Fantagraphics Underground
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MESSIAHS MESHUGGANAHS MISANTHROPES AND MYSTERIES TP (MR)
In Messiahs, Meshugganahs, Misanthropes & Mysteries, Bob Levin, with his characteristic open-mindedness and intellectual curiosity, enters into and investigates the artistic sensibilities of cartoonists as disparate as Vaughn Bode, R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Trina Robbins, Johnny Craig, Guy Colwell, Edward Gorey, Harvey Kurtzman, Frank Frazetta, Art Spiegelman, Alex Toth, and Dave... Read More →
For Mature Readers
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MY FAIRY GODFATHER TP (MR)
Set in Liberal, Kansas, a teenager moves in with her gay, film geek Godfather and his partner who run the Starlite movie theater, a safe haven for their eccentricities and artistic yearnings. My Fairy Godfather tells a story about how music and film connect us to who we’ve loved, who... Read More →
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MY YEAR IN VIETNAM TP
Plucked from his workaday youth as an Irish-American kid from Brooklyn, Ryan’s military deployment to Vietnam begins in 1966 with shiftless excursions into women, booze, and reefer. As he wades ever deeper north, his cavorting is replaced by an unceasing violence. The amorality of war, and specifically this war, is... Read More →
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OUR LITTLE WILD TIME TP (MR)
A dark corner of a rail car, on the underside of a motel mattress, find the spot where the depraved and the absurd bump lyrical uglies. In this collection of short stories, portraits, and graphic biography and commentary, Fred Noland embarks on a tour through the unreal, hilarious, and often... Read More →
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OUTSIDER TP (MR)
A family pushes through nearly impenetrable physical and psychic terrain in a metaphorical parable of life in the 21st century. A family treks with purpose and tenacity through a dense
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PAGEANT TP (MR)
Ponce Melee is a lonely clock-puncher working for Twin Labs in the cloning dept. When he uses a strand of hair to clone a companion; it’s successful, but she immediately leaves him for greener pastures. So, he clones another potential companion. And that one leaves. And again. And again. Soon,... Read More →
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PEAR SHAPE TP (MR)
A good old fashioned underground comic for our current times: a heady bouillabaisse of humor, philosophy, profanity, absurdism, and existentialism. From the pen of multi-talented indie musician (Islands, Unicorns) and cartoonist (Penguins) Nick Thorburn comes this perfect object of the comic book form. A 64-page color one-shot menagerie of interconnected... Read More →
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POCKET FULL OF RAIN AND OTHER STORIES EXPANDED EDITION HC (MR)
Leading off with the eponymous novella-length thriller, “A Pocketful of rain” is drawn with realistic human beings instead of Jason’s trademark blank-faced animal characters—a true revelation for longtime fans. This collection showcases three distinct styles: the artist’s earliest "realistic" drawing style (used to unsettling effect in some particularly creepy stories),... Read More →
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QUEEN OF COSMOS COMIX TRILOGY HC (MR)
Barbara “Willy” Mendes’ masterpiece of hallucinogenic storytelling, Queen of Cosmos Comix Trilogy, collected for the first time in a single volume. In Queen of Cosmos Comix Trilogy, underground cartoonist, fine artist, and muralist Barbara “Willy” Mendes chronicles women creators’ psychedelic journey through Biblical tableaux, modern life, and into a fantastical,... Read More →
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READY AMERICA TP (MR)
Dogs in colorful sweatshirts, the glowing signs of a Vietnamese restaurant, solitary palm trees above the pavement: Ready America takes us on a ride through a both strangely familiar and quite alien Los Angeles. Packaging inscriptions, neon signs, and billboards fuse into an appealing typographic montage while familiar American icons... Read More →
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REVOLUTIONARIES TP VOL 04 SPAIN (MR)
In Revolutionaries, Spain illustrates the lives of some of great historical figures who fought for revolution and independence, including Nestor Makhno, Bernardo Galvez, plus contemporary heroes and villains in the fight for democracy. He also recounts his role in the sexual revolution of the 1960s with autobiographical strips from the... Read More →
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ROY KUHLMAN RELUCTANT MODERNIST TP
The legacy of Grove Press is well known within literary circles - how Barney Rosset bought a fledgling but failing publishing company in the early 1950s and changed the world of letters in America, and perhaps the very culture as well; Grove Press brought to national prominence the writers, art,... Read More →
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SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD HC
Sailing Alone Around the World is cartoonist Jon Buller’s adaptation of Joshua Slocum’s eponymous memoir. In April of 1895, Captain Slocum took off from Boston aboard a 36 foot wooden sloop that he renovated himself and proceeded to sail around the world - a three-year voyage of more than 46,000... Read More →
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SECRETS OF A LOST DIARY TP (MR)
When her dementiastricken grandmother Babi dies, 15yearold Lucy —sensitive and sentimental, with a punky haircut and ears full of piercings— is left reeling and unmoored. That is, until a secret diary locked away in a hidden compartment drops out from Babi’s desk. What follows is a living epistolary, reflecting grandmother... Read More →
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SHELL COLLECTION TP (MR)
In 2016, Regé began this monthly, subscription only series in an effort to return to his 1990s self-publishing roots, with 100 copies or so published from month to month. This is the first time any of this work has been collected, with newly added color:Shell Collection brilliantly showcases Regé's poetic... Read More →
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SINCEREST FORM OF PARODY TP THE BEST 1950S MAD INPIRED SATIRICAL COMICS (MR)
When Mad became a surprise hit as a comic book in 1953 (after the early issues lost money) other comics publishers were quick to jump onto the bandwagon, eventually bringing out a dozen imitations with titles like FLIP, WHACK, NUTS, CRAZY, WILD, RIOT, EH, UNSANE, BUGHOUSE, and GET LOST. The Sincerest Form of Parody collects... Read More →
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STAN MACKS REAL LIFE FUNNIES HC (MR)
Sketchbook in hand, Stan Mack haunted the New York City environs, watching, listening, overhearing, and interviewing its inhabitants. He drew a comic strip every week based on what he saw and heard, famously using verbatim dialogue for his graphic dramatizations. A mixture of humor, spontaneity, serendipity, and weirdness, Mack’s comic... Read More →
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