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BATTLE OF CHURUBUSCO GN US REBELS MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR

(W) Andrea Ferraris (A) Andrea Ferraris (CA) Andrea Ferraris

Set in 1847 during the United States campaign to take California from Mexico, The Battle Of Churubusco tells the story of a battalion of soldiers who deserted the U.S. Army to join with Mexico. Told through the eyes of a Sicilian immigrant soldier who undergoes a crisis of conscience once he sees the cruelty being inflicted upon the people of Mexico.

BLUBBER #5

(W) Gilbert Hernandez (A) Gilbert Hernandez (CA) Gilbert Hernandez

The physically enhanced humans take over now begins! XXX star Mila returns to join Corazon (aka Fritzette) and Tiki Tik (aka Li'l Fritz) in a wild sex orgy with monsters! Also, Pupusi (Garden of the Flesh) reveals her secret fetish and may actually bring TENDERNESS to Blubber comics!? Adults only!

COMPLETE CREPAX HC BOX SET VOL 01-02 DRACULA & TIME EATER

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

This boxed set contains the first two volumes in Fantagraphics' acclaimed Complete Crepax series. Vol. 1 features the artist's unique take on the Frankenstein and Dracula legends along with a half dozen "Valentina" stories influenced by the French New Wave. In the scifi themed Vol. 2, Valentina travels into space to battle androids and discovers an astronaut in her garden along with many other surprises. A beautiful, specially produced giclee print of a rare 1992 pencil drawing of Valentina is also included as an exclusive bonus in this slipcased set.

COMPLETE CREPAX HC DRACULA FRANKENSTEIN HORROR

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

Guido Crepax is one of the most acclaimed and instantly recognizable cartoonists in the world. Only a handful of his works have been reprinted in English and none are currently available. Crepax: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Other Horror Stories is the artist's unique take on the works of Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, along with a half dozen stories featuring his most famous character, Valentina, several never before published. Presented in a deluxe coffee table format, this first of ten volumes in the complete works of Crepax will be a revelation to American readers.

COMPLETE CREPAX HC EVIL SPELLS

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

The third volume of Fantagraphics' Guido Crepax's comics collects the "Baba Yaga" storyline (which recasts the witch of folklore as a lesbian villainess) along with adaptations of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Turn of the Screw, and a genre take on Edgar Allan Poe. The oversized format and exacting reproduction perfectly showcase Crepax's virtuosic composition, design, and draftsmanship, as well the boundless visual imagination.

DISNEY RETURN OF SNOW WHITE & SEVEN DWARFS GN

(W) Romano Scarpa (A) Romano Scarpa (CA) Romano Scarpa

To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantagraphics Books presents a very special collection of the princess's adventures, all drawn by the grandmaster of Italian Disney comics, Romano Scarpa. Never before available in English Disney's The Return of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a wonderful, engaging treat that will be enjoyed by any Disney fan, young or otherwise, superbly illustrated in the classic Disney style.

FORLORN FUNNIES #1

(W) Paul Hornschemeier (A) Paul Hornschemeier (CA) Paul Hornschemeier

Paul Hornschemeier returns with a mosaic of genres. Comics, scripts, prose, all are on display here, including the first chapter of Hornschemeier's new graphic novel "Jerkwater Elite," a Downton Abbey style screenplay ("Ups and Downs") and chapter one of Hornschemeier's first prose novel. "Captain All" offers a surrealist nod to Steve Ditko and Fletcher Hanks and "Benny Schellfisch" offers a welcome dose of misanthropic navel gazing.

LIE & HOW WE TOLD IT HC

(W) Tommi Parrish (A) Tommi Parrish (CA) Tommi Parrish

A friendship creaks under the strain of a fumbling encounter between its two participants, leaving them even more lonely and uncertain than before. Parrish's first graphic novel for Fantagraphics is a visual tour de force, navigating queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-in-flux state of friendships. The Lie and How We Told It is a remarkably resonant work from an exciting new voice in contemporary graphic novels.

LOVE & ROCKETS LIBRARY JAIME GN #6

ANGELS MAGPIES

(W) Jaime Hernandez (A) Jaime Hernandez (CA) Jaime Hernandez

Angels and Magpies collects the Gods and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls and Love Bunglers storylines from the Love and Rockets: New Stories series, as well as Hernandez's 2006 New York Times serial. In the Ti-Girls segment, superheroics get a screwball spin and in "Love Bunglers," perhaps Hernandez's greatest masterpiece and one of the great graphic novels of all time, the past and present converge as Maggie and Ray's reunion is threatened by long-buried family secrets.

LOVE & ROCKETS MAGAZINE #4

(W) Gilbert Hernandez (A) Jaime Hernandez (CA) Jaime Hernandez

The 2017 Eisner Hall of Famers are still at the top of their game! In Jaime's half, when the cat's away how will the mice play? Maggie's out of town and Ray is determined to do something outside of his usual routine... but what? And what kind of trouble could Maggie and Hopey possibly get into in Barrio Hoppers at 3AM? Meanwhile, there's a funeral in Palomar and Pipo is deciding if she should attend or not. The rest of the story is a Palomar flashback of Pipo and her two adult lovers Manuel and Soledad.

NIGHT BUSINESS HC

(W) Benjamin Marra (A) Benjamin Marra (CA) Benjamin Marra

Night Business is a tale of street justice from the author of The Terror Assaulter. A killer is committing extreme acts of violence on exotic dancers and only one man has a will powerful enough to stop this psychopath: Johnny Timothy. 1980s trash culture is refracted through Marra's brain to become a nasty brew about serial killers, vigilante strippers, and dangerous men raining street justice upon their enemies. This is the long-awaited collection of Marra's career-launching cult comic book series, including the never-published conclusion!

PRINCE VALIANT HC #16

1967-1968

(W) Hal Foster (A) Hal Foster (CA) Hal Foster

Hal Foster's Prince Valiant continues as one of the greatest adventure comics ever conceived and Fantagraphics' reprinting is the loveliest treatment of the strip in the history of publishing. In Volume 16, Prince Valiant tracks down a missing heir only to become a mentor to the reluctant leader. There is in-fighting amongst family members and knights in the Hall of Champions, young Arn goes berserk under the incantation of the feral forest people, Aleta plots against the greedy governors of the Misty Isles and the royal children discover romance.