FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
COMPLETE HATE HC PETER BAGGE
(W) Peter Bagge (A) Peter Bagge (CA) Peter Bagge
An archival collection of one of the bestselling alternative comic book series - arguably, the Great American Grunge novel - complete for the first time. The Complete Hate is a three-volume set that includes the original 1990-1998 30-issue run, the nine subsequent Hate Annuals, and tons of other Hate-related comics, illustrations, and ephemera created for books, magazines, comics, toys, and other merchandise. Bagge combined his cartoony drawing style with uncomfortably real Gen X characters, and the comic books resonated with readers. Book One (Hate 1-15), focuses on young Buddy Bradley's travails in early 1990s Seattle. Book Two focuses on Buddy and his girlfriend Lisa Leavenworth's move back to Buddy's native New Jersey (and a switch from black-and-white to full color). Book Three features the final arc of Bagge's magnum opus, as Buddy and Lisa become parents (and buy a garbage dump). Each volume, along with the slipcase, contains new covers, endpapers, title pages, and other surprises by Bagge.
COMPLETE NOIR MANCHETTE TARDI HC BOX SET STREETS PARIS
(W) Jacques Tardi (A) Jacques Tardi
The complete collection of the globally acclaimed crime novelist and pioneering cartoonist graphic novel collaborations, slipcased and in an oversized format. Presents all four hardboiled graphic crime novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Tardi: Griffu, West Coast Blues, Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot, and Run Like Crazy, Run Like Hell, as well as a bonus 21-page, unfinished tale and a single-page introduction to another incomplete story.
DISNEY MICKEY MOUSE HC ALL STARS
While at a carnival, Mickey finds himself flung headlong into a journey across space and time, through one dimension after another. From fairytale kingdoms to a surreal cubist realm to outer space - with plenty of dragons, mummies, and giant mouse-eating plants along the way. This is a story so epic, and so rollicking, that it took over 40 brilliant cartoonists from around the globe to tell it!
EC COMICS FOUR HC SLIPCASE #5
(W) Al Feldstein (A) Johnny Craig
A gift set of four archival volumes in the New York Times Best-Selling series. A box set of the best comics of the 1950s from the greatest mass market comic book publisher in history. Featured: Voodoo Vengeance And Other Stories, drawn by Johnny Craig; The Million Year Picnic And Other Stories, drawn by Will Elder; The Thing From The Grave And Other Stories, drawn by Joe Orlando, and Daddy Lost His Head And Other Stories, drawn by Jack Kamen. Collectively, that's more than 100 stories and more than 800 pages. Plus bonus features and insightful commentary from EC scholars.
EC GRAHAM INGLES AL FELDSTEIN ACCIDENTS & OLD LACE HC
(W) Al Feldstein (A) Graham Ingels
This volume collects short horror comics stories from Tales From the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, and Impact - including a rare EC gem that hasn't been seen since its original publication more than 65 years ago! These stories, which "Ghastly" Graham Ingels drew while he was at the pinnacle of his powers, include tales such as "Accidents and Old Lace." Three sweet, little old ladies weave tapestries depicting the gruesome deaths of real people, but when an art dealer commits murder to get a tapestry of his own, he discovers just how closely art imitates ... death. In "Marriage Vow," a woman returns from the grave to fulfill her wifely duty to her murderous husband, until death does them ... together; and in "The Sliceman Cometh," an executioner during the French Revolution can't escape the severed head of an innocent man.
ETERNAUT 1969 HC
(W) Hector German Oesterheld (A) Alberto Breccia
his is a psychedelically drawn, boldly political retelling of the 1950s graphic novel The Eternaut, whose imagery is still used as a symbol of resistance in Latin America to this day. In the 1950s, pioneering comics writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld authored the serialized science-fiction adventure story The Eternaut, now a seminal Argentine graphic novel. In 1969, Oesterheld rebooted his narrative as a dark warning for a mature readership; Alberto Breccia manifested the tonal shift with an expressionistic, disorienting art style. In The Eternaut 1969, a deadly "snow" falls. Juan Salvo's small household of family and friends are spared, protected inside his home-but what horror awaits them in the silent, deserted streets of Buenos Aires? Venturing out in search of supplies, our everyday heroes soon join the resistance against an enemy far more sinister than anything they could have imagined.
I RENE TARDI PRISONER OF WAR IN STALAG IIB HC #3
(W) Jacques Tardi (A) Jacques Tardi
In the final volume of this intergenerational memoir, a powerful tribute to a lost generation of WWII POWs, the author's father, French soldier Rene, comes home. After five agonizing years as a prisoner of war and five months on a grueling march homeward, Rene Tardi, the legendary cartoonist's father, is awarded fifteen days of military leave. Rene struggles to rebuild his health, reconnect with his family, and imagine his future. With limited job opportunities, Rene re-enlists as a soldier, despite his disgust. After the birth of his son, Jacques, Rene receives new orders: return to Germany and help rebuild the country that imprisoned him. The story takes an autobiographical turn as the focus shifts to Jacques' recreated childhood memories and an exploration of the traumatic effects of war that ripple through the generations.
LOVE & ROCKETS MAGAZINE #9
(W) Gilbert Hernandez (A) Gilbert Hernandez (CA) Gilbert Hernandez
Gilbert takes us back to Palomar! Luba's daughter Doralis adapts Pipo's angry memoir of growing up in Palomar as a screenplay, prompting questions about the truth. Meanwhile, on Jaime's side of the ledger: What do you do after you've bullied your favorite teacher's girlfriend? Heck if Tonta knows! Also, the deadly Hellmets continue their search of the elusive Princess Animus!
PARTY HC UNGERER
(W) Tomi Ungerer (A) Tomi Ungerer
Tomi Ungerer eviscerates the 1 percent in this series of cartoon vignettes (a proto-graphic novel) that are unfortunately as relevant now as the time they were drawn and shall remain so forever and ever. Created in the 1960s, The Party takes place in the Hamptons. It's attended by captains of industry, tycoons, magnates, moguls, and various undistinguishable fat cats, luxuriating in their tuxedos, evening gowns, and prattling small talk. The depiction of one grotesquerie after another - often couples - cavorting through the haze of booze and caviar, with the occasional wanton display of sybaritically libidinal impulse. Ungerer accompanies each full-page image with a hilarious, hand-lettered caption, which provides the characters' names and a brief deadpan description of their social standings, creating a dissonance between image and text.
POGO COMP SYNDICATED STRIPS HC #7
POCKETS FULL PIE
(W) Walt Kelly (A) Walt Kelly
This series represents the first time Pogo has been collected complete and in chronological order anywhere, presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper section, as well as gorgeous black-and-white reproductions of Kelly's elegant dailies. This volume includes a pig with an ominous resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev and a scruffy goat who looks exactly like Fidel Castro. Both assure Okefenokeeans that a one-party system is the way to go; all will be well economically, they explain, because "the shortage will be divided amongst the peasants." Other storylines spotlight Kelly's remarkable cast: Pogo Possum, Albert Alligator, Howland Owl, "Churchy" LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Porky Pine, Miz Ma'm'selle Hepzibah, Deacon Mushrat, and so many others. All 104 Sunday strips from those two years are included, with supplementary features (including comprehensive annotations and index) by comics historians R.C. Harvey, Maggie Thompson, and Mark Evanier.
PRINCE VALIANT HC BOX SET #3
VOL 07-09 1949-1954
(W) Hal Foster (A) Hal Foster
This box set collects the years 1949-1954 of the Arthurian legend-inspired newspaper comic strip. In Vols. 7-9 of the Arthurian newspaper comic strip, Prince Valiant and Aleta battle black magic; Arn is christened; Nimue bewitches Merlin; and more.