Fantagraphics Winter 2015 Catalog

A VALENTINE FOR CHARLIE BROWN

© PEANUTS WORLDWIDE, LLC.

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By Charles M. Schulz

FOR THE SWEET BABOO IN YOUR LIFE

Charles M. Schulz

$9.99 Hardcover • Territory: F HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 48 64 pages, two-color, 5 ¾" x 5 ¾" ISBN 978-1-60699-804-5 • Starring Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the gang • Great gift book idea • In time for the 2015 Peanuts major motion picture • Age range: all ages

Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang have made an indelible mark on so many treasured American holidays and traditions, from Charlie Brown’s infamous Christmas tree to Linus’s obsession with the Great Pumpkin. And who can forget the most romantic – and occasionally loneliest – of all holidays? From Charlie Brown opening an empty mailbox every February 14th, to Sally Brown whispering sweet somethings to her “sweet baboo” Linus, A Valentine for Charlie Brown is the perfect gift to remind that special someone in your life just what love is all about, for better and for worse!

CHARLES M. SCHULZ created the Peanuts comic strip from 1950 until his retirement in 2000. His work lives on at the Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA.

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HEADS OR TAILS

By Lilli Carré

THE ACCLAIMED COLLECTION, BACK IN STOCK!

$24.99 Paperback with French Flaps • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 16 200 pages, full color, 7" x 9" ISBN 978-1-60699-597-6 • Back in stock after continued demand and attention, including: 2013 Harvey, Eisner, Ignatz, and Stumptown Comics Arts award nominations; a 2013 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize Honor; a Slate’s Cartoonist Studio Prize shortlisting; many 2012 yearend critics’ lists including A.V. Club, NPR, and BoingBoing.com; a 2014 Carré solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; and a 2014 Thurber House residency • Follow Carré at kettle-o-fish.tumblr.com • Age range: 15+

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Lilli Carré’s stunningly designed and packaged collection of some of the most poetic and confident short fiction being produced in comics today has remained a steady favorite since its release in 2012 and returns to shelves in this new printing. Carré’s elegant short stories read like the family narratives of Flannery O’Connor or Carson McCullers, but told visually. Poetic rhythms—a coin flip, a circling ferris wheel—are punctuated by elements of melancholy fantasy pushed forward by character-driven, naturalistic dialogue. The stories in Heads or Tails display a virtuosic breadth of visual styles and color palettes, each in perfect service of the story, and range from experimental one-pagers to short masterpieces like “The Thing about Madeline” (featured in The Best American Comics 2008) to graphic novellas like “The Carnival” (featured in David Sedaris’s and Dave Eggers’s Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 and originally published in MOME) to new work created for this book.

LILLI CARRÉ lives in Chicago, IL. “Most of these stories are concerned with alternatives—overlapping realities, different explanations of a single phenomenon, evolving contradictions . . . As a graphic artist, Carré carries forward the design tradition that stems from the gossamer surrealism of Cocteau; as a verbal artist, she may be the most successful prose poet going . . . Her Wanda Gag-meets-Gene Deitch drawing style and new-weirdness literary bent make her work acutely interesting to both read and scrutinize.” —Booklist (Starred Review)

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SPAWN OF MARS AND OTHER STORIES

By Wallace Wood and Al Feldstein

CLASSIC EC SCIENCE FICTION, ILLUSTRATED BY A COMICS GRANDMASTER

$29.99 Hardcover • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Science-Fiction • CQ: 10 216 pages, black and white, 7 ¼" x 10 ¼" ISBN 978-1-60699- 805-2 • Our NYT best-selling series collecting the beloved EC Comics line • Great gift idea • Review attention • Age range: 11+

Wallace Wood fans love his sleek, preternaturally lush art, but they especially love the wonderment of his spectacular science fiction. This highly anticipated mouth-watering collection features over two dozen stories brimming with Wood’s meticulously detailed, genre-defining brushwork—all save the one Wood wrote himself on the typewriter of EC editor Al Feldstein. And with titles like “Spawn of Mars,” “The Dark Side of the Moon,” “A Trip to a Star,” “The Invaders,” “The Secret of Saturn’s Ring,” and “The Two-Century Journey,” how can you go wrong? This is EC science fiction at its finest. Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC line, Spawn of Mars and Other Stories features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic comic book masterpieces.

WALLACE ALLAN WOOD (1927–1981) is widely considered America’s greatest science fiction cartoonist, but he was also one of the brightest lights of the early Mad and, later, a pioneering alternative/underground cartoonist and publisher with his magazine witzend.

“All of these books are essential purchases for comics fans . . . These are the books that best show off how EC took genre stories seriously.” —The Los Angeles Times See page 24 for more of the EC Comics Library.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Came the Dawn and Other Stories, ISBN 978-1-60699-546-4

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THE COMPLETE LOVE AND ROCKETS LIBRARY Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez celebrated 30 years of Love and Rockets in 2013. This towering and beloved body of work remains a must-have for any discerning comics lover, and this comprehensive trade paperback series is the place to start.

LOVE AND ROCKETS: THE COVERS

JAIME HERNANDEZ LOCAS VOL. 1

VOL. 2

VOL. 3

VOL. 4

VOL. 5

$35.00 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-598-3

A beautiful, oversized art book featuring over 120 iconic comic covers (front & back) from the first 3 decades of Love and Rockets, collected for the first time in full color.

THE LOVE AND ROCKETS COMPANION MAGGIE THE MECHANIC $14.95 | ISBN 978-1-56097-784-1

The ground zero stories of spunky Maggie, her brash best friend and sometimes lover Hopey, and their friends.

THE GIRL FROM H.O.P.P.E.R.S.

PERLA LA LOCA

PENNY CENTURY

$14.95 | ISBN 978-1-56097-851-0

$16.95 | ISBN 978-1-56097-883-1

$18.99 | ISBN 978-1-60699-342-2

$18.99 | ISBN 978-1-60699-449-8

Centered on “The Death of Speedy,” one of L&R’s peaks, with wrestling action and the love triangle of Maggie, Hopey, and Ray Dominguez.

Jaime drops a narrative bomb on Hopey (and us) in “Wigwam Bam”; Maggie contends with her inner demons and... marriage?

In “Whoa, Nellie!,” Maggie settles in with her pro-wrestler aunt for a while, then it’s back to chills and spills with the old gang.

An older and wiser Maggie faces down her demons, Hopey becomes a teacher, and Ray tussles with the volatile Vivian.

GILBERT HERNANDEZ PALOMAR VOL. 1

HEARTBREAK SOUP

ESPERANZA

VOL. 2

HUMAN DIASTROPHISM

VOL. 3

BEYOND PALOMAR

VOL. 4

LUBA AND HER FAMILY

GILBERT, JAIME & MARIO HERNANDEZ

AMOR Y COHETES

$14.95 | ISBN 978-1-56097-783-4

$14.95 | ISBN 978-1-56097-848-0

$16.95 | ISBN 978-1-56097-882-4

$18.99 | ISBN 978-1-60699-753-6

$16.99 | ISBN 978-1-56097-926-5

The first half of Gilbert’s acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the Central American hamlet, and its memorable inhabitants.

Palomar’s idyll is broken by a serial killer, the modern world’s intrusions, and a shocking death.

Collects two acclaimed graphic novels: “Poison River” (Luba’s life story) and “Love and Rockets X” (an Altman-esque story set in L.A.).

After leaving Palomar, Luba and her clan move to America, where they become more and more intertwined with Luba’s sisters (bodybuilder Petra and therapist/film star Fritz) and their families. Plus: Venus!

All of the stand-alone, non“Locas” and non-“Palomar” stories from the original Love & Rockets series (1982–1996).

$29.99 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-60699-579-2

An indispensable guide and massive love letter to the award-winning, world-renowned series.

Interviews, family trees, timelines, unpublished art, bibliography, and more.

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OFELIA A LOVE AND ROCKETS BOOK

By Gilbert Hernandez

MOVE OVER, JACQUELINE SUSANN: OFELIA IS WRITING A TELL-ALL ABOUT LUBA!

$19.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 24 256 pages, black and white, 7 ½" x 9 ¼" ISBN 978-1-60699-806-9 • Volume 10 in the Love and Rockets library • Hernandez is a multiple 2014 Eisner Award nominee • Age range: 18+ • Author appearances t.b.a.

• Dedicated fan page at Facebook.com/ hernandezbros

In Ofelia, the sisters, the kids, and the cousins are all settled comfortably in California after leaving Palomar in Luba and Her Family. Luba and her cousin Ofelia’s relationship has always been fraught, but when Ofelia threatens to write a book about Luba, past memories, secrets, resentments, and pain resurface. Meanwhile, Luba’s children—genius Socorro, recently out-andproud Doralís, and prickly Maricela—show that a talent for trouble may be hereditary. Luba’s sisters, Fritz and Petra, swap lovers (as usual), but . . . are Fritz and family friend Pipo sittin’ in a tree? These vividly drawn characters are charged with Hernandez’s trademark complexity; they live, love, age, fight— and die—in this sweeping, multigenerational saga.

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

“Gilbert Hernandez has created some of the most memorable characters in popular fiction.”

—Los Angeles Magazine “There’s no denying that Beto’s comics reflect one of the highest peaks the comics medium has yet achieved.” —The A.V. Club

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TREASURY OF MINI COMICS VOL. 2 Edited by Michael Dowers

COLLECTING SOME OF THE BEST MINI COMICS EVER PRODUCED BY SOME OF THE MOST CREATIVE ARTISTS IN THE WORLD.

$29.99 Hardcover • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 12 848 pages, black-and-white with some color, 5" x 6 ¼" ISBN 978-1-60699-807-6 • Featuring early work from a host of comics’ superstars • Original cover by Esther Pearl Watson (Unlovable) • Review attention • Great gift idea • Age range: 17+

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Vol. 1, ISBN 978-1-60699-657-7 Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s, ISBN 978-1-60699-313-2

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For everyone interested in the history of underground and alternative comics, Treasury of Mini Comics Volume Two gathers prime examples — more than 800 pages’ worth — from a quintessential self-publishing format in this compact but hefty hardcover. Previously only seen in limited-run pamphlets, these comics are startling, visionary, hilarious, profane, and profound. This volume also takes a look back at the wild 8-page sex comics called “Tijuana Bibles” that sprang from the 1930s underworld, as context for the contemporary comics that compose this book. Editor and mini comics pioneer Michael Dowers provides a historical survey of several decades’ worth of some of the best that DIY comics has to offer, from some of the medium’s most talented independent creators, including: Johnny Ryan, Trina Robbins, R.K. Sloane, Jeffery Brown, Jim Rugg, Tom Neely, Ellen Forney, Esther Pearl Watson, Renée French, Lisa Hanawalt, J.R. Williams, Pat Moriarity, Souther Salazar, Theo Ellsworth, Nick Bertozzi, Dan Zettwoch, Marc Bell, and many others.

MICHAEL DOWERS has published hundreds of mini comics since the 1980s, as founder of Starhead Comix and Brownfield Press. He resides in Washington State.

Praise for Vol. 1: “[A] fascinating treasure trove of an anthology... the book serves as the history of a movement.”

—Publishers Weekly

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FOOLBERT FUNNIES: HISTORIES AND OTHER FICTIONS

By Frank Stack (aka Foolbert Sturgeon)

IN THIS COMICS ANTHOLOGY, AMAZONS, ACADEMICS, AND VAN GOGH RIDE AGAIN!

$22.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 15 176 pages, black and white, 7 ¾" x 10" ISBN 978-1-60699-808-3 • From one of the pioneers of “literary” comics • Review attention • Age range: 17+

“Cult” cartoonist Frank Stack is best known as the artist behind Harvey Pekar’s award-winning graphic novel, My Cancer Year (his art was featured in the American Splendor film), and as the creator of the first underground comic book, The Adventures of Jesus. Foolbert Funnies collects comics—inspired by Stack’s pop culture-filled childhood and travails as a fine arts professor—that ran in National Lampoon and other publications. (For decades, Stack’s work was published under the pseudonym “Foolbert Sturgeon” to protect his career.) In Foolbert Funnies, you will find adventuress Dirty Diana; nostalgic time traveler Frank Crankcase; commonsensical Dr. Feelgood; politician Paddy Booshwah; “Southern Fried Homicide”; and a host of Amazons, artists, and pulp heroes, all depicted in Stack’s scratchy, hatchy “crowquill” style. This “best of the rest” is a tribute to a Texan who’s been quietly creating observational, iconoclastic art for more than forty years.

FRANK STACK (b. 1937, Houston, Texas) has a BFA from the University of Texas and a Master’s Degree from the University of Wyoming. He settled in Columbia, Missouri, where he was a Professor of Art at “Mizzou” (the University of Missouri) for forty years.

“Frank Stack is one of those artists whose work I gobble up eagerly whenever I find it. For me he’s one of the best cartoonists of this or any other period.” —Robert Crumb

ALSO AVAILABLE:

The New Adventures of Jesus: The Second Coming $19.95 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1-56097-780-3

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HURRICANE ISLE AND OTHER ADVENTURES THE BEST OF

CAPTAIN EASY AND WASH TUBBS

HURRICANE ISLE AND OTHER ADVENTURES: THE BEST OF CAPTAIN EASY AND WASH TUBBS

By Roy Crane; Edited by Rick Norwood

PIRATES ON THE HIGH SEAS, PRISONERS ON DEVIL’S ISLAND . . . AND WHO IS THE PHANTOM KING?

BY ROY CRANE EDITED BY RICK NORWOOD

$39.99 Hardcover • Territory: E HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 5 320 pages, Black and white, 10" x 10" ISBN 978-1-60699-809-0 • Great gift idea • Age range: 11+

Sate your wanderlust with a brick of slam-bang action, boisterous humor, dangerous villains, even more dangerous women, and the promised treasure in this collection of Roy Crane’s classic Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy. Following our Eisner Award–nominated series of Roy Crane’s Captain Easy Sunday strip collections, we have selected the very best of the indispensable daily comic strip adventures of Easy and Tubbs. Featuring Wash running a dinky railroad in a comic-opera version of Eastern Europe, the gripping narrative of Easy waging total war against The Phantom King, battles with pirates in the South Seas, and the harrowing story of Easy and Wash as prisoners on the infamous Devil’s Island. Roy Crane mixes imagination, romance, and thrills in a masterful storytelling style that entices you over the next mountain, across the next ocean, toward the next horizon—and always to the next thrill-packed adventure!

ROYSTON CAMPBELL CRANE (1901–1977) created the iconic comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer. His work continues to inspire cartoonists today. RICK NORWOOD is the editor of the long-running Comics Revue.

“Superman was Captain Easy; Batman was Captain Easy.” —Gil Kane “[Crane is] a treasure. There is still no one around who draws any better.” —Charles Schulz “Roy Crane could do anything. Roy Crane did adventure with a beautiful combination of cartooning and storytelling.” —John Severin “Crane’s work is sheer energy. It’s somewhere between Crane and E.C. Segar that [Carl Barks’s beloved] Donald Duck got forged; the kind of ruddy-cheeked adventurousness that underlies the content is certainly the same work that moves Donald and his nephews through their stories.” — Art Spiegelman

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ALSO AVAILABLE:

CAPTAIN EASY, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE: THE COMPLETE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER STRIPS | Volumes 1–3, $ 39.99 ea.; Volume 4, $49.99 Volume 1, ISBN 978-1-60699-161-9 Volume 2, ISBN 978-1-60699-391-0 Volume 3, ISBN 978-1-60699-529-7 Volume 4, ISBN 978-1-60699-677-5

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DISPLACEMENT

By Lucy Knisley

IN HER LATEST GRAPHIC MEMOIR, LUCY KNISLEY GOES ON A CRUISE—WITH HER AILING GRANDPARENTS. New York Times best-selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic memoir series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise. (The book’s watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them.) In a book that is part graphic memoir, part travelogue, and part family history, Knisley not only tries to connect with her grandparents, but to reconcile their younger and older selves. She is aided in her quest by her grandfather’s WWII memoir, which is excerpted. Readers will identify with Knisley’s frustration, her fears, her compassion, and her attempts to come to terms with mortality, as she copes with the stress of travel complicated by her grandparents’ frailty. $19.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E MEMOIR / Nonfiction • CQ: 40 176 pages, full-color, 5 ½" x 7 ½" ISBN 978-1-60699-810-6 • The follow-up to Knisley’s 2014 Fantagraphics debut, An Age of License • From the author of the NYT best-seller, Relish • Review attention • Follow Knisley at luckyknisley.com, lucyknisley.tumblr.com and @lucyknisley • Author appearances t.b.a.

• Age range: 15+

LUCY KNISLEY is a cartoonist and occasional puppeteer, ukulele player, and food/travel writer living in Chicago, IL. 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

ALSO AVAILABLE: Midnight picnics at the Eiffel Tower; wine tastings paired with blowgun lessons; and romance in cafés, cemeteries, and at the Brandenburg Gate—these are just some of New York Times best-selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley’s experiences on her 2011 European book tour. An Age of License is both a graphic travelogue and a journal of her trip abroad.

Fans of Knisley’s food-focused autobiography (French Milk, Relish) savor her mouth-watering drawings and descriptions of culinary delights, seasoned with cute cat cameos. But An Age of License is not all kittens and raclette crepes: Knisley’s account of her adventures is colored by anxieties about her life and career, depicted with fearlessness, relatability, and honesty, making An Age of License an Eat, Pray, Love for the Girls generation.

An Age of License $19.99 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1-60699-768-0

ISBN 978-1-60699-768-0

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ANGRY YOUTH COMICS

By Johnny Ryan

AN ETERNAL CLASSIC OF SUBVERSION Johnny Ryan’s utterly unpretentious taboo-tackling is an infectious and hilarious bombardment of political incorrectness, taking full advantage of the medium’s absurdist potential for maximum laughs. In an age when the medium is growing up and aspiring to more mature and hoity-toity literary heights, Ryan builds on the visceral tradition that cartooning has had on our collective funny bone for over a century. Now, for the first time, all fourteen issues of Ryan’s career-defining comic book series Angry Youth Comics (2000– 2008) are collected in one place. All the comics, the covers, and even the contentious letters pages, in one toilet-ready brick shithouse.

$39.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / HUMOR • CQ: 12 432 pages, black and white with 32 pages color, 7 ¼" x 10 ¾" ISBN 978-1-60699-811-3 • From the creator of Prison Pit • Review attention • Potential censorship (you think we joke) • West Coast author appearances t.b.a.

• Follow Ryan at johnnyryan.com, outlawscumfudge.tumblr.com and @ MrJohnnyRyan • Age range: 18+ ALSO AVAILABLE:

Prison Pit | $12.99 ea.

Book One: ISBN 978-1-60699-297-5 Book Two: ISBN 978-1-60699-383-5 Book Three: ISBN 978-1-60699-497-9 Book Four: ISBN 978-1-60699-591-4 Book Five: ISBN 978-1-60699-700-0

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JOHNNY RYAN was born in Boston, MA, and grew up in shitty Plymouth, just a mile away from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, where he is co-creating the forthcoming Pig Goat Banana Cricket series for Nickelodeon with Dave Cooper.

“Johnny Ryan is the funniest cartoonist working today.” —Peter Bagge “I think his comics are a riot! Highly recommended.” —Daniel Clowes “In this age of caring sensitivities and political correctness, Johnny is a rare breed. He’s brought common vulgarity into such a highly abstract realm of unchecked imagination that it’s hard to keep a straight face.” —Robert Williams “Johnny Ryan is the only one carrying on the tradition of underground comics—he’s subversive.

His humor is subversive.” —Glenn Bray “Generally speaking, [Johnny Ryan’s] comics are really dumb and infantile, and prove beyond a doubt that chemical pollution, television, video games, pop music, etc. is making us all stupider by the minute…” —R. Crumb

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SWEATSHOP

By Peter Bagge, with Stephen DeStefano, Bill Wray, Stephanie Gladden, Jim Blanchard, and Johnny Ryan

WHAT’S WORSE THAN SELLING OUT? FAILING!

$19.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Humor • CQ: 36 160 pages, full color, 6 ½" x 10" ISBN 978-1-60699-812-0 • Bagge is a 2014 Eisner Award nominee for Best Graphic Novel • Author appearances t.b.a.

• Review attention • Follow Bagge at peterbagge.com and @PetereBagge1 • Age range: 14+

Mel Bowling is the unhappy, out-of-touch creator of a very bad daily comic strip called Freddy Ferret (a cross between Dilbert and Garfield). He spends most of his time listening to Rush Limbaugh and coming up with horrible catchphrases to merchandise, while his “sweatshop” cast of studio assistants grind out all the hard work. Sweatshop is a hilarious situational comedy from acclaimed author Peter Bagge (Buddy Does Seattle, Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story) that ingeniously incorporates the visual styles of cartoonist guest stars like Stephen DeStefano (Popeye) and Johnny Ryan (Prison Pit) to give voice to Bowling’s colorful cast of misfit, aspiring cartoonists (plus a cameo by Neil Gaiman!), all attempting to make it big like their boss, but on their own terms. Originally published as a six-issue series by DC Comics in 2003 that was never collected, this is one of the best and most undervalued works of one of the key voices of his generation.

PETER BAGGE lives in Seattle, WA, with his wife and daughter.

“You know what would make a great Christmas present? A publisher announcing they’re going to collect this great, lamentably short-lived series.” —Comic Book Resources, December 23, 2011 “I can count on one hand the number of comic artists whose work is as strong… maybe on two or three fingers.” —R. Crumb “Peter Bagge is the funniest cartoonist in existence…His drawing style is completely original and would be funny on its own, even without his great stories.” —John Kricfalusi

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Buddy Buys a Dump $19.99 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-60699-745-1

Yeah! $19.99 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-56097-412-2

Buddy Does Seattle $19.99 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-56097-623-3

Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me and Other Astute Observations $24.99 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-60699-656-0

Peter Bagge’s Other Stuff $19.99 Paperback Original ISBN 978-1-56097-622-5

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INNER CITY ROMANCE

By Guy Colwell

A GRAPHIC TIME CAPSULE OF A TUMULTUOUS ERA

$24.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 12 200 pages, black-and-white, 8" x 10" ISBN 978-1-60699-813-7 • A lost classic of the underground era • Review attention • Age range: 18+

Guy Colwell’s Inner City Romance tread new territory for underground comix, filled with stories about prison, black culture, ghetto life, the sex trade, and radical activism. It portrayed the unpleasant realities of life in the inner city, where opportunities were limited and being on the lowest end of the economic ladder meant that one’s vision of the American dream was more about survival than lifestyle choices. Readers wondered who Colwell was, whether he was black or white, and how he knew so much about prison. Two years at McNeil Island federal prison for draft refusal provided a personal education for him, as well as his involvement with the San Francisco Good Times underground newspaper, where he became a close observer of the White Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, and anti-war demonstrations. Inner City Romance details Colwell’s life on the mean streets. Every issue of Inner City Romance is included in this collection, as well as many of the highly detailed paintings he created at the same time. Colwell recounts in an accompanying text piece, his personal journey to artistic maturity forged by radicalism and frustration.

GUY COLWELL lives in Berkeley, CA. “This 1972 underground comic was one of the first to engage the racial divide boiling over during the peace and love era. Colwell’s series is a brutal comedown. His characters, fucked up on drugs and gorging themselves on sex, debate the social issues of the day. Essential, incredible work. “ — Dan Nadel “Colwell’s experienced life at its most bleak and its most hedonistic. He’s resisted the draft, been in jail, and lived all over the place. And his art shows it.”— Juxtapoz

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DRIPPING WITH FEAR: THE STEVE DITKO ARCHIVES VOL. 5

By Steve Ditko; Edited by Blake Bell

MORE OF DITKO’S CLASSIC LATE-FIFTIES THRILLERS . . .

AND FETISH ART?!

$39.99 Hardcover • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Superheroes • CQ: 18 240 pages, Full color, 7 ¼" x 10 ½" ISBN 978-1-60699-706-2 • Classic work from one of the primary architects of the Marvel Universe • Age range: 11+

Dripping with Fear: The Steve Ditko Archives Volume 5 features another 200plus meticulously restored, full-color pages from Steve Ditko’s early prime, when he was working in near-anonymity for Charlton Comics in the then popular horror/suspense genre. Comics like Tales of the Mysterious Traveler and This Magazine Is Haunted saw an explosion in Ditko’s ingenuity, as he manipulated the traditional comic-book page layout with masterful results. It was during this time that Ditko and his art-school colleague, the famed fetish artist Eric Stanton, began sharing a studio in Manhattan. The introduction by editor Blake Bell examines Ditko’s stylistic evolution and delves deep into his association with Stanton. Ditko’s secret collaborations with Stanton on his female bondage material remain a highly controversial topic, and Bell’s introduction highlights numerous examples that prove the allegedly shy and private Ditko contributed with wild abandon to these risqué tales. This fifth volume stands as the best example yet of the Steve Ditko that would soon begin crafting iconic characters like Spider-Man and Doctor Strange alongside Stan Lee at Marvel Comics.

BLAKE BELL lives in Toronto, Canada, with his family. STEVE DITKO continues to create comics in his studio in New York City.

“Fantastic... Raw and grotesque and beautifully drawn and presented.” —Dave Gibbons

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE STEVE DITKO ARCHIVES:

Impossible Tales: Volume 4 ISBN 978-1-60699-640-9 Mysterious Traveler: Volume 3 ISBN 978-1-60699-498-6

“...[T]he tales in this tome are sheer pre-Comics Code Authority horror, complete with stabbings, decapitations, mutilations and disintegrations. ...Ditko’s talent jumps off the page and one of the benefits of reading the stories in chronological order is seeing his art evolve and improve.”

—Rue Morgue

Unexplored Worlds: Volume 2 ISBN 978-1-60699-380-4 Strange Suspense: Volume 1 ISBN 978-1-60699-739-0 Strange & Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko ISBN 978-1-56097-921-0

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BATTER UP, CHARLIE BROWN! BASEBALL SEASON REOFFER!

By Charles M. Schulz

THE PERFECT SPRING DOUBLE PLAY: PEANUTS AND BASEBALL

$9.99 Hardcover • Territory: F HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 48 64 pages, two-color, 5 ¾" x 5 ¾" ISBN 978-1-60699-725-3 • Great gift book idea • In time for Opening Day and the 2015 Peanuts major motion picture • Age range: All ages

Charlie Brown may not be the best pitcher, batter, or team manager, but his love for the game is boundless, no matter how many home runs he gives up, how many games he loses, how many errors his team makes, or how many times the game is rained out. This delightful gift book features three complete baseball stories starring good ol’ Charlie Brown and his frustrating (and frustrated) teammates Lucy, Linus, Pigpen, Snoopy, and the rest of the gang.

Whether it’s at home or on the road, on the mound or off the field, Charlie Brown gives it his all in these funny, touching testaments to his indefatigable spirit.

CHARLES M. SCHULZ created the Peanuts comic strip from 1950 until his retirement in 2000. His work lives on at the Charles M. Schulz Museum & Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA. “Schulz was truly one of the game’s great ambassadors.” —Former National Baseball Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey

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WILLARD MULLIN’S CASEY AT THE BAT AND OTHER DIAMOND TALES

By Willard Mullin and Ernest Thayer; Introduction by Yogi Berra

A PERFECT OPENING DAY COMPANION

$9.99 Hardcover • Territory: E SPORTS/ Baseball • CQ: 48 50 pages, two-color, 6" x 9" ISBN 978-1-60699-814-4 • Great gift idea • A perfect start to baseball season • Age range: All ages

In 1953, in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the World Series, legendary cartoonist Willard Mullin created images illustrating one of America’s best-loved poems: Ernest Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat.” These images were then put on a series of drinking glasses that were given away as premiums at various major and minor league ballparks across America. The first set was issued on April 15, 1954, at the very first home game for the modern day Baltimore Orioles.

The illustrations by Mullin were for years thought to have been lost, but were found at an auction in 2002. They have been meticulously reproduced to create this stunning edition of “Casey at the Bat.” This edition will include additional Mullin material like the “Fan’s Alphabet” from 1953 and the poems “Iron Horse Lou” and “O Brooklyn, My Brooklyn” from 1947. With a preface

by Yogi Berra and an essay on the history of both “Casey” and Mullin’s images by noted baseball historian Tim Wiles, this edition of “Casey” is the most authentic ever produced. A keepsake for the ages.

WILLARD MULLIN (1902–1978) was an American sports cartoonist best known for creating “The Brooklyn Bum” and his coverage of the Brooklyn Dodgers for the New York World-Telegram and Sporting News.

“A uniquely talented artist.” —Bob Costas

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934–1972 $ 35.00 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-639-3

“In an era overloaded with angry voices and such involved statistical analysis it makes my head ache, we need Willard Mullin. Rather than shout and scowl, Willard drew playful, appealing images that made you smile . . . he understood that sports are supposed to be fun and joyful. And he made them more so.” —Jim Caple, ESPN.com senior writer “I always liked the New York World-Telegram best because they had something nobody else had: the best cartoonist. Everyone I knew was a fan of his.” —Yogi Berra, from his foreword

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HARVEY KURTZMAN: THE MAN WHO CREATED MAD AND REVOLUTIONIZED HUMOR IN AMERICA THE MAN WHO CREATED MAD AND REVOLUTIONIZED HUMOR IN AMERICA

Bill Schelly

$29.99 Hardcover • Territory: E BIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts • CQ: 10 464 pages, illustrated, 6" x 9" ISBN 978-1-60699-761-1 • Major review attention • Digital ARC • The first-ever bio of one of America’s great humorists • Great gift idea • Age range: 15+

By Bill Schelly

THE DEFINITIVE BIO OF THE ORIGINAL MAD MAN Harvey Kurtzman created MAD, and MAD revolutionized humor in America.

Kurtzman’s groundwork as the original editor, artist, and sole writer of MAD provided the foundation for one of the greatest publishing successes of the 20th century. But how did Kurtzman invent MAD, and why did he leave it shortly after it burst nova-like onto the American scene? Bill Schelly’s heavily researched biography finally and fully answers these questions for the first time. Through fresh interviews with Kurtzman’s colleagues, friends and family, including Hugh Hefner, Al Feldstein, James Warren, R. Crumb, Jack Davis, Gilbert Shelton, and many others, and an examination of Kurtzman’s personal archives, this book tells the true story of one the 20th century’s greatest humorists. His family life, an FBI investigation during the McCarthy Era, his legal battles with William M. Gaines (publisher of MAD), are all revealed for the first time. Rich with anecdotes, from Kurtzman’s Brooklyn beginnings to his post-MAD years, when his ceaseless creativity produced more innovations: new magazines, a graphic novel, and “Little Annie Fanny” in Playboy.

BILL SCHELLY is the author of over a dozen books chronicling the history of comic art in America, including Man of Rock, the biography of Joe Kubert. He is associate editor of the Eisner Award winning magazine Alter Ego. “MAD had at least as great an impact as pot and LSD on the shape of the 1960s. Harvey Kurtzman has been the single most significant influence on a couple of generations of comic artists.”

— Art Spiegelman “Without Harvey Kurtzman, there would have been no Saturday Night Live.” — Harry Shearer “Almost all American satire today follows a formula that Harvey Kurtzman thought up.”

— The New Yorker “After MAD, drugs were nothing.” — Patti Smith “Kurtzman and company changed the direction of satirical art in America.” — Hugh Hefner

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HIS WORLD: THE ART AND LIFE OF WALLACE WOOD Edited by Bhob Stewart

A PORTRAIT OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE LEGENDARY CARTOONIST

$35.00 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / History & Criticism • CQ: 11 304 pages, color and black-and-white, 10" x 12" ISBN 978-1-60699-815-1 • Review attention • Age range: 17+

Who was Wallace Wood? The maddest artist of Mad magazine? The man behind Marvel’s Daredevil? The self-publishing pioneer of Witzend? With a life as dramatic as his compositions, many fans know the legendary artist, but few know the man inside. Until now. His World is an incisive look back at the life and career of one of the greatest and most mythic figures of cartooning.

Edited over the course of thirty years by former Wood assistant Bhob Stewart, His World is a biographical portrait, generously illustrated with Wood’s gorgeous art as well as little seen personal photos and childhood ephemera.

Also: remembrances by Wood’s friends, colleagues, asistants, and loved ones.

This collective biographical and critical portrait explores the humorous spirit, dark detours, and psychological twists of a gifted maverick in American pop culture. Contributions by Bill Gaines, Grant Geissman, Larry Hama, Paul Kirchner, Trina Robbins, John Severin, Tom Sutton, Al Williamson and more!

BHOB STEWART (1937–2014) was an American writer, editor, cartoonist and filmmaker who contributed to a variety of publications over a span of five decades. He passed away during production of this book.

“Wood’s work seemed like snapshots of a lush and vibrant reality where even madmen, monsters and mayhem possessed a stately grace. There might be pandemonium but, oddly, the panic never seemed to reach the eyes of Wood’s regal heroes.” — The Los Angeles Times

BACK IN STOCK:

Cannon by Wallace Wood $ 35.00 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-702-4

“Legendary artist [Wally] Wood mastered every comic-book genre — humor (he was one of Mad’s first artists), horror, superheroes, war — but is best known for the 1950s science-fiction stories he drew for EC Comics, in which, one commentator noted, he ‘began drawing things into panels that no human being seemed capable of before.’” —Booklist

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WUVABLE OAF

By Ed Luce

A “FAIRY” TALE CHRONICLING ONE BIG, SCARY LOOKIN’ DUDE’S SEARCH FOR LOVE IN THE BIG CITY Wuvable Oaf is the first-ever collection of the acclaimed self-published comic book series by cartoonist Ed Luce. Oaf is a large, hirsute, scary-looking ex-wrestler who lives in San Francisco with his adorable kitties and listens to a lot of Morrissey. The book follows Oaf ’s search for love in the big city, especially his pursuit of Eiffel, the lead singer of the black metal/queercore/ progressive disco grindcore band Ejaculoid. Luce weaves between the friends, associates, enemies, ex-lovers and pasts of both men into the story of their courtship. A romantic comedy at its core, Wuvable Oaf recalls elements of comics as diverse as Scott Pilgrim, Love and Rockets, and Archie, set against the background of San Francisco’s queer community and music scene. $29.99 Hardcover • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 15 264 pages, black-and-white with 16 pages color, 7" x 10 ½" ISBN 978-1-60699-816-8 • Review attention • Follow Luce at wuvableoaf.com, wuvableoaf.tumblr.com and @wuvableoaf • National author appearances t.b.a.

• Age range: 17+

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ED LUCE lives in San Francisco, CA. “The issues are fast-paced, funny and chock full of pop-culture references. Whether you’re gay/ straight/something in between, I think you’ll find yourself rooting for the Oaf and his quest for somebody to wuv.” —Pop Candy’s Whitney Matheson “Hands down my favorite self-published comic being made today. So good! I actually never thought of calling Wuvable Oaf the ‘Scott Pilgrim of gay comics’ before... but that’s exactly what it is! Luce’s charming art, smile-inducing writing, and downright loveable characters is the reason Wuvable Oaf is just as popular with my straight customers as it is with my gay customers.” —James Sime, Isotope Comics

MARCH SAINT COLE

By Noah Van Sciver

THE NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE HYPO: THE MELANCHOLIC YOUNG LINCOLN

$19.99 Flexibound Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 18 112 pages, black and white, 7 ½" x 9 ¼" ISBN 978-1-60699-817-5 • Review attention • Digital ARC (PDF) • Van Sciver’s previous book was named: MTV’s #1 “Best Graphic Novel of 2012”; one of Library Journal’s “Best Graphic Novels of 2012”; #3 on Boing Boing’s “Best Damn Comics of the Year” survey; #4 on Publishers Weekly’s “2012 Graphic Novel Critics’ Poll”; and one of the Ten Essential Graphic Novel Biographies by The A.V. Club • Follow Van Sciver at noahvansciver. tumblr.com or @NoahVanSciver

Saint Cole depicts four days in the life of a twenty-eight-year-old suburbanite named Joe who feels trapped working overtime at a pizza restaurant to support his girlfriend, Nicole, and their infant child. Especially when Nicole invites her troubled mother, Angela, to move into their two-bedroom apartment until she lands on her feet again. Joe reacts to this development by further retreating into alcohol. He thinks he loves Nicole but resents her at the same time. They probably wouldn’t still be with each other if she hadn’t become pregnant. Joe wants out. He’s angry. He’s in a position to act rashly. And he does. This sophomore graphic novel from Noah Van Sciver may seem like a left turn from his critically acclaimed debut graphic novel biography of Abraham Lincoln (The Hypo), yet upon closer reflection, it continues Van Sciver’s interest in pathos and the human condition.

NOAH VAN SCIVER lives in Denver, CO. “Noah Van Sciver has developed a storytelling style that I find enormously appealing.” —Chester Brown

ALSO AVAILABLE:

The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln $24.99 Hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60699-619-5

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

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ISBN 978-1-56097-868-8

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ISBN 978-1-56097-948-7

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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

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

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

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THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1995–1996

By Charles M. Schulz

PEANUTS IN THE NINETIES: THE LOST DECADE Even the most devoted Peanuts fan will be surprised by revisiting Schulz’s last decade of work on the most beloved comic strip of all time. Schulz’s cartooning has never been more expressive, and his sense of humor never more unencumbered by formula or tradition. These final years of Schulz’s masterpiece have never been more ripe for reconsideration, twenty years since their original publication and with Peanuts’ profile higher than ever; a major motion picture will be released in 2015.

This is the antepenultimate twenty-third volume (of twenty-five) of the New York Times best-selling series that began in 2004 and will conclude in 2016, collecting every single one of the 18,000-plus strips created by Schulz from 1950–2000.

$29.99 Hardcover • Territory: F HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 18 344 pages, black and white, 8 ½" x 7" ISBN 978-1-60699-818-2 • Over 500K sold in this series • A New York Times best seller • Soon to be a major motion picture (Fall 2015) • The most beloved comic strip of all time • Dedicated fan page at facebook.com/ thecompletepeanuts • Age range: All ages

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 “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

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THE BIG BOOK OF ME

By Vaughn Bodé

JUST WHO IS CHEECH WIZARD?

$19.99 Paperback Original • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 26 96 pages, black-and-white and color, 8 ⅞" x 11" ISBN 978-1-60699-819-9 • Review attention • Great gift idea • The first new edition of Bodé’s classic work in over a decade • Age range: 17+

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Once upon a time, at two-thirty in the afternoon, on the enchanted island of York, lived a Wizard…A mild mannered, lovable Wizard who wore a big hat to mask his true identity…But just who is under that big hat, just who is…Cheech Wizard? Vaughn Bodé created Cheech in 1956 at the age of 15 and the character remained a constant companion for the rest of Bodé’s life, surfacing in his college paper, underground comix, the National Lampoon, and ultimately beyond into the cosmically collective world of graffiti and Hip Hop. Irascible and sarcastic as he is iconic, Cheech Wizard is a lascivious con-man who nevertheless possesses, despite his transgressions (or because of them?), some degree of cosmic insight. He’s died and been reborn. You may recognize his likeness from your friend’s tattoo or your friendly neighborhood tagger’s work. He is Vaughn Bodé, the cartoon gooroo…or is he? The Big Book of Me brings this elemental, pop-essential corpus of transcendent art to the masses collecting all of the Cheech Wizard comics in a single volume.

VAUGHN BODÉ (1941-1975), legendary underground comics artist, was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2006.

“I’m like Vaughn Bodé, I’m a Cheech Wizard…Never quittin’…So won’t you listen.” — The Beastie Boys “Graffiti artists love Bodé. That’s the simple truth. For three decades the graff culture has had an on-going love affair with Cheech Wizard, the lizards, the infamous Bode broads and all the other inhabitants of the fantastic cartoon world created by Vaughn Bode.” — Zephyr

“Vaughn Bodé was one of the lights of America…He really was a star…” — Moebius

“The main thing that always hits me is how much of this dude’s personality comes through in everything he does. He’s been dead a year longer than I’ve been alive (1975) and his work still reads like it was made tomorrow.” — Brandon Graham

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SHERIFF OF BULLET VALLEY STARRING WALT DISNEY’S DONALD DUCK

By Carl Barks

A POCKET-SIZED WALLOP OF CLASSIC CARL BARKS

$9.99 Paperback Original • Territory: X HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 40 96 pages, full color, 7 ¼" x 5 ½" ISBN 978-1-60699-820-5 • Great gift idea • A new family-friendly, portable format for a timeless Disney classic • The greatest kids’ adventure comic of all time • Age range: All ages

When a passel of extra-sneaky, extra-ornery high-tech cattle rustlers strikes the good citizens of Bullet Valley, Donald Duck bravely dons a badge to become the “Sheriff of Bullet Valley.” Fortified by the know-how he’s gained watching Hollywood Westerns, our ever-intrepid Duck sets out to solve the perplexing mystery of how Blacksnake McSquirt’s brand keeps showing up on the cattle of the honest ranchers. Sheriff of Bullet Valley is the second entry in our new line of affordable kid-friendly Donald Duck books: just-right half-height books packed with fun, laughs, and adventure. Each story is complete with all the original artwork (no panels have been dropped or altered). Bonus: Donald’s always-exasperating cousin Gladstone Gander returns in, um, “Gladstone Returns.” All stories written and drawn by Disney legend Carl Barks!

CARL BARKS (1901–2000), one of the most brilliant cartoonists of the twentieth century, has entertained millions around the world with his timeless tales of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge.

PRAISE FOR CARL BARKS’S DONALD DUCK STORIES: “I consider [Carl Barks’s comics] to be the best form of storytelling I’ve read.” —Jeff Kinney

ALSO AVAILABLE:

The Ghost in the Grotto $12.99 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1-60699-779-6

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

—School Library Journal “There are few storytellers in comics history that are more revered than Carl Barks, a titan figure who was one of the three inaugural members in the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame—the other two were Jack Kirby and Eisner himself, who once called Barks ‘the Hans Christian Andersen of comics.’” —Los Angeles Times

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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 Bradbury 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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THE EC COMICS SLIPCASE VOLUME 2

By Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels, and Jack Kamen

COLLECTING THE SECOND QUARTET OF BOOKS FROM OUR ACCLAIMED LIBRARY OF EC COMICS CLASSICS Included in this set: • Fall Guy for Murder and Other Stories • Child of Tomorrow and Other Stories • Sucker Bait and Other Stories • Zero Hour and Other Stories

$99.99 Four Volume, Hardcover Boxed Set • Territory: E COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary • CQ: 4 810 pages, black and white, 7 ½" x 10 ½" ISBN 978-1-60699-821-2 • Great gift idea • Great price point (Retail value $120) • The definitive, NYT best-selling library of classic EC Comics • Age range: 11+

Featuring: Johnny Craig’s complete crime and horror stories from Crime SuspenStories and The Vault of Horror, twenty-five legendary horror stories from “Ghastly” Graham Ingels, Al Feldstein’s solo science fiction from Weird Science and Weird Fantasy, and twentytwo EC science-fiction gems illustrated by Jack Kamen. Plus essays and notes by EC experts! A great gift for Father’s Day or for the genre-fiction fan in your life.

ENTERTAINING “EC” COMICS was the greatest mass-market comic book publisher in the medium’s history.

“EC Comics’ output of crime, horror, and war comics have been reprinted and collected multiple times, but never like in Fantagraphics’ new EC Comics Library.”

—The A.V. Club “The EC Comics Library collections from Fantagraphics display the grace of cartooning.” —The Chicago Tribune

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CARTOONS FOR VICTORY Edited by Warren Bernard; Foreword by Bob Dole

WHAT DID AMERICA’S TOP CARTOONISTS DO DURING THE WAR?

$29.99 Hardcover • Territory: E HISTORY / WWII • CQ: 13 200 pages, Color and black and white, 9 ¾" x 13 ¼" ISBN 978-1-60699-822-9

Bombs and bullets weren’t the only things America manufactured to help fight World War II. Civilian and military comic strips, single panel cartoons, editorial cartoons, even advertising cartoons—all offered trenchant observations and wry advice on how to live in a time of rationing, war bonds, scrap drives, victory gardens, and blackouts. They were by turns funny, sarcastic, and sobering. Cartoons for Victory showcases this wartime work by cartoonists including Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, Al Capp, Harold Gray, Charles Addams, Herblock, Peter Arno, Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Hank Ketcham, and many others.

See how Superman, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and other comics characters showed Americans how to cope with the new fears, problems, and social upheaval the war brought with it. Most of the cartoons and comics in this book have not been seen since their first publication. Editor Bernard gathered them over years of unstinting research through private collections and the obscure holdings of public sources. This is the most comprehensive collection ever assembled of World War II–era cartoons, reflecting the indefatigable spirit of the time.

• Review attention • Great gift idea • Off the book-page coverage • Age range: 12+

WARREN BERNARD has contributed to more than a dozen books on cartoons and comics, drawing upon his extensive collection. He has lectured on cartoons at the Library of Congress and Center for Cartoon Studies.

ALSO AVAILABLE BY WARREN BERNARD:

Drawing Power: A Compendium of Cartoon Advertising 1870s–1940s $28.99 Paperback Original, ISBN 978-1-60699-399-6

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BARNABY VOLUME THREE

By Crockett Johnson with Jack Morley and Ted Ferro; Introduction t.b.a.

THE THIRD (OF FIVE) VOLUMES COLLECTING “THE LAST GREAT COMIC STRIP”

$39.99 Hardcover • Territory: E HUMOR / Comic Strips • CQ: 14 376 pages, black and white with over 50 pages in full color, 10 ½" x 6 ¾" ISBN 978-1-60699-823-6 • Review attention • From the creator of Harold and the Purple Crayon • Designed by Daniel Clowes • A 2014 Eisner Award nominee for Best Archival Collection • A Publishers Weekly Comics World 2013 Critics’ Poll Honorable Mention • Age Range: 8+

The long-lost comic strip masterpiece by legendary children’s book author Crockett Johnson (Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Carrot Seed), collected in full and designed by graphic novelist and Barnaby superfan Daniel Clowes (Ghost World).

Volume Three collects the postwar years of 1946–1947, continuing five-year-old Barnaby Baxter and his Fairy Godfather J.J. O’Malley’s misadventures. Bumbling but endearing, Mr. O’Malley rarely gets his magic to work—even when he consults his Fairy Godfather’s Handy Pocket Guide. The true magic of Barnaby resides in its canny mix of fantasy and satire, amplified by the understated elegance of Crockett Johnson’s clean, spare art. In its combination of Johnson’s sly wit and O’Malley’s amiable windbaggery, a child’s feeling of wonder and an adult’s wariness, highly literate jokes and a keen eye for the ridiculous, Barnaby expanded our sense of what comics can do. This volume also features essays by comics historians Charles Hatfield and Coulton Waugh, as well as Johnson biographer Philip Nel. CROCKETT JOHNSON (1906–1975) remains a giant in the world of children’s literature, forty years after his death.

“There’s no way Jack Kerouac, along with every other self-consciously cool person in New York, wasn’t reading this. O’Malley turns into Neal Cassady, the guy who’s not quite human, who never shuts up, who drives you crazy, and who can make anything happen, just like that.” —Greil Marcus, The Believer “[Barnaby] radiates human warmth and whimsy . . . [T]he artist’s brilliantly-written characters . . . keep their feet planted in the all-too-real world of 1940s America while flying off on pink wings into one of the greatest fantasy strips ever made.” —Art Spiegelman “[T]he book you hold is, well . . . the last great comic strip. Yes, there are dozens of other strips worth rereading, but none are this Great; this is great like Beethoven, or Steinbeck, or Picasso. This is so great it lives in its own timeless bubble of oddness and truth.” —Chris Ware “Quietly, almost sneakily, [Barnaby] upended the way we were, with acts of quiet subversion that had no political intent—actually, no intent of any kind . . .

O’Malley showed us day after day that the center did not hold.” —Jules Feiffer

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Volume One, ISBN 978-1-60699-522-8 Volume Two, ISBN 978-1-60699-709-3

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Vol. 6: “Lost in Lands of Long Ago” ISBN 978-1-60699-782-6

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

THE CARL BARKS LIBRARY

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INDEX

# 50 Girls 50 and Other Stories 24 A Amateurs, The 31

An Age of License 9 Angry Youth Comics 10 B Bagge, Peter

11 Barks, Carl 23, 29 Barnaby 27 Batter Up, Charlie Brown! 14 Bell, Blake 13 Bernard, Warren 26 Berra, Yogi 15 Big Book of Me, The 22 Blanchard, Jim 11 Blighted Eye, The 30 Bodé, Vaughn 22 Bradbury, Ray 24 Bray, Glenn 30 Brown, M.K. 30 Buddy Buys a Dump 11 Buddy Does Seattle 11

and Other Stories 3, 24 Cannon 17 Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs 8 Carlson, George 30 Carré, Lilli 2 Cartoons for Victory 26 Child of Tomorrow and Other Stories 24, 25 Colwell, Guy 12 Comics Journal Library Vol. 8, The 24 Complete Peanuts, The 21 Cork High and Bottle Deep 31 Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories 24 Craig, Johnny 24, 25 Crane, Roy 8

Davis, Jack

30 24

K Kamen, Jack

Knisley, Lucy Kurtzman, Harvey

24, 25 9 16, 24

L Liney, John

30 Love and Rockets 4 Love Bunglers, The 30 Luce, Ed 18

Stewart, Bhob 17 Strange & Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko 13 Strange Suspense 13 Stranger Than Life 30 Sturgeon, Foolbert 7 Sucker Bait and Other Stories 24, 25 Sweatshop 11 T Tain’t the Meat… It’s the Humanity

E EC Comics

3, 24, 25 EC Comics Slipcase 25 Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me 11

F Fall Guy for Murder

M Milburn, Lane

30 Millionaire, Tony 31 Morley, Jack 27 Mouse, Mickey 29 Mullin, Willard 15 Mysterious Traveler 13

and Other Stories 24, 25 Farmer, Joyce 30 Feldstein, Al 3, 24, 25 Ferro, Ted 27 Foolbert Funnies 7

N New Adventures of Jesus, The 7

G Ghost in the Grotto, The 23

O Ofelia 5

Gladden, Stephanie

Newave! 6 Norwood, Rick 8

16 Heads or Tails 2 Henry Speaks for Himself 30 Hernandez, Gilbert 4 Hernandez, Jaime 4, 30 Hip Hop Family Tree 31 His World 17 How to Be Happy 30 Hurricane Isle and Other Adventures 8 Hypo, The 19

P Partch, Virgil

Ingels, Graham 24, 25 Inner City Romance 12 J Jim 31

Johnson, Crockett 27 Judgment Day and Other Stories 24

U Unexplored Worlds 13

V VanSciver, Noah

19

W Walt Disney’s Donald Duck 29

Orlando, Joe

I Impossible Tales 13

and Other Stories 24 Thayer, Ernest 15 Treasury of Mini Comics 6 Twelve Gems 30

Unlovable 31

11

H Harvey Kurtzman

C Came the Dawn

D Davis, Eleanor

DeStefano, Stephen 11 Disney, Walt 23, 28, 29 Displacement 9 Ditko, Steve 13 Dole, Bob 26 Dowers, Michael 6 Drawing Power 26 Dripping with Fear 13 Duck, Donald 23, 29

24

31 Peanuts 1, 14, 21 Perfect Nonsense 30 Peter Bagge’s Other Stuff 11 Pirates in the Homeland 31 Piskor, Ed 31 Prison Pit 10

R Rosa, Don

Ryan, Johnny

29 10, 11

S Saint Cole 19

Schelly, Bill 16 Schulz, Charles M. 1, 14, 21 Sheriff of Bullet Valley 23 Sock Monkey Treasury 31 Spawn of Mars and Other Stories 3 Special Exits 30 Stack, Frank 7 Stechschulte, Conor 31

Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse 28 Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge 29 Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck 29 Watson, Esther Pearl 6, 31 Willard Mullin’s Casey at the Bat 15 Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball 15 Williamson, Al 24 Wilson, S. Clay 31 Witzend 31 Wood, Wallace 3, 17, 24, 31 Woodring, Jim 31 Wray, Bill 11 Wuvable Oaf 18 Y Yeah! 11 Z Zero Hour and Other Stories

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