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

Fantagraphics Books has been a 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 of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn’t know existed or wouldn’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 has continued to gain commercial momentum and critical recognition over the last 38 years by combining the social relevance of the previous generation of underground comix artists, an attention to personal and psychological veracity, and formal experimentation and innovation.

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september

AN AGE OF LICENSE By Lucy Knisley

A GRAPHIC MEMOIR OF TRAVELING — AND EATING — ABROAD Acclaimed cartoonist Lucy Knisley (French Milk, Relish) got an opportunity that most only dream of: a travel-expenses-paid trip to Europe and Scandinavia, thanks to a book tour. An Age of License is Knisley’s comics travel memoir recounting her charming (and romantic!) adventures. It’s punctuated by whimsical visual devices (such as a “new experiences” funnel); peppered with the cute cats she meets along the way; and, of course, features her hallmark — drawings and descriptions of food that will make your mouth water. But it’s not all kittens and raclette crêpes: Knisley’s experiences are colored by anxieties, introspective self-inquiries, and quotidian revelations — about traveling alone in unfamiliar countries, and about her life and career — that many young adults will relate to. An Age of License — which takes its name from a French saying — is an Eat, Pray, Love for the alternative comics fan. $19.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E TRAVEL WRITING • CQ: 24 208 pages, color and black-and-white, 5 ½” x 7 ½” ISBN 978-1-60699-768-0 • The follow-up to Knisley’s 2013 hit, Relish, which was a NYT bestseller and named to Publisher’s Weekly, Amazon, and Goodreads top ten lists of 2013 • Review attention • Follow Knisley at lucyknisley.tumblr. com and @lucyknisley • Book debut at 2014 Comic-Con International, where Knisley is a Featured Guest • Other author appearances t.b.a. • Age range: 15+

LUCY KNISLEY is a cartoonist and occasional puppeteer, ukulele player and food/travel writer living in New York City. She is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Center for Cartoon Studies. Praise for Knisley’s previous book, the NYT-bestselling Relish (featured as an Amazon top ten of 2013, a Goodreads top ten, and one of Publishers Weekly’s best books of 2013): “Relish possesses a poetic intensity and brevity that leaves the reader touched and haunted by life’s subtlest moments. Relish is by turns inspiring, witty, melancholy, surprising, and hilarious — in every sense a work of art.” — Boston Globe “Knisley’s candid storytelling, deadpan humor, and clear-line storytelling make the book entirely accessible… like a giant bowl of spaghetti carbonara or a tower of huevos rancheros (recipes included) this is a book that teenagers and parents will savor in equal measure.” — Publishers Weekly “Thoroughly winning… There’s a real sense of joy to Relish.” — The A.V. Club, The Onion

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TARDI’S WWI: IT WAS THE WAR OF THE TRENCHES / GODDAMN THIS WAR! GIFT BOX SET By Jacques Tardi, with Jean-Pierre Verney

HONORING THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF WWI Jacques Tardi is responsible for the two acknowledged graphic novel masterpieces about World War I: It Was the War of the Trenches and Goddamn This War! To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI in 2014, Fantagraphics is proud to release a two-volume boxed set collecting these two perennial classics. The first book, It Was the War of the Trenches, focuses on the day to day of the grunts in the trenches, bringing that existence alive as no one has before or since with some of his most stunning artwork. His second WWI masterwork, Goddamn This War!, is told with a sustained sense of outrage, pitch-black gallows humor, and impeccably scrupulous historical exactitude, in masterful full color. $39.99 Two-volume, hardcover boxed set • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction • CQ: 12 260 pages, color and black-and-white, 8 ¼” x 10 ¾” ISBN 978-1-60699-769-7 • Honoring the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI • Great gift idea • Age range: 15+

JACQUES TARDI lives and works in Paris, France. “‘The war to end all wars’ has become a magisterial comic book to end all comic books. Trenches is an essential classic.” — Art Spiegelman “Tardi’s depiction of the First World War is so impassioned and visceral that it can be compared to the work of the artists who actually served in the trenches.” — Joe Sacco Visit fantagraphics.com/jacquestardi for more titles by Jacques Tardi.

september

LOVE AND ROCKETS: NEW STORIES NO. 7 By Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez

A MAGGIE AND HOPEY ROAD TRIP, AND MORE!

$14.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 48 100 pages, black-and-white, 7 ¼” x 10 ½” ISBN 978-1-60699-770-3 • One of the most beloved series in comics • Review attention • Follow Jaime Hernandez @xaimeh on twitter • Facebook fan page at facebook.com/ hernandezbros • Age range: 17+

The seventh annual volume of Love and Rockets: New Stories, the most important and enduring alternative comics series in the history of the medium, finds Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez writing and drawing at the top of their game. In Jaime’s stories, Maggie and Hopey take a road trip and much-needed break from their humdrum domestic lives and travel to visit a “sick friend.” And, when the cat’s away, Ray visits some old sick friends of his own. Plus Tonta’s nutty family! Gilbert offers a veritable suite of stories, including “The Magic Voyage of Aladdin,” a sweeping epic of derring-do in which Morgan Le Fey (Fritz) teams up with Aladdin to stop the evil Circle from obtaining the magic lamp; “The Golem Suit,” a WWII sci-fi thriller starring “Killer”; and “Daughters and Mothers and Daughters,” in which flashbacks to Luba’s mother Maria reveal how ugly secrets of the past affect their family today.

GILBERT HERNANDEZ lives in Las Vegas, NV with his wife and daughter. JAIME HERNANDEZ lives in Alta Dena, CA with his wife and daughter. “In the 30 years they’ve been writing and drawing Love and Rockets, Los Bros Hernandez have created wonderfully complex story lines and characters... This web of superior magical-realistic storytelling involves readers in the perplexed yearnings of a huge cast of unforgettable characters unaware of their own capacity for general self-delusion and occasional self-discovery.” — Publishers Weekly “There are acclaimed filmmakers and novelists who can’t do what Jaime Hernandez does — or Gilbert, for that matter. When the two of them are at their most inspired, as they are here, they make almost every other comics creator today look like a fumbling hack. [Grade] A” — The A.V. Club

ALSO AVAILABLE:

$14.99 Paperback Originals No. 1: ISBN 978-1-56097-951-7 No. 2: ISBN 978-1-60699-168-8 No. 3: ISBN 978-1-60699-379-8 No. 4: ISBN 978-1-60699-490-0 No. 5: ISBN 978-1-60699-586-0 No. 6: ISBN 978-1-60699-679-9

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SET TO SEA Now in paperback! By Drew Weing

A SEAFARING GRAPHIC NOVEL FAVORITE, BACK IN PRINT!

$16.99 Paperback • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 32 144 pages, black-and-white, 5 ¼” x 6 ½” ISBN 978-1-60699-771-0 (Previous hardcover edition, ISBN 978-1-60699368-2)

• A graphic novel classic now available in paperback for the first time! • A 2011 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize Honor Award recipient • An ALA 2011 Top 10 Great Graphic Novels for Teens honoree • A Booklist 2010 Top Ten Youth Graphic Novels honoree • Age range: 15+

The central character of Set to Sea is a big lug and an aspiring poet who runs up tabs at the local bars by day and haunts the docks by night, writing paeans to the seafaring life. When he gets shanghaied aboard a clipper bound for Hong Kong, he finds the sailor’s life a bit rougher than his romantic nautical fantasies, but he learns to live — and love — a Conradian life on the sea, all the while writing poetry about pirates, bad food, unceremonial funerals, foreign ports, and unexpected epiphanies. By the end of his life, he’s found satisfaction in living a life of adventure and finding a receptive and appreciative readership. What more could one ask for? Set to Sea is part rollicking adventure, part maritime ballad told in visual rhyme. Every page is a single panel, every panel is a stunning illustration, every illustration a part of a larger whole that tells a story in the deft language of cartooning.

DREW WEING lives in Athens, GA, with his wife, the cartoonist Eleanor Davis. “With hints of The Odyssey, Moby Dick, Popeye and Treasure Island, Weing has created a modern classic in the pirate genre.” — School Library Journal “He may look like a big lug, but he’s got dreams of the ocean and the heart of a poet. The hero of Weing’s salty debut sails off to adventure in this pocket-size sea-shanty of a graphic novel.” — New York Magazine “Set to Sea is so lovely in places that I found myself exclaiming aloud — it’s got a naive-but-selfconscious grace that is impossible to describe and that few have ever mastered. This one is highly recommended.” — Cory Doctorow

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WAITING FOR THE GREAT PUMPKIN By Charles M. Schulz

A HALLOWEEN-THEMED PEANUTS GIFT BOOK

$9.99 Hardcover • Territory: F HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 48 64 pages, two-color, 6” x 6” ISBN 978-1-60699-772-7 • Halloween stories starring Charlie Brown and Linus • The most beloved strip of all-time • The perfect Halloween gift idea • Age range: All ages

Linus and his wait for the Great Pumpkin have been a pop culture touchstone for nearly 50 years thanks to the animated television special (“I got a rock”), and it all started in the classic Peanuts strips from 1959-1962 collected in this affordable, fun-sized gift book. Linus’s belief and proselytizing that on Halloween, the Great Pumpkin rises from the pumpkin patch and travels the world bringing presents to good little girls and boys are laughed at by Charlie Brown, derided by his sister Lucy, met with skepticism by baby Sally, and even causes “denominational squabbling” over who’s better, the Great Pumpkin or Santa Claus. Year after year, Linus faces his persecution and inevitable disappointment with either blind faith or Quixotic perseverance. Charles M. Schulz’s homage to the power of idealism and belief makes these some of the most beloved comic strips of all time.

CHARLES M. SCHULZ created the Peanuts comic strip from 1950-2000. “There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” — Linus Van Pelt

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Batter Up, Charlie Brown! $ 9.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-725-3

Also Available $29.99 each (Introduction author in parentheses)

1950–1952 (Garrison Keillor) ISBN 978-1-56097-589-2

1953–1954 (Walter Cronkite) ISBN 978-1-56097-614-1

1955–1956 (Matt Groening) ISBN 978-1-56097-647-9

1957–1958 (Jonathan Franzen) ISBN 978-1-56097-670-7

1965–1966 (Hal Hartley) ISBN 978-1-56097-724-7

1967–1968 (John Waters) ISBN 978-1-56097-826-8

1969–1970 (Mo Willems) ISBN 978-1-56097-827-5

1979–1980 (Al Roker) ISBN 978-1-60699-438-2

1981–1982 (Lynn Johnston) ISBN 978-1-60699-471-9

1983–1984 (Leonard Maltin) ISBN 978-1-60699-523-5

Box Sets $49.99 EACH 1950–1954 Gift Box Set

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1955–1958 Gift Box Set

1975–1978 Gift Box Set

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1959–1962 Gift Box Set

1979–1982 Gift Box Set

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1963–1966 Gift Box Set

1983–1986 Gift Box Set

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1987–1990 Gift Box Set

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1959–1960 (Whoopi Goldberg) ISBN 978-1-56097-671-4

1961–1962 (Diana Krall) ISBN 978-1-56097-672-1

1963–1964 (Bill Melendez) ISBN 978-1-56097-723-0

1971–1972 (Kristin Chenoweth) 1973–1974 (Billie Jean King) ISBN 978-1-60699-145-9 ISBN 978-1-60699-286-9

1975–1976 (Robert Smigel) ISBN 978-1-60699-345-3

1977–1978 (Alec Baldwin) ISBN 978-1-60699-375-0

1985–1986 (Patton Oswalt) ISBN 978-1-60699-572-3

1989–1990 (Lemony Snicket) ISBN 978-1-60699-680-5

1991–1992 (Tom Tomorrow) ISBN 978-1-60699-726-0

1987–1988 (Garry Trudeau) ISBN 978-1-60699-634-8

september

THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1993-1994

THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1991-1994 GIFT BOX SET

By Charles M. Schulz

$29.99 Hardcover • Territory: F HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 18 344 pages, black-and-white, 8 ½” x 7” ISBN 978-1-60699-773-4

$49.99 Hardcover • Territory: F HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 8 Two 344-page books in custom slipcase, 8 ½” x 7” ISBN 978-1-60699-774-1

PEANUTS’ MOST OVERLOOKED DECADE, RIPE FOR RECONSIDERATION Even the most devoted Peanuts fan will be surprised by revisiting Schulz’s last decade of work. Schulz’s cartooning has never been more expressive, and his sense of humor never more unencumbered by formula or tradition. In one sequence, the gang waits… and waits… for a school bus that never comes. Another shockingly showcases Charlie Brown hitting a game-winning home run — off Roy Hobbs’ great-granddaughter? Then, Linus lobbies the White House to nominate Snoopy for a Supreme Court seat (it would go to Ruth Bader Ginsburg). Woodstock discovers his long-lost grandfather’s diary, detailing a hard life in captivity (birdcage). Snoopy lands in the hospital with pneumonia, and all three of his brothers — Andy, Spike, and Olaf — come pay their respects. This is the 22nd volume (of 25) of the bestselling series collecting every single one of the 18,000-plus strips created by Schulz from 1950-2000.

CHARLES M. SCHULZ was born in Minnesota in 1922 and passed away in 2000. His work lives on at Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA. “Fantagraphics has won numerous awards for this series and they deserve them all for creating such a wonderful archive of this American treasure. A must have for any Peanuts fan that can be enjoyed by the whole family.” — The Christian Science Monitor

• Over 500K sold in this series • A New York Times bestseller • Soon to be a major motion picture (Summer 2015) • The most beloved comic strip of all time • Age range: All ages “The Complete Peanuts has framed Charles Schulz’s enduring masterpiece about as well any lifelong fan could’ve hoped.” — The A.V. Club “The Complete Peanuts confronts us afresh with what a brilliant, truly modern and totally weird idea it was to create a comic strip about a chronically depressed child...” — TIME

september

21: THE STORY OF ROBERTO CLEMENTE Now in paperback! By Wilfred Santiago

A NEW EDITION OF THE ACCLAIMED GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY Now available for the first time in paperback, Wilfred Santiago’s instant classic 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente is a human drama of courage, faith, and dignity, inspired by the life of the acclaimed Pittsburgh Pirates baseball star who died too young. 21 chronicles Clemente’s life from his early days growing up, through the highlights of his career, capturing the grit of his rise from an impoverished Puerto Rican childhood to the majesty of his performance on the field, and to his fundamental decency off of it. Santiago’s inviting style combines realistic attention to detail and expressive cartooning to great effect. $19.99 Paperback • Territory: E SPORTS / Baseball • CQ: 32 200 pages, full-color, 6 ¼” x 8” ISBN 978-1-60699-775-8

(Previous hardcover edition: ISBN 978-156097-892-3)

• Sept. 17th is MLB-sanctioned Roberto Clemente Day • One of Library Journal’s Best Books 2011: Graphic Novels • One of Booklist’s Top Ten Graphic Novels: 2011 books • 2011 Casey Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book • A 2012 ALA/YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens • Popular facebook page at facebook. com/21thestoryofrobertoclemente • Age range: 13+

WILFRED SANTIAGO was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He lives in Chicago, IL. “Brilliant and beautiful, challenging and lyrical... which seems exactly right, as Roberto Clemente was all those things and more.” — Rob Neyer, National Baseball Editor, SBnation.com “This book captures the essence of one of our sport’s greatest heroes, and it does so in a way that engages the imaginations as much as it reveals the heart, ink, color, style, and character; I can think of no better way to share a tale of a true legend.” — Dirk Hayhurst, former Major League pitcher and author of The Bullpen Gospels “Wilfred Santiago captures the physical grace of baseball and creates a story of visceral and emotional force... a rich and surprising work… It is a classic story given new life in this fresh, innovative telling.” — Sports Illustrated “The in-game sequences are show-stoppers… for a book that matches the pure athleticism, unshakable compassion, and towering legacy of its subject, look no further.” — Booklist (Starred Review)

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MICHAEL JORDAN: BULL ON PARADE By Wilfred Santiago

THE FIRST-EVER GRAPHIC NOVEL ABOUT THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ATHLETE IN HISTORY A gripping, kinetic bio about the greatest basketball player of all time and most influential athlete in history, from the creator of the acclaimed and bestselling 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente. From Jordan’s public successes to private struggles, Santiago’s passion shines through on every full-color page. Everyone at a certain age wanted to be like Mike, and Santiago puts you on the parquet floor of Chicago’s United Center in your very own pair of Air Jordans.

$24.99 Hardcover • Territory: E SPORTS / Basketball • CQ: 24 200 pages, full-color, 5 ¾” x 7 ½” ISBN 978-1-60699-711-6

WILFRED SANTIAGO was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He lives in Chicago, IL.

• Major review attention • Off-the-book-page coverage from sports media • From the creator of the perennial 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente • Previews at jordancomicbook.com • Age range: 13+

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HOW TO READ NANCY: THE ELEMENTS OF COMICS IN THREE EASY PANELS By Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden; Introduction by James Elkins

THIS IS THE REAL UNDERSTANDING COMICS

$29.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary Criticism • CQ: 16 240 pages, black-and-white, 8 ½” x 8 ½” ISBN 978-1-60699-361-3 • Review attention • Soon to be a perennial in comics scholarship • Author appearances t.b.a. • Age range: 15+

Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language of comics through the deconstruction of a single strip. No other book on comics has taken such a simple yet methodical approach to laying bare how the comics medium really works. No other book of any kind has taken a single work by any artist and minutely (and entertainingly) pulled it apart like this. How to Read Nancy is a completely new approach towards deep-reading art. In addition, How to Read Nancy is a thoroughly researched history of how comics are made, from their creation at the drawing board to their ultimate destination at the bookstore. Textbook, art book, monogram, dissection, How to Read Nancy is a game changer in understanding how the “simplest” drawings grab us and never leave. Perfect for students, academics, scholars, and casual fans.

PAUL KARASIK lives in Martha’s Vineyard, MA. MARK NEWGARDEN lives in Brooklyn, NY. “Not only does How to Read Nancy give insight into Bushmiller’s brilliance, it’s also a great, concise educational [book] about visual storytelling through the analysis of a single strip.” — Boing Boing

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NANCY LOVES SLUGGO: COMPLETE DAILIES 1949-1951 By Ernie Bushmiller

OUR BELOVED NANCY SERIES RETURNS

$35.00 Flexibound • Territory: E HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 14 336-page, black-and-white with spotcolor, 8 ½” x 8 ½” ISBN 978-1-60699-777-2 • Age range: All ages • Great gift idea

Many connoisseurs — including Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Scott McCloud (creator of the “Five-Card Nancy” card game), Joe Brainard, and Andy Warhol — have recognized that Bushmiller’s often-corny Nancy approached its own kind of zen-like cartoon perfection. In its own way, it turned out Nancy was in fact the most iconic comic strip of all; The American Heritage Dictionary actually uses a Nancy strip to illustrate its entry on “comic strip.” Fantagraphics’ beloved Nancy series finally packages Nancy with the reverence it deserves. Our third volume contains another full three years of daily Nancy strips, from an era many regard as Bushmiller’s finest.

ERNEST PAUL BUSHMILLER, Jr. (1905 –1982) — a.k.a. “Ernie” — was born in New York’s South Bronx and spent his final years in Stamford, CT. “Now, [Fantagraphics’] Nancy arrives after three decades of pro-Nancy revival and mainstream humor often as archly silly and unreal as Bushmiller’s — Letterman, Conan, Pee-wee Herman, The Mighty Boosh, or the grown-up fan base of Yo Gabba Gabba! It bodes well for Bushmiller’s legacy that there’s finally an audience educated enough to appreciate his brand of dumb.” — Bookforum “Ernie Bushmiller’s comic strip Nancy is a landmark achievement.” — Scott McCloud

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies 1943-1945 Introduction by Daniel Clowes $24.99 Flexibound, ISBN 978-1-60699-360-6 Nancy Loves Christmas: Complete Dailies 1946-1948 Introduction by Bill Griffith $26.99 Flexibound, ISBN 978-1-60699-599-0

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october

By Charles M. Schulz

A THANKSGIVING-THEMED PEANUTS GIFT BOOK

$9.99 Hardcover • Territory: F HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 48 64 pages, two-color, 6” x 6” ISBN 978-1-60699-778-9 • Starring Snoopy and the gang • The most beloved comic strip of all time • Great gift idea • Age range: All ages

Sometimes getting together with friends and family for Thanksgiving isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, as Snoopy learns when his brother Spike invites him to spend Thanksgiving in the desert, and things don’t quite work out as planned. At least it’s a change of pace for Snoopy, who spends most Thanksgivings with the ol’ supper dish (and one lonely one at the malt shoppe as Joe Cool). It’s also a tense time of year to be a bird who’s afraid of being mistaken for a turkey and roasted, and Woodstock copes with his anxieties in various ways, including by donning a disguise with Snoopy’s help. Meanwhile, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Franklin all get sick over their Thanksgiving vacation. Snoopy’s Thanksgiving is the perfect gift book for anyone whose idea of the holiday is more Charlie Brown than Norman Rockwell.

CHARLES M. SCHULZ created the Peanuts comic strip from 1950-2000.

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CHARLIE BROWN’s christmas stocking SEASONAL REOFFER! by Charles M. Schulz

FOR THE FAN WHO THINKS HE OR SHE’S GOT IT ALL!

$9.99 Hardcover • Territory: F HUMOR / Comic strips • CQ: 48 56 pages, Full-color, 6” x 6” ISBN 978-1-60699-624-9 • ARC • Age Range: All Ages • The perfect Peanuts stocking stuffer

During his 50-year career, 99 percent of Charles Schulz’s creative energies went into the daily Peanuts comic strip. But once in a while he would create a special something else on the side, and this adorable little package collects two of his best “extras” from the 1960s: two Christmas-themed stories written and drawn for Good Housekeeping and Women’s Day magazines. “Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking” comprises 15 original captioned vignettes featuring the entire Peanuts cast of the time — Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Frieda, Violet, Shermy, and Sally — each with a joke or reflection about the season. A perfect gift item for the holidays!

CHARLES M. SCHULZ was born in Minnesota in 1922 and passed away in 2000. His work lives on at Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA. “Schulz’s Peanuts has always been unique in its ability to speak to audiences of adults and children simultaneously, which might go a long way to explaining why the characters continue to be so strongly associated with Christmas in the minds of many adults who grew up watching that TV special once a year.” — School Library Journal “Seeing this work isolated and expanded only reinforces the sheer timelessness and brilliance inherent; Schulz was a master of mood and line in equal measure. . . — Paste “As with the best of Schulz’s work, the humor alternates between deadpan and over the top, and the presentation of religion and holidays both is both irreverent and respectful at the same time. Schulz was a multi-faceted writer and could tackle contradictions through great simplicity. Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking stands as gift from the past that is greater than the size of the package. It’s a real treasure.” — North Adams Transcript

THE GHOST OF THE GROTTO

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october

Starring Walt Disney’s Donald Duck By Carl Barks

AN ANCIENT CURSE, A GHOST IN ARMOR, AND A GIANT OCTOPUS!

$12.99 Paperback Original • Territory: X HUMOR / Comics • CQ: 32 96 pages, full-color, 5 ½” x 7 ¼” ISBN 978-1-60699-779-6 • Great gift idea • A new, kid-friendly format for presenting classic Barks adventures • Considered by many the greatest kids’ comic ever • Perfect for Disney or comics fans

One of Donald Duck’s most famous adventures leads off our new line of affordable kid-sized Donald Duck books: just-right half-height books packed with fun, laughs, and adventure in every 96-page edition. Each story is complete with all the original story and art (no panels have been dropped or altered). In “Donald Duck and the Ghost of the Grotto,” Donald and his nephews try to harvest kelp at Skull-Eye Reef in the West Indies but are soon menaced by a ducknapping ghost in armor who is determined to carry out a centuries-old curse and a giant octopus who — well, what do you think giant octopuses do? Plus “Fireman Donald” and a second bonus story, all written and drawn by Disney Legend Carl Barks!

CARL BARKS (1901-2000) is known as “The Good Duck Artist.” “I consider [Carl Barks’ comics] to be the best form of storytelling I’ve read.” — Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid “A priceless part of our literary heritage.” — George Lucas

october

WALT DISNEY’S DONALD DUCK CHRISTMAS GIFT BOX SET SEASONAL REOFFER! By Carl Barks

CHRISTMAS-THEMED CHILDREN’S CLASSICS FROM THE GOOD DUCK ARTIST!

$49.99 Hardcover • Territory: X HUMOR / Comics • CQ: 8 Two 240-page books in a custom slipcase, full-color, 7 ¼” x 10” ISBN 978-1-60699-714-7 • Great gift item • Perfect for Disney or comics fans • Age Range: All ages

For readers who are looking for something really special and enormously fun to give to their loved ones in this holiday season, we present, in one package, two of the best Christmas comics stories you’ll ever read: “Christmas on Bear Mountain” featuring the introduction of Uncle Scrooge (the World’s Richest Duck), and “A Christmas for Shacktown,” in which Scrooge loses his entire fortune even as Donald Duck and his nephews try to bring some Christmas cheer to the suffering children of Shacktown. But that’s only the beginning! In these twin volumes, you’ll find page after page after page of intrepid quests, daring adventures, and breathtaking escapes. In all, these two books provide nearly 400 pages of full-color comics!

CARL BARKS (1901-2000) was one of three inaugural inductees into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame (along with Eisner and Jack Kirby). “This collection makes a perfect introduction to one of the greatest all-ages comics artists of all time.” — NPR

october

WALT DISNEY’S UNCLE SCROOGE AND DONALD DUCK: THE DON ROSA LIBRARY VOLS. 1 & 2 GIFT BOX SET By Don Rosa

THE PERFECT LAUNCHING PAD FOR ANY DISNEY DUCKS LIBRARY

$49.99 Hardcover • Territory: X HUMOR / Comics • CQ: 10 Two hardcover books in custom slipcase (424 pages combined), fullcolor, 8 ½” x 11” ISBN 978-1-60699-781-9

To commemorate the first time Don Rosa’s legendary and internationally acclaimed Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories have been comprehensively reprinted in America, we have produced a stunning two-volume boxed set collecting the first two books in the 10-volume series. These two volumes contain over 30 of Rosa’s ingeniously plotted, meticulously rendered, and kinetically vital Duck stories — from “A Matter of Gravity,” in which Magica deSpell turns Uncle Scrooge’s world upside down and sideways, to “Return to Plain Awful,” Rosa’s sequel to Carl Barks’ “Lost in the Andes.” Both books are available in a customized, full-color slipcase at a bargain price.

Don Rosa is a 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair International Grand Prize winner and 2013 Bill Finger Award Recipient for Excellence in Comic Book Writing.

• Great gift idea • Age range: All ages ALSO AVAILABLE:

Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: “The Son of the Sun” The Don Rosa Library Vol. 1 $29.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-742-0

WALT DISNEY’S UNCLE SCROOGE AND DONALD DUCK: “RETURN TO PLAIN AWFUL” THE DON ROSA LIBRARY VOL. 2 By Don Rosa

2013 BILL FINGER AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMIC BOOK WRITING

$29.99 Hardcover • Territory: X HUMOR / Comics • CQ: 20 216 pages, full-color, 8 ½” x 11” ISBN 978-1-60699-780-2 • Over 34,000 sold of Rosa’s previous book, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck • Scrooge, Donald, and their nephews remain among Disney’s most popular characters with teens and young adults • Featured guest and book debut at 2013 Comic-Con International • Major review attention • Author events t.b.a. • Age range: All ages

“Jumpin’ jacksnipes!” Duckburg’s richest tycoon is on the hunt for legendary square eggs—and he’s bringing Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie along! It’s our second complete, chronological book of Duck adventures by internationally celebrated fan favorite Don Rosa—following in the footsteps of Disney legend Carl Barks with his own distinctive style! Famed for his prizewinning Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Rosa wrote and drew two decades’ worth of ripping Duck yarns and is among the world’s most beloved modern cartoonists. Star stories in our second Rosa book include “Return to Plain Awful,” Rosa’s sequel to Barks’ “Lost in the Andes.” Then, in “His Majesty McDuck,” Scrooge beats the IRS by seceding from the Union... only to have his new country colonized by the Beagle Boys! Plus more! Presented with a rich archive of Rosa’s cover art and behind-the-scenes factoids, these Duckburg epics are getting a definitive, comprehensive North American edition for the very first time—at a bargain price worthy of Scrooge himself!

DON ROSA (born June 29, 1951) lives near Louisville, KY. “I think he’s amazing.” — Douglas Wolk, TIME.com “…Rosa’s gag-crammed panels pop with detail.” — Noel Murray, The A.V. Club

THE WALT DISNEY’S MICKEY MOUSE 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” ISBN 978-1-60699-441-2

Vol. 2: “Trapped on Treasure Island” ISBN 978-1-60699-495-5

Color Sundays Vol. 1: “Call of the Wild” ISBN 978-1-60699-576-1

Color Sundays Vol. 2: “Robin Hood Rides Again!” ISBN 978-1-60699-686-7

Vol. 3: “High Noon at Inferno Gulch” ISBN 978-1-60699-531-0

Vols. 1 & 2 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-496-2

Vol. 4: “House of the Seven Haunts!” ISBN 978-1-60699-575-4

Vols. 3 & 4 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-576-1

Vol. 5: “Outwits the Phanton Blot” ISBN 978-1-60699-736-9

Color Sundays 1 & 2 Gift Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-576-1

october

WALT DISNEY’S MICKEY MOUSE VOL. 6: “LOST IN LANDS OF LONG AGO”

WALT DISNEY’S MICKEY MOUSE VOLS. 5 & 6 GIFT BOX SET

By Floyd Gottfredson $35.00 Hardcover • Territory: X HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 14 288 pages, black-and-white with some color, 10 ½” x 8 ¾” ISBN 978-1-60699-782-6

By Floyd Gottfredson $49.99 Hardcover • Territory: X HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 8 Two hardcover volumes in a custom slipcase, 10 ½” x 8 ½” • ISBN 978-1-60699-783-3

2012 WILL EISNER AWARD WINNER: BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION Decades before Jurassic Park, Doc Dustibones brings Mickey to Cave-Man Island—a lost world where fossil monsters survive alive! From stampeding brontosaurs to saber-tooth tigers, all of Goofy’s least favorite Stone Age scares are here... and Dustibones is building a blimp to carry them to America! What could possibly go wrong? Floyd Gottfredson produced a canon of legendary, rip-roaring tales starring Mickey as a daring, two-fisted hero—in a world-famous series of legendary adventures! Lost in Lands of Long Ago also includes several other stories and more than 30 pages of prehistoric extras! You’ll enjoy rare behind-the-scenes art, vintage publicity material, and fascinating commentary by a clan of Disney cave bears. Rediscover the wild, unforgettable personality behind the icon: Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse. Hired as a short-term replacement in 1930, FLOYD GOTTFREDSON went on to draw Mickey Mouse for the next 45 years. “From the beautifully reproduced strips to the densely packed ancillary features, this must be the book that editors David Gerstein and Fantagraphics’ co-founder Gary Groth wanted for years for their own libraries. Their enthusiasm shows in the wonderfully designed package. This book is highly recommended for any Disney fan and fans of America’s rich comic strip history.” — Christian Science Monitor

• Great gift idea • Follow at facebook.com/ waltdisneysmickeymouse • Amongst the top five most familiar properties in the world • Age range: All ages “A revelation. As in his contemporaneous animated cartoons, this Mickey is a feisty, wisecracking daredevil… Gottfredson’s charmingly old-fashioned drawings accentuate the gags and briskly propel the plotlines.” — Booklist “I have a feeling that this book, crafted with such obvious care, will earn Gottfredson a new legion of admirers.” — Leonard Maltin

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE EC COMICS LIBRARY:

Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories Classic war-story masterpieces from TwoFisted Tales and Frontline Combat, written by Harvey Kurtzman! ISBN 978-1-60699-545-7

Came the Dawn and Other Stories All 26 crime and suspense shockers created by Wallace Wood for EC! ISBN 978-1-60699-546-4

50 Girls 50 and Other Stories Every Al Williamson science-fiction story from Weird Science and Weird Science-Fantasy! ISBN 978-1-60699-577-8

‘Tain’t the Meat... It’s the Humanity and Other Stories Every Jack Davis horror story from Tales From the Crypt! 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 EC horror stories from the pen of “Ghastly” Graham Ingels ISBN 978-1-60699-689-8

“I am not only appreciative... but also very impressed. [The books] are spectacular packages of their featured artist and their stories.” — Al Feldstein “Fantagraphics has been inventing unique ways to publish [this] treasure trove of ’40s and ’50s crime, horror and war comics.” — Toronto Star

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

Zero Hour and Other Stories 22 EC science-fiction classics illustrated by Jack Kamen ISBN 978-1-60699-704-8

Judgment Day and Other Stories 23 EC sci-fi classics illustrated by Joe Orlando and written by Al Feldstein and Ray Brandbury ISBN 978-1-60699-727-7

The EC Comics Slipcase Vol. 1 $ 94.99 Four-Volume, Hardcover Box Set ISBN 978-1-60699-728-4

The Comics Journal Library Vol. 8: The EC Artists ISBN 978-1-60699-608-9

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ACES HIGH Illustrated by George Evans; written by George Evans, Harvey Kurtzman, and Al Feldstein

FROM MURDER ON THE GROUND TO COMBAT IN THE SKIES!

$29.99 Hardcover • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Historical Fiction • CQ: 12 216 pages, black-and-white, 7 ¼” x 10 ¼” ISBN 978-1-60699-784-0 • Our NYT bestselling series of EC Comics reprints • Great gift idea • Review attention • Age range: 11+

George Evans was a master of the aviation war story. This collection includes all of his highly-acclaimed stories for Aces High, EC’s famous air war title. As a bonus, we present a rarity: Evans’ never-before-reprinted 3-D story of World War I ace Frank Luke (in regular, easy-on-the-eyes 2-D). This volume also includes numerous Evans crime and shock stories, including “As Ye Sow…,” “…My Brother’s Keeper,” and “Cadillac Fever.” Other war stories, many done in collaboration with Harvey Kurtzman, include “Napoleon!” and “Flaming Coffins” (which Evans wrote, about the inherent perils of WW I aircraft). Like all books in the Fantagraphics EC line, Aces High features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic comic book masterpieces.

GEORGE EVANS (1920–2001) worked as a World War II aircraft mechanic, which informed his depiction of all kinds of airplanes in breathtaking aerial acrobatics. He was the regular artist on the newspaper strip Secret Agent Corrigan (a.k.a. Secret Agent X-9) from 1980 until his retirement in 1996. “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.” — The Los Angeles Times

OCTOBER

MASSIVE: GAY JAPANESE MANGA AND THE MEN WHO MAKE IT Edited by Anne Ishii, Graham Kolbeins & Chip Kidd

THE FIRST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ANTHOLOGY OF ITS KIND

$35.00 Paperback Original • Territory: X COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Manga • CQ: 16 272 pages, color and black-and-white, 7” x 10” ISBN 978-1-60699-785-7 • Off-the-book-page features • Review attention • Designed by Chip Kidd • Events and author appearances t.b.a. • Follow Massive at gaymanga.tumblr. com and @gaymanga • From the people behind 2013’s acclaimed The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame • Age range: 18+

Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to the hypermasculine world of Japanese gay manga. Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It is the first English-language anthology of its kind: an in-depth introduction to nine of the most exciting comic artists making work for a gay male audience in Japan. Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi, and Kazuhide Ichikawa are three of the irresistibly seductive, internationally renowned artists featured in Massive, as well as Gengoroh Tagame, the subject of The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga. Get to know each of these artists intimately, through candid interviews, photography, context-providing essays, illustrations, and manga. Massive also includes the groundbreaking, titillating work of gay manga luminaries Takeshi Matsu, Fumi Miyabi, Inu Yoshi, Gai Mizuki, and comic essayist Kumada Poohsuke. Tch, I know.

Winter Thrills IT’S THAT TIME

ANNE ISHII is a writer based in New York and the owner of MASSIVE Merch. GRAHAM KOLBEINS is a filmmaker, designer, and writer based in Los Angeles. He is also the creative director of MASSIVE, a label inspired by Japanese gay art.

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DOCTORS By Dash Shaw

DOCTORS ENTER YOUR AFTERLIFE TO BRING YOU BACK FROM THE DEAD

$16.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 32 96 pages, full-color, 6” x 8” ISBN 978-1-60699-803-8 • Review attention • Digital ARC (PDF) • Shaw’s 2013 book, New School, was named to many year-end lists including NPR’s Best Books and Publishers Weekly Critics’ Poll • Author appearances t.b.a • Age range: 15+

This new graphic novel from acclaimed cartoonist Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, New School) is his most taut book to date. Dr. Cho is the creator of the Charon, a device that allows his staff to enter a dead patient’s afterlife by taking the form of a memory in the patient’s consciousness, and bring he or she back to life, with one catch: the experience is traumatic and the process kills them again soon thereafter. But for some bereaved, the opportunity is priceless. So when Bell is killed in a random accident, her daughter hires Dr. Cho’s team to bring her back. But what if Bell didn’t want to come back? The dying unconsciously create the afterlife they want, or feel they deserve, in their minds before everything fades to black. Isn’t that better than the reality, and no less meaningful than life itself? Can unconsciousness coexist with consciousness? Part science-fiction thriller, part family drama, part morality play for the 21st century, and quite possibly Shaw’s best book to date.

DASH SHAW is a cartoonist and animator in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently working on an animated feature produced by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch). “Dash, it’s fair to say, is something of a genius...” — Chris Ware “New School is about art, about the art that’s in the book itself… There’s stuff going on at other levels, the intuitive, the level of the unconscious, the subconscious I guess you could say.…This book is just fascinating.” — NPR ALSO AVAILABLE:

New School $ 39.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-644-7 Bottomless Belly Button $29.99 Paperback, ISBN 978-1-56097-915-9 The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. $19.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-307-1

S. CLAY WILSON RECOUNTS THE ZAP #12 LAUNCH PARTY:

“The Zap show was a smash hit! The New York City crowd control / riot squad had to be called out to keep the two block line from spilling out into the traffic. Nobody could get in or out of gallery. An insane scene. Finally made a break for it. Squeezin’ past Ginsberg, scads of incredible women, celebs, media blitz. Spain met Debby Harry and said she was radiant. Lost my voice due to onslaught of interviews. The show sold out in the first two days. Got drunk with Stew Hitch, now age 50. The beat goes out.”

november

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THE COMPLETE ZAP COMIX By R. Crumb, Rick Griffin, Paul Mavrides, Victor Moscoso, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, and S. Clay Wilson

NOTHING LESS THAN A CULTURAL EVENT

$500.00 Two-volume Hardcover Boxed Set • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General • CQ: 4 920 pages, black-and-white with color, 9” x 12” ISBN 978-1-60699-787-1 • Limited, single-printing edition • Major review attention • Author events t.b.a. • Off-the-book-page features • Introduction by R. Crumb • Age range: 18+

There scarcely was an underground comics world before Robert Crumb’s classic solo first issue of Zap in 1968. By Zap #2, he had begun assembling a Seven Samurai of the best, the fiercest, and the most stylistically diversified cartoonists to come out of the countercultural kiln. All of them were extremists of one sort or another, from biker-gang member Rodriguez to Christian surfer Griffin, but somehow they produced a decades-long collaboration: a mindblowing anthology of abstract hallucination, throat-slashing social satire, and shocking sexual excess, that made possible the ongoing wave of alternative cartoonists like Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, and Charles Burns. The Complete Zap Comix collects every issue of Zap — every cover and every story, and even the Zam mini comic jam among the Zap artists — in a two-volume, slipcased hardcover set. It will also include the 17th unpublished issue with work by Crumb, Moscoco, Wilson, Rodriguez, Shelton, Mavrides, and Williams. Plus, an introduction by founder R. Crumb and an oral history of Zap by Patrick Rosenkranz. Zap is the most historically and aesthetically important comics series ever published. “When Crumb did the first Zap, it just hit the whole underground comics world like a hurricane.” — Spain Rodriguez “Zap epitomised the seismic changes that were happening within American culture as much as any album, novel or film of that era… Zap bought together a new wave of miscreant cartoonists who would define the psychedelic art of the era and later create great works beyond this one comic. Still as essential a part of any alternatively-minded adolescent’s formative years as the discovery of Jimi Hendrix, Easy Rider or that first tentative tug on a joint...” — The Guardian

OPPOSITE: ZAP #12 Launch Party at the Psychedelic Solution Gallery, New York City. 1989. From left to right: Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson, Robaert Williams, Rick Griffin, R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Victor Moscoso.

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ZAP: THE INTERVIEWS Edited by Michael Dean and Gary Groth; Introduction by Bob Levin

THE PERFECT COMPANION TO THE COMPLETE ZAP!

$35.00 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction • CQ: 14 240 pages, color and black-and-white, 10” x 12” ISBN 978-1-60699-788-8 • From the archives of The Comics Journal • Age range: 18+

Here in one place are the definitive Comics Journal interviews with the cartoonists behind Zap Comix. Featuring: Supreme underground artist Robert Crumb on how acid unleashed a flood of Zap characters from his unconscious; Marxist brawler Spain Rodriguez on how he made the transition from the Road Vultures biker gang to the exclusive Zap cartoonists’ club; Yale alumnus Victor Moscoso and Christian surfer Rick Griffin on how their poster-art psychedelia formed the backdrop of the 1960s San Francisco music scene; Savage Id-choreographer S. Clay Wilson on how his dreams insist on being drawn; Painter and Juxtapoz-founder Robert Williams on how Zap #4 led to 150 news-dealer arrests; Fabulous, Furry, Freaky Gilbert Shelton on the importance of research; Church of the Subgenius founder Paul Mavrides on getting a contact high during the notorious Zap jam sessions; and much more. In these definitive interviews, the Zap contributors open up about how they came to create a seminal, living work of art.

GARY GROTH and MICHAEL DEAN live in Seattle, WA.

Crumb: Growing up in the’50s and early’60s you got this heavy program about what you’re supposed to do and what the nature of things was, and breaking out of that was revolutionary. I think that permanently altered American history, and made a rift that will never be healed. Moscoso: I describe Zap as a democratic anarchy, which seems like a contradiction, but somehow … it is! We are a contradiction. But we’re the longest-running underground comic book going. When I think about it, I think, “Wow, we’re the Rolling Stones of underground comix.” Spain: When Crumb did the first Zap, it just hit the whole underground comics world like a hurricane – it was really a major thing. It was beautiful, just a beautiful piece of work.

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THE LATE CHILD AND OTHER ANIMALS By Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger

A GENERATIONAL MEMOIR AND SOON-TO-BE CLASSIC

$29.99 Hardcover • Territory: E MEMOIR • CQ: 20 180 pages, full-color, 8” x 10” ISBN 978-1-60699-789-5 • Major review attention • Author appearances t.b.a. • Digital ARC (PDF) • Age range: 17+

Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband — with whom she was in the process of adopting a young daughter — has been killed on the way back home from North Africa. She must then complete the adoption alone. A decade later, she gives birth to a bastard daughter, Marguerite. Now Hetty must go before a tribunal to prove that she is a fit mother — or possibly lose both her children. From there, The Late Child tells the story of little Marguerite’s childhood in the recovering British naval port and the rural beauty of the Isle of Wight and in Normandy, France. The journeys and struggles over decades of this mother and daughter are linked in five episodes that veer between lyricism, wry wit, and harrowing suspense. The Late Child and Other Animals is an original graphic novel, a generational autobiography written by legendary punk diva and award-winning poet Marguerite Van Cook, adapted by artist James Romberger, the creator of the Eisner-nominated Post York. The team of Romberger and Van Cook is also responsible for the adaptation and art of 7 Miles a Second, their critically acclaimed graphic memoir collaboration with the late multimedia artist and AIDS activist, David Wojnarowicz.

MARGUERITE VAN COOK and JAMES ROMBERGER live in New York City with their son, Crosby. Praise for 7 Miles a Second: “A stirring reminder that everything pushed to the side isn’t gone.” — Slate

ALSO AVAILABLE:

7 Miles a Second $19.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-614-0

“A runaway, over-the-top circus with joltingly raw color…that must invariably provide every reader with a singular emotional experience.” — Jim Steranko “A great piece of work.” — Artnet “A relevatory work of art.” — Art In America

november

SAM ZABEL AND THE MAGIC PEN by Dylan Horrocks

EXPLORING THE PLEASURES, DANGERS, AND CONSEQUENCES OF FANTASY

$29.99 Hardcover • Territory: X COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 16 210 pages, full-color, 7” x 10” ISBN 978-1-60699-790-1 • Major review attention • Follow online @dylanhorrocks and at hicksvillecomics.com • From the author of the acclaimed Hicksville • Northeast author tour ending at 2014 Brooklyn Books Festival • Age range: 18+

Acclaimed cartoonist Dylan Horrocks returns with a long-awaited new graphic novel, the first since his perennial classic, 1998’s Hicksville. Cartoonist Sam Zabel hasn’t drawn a comic in years. Stuck in a nightmare of creative block and despair, Sam spends his days writing superhero stories for a large American comics publisher and staring at a blank piece of paper, unable to draw a single line. Then one day he finds a mysterious old comic book set on Mars and is suddenly thrown headlong into a wild, fantastic journey through centuries of comics, stories, and imaginary worlds. Accompanied by a young webcomic creator named Alice and an enigmatic schoolgirl with rocket boots and a bag full of comics, Sam goes in search of the Magic Pen, encountering sex-crazed aliens, medieval monks, pirates, pixies and — of course — cartoonists. Funny, erotic, and thoughtful, Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen explores the pleasures, dangers, and moral consequences of fantasy.

DYLAN HORROCKS lives in New Zealand with his wife and two sons. He is the author of the award-winning graphic novel Hicksville and the comic book series Pickle and Atlas, and has also written for DC Comics and Vertigo, including Hunter: the Age of Magic and Batgirl. “Dylan Horrocks is clever, funny, and very, very good at making comic books. His characters grab you and haunt you and even make you worry for them. Buy this guy’s comics. He knows what he’s doing.” — Frank Miller

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november

HIP HOP FAMILY TREE 1975-1983 GIFT BOX SET By Ed Piskor

A HOLIDAY GIFT BOX OF THE FIRST TWO BOOKS — AND MORE!

$49.99 Two-volume boxed set • Territory: E MUSIC / Rap & Hip-Hop • CQ: 12 Two 112-page flexibound books in a hardcover slipcase, full color, 9 ⅛” x 13 ¼” ISBN 978-1-60699-791-8 • Great gift idea • Ranked #3 on 2013 Publishers Weekly graphic novel critics’ poll • One of SPIN ’s Best Music Books of 2013 • #3 on The Seattle Times’ Top 5 Music Books of 2013 • One of The Washington Post ’s Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2013 • Age range: 17+

To celebrate the resounding critical and commercial success of the first two volumes of Ed Piskor’s unprecedented history of Hip Hop, we are offering the two books in a mind-blowingly colorful slipcase, drawn and designed by the artist. As if that’s not enough, in addition to the two books and the slipcase itself, Piskor has drawn a 24-page comic book — Hip Hop Family Tree #300 — specifically for this boxed set that elegantly reflects the confluence of hip hop and comics, which was never more apparent in the early 1990s than with the famous Spike Lee-directed Levi Jeans commercial starring Rob Liefeld, who went on to create Youngblood and co-found Image Comics, not to mention ending up on the radar of gangster rapper Eazy E. Piskor tells this story as a perfect parody/pastiche/homage to ’90s Image comics.

ED PISKOR lives in Pittsburgh, PA. “Being in an Ed Piskor comic is cool enough to freeze hot water.” — Fab Five Freddy “This is the comic of all time.” — Biz Markie “It’s a great story and Piskor tells it immaculately well.” — Bill Adler (co-author, Def Jam: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label) “This is the comic I’ve been waiting 40 years to read.” — Harry Allen (Public Enemy Media Assassin)

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november

THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1953–1954

THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1950–1954 GIFT BOX SET

By Charles M. Schulz; Introduction by Walter Cronkite

By Charles M. Schulz; Introductions by Garrison Keillor & Walter Cronkite

PAPERBACK EDITION

$22.99 Paperback • Territory: F HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 20 320 pages, black-and-white with spot color, 8 ¼” x 6 ½” ISBN 978-1-60699-792-5 (Previous hardcover edition: ISBN 978-1-56097-614-1)

PAPERBACK EDITION

$39.99 Paperback • Territory: F HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 10 Two 320-page books in custom slipcase, 8 ¼” x 6 ½” ISBN 978-1-60699-793-2 (Previous hardcover edition: ISBN 978-1-56097-632-5)

NOT FINAL COVER

THE BELOVED SERIES... NOW IN PAPERBACK! Our second paperback volume of the acclaimed Complete Peanuts series finds Schulz continuing to establish his tender and comic universe. It begins with Peanuts’ third full year and a cast of eight: Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, Violet, Schroeder, Lucy, baby Linus, and Snoopy. By the end of 1954, Pigpen and his dust cloud join the crowd. Linus emerges as one of the most complex and endearing characters in the strip, and acquires his security blanket! Charlie Brown is becoming his bestknown self, the lovable loser, but he hasn’t yet abandoned his brasher, prankish behavior from our first volume. And, Lucy has grown up and forcefully elbowed her way to the center of the action. For readers unfamiliar with the early years of the strip, Snoopy’s appearances here may come as the biggest surprise: he behaves, for the most part, like a dog! This fall will also see the release of the first in an annual series of two-volume boxed sets (1950-1952 and 1953-1954) at a reduced price. CHARLES M. SCHULZ created over 18,000 Peanuts strips from 1950–2000.

• Over 500K sold in the hardcover • A New York Times hardcover bestseller • Soon to be a major motion picture (Summer 2015) • The most beloved comic strip of all time • Age range: All ages

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

november © PEANUTS WORLDWIDE, LLC.

PEANUTS EVERY SUNDAY 1956-1960 By Charles M. Schulz

FIVE YEARS OF VINTAGE PEANUTS COLOR SUNDAY STRIPS! 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 coloring, which makes for a surprisingly different reading experience. These late-1950s strips comprise the first golden age of Peanuts Sundays in one gorgeous, fullcolor coffee table book. Linus, Charlie Brown, Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, Sally, Patty, and Schroeder are all present, but the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. Peanuts Every Sunday: 1956-1960 has been scrupulously re-colored to match the original syndicate coloring — allowing readers once again to plunge back into Charles Schulz’s marvelous world. $49.99 Hardcover • Territory: F HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 7 288 pages, full-color, 13 ¼” x 9 ½” ISBN 978-1-60699-794-9

CHARLES M. SCHULZ (1922-2000) lives on at the Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA. “Charles M. Schulz was an innovative genius. There is not much in Peanuts that is shallow or heedless.” — Garrison Keillor

• Great gift idea • Review attention • Promo at snoopy.com and schulzmuseum.com • Age range: All ages

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Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955 $49.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-692-8

THE CARL BARKS LIBRARY In 2011, Fantagraphics Books — the world’s premiere publisher of classic 20th-century comic strips — partnered with Disney Publishing Worldwide to begin the complete Disney works of “Good Duck” artist Carl Barks. For the first time, read the complete works of one of the medium’s greatest artists in affordably priced hardcover volumes perfect for parents and children alike.

“Lost in the Andes” ISBN 978-1-60699-474-0

“A Christmas for Shacktown” ISBN 978-1-60699-574-7

“The Old Castle’s Secret” ISBN 978-1-60699-653-9

“Christmas on Bear Mountain” ISBN 978-1-60699-697-3

“Trail of the Unicorn” ISBN 978-1-60699-741-3

Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: “Only a Poor Old Man” ISBN 978-1-60699-535-8

WALT DISNEY’S UNCLE SCROOGE: “THE SEVEN CITIES OF GOLD” By Carl Barks

RAIDERS OF THE LOST CITIES OF GOLD!

$29.99 Hardcover • Territory: X HUMOR / Comics • CQ: 20 240 pages, full-color, 7 ½” x 10 ¼” ISBN 978-1-60699-795-6 • Great gift idea • Facebook fan page at facebook.com/ carlbarkslibrary • The definitive series collecting the greatest kids’ comic of all time • Age range: 5+

Uncle Scrooge takes Donald and the nephews on a perilous trek in search of the fabled seven cities of gold! This is the Scrooge story famous for providing Steven Spielberg and George Lucas with inspiration for parts of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Speaking of gold and movies, James Bond fans might recognize in “The Mysterious Stone Ray” a gimmick that was later used in Goldfinger — Uncle Scrooge’s pores fill with gold dust from his money bin. It makes him ill so he goes on vacation, which turns into a rescue mission for a sailor stranded on an island with some very mysterious baddies. Also, Scrooge decides to run for Treasurer of Duckburg, but it seems the only way to get votes is to spend a lot of money. (Sound familiar?) And you know what Uncle Scrooge thinks of that! Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of clever plot twists, laughout-loud comedy, and all-around cartooning brilliance.

CARL BARKS (1901–2000) entertained millions around the world with his timeless tales of the Disney Ducks. In 1987, he was one of the three inaugural inductees into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame (along with Eisner and Jack Kirby). PRAISE FOR THIS SERIES: “Enormously well crafted and equally enormously entertaining, timeless comedy adventures that Fanta presents in such handsomely designed volumes that they make the perfect gift for just about any reader of comics, regardless of age, background, or experience with the art form…” — School Library Journal

WALT DISNEY’S DONALD DUCK BOX SET: “LOST IN THE ANDES” & “TRAIL OF THE UNICORN” By Carl Barks

FEATURING LOST IN THE ANDES AND TRAIL OF THE UNICORN

$49.99 Hardcover • Territory: X HUMOR / Comics • CQ: 8 Two hardcover books in custom slipcase (472 pages combined), fullcolor, 7 ¼” x 10” ISBN 978-1-60699-796-3 • Great gift idea • Facebook fan page at facebook.com/ carlbarkslibrary • The definitive series collecting the greatest kids’ comic of all time • Age range: 5+

A double dose of Donald Duck! Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “Lost in the Andes” and Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “Trail of the Unicorn” make up this special boxed set of two of our most popular Donald Duck albums exquisitely representing the Duck stories of Carl Barks, one of the most brilliant cartoonists of the 20th century. The title story of Lost in the Andes features the Ducks’ memorable quest to South America in search of rare “square eggs” and Trail of the Unicorn’s title tale is a trek to the Himalayas to find that fabled mythical creature. Handsomely presented in a stunningly beautiful and colorful box set at a special price that even Uncle Scrooge would approve.

CARL BARKS (1901–2000) entertained millions around the world with his timeless tales of the Disney Ducks.

november

INVITATION TO OPENNESS: THE JAZZ & SOUL PHOTOGRAPHY OF LES MCCANN 1960-1980 By Les McCann

A COLLECTION OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS FROM THE WORLD OF SOUL & JAZZ

$39.99 Hardcover • Territory: E MUSIC / Jazz • CQ: 14 240 pages, black-and-white, 9” x 12” ISBN 978-1-60699-786-4 • Gift book idea • Off-the-book-page features • Review attention • Author events • Age range: 15+

Throughout Les McCann’s incredible jazz career, he took hundreds of photos — at clubs, studios, and festivals around the world — and unwittingly documented a side of the vibrant cultural life of jazz and soul between 1960 and 1980 that includes a very young Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sammy Davis Jr., John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson, Quincy Jones, Tina Turner, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderly, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, B.B. King, Errol Garner, Stanley Clarke, Bill Evans, Lionel Hampton, and other seminal African-Americans, such as Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Muhammed Ali, and Stokely Carmichael to name but a few. These photos are characterized by their intimacy, and the cross-section of names listed is merely the tip of the iceberg. The book features candid commentary by McCann himself and is curated by Pat Thomas (Listen, Whitey!: The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975) and maverick music producer Alan Abrahams (Pure Prairie League, Joan Baez, Stanley Turrentine, Kris Kristofferson, Taj Mahal).

Pianist/singer/songwriter LES McCANN began recording “soul-jazz” albums for the Pacific Jazz label in 1960.

Top Right: Miles Davis Bottom Right: Dizzy Gillespie On the cover: Stevie Wonder, John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin

november NOT FINAL COVER

IN A GLASS GROTESQUELY By Richard Sala

MEET THE MOST DIABOLICAL VILLAIN EVER!

$22.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General • CQ: 22 96 pages, full-color, 8 ½” x 8 ½” ISBN 978-1-60699-797-0

A selection of related short mysteries and thrills, all depicted in Sala’s trademark colorful watercolor washes and sharp, detailed line-work. Rising from the crumbling pages of some forgotten (and nonexistent) pulp magazine comes the diabolical villain Super-Enigmatix. Following in the bloody footsteps of master criminals such as Fantomas, Fu Manchu, or Professor Moriarty, SuperEnigmatix is ruthless, cunning, and thoroughly evil. His only goal is to spread fear and cause chaos — but does he want to destroy civilization, or save it? Not even his loyal army of female commandos can guess his real motives, or his true identity. Will he fall at the hands of the unhinged music professor turned homicidal fiend who calls himself Phantasmiac? Or Quadrummando, the Undead Shaman? And who is the Cardinal? Richard Sala’s latest book of tongue-in-cheek mysteries and thrills showcases his trademark colorful watercolor washes and sharp, detailed line-work.

• Review attention • Follow at richardsala.tumblr.com • Age range: 15+

RICHARD SALA lives in Berkeley, CA. “Richard Sala is an artist, a superb craftsman and a very funny man.” — Gahan Wilson “Sala is deliriously entertaining.” — Rue Morgue Magazine “Richard Sala is one of the best artists to have worked in comics the last three decades and one of the most underrated cartoonists generally.” — Tom Spurgeon

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Delphine $24.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-590-7 The Hidden $19.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-386-6

december

UPTIGHT By Jordan Crane

A ONE-MAN ANTHOLOGY FROM ACCLAIMED ARTIST JORDAN CRANE In this 80-page volume, Jordan Crane draws us in with two gripping and wrenching stories, one of the mundane, and the other of the fantastic. First, there is “Keeping Two.” William’s girlfriend goes missing during a trip to the supermarket, and he must look down the long dark narrow tunnel that his life will become without her. He is reading a book, but the book doesn’t help, and indeed feeds his anxieties, rendering his loss in starkly contrasting lines. The second story, “Discovering the Dark,” is 26 pages and drawn with two colors. Akihiro Akaike is employed as a repairman aboard an asteroid mining ship in the year 2033. In his spare time, he is an amateur astrophysicist, and a discovery he makes drives him steal supplies and a company ship in order to make a clandestine 7-month voyage. However, when the mining operation discovers his plans, he is forced into a rapidly deteriorating set of probabilities. $16.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 32 80 pages, black-and-white with 32 pages two-color, 7 ¼” x 10 ⅛” ISBN 978-1-606699-798-7

JORDAN CRANE lives in Los Angeles with his wife, daughter and son. “Crane’s loose, gliding lines burst with character, and his compositional gifts make every panel worth contemplating on its own.” — Publishers Weekly

• Review attention • Author events t.b.a. • Follow Crane at whatthingsdo.com • Age range: 15+

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The Clouds Above $16.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-56097-909-8 The Last Lonely Saturday $ 8.00 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-56097-743-8

THE PRINCE VALIANT LIBRARY 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, Prince Valiant continues to this day.

Vol. 1: 1937–1938 ISBN 978-1-60699-141-1

Vol. 2: 1939–1940 ISBN 978-1-60699-348-4

Vol. 3: 1941–1942 ISBN 978-1-60699-407-8

Vol. 4: 1943–1944 ISBN 978-1-60699-455-9

Vol. 5: 1945–1946 ISBN 978-1-60699-484-9

Vol. 6: 1947–1948 ISBN 978-1-60699-588-4

Vol. 7: 1949–1950 ISBN 978-1-60699-645-4

Vol. 8: 1951–1952 ISBN 978-1-60699-699-7

The Definitive Prince Valiant Companion $39.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-306-4 $24.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-60699-305-7

Vol. 9: 1953–1954 ISBN 978-1-60699-735-2

december

PRINCE VALIANT Vol. 10: 1955–1956 By Hal Foster; Introduction by Tim Truman

FROM ROME TO VALHALLA WITH PRINCE VALIANT!

$34.99 Hardcover • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Fantasy • CQ: 12 112 pages, full-color, 10 ¼” x 14” ISBN 978-1-60699-800-7 • Eisner Award-nominated series • One of our bestselling series • The Arthurian classic in a beautiful, oversized format • Age Range: All Ages

Our tenth volume finds our band of heroes making their way back to the Kingdom of Thule by way of Constantinople and Eastern Russia. Soon they are attacked by a tribe of barbarians who kidnap Aleta for the great Dragada Khan who wants to make her one of his wives. After nearly being killed in battle, Valiant returns to his homeland only to find the threat of hunger hovers over Thule. As Val explores new ways of feeding the kingdom’s growing populace, raiders threaten the lives of his family and friends. The volume ends with Val’s return to Camelot, a tournament of champions, and the threat of new treachery in Cornwall. This volume also includes an introduction by legendary comics artist Timothy Truman, and a special gallery containing more of Hal Foster’s incredible Mountie paintings annotated by comics historian Brian M. Kane.

HAROLD (“Hal”) RUDOLF FOSTER was born in Halifax, NS, in 1892 and passed away in Spring Hill, FL, in 1982. “That Foster was the most virtuosic comics artist of his time, there is some merit to the claim.” — Steven Heller, 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 “Foster’s meticulously detailed, painstakingly researched, vividly realistic, and often breathtaking illustration made him one of the most revered artists in the comic field.” — Library Journal “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

december

Creeping Death from Neptune: The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton Vol. 1 By Basil Wolverton; Edited by Greg Sadowski

AN INTIMATE COLLECTION AND BIOGRAPHY OF A COMICS HALL-OF-FAMER

$39.99 Hardcover • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Science-Fiction • CQ: 12 288 pages, full-color, 8 x 10 ½” ISBN 978-1-60699-799-4 • Review attention • Age range: 11+

This is the first of two volumes reprinting copious amounts of comics stories and recounting the career of cartoonist Basil Wolverton. Based on his correspondence and journals, the biographical portion of the books follow Wolverton from childhood to adult day-to-day life as freelance cartoonist, itinerant handyman, persistent contest enterer, and local pastor of the Radio Church of God. Wolverton lived and worked in the Pacific Northwest, unique among the first generation of comic book pioneers. In the precious period before the industry calcified into a commercial institution, Wolverton was free to work under the radar to explore in detail his weird tales of the future. All of Wolverton’s non-humorous comic book stories will be presented in full, along with prime examples of his humorous comics and dozens of pages of unpublished art, including editorial drawings, advertisements, caricatures, pulp illustrations, rejected comic book covers, and unsold features.

GREG SADOWSKI is a writer, editor, and designer living in Washington State. BASIL WOLVERTON (1909-1978) was a Jack Kirby Hall of Fame cartoonist hailing from Vancouver, WA. “It’s remarkable to see art so twisted applied to such vivid pulp tales—almost as though Wolverton was trying his hardest to be Alex Raymond, but couldn’t help turning out images to rival Salvador Dalí.” — The A.V. Club ALSO AVAILABLE:

Spacehawk $ 39.99 Flexibound, ISBN 978-1-60699-550-1 The Culture Corner $22.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-308-8

december

COCHLEA & EUSTACHIA By Hans Rickheit

A FULL-COLOR GRAPHIC NOVELLA FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SQUIRREL MACHINE

$19.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 24 80 pages, full-color, 8” x 10” ISBN 978-1-60699-801-4 • Review attention • Serialized online at chromefetus.com • Print excerpts have appeared in The Stranger, Hoax, Typhon, Blurred Visions, and elsewhere • Age range: 16+

Cochlea & Eustachia appear to be twin human girls, but this has yet to be confirmed. Their actions seem to be motivated less by curiosity than boredom and an inclination towards purposeless destruction. Any connate objective remains to be determined. They never stray apart from each other, out of an unspoken proclivity. Perhaps they keep together because they resemble each other; a mixture of vanity and comfort is the foundation of their constant companionship. They seem to consider any creature with dissimilar features as inept or untrustworthy. They are suspected of giving hypnotic suggestions to cats. They do not seem particularly malicious, just meddlesome. This new graphic novel from the author of the acclaimed Squirrel Machine is lighter in tone than his previous works, yet its myriad charms remain as sinister as Rickheit fans would expect.

HANS RICKHEIT was born in 1973 and grew up in New England and currently resides in Philadelphia. “The frighteningly hilarious world of Rickheit’s is a deranged cabinet of curiosities... It would all be too oppressive if Rickheit’s sense of humor weren’t so addictive...” — Publishers Weekly “With a drawing style that resembles Jason Lutes and Charles Burns, and a storytelling style similar to Jim Woodring and Al Columbia, Rickheit excels in making nightmares lucid.” — The A.V. Club

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The Squirrel Machine $22.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-60699-646-1 Folly: The Consequences of Indiscretion $18.99 Paperback ISBN 978-1-60699-509-9

december

VAPOR

I can’t carry liquids...! But follow me...

By Max

THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED GRAPHIC NOVEL, NOW IN ENGLISH Disgusted and appalled with today’s noisy and noisome world in which all is spectacle and surface sensation, Nick flees into the solitude of the desert. But even as he manages to recover some sort of spiritual balance thanks to an ascetic regimen of fasting and meditation, he is seduced by the most spectacular and mesmerizing spectacle of all time: the procession of the Queen of Saba. In Vapor, the award-winning Spanish cartoonist Max engages in delightful philosophical mind games, starring another wildly stylized and endearing protagonist — this time deploying a striking, crisp black-and-white graphic style perfectly suited for this desert-based fantasia.

I’ll show you where there’s water!

Yes, yes... water... please!

Water! Water!

$24.99 Hardcover • Territory: X COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 24 120 pages, black-and-white, 7” x 9 ¾” ISBN 978-1-60699-460-3 • 2014 Official Selection Prize Nomination, Angoulême Festival De La Bande Dessinée • Review attention • Age range: 16+

MAX is one of Spain’s most honored cartoonists. He lives on the Mediterranean island of Majorca. “Max takes what can be impenetrable and uses some fine cartooning to make it accessible and enjoyable.” — Publishers Weekly “If you glimpse traces of Magritte, Goya, and Zap Comix in Max’s exuberant panels, then you’re really enjoying yourself.” — Booklist

OVER HERE! OVER HERE!

december

COLLECTED POEMS By Alexander Theroux

A LITERARY GIANT’S COLLECTED POEMS The publication of Alexander Theroux’s Collected Poems, a gathering of more than 660 poems, an astonishing creative output, will be among the major literary events of the year. Here is a full cornucopia of sonnets, odes, ballads, free verse, triolets, pure, satires, narratives, dramatic monologues, fanciful meditations, flytings and harangues, ruminations on death and lost love, and no end of lyrics both beautiful and fierce. Taken altogether they contrive to make up a record of the author’s deepest thoughts and reflect the dramatis personae of his life. Theroux captures in his work those rare, frail, but precious truths, inaccessible to the common run of men that would otherwise have vanished into nescience. Sardonic, astute, impertinent, tender, clever, warmhearted, delphic, truculent, comic, defiantly aggressive, and often achingly personal, he shows an intensity of observation and invention.

$39.99 Hardcover • Territory: E POETRY / American / General 440 pages, 6” x 9” • CQ: 10 ISBN 978-1-60699-802-1

ALEXANDER THEROUX lives in Massachusetts with his wife, the artist Sarah Son. “[Theroux’s] humor can vary from the trans-linguistic to an imaginative jeu d’esprit…” — The Washington Post Book World

• Review attention • Age range: 17+ • Cover by the late Edward Gorey

The Endpaper Map in Winnie-the-Pooh Children make complete sense of it. Its signs are continuous with our dreams, like clowns stenciled on our cribs or pastel colors, and show us frankly the way to go home. No better clue to where I felt I needed to be, also convincing me I belonged, left better traces. That ladder. Those steps. The location of things. Dark forests acting as an embrace was something Wagner knew and Shakespeare, legislating a syntax especially all lonely children love for whom any woodland vision more than anything makes a drapery of their dreams.

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The Grammar of Rock: Art and Artlessness in 20th Century Pop Lyrics $28.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-616-4 Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual $29.95 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-56097-798-8 Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery $29.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-465-8

index

# 21 8

Griffin, Rick Groth, Gary

25 26

h Hernandez, Gilbert

Age of License, An 1 b Barks, Carl

Bradbury, Ray Bushmiller, Ernie

14, 15, 33, 34 20 11

c Came the Dawn

Charlie Brown's Christmas Stocking 13 Child of Tomorrow 20 Cochlea & Eustachia 41 Collected Poems 43 Comics Journal Library, The 20, 26 Complete Peanuts, The 7, 30 Complete ZAP, The 25 Corpse on the Imjin! 20 Craig, Johnny 20 Crane, Jordan 37 Creeping Death from Neptune 40 Crumb, R. 24

3 Hernandez, Jaime 3 Hip Hop Family Tree 29 Horrocks, Dylan 28 How to Read Nancy 10

i In a Glass Grotesquely 36

Ingels, Graham 20 Invitation to Openness 35 Ishii, Anne 22 j Judgment Day 20 k Kamen, Jack

Karasik, Paul Kidd, Chip Knisley, Lucy Kolbeins, Graham Kurtzman, Harvey

20 10 22 1 22 20, 21

l Late Child and Other Animals,The

27 Love and Rockets 3

d Davis, Jack

M Massive 22

e EC Comics

Mavrides, Paul 25 McCann, Les 35 Michael Jordan 9 Moscoso, Victor 24

20 Dean, Michael 26 Doctors 23

Evans, George

21 21

N Nancy Loves Sluggo 11 f Fall Guy for Murder 20

Feldstein, Al 20, 21 Folly 41 Foster, Hal 39

Newgarden, Mark O Orlando, Joe P Peanuts

g Ghost of the Grotto, The 14

Gottfredson, Floyd

V Van Cook, Marguerite R Rickheit, Hans

50 Girls 50 20 a Aces High 21

Prince Valiant 39

10 20

5, 7, 12, 13, 30, 31 Peanuts Every Sunday 31 Piskor, Ed 29

27 Vapor 42 Verney, Jean-Pierre 2

41 25 27 16, 17

W Waiting for the Great Pumpkin 5

36 Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen 28 Santiago, Wilfred 8, 9 Schulz, Charles M. 5, 7, 12, 13, 30, 31 Set to Sea 4 Shaw, Dash 23 Shelton, Gilbert 25 Snoopy's Thanksgiving 12 Squirrel Machine 41 Sucker Bait 20

Walt Disney's Donald Duck 14, 15, 34 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse 19 Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge 33 Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck 16, 17 Weing, Drew 4 Williams, Robert 25 Williamson, Al 20 Wilson, S. Clay 25 Wolverton, Basil 40 Wood, Wallace 20

Rodriguez, Spain Romberger, James Rosa, Don S Sala, Richard

T ‘Tain’t the Meat... It’s the Humanity!

20 Tardi, Jacques 2 Tardi's WWI 2 Theroux, Alexander 43

u Uptight 37

Z ZAP: The Interviews 26

Zero Hour 20

FALL 2014

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