FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
BASIL WOLVERTONS CULTURE CORNER HC
(W) Basil Wolverton (A) Basil Wolverton (CA) Basil Wolverton
If life's conundrums perplex and mystify you, the remedy is at hand in this indispensable guide to life's most worrisome and disconcerting social quandaries. These Golden Age strips are miniature masterpieces of visual humor.
BEATNIK BUENOS AIRES GN
(W) Diego Arandojo (A) Facundo Percio
Set in 1963, this graphic novel celebrates a time in Argentine history when its art scene blossomed. Writer Diego Arandojo and illustrator Facundo Percio come together to weave the rich tapestry of Buenos Aires in the time of the beatnik. Arandojo's dialogue lends a poetic quality to these lively characters, while Percio's charcoal drawings perfectly capture the rough charm of this eclectic community of artists and the seedy, smoky locales they inhabit.
BLEEDING SKULL
(W) Joseph A. Ziemba (A) Annie Choi (CA) Zack Carlson
Bleeding Skull!: A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey is a celebration of the most obscure, bizarre, and brain-busting movies ever made. Curated by the minds behind BleedingSkull.com and jam-packed with rare photographs, advertisements, and VHS sleeves, Bleeding Skull! is a laugh-out-loud guide to the dusty inventory of the greatest video store that never existed.
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.
COPING SKILLS HC
(W) John Cuneo (A) John Cuneo
When John Cuneo isn't gracing the cover of The New Yorker, being featured in Esquire, or winning every illustration award known, he fills a plastic container with drawings labeled "Loose Sketches." He explains that these pieces are not categorized by anything else than "it simply means they are untethered." And, boy, are they! Coping Skills collects these scenes of domesticated manatees, climate change, sex - lots and lots of sex - and many more of these "helpful drawings" by one of the best illustrators in the world.
CREEPING DEATH FROM NEPTUNE BASIL WOLVERTON HC #1
(W) Basil Wolverton (A) Basil Wolverton (CA) Basil Wolverton
This is the first of two volumes reprinting copious amounts of comics stories and recounting the career of cartoonist Basil Wolverton. 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.
IN PICTOPIA MAGAZINE
(W) Don Simpson (A) Various
In Pictopia is the legendary comic created in 1986, written by the era's most adventurous mainstream comics writer and drawn by a bevy of indie cartoonists-helmed by Don Simpson, with Mike Kazaleh, Pete Poplaski, and Eric Vincent. Presented here for the first time, scanned from the original line art and full-color painted boards, in an appropriately oversized format. Pictopia is the allegorical city inhabited by old, forgotten, but once famous and iconic comics characters, now considered pitiable has-beens by the popular new comics characters who are cheerfully and inevitably taking their places in the pop culture pantheon of celebrity. It is both a paean to timeless, beloved comics characters and a scathing critique of the then-contemporary comics sub-culture.
LOVE & ROCKETS MAGAZINE #10
(W) Gilbert Hernandez (A) Gilbert Hernandez (CA) Gilbert Hernandez
The World's Greatest Comics Magazine (eat it, FF) hits its tenth issue! In Jaime's half, Tonta meets Maggie face to face for the first time! When Titans Clash! Meanwhile, the invasion of Lumina's village sparks the beginning of the end... In Gilbertland, Fritz wears one of her oddest costumes yet, in a story that ties in to the Lagrimas saga from the 3rd and 4th issues of Gilbert's solo spinoff series, Psychodrama Illustrated!
SCOOP SCUTTLE & HIS PALS TP WOLVERTON
(W) Basil Wolverton (A) Basil Wolverton
This Basil Wolverton retrospective collects the ultra-rare classics Scoop Scuttle, Mystic Moot, Bingbang Buster, and Jumpin' Jupiter as they've never been seen before! When first published in 10 comic books, Wolverton's intricate line work was routinely obscured. In this collection, every effort has been made to restore the art to its original splendor, and to at last present the uniquely detailed graphics of this justly revered comic book master.
YOUNG SHADOW SC GN
Bolt City resident Young Shadow spends his days making deliveries for the food bank and rescuing pets - until he discovers a gang of chemical plant CEO's, trust-fund punks, and bad cops called the Sludge Team. To stop them, Young Shadow teams up with Spiral Scratch and a crew of metal-clad nuns. Drawn in bold yellows and blacks, this is a socially conscious YA action.