BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH MONSTERS SGND HC

(W) Barry Windsor-Smith (A) Barry Windsor-Smith (CA) Barry Windsor-Smith

A special signed volume of Barry Windsor-Smith's MONSTERS will be available in February 2021. Limited to 1200 copies, the author's signature appears on a beautifully designed and printed vellum tip-in sheet that is bound into this edition with exclusive cover. Created over a period of 35 years, Barry Windsor-Smith' Monsters is a tour de force of visual storytelling. Part family drama, part espionage thriller, part metaphysical journey, it is an intimate portrait of individuals struggling to reclaim their lives and an epic political odyssey across two generations of American history.

COCKEYED MENAGERIE HC ART DRAWINGS T S SULLIVANT

Fantagraphics presents the long-overdue career retrospective of an early 20th century master of cartooning, T.S. Sullivant. Golfing giraffes, high-society hippos, cigar-chomping chimps - this is a whimsical world of drawings containing such infectious joy that they have inspired generations of artists and countless Disney films! Rounded out with essays by fans and cartooning scholars along with a foreword by Jim Woodring and a biographical sketch by R.C. Harvey.

COMPLETE CREPAX HC #3

EVIL SPELLS

(W) Guido Crepax (A) Guido Crepax (CA) Guido Crepax

The third volume of Fantagraphics' monumental collection of Guido Crepax's comics collects the "Baba Yaga" storyline, which recasts the witch of folklore (it was adapted for the screen in 1973 starring Carroll Baker as the middle-aged, lesbian villainess). Under Baba Yaga's influence, a doll, Annette, comes to life; Valentina and her lover, Philip, are forced to act out the fairy tale Bluebeard; and Philip must fight the witch in her lair. Evil Spells also features the famed Italian cartoonist's sinuous adaptations of several literary masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, and a giallo genre take on Edgar Allan Poe.

COMPLETE CREPAX HC #4

PRIVATE LIFE

(W) Guido Crepax (A) Guido Crepax (CA) Guido Crepax

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

COMPLETE CREPAX HC #5

AMERICAN STORIES

(W) Guido Crepax (A) Guido Crepax (CA) Guido Crepax

The Complete Crepax Vol. 5: American Stories collects stories that span 1968-1986, such as Crepax's ode to boxer Joe Louis. In other tales, Valentina attempts to balance new relationships with lovers alongside the domestic life she shares with Phil. Meanwhile, Valentina's fantasy life goes Hollywood. Bonnie and Clyde make an appearance, and there are several homages to the silent film era.

COMPLETE CREPAX HC #6

DANGEROUS LIAISONS

(W) Guido Crepax (A) Guido Crepax

In The Complete Crepax Vol. 6: Dangerous Liaisons, which spans 1977-1989, Valentina settles into middle-aged home life with her longtime partner, Phil, with whom she has a grown son, Mattia. Two of Crepax's lauded graphic adaptations: "Venus in Furs" and "The Memoirs of Cassanova" are featured.

COMPLETE CREPAX HC BOX SET #3

VOL 05-06 AMERICAN & LIAISONS

Bonnie and Clyde, Louise Brooks, Venus in Furs, Casanova, and Milanese photographer Valentina embark on adventures in this collection of classic erotic Italian comics. These erotic comics stories span 1968-1989. In Vol. 5, Bonnie and Clyde, Louise Brooks, and the globetrotting photographer Valentina (a movie and TV star herself!) take center stage, while "The Man from Harlem" is Crepax's ode to boxer Joe Louis and jazz. In Vol. 6, Valentina ages in "real time." First, she saves Effi, a German heiress, from kidnappers, and they become lovers. Valentina also has an affair with Bruno, a young cellist. Dangerous Liaisons follows our heroine into middle-aged home life with her longtime partner, Phil, with whom she has a grown son, Mattia. Two of Crepax's lauded graphic adaptations: "Venus in Furs" and "The Memoirs of Casanova" are featured in this volume.

CRASHPAD HC GARY PANTER

(W) Gary Panter (A) Gary Panter

This fine art monograph/faux underground comic facsimile is a psychedelic trip through the hippie movement. In 2017, Gary Panter created an art installation, Hippie Trip, inspired by his first visit to a head shop in 1968. It expanded his mind to the possibilities of psychedelic art and music, analog crafts and drug culture. Crashpad is an extension of that installation and a riff on underground comics creators such as Zap's R. Crumb, Victor Moscoso, Robert Williams, and other icons of that era. An art object itself, it will be reproduced as both a deluxe, oversized hardcover reproducing Panter's pages at full size on heavy art paper, as full-color facsimiles of the originals. In addition, Crashpad will be printed as an old-fashioned and stapled black-and-white (with color covers) underground comic book, on newsprint, approximately 6" x 9", inserted into a sleeve within the hardcover so it can be removed and enjoyed on its own.

EARTHA HC

(W) Cathy Malkasian (A) Cathy Malkasian (CA) Cathy Malkasian

Cathy Malkasian's Eartha is an expansive tale of pastoral life, city corruption, greed, and addictions, and reverberates with questions plaguing us today, such as the alienating effects of hyper-connectivity and the self-destructive obsession with novelty. Malkasian's rigorous draftsmanship, stunning landscapes and sophisticated storytelling are all on display in Eartha, making this the author's lushest and most impressive graphic novel yet.

GRANDE ODALISQUE HC

(W) Jerome Mulot (A) Jerome Mulot

In this graphic novel, two women art thieves bring in a third wheel for their biggest caper yet. Alex and Carole, friends since childhood, are now (literal) partners in crime. But the heist - to steal the Ingres painting The Grande Odalisque from the Louvre in Paris - is too much for the duo to handle, so they bring in Clarence, a bureaucrat's son with a price on his head by a Mexican drug cartel and, more importantly, an arms dealer. Next is Sam, a stunt motorcyclist and boxer by trade, who proves trigger happy with tranquilizer darts. Using soda can smoke bombs, rocket launchers, and hang gliders, Alex, Carole, and Sam set off a set of circumstances that results in a battle with the French Special Forces - and their partnership, which was on the rocks, will never be the same again. Ruppert and Mulot, two of the most innovative comic creators in the world, team up with multiple Angouleme prize winner Bastien Vives to bring you this impossibly funny, violent, and sexy action-packed thriller.

MAIDS HC PAPIN SISTERS TRUE CRIME

(W) Katie Skelly (A) Katie Skelly (CA) Katie Skelly

Maids is the scandalous true crime story of the Papin Sisters that fascinated 1930's France, as told by one of comics' most stylized talents. Maids has everything fans of all good comics, are looking for: high bravura, high intrigue, and murder, all drawn in Skelly's highly stylized manner, combining the best of pop art, manga, and Euro comics.

NOBODY LIKES YOU GRETA GRUMP GN

(W) Cathy Malkasian (A) Cathy Malkasian

 In this middle grade graphic novel from the acclaimed animator/cartoonist, Greta and her friend (and pet tortoise!) must solve the mystery of Friendlytown. Greta is a handful. She rips the heads off her dolls, lashes out at the other kids at her school, and tries her weary parents' patience. But with the help of a dapper tortoise named NoBody, Greta softens her grumpy ways. Having learned her lesson, Greta must now team up with her new friend Gabby and their shelled companion to solve a strange mystery: Why have the kindhearted denizens of Friendlytown suddenly become so mean? And what can they do to make Friendlytown friendly again? In NoBody Loves You, Greta Grump Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Cathy Malkasian conjures a fully-realized fantasy world cast with an array of colorful characters including tech whiz cats, ornery gopher librarians, and gangs of squirrels in matching sweater vests. Equal parts high-flying adventure and deeply felt allegory, this middle grade graphic novel is all heart.

PERCY GLOOM HC

(W) Cathy Malkasian (A) Cathy Malkasian (CA) Cathy Malkasian

Cathy Malkasian has made the jump from animation to the printed page with a graceful, delicate leap. Humorous and bewitching at the same time, Percy Gloom is a unique gem of a story. Occupying an unreal world of secret societies, benevolent families, and bureaucratic security, lazy-eyed Percy Gloom fights to overcome the loss of his wife, Lila, to a truth-pointing, lotharian, cult-leader. Approached by his doctor to help protect some special people and given advice by some talking goats, Percy comes to terms with his place in the gloomy world and finds himself reaching enlightenment (literally).

PERINEUM TECHNIQUE HC

(W) Florent Ruppert (A) Jerome Mulot (CA) Florent Ruppert

JH and Sarah meet online, connecting on a regular basis for virtual hookups. Their unromantic connections, brief and solitary, eventually obsess JH, who tries to convince Sarah to meet him in person. A strange game of seduction ensues, eventually resulting in JH accepting a challenge of abstinence in the hopes of gaining intimacy with Sarah. The Perineum Technique is a masterful meditation on intimacy in our era of hyperconnectivity, brilliantly employing visual metaphor in lieu of sexual explicitness - the couple's acts of online congress often begin with naked plunges off giant obelisks - to create a wildly original graphic novel tour through the subconscious of young romance. Originally serialized in the pages of Le Monde, the prestigious French newspaper, The Perineum Technique is one of the country's most acclaimed graphic novels of recent years, by two of its most exciting creators.

SONGY OF PARADISE HC

(W) Gary Panter (A) Gary Panter (CA) Gary Panter

Inspired by John Milton's Paradise Regained, Songy of Paradise is an interpretation of the story of Jesus being tempted by Satan in the desert with one notable exception: Jesus has been replaced by a hillbilly. Both an art object and a brilliant literary experiment, it will surely be the most eyepopping graphic novel of 2017.

WAKE UP PERCY GLOOM HC

(W) Cathy Malkasian (A) Cathy Malkasian (CA) Cathy Malkasian

A BRAND NEW FULL-LENGTH PERCY GLOOM ADVENTURE Cartoonist and animator Cathy Malkasian follows up her 2007 graphic novel Percy Gloom (a minor classic) with the further adventures of the small, immortal man with a light-up head. In Wake Up, Percy Gloom, kindhearted Percy awakens from (what he thinks is) a 200-year nap and finds himself in a strange new land. As Percy goes on a quest to locate his mother, he encounters many inspired inventions and bizarre, and sometimes dangerous, characters and situations, such as singing goats and furniture parades. Through it all he pines for his longlost love and soul mate, Miss Margaret-but his love may not be as doomed as he thinks. Malkasian's lush and detailed pencil drawings, surreal humor, absurdist characters and stunning visual storytelling ensure that fans of the first graphic novel will find the sequel just as fantastical, touching, and hilarious; new readers will discover a gorgeously rendered world of luminous landscapes, gentle humor, and a cast composed variously of wise, na ve, and flawed characters in a wide-ranging story that stands on its own.

WALT DISNEY UNCLE SCROOGE HC #5

ISLANDS IN THE SKY

(A) Carl Barks (CA) Carl Barks

In this collection of internationally acclaimed Duck comics, Uncle Scrooge has adventures in outer space and on the high seas! When Uncle Scrooge decides to seek out a safe new place to store his money, he sets his sights on an asteroid. But the asteroid he chooses holds a secret that he wasn't counting on! Then, the Beagle Boys construct an unstoppable mechanical behemoth to crack open Scrooge's Money Bin and steal all his cash in "The Paul Bunyan Machine." And, in "All at Sea," Scrooge, Donald, and the nephews set sail on a windjammer to collect $10 million in gold - but there be pirates on the high seas! Plus: the oddball inventions of the ever-eccentric Gyro Gearloose! Each page of these collections is meticulously restored and newly colored, with insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts.