(W/A/CA) Jerry Moriarty At the age of 76, the painter/cartoonist Jerry Moriarty returned to his childhood home in Binghamton, New York. Moriarty then interrogated his past via the act of painting, alternating between unconventional pen-andink panels that take place in the present and full-color paintings recreating his past. Whatsa Paintoonist? is a masterpiece of concision, remembrance, imagination, and artistry, imbued with the love of life and family.

(W/A/CA) Megan Kelso A suite of five brilliant comics stories united by themes of motherhood, family, and love by the acclaimed cartoonist Megan Kelso, exploring the connective tissue that binds us together despite our individual, interior experience. These stories, created over the past 15 years wrestle with the concept of motherhood and the way the experience informs and impacts concepts of identity, racism, class, love, and even abuse. Taken collectively, Who Will Make the Pancakes showcases Kelso's unique voice in graphic fiction (one more in tune with writers such as Alice Munro, Sarah Waters, or Ann Patchett than most graphic novelists) and a stylistic command that tailors her approachable and warm cartooning style for each story's needs.

What is 'Art'? Art can be selfindulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil, or expressive, or any number of other things. In Why Art?, acclaimed graphic novelist Eleanor Davis (How To Be Happy) unpacks some of these concepts in ways both critical and positive. A work of art unto itself, Davis leavens her exploration with a sense of humor and a thirst for challenging preconceptions of art worthy of Magritte.

THE FIRST-EVER RETROSPECTIVE OF THE DEAN OF AMERICAN SPORTS CARTOONING In Fantagraphics' ceaseless effort to rediscover every world-class cartoonist in the history of the medium, we turn your attention to a neglected part of the art form-sports cartooning-and to its greatest practitioner -- Willard Mullin. The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, when giants strode their respective fields -- Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Aaron in one, George (Krazy Kat) Herriman, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff, Walt (Pogo) Kelly in the other -- and Mullin was there, straddling both fields, recording every major player and event in the mid-20th-century history of baseball. Mullin was to baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate and critic, investing them with personality, humanity, dignity, and poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and Mullin had the Brooklyn Bum, his affectionate 1939 character representing the bedraggled figure of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 collects for the first

(W/A/CA) Joe Kessler Windowpane is Joe Kessler's 'oneman-anthology' of short-narrative, experimental comics. This beautiful edition is the perfect backdrop for Kessler's quietly disconcerting, hallucinogenic work. It is a visual delight that showcases the unrestrained talent and mastery of one of the UK's most exciting cartoonists.

(W) Robert Mailer Anderson & Various Based on the story of the 2019 film, Windows on the World is a sensitive portrayal of a family in mourning and personalizes the grief felt by an enture nation following 9/11. The book pulls no punches, revealing how cruelly the U.S. can treat undocumented immigrants. Told with empathy and nuance, this emotionally resonant story reflects on how the pains of our recent past have shaped the character of America.

(W/A/CA) Paco Roca Spanish comics superstar Paco Roca investigates the true story of the five cartoonists who responded to the dark times of the Franco regime and poor working conditions at publishing titan, Editorial Bruguera by starting their own magazine, Tio Vivo. The corporation, however, began trying to thwart their efforts, turning their battle into a real-life David and Goliath tale. Roca combines humor, compassion, and narrative mastery with profiles of the artists as they serve as heroes for all of those who have chased a dream, no matter how high the obstacles.

(W/A/CA) Eve Gilbert Scott Camil grew up in the 1960s wanting to fight for his country. After graduation, Camil joins the Marines and is sent to Vietnam. There he encounters the incompetence of his superiors, the constant death of his friends, the rape and slaughter of Vietnamese women and children, eventually turning him into a ruthless killer. Upon his return to civilian life, Camil adopts a new cause: telling the American people the truth about Vietnam. Eve Gilbert illustrates Camil's words with empathy, nuance, and the occasional splash of humor. It's a cautionary tale whose arc of suffering and transformation is just as relevant today.

(W/A/CA) Sole Otero Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1768. It is a dark and foreboding night when the boat arrives from Europe, bringing three shadowy figures to shore. The Mar?a sisters have come to take the New World by storm. At once righteous and menacing, the sisters will exert their insidious powers over generations, leaving a wreckage of shattered spirits in their wake.Told through the eyes of the people whose lives the sisters have cast asunder, Witchcraft is a mesmerizing mystery to piece together. Strange magic, dark humor, and a fiery undercurrent of female rage cohere into a heady tale of colonialism, indigenous folklore,and modern agoraphobia. A kaleidoscopic work of literary fiction, crafted with vision and verve, that assures Sole Otero as one of South America?s most dynamic cartoonists.

(W) Jonathan Lackman (A/CA) Zachary J. Pinson On April 7, 1928, Maria Lani blew into Paris claiming to be a famous German actress and proceeded to seduce the cultural elite with her undeniable charisma and strangely enticing enigmatic aura. She persuaded fifty artists —Pierre Bonnard, Marc Chagall, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Georges-Henri Rouault, Fernand Léger and Suzanne Valadon among them— to immortalize her in paintings and sculptures, which would appear as an important plot device in a forthcoming film. Unveiled as an exhibition in New York, the art works traveled to Chicago, London, Berlin, Rotterdam, and Paris. But, in 1931, as legend eventually had it, she and her husband Max Abramowicz vanished without a trace, and so did the art. The film was never made.The Woman With Fifty Faces is about uncovering as much of the truth about Maria Lani as possible. The images that cascade through the book are stunningly beautiful, deeply compassionate, and farcically grotesque, capturing the essence of Lani’s life. From Poland’s antisemitic pogroms to the vulgar glamour and decadence of

(W/A/CA) Julia Gfr?rer Julia Gfr?rer is quietly one of the most influential cartoonists of her generation. Emerging from the Portland scene at the height of the Obama era, her comics augured the dark times to come, using graphic sex, pitch-black horror, a hunger for exploring the past, and a line cruel as a whip to create her own unmistakable sense of millennial melancholy. Reflecting her DIY ethos, much of her work has only been available in self-published zines or independent anthologies, many of them rare or out-of-print ? until now.World Within the World features 30 of Gfr?rer?s short stories, culled from a decade of writing and drawing at the bleeding edge of the art form. Her tales of desire, despair, and the universal need for connection span centuries, continents, and cultures from prehistoric teenagers in love to Christian martyrs in the making to modern-day vampires on the make. Along the way her bold, confident work leads the reader to some unexpected places, whether erotica inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe or a post-apocalyptic parody of Frasier.In World Within t

(W) Stephen Dixon The newest book from the acclaimed National Book Award nominee. In this collection of interconnected short stories, two-time National Book Award-nominee Stephen Dixon illuminates the psychological state of a writer whose wife suddenly, tragically passes away from a debilitating illness. Dixon's evocative vignettes paint a complex portrait of the man's life, zipping backward and forward in time from the creatively fruitful but often tumultuous period of his marriage to his twilight years when, struggling with his loss, he fumbles to find clarity and certainty in his writing. Through his characteristically restrained prose, Dixon navigates the entire breadth of the human experience-from life's joyous highs to its devastating lows, and the pensive moments in between-grappling with themes of love, grief, and companionship with grace and subtlety.

(W/A/CA) Ed Luce Following the wildly popular Wuvable Oaf debut comes this full-color sequel! Blood and Metal collects a number of Oaf short stories celebrating Ed Luce's love of all things wrestling/metal/queercore to create an immersive environment recalling Scott Pilgrim, Love and Rockets, and Archie. Also featuring tales of Oaf's formative childhood years, and much more

(W/A/CA) Eleanor Davis Eleanor Davis?s bike tour from Tucson, Arizona to Athens, Georgia is a quest of epic proportions ? not just geographically, which it surely is, but inwardly as well. While facing off formidable headwinds, drivers with reckless abandon, and screaming knee pain, the author confronts an even greater challenge ? her own mind. Life on two wheels teaches her many lessons, and she narrates them with keen observation and self-deprecating candor through a series of funny, touching vignettes. Companionship from fellow travelers and the generosity of colorful strangers propel Davis along the open road. A tale of serendipitous encounters, surprising friendship, perseverance, and tenderness, Eleanor Davis?sYou and a Bike and a Road reveals the power, and truth, of the most efficient mode of human transportation ? a bicycle.

The first volume of You'll Never Know showed Carol's initial, sometimes difficult, attempts at grappling with her father Chuck's traumatic World War II experiences by bringing them to light. As Book 2 begins, she is startled to discover that Chuck's decision to suddenly, after 60 years, open up to her on the subject has motivations that go far beyond his desire to reveal his past - putting even more pressure on an already explosive relationship. In any event, Carol finally begins to delve into, and re-tell, Chuck's horrific wartime experiences in Italy (which are worse than even she had imagined). But back in the present, the cycle of family dysfunction continues as Carol's own daughter runs into her own trouble, leading Carol into further exploration of her family's buried traumas and sorrows - with an expanded reprinting of the out-of-print 'The Hannah Story,' Tyler's superb chronicle of the short life and accidental death of her older sister, a heart-rending story (named one of the '100 Best Comics of the 20th Century' in a Comics Journal survey) that in turn sheds light on her pa

In the devastating yet ultimately healing concluding chapter of her memoir - which Booklist called 'a work that ranks in quality with the graphic memoirs of Alison Bechdel (Fun Home) and Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis)' - Carol Tyler continues to dig into her father's war experiences, even as she copes with her own family problems (including the inevitable deterioration of her parents' health).

Spanning the most formative era of his life, from the pain of adolescence to the fame and fortune of early adulthood, this collection of personal correspondences sheds light on the artistic development, bitter struggle, and ultimate triumph of the world's greatest living cartoonist. This is Crumb's sketchbook of words and features scores of rare art, including entire letters drawn in cartoon form.

(W/A/CA) Paul Krassner Zapped by the God of Absurdity is a collection of Paul Krassner's writing that functions both as a retrospective and a memoir. His eye for the absurd serves readers well, such as his reports from a swingers' convention. He also relates personal encounters with such famous figures as Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Johnnie Cochran, Ram Dass, Larry Flynt, Squeaky Fromme, Dick Gregory, Charles Manson, and Robin Williams - not to mention the time he took an acid trip with Groucho Marx.

(W/A/CA) Michel Fiffe Emily Zegas and her brother, Boston, are recently orphaned young adults who confront their new relationship dynamic in the face of a family tragedy that never gets talked about. At its core, Zegas is a collection of interactions that map out Emily and Boston's most primal concerns: survival, sex, and mortality. This is the first graphic novel for Fantagraphics by the popular creator and self-publisher of the ongoing comic book series Copra.