sensual Vampirella who debuted in her own • From the Eisner Award-winning magazine in 1969, and who continues to be published today. biographer of Harvey Kurtzman Bill Schelly’s Empire of Monsters features numerous eye-opening, often • Warren shaped pop culture and outrageous anecdotes about Warren, a colorful, larger-than-life figure whose worked with many of comics’ greats ability as a publisher, promoter, and provocateur makes him a fascinating • Digital ARC by request character study. • Age range: 18+

ALSO ALSO AVAILABLE BILL SCHELLY is the author of the Eisner Award-winning biography Harvey BY BILL SCHELLY: Kurtzman, The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America. Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created MAD He lives in Seattle. and Revolutionized Humor in America $34.99 Hardcover, ISBN “Bill Schelly has an obsessive yet intelligent passion for things many might consider marginal if 978-1-60699-761-1 not bizarre—always the mark of an interesting mind.” — Tom Robbins John Stanley: Giving Life to Little Lulu “Ask anyone who has been associated with the fantasy-horror-science fiction genres in the last $39.99 Hardcover, ISBN thirty years about [Famous Monsters of Filmland], and you’ll get a laugh, a flash of the eyes, and a 978-1-60699-990-5 stream of bright memories—I practically guarantee it.” — Stephen King 16 NOVEMBER

DOCTOR OF HORROR AND OTHER STORIES By Graham Ingels and Al Feldstein NOT FINAL COVER NOT The origins of the “Ghastly” nickname — and EC’s first Ray Bradbury story!

EC horror comics are famous for their gleefully ghoulish stories and their outrageous twist endings — served up with a sly wink to the reader and a generous dose of dreadful puns. No artist captured that mood better and made his readers shudder more than “Ghastly” Graham Ingels. Ingels set the standard for fiendishly delightful depictions of dripping slime, dismembered limbs, and shambling corpses. This volume features Ingels’s earliest EC crime and horror work, from the pages of such titles as Tales From the Crypt, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, and War Against Crime. Highlights in this volume include Ingels’s very first EC story, two Ingels $29.99 Hardcover adaptations of stories by Edgar Allan Poe (including a clever twist on “The Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror Cask of Amontillado” that you won’t see coming), and EC’s first adaptation 224 pages, black and white, 7 ¼" x 10 ¼" of a Ray Bradbury story. Territory: E • CQ: 12 As with every book in the Fantagraphics EC line, Doctor Of Horror And ISBN 978-1-68396-138-3 Other Stories superbly showcases these classic comic book masterpieces and enhances the reader’s experience with commentary and historical and • Our New York Times best-selling series biographical detail from EC experts. collecting the classic EC Comics • Great gift idea • Review attention GRAHAM INGELS (1915–1991) was the grisliest, ghastliest, most ghoulish star of EC’s horror comics line. His friends and neighbors say he was a very nice man. • Digital ARC by request He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009. The • Age Range: 11+ Ghastly Awards, “Honoring Excellence in Horror Comics,” were established in his name in 2011.

“EC elevated the comics art form by making whimsically gruesome tales feel connected to the real world, and much of that was accomplished by Ingels …” — Chicago Tribune

For more books in this series, see pages 32–33

17 NOVEMBER THE COMPLETE CREPAX

VOL. 4: PRIVATE LIFE VOLS. 3-4 GIFT BOX SET By Guido Crepax By Guido Crepax

$75.00 Hardcover $150.00 Hardcover Boxed Set Comics & Graphic Novels / Erotica Comics & Graphic Novels / Erotica 424 pages, mostly black and white, 10 ¼" x 14" 864 pages combined, mostly black and white, 10 ¼" x 14" Territory: E • CQ: 6 Territory: E • CQ: 2 ISBN 978-1-68396-137-6 ISBN 978-1-68396-155-0

Collecting the work of an international icon in the fields of comics, advertising, erotica, and design!

The fourth volume of Fantagraphics’ groundbreaking Complete Crepax series puts the author’s sexy proto feminist heroine Valentina, the globe-trotting Milanese photographer, front and center in a series of erotic comics narratives. Most of the comics in this volume, spanning 1965 to 1985, have never before been published in English. It includes Crepax’s first foray into comics magazines—“The Curve of Lesmo”—in which our heroine is introduced as an adventurer’s sidekick! Elsewhere in this volume, she becomes a mother, outwits a gang of jewel thieves, flashes back to her childhood and adolescence, encounters a mysterious cello, and much more! Not only is Crepax’s impeccable draftsmanship on full display, but this deluxe package highlights the innovative visual storytelling techniques that made him an international sensation. We are also pleased to offer, just in time for the holidays, a deluxe boxed edition of our third and fourth volumes in the series, strictly limited to 500 copies!!

GUIDO CREPAX was born in Milan in 1933 and died in 2003. He is one of Europe’s most celebrated cartoonists.

• Great gift idea “Crepax’s audacious visual techniques, which combine sensual linework, fluid storytelling, and innovative panel breakdowns, strongly influenced both his contemporaries and subsequent generations of comics artists, and they look as strikingly bold today as they did a half-century ago.” — Booklist • Review atention • Digital ARC by request • Age range: 18+

ALSO AVAILABLE: Vol. 1: Dracula, Frankenstein, & Other Horror Stories ISBN 978-1-60699-890-8 Vol. 2: The Time Eater & Other Stories ISBN 978-1-60699-973-8 Vol. 3: Evil Spells ISBN 978-1-68396-058-4 Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-68396-073-7

18 NOVEMBER THE COMPLETE CREPAX I AM YOUNG By M. Dean

A remarkable debut graphic novel.

I Am Young is a series of short stories tied together by one central story about two teenagers who meet and fall in love after a Beatles concert in Scotland in 1964. This central story, titled “Greyfriar’s Bobby” after the Edinburgh statue of a dog who waited faithfully for its owner’s return until its death, is told in sections and through the dual perspective of both a girl named Miriam and a boy named George. Miriam, a second-generation Iranian immigrant living in Edinburgh with her family, is good-hearted and shy. George, a visitor from Wales, is vain and has an artistic temperament. Meeting so young, Miriam and George’s relationship is as emphatic and naive as their love for their favorite band during its rise to fame. Throughout the 1960s, they grow up and keep their relationship going both long distance and in person. Like the Beatles, by 1970 Miriam and George’s relationship is on the rocks and they break up, only to briefly reconnect twice again: first, upon the death of John $19.99 Hardcover Lennon in 1980, and again in 2001, after the death of George Harrison. Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary I Am Young is ripe with ideas about how relationships evolve — both interpersonal 108 pages, color and black and white, relationships and our relationships with the culture around us. The book is rounded 8" x 11" out with several other stories that are thematically tied closely together, even while Territory: E • CQ: 18 Dean experiments beautifully with style and storytelling devices that suit each ISBN 978-1-68396-139-0 individual piece. In 2017, Dean was the inaugural recipient of the Creators for • Original graphic novel Creator Grant, established to support original comics work from new creators, which enabled completion of I Am Young. Fantagraphics is proud to present this • Review attention debut book by a remarkable new talent. • Author events and festival appearances • Digital ARC by request M. DEAN is an illustrator and cartoonist originally from the west coast of • Age range: 14+ Florida and now living in New York City. She is a graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design and a collector of odd thrift-store junk.

“One of the best cartoonists working today, M. Dean has a voice and vision entirely, thrillingly her own.” — Brian K. Vaughan

“A thrilling, heart-swelling thing to read. M. Dean has made a declarative opening statement in what I hope is a long and fruitful career.” — Matt Fraction

“I love reading I Am Young and experiencing all the different ways M. Dean manipulates the reader. Through design she creates her own unique visual rhythms and tempos.” — Nick Dragotta 19 NOVEMBER

PARALLEL LIVES By Olivier Schrauwen

One of comics’ true visionaries reinvents science fiction.

From one of the world’s most celebrated cartoonists comes this unique collection of six wildly inventive short stories, each a surrealist tour de force that might collectively be dubbed “speculative memoir.” Schrauwen’s deadpan depictions of his and his progeny’s futures are presented with such brio and conviction that even the most jaded reader will ask himself: was the author really abducted by extraterrestrials? Is he actually able to dialogue with agents from the future? Does he truly receive coded messages in envelopes at breakfast? In spite of all rational perception, and in spite of the author’s obvious predilection for cartoon surrealism, Parallel Lives resonates as something more than simply the overheated imagination of an artist creating freely — it glows and hums and pulsates like a portal to another reality, and is the latest masterpiece in one of comics’ most distinctive bodies of work. $19.99 Flexibound Original Comics & Graphic Novels / Science OLIVIER SCHRAUWEN was born in Belgium in 1977 and studied animation Fiction at the Academy of Art in Gent, and comics at Saint-Luc in Brussels. He currently 128 pages, full color, 9" x 12" lives in Berlin. Territory: E • CQ: 16 ISBN 978-1-68396-140-6 Praise for the author’s previous book, Arsene Schrauwen: • Original graphic novel • Author events and festival “The book is flat-out one of the most complex and interesting — visually, thematically, appearances conceptually — comics of the last few years.... The Belgian cartoonist is the embodiment of the idea that cartooning is writing with pictures, and with Arsene he proves himself a better writer • Review attention than basically everyone else working today.” — Paste • Digital ARC by request • Age range: 13+ “Occasionally, a creator kicks the comics-medium football not only over the goalposts but into another stadium entirely.” — Publishers Weekly

“Olivier Schrauwen is extraordinary... [He’s] the most original cartoonist I’ve fallen onto since Chris Ware or Ben Katchor.” — Art Spiegelman ALSO AVAILABLE:

Arsene Schrauwen “Arsene Schrauwen reads like Conrad by way of Kafka, as drawn in pen and ink by the douanier $34.99 Hardcover Rousseau. Cockeyed, adventurous, and truly bizarre.” — The Globe and Mail ISBN 978-1-60699-730-7

20 NOVEMBER

WARRIOR WOMEN: SPAIN VOL. 2 By Spain Rodriguez, with Patrick Rosenkranz

Turning the spotlight on underground comix’s femme fatales.

The second volume of Fantagraphics’ historic series collecting Spain Rodriguez’s most important comics, Warrior Women, features the striking women he created with pen and ink, from young Rita Velveeta to senior skateboarder Granny McGurk. His most memorable characters are ferocious femmes fatale … gorgeous and deadly women who can slash and slaughter as fast as any man. You’ll find them all in this volume ... the Leather Nun, Nasty Elaine, Mara Mistress of the Void, Sangrella, and his ultimate independent woman, Big Bitch. In a revealing essay, the women who knew Spain best describe their relationships with the author. From Janet, his first serious girlfriend, to Susan, the woman he married, and Nora, the daughter they raised together, he inspired strong emotions from the ladies he loved and who loved him. This collection of stories about women warriors appeared in Zap Comix, $34.99 Paperback Original Young Lust, Mean Bitch Thrills, Weirdo, Thrasher Comics, and many others, part Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary of Spain’s prolific contributions to the comic medium over a six-decade career. 280 pages, color and black and white, 8" x 11 ¼" Territory: E • CQ: 10 MANUEL RODRIGUEZ (1940–2012), better known as Spain, was one of the ISBN 978-1-68396-143-7 great American underground and socially conscious cartoonists.

• From one of the creators of ZAP Comix • Great gift idea “[Street Fighting Man displays Spain’s] signature blend of heavy black contours, drastic perspective, abstract expressionist ink splatters, and helter-skelter panel layouts that propel his • Review attention breakneck tales of class war and free love.” — Village Voice • Digital ARC by request • Age range: 18+

ALSO AVAILABLE: Street Fighting Man: Spain Vol. 1 ISBN 978-1-68396-029-4

68 Spain Volume 2 21 NOVEMBER

PRINCE VALIANT VOL. 18: PRINCE VALIANT 1971–1972 VOLS. 4-6 GIFT BOX SET By Hal Foster; Introductions by Mort Walker By Hal Foster and Brian Walker $99.99 Hardcover Boxed Set $34.99 Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy 336 pages, full color, 10 ¼" x 14" 112 pages, full color, 10 ¼" x 14" Territory: E • CQ: 4 Territory: E • CQ: 14 ISBN 978-1-68396-145-1 ISBN 978-1-68396-144-4

More of Hal Foster’s masterful medieval adventures.

We begin this volume with Prince Valiant going on his most daring, and perhaps most dangerous, quest yet: winning back the heart of Queen Aleta. Of course, things don’t go as planned as Aleta’s rival suitor organizes a deadly search party for the gallant Valiant. Back in Camelot, the troubled Zanedon reveals himself to be a runaway groom as the mischievous twins, Karen and Valeta, hide him in their stable. Prince Arn quenches a coup, Val ends a tyrant’s reign with tough love, and domestic chaos runs amok when a poet with a wandering eye makes the Misty Isles his playground. This volume also includes and introduction by Mort Walker and Brian Walker, and a gallery of miscellaneous Foster Prince Valiant cartoons, including one that hasn’t been reprinted since 1955, and one that has never been printed before. These are a rare glimpse into Foster’s humorous side; they were done for a variety of venues, including the National Cartoonist’s Society, Christmas cards, and private commissions, all funny, all Prince Valiant. This season, we are also proud to present a special, slipcased gift set of Vols. 4-6 of the series, in time for the holidays!

HAL FOSTER (1892-1982) was born in Halifax, NS, and is still considered one of the greatest illustrators to ever grace the newspaper page.

“The most virtuosic artist of his time.” — New York Times

“In the grand tradition of Arthur Rackham and Howard Pyle... Every panel packs a punch.” — Vanity Fair

• Multiple Eisner Award-nominated series • A perennial classic • Great gift idea • Age range: 8+ For more books in this series, see page 35

22 NOVEMBER

PEANUTS EVERY SUNDAY PEANUTS EVERY SUNDAY 1976-1980 THE 1970S GIFT BOX SET By Charles M. Schulz By Charles M. Schulz

WORLDWIDE, LLC. WORLDWIDE, $49.99 Hardcover $85.00 Hardcover Box Set Humor / Comic Strips & Cartoons Humor / Comic Strips & Cartoons 288 pages, full color, 13 ¼" x 9 ½" 576 pages, full color, 13 ¼" x 9 ½"

Five years of vintage color Peanuts, and a decade in a box!

Since their original publication, Peanuts Sundays have almost always been collected and reprinted in black and white. But many who read Peanuts in their original Sunday papers remain fond of the striking, pastel-heavy coloring, which makes for a surprisingly different reading experience. These late 1970s strips showcase Schulz at his philosophical and illustrative peak in one gorgeous, oversized, full-color coffee table book — Schulz’s work has never looked better. Linus, Charlie Brown, Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, Sally, Patty, and Schroeder are all present, as is the burgeoning international superstar, Snoopy. Peanuts Every Sunday: 1976-1980 has been scrupulously re-colored to optimize the original newspaper coloring, but with far better printing and paper than ever used on any newspaper — allowing readers once again to immerse themselves in Charles Schulz’s timeless masterpiece. We are also proud to present a slipcased boxed set of this season’s edition and last season’s 1971-1975, showcasing an entire decade of Schulz’s 50-year opus — one of his most creatively fruitful!

CHARLES M. SCHULZ (1922-2000) lives on at the Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA.

“Highly recommended to any Peanuts fan.” — Salon • Great gift ideas • Completely restored color “These are beautiful books. Full color dust jackets and numbered bindings make for books that look great next to each other on the shelf. But you’ll need • Oversized, archival-quality color a big shelf. A collection absolutely worth having.” — Boing Boing printing • Age range: all ages

For more books in this series, see pages 30-31

23 DECEMBER

INK & ANGUISH: A JAY LYNCH ANTHOLOGY By Jay Lynch; with Ed Piskor and Patrick Rosenkranz NOT FINAL COVER NOT The first-ever retrospective of one of the underground’s most beloved figures, with help from one of today’s best cartoonists.

The career of Jay Lynch, cartoonist, satirist, and counterculture archivist, spanned more than six decades and displayed his many graphic talents in a vast array of contexts and media. He contributed to the earliest counterculture press, drew and edited many underground comic books, designed confectionary novelties and promotional products, and in later years painted a myriad of private commissions for fans of his work. Included are Lynch’s cartoon memoirs, Ink & Anguish, in collaboration with Ed Piskor (Hip-Hop Family Tree, X-Men: Grand Design), which were uncompleted at the time of his death. All his signature Nard ‘n’ Pat $34.99 Paperback Original stories from Bijou Funnies are featured in this volume, as well as comics Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary from Bogeyman, San Francisco Comic Book, Bizarre Sex, Teen-age Horizons of 288 pages, full color, 7 ½" x 10 ½" Shangri-la, a sampling of his Wacky Packages, Garbage Pail Kids and other Territory: E • CQ: 10 Topps Chewing Gum premiums, and acrylic paintings. ISBN 978-1-68396-146-8 Lynch also narrates his life story throughout the book, from his dysfunctional childhood to the day he selected his coffin and head stone, in • An underground great collaborates a half-century series of interviews and correspondence with comic historian with X-Men and Hip Hop Family Tree Patrick Rosenkranz. artist Ed Piskor • Great gift idea for Boomers and Underground Comix Fans JAY PATRICK “JAZEY” LYNCH (1945 –2017) was an American cartoonist • Review attention who played a key role in the undergroundcomix movement, and was also the • Digital ARC by request main writer for Bazooka Joe comics from 1967 to 1990. • Age range: 18+ I always thought of Jay as the reincarnation of a cartoonist from another era. Not just his drawing style, with its echoes of Basil Wolverton and vintage newspaper comics—but also his manner. He always seemed to me to speaking from a place I could never quite locate. Some place where cartoonists wore sleeve garters and green eyeshades. He was one of the funniest guys I ever knew.” — Bill Griffith

24 DECEMBER

MEMORABILIA By Sergio Ponchione

A fantastic interpretive tribute to the great comic book heroes.

Poised between reality and fantasy, Sergio Ponchione’s Memorabilia is an incredibly original ode to the great comic book artists of his youth. In comics form, Ponchione weaves history, speculative fiction, and pure fantasy to create five individual stories that illuminate the art and lives of five of the all time great comic book artists: Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, Will Eisner, and Richard Corben. Ponchione blends the biographies of each artist with the fantastic characters and worlds built by each to create a visually stunning love letter blending fact and fiction in a fitting testatment to the remarkable imaginations of these five master comics-makers.

SERGIO PONCHIONE is an internationally recognized cartoonist from Italy. $16.99 Hardcover He won the Gran Guinigi Award at the 2009 Lucca Comics Festival and the Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary Attilio Micheluzzi Award at the 2012 Napoli Comicon. Since 2005 he has taught 56 pages, black and white, 8 ½" x 12" at the Cartoon School of Asti, his hometown. Territory: E • CQ: 32 ISBN 978-1-68396-148-2 “A touching and engaging experiment that makes great use of surrealism and metafiction.” • Pop culture nostalgia at its very best — Comic Book Resources • Original graphic novel • Review attention • Digital ARC by request • Age range: 13+

25 DECEMBER

THE SEA by Rikke Villadsen

A seafaring tale soaked in surrealism.

Danish cartoonist Rikke Villadsen makes her English language debut with this story of a sailor that is playfully creepy and oddly beautiful. A fisherman’s life traversing the ocean is full of danger and surprise, but even the most experienced seafarer would not be ready to pull up their net after they’ve caught a newborn baby and a talking fish! Thus begins a story full of expressive pencil drawings, provocative symbolism, and a madness that doesn’t just bubble beneath the surface of the water, but drenches the sailor, and the reader, like a tidal wave. Depicted in distinctive, and often grotesque, graphite, these unlikely shipmates trek through the thick fog, provoked by nature’s powerful siren song and perhaps something even more sinister. Revelations arise about the sailor’s perplexing childhood and the dubious birth of the mysterious baby as waves violently crash against the ship, already in a descent toward absurdity. $16.99 Hardcover Villadsen’s first foray into the American literary scene is ultimately about the Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary end of one life, the beginning of another, and a man, literally and figuratively, 104 pages, black and white, 7" x 10" lost at sea. Territory: E • CQ: 22 ISBN 978-1-68396-149-9 RIKKE VILLADSEN is an artist and cartoonist from Denmark. She • Original graphic novel participated in the 2010 Nordicomic workshop and anthology and has been • Review attention nominated four times for the Ping Award. • Digital ARC by request • Age range: 18+ “What makes The Sea so strong and fulfilling a reading experience is that it kicks the legs out from under the reader’s narrative expectations. In Rikke Villadsen’s story, the madness is not just bubbling under the surface — it splashes out of the sea and pulls everything down with it. The Sea is a beautiful and sparkling story that succeeds because of its amazingly expressive drawings and its linguistic playfulness.” — Litteratur NU

“Graphic novel lets woman have sex with phallic lighthouse” — headline in Politiken, Denmark’s national newspaper

26 DECEMBER

VANISHING ACT By Roman Muradov

A polyphonic graphic novel of 13 interconnected shorts.

Written and drawn in thirteen styles, from comedy and confession to prophecy and interpretative dance, Vanishing Act is a polyphonic play of interconnected stories, synchronized in time and space on one melancholy evening. A paranoid man rehearses the upcoming party. A disheveled actor expounds on the conceptual potential of sitcoms. A beloved dog disappears into the Internet and starts a cult. A couple runs their argument in reverse. A bored seagull excretes the entire known universe. Vanishing Act is governed by one looping constraint that unifies all of the disparate threads: each following story starts in the middle of the previous one, overlapping until the end of the night, and back into the beginning of the book. Roman Muradov is an award-winning author and illustrator whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, Vogue, and Lucky Peach, among others. $14.99 Hardcover Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary 88 pages, full color, 7" x 9" In addition to being a cartoonist, ROMAN MURADOV has designed books for Territory: E • CQ: 24 Penguin Random House, including the Penguin Classics Centennial Editions of ISBN 978-1-68396-150-5 James Joyce’s Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He lives in San Francisco. • Original graphic novel • Review attention • Author events and festival appearances • Digital ARC by request • Age range: 18+

27 THE FLOYD GOTTFREDSON LIBRARY

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

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

Vol. 7: “March of the Zombies” Vol. 8: “The Tomorrow Wars” Vol. 9: “Rise of the Rhyming Man” Vol. 10: “Planet of Faceless Foes” Vol. 11: “Mickey Vs. Mickey” Vol. 12: “The Mysterious Dr. X” ISBN 978-1-60699-829-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-868-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-931-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-963-9 ISBN 978-1-68396-018-8 ISBN 978-1-68396-055-3

Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-496-2 Vols. 3 & 4 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-576-1 Vols. 5 & 6 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-783-3 Vols. 7 & 8 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-869-4 Vols. 9 & 10 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-964-6 Color Sundays Vol. 1: Color Sundays Vol. 2: Vols. 11 & 12 Gift Box Set “Call of the Wild” “Robin Hood Rides Again!” ISBN 978-1-68396-056-0 ISBN 978-1-60699-576-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-686-7 Color Sundays 1 & 2 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-576-1 THE DISNEY 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 Vol. 6 “The Old Vol. 7 “Lost in the Andes” Vol. 8 “Trail of the Unicorn” Vol. 9 “The Pixilated Parrot” Bear Mountain” Castle’s 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 Vol. 11 “A Christmas Vol. 12 “Only a Poor Vol. 13 “Trick or Treat” Vol. 14 “The Seven Cities Beagle Boys” for Shacktown” Old Man” ISBN 978-1-60699-874-8 of Gold” 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 ISBN 978-1-60699-795-6 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. 15 “The Ghost Sheriff of Vol. 16 “The Lost Crown of Vol. 17 “The Secret Vol. 18 “The Lost Peg $49.99, ISBN 978-1-68396-046-1 Last Gasp” Genghis Khan” of Hondorica” Leg Mine” ISBN 978-1-60699-953-0 ISBN 978-1-68396-013-3 ISBN 978-1-68396-045-4 ISBN 978-1-68396-093-5 THE COMPLETE PEANUTS IN HARDCOVER $29.99 EACH

1950–1952 ISBN 978-1-56097-589-2 1953–1954 ISBN 978-1-56097-614-1 1955–1956 ISBN 978-1-56097-647-9 1957–1958 ISBN 978-1-56097-670-7 1959–1960 ISBN 978-1-56097-671-4 1961–1962 ISBN 978-1-56097-672-1

1963–1964 ISBN 978-1-56097-723-0 1965–1966 ISBN 978-1-56097-724-7 1967–1968 ISBN 978-1-56097-826-8 1969–1970 ISBN 978-1-56097-827-5 1971–1972 ISBN 978-1-60699-145-9 1973–1974 ISBN 978-1-60699-286-9

1975–1976 ISBN 978-1-60699-345-3 1977–1978 ISBN 978-1-60699-375-0 1979–1980 ISBN 978-1-60699-438-2 1981–1982 ISBN 978-1-60699-471-9 1983–1984 ISBN 978-1-60699-523-5 1985–1986 ISBN 978-1-60699-572-3

1987–1988 ISBN 978-1-60699-634-8 1989–1990 ISBN 978-1-60699-680-5 1991–1992 ISBN 978-1-60699-726-0 1993–1994 ISBN 978-1-60699-773-4 1995–1996 ISBN 978-1-60699-818-2 1997–1998 ISBN 978-1-60699-860-1

BOX SETS 1959–1962 Gift Box Set 1975–1978 Gift Box Set 1991–1994 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-56097-774-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-376-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-774-1 $49.99 EACH 1963–1966 Gift Box Set 1979–1982 Gift Box Set 1995–1998 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-56097-868-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-472-6 ISBN 978-1-60699-861-8

1950–1954 Gift Box Set 1967–1970 Gift Box Set 1983–1986 Gift Box Set 1999–2000 and Comics & Stories ISBN 978-1-56097-632-5 ISBN 978-1-56097-948-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-573-0 Gift Box Set

1955–1958 Gift Box Set 1971–1974 Gift Box Set 1987–1990 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-958-5 ISBN 978-1-56097-687-5 ISBN 978-1-60699-681-2 1999–2000 ISBN 978-1-60699-913-4 Comics & Stories ISBN 978-1-60699- ISBN 978-1-60699-287-6 957-8 THE COMPLETE PEANUTS IN PAPERBACK PEANUTS EVERY SUNDAY HARDCOVERS $22.99 each or $39.99 per gift box set $49.99 each or $79.99 per gift box set

1950-1952 ISBN 978-1-60699-763-5 1953-1954 ISBN 978-1-60699-792-5 1952-1955 ISBN 978-1-60699-692-8 1956-1960 ISBN 978-1-60699-794-9

1950-1954 Gift Box Set: ISBN 978-1-60699-793-2

1955-1958 Gift Box Set: ISBN 978-1-60699-871-7

1959-1962 Gift Box Set: ISBN 978-1-60699-978-3 1966-1970 ISBN 978-1-60699-968-4 1955-1956 ISBN 978-1-60699-835-9 1957-1958 ISBN 978-1-60699-870-0 1963-1966 Gift Box Set: 1961-1965 ISBN 978-1-60699-872-4 ISBN 978-1-68396-039-3 The 1950s Gift Box Set: ISBN 978-1-60699-873-1

The 1960s Gift Box Set: ISBN 978-1-60699-969-1

1959-1960 ISBN 978-1-60699-921-9 1961-1962 ISBN 978-1-60699-949-3 1971-1975 ISBN 978-68396-063-8 THEMED PEANUTS HARDCOVER GIFT BOOKS

SNOOPY VS. THE RED BARON CHARLIE BROWN’S SNOOPY’S THANKSGIVING WAITING FOR THE GREAT PUMPKIN BATTER UP, CHARLIE BROWN! A VALENTINE FOR CHARLIE BROWN $24.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-906-6 CHRISTMAS STOCKING $9.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-778-9 $9.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-772-7 $9.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-725-3 $9.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-804-5 $9.99, ISBN 978-1-60699-624-9 THE COMICS LIBRARY

Corpse on the Imjin! Child of Tomorrow Classic war stories from Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, written by Harvey Kurtzman. Al Feldstein’s solo sci-fi classics from Weird Science and Weird Fantasy ISBN 978-1-60699-545-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-659-1 Came the Dawn Judgment Day All 26 crime and suspense shockers created by Wallace Wood for EC 23 EC sci-fi classics illustrated by Joe Orlando and written by Al Feldstein and ISBN 978-1-60699-546-4 Ray Bradbury. ISBN 978-1-60699-727-7 50 Girls 50 Every Al Williamson science-fiction story from Weird Science and Weird Science-Fantasy. Bomb Run ISBN 978-1-60699-577-8 34 taut, gritty war stories by John Severin with Will Elder, Harvey Kurtzman, and others. ISBN 978-1-60699-749-9 ‘Tain’t the Meat... It’s the Humanity! Every Jack Davis horror story from Tales From the Crypt Zero Hour ISBN 978-1-60699-578-5 22 EC science-fiction classics illustrated by Jack Kamen ISBN 978-1-60699-704-8 Fall Guy for Murder Johnny Craig’s crime and horror stories from Crime SuspenStories and The Vault of Horror. Aces High ISBN 978-1-60699-658-4 All of George Evans’s aviation war stories from EC’s Aces High ISBN 978-1-60699-784-0 Sucker Bait 25 classic horror stories by Graham Ingels, Al Feldstein, and others ISBN 978-1-60699-827-4 In 2012, Fantagraphics Books began repackaging the esteemed EC Comics of the 1950s in a series of handsome hardcovers devoted to specific artists and writers, pairing two of the most storied publishers in comics history and introducing the timeless work of EC to contemporary readers.

Spawn of Mars Voodoo Vengeance Over two dozen of Wallace Wood’s best EC science-fiction stories Featuring 25 Johnny Craig horror classics ISBN 978-1-60699-805-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-965-3 Grave Business The Million Year Picnic A collection of grisly, shocking horror stories illustrated by Graham Ingels. Featuring every one of Will Elder’s non-Kurtzman EC collaborations ISBN 978-1-60699-827-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-982-0 Forty Whacks Daddy Lost His Head A collection of hard-boiled crime and horror drawn by Jack Kamen and written by Jack Kamen horror classics in collab. With Feldstein and Bradbury Al Feldstein. ISBN 978-1-68396-050-8 ISBN 978-1-60699-862-5 Master Race The High Cost of Dying Collecting the great Bernard Krigstein’s virtuosic EC oeuvre! Classic crime, horror and sci-fi from Reed Crandall and Al Feldstein ISBN 978-1-68396-094-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-908-8 Death Stand The Living Mummy All of Davis & Kurtzman’s EC war stories, and more! Over 30 classic horror stories by Jack Davis and Al Feldstein ISBN 978-1-68396-103-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-929-5 The DON ROSA Library

Vol. 1: Vol. 2: Vol. 3: Vol. 4: A comprehensive series of hardcover books collecting the internationally revered Disney Duck stories by Don Rosa, presented to American audiences for the first time.

“The Son of the Sun” “Return to Plain Awful” “Treasure Under Glass” “The Last of the Clan McDuck” ISBN 978-1-60699-742-0 ISBN 978-1-60699-780-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-781-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-866-3

Vol. 5: Vol. 6: Vol. 7: Vol. 8: Vol. 9:

“The Richest Duck in the World” “The Universal Solvent” “The Treasure of the Ten Avatars” “Escape from Forbidden Valley” “The Three Caballeros Ride Again!” ISBN 978-1-60699-927-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-961-5 ISBN 9781-68396-006-5 ISBN 978-1-68396-053-9 ISBN 978-1-68396-102-4 Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete collection of this epic medieval adventure set in the days of King Arthur. Created by Hal Foster in 1937, the Prince Valiant comic strip continues to this day.

Vol. 1: 1937–1938 Vol. 2: 1939–1940 Vol. 3: 1941–1942 Vol. 4: 1943–1944 Vol. 5: 1945–1946 Vol. 6: 1947–1948 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 ISBN 978-1-60699-588-4

Vol. 7: 1949–1950 Vol. 8: 1951–1952 Vol. 9: 1953–1954 Vol. 10: 1955-1956 Vol. 11: 1957-1958 Vol. 12: 1959-1960 ISBN 978-1-60699-645-4 ISBN 978-1-60699-699-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-735-2 ISBN 978-1-60699-800-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-828-1 ISBN 978-1-60699-876-2

The Definitive Prince Vol. 13: 1961-1962 Vol. 14: 1963-1964 Vol. 15: 1965-1966 Vol. 16: 1967-1968 Vol. 17: 1969-1970 Vols. 1-3: Gift Box Set Valiant Companion ISBN 978-1-60699-925-7 ISBN 978-1-60699-925-7 ISBN 978-1-68396-025-6 ISBN 978-1-68396-064-5 ISBN 978-1-68396-104-8 $99.99 $39.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-68396-072-0 ISBN 978-1-60699-306-4 35 $24.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-60699-305-7 INDEX

B Barks, Carl 3, 29 M Martina, Guido 14, 15 T Tapper, Jake 11 Bastard 8 Memorabilia 25 Thorburn, Nick 6 Bottaro, Luciano 15 Mickey Mouse: Twists of Fate 4 Bradbury, Ray 16 The Floyd Gottfredson Library 28 Van Sciver, Noah 9 Mickey Mouse: Vanishing Act 27 C Complete Crepax, The 18 The Greatest Adventures 2 Villadsen, Rikke 26 Complete Peanuts, The 5 Mickey Mouse: Crepax, Guido 18 The Phantom Blot’s Double Mystery 14 W Walker, Brian 22 Milton, Freddy 15 Walker, Mort 22 D de Radigués, Max 8 Muradov, Roman 27 Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge Dean, M. 19 Murry, Paul 15 and Donald Duck 12, 13, 34 Disney Masters 14, 15 Walt Disney’s Donald Duck 3, 29 Disney, Walt 2, 3, 12, 13, 14, 15, 28, 29 N Now 1 Warrior Women 21 Doctor of Horror 17 Drawn to Berlin 10 P Parallel Lives 20 Peanuts 5, 23, 30, 31 E EC Comics 16, 32, 33 Peanuts Every Sunday 23 Penguins 6 Fante Bukowski Three 9 Piskor, Ed 24 Feldstein, Al 17 Pogo 11 Fitzgerald, Ali 10 Ponchione, Sergio 25 Foster, Hal 22, 35 Prince Valiant 22, 35

G Gottfredson, Floyd 2, 28 R Reynolds, Eric 1 Roca, Paco 4 I I Am Young 19 Rodriguez, Spain 24 Ingels, Graham 17 Roly Poly 7 Ink & Anguish 24 Rosa, Don 12, 13, 34 Rosenkranz, Patrick 21, 24 J James Warren, Empire of Monsters 16 Jippes, Daan 15 S Scarpa, Romano 14, 15 Schelly, Bill 16 K Kelly, Walt 11 Schrawuen, Olivier 20 Schulz, Charles M. 5, 23, 30, 31 L Lynch, Jay 24 Sea, The 26 Semanas, Daniel 7 orld’sG re isher of the W atest Cartoo Publ nists Since 1976

“Fantagraphics… has published and championed many of the finest “Fantagraphics publishes the best comics in the world.” —Wired cartoonists working today.”—John Hodgman, The New York Times “Fantagraphics [is] raising bars and smashing boundaries with every “One of the foremost publishers of comics, graphic novels and related mammoth step they take. BOOM BOOM BOOM!”—Vice works in the world.” —Publishers Weekly

Fantagraphics Books has been the leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of a burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts. Fantagraphics is an advocacy publisher that specializes in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that comics corporations who deal almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy traditionally either don’t know exist or won’t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the ’60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

The work of our authors, which combines the social relevance of the previous generation of underground comix artists, an attention to personal and psychological veracity, and formal experimentation and innovation, continues to gain commercial momentum and critical recognition.

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