AQUATLANTIC HC

(W) Giorgio Carpinteri (A) Giorgio Carpinteri (CA) Giorgio Carpinteri

A Raw artist returns, and Atlantis exists, in this new and original graphic novel from one of the great Italian comics masters, published in English for the first time. In this graphic novel, Aqualantics maintain a fragile peace with their "surface brothers"-as long as their world remains a myth. But when an actor who plays the character of the "indefensible Earthman," all cynicism and vulgarity, is gradually possessed by his role, a chain reaction jeopardizes the entire kingdom and the uneasy peace between the two species. Giorgio Carpinteri's sheer graphic brilliance - fusing aspects of Futurism, Cubism, Russian Constructivism, and German Expressionism with echoes of Bauhaus and distinct whims of Art Deco - would be enough to carry this brilliant fantasy, but Aqualantic is also a lyrical, allegorical masterpiece exploring the relationship between the conscious and unconscious, the known and the unknown.

CONS DE FEE EROTIC ART WALLACE WOOD HC

(W) Wally Wood (A) Wally Wood (CA) Wally Wood

DISNEY MASTERS HC #16

BOTTARO DONALD DUCK JUMPIN JUPITER

Italian comics maestro Luciano Bottaro spun wild, thrilling, and near-psychedelic Duckburg tales for decades! In this volume's title story, Donald enlists the inhabitants of Jupiter to defend against King Rebo of Saturn - but at what price? This volume also features "Quest for the Virtual Duck," as wellas another story in which the fiendishly mad Dr. Zantaf returns!

GHOSTWRITER HC PULIDO

(W) Rayco Pulido (A) Rayco Pulido (CA) Rayco Pulido

Set in 1940's Barcelona, Ghostwriter is a riveting detective story about a young housewife who turns to an unconventional private eye to help find her missing husband. But it soon becomes apparent that there may be more to this unassuming housewife than meets the eye. Masterfully paced and filled with pitch-black humor, Ghostwriter takes the reader on a wild ride full of twists and turns right through to its thrilling - and shocking - conclusion.

I KNOW WHAT I AM HC TRUE STORY ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI

(W) Gina Siciliano (A) Gina Siciliano (CA) Gina Siciliano

In seventeenth-century Rome, the extraordinary painter Artemisia Gentileschi fends off constant sexual advances as she works to become one of the greatest painters of her generation. Shockingly resonant in this current era of the #MeToo movement, I Know What I Am sheds a light on the history of routine sexual violence against woman and highlights a fierce artist who stood up to a shameful social status quo.

I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN HC

(W) Mannie Murphy (A) Mannie Murphy

In this graphic memoir, what begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's dark history of white nationalism. Murphy is a Portland native who has a genuine affection for River Phoenix, and her heart-racing descriptions of scenes like the infamous campfire kiss My Own Private Idaho serves as a moral anchor to a deeply amoral history. Murphy details the relationship between white supremacist Tom Metzger, former KKK GrandWizard and founder of the White Aryan Resistance, and the  "Rose City" street kids like Ken Death that infiltrated Van Sant's films - a relationship that culminates in an infamous episode of Geraldo. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, with wet, blue ink washes, this story brilliantly weaves 1990s alternative culture th two centuries of the Pacific Northwest's shameful history as a hotbed for white nationalism: from the Whitman massacre in 1847; to the Ku Klux Klan's role in Portland's city planning in the early 1900s; to the shameful treatment of African Americans displaced in the 1948 Vanport flood; and through the 2014 armed standoff with Cliven Bundy's cattle ranch. The other protagonist in this story is Murphy herself, a gender queer kid trying to process all of this. Mannie Murphy is an artist living in Portland, OR.

JOE FRANK ASCENT SC

(W) Joe Frank (A) Jason Novak

Joe Frank is one of the greatest radio dramatists who ever worked in the medium. His programs, which he wrote and voiced ran from 1978 to 2018, attracting a huge following, including Francis Coppola ("I couldn't believe the originality and sheer brilliance of what I was hearing") and Charlie Kaufman ("His shows were hypnotic, psychotic, neurotic, sad, terrifying, and some of the funniest stuff I have ever heard anywhere.") Jason Novak, author of Et Tu, Brute, has lovingly adapted six of Frank's most memorable stories into comics form, an introduction to those who have never heard Frank, and an aesthetic accompaniment to those who have.

NIJIGAHARA HOLOGRAPH HC

(W) Inio Asano (A) Inio Asano (CA) Inio Asano

Eisner award nominee Inio Asano (Solanin) enters Lynch-ian territory with this small-town horror story involving murder, subterranean creatures and, perhaps, the end of the world. Rendered in the traditional Manga style, Asano's crisp and detailed panels are a welcome addition to Fantagraphic's expanding literary Manga line.

NYMPH HC

(W) Leila Marzocchi (A) Leila Marzocchi (CA) Leila Marzocchi

Outside the Western Ruins, the birds and trees agree to protect a lone, defenseless pupa that has fallen from the sky. It begins to slowly evolve into a humanoid creature, showing a predilection for flight and music. When fossilized eggs start sprouting wings, the plante dwellers realize that they are in a mystical new world. Leila Marzocchi's lush artwork and witty dialogue makes Nymph equal parts tender and dark and proves that, to raise a child-like larva, it takes a village. Or at least a forest.

ONE STORY HC GIPI

(W) Gipi (A) Gipi (CA) Gipi

One Story actually consists of two entangled tales- those of Silvano Landi, a writer, who sees his life falling apart and Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, a soldier mired in the carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past and present, One Story documents the roots of a twisted family tree and traces the pain passed down from one generation to the next.

PALESTINE TP

(W) Joe Sacco (A) Joe Sacco (CA) Joe Sacco

A landmark of journalism and the art form of comics. Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, this is a major work of political and historical nonfiction.

PARALLEL LIVES GN

This collects six wildly inventive short comics stories that might collectively be dubbed "speculative memoir." Schrauwen's deadpan depictions of his and his offspring's upcoming lives include alien abduction, dialogue with future agents, and coded messages in envelopes at breakfast.

PORTRAIT OF A DRUNK HC SCHRAUWEN

(W) Florent Ruppert

Guy is a mediocre mariner, able enough, but also a lazy, thieving, lying drunkard. All of which makes him more real than the swashbuckling Hollywood heroes that grace most pirate narratives. This tour de force of sea-faring gallows humor is also an international event in modern comics, teaming for the first time three titans of the field: Belgian comics master Olivier Schrauwen (Parallel Lives, Arsene Schrauwen) and the acclaimed French duo, Ruppert & Mulot (The Perineum Technique).

RED ROCK BABY CANDY HC

(W) Shira Spector (A) Shira Spector

Shira Spector literally paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful 10 years of her life, encompassing her tenacious struggle to get pregnant, the emotional turmoil of her father's cancer diagnosis and eventual death, and her recollections of past relationships with her parents and her partner. Set in a kaleidoscope of Montreal and Toronto, Red Rock Baby Candy unfolds as one of the most formally inventive comics in the history of the medium. It begins in subtle, tonal shades of black ink, introduces color slowly over the next 50 pages until it explodes into a glorious full color palette. The irreverent characters begin to bloom and to live life fully, resurrecting the dead in order to map the geography among infertility, sexuality, choice, and mortality. The drawing is visceral, symbolic, and naturalistic. The visual storytelling eschews traditional comics panels in favor of a series of unique page compositions that convey both a stream of consciousness and the tactile reality of life, both the subjective impressions of the author at each moment of her life and the objective series of events that shape her narrative. It is the most formally revolutionary visual storytelling since Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters.

THUD GN ROSS

(W) Mikael Ross (A) Mikael Ross

There's a real village in Germany called Neuerkerode that is operated by people with mental disabilities - the local restaurant, the local bar, the local supermarket. The author spent two years living 3 or 4 days a week there, researching and getting to know its townsfolk, and the result is an empathetic depiction. This graphic novel is told entirely from a developmentally impaired boy's perspective. Noel had always lived with his mother in Berlin, until one day tragedy strikes and he finds himself alone for the first time. A man with a beard tells him he can't stay in the apartment anymore and takes him to a place with so many strangers - Who can he trust? Who does he like? Who loves him? Mikael Ross was born in 1984 in Munich.

TONGUES #4

(W) Anders Nilsen (A) Anders Nilsen (CA) Anders Nilsen

Gods die, centuries pass. Astrid is brought low by the Rings, then descends deeper. The Swan King gets swallowed up in light, Teddy Roosevelt has a bad dream, and the Eagle learns something about human music. Chapter four packs a pretty big punch.