Depicting the bustling crowds of humanity from magisterial heights was once a popular visual genre among artists and the public, regularly appearing in mass-market newspapers and magazines: carnivals
Our boy Buz battles a sinister saboteur on the icy slopes of the Alps in the latest collection of legendary newspaper cartoonist Roy Crane’s flyboy strip.
Derek Van Gieson’s Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter is part fine-art book, part travelogue documenting the author’s turbulent and fruitful period of time spent in New York City. Through drawi
Pluck, an irritable and featherless rooster, and his best pal, the awkward-but-lovable teddy bear known as Fuzz, met long ago in a garbage truck. A tenuous—if decidedly co-dependent—friendship followe
In a plague-ravaged medieval city, survival is a harsher fate than death. As corpses accumulate around her, Agnes, a young widow possessed of supernatural strength, must weigh her obligations to the d
Using Gyro Gearloose's super solvent, Scrooge “digs” a tunnel straight to the Earth’s core... and risks destroying the world in the sixth complete, chronological book of Duck adventures by Don Rosa! S
Astronauts Mickey and Eega Beeva find “Be-Junior,” a planet beyond the moon! Back on Earth, modern relatives of Cinderella’s Gus and Jaq need Mickey’s help in “Mousepotamia”... and Pegleg Pete has bec
In this surreal graphic novel, Vice President Joe Biden left the gate open at the White House and America’s Dog (Bo) has gone missing. Mom is mad and Dad is busy, so now it’s up to the kids to find hi
This is a graphic novel about a noise rock band, based in an alternate reality version of Chicago, and their community of friends and acquaintances. Though beset with disaster at every turn—and freque
This graphic novel is an ode to the defining element of fandom. It celebrates both the culture’s theatricality and D.I.Y. beauty—as well as its often-awkward conflation of fantasy with reality—in seve
Fantagraphics is releasing the gift box set of Books 3 and 4 in time for the holidays. Piskor’s crash-course comic, Understanding Hip Hop and Comics — which documents how the two have intersected over
Fantagraphics Books is proud to present the first volume (of two) of Moto Hagio’s Otherworld Barbara, in which Tokio discovers a phantom island named Barbara. Then there’s a mysterious and missing gen
Tony Millionaire’s Maakies is one of the longest-running and most decorated weekly comic strips in America. Drinky Crow Drinks Again collects more than 200 Maakies strips from the past half-decade for
In Joe Daly's most ambitious stand-alone graphic novel, Palmer — wallflower, mystic seeker and paper mill worker — moves into a new apartment with his outwardly self-assured and womanizing friend. Eve
Scrooge McDuck strikes Klondike gold, halts an invasion of Fort Duckburg, teams up with the Junior Woodchucks to hunt down the legendary Library of Alexandria and more, in a latest complete, chronolog
In the thirteenth volume of Hal Foster’s award-winning, New York Times best-selling, legendary masterpiece, Val's son Arn is kidnapped and daringly rescued. When Val returns home, he greeted by the ne
Cartoonist Matt Furie’s deadpan comics showcase slacker roommates Andy, Brett, Landwolf, and Pepe in a series of comical vignettes combining laconic psychedelia, childlike enchantment, drug-fueled hed
Jessica Farm fuses serialized adventure, fantasy and psychological horror and stamps it with Josh Simmon’s signature macabre sensibility. In Book 2, our heroes come upon the Groovy Room, where the atm
Inspired by magazines like Mad and traditional superhero comics, Real Deal magazine was a self-published,independent comic book created in the 1990s by Lawrence Hubbard (a.k.a “RawDog”) and H.P. McElw
Jessica Farm fuses serialized adventure, fantasy and psychological horror and stamps it with Josh Simmon’s signature macabre sensibility. Like a Lynchian take on Alice in Wonderland,Jessica Farm opens
Spanish cartoonist Joan Cornella’s viciously funny Mox Nox single-page strips are wordless, full-color, hand-painted marvels of the form. That his visually inviting artwork is in the service of Cornel
This omnibus collection of Thomas Ott’s short shock-ending horror stories—imagine E.C. Comics done with no words, and executed in an impossiblylush black-and-white scratchboard style—collects material
With The Great Depression Looming and about to define America's next decade, three strong-minded women related by marriage form an uneasy household in the summer of 1929. Forced by her husband Harry t
Drawing on exclusive interviews conducted with the artist shortly before hispassing in 2000, National Book Award-nominee Alexander Theroux combinesartistic analysis, personal reminiscence (the two we
Tim Kreider’s first cartoon collection, The Pain—When Will It End? was oneof the few bastions of sanity throughout the awful aberration in American historyknown as the Bush Administration
Created in 1984 as a supporting character for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo is a perennial favorite amongst children, especially boys, and adult fans. Usagi Yojimbo chr
With its long-awaited second volume, Linda Medley’s witty and sublimelydrawn fantasy eases into a relaxed comedy of manners as Lady Jain settles intoher new life in Castle Waiting.Unexpected vi
In Nate Neal’s first full length graphic novel, the author explores the primalmysteries and sordid inner workings of a Paleolithic cave-dwelling tribe, creatingan original “silent”
In 1939, brand-new Marvel's first ever comic book featured an anti-hero named the Sub-Mariner, created by legendary artist Bill Everett. (The angry half-man, half sea-creature Sub-Mariner property ha
With Too Soon? Friedman finally (none "too soon," in fact) gets his due with this fat, beautiful collection that showcases his wide-ranging skills as a portraitist and caricaturist.Too Soon? is evenl
Originally created in 1997 and 1998 for the underground anthology Zero Zero, The Search for Smilin' Ed! is the latest of Kim Deitch's graphic novels to showcase his obsessive burrowing into the nooks
Do ideas of war and enemies hold a people together? Is a culture of conflict too seductive not to be irresistible? These are the questions Cathy Malkasian explores in her second graphic novel, Temper
Whether you choose to call them "comics lit," "graphic novels," or just "thick comic books," book-length narratives told in words and pictures confidently elbowed their way into the cultural spotligh
When Fantagraphics launched its collection of Krazy Kat Sunday strips back in 2002, we picked up with the 10th and 11th years of the legendary strip (1925-1926) because another publisher had already
Set in a suburb that is both nowhere and everywhere, King of the Flies is a glorious bastard, combining the intricacy and subtlety of the best European graphic novels with a hyperdetailed, controlled
Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read, and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the second half of the 20th century, and all of the 21st. His work has be
A drug dealer, a rock 'n' roll loser, an uber-stacked vixen, and awily grifter: these greedy low-lifes are chasing the hard luck charm!Beto's follow-up to Chance in Hell is a lurid, hard-boiled, pulp
Fifty-one, to be exact, but let's not quibble. Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read, and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the second half of the 20t
Out of print for over a decade, The Prince Valiant Companion has become a Holy Grail for collectors of the series. Now, in anticipation of the seventy-fifth anniversary of comics' longest-running adv
