Recent Fantagraphics Releases and Upcoming Arrivals as of April 2009.
RECENT FANTAGRAPHICS RELEASES
Boody. The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers
By Boody Rogers; edited by Craig Yoe
144-page 7.5" x 10" full-color softcover • $19.99 USD
Presenting the first-ever collection of Golden Age comic-book visionary Boody Rogers's wacky, weird, wild and sexy yarns, culled from the pages of such forgotten classics as Babe, Darling of the Hills and Sparky Watts.
Castle Waiting Vol. II #14
by Linda Medley
24-page black & white comic book • $3.95 USD
The Castle is full of mysterious behavior in this intriguing issue! Tolly's housewarming gift to Jain has an ulterior motive, Henry's having a strange private moment, Pin gets a lesson from a cat, and Dr. Fell is still oddly chipper.
Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury
by Tony Millionaire
272-page 12" x 5" black & white hardcover • $29.99 USD
A sumptuously designed hardcover collecting the second five years of the world's most riotous comic strip, featuring the high-seas hi-jinx of the booze-soaked corvid and simian stars of TV's The Drinky Crow Show.
Ho! The Morally Questionable Cartoons of Ivan Brunetti
by Ivan Brunetti
112-page 6" x 6" black & white hardcover • $19.99 USD
The vast majority of Brunetti's morally questionable, aesthetically confused — and absolutely gut-busting — “gag” cartoons, discreetly presented in an uninviting, funereal package of unglamorous black and white.
Humbug: Limited Signed Edition
By Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Will Elder & Arnold Roth
400-page 8" x 10" duotone 2-volume hardcover set in slipcase with limited-edition signed plate • $100.00 USD
At last, the entire 11-issue run of Humbug, reprinted in a deluxe format, much of it reproduced from the original art. With a limited bookplate signed by Jack Davis, Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth.
A Mess of Everything
by Miss Lasko-Gross
232-page 6" x 9" full-color softcover • $19.99 USD
The second volume in this semi-autobiographical trilogy finds self-effacing non-conformist Melissa now in high school facing a drug habit, alienation, accidental heartbreak and other issues in an intense, honest, and funny memoir.
Mother, Come Home
by Paul Hornschemeier
128-page 7" x 9.5" full-color hardcover • $22.99 USD
With clean, distinctive art and poignant storytelling, this is a quietly stunning tale of a father and son struggling, by varying degrees of escapism and fantasy, to come to terms with the death of the boy's mother.
Supermen!
By various artists; edited by Greg Sadowski
192-page 7.5" x 10.5" full-color softcover • $24.99 USD
An indispensable collection of comic book heroes from the best and the brightest of the first generation, including Jack Cole, Will Eisner, Bill Everett, Lou Fine, Fletcher Hanks, Jack Kirby, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and Basil Wolverton.
UPCOMING ARRIVALS COMING SOON
Blazing Combat
By Archie Goodwin & Various Artists
208-page 8" x 10" black & white hardcover • $22.99 USD
The legendary anti-war comic is collected for the first time in its entirety in this hardcover volume. Tales from the Revolution through Vietnam, drawn by luminaries like Frazetta, Wood, Severin, Toth and many more.
Tales Designed to Thrizzle #5
By Michael Kupperman
32-page two-color comic book • $4.50 USD
Learn Catare, the secret art of using an enraged feline for self-defense! Plus aliens give an innocent man sexy woman's legs, and Twain and Einstein have many, many adventures. The hit series marches on!
The Comics Journal #297
Edited by Mike Dean & Kristy Valenti; Gary Groth, executive editor
208-page 7.5" x 9.5" b&w/color softcover • $11.99 USD
Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois creator Mort Walker; French artist Emmanuel Guibert on Alan's War; a gallery of art by pioneering caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson; a biographical essay by Masses cartoonist Art Young; and more!
The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 4: "Mr. Sixties!"
By Robert Crumb
144-page 8.5" x 11" b&w/color softcover • $19.99 USD
This heretofore long out of print volume includes Zap #0 & #1 ("Keep On Truckin'!"), Crumb's work from Yarrowstalks, plus much rare art, some of Crumb's long-lost American Greetings cards from the '60s, and more. Introduction by Crumb!
600-page 7" x 10.25" black & white hardcover • $39.99 USD
The imposing Luba (along with her ever-expanding family) takes center stage in this omnibus hardcover collection — over 100 stories chronicling Luba's life as an immigrant in turn-of-the-millennium Southern California.
Connective Tissue
by Bob Fingerman
134-page 7.25" x 8.25" duotone hardcover • $22.99 USD
Video store clerk Darla Vogel takes a plunge down the rabbit hole into a surreal world of throbbing, veinous buildings, compulsory public nudity, weird creatures, and more in this boldly bizarre illustrated prose novel.
