FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
BRAIN BATS OF VENUS BASIL WOLVERTON HC #2
(W) Greg Sadowski (A) Basil Wolverton (CA) Basil Wolverton
This is Vol. 2 of the biography of the legendary midcentury cartoonist, who created the comically grotesque "Lena the Hyena." This volume continues Sadowski's biography of the famed Mad cartoonist. It includes scores of letters between Wolverton and his editors and publishers and excerpts from his personal diaries, providing documentary insight not only into Wolverton's day-to-day life and career, but also the inner workings of the early comic book industry. It is also chock full of Wolverton's comics stories from this period, including 17 science-fiction and horror tales fully restored and never before collected in a single volume.
COMPLETE LIFE & TIMES SCROOGE MCDUCK HC #2
ROSA
The fan-favorite Scrooge McDuck life story as it's never been told before - in chronological order - with "in-between" untold tales. In the first half of the internationally acclaimed comics collection The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Don Rosa tells the tale of how Uncle Scrooge earned his fortune. In Volume 2, he still has more secrets to tell from Scrooge's legendary life - including a rollicking Yukon adventure involving Glittering Goldie (that might just break your heart!). Fantagraphics proudly presents, in a handsome hardcover, the fan-favorite Scrooge McDuck life story as it's never been told before - in chronological order - with "in-between" untold tales.
COMPLETE LIFE & TIMES SCROOGE MCDUCK HC BOX SET ROSA
The complete, two-volume fan-favorite Scrooge McDuck life story as it's never been told before - in chronological order - with "in-between" untold tales. In Vol. 1 of the internationally acclaimed comics collection The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Don Rosa tells the tale of how Uncle Scrooge earned his fortune. In Volume 2, he still has more secrets to tell from Scrooge's legendary life - including a rollicking Yukon adventure involving Glittering Goldie (that might just break your heart!). Fantagraphics proudly presents, in a handsome hardcover, the fan-favorite Scrooge McDuck life story as it's never been told before - in chronological order - with "in-between" untold tales.
FANTAGRAPHICS STUDIO ED HC ED PISKOR
From Public Enemy to Professor X, this collection of scans of raw, un-retouched original art gives insight into the creative and drawing processes of the best-selling, award-winning Hip Hop Family Tree Tree/X-Men graphic novelist. This career overview of one of comics' greatest creators collects raw, un-retouched original pages from the best-selling series Hip-Hop Family Tree and X-Men: Grand Design, and includes commercial art, designs for a line of Public Enemy action figures, and much more. It features over 150 pages of exact facsimiles of the artwork sitting on Piskor's drawing table, at the exact size created, scanned in full color to showcase every detail in the artist's process - from blue pencil, to Wite-Out, to swaths of deep, inky blacks. Each piece is annotated by Piskor personally. It's like sitting in the author's studio! A must-have book for students, educators, and collectors.
HOUSE LA CASA HC PACO ROCA ENGLISH LANGUAGE ED
In this graphic novel by the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Wrinkles cartoonist, three adult siblings relive old conflicts as they clear out the family vacation home after their father's death. The graphic novel The House is at once deeply personal (dedicated to Roca's own deceased father) and entirely universal. Three adult siblings return to their family's vacation home a year after their father's death. They each bring their respective wives, husbands, and children with the intention to clean up the residence and put it on the market. But, as garbage is hauled off and dust is wiped away, decades-old resentments quickly fill the vacant home. Roca asks what happens to brothers and sisters when the only person holding the family together is now gone.
HOUSE LA CASA HC PACO ROCA SPANISH LANGUAGE ED
In this Spanish language graphic novel by the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Wrinkles cartoonist, three adult siblings relive old conflicts as they clear out the family vacation home after their father's death. En la novela gráfica de Paco Roca, tres hermanos adultos regresan a la pintoresca casa de vacaciones de su familia un ano después de la muerte de su padre. A través de los recuerdos de cada hermano, Roca nos da una idea de los momentos domésticos de alegr a, culpa y decepci n al preguntar qué pasa con los hermanos y hermanas cuando la nica persona que mantiene unida a la familia ahora se ha ido. A la vez, profundamente personal y completamente universal, La Casa detalla la lucha para superar el pasado, pero a n conserva los recuerdos.
PEANUTS EVERY SUNDAY HC #7
1981-1985
(W) Charles M. Schulz (A) Charles M. Schulz
Early- to-mid-1980s oversized Peanuts Sunday newspaper strips in vintage color-as they've never been collected! Sunday Peanuts in their original pastel-heavy coloring makes for a surprisingly different and fulfilling reading experience, and these strips have been scrupulously restored and recolored to look better than they ever have, with far better printing and on higher quality paper. The early to mid-'80s strips collected in this volume highlights fan-favorites Franklin, Peppermint Patty, and Spike. The Beagle Scouts and Charlie Brown's always-contentious relationship with his kite also feature prominently. And when it comes to Lucy, "The Doctor is In."
REINCARNATION STORIES HC KIM DEITCH
(W) Kim Deitch (A) Kim Deitch (CA) Kim Deitch
The award-winning cartoonist returns with a graphic novel that spans the past, present, and future of human history, in which Deitch himself, in a parallel reality, meets his spiritual nemesis, Waldo the Cat. Kim Deitch is an underground cartoonist-i.e., a contemporary of Spiegelman, et al.-whose craft just keeps getting better and better. Aesthetically inspired by silent film and 1930s animation, Deitch's comics are infused with 1960s psychedelia and spiritualism. Reincarnation Stories is a collection of comics narratives that combine into a graphic novel. It spans the past, present, and future of human history, with appearances by Frank Sinatra, monkey gods, a forgotten cowboy star of the silver screen, and a tribe of Native Americans that successfully resettled on the moon. In a parallel reality, Deitch himself is the mega-successful creator of a series of kids books about a superhero called Young Avatar, who helps marginalized souls lead better lives and whose alter ego is a carpenter. Deitch's spiritual nemesis (an incarnation of Judas Iscariot), Waldo the Cat, makes an appearance.
ROBERT WILLIAMS HC FATHER EXPONENTIAL IMAGINATION
(W) Robert Williams (A) Mat Gleason (CA) Mat Gleason
This career retrospective showcases the "lowbrow" artist's "realistic" oil paintings, drawings, sculptures, and works in other media. This is a comprehensive, career-spanning, collection of the iconic painter's fine art, including every one of his oil paintings, along with a selection of his drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works. Williams pursued a career as a fine arts painter years before joining the art studio of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth in the mid-1960s. From this position, he moved into the rebellious, anti-war circles of early underground comix, as one of the celebratedZap cartoonists. Featuring an introductory essay by Coagula Art Journal founder Mat Gleason, along with a new art manifesto and foreword by Williams himself (the former of whom brought the term "lowbrow" into the fine arts lexicon), as well as tons of rare photos and ephemera.
TONGUES #3
(W) Anders Nilsen (A) Anders Nilsen (CA) Anders Nilsen
Astrid and the Chicken are followed through the desert by the Rings after the ambush site is discovered. Prometheus refuses the overtures of the Swan King. Niko loses patience with Teddy Roosevelt's questions and the stakes are raised for the eagle. The gorgeously illustrated full-color third issue of Nilsen's epic new series is an unfolding adventure in narrative and form alike with multiple inserts and french flaps.
UNDERGROUND SKETCHBOOK HC
(W) Steve Brodner (A) Tomi Ungerer
Originally published in 1964, children's book illustrator Tomi Ungerer's Underground Sketchbook lets loose a blast of social commentary, dadaesque observations, and existential angst, raging against avarice, unfettered consumerism, alienation, the mechanization of human experience, and the acquiescence to the worst instincts that fuel a modern economy - as timely now as it was then. This is as powerful a dose of visual ingenuity, moral outrage, and bemused disgust at the human comedy that you are ever likely to experience.