(W/A/CA) John Kenn Mortensen Gruesome, spindly figures gather outside a house, then spirit away a dreaming youth, bed and all. The stage is set for 32 skin-crawling poems imagining various children?s nightmares, all with sequential illustrations by Danish horror master Mortensen.His eerie visions fade to black at the edges, like a dreamer unable to shift their focus, and inspire delicious terror all by themselves. Similarly, the short poems each evoke a distinct sense of dread for the sleeping imagination to expand upon; together, the words and pictures conjure a nightmarish world tinged with pitch black humor. The sequences splay across double-page spreads, evoking Edward Gorey gone grand scale, and grand guignol.For those of a nervous disposition, read in bright sunlight. For those in search of a nervous disposition, take two before bed.

Johnny Appleseed spread the seeds of apple trees from Pennsylvania to Indiana, along with notions of nonviolence, vegetarianism, good relations with the indigenous peoples, and peace among the settlers. The story runs counter to the prevailing glorification of violent conquest depicting how the West was won. Johnny Appleseed brings this quintessentially American story to life through the deft skills of biographer Paul Buhle (Radical America, The Beats) and award-winning graphic novelist Noah Van Sciver

(W/A/CA) Jason Novak With a stylistic nod to the wordless novels of Frans Maserell and the expressionist drawings of Franz Kafka himself, Kafka?s Manuscript begins at Kafka?s deathbed, where he entrusts his friend Max Brod with the task of destroying his unpublished papers. Brod refuses, and what follows is the story of how Kafka?s literary legacy escaped Europe under the shadow of fascism. It is a survey of Kafka?s paranoia in kinetoscopic monochrome, exploring in a new way what countless books about Kafka have previously attempted to explore with words. What better way to capture Kafka?s enduring but evasive voice than with pantomime?

(W) Eddie Campbell (A/CA) Kate Carew Kate Carew was America?s first?great woman cartoonist, drawing for newspapers in the first?two decades of the 20th century. She drew Sunday color comics?and also interviewed and sketched many of the celebrities?of her time including the Wright brothers, Pablo Picasso,?champion heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson and the leading?figures of the suffragette movement in the years before women?won the right to vote. Her most endearing achievement?was her cartoon alter ego ?Aunt Kate,? whom she sketched?into the proceedings, turning graphic reportage into her personal?adventure from San Francisco and New York to London?and Paris.

(W/A/CA) Jesse Reklaw Cartoonist Jesse Reklaw's other books (LOVF, Couch Tag) have dug deep into the themes of childhood trauma and mental illness. This new collection of diary comic strips takes the concept of 'art as therapy' even further, as Reklaw uses the comics form to help maintain stability in his everyday life.

(W) Jordan Crane 20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan Crane. A young couple is stuck in traffic, reading a book aloud to each other to pass the time. The relationship is already strained, but between the encroaching road rage, and a novel that hits way too close to home, tensions are running especially high by the time they arrive back at their apartment. When one of them leaves to get takeout and a movie, each of the young lovers is individually forced to confront loss, grief, fear, and insecurities in unexpected and shocking ways. Crane's formal use of the comics medium - threading several timelines and the interior and exterior lives of its protagonists together to create an increasing, almost Hitchcockian sense of dread and paranoia - is masterful. But as the title hints, there are dualities at its core that make it one of the most exciting works of graphic literary fiction in recent memory, a brilliant adult drama that showcases a deep empathy and compassion for its characters as well as a visually arresting showc

Scandinavia has become a hotbed of cartooning activity, from the internationally acclaimed Jason (Norway) to Sweden's Martin Kellerman and Denmark's Eisner-nominated Nikoline Werdelin. This anthology of comics, many of them created for this book, offers an intoxicating and compelling sampling of current works from a new generation of Scandinavian alternative cartoonists.

(W/A/CA) Charles Burns Master cartoonist Charles Burns has never hidden his passion for comic books and pop culture from the 1950 and 1960s. Inspired by the romance, horror, and sci-fi comics of his youth, as well as the 1960s American underground, the author of Black Hole has created a collection of 80 original comic book covers that, through his own inimitable aesthetic, present an alternate universe of stories that never were, but that you will wish existed.The covers ? some with otherworldly titles in alien letterforms, and others that riff on classic genres (Throbbing Hearts, Unwholesome Love) and eras (Drug Buddy, Huss) ? each inspire a multitude of interpretations, build entire worlds, and suggest entire narratives that lie within their non-existent guts. This is Burns at his most playful, imaginative, and suggestive, using the format of the comic book to continue to explore many of the themes that run through all his longer-form work ? adolescence, metamorphosis, nightmares, and sexuality ? and provide a pretext for the creation of some of the most mysterious and bewitching

Kramers Ergot gathers the work of many of the best and brightest contemporary short form cartoonists in one giant oversized collection. Kramers Ergot 9 will feature the work of Michael Deforge, Noel Freibert, Steve Weissman, Anya Davidson, Stefan Marx, Abraham Diaz, Leon Sadler, Julia Gfr?rer, Adam Buttrick, Kim Deitch, Ben Jones, Andy Burkholder, Antony Huchette, Trevor Alixopulos, Antoine Coss?, Archer Prewitt, Kevin Huizenga, Renee French, along with many other greats to be announced.

(W/A/CA) Robert Goodin In the spirit of Tintin or Uncle Scrooge, The Kurdles is an all-ages comic spiced up with a teaspoon of strange. A teddy bear, desperate to find her way home, stumbles upon Kurdleton, home to a most peculiar group in the midst of a crisis: their forest house has grown hair, eyes, and a mouth! Robert Goodin's debut graphic novel is a timeless classic. Printed in an oversized format showcasing Goodin's stunning, hand-painted artwork, The Kurdles will captivate both parents and children.

(W/A/CA) Santiago Garc?a, Javier Olivares Two of Spain's most sophisticated comics creators examine the legacy of one the most enigmatic works in the history of art: Diego Vel?zquez's Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-Waiting). Olivares's art moves from style to style as The Ladies-in-Waiting uses fiction to explore the ties between artists and patrons, institutions and audiences and creators and creativity. Their combined efforts have made the book a commercial and critical sensation in Spain, garnering international comics prizes along with the equivalent of the National Book Award in Spain.

(W) Gipi (CA) Gipi Land of the Sons is Gipi's most artistically accomplished work to date, juxtaposing the stark savagery of the post-apocalyptic narrative with the Italian master's dense and expressive line work. While similar tonally, Sons, unlike Lord of the Flies, lays the groundwork for humanity overcoming sheer brutality and personal desires, while commenting on the fragile state of masculinity and human nature itself.

(W/A/CA) Trina Robbins Trina Robbins' Last Girl Standing chronicles a life of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and comics. From her New York childhood in the 1940s to visiting the EC offices and posing for men's magazines in the 1950s, interacting with rock royalty and entering the orbit of underground cartoonists in the 1960's before moving to San Francisco, co-founding Wimmen's Comix and ultimately transforming into a comics historian and lecturer in the '90s and 2000s, Trina Robbins broke the rules and takes no prisoners in this heavily illustrated memoir.

Monte Schulz, son of celebrated Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz, examines the surprising truths of three strong-willed women in the summer of 1929. Schulz delicately charts the tender rhythms of a small East Texas town as its inhabitants grapple with identity as related to gender, race and family. With respect, this generous novel tunes our emotions to the collective and poetic web of experience, shattering the varnish of everyday fiction into a constellation of real life.

The Last Vispo Anthology gathers the work of visual poets from around the world into one stunning volume where the alphabet is turned insideout and results in a compilation of daring and surprising verbo-visual gems. Features 148 contributors and includes 12 essays that illuminate the history and the state of vispo today.

(W) Marguerite Van Cook, James Romberger Created by the team responsible for the acclaimed 7 Miles A Second, legendary poet Marguerite Van Cook and artist James Romberger (Post York) present a generational autobiography of Hetty and her daughter Marguerite. Set against the backdrop of post WWII Britain and France and linked in five episodes that veer between lyricism, wry wit, and harrowing suspense, it tells of the journeys and struggles over decades of this mother and daughter.

(W/A/CA) Daishu Ma In this wordless, all-ages graphic novel, a man discovers a leaf that radiates a vibrant light, thus beginning a quest. Unfolding at a dream-like pace and drawn in a delicate style reminiscent of Shaun Tan's The Arrival and Chris Van Allsburg's Jumanji, Leaf is ultimately a hopeful vision of the coexistence of the urban and natural worlds.

(W) Joris Chamberlain (A) Fabrizio Petrossi Return to Uncle Scrooge's epic past in this all-new stand-alone Disney graphic novel full of thrills and chills in the long-ago coal mines of Scotland! Decades before becoming Donald Duck's tough tycoon uncle, Scrooge McDuck lived a childhood of struggle-and adventure! An all-new saga set in the world of Don Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck series, 'The Dragon of Glasgow' forges a new trail with thrills and chills rendered in a modern, animation-inspired style.

(W) Natan Alterman (A/CA) Batia Kolton When the father of a large family makes a beautiful winter coat, little does he know how much use it will get. Little Gedalia wears the coat all year, but when it gets too tight for him, it's given to his sister. Thus begins the journey of the coat, as it's passed down from child to child, falling apart bit by bit during their play until it's in tatters. Based on a beloved Yiddish poem, The Life of a Coat is a charming portrait of a loving family that will delight young readers and their parents.

(W) Hector German Oesterheld (A) Alberto Breccia, Enrique Breccia Published in 1969, this Argentine graphic biography about Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was an instant bestseller, banned by a military dictatorship, and almost lost - and it has never been available in English. Until now. Life of Che is one of the most anticipated entries in Fantagraphics' The Alberto Breccia Library. Originally released as part of a graphic biography series in January 1969, it came out in Argentina only a year after Ernesto 'Che' Guevara had died and reached an audience beyond comics readers. In the 1970s, the military government raided its publisher, destroying the means to reprint the book. It was a lost comic until a publisher in Spain restored it in 1987 - and never translated into English. Until now. The book begins in Bolivia in 1967, then flashes back through Che's life - his childhood, his radicalizing motorcycle trip with Alberto Granado, his taking up of arms in Guatemala, his meeting with Fidel Castro, and his subsequent military and political maneuvers, ending in a fade-out to his death. Alberto

(W) Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria (A/CA) Warren Pleece ?I?m psyched. I?m totally psyched. I?m not a loser? Who the hell am I kidding??Life sucks for Dave Miller ? he?s broke, girlfriendless, and stuck in a dead-end job. Really dead-end: Dave is the night manager at the Last Stop, LA?s finest vampire-owned and operated, all-night convenience store. Facing an eternity of turning hot dogs and restocking blood broth for his crappy boss and Vampire Master, the future looks about as appealing as the sunrise. It?s bad enough that Dave is clinging to his days as a vegetarian and refusing to feed off humans, leaving him weak as a kitten. But when he finds himself competing with psychotic surfer-vamp Wes for the affections of Rosa, a beautiful mortal flirting with the dark side, unlife gets about as sucky as it possibly can.Originally published in 2008, Fantagraphics is proud to bring this YA classic back into print with a new edition. Veteran comics creators Jessica Abel (Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars), Gabe Soria (Batman ?66), and Warren Pleece (Incognegro) have crafted a timeless goth love tr

(W/A/CA) Graham Chaffee Fresh out of prison for an arson conviction, clueless 20-year old Billy Bonney finds himself drifting through the seedy and unsavory world of cut-rate moviemaking, even more out of place amongst his peers than he felt as a teen six years earlier when he got busted. Following his brother to the sets of grade B and exploitation 1970s Hollywood seems like a path of least resistance, until he accidentally lands a job as a handler to a has-been actor. But the bright lights burn harsher and show more than he anticipated as he steps lucklessly into a gangster-driven plot to burn down a studio for the insurance money, and finds himself in over his head. Drunken, washed-up stars. Scrambling, past-their-own-prime producers. Teenage girls on the make, slick hustlers, and violent fixers. Drawn in bold brushstrokes, and hand-painted in subtle washes, Chaffee brings vintage LA to the page in a propulsive adventure.

One man's heartfelt and irreverent record of his time on this rock, Zak Sally's unflinchingly veracious book, LIKE A DOG, is both direct and oblique, which we find rather miraculous considering the messy and murky waters of human experience it manages to navigate. LIKE A DOG is among the few comic book testimonials burdened by the yen to understand and articulate the mundane and the magnificent. Don't be surprised if you find yourself laughing and crying as you claw your way through each hard fought page!

(W/A/CA) Daniel Clowes An accidental viewing of a snuff film plunges Clay Loudermilk into a mystery involving cult-inspired killings. His subsequent path is both a terrifying journey into madness and a jaw-dropping tour-de-force of visual imagination. In the wake of 2016's smash hit Patience, Fantagraphics is proud to release this new edition featuring a wrap-around painted cover by the artist!

(W/A/CA) Marcello Quintanilha A gripping story about a family pushed to the brink. This English language debut was the 2022 'Fauve d'Or' winner at the 2022 Angoul?me Comics Festival. M?rcia is a nurse in a hospital near Rio and lives in a favela with her boyfriend, Aluisio, and her daughter, Jaqueline, whom she had very young with another man. Jaqueline, a troubled young adult, makes life difficult for her mother and Aluisio and rebelliously hangs out with members of a neighborhood gang, leading to violent altercations between mother and daughter. The situation degenerates even more when Jaqueline is arrested. M?rcia and Aluisio, distraught, realize that Jaqueline is in deeper trouble than they ever thought. Marcello Quintanilha's first English-language graphic novel is a tour de force - a tightly wound drama filled with masterful suspense and a deep love for family and character. Marcello Quintanilha was born in 1971 outside Rio de Janeiro. His first graphic novel, Tungsteno, published in 2015, was adapted for film by director Heitor Dhalia. He has lived in Barcelona since 2002.

With 90,000 words of text, accompanied by over 250 full-color reproductions of album covers and 45 rpm singles, Listen, Whitey! Chronicles the images and sounds of the Black Power movement which galvanized black America and struck fear into the heart of the white establishment in the late '60s and early '70s. The work of activists and artists such as Huey Newton, Nina Simone, the Last Poets and many others are examined along with the musical connections between the Black Power movement and Bob Dylan, John Lennon and the Partridge Family (!?!).

(W/A) Steve Brodner Every day, late at night or early in the morning, from March 26, 2020 to January 1, 2022, the political cartoonist and illustrator Steve Brodner would get to work. In those midnight hours, he would review the day's reportage, sit down at his drawing board, and memorialize a singular person or event that played a role, willingly or unwillingly, in shaping that day. Living & Dying in America includes many lovingly drawn portraits of those who died in the pandemic and of those who displayed extraordinary strength, decency, courage, and endurance. But Brodner does not ignore those who perpetuated the pandemic in word or deed: he also etches in acid caricature those public servants and private entrepreneurs who preyed upon the public, spread lies, and aided the virus' spread through their ignorance, incompetence, and malfeasance. Released via social media, the drawings range from quick, expertly realized sketches to elaborate paintings to carefully rendered mixed media, depending on how much time and stamina and inspiration he had left at the end of the day. Each spon

Tim Lane (Abandoned Cars) presents a collection of stories where the lives of his Edward Hopper-esque characters are a rich mix of myth and fact, dreams and reality, belief and disbelief. A sociopathic boxcar hobo, a young man who sprouts worms from his face, an undocumented immigrant bookstore doorman, a former boxer and an expert hustler all populate a haunted landscape of broken dreams. Grotesque and beautiful, these are stories that will follow you like a shadow long after you have put

(W/A/CA) Steven Weissman A stunning sequel to Steven Weissman's acclaimed Barack Hussein Obama. After Vice-President Joe Biden accidentally lets the first dog escape, teenagers Sasha and Malia must navigate a strange and hostile world in search of their lost dog. Drawn in a masterfully spare style, combining the metaphysical and the political, Looking For America's Dog is proof that Steven Weissman is one of the most innovative and experimental cartoonists working today.

The Lost Art Of Ah Pook gathers the visual elements from the legendary unfinished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and artist Malcolm McNeill. Begun in the early 1970's, Ah Pook was to be a meditation on time, power, control and corruption that evoked the Mayan codices and specifically, the Mayan god of death, Ah Pook. Although the work was never completed, Malcolm McNeill created over a hundred paintings, illustrations and sketches for the book, and these are finally seeing the light of day in The Lost Art of Ah Pook. Even in a context divorced from the words (Burroughs' text will not be included), they represent a stunning precursor to the graphic novel form to come. Also included is a historical essay chronicling the long history of Burroughs' and McNeill's work together.

(W/A/CA) Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith 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 Steranko, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Johnny Craig, Marie Severin, Gerry Conway, and Bernie Wrightson, to name a few. Freed from the conventions of the superhero adventure, these creators brought their storytelling skills to a more quietly sinister genre, producing atmospheric gems of twisted suspense and sardonic horror.Not only do these nine issues feature Marvel’s best creators working at their peak, but Tower of Shadows is one of the lost, never-collected Marvels. In the first of a new series of Lost Marvels, Fantagraphics and Marvel join forces to introduce these pages to a new generation of readers and restore this series to its rightful place in comics h

(W/A/CA) George Metzger George Metzger?s comics stand out for their captivating combination of high fantasy and science fiction, his astonishingly prescient views of climate change and political chicanery ? and, just when you need it, the right touch of whimsy and imaginative insight. Explore a feudal landscape in roaring, rumbling, steam-powered vehicles as the mysterious Moondog offers hope to a fallen civilization desperate for a new renaissance. Swoop and soar the skies in anachronistic airships and personal flyers in Mu, the land that never was. Hitchhike away from urban strife and get back to nature by homesteading with the hippies. It?s all here in this long-awaited anthology of George Metzger?s most iconic (and idiosyncratic) comics creations ? including two never-before-seen stories rediscovered after missing for decades!

(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez This comics omnibus includes the graphic novels Julio's Day and The Children of Palomar, as well as never-before-collected work by brothers Mario and Gilbert Hernandez, some of which has never been available since its early 2000s run in comic book single issues. Children of Palomar and Other Tales(the fifteenth volume in our Complete Love and Rockets Library omnibuses and the eighth Gilbert volume) begins with 'Me for the Unknown,' uncollected since its original 2001-2004 run in Love and Rockets Vol. II comic books. Written by Mario Hernandez and drawn by Gilbert Hernandez, it traces the Rabelaisian journey of Tagg Lillard. A U.S. citizen with a seemingly perfect life working in Latin America, he escapes a death trap clutching important papers, and an imperious CEO and his manservant pursue him through a land plagued by colonialist/corporate greed. Also collected: one of their joints from 2008, 'Chiro el Indio.' In The Children of Palomar suite of short stories (2006-2007; collected in 2013), there are many mysterious visitors, an apparition that haunts ch

(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez This beautiful, affordable volume collects the first half of Gilbert's modern-day classic, featuring the acclaimed magical-realist tales of Palomar, the Central American hamlet, and its memorable inhabitants.

This volume will collect the second half of Gilbert Hernandez's acclaimed magical-realist tales of 'Palomar,' the small Central American town, beginning with the landmark 'Human Diastrophism,' named one of the greatest comic book stories of the 20th Century by The Comics Journal, and continuing on through more modern-day classics. 'Human Diastrophism' is the only full graphic novel length 'Palomar' story ever created by Gilbert. Also included are all the post-'Diastrophism' stories, in which Sheriff Luba's past (as seen in the epic Poison River) comes back to haunt her, and the seeds are sown for the 'Palomar diaspora' that ends this dense, enthralling book.

(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez Comics Dementia collects buried treasures, oddities, and rarities from outposts of the Love and Rockets galaxy by Gilbert Hernandez. Most of these stories haven't been available since the 1990s. Saints, sinners, and the Candidelike Roy mingle in jungles, cocktail lounges, living rooms and outer space. Ditko meets Melville meets Bob Hope-but the party really starts when the Alfred E. Neuman of the Love and Rockets multi-verse, Errata Stigmata, makes her entrance.

(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez High Soft Lisp, and more, the children are growing up and lovers have come and gone. Luba, Petra, and Fritz have all settled in Los Angeles are moving on to the next phases of their lives and careers. Venus shoots a backyard superhero movie, Fritz becomes a B movie actress, and children's TV show host Doralis has the grandest of finales.

(W/A/CA) Los Bros Hernandez The Love & Rockets library continues with this special volume! Amor y Cohetes is the seventh volume in the new Complete Love & Rockets series, collecting together in one convenient package all the non-Maggie and non-Palomar stories by all three Hernandez Brothers from that classic first, 50-issue Love & Rockets series, including Gilbert's original 40-page sci-fi epic 'BEM' from 1981's very first issue of Love & Rockets, Jaime's charming 'Rocky and Fumble' series starring a planet-hopping girl and her robot, stunning one-shots such as Gilbert's Frida Kahlo biography 'Frida,' the shocking autobiographical fantasia 'My Love Book,' and much more!

This latest inexpensive and handy collection of Jaime Hernandez's early work picks up where 2010's Penny Century leaves off. Esperanza features an older, wiser Maggie, a maturing Hopey and introduces one of Jaime's greatest recent characters, Vivian the 'Frogmouth,' the near-psychotic bombshell.

(W/A/CA) Jaime Hernandez Angels and Magpies collects the Gods and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls and Love Bunglers storylines from the Love and Rockets: New Stories series, as well as Hernandez's 2006 New York Times serial. In the Ti-Girls segment, superheroics get a screwball spin and in 'Love Bunglers,' perhaps Hernandez's greatest masterpiece and one of the great graphic novels of all time, the past and present converge as Maggie and Ray's reunion is threatened by long-buried family secrets.