Michael Kupperman has already indulged his love for Mark Twain in the pages of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, but the recent publication of Twain's (real) autobiography inspired the cartoonist to a full-blown book-length masterpiece of hilarity. See how Twain hunted the Yeti, met the Six Million Dollar Man, had a love affair with Mamie Eisenhower, and accidentally became involved in X-rated films, all augmented with Kupperman's hilariously deadpan comics and illustrations.

(W) Mark Twain (A/CA) Seymour Chwast Written in 1910 in his 70th year, Mark Twain, having lived through 14 wars waged just by his own country on others, declined to publish this poetic despairing reproof against patriotism. His regular illustrator Daniel Beard even urged Twain to issue the piece, to which the author replied, No, I have told the whole truth in that, and only dead men can tell the truth in this world. It can be published after I am dead.It took 13 years after his passing for that prophecy to be fulfilled ? and now, another 102 years later, the legendary illustrator and graphic designer Seymour Chwast (himself 92 years young) has fulfilled Beard?s dream of enriching the fable with illustration.Chwast brings every aspect of his skills to this interpretation: drawing, design, typography, type design, pastel painting and computer color all sit alongside each other with Twain?s text in pages that expand and pace the original. With another century and a quarter of warfare passed since its writing, Chwast?s artwork echoes advances in technology but Twain?s message about the

Mascots is a collection of vignettes and brief impressionistic scenes that concentrate on moments, characters, settings and ideas. Many of these vignettes are independent; a cast of characters who wander throughout the book intrude upon others. Despite seemingly disparate parts, themes recur over and over in Mascots, and when taken together as a whole form a world that is strange, sad, funny and familiar. Formally, the book is made up of small, brightly colored drawings and paintings done on found book covers. Mascots is driven by lettering and type, part art and part comics. Mascots are exaggerated, ridiculous representatives, giving form to the abstract. They don't give this form in a subtle way; they're surreal magnifications, explosions of the thing they represent. The recurring characters in Mascots are like this, but so are the vignettes themselves. Each scene pushes past normal, exaggerating in order to highlight. In the world of Mascots, failure is everywhere. There is failure to connect, failure to communicate and failure to find meaning, but despite that, there are moments

ATTENTION ALL MUTANTS! Your prayers have been answered! Come hither and witness the unholy union of professional sickos, Chris Kegel and Jim Blanchard!! Sit back and digest the obsessively detailed, psychedelically twisted, and elegantly repulsive comics that comprise the corpus known as MEAT WARP!

(W/A/CA) Simon Hanselmann The NYT Best-Selling comics series returns with depressed stoners Megg the Witch and Mogg the Cat in Amsterdam trying to repair their relationship: their friend Owl comes to rescue them. Megg the witch, Mogg the cat, their friend Owl, and Werewolf Jones struggle unsuccessfully with their depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of ambition, and their complex feelings about each other. It's a laff riot! Megg and Mogg decide to take a trip to Amsterdam for some quality couple time, although the trip gets off to a rocky start when they forget their antidepressants. They need Owl to come and help them save their relationship. But why does he have a suitcase full of glass dildos? And what will they do when they realize that the housesitting Werewolf Jones has turned their apartment into a 'f#@k zone'? Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam collects all of Simon Hanselmann's contributions to Vice.com, the Ignatz Award-nominated short story 'St. Owl's Bay,' and other surprises that will add additional color and background for fans of Megahex.

(W/A) Paco Roca Spain's answer to Seinfeld, these observational, relatable autobio vignettes by Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca poke fun at the vexing tribulations of modern life. At 40, cartoonist Paco Roca has finally achieved his childhood dream - to spend all day at home in his pajamas! However, his blissful, loungewear-clad reverie is beset with a host of mundane problems: He dreads small talk with 'the world's biggest bore,' but his excuses and white lies are finally catching up with him. When a good friend breaks up, taking either side could lead to social disaster. The simple mission to change his train ticket descends into an impossibly complicated, Kafka-esque affair. And worst of all, his partner keeps hanging the toilet paper roll the wrong way! In the vein of sitcoms like Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Roca's comic vignettes brilliantly satirize the pesky pitfalls of modern- day life. Like most of us, Roca's alter ego just wants to be liked and to do the right thing, but finds that through crippling indecision, cowardly behavior, and the absurd machinations of the univ

(W/A) Sergio Ponchione Poised between reality and fantasy, Memorabilia is acclaimed cartoonist Sergio Ponchione's wildly original homage to the legendary comic book creators who captured his imagination as a child. Weaving history, speculative fiction, and pure fantasy, Ponchione has crafted a visually stunning love letter befitting such towering comic book legends.

(W/A/CA) Tommi Parrish Tommi Parrish's sophomore graphic novel establishes them as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary literature. Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet. Sasha, a twentysomething yearning for direction in life, just moved back in with her parents and dabbles as a sex worker. The two strike up an unlikely friendship that, as it veers toward something more, becomes a deeply resonant exploration of how far people are willing to go to find intimacy in a society that is increasingly closed off. In Sasha and Eliza, Parrish has created two of the most fully realized characters in recent contemporary fiction. Parrish's gorgeously painted pages showcase a graceful understanding of body language and ear for dialogue, brilliantly using the medium of comics to depict the dissonance between the characters' interior and exterior experiences. Men I Trust is about not-always-healthy people attempting to make healthy connections in a disconnected world, and is one of the most moving and insightful works of literary fiction in any medium this year.

(W/A/CA) Bob Levin 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 Sim. For nearly four decades, Levin has been weaving strands of critical opinion, historical research, pop cultural analysis, journalism’s five Ws, biography, memoir, and the occasional tasty fiction into a never-before-seen-on-this-planet basket, which has made his writings on comics unique and indispensable. So if you want to learn what really happened to Ghastly Ingels, or The Someday Funnies, or the “Keep On Truckin’” copyright – if you dare to confront art that provoked criminal conviction and Senatorial investigation, and which led to a trashed art gallery, a vandalized museum – even a ban by the “Berkeley Barb” – this book is for you.

(W) Monte Schulz Metropolis, the sixth prose fiction novel by Monte Schulz, is a dystopian narrative of love in a time of war and moral disintegration. Regency College senior Julian Brehm's uneventful student life is derailed when he falls for Nina Rinaldi, a beautiful young revolutionary engaged in political activism against the authoritarian regime that rules the country and wages a deceitful, distracting war. Julian's love for - and moral alliance to - Nina eventually leads him into a vast undercity beneath the metropolis. Then, east by train and into the war zone itself, where mortal danger in that expanding cemetery of millions threatens Julian's life; what he witnesses will alter how he perceives the Republic and ultimately his fate within it. Julian's adventure can be seen as our own, a world of vacillating morality and unceasing violence. Apathy and passion. Fear and courage of purpose. Julian's is a hero's journey into the dark unknown. A love story, which extends in many directions. A war novel of incredible scope and horror. A suspenseful mystery novel with a moral puzzle

(W/A/CA) Wilfred Santiago A gripping, kinetic bio about the greatest basketball player of all time and most influential athlete in history, from the creator of the acclaimed and bestselling 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente. From Jordan's public successes to private struggles, Santiago's passion shines through on every full-color page. Everyone at a certain age wanted to be like Mike, and Santiago puts you on the parquet floor of Chicago's United Center in your very own pair of Air Jordans

(W) Andrea Freccero, Alessandro Perina (A) Stefano Turconi (CA) Andrea Freccero Ernest Hemingway: Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner, war hero, famed novelist, journalist, adventurer - and inspiration to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, and Goofy! The year: 1999. The place: Italy. Fan-favorite Venetian Disney cartoonist Giorgio Cavazzano dared a creative team to take its cues from Ernest Hemingway for a striking, cinematic, and occasionally silly new series of Duckburg tales! In this original Disney collection, Hemingway's 'The Battler' and 'The Killers' inspire new Mickey and Peg Leg Pete parodies while our title adventure, with Mickey meeting 'Ernest' in person! From Donald's bid for knighthood as 'The Duck Who Would Be King' to Peg Leg Pete's invasion of a diner in 'Bad Boys' and Uncle Scrooge's shark-wrangling in 'The Older Man and the Sea,' these epics range from direct pastiches to shorts loosely based on 'Papa' Hemingway's work - each paired with its authors' 'liner notes,' telling the fascinating tale of how and why they were inspired. Genova-born Andrea Freccero wa

(W) Lewis Trondheim (A) Nicolas Keramidas Beloved French cartoonists Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas K?ramidas (Donald's Happiest Adventures) return for another epic saga sending Mickey and Donald on the Beagle Boys' globetrotting trail! When Peg Leg Pete and the Beagle Boys shrink and steal Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin, Mickey and Donald must track them down? across lost cities, ancient lands, under the sea, in the air, and?into space?!? In a hilarious satire that will entertain all ages, Mickey's Craziest Adventures introduces its epic tale as if it were a rare 1965 Disney classic, deemed too wild for publication and saved only in fragments - but in fact, modern comics masters Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas K?ramidas have created an exciting all-new album-length stand-alone Disney thriller, drawn in a kinetic indie-comics style and presented like a classic vintage work, hiding the fact that it's actually shamelessly spoofing Silver Age comics clich?s! Lewis Trondheim, one of the co-founders of the comics collective L'Association, lives and works in Montpellier, France. Nicolas K?ramidas st

(W) Francesco Artibani (A) Lorenzo Pastrovicchio, Claudio Sciarrone It's Disney's 100th anniversary - but what would Duckburg and Mouseton be like another 100 years from now? In an epic collection of all-new comics adventures, we're finding out! Life is like a cyber-hurricane! From giant robots to wild Martian rovers, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pegleg Pete, and the Phantom Blot face futuristic thrills and chills in all-new comics epics - classic tales with a twist inspired by vintage cartoons, but taken in an unexpected, hi-tech direction! In 'Lonesome Ghosts in the Machine,' 'Thru the Metaverse,' and six more feature-length adventures set on earth, outer space, and cyberspace, fan-favorite writer Francesco Artibani ('Scrooge's Last Adventure') fronts an international creative team taking our Disney adventurers where no Mouse has gone before? in a lush variety of author-driven art styles! Francesco Artibani, born in Rome, Italy, has long worked for The Walt Disney Company Italia, where he has scripted many comics adventures for Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Duck Avenger, and the bel

(W) Romano Scarpa, Paul Murry (A) Paul Murry For Mouse lovers, get the all-Mickey Disney Masters Gift Box Set #1, featuring our first two Mickey Mouse volumes (Mickey Mouse: The Delta Dimension and Mickey Mouse: The Case of the Vanishing Bandit).

(W/A/CA) Paul Murry In this collection of comics stories, Mickey and Goofy are trapped in cold and snow with a monster below! Adventure-seeking Mickey doesn't usually regret being Chief O'Hara's freelance detective - but all bets are off when the Chief pitchforks Mickey and Goofy into saving Cousin Frosty's winter resort from a monster! From snowballs to cliffside falls, deadly accidents have Sawtooth Mountain in an uproar ? and if a man-eating yeti isn't responsible, who is? And 'Sawtooth Mountain' is just the start! Mickey confronts mystical Hawaiian elves in 'Pineapple Poachers'? and is forced to reform the villainous Pegleg Pete in 'Mickey's Strange Mission!' A recreation of the stories' original Dell Comics color is icing on the cake.In the Disney Masters series, Fantagraphics unearths a treasure trove of hitherto untranslated work in the grand Walt Disney tradition, expanding the mythologies of fan favorites Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and bringing to American readers the work of the acclaimed foreign artists who popularized beloved Disney characters in their own countries. F

(W) Paul Murry & Various Disney's infamous inky bad guy was the first Mouseverse villain to get his own comic book; by popular demand, the whole Silver Age series is collected in one volume! The Phantom Blot - a power-crazed supervillain in a ghostly black cloak - is on the loose, and Mickey, Donald, and Uncle Scrooge must assemble to stop him! From terrifying time travel to usurping 'The Crown of Tasbah,' the Blot will stop at nothing to turn the world upside down! Classic Disney artist Paul Murry teamed with writers Del Connell and Bob Ogle to create seven comic book issues starring The Blot. In the process, they introduced Goofy's new secret identity: Super Goof! Will the Blot move too fast for all our heroes? With allies like Mad Madam Mim, the Beagle Boys, and 'The Mysterious Mr. X?' He just might!

(W/A/CA) Romano Scarpa, John Lustig From Minnie to Horace to Mortimer Mouse, Mickey?s friends and fiends are bewitched by Dr. Wrayspray and his amazing health tonic. But Mickey smells a rat ? and the trail leads to Wrayspray?s headquarters on Brigaboom, an amazing island that only appears once every five years? where Peg Leg Pete is cooking up a diabolical new racket! Next, it?s Donald in deep duck trouble when he?s forced to battle an army of AI-controlled evil toys in ?Remotely Impossible? ? and his own unhinged cousin in ?The Unsinkable Kildare Coot!? Finally, Goofy?s royal love interest returns in ?The Famed Jumping Frog of Queen Zenobia?? with a criminal plot hot on her tail!

(W/A/CA) Romano Scarpa, John Lustig From Minnie to Horace to Mortimer Mouse, Mickey?s friends and fiends are bewitched by Dr. Wrayspray and his amazing health tonic. But Mickey smells a rat ? and the trail leads to Wrayspray?s headquarters on Brigaboom, an amazing island that only appears once every five years? where Peg Leg Pete is cooking up a diabolical new racket! Next, it?s Donald in deep duck trouble when he?s forced to battle an army of AI-controlled evil toys in ?Remotely Impossible? ? and his own unhinged cousin in ?The Unsinkable Kildare Coot!? Finally, Goofy?s royal love interest returns in ?The Famed Jumping Frog of Queen Zenobia?? with a criminal plot hot on her tail!

(W) Francesco Artibani (A/CA) Corrado Mastantuono Who sank Steamboat Willie? Mickey and Peg Leg Pete declare a truce to solve an ancient mystery?but an older enemy hopes they go down with the ship! How did Peg Leg Pete become Mickey?s archenemy? Sail into the past aboard that infamous riverboat Steamboat Willie? and see how a standoff between Mickey, Pete, and jewel thief Jeb Fishbone sank the ship?and lost Mouseton?s biggest gem in the roaring rapids! Can Mickey and Pete raise Steamboat Willie today? Or will they destroy each other trying?The adventures continue as Donald and Gyro Gearloose battle their brassy new neighbor, one-duck disaster area Boomer Buff, in ?The Case of the Amazing Brain.? And then Mickey is back for round two?and maybe three? ?when a ?Mouse in the Mirror? turns real, and Mickey faces off with Ricky Rodent, an evil twin who?s also a better detective!

(W/A/CA) Shungiku Uchida In this raunchy, moving, funny manga for adults, high school student Minami's girlfriend, Chiyomi, shrinks down to six inches tall - and moves in with him! Originally appearing in the underground/alternative manga magazine Garo in the 1980s and adapted for television several times, the Japanese pop culture sensation Minami's Lover is the story of two high schoolers' romantic relationship when one of them shrinks down to six inches tall.

(W/A/CA) Matt Furie From Matt Furie (Boy's Club) comes Mindviscosity, a collection of paintings depicting monsters, weirdos, beasts, and anthropomorphs all done in Furie's meticulous style of representational surrealism. Produced in the wake of his experience as the creator of Pepe the frog (whose appropriation by neo-Nazi's can be seen in the new feature film, Feels Good Man), his unsettling menagerie of creatures seem content to withhold their true intent despite the paintings' inviting colors and friendly cartoon iconography.

Mome (m?m), n. Archaic, a fool; blockhead. The influence of Fantagraphics' flagship quarterly anthology of new comic art and storytelling continues to grow. Celebrating it's fifth anniversary in 2010, the series has published over 2,000 pages of comics in its half-decade of existence, becoming a staple for those eager to discover what's new in the world of literary comics. Mome showcases the best new talent of this decade's ascendant cartoon generation, alongside work from some of North America and Europe's most respected creators.

(W/A/CA) Daniel Clowes This long-awaited new graphic novel from Daniel Clowes (Ghost World and Patience) is a genre-bending thriller from one of the most assured storytellers of all time. Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story - actually, stories - of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics form that alludes to many of the genres that have defined the medium - war, romance, horror, crime, the supernatural, etc. - but in a mysterious, uncategorizable, and quintessentially Clowesian way that rewards multiple readings. Five years in the making, Monica marks the apex of creativity from one of the defining voices of the graphic novel boom over the past quarter-century. A new book from Clowes is always a huge event in comics and literary circles; Monica will be the biggest literary event of 2023. Dan

(W/A/CA) Kevin Fraser Mutch Mistreated for being mixed-race and forced into hard labor at a workhouse in West Hoboken, New Jersey, young Max and Molly are ordinary orphans — or so they think. That is, until a wise old man hears their last name: M’Chawi. Rattled by this realization, he sends them off on a journey that will uncover the secret behind their mystic lineage and give them purpose and power far from home — on the Moon! There, they encounter the Moon’s fantastic inhabitants: the Sky Pirates and their merciless Queen Melissa; the Groos, blue primates and genius mechanics — literal grease monkeys — and their robot protector, Moma Machina; and a kingdom of singing spiders giant enough to eat a man. Looks can be deceiving, and those who first appear frightening can turn out to be allies, and even friends. Take Prince Grakko, pampered heir-apparent to the Bat-People.The Moon is a land locked in constant battle. Races live in fear and ignorance of one another. To make matters worse, the siblings’ getaway isn’t as clean as they’d hoped, and the Earth Queen’s Grand Inquisitor is hot

(W/A/CA) Mort Gerberg Mort Gerberg broke into print with irreverent drawings in The Realist in the early '60s, whose social-justice-minded-and bitingly funny-cartoons have since appeared in all major magazines, including The New Yorker, Playboy, and the Saturday Evening Post. As a reporter, he's sketched historic scenes like the fiery Women's Marches of the '60s and the infamous '68 Democratic National Convention. Above all, Mort Gerberg is a keen political and social observer, whose curiosity, compassion, and razor-sharp wit has informed his work for over 50 years. Fantagraphics Underground is proud to present this handsome career retrospective of Gerberg's magazine cartoons, sketchbook drawings, and on-the-scene reportage sketches.

(W) Brian Walker (A/CA) Mort Walker “Old cartoonists never die. They just erase away…” This was one of Mort Walker’s favorite sayings, and until his final days, he lived by his motto, engaging millions of readers through his beloved comics. Walker had the longest tenure of any cartoonist on his original creation in the history of comics. He produced Beetle Bailey for 67 years, 3 months and 12 days – that’s 24,576 strips. He penciled his last week of daily strips on December 16, 2017. Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey: 75 Years of Smiles is a coffee table retrospective commemorating Mort Walker’s long and dedicated commitment to cartooning, spotlighting the anniversary of his most popular and beloved creation. In addition to the 75 Sunday pages reproduced from color syndicate proofs, 135 daily and Sunday strips scanned from original artwork, and close to 200 additional images, this beautifully designed volume, impeccably researched and written by his son Brian, also includes rare photographs, historic debut character appearances, syndicate promotional materials, posters, merchandise, person

In May 1989, Dwaine Tinsley stood at the summit of an unlikely career. As cartoon editor for Larry Flynt's notorious Hustler magazine, he had assembled a staff of pen-and-White-Out-wielding Lenny Bruces whose unprecendentedly offensive socio-sexual cartoons had spearheaded that publication's fight against the forces of censorship and repression that sought to overthrow the political and cultural gains of the 1960s. His primary personal contribution was 'Chester the Molester,' a hulking middle-aged man who craved pre-pubescent girls. And then Tinsley's teenaged daughter accused him of sexually violating her over the course of five years. Most Outrageous is the story of the trial of Flynt's most notorious protege. Bob Levin's writings have established him as the most thought-provoking chronicler of cartoonists today. While focusing upon the work and lives of the most off-beat creators in the field in order to champion the pursuit of individual vision, he has explored issues common to artists of every medium. Most Outrageous carries his search into new, unsettling ground.

(W/A/CA) Sole Otero Buenos Aires, 2001. When Vilma passes away, few friends and relatives care to attend her funeral. This conspicuous absence sparks the curiosity of her 19-year-old granddaughter, Rocio, who moves into the house her grandmother has left her. In this home haunted by memories, she delves into Vilma?s life and uncovers a family history shrouded in tragedy.Moving seamlessly between Italy at the beginning of the 20th century and Argentina at the beginning of the 21st century, Mothballs draws a poetic comparison between the lives of grandmother and granddaughter. Both women are strong-willed and ambitious, eager to forge their own way, but face pressure from family and society to conform to the paths set for them. At a crossroads in her own life, knowing well the isolation her grandmother felt, Rocio seeks to break free from the chain of history. Mothballs chronicles fraught family dynamics with rare nuance and sensitivity, sprinkling in moments of tenderness, vulnerability, and whimsy amidst the pain, a showcase of tour de force cartooning that marks Sole Otero as a maj

(W/A/CA) D W Mountebank is like nothing you've ever seen before: a systematized sketchbook that tracks the inner workings of an obsessive brain and a book that could only be described as 'psychedoolic.' Both meditative and hypnotic, D.W. invites you to get lost alongside anthropomorphic creatures crawling through grid paper labyrinths and in his own brand of whirling dervish mark-making.

(W/A/CA) Yirmi Pinkus Mr. Fibber's absurdist adventures will delight early readers and their parents! Enter the whimsical world of Mr. Fibber, where events unfold in the absurd, amusing logic of a dream. When Mr. Fibber accidently drops his coin in a jar of juice, he magically shrinks so he can dive down and retrieve it. On a walk one day, he stumbles upon a giant dog with a smokestack on its back, towing a train behind it-and hitches a ride. And just to make sure it stays sunny and warm during his vacation, he catches the sun in a net and packs it in his suitcase! These playful adventures, illustrated in a bouncy colored pencil style and bursting with imagination, will enchant young readers. Based on Lea Goldberg's classic rhyming stories from the 1940s, Mr. Fibber introduces this charming character to a new generation of young readers and their parents. This is an exceptional book of high-quality comics designed specifically for children four and up.

(W) Wojtek Wawszczyk (A) Antonia Llyod-Jones In this electrifying graphic novel debut, Polish animator and cartoonist Wojtek Wawszczyk uses magical realism to tell a moving tale of finding light in a life full of darkness. Mirroring the world we live in, the protagonist of this graphic novel comes from a broken home. However, in this case, the term is quite literal. Due to freak accidents at the steelworks where his parents work, his mom snapped in half, and his dad flattened like a pancake. As if that wasn't enough to deal with, one day, he suffers his own life-changing experience: mistakenly swallowing molten metal gives him the strange power to radiate heat and light - like a lightbulb. As he grows up, evolving from Bulb Boy to Mr. Lightbulb, he finds that his unique abilities can be a curse and a blessing; while they alienate him from others, they also allow him to shine. At once surrealist, comedic, heartbreaking, bitterly sarcastic, and deeply sincere, Mr. Lightbulb is an essential work of comics autobio. With bold, expressive ink strokes and brilliant use of visual metaphor,

(W) Sybille De La Croix, Amazing Ameziane (A) Amazing Ameziane, Sybille De La Croix (CA) Sybille De La Croix, Amazing Ameziane In this follow-up to their NYT bestselling graphic biography of Muhammad Ali, the acclaimed French writer and artist duo tell the story of Black activist, professor, and prison abolitionist Angela Davis. In Ms Davis, the acclaimed French cartooning duo tell the story of this seminal, revolutionary 1960s icon through an accessible graphic novel narrative. Born in 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, Angela Davis' family fought in the civil rights movement against racial segregation enforced by the Ku Klux Klan. In 1968, she joined the Black Communist Party and traveled to Cuba, a journey which left its mark on her forever. In 1971, Davis was put on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List because several Black prisoners whose causes she had championed used weapons she owned in a Marin County courtroom gunfight. She went to prison despite her protestations of innocence. The Black People in Defense of Angela Davis formed, and soon the entire world would know her story and ask fo

(W/A/CA) Carol Lay Muderburg (sic), a sleepy island town off the coast of Maine aims to maintain a quiet existence for their population of families, fishermen, craftspeople, and aging oddballs. But every so often, incursions from scheming outsiders require exgangster mayor Leo Scazzo (and his loving wife and children) to enact counterschemes in order to keep the peace for the other townsfolk... Collecting the complete run of short stories (serialized as Murderville in the 2010s) under one cover, Carol Lay?s vivacious cartooning keeps the light side of these dark comedies shining.

(W) Gipi This coming-of-age graphic memoir is a relentless and exhilarating journey to the depths of the human condition, rendered with precision and verve by one of the world's greatest living cartoonists. "You've always got to laugh at tragedy. That's why I laugh about my ailment. Ailments. About being a sexual spastic. About my perennial, cowardly, tantalizing desire to die. You can laugh about anything. Almost." Spoken by his self-depiction, these bitter words set the tone for Gipi's pitch-black humor in this unvarnished and uncompromising autobiographical tale. A young adult adrift in the world, Gipi's stand-in grapples with sexuality, insecurity, deception, depression, drug use, fading friendships, and the capricious cruelties of the world as he struggles to determine whether his life is worth living. Drawn in Gipi's signature elegantly scribbled ink style and punctuated by vivid watercolor splashes, My Badly Drawn Life weaves through the past and present, through narratives both real and imagined, to create an impressionistic account of his complex inner life. In this kale

(W) Robert Mailer Anderson (A/CA) Jon Sack 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 we?ve been, and who we are becoming ? and that lying beneath the fa?ade of teenage cynicism is the profound desire to be understood and loved.

(W/A/CA) Emil Ferris My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is a murder mystery, a family drama, a sweeping historical epic, and a psychological thriller about monsters, real and imagined. Set against the political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor. Rendered in a kaleidoscopically visual style, Emil Ferris' draftsmanship echoes the drawing of Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Robert Crumb. This is a revelatory work of striking originality and will undoubtedly be greeted as the debut graphic novel of the year.

(W/A/CA) Emil Ferris My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is a murder mystery, a family drama, a sweeping historical epic, and a psychological thriller about monsters, real and imagined. Set against the political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor. Rendered in a kaleidoscopically visual style, Emil Ferris' draftsmanship echoes the drawing of Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Robert Crumb. This is a revelatory work of striking originality and will undoubtedly be greeted as the debut graphic novel of the year.

(W/A/CA) Emil Ferris 2025 Whiting Award WINNER in FictionKirkus?Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far)New York Times Notable Books of 2024Chicago Public Library Favorite Books of 2024Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2024NPR Books We Love 2024Forbes Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2024The Guardian?Best Graphic Novels of 2024Library Journal Best Graphic Novels of 2024Taking the form of the fictional graphic diary of ten-year-old self-identifying monster Karen Reyes, and set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ?60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters has become a worldwide sensation since Book One announced Emil Ferris as one of fiction?s world-class storytellers in 2017 and 2024?s Book Two triumphantly concluded the epic graphic novel.Influenced by B-movie horror, classical painting, and pulp monster magazine iconography, Monsters tells the story of Karen as she tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor. While the interconnected stories of those around her unfold, Karen struggles with the recent death of

(W/A/CA) Jack Davis, Wallace Wood Jack Davis and Wallace Wood?s crazed cartooning in Mad changed the art form, and comedy itself, forever. But their gonzo parody work in Mad?s sister satire title, Panic, published at the same time, is less well-known. To invert that injustice, this volume of The Fantagraphics EC Artists? Library presents all their zany, pun-packed Panic lampoonery, especially their pomposity-puncturing movie parodies, including Davis?s ?My Gun Is the Jury!? ?Come Back, Little Street Car!?, ?A Star Is Corn? and Wood?s ?African Scream!?, ?Gone With The Widow,? and ?20,000 Leaks Under The Sea.? These visual volleys are verbalized by Al Feldstein (editor of Panic, later editor of Mad) and Jack Mendelsohn (prolific cartoonist and writer whose non-comics credits include TV?s Laugh-In and The Beatles? Yellow Submarine). But the laughs don?t languish. Also included is the never-before-reprinted ?V-Vampires,? a riotous romp written by the legendary Harvey Kurtzman and drawn by Wood that vanished after its initial appearance more than 70 years ago!