FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
ALBERTO BRECCIAS DRACULA HC
(W) Alberto Breccia (A) Alberto Breccia
In this wordless, full-color collection of satiric short comics stories, Alberto Breccia chronicles the waning days of the most famous vampire of them all. Literally defanged, the protagonist's glory days are long behind him and corrupt Government officials are now draining the life out of the population far more than one creature of the night ever could. This, Fantagraphics' first entry in the Alberto Breccia Library, also includes a sketchbook showing the artist's process.
ANOTHER HISTORY OF ART HC
(W) Anita Kunz (A) Anita Kunz
The award-winning artist Anita Kunz's depicts the most iconic paintings in the history of art - as if they had been painted by women. Conceived with delicious wit, and an eye for the telling detail, Kunz's recreations are not only stunning paintings in their own right but a sly, social commentary on the male-dominated history of Western civilization. Included, on each page opposite the painting, is a single paragraph biography of each woman artist. Another History of Art is a brilliantly satirical counterfactual history of art conceived, written, and painted by one of our most accomplished contemporary artists.
BLUBBER #6
(W) Gilbert Hernandez (A) Gilbert Hernandez (CA) Gilbert Hernandez
Blubber is back! Unleashing the unfettered Id and imagination of the great Gilbert Hernandez! Absurd, explicit, and profanely comical, Blubber makes all other comics blush. In this issue, we visit ULU Productions, where supersized (??) sexuality knows no bounds! Another pulse-pounding issue in Herculean Hernandez Fashion!
COMPLETE PEANUTS TP #15
1979-1980
(W) Charles M. Schulz (A) Charles M. Schulz
As it enters its 4th decade, Peanuts remains as fresh and lively as ever, with classic storylines like Charlie Brown's hospital stay and surprises like a romance between Peppermint Patty and... Pig Pen?! Introduction by Al Roker. Featuring impeccable production values, this series presents the entire run in chronological order, dailies and Sundays, two years per volume, with supplementary materials.
FANTAGRAPHICS UNDERGROUND HAND OF BLACK TP
(W) Martin Cendreda (A) Martin Cendreda
Martin Cendreda is a gifted comics storyteller who spends most of his days working as an animator (Bojack Horseman, South Park) and therefore hasn't had a collection of his work... unitil now! Printed in red, white, and black, The Hand of Black and Other Stories collects seven mostly-silent, short stories (most of which have never been published) that are each a chiseled, mini-masterpiece of dark humor and horror, and will resonate with fans of the Twilight Zone or the works of Daniel Clowes.
MEGAHEX HC MEGG & MOGG (CURR PTG)
(W) Simon Hanselmann (A) Simon Hanselmann (CA) Simon Hanselmann
What at first glance reads like an episodic stoner comedy slowly reveals a chiseled character study of suburban ennui to rival the works of Solondz, Groening, or Flaubert. Hanselmann's characterization and visual creativity mines lifetimes of pathos from the slapstick simplicity of its psychedelic, absurdist premise. You will believe an Owl can cry. Collecting all of Hanselmann's classic Megg & Mogg webcomics plus over 70 pages of new material.
MORT CINDER HC
(W) Hector German Oesterheld (A) Alberto Breccia (CA) Alberto Breccia
The great Alberto Breccia, in collaboration with the Argentine writer Hector German Oesterheld (The Eternaut,) present Mort Cinder, a horror story with political overtones that follows the wanderings through time of a man who rises from the grave each time he is killed, bearing witness to the darkest sides of humanity. American comics creators such as Frank Miller (300, Sin City) and Mike Mignola (Hellboy) owe Breccia a great debt; these horror-adventure tales are as thrilling, dread-inducing, and accessible as when they were created a half a century ago.
PERRAMUS THE CITY AND OBLIVION HC
(W) Juan Sasturain (A) Alberto Breccia
Fantagraphics presents Alberto Breccia's revolutionary (literally) graphic novel for the first time in English. Perramus follows a political dissident on the run from the skull-faced Death Squad as he encounters a variety of eccentric characters including a director of imaginary films, a troupe of guerilla circus folk, a tin-pot dictator, and Ronald Reagan... This highly anticipated collection was created while Argentina's military dictatorship was still in power and is a cartooning tour de force, with a revolutionary message that remains vital to this day.
QUEEN OF THE RING HC
(W) Jaime Hernandez (A) Jaime Hernandez
For the past 40 years, Jaime Hernandez has been privately amassing a body of work that no one else has seen. Until now. This parallel universe to his Love & Rockets world is set in the heyday of 1960s and '70s women's wrestling with an entirely new, original cast of characters who have aged and evolved. This book spotlights the women who are often ignored in pro-wrestling in 125 full-color illustrations: pin-ups, action shots, fake wrestling magazine covers, echoing the lucha libre magazines of the 1960s. Hernandez also discusses the work in an interview with fellow cartoonist Katie Skelly.
RED ROOM #3
Levee Turks was an encryption software prodigy serving a life sentence for creating an online drug empire until the feds proposed a deal: infiltrate red rooms and help the FBI crack down on these deepest corners of the dark web. But Turks soon finds that prison might be a better fate... Another killer stand-alone issue of the all-new monthly series from the creator of Hip Hop Family Tree and X-Men: Grand Design! As seen on Piskor's YouTube channel sensation, Cartoonist Kayfabe!
VISUAL CRIME HC MORIARTY
(W) Jerry Moriarty (A) Jerry Moriarty
In both of the stories that comprise Visual Crime, painter Rotart Sulli is given assignments for Visual Crime Magazine, each with a peculiar requirement: to stay in a hotel basement until his assignment is finished, and in the second story, he's told to place the finished work "in your back window- it will be seen." Jerry Moriarty's rough-hewn panels alternate with the Hopperesque paintings by Rotart Sulli, creating a portrait of the artist working alone in an uncertain world, creating stunning images that transcend the melodramatic stories they illustrate.
WHATSA PAINTOONIST HC JERRY MORIARTY
(W) Jerry Moriarty (A) Jerry Moriarty (CA) Jerry Moriarty
At the age of 76, the painter/cartoonist Jerry Moriarty returned to his childhood home in Binghamton, New York. Moriarty then interrogated his past via the act of painting, alternating between unconventional pen-andink panels that take place in the present and full-color paintings recreating his past. Whatsa Paintoonist? is a masterpiece of concision, remembrance, imagination, and artistry, imbued with the love of life and family.