Fantagraphics
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HONORIA HC A FORTUITOUS FRIENDSHIP (MR)
When Ida is sent away for the summer to stay with the Murphys — friends of her father, but also of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald — she travels from New York to France and, unknowingly, into the artistic epicenter of 1929. There, she meets their haughty, sullen, and precocious daughter,... Read More →
For Mature Readers
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HOW I MAKE COMICS HC (MR)
How I Make Comics is not just about how Kim Deitch makes comics, but about how comics made him. The book pinwheels between real autobiography and imagined comics history, but it begins in 1952 with a true story of eight-year-old Kim Deitch appearing in the audience of the Howdy Doody... Read More →
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IDENTICAL HC (MR)
Identical is the story of two twin girls born in the not-so-distant future, where fertility treatments have begun to use new, AI “technology.” Their mother, desperate to have a baby, has sought out this new technology to get pregnant. After they are born, she slowly begins to suspect that one... Read More →
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IRIS HC A NOVEL FOR VIEWERS (MR)
The characters’ emotions drive the anti-capitalist, dystopian narrative in Iris: A Novel for Viewers, the earliest graphic novel produced in the Netherlands. A young woman, Iris, has her heart set on a singing career, and, despite her boyfriend Mark’s warnings, is seduced by the capitalist producer, “dream lover M.G.” He... Read More →
For Mature Readers
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KAMENS KALAMITY AND OTHER STORIES HC (MR)
Jack Kamen’s stories for The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear favored unnerving creepiness over gruesome shock. With his penchant for deft delineations of scheming women, jealous husbands, murderous love triangles, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen’s pen laid down a precise, sure line that brought... Read More →
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LIFE AND DEATH OF FRITZ CAT TP (MR)
Robert Crumb's first iconic character - and still possibly his most - was Fritz the Cat: the horny, high, hipster feline whose wild adventures and sexual escapades captivated countercultural audiences from the mid-’60s until 1972, when Ralph Bakshi turned the strips into an X-rated animated film that Crumb hated so... Read More →
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LOCAS THE MAGGIE AND HOPEY STORIES HC (MR)
Jaime Hernandez is one of the most humane, graceful, and imaginatively inexhaustible artists in American popular culture. Locas tells the story of Maggie Chascarrillo, a bisexual, Mexican-American woman attempting to define herself in a community rife with class, race, and gender issues. Maggie's story begins in the early-1980s Southern California... Read More →
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LOST MARVELS HC NO 01 TOWER OF SHADOWS (MR)
In 1969, with its revolutionary superhero line well established, Marvel took a chance on the kind of supernatural, EC-style anthology series that had been banned since the formation of the Comics Code in the 1950s. Tower of Shadows featured a staggering array of artists and writers, including Neal Adams, Jim... Read More →
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LOST MARVELS HC NO 02 HOWARD CHAYKIN VOL 01 (MR)
When Howard Chaykin broke into comics in the 1970s, there was nothing quite like him. His original characters Dominic Fortune and Monark Starstalker took classic pulp heroes and ran them through a postmodern blender. This new volume contains retro-science-fiction bounty hunter Monark Starstalker’s debut appearance and all Chaykin’s color-comic-book Dominic... Read More →
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LOST MARVELS HC NO 03 SAVAGE TALES OF THE 1980S (MR)
For 13 months in the mid-1980s, Marvel assembled some of its strongest artists and writers to tell gritty, harrowing, and blackly humorous adventure stories ranging from gangster noir to historical battlefields to the deadly old West to post-apocalyptic futures. Unseen for nearly 40 years, here is some of the most... Read More →
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LOST MARVELS HC NO 04 GIL KANE RARITIES VOL 01 JUNGLE BOO KA-ZAR GULLIVER & OTHER REDISCOVERED WORK FROM THE 1970S (MR)
The Lost Marvels series again delves into the misty margins of Marvel’s past to shine a light on extraordinary work that has never or rarely been collected for modern readers. This is the first volume of a compendium of some of the legendary Gil Kane’s finest storytelling. Freed from the... Read More →
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LOVE & ROCKETS #16 (MR)
This issue of Love and Rockets features none other than love, and rockets! On the Gilbert side of the ledger, Guadalupe and Steve romp through the snow, their mutual love in abundant evidence! In Jaime's multiverse, Princess Anima is in the fight of her life (again) as we careen toward... Read More →
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LOVE AND DESIRE IN THE PROMISED LAND HC THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS (MR)
Love and Desire in the Promised Land gives voice to a dozen real-life citizens of Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank who navigate messy boundaries in their homes and bedrooms against a background of geopolitical violence. Collecting interviews conducted before the October 7 attack unleashed a new wave of bloody... Read More →
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LOVE AND ROCKETS VOL I #1 FACSIMILE EDITION (MR)
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fantagraphics, we are proud to present a series of "replicant" editions of classic Fantagraphics comics from the company's storied history, beginning with the one that launched a thousand ships, the very first issue of Love and Rockets Vol. I from 1982! Introducing Maggie, Hopey, Luba and so... Read More →
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LOVE AND ROCKETS VOL IV #17 (MR)
The one true World's Greatest Comics Magazine returns! Fritz decides to move on and one by one she dumps the men in her life - aside from a secret lover whose identity remains unknown! Back in Hoppers, fun frolics as Ray hangs with his brother and new sister-in-law, while Maggie... Read More →
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LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING HC THE JAZZ PHOTOGRAPHY OF DON SCHLITTEN (MR)
Don Schlitten was working as a photographer and commercial artist in New York City when he co-founded Signal Records in 1955. When Signal was folded into Prestige Records shortly thereafter, Bob Weinstock, head of Prestige, enlisted Don to produce music, photograph musicians, and design album covers. His name graces the... Read More →
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LOVERS AND HATERS TP A LOVE AND ROCKETS BOOK (MR)
The first story collection in Gilbert Hernandez’s Palomar saga to take place after the events of 2010’s High Soft Lisp is torn from the pages of Love and Rockets: New Stories, Love and Rockets Vol. IV, and Psychodrama Illustrated-and expanded with 14 new pages! In Lovers and Haters, 50-year-old cult... Read More →
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MAGNIFICENT ADVENTURE TP (MR)
Young Giuseppe Bergman, thirsting for escape from the banal, soul-crushing boredom of his everyday life, answers a mysterious ad offering the adventure of a lifetime. But before he even gets a chance to understand what that means, he’s swept up in a headlong rush of outrageously convoluted danger and fast-paced... Read More →
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