FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
CRYPTOID HC
(W) Eric Haven (A) Eric Haven (CA) Eric Haven
Cryptoid is a book about monsters - giant monsters, tiny monsters, robot monsters, cosmic monsters. These bizarre creatures are depicted in a series of interconnected stories, which take place within different planes of existence. These surrealist, selfreflexive, and superbly rendered comics surprise at every turn and showcase an inherent joy for the comics medium.
DEMENTIA 21 GN #1
(W) Shintaro Kago (A) Shintaro Kago (CA) Shintaro Kago
Yukie Sakai is a sprightly young home health aide eager to help her elderly clients. But what seems like a simple, straightforward job quickly turns into a series of increasingly surreal and bizarre adventures that put Yukie's wits to the test! Shintaro Kago is well known for combining the traditional manga style with a hyper realistic illustration technique and an adventurous storytelling approach to create his own genre referred to as "fashionable paranoia." All of his trademark virtues (and vices) are on full display in these darkly comedic tales that strain the bounds of the imagination.
DEMENTIA 21 GN #2
(W) Shintaro Kago (A) Shintaro Kago (CA) Shintaro Kago
In the first volume of Dementia 21, Yukie Sakai got plenty of experience dealing with oddball patients. But now, in volume two, Kago throws Yukie into ever more surreal adventures, facing off against maniacal diapers, zombie hospital attendants, malfunctioning machines that causes out-of-body experiences and a Santa with dementia! Dementia 21 Vol. 2 presents Kago in peak form, with a series of outlandish, eerie, darkly comedic tales that strain the bounds of the imagination.
EVIL EYE PACK
(W) Richard Sala (A) Richard Sala (CA) Richard Sala
This special pack includes issues #3, #5-10, and #12 of Richard Sala's Evil Eye!
GOBLIN GIRL HC
(W) Moa Romanova (A) Moa Romanova (CA) Moa Romanova
When young, broke and depressed Moa matches with a 53 year old celebrity on Tinder, he immediately gives her the validation, and motivation she is seeking, even encouraging her artistic ambition by offering financial support. However, Moa soon discovers that her would-be savior is not motivated by philanthropy, as the relationship grows more troubling. Romanova delivers a thought provoking, funny, and highly relatable autobiography, announcing Romanova as a powerful new voice in contemporary graphic novels.
LOVE & ROCKETS MAGAZINE #8
(W) Gilbert Hernandez (A) Gilbert Hernandez (CA) Gilbert Hernandez
In the new issue of the World's Greatest Comics Magazine (sorry, FF), Rosy spends time with her dad and his wife - and discovers that her mother Fritz made a short film with her dad years ago and sees them young for the first time. Also, Rosy visits the woman who raised her, for possibly the last time. Meanwhile, in "Princess Animus," lonely Lumina finally makes it home only to find out things aren't quite the way she left them, and Tonta enrolls in Mr. Dominguez's life drawing class. What could possibly go wrong?
POISON FLOWERS & PANDEMONIUM GN SALA
(W) Richard Sala (A) Richard Sala (CA) Richard Sala
In this Richard Sala omnibus, you get three new books in one! First up is "The Amazing Adventures of Fantomina Fantomella," a graphic novella of vengeance and non-stop action. In "Cave Girls Of The Lost World," a group of young women are stranded on a strange plateau en route to school. They are cut off from civilization in a land rife with dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and apemen. The third story is "Monsters Illustrated," featuring a catalog of monsters from every corner of the earth and beyond. Poison Flowers & Pandemonium will please fans of Sala's quirky and offbeat works three times over and perhaps introduce him to a whole new audience.
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.