(W/A) Bastien Vives This poetic graphic novel explores the emotional bloodbath of a romance gone awry. A young man and woman fall for each other and all is sweetness and light. But when their relationship crumbles, they each must endure the ensuing emotional fallout. Starting from this simple premise, Bastien Viv?s crafts an affecting narrative about the mercurial and tempestuous nature of romance and why we pursue it anyway. The Butchery is composed of the little moments that make and break a relationship: lively dancing, silent strolls hand in hand, stilted phone calls, tearful pillow talk.

(W/A/CA) Milo Manara Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword Volume 1 is the first half of Milo Manara?s two-volume epic biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter. It depicts Caravaggio's early years in Rome as he struggles to capture truth on canvas, only to have his art condemned to be burned by the Church. He then is forced to flee the city when he kills a man in righteous fury over the death of a prostitute.The two volumes of Caravaggio mark the return of Manara to U.S. readers and the debut of Fantagraphics? new series, The Milo Manara Signature Edition, featuring affordable paperbacks of maestro Manara?s internationally acclaimed work. (Volume 2 will follow in Spring 2025.) Discover the bawdy, swashbuckling life of one of the greatest painters in history through Manara?s passionate, personal tribute to his artistic idol, Michelangelo Merisi, whom the world would come to know as Caravaggio.

(W/A/CA) Joseph Remnant Cartoon Clouds follows a recent art school graduate and his three friends as they try to navigate that anxiety-fueled time between finishing college and trying to figure out what they're going to do with the rest of their lives. Drawn in a naturalistic style, the philosophical nature of Cartoon Clouds is reminiscent of the films of ?ric Rohmer or Noah Baumbach. Joseph Remnant has been a prominent presence in the cartooning scene recently, self-publishing his own comic book Blindspot, illustrating Harvey Pekar's acclaimed Cleveland, and appearing in such magazines as The Believer.

Now available for the first time in soft cover, Linda Medley's lavishly illustrated Castle Waiting series blends fairy tales, folklore and nursery rhymes to tell the story of the everyday lives of fantastic characters with humor, intelligence, and insight into human nature. Castle Waiting can be read on multiple levels and can be enjoyed by readers of all ages, especially young girls.

Originally published by Fantagraphics in 2003 in hardcover and out-of-print for almost a decade, The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove collects in one gorgeous, coffee-table art book all of Gene Deitch's 1940s and 1950s work for The Record Changer, a magazine aimed squarely at the jazz-obsessed. Deitch's virtuoso images exquisitely embody the ecstasies and absurdities of the 1950s hipster ('the Cat'), and are a visual paean to the joys of collecting and appreciating jazz records.

(W/A) Manuele Fior This highly anticipated new graphic novel from Manuele Fior (The Interview and 5,000 KM Per Second) showcases his singular talents as a once-in-a-generation visual artist and a deeply empathetic writer who uses science fiction to look to the future of humanity. The 'Great Invasion' originated from the sea. It moved north across the mainland. Many fled, while some took refuge on a small concrete island called Celestia, built over a thousand years ago. Now cut off from the mainland, Celestia has become an outpost for criminals and other misfits, as well as a refuge for a group of young telepaths. Events push two of them, Dora and Pierrot, to flee the island and set sail to the mainland. There, they discover a world on the precipice of a metamorphosis, though also a world where adults are literally prisoners of their own fortresses, unintentionally preserving the 'old world' at a time when a new generation could guide society towards a better humanity. Celestia is the most ambitious and successful graphic novel to date by one of the world's most exciting storytellers

(W/A/CA) Glenn Head New in paperback: alternative cartoonist Glenn Head's harrowing graphic memoir is about years of sexual and emotional abuse suffered at a boarding school during his adolescence and the resultant trauma that took him almost 50 years to process before being able to tell his story publicly. No one asks for the childhood they get, and no child ever deserves to go to Chartwell Manor. For Glenn Head, his two years spent at the now-defunct Mendham, NJ, boarding school - run by a serial sexual and emotional abuser of young boys in the early 1970s - left emotional scars in ways that he continues to process. This graphic memoir - a book almost 50 years in the making - tells the story of that experience and then delves with even greater detail into that experience's reverberations in adulthood, including addiction and other self-destructive behavior. Head tells his story with unsparing honesty, depicting himself as a deeply flawed human struggling to make sense of his childhood. Now in paperback. Black-and-white illustrations throughout

Harvey and Eisner nominated cartoonist Glenn Head presents the hilarious and harrowing tale of nineteen-year-old Glenn who abandons suburbia for the gritty, unknown streets of Chicago, where he fends off street predators and depression. Exposure to the work of R. Crumb offers entr?e into the world of comix, but a chance encounter with Muhammad Ali allows him to truly prove his mettle. Like Mean Streets crossed with The Basketball Diaries, Chicago is an unforgettable tale of finding one's identity, and discovering love where it's least expected.

Originally released as a three-issue magazine series in the acclaimed international 'Ignatz' format, New Tales of Old Palomar collects, into one handsome book, all three stories, representing Gilbert Hernandez's literary return to the small Central American town of Palomar. These stories feature tales of adventure and everyday magic starring many of Gilbert's most beloved characters.

(W/A) Various Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, DuckTales, and Adventures of the Gummi Bears return with more classic comics based on beloved TV cartoons from The Disney Afternoon package! This volume includes 'The Count Roquefort Case,' featuring the villainous Fat Cat, 'The Curse of Flabberg?' with Scrooge McDuck and Launchpad McQuack, plus 'The Kitty Kat Kaper' and 'Cat in a Hot Tin Suit,' where Darkwing Duck battles the world's greatest criminal mind... Fluffy! Plus TaleSpin, the Gummi Bears and more!

Hilarious, frightening, mysterious, adorable and utterly bleak, Chocolate Cheeks has arrived to disgust and delight comic-book readers of all ages. 'Sweet' Chubby Cheeks and the Pullapart Boy (a 21st Century Frankenstein's monster for kids) are driving each other crazy. Forced together by their dating parents, these two bitter enemies have alienated - or otherwise disposed of - most of their social circle, leaving them with plenty of quality-time for each other. They go camping, start a business, form a band, join a team, try to make some new friends and engage in a 'holy war.' Things go from worse to worst, though, when the two boys find a cat - or is it a bird? - one hot, summer day.

(W/A/CA) Richard Sala The 1997 magnum opus of the late Richard Sala, master of graphic noir, has been out of print for years and is now available in hardcover for the very first time. Sala weaves the gothic cartooning traditions of Edward Gorey and Charles Addams with a melodramatic murder mystery involving astrology, ghouls, academia, and outsider art. Part noir, part horror, and part comedy, this labyrinthine tale of intrigue follows an unemployed writer named Broom who becomes ensnared unwittingly in a complex plot involving mysterious outsider artist Emile Jarnac, the shadowy machinations of the Ghoul Appreciation Society Headquarters (GASH), and the enigmatic Mr. Ixnay. Sala's deadpan delivery makes this ingeniously layered narrative a roller-coaster ride of darkly pure comic suspense. Sala's drawing style also reveals the influence of everything from Hollywood monster movies and Dick Tracy to German expressionism and Grimm's fairy tales. It's a style that's perfectly suited to the narrative, constantly flirting with Sala's fascination for the grotesque and lending palpable ten

After stumbling across the class photo of a 1937 public school under a pile of garbage, Robert Triptow's imagination took off. The result is a charming and completely original graphic novella where each student's fictionalized life is depicted in one-page installments. Triptow weaves these lives in and out, mixing in social satire, elegant cartooning, occasionally disgusting hilarity, and plenty of good, clean fun. What began as an exercise has yielded one of the more engaging, original, and entertaining graphic books in recent memory.

(W) Garth Stein (A/CA) Matthew Southworth From Garth Stein, the author of the #1 best seller The Art of Racing in the Rain, and Matthew Southworth, the co-creator of Stumptown comes a raucously funny and fast-moving series of graphic novels. James Tucker is the most successful Genetically Modified Human Organism ever created. Half-man, half-goat, Tuck's story unfurls like an action-packed fever dream spanning the Pacific Northwest, from a homeless encampment to a secret sanctuary in the woods where elites perform ritual goat sacrifices. The Cloven Book One features a special full-color four page fold-out spread.

(W) Garth Stein (A) Matthew Southworth #1 New York Times bestselling author Garth Stein and acclaimed cartoonist Matthew Southworth (Stumptown) team up again for the second book in The Cloven series, an action-packed coming of age story about a mutant from the Pacific Northwest. In the eagerly anticipated Book Two, Dr. Kenneth Langner, a world-renowned geneticist and creator of the Cloven species, reveals himself to Seattle Stranger reporter Jake Arthur, who continues his in-depth research on the homeless encampment known as 'the Jungle.' When Langner turns up dead the next morning, Arthur realizes he's into something far more sinister than he realized. Meanwhile, in an effort to evade the paramilitary that have begun rounding up Cloven, Tuck is taken to Halcyon Meadows, a bizarre retreat of the true insiders-Supreme court justices, ex-presidents, movie stars, rock musicians, health gurus-those who are really in the know and who gather there every summer to worship goats. And to celebrate the existence of the first human/goat hybrid: The Cloven. And that's when things really start t

(W) Will Elder & Various John Severin takes control. When John Severin became editor of Two-Fisted Tales, he expanded the scope of its stories beyond its traditional war stories to head off to far-flung times and places, searching for adventure. This volume collects all those stories - the EC stories that Severin had the most control over. Severin wrote and drew the title story, about an old-fashioned Southern "gentleman" who sees grievance at every turn and regularly challenges those who are less skilled than he is to pistol duels. Is it murder when a man is defending his honor? The other tales range from action and intrigue in the Old West to exploring for a lost city in the jungles of Peru, to facing danger in the Khyber Pass, to a Cold War chiller about the "ultimate weapon," to EC's only Vietnam story, "Dien Bien Phu!" Plus - the complete run of Severin's stories of globe-trotting two-fisted news photographer Steve Rampart, from the pages of Extra!. Severin was a master of detail, emotion, and reaction thanks to his precise, detailed line; it brought such realism to the pag

This 600+ page edition features long interviews with Maurice Sendak, French graphic novel pioneer Jacques Tardi, Art Spiegelman hosting a critical forum on classic kids' comics and a roundtable with Robert Williams, Joe Coleman, Marc Bell, and Esther Pearl Watson about fine art and comics. Plus: "How to Draw Buz Sawyer" by Roy Crane, comics by Lewis Trondheim, Tim Kreider on Chester Brown, a new 18-page satirical comic by Joe Sacco and a visual gallery of proto-comics. And more. The Comics Journal has been the world's foremost critical magazine about comics for 37 years and is now more vital than ever.

(A) R. Crumb & Various Here in one place are the definitive Comics Journalinterviews with the cartoonists behind Zap Comix. Featuring Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez,Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, Gilbert Shelton, Paul Mavrides and much more. In these historically important interviews, the Zapcontributors open up about how they came to create a seminal, living work of art.

The second and concluding volume of conversations with the creators behind EC Comics combines definitive interviews with never-before-published sessions, including a new conversation with Jack Davis, Bill Gaines on the origins of the company, Al Feldstein on science fiction, Harvey Kurtzman on bringing realism to war, Alex Toth, Marie Severin, George Evans and Jack Kamen, Colin Dawkins, and a rare Q&A session with Bernard Krigstein.

(W/A/CA) Guido Crepax These erotic comics stories, spanning 1974–1991, feature metropolitan settings like Valentina taking the subway—but what begins as an ordinary trip soon becomes a fantastical journey with familiar characters cameoing along the way. Then, in a giallo-inspired tale, fashion photographer Valentina’s models keep turning up dead. Could she be the murderer? In “Time Out” (1991), she’s once again stalked by a Subterranean … but what is its mission? The rest of this collection introduces a new heroine, Anita, who lives (and dies) for TV! Every flip of the channel has a new genre for her (and Crepax) to insert herself in. And in “Input Anita,” Crepax plays with the idea of bringing your work home with you. “Data entry” has never been so sexy (and a little sinister too).

(W/A/CA) Tardi When French tank crewman Ren? Tardi was captured by the Germans on May 22, 1940, his life was forever changed. He is shipped off to a P.O.W. camp, Stalag IIB, where he endures a brutal day-to-day existence for nearly five years. Once the war winds down, he faces a long, grueling journey back to France, buoyed only by the vision of his wife Henriette awaiting him at home. The final act finds Ren? struggling to adapt to civilian life, begrudgingly re-enlisting, and returning to Germany to help rebuild the country that imprisoned him.In The Complete I, Ren? Tardi, P.O.W., cartoonist Jacques Tardi vividly renders his father?s harrowing story, a story enriched with his own childhood memories. Both an homage to his father and a testament to the silent suffering of a generation of men scarred by war, Tardi?s graphic novel trilogy is a personal and artistic triumph. This box set also features a slew of fascinating contextual features, including reference photographs, excerpts of Ren?s notebooks, and several illuminating essays.

(W) Charles M Schulz, Tom Tomorrow (A/CA) Charles M Schulz In our latest paperback volume of The Complete Peanuts, love takes many shapes and shades. Charlie Brown?s infatuation with the Little Red-Haired Girl is rekindled; Linus fails to impress Lydia; Sally hoorays for Hollywood; Marcie pines for the World War I Flying Ace, who becomes lost in his cups (of root beer); Peppermint Patty and Marcie battle for Charlie Brown?s affection; and Snoopy is absolutely obsessed? with cookies. Throughout, Schulz makes Peanut?s balancing act of heartbreak and wry humor feel effortless ? in these his strips of the ?90s, his cartooning has never looked more confident, and his sense of humor is unrestrained.The Complete Peanuts is the publishing project that launched a renaissance in comic strip publishing and the only place Charles M. Schulz?s classic has ever been collected in its entirety. Featuring impeccable production values, each volume of this series features two successive years of newspaper strips (dailies and Sundays), plus bonus material such as celebrity introductions, interviews, and

(W/A/CA) Charles M. Schulz Our second volume is packed with intriguing developments, as Schulz continues to create his tender, comic universe. The majority of these strips are not available in any other in-print book. Introduction by Walter Cronkite.

As the 1970s wind down, the last two recurring Peanuts characters have fallen into place: Snoopy's brother Spike and the youngest Van Pelt sibling, Rerun. But that doesn't mean Schulz's creativity has diminished; in fact, this volume features an amazing profusion of hilariously distinctive new one- (or two-) shot characters! For instance, in an epic five-week sequence, when Charlie Brown, found guilty by the EPA of biting the Kite-Eating tree, he goes on the lam and ends up coaching the 'Goose Eggs,' a group of diminutive baseball players, Austin, Ruby, Leland, and -did you know there was a second Black Peanuts character, aside from Franklin?-Milo. Also: a tennis-playing Snoopy ends up reluctantly teamed with the extreme Type 'A' athlete Molly Volley... who then reappears later in the book, now facing off against her nemesis, 'Crybaby' Boobie. (Honest!) Add in Sally's new camp friend Eudora, the thuggish 'caddymaster' who shoots down Peppermint Patty and Marcie's new vocation, an entire hockey team, and a surprise repeat appearance by Linus's sweetheart 'Truffles' (creating a love tr

Another two years of hilarious, heart-warming strips from the great Charles M. Schulz as Peanuts reaches the middle of the go-go 1980s. Its a time of hanging out at the mall, 'punkers' (Snoopy with a Mohawk), killer bees, airbags, Halley's Comet, and a surprisingly sharp satirical sequence poking fun at runaway licensing. This new volume features an introduction by Patton Oswalt. And, as usual, a box set combining this latest volume with the previous, complete with slipcase, is available at a bargain price.

Another two years of hilarious, heart-warming strips from the great Charles M. Schulz as Peanuts reaches the middle of the go-go 1980s. Its a time of hanging out at the mall, 'punkers' (Snoopy with a Mohawk), killer bees, airbags, Halley's Comet, and a surprisingly sharp satirical sequence poking fun at runaway licensing. This new volume features an introduction by Patton Oswalt. And, as usual, a box set combining this latest volume with the previous, complete with slipcase, is available at a bargain price.

As we reach the 19th volume in this best-selling series collecting arguably the greatest comic strip of all time, Charles Schulz is still as inventive, hilarious, and touching as ever. This volume features an introduction by Garry Trudeau plus a surprise format change, as the daily strip switches from its trademark four-square-panels format to a more flexible one-to-four-variable-panels format which, along with Schulz's increased use of gray tones, give this volume a striking, distinctive look.

CHARLIE BROWN FINDS TRUE LOVE - AND MORE IN THE 20TH VOLUME OF THE COMPLETE PEANUTS! Our latest volume is particularly dense with romantic intrigue, as Marcie and Charlie Brown end up at camp together, sending Peppermint Patty into mad jealousy (especially since Marcie can't resist teasing her)? and an old friend of Charlie Brown's attempts to look him up again but confuses him with Snoopy and goes on a date with him instead. But the most crucial event in romance is Charlie Brown's romance with Peggy Jean - even though he's so flustered in his first conversation with her that he ends up stuck with the name 'Brownie Charles' for the duration of her relationship ('I kind of like it?'). This volume also introduces yet another Snoopy sibling, Olaf, who is humiliatingly invited to enter an ugly-dog contest (and, even more humiliatingly, wins). Plus lots of Zen-like Spike-and-cactus strips, Sally Brown non sequiturs, D-minuses for Peppermint Patty, and wise thoughts from Franklin's grandpa? Snoopy treks through the wilderness as the Beagle Scoutmaster and through the desert as the World Fa

Peanuts enters its final decade, and The Complete Peanuts enters its homestretch, with material that is perhaps the most neglected of Schulz's career. Schulz's cartooning has never looked more confident, and his sense of humor never more unrestrained. This latest volume includes an introduction by Tom Tomorrow plus scholarly essays about this most over-looked period in the Peanuts canon.

(W/A/CA) Charles M. Schulz Even the most devoted Peanuts fan will be surprised by revisiting Charles Schulz's last decade of work. Schulz's cartooning has never been more expressive, and his sense of humor never more unencumbered by formula or tradition. Featuring the usual gang of nuts in often surprising situations (Snoopy eyeing a seat on the Supreme Court!?), this is the 22nd volume (of 25) of the bestselling series collecting every single one of the 18,000-plus strips created by Schulz from 1950-2000.

(W/A/CA) Charles M. Schulz This is the twenty-third volume (of twenty-five) of the best-selling series and Schulz's cartooning has never been more expressive, and his sense of humor never more unencumbered by formula or tradition. Even the most devoted Peanuts fan will be surprised by revisiting Schulz's last decade of work on the most beloved comic strip of all time.

In this volume, Charlie Brown gets caught up in a fake autographs racket, 'Crybaby' Boobie returns, Snoopy's brothers search for Mickey Mouse, Rerun pursues the underground arts and Linus starts his own church only to be declared a false prophet, plus other surprises that make these last few years of Peanuts ripe for reconsideration. With an introduction by Paul Feig, producer of the forthcoming Peanuts movie, due for release in November 2015.

(W/A/CA) Charles M. Schulz Fantagraphics presents the final collection of the defining comic strip of the 20th century. This volume collects the final year through to the last strip on Feb. 13, 2000, 50 years since its debut. In this volume, Rerun cements himself as the last great Peanuts character, embarking on a career as an underground comic book artist! Also featured is the complete Li'l Folks, a weekly one-panel comic produced between 1947 and 1950 along with an introduction by none other than the President of the United States himself, Barack Obama. This may seem like the end but fear not, we have one more volume up our sleeve for next fall!

(W/A/CA) Charles M. Schulz While the 50-year run of the Peanuts newspaper strip (1950-2000) is obviously the heart and soul of Charles Schulz's career, he also created a large amount of Peanuts material that didn't run in the strip. This bonus 26th volume collects all of Schulz's non-strip related Peanuts art: storybooks, comic book stories, single-panel gags, advertising art, book illustrations, photographs, and even a recipe. With close to 1,000 Peanuts images included, all created by Schulz himself, no true Peanuts library would be complete without this final, celebratory volume of The Complete Peanuts.

(W/A/CA) Charles M. Schulz Also this season, a new box set collects the lastest two volumes (Vols. 19 and 20) of the paperback series.

(W/A/CA) Charles M. Schulz In this volume of The Complete Peanuts, Schulz's iconic comic strip celebrates its 40th birthday! In our latest paperback volume, welcome a new character to the cast of Peanuts - Olaf! Snoopy's brother Olaf comes to visit, and, humiliatingly, winds up winning the 'Ugly Dog' contest. In other news, Peppermint Patty is stuck in dreaded summer school, while all her friends have a blast at camp. Marcie begins to crack under the pressure of her perfectionism. Lucy continues to showcase her endearing ineptitude on the baseball field. Linus ramps up his Great Pumpkin proselytizing with the 'Great Pumpkin Movement,' complete with literature to pass out door to door. And Charlie Brown finally gets a girlfriend - but she thinks his name is Brownie Charles! Also, this season, a new box set collects the latest two volumes (Vols. 19 and 20) of the paperback series. The Complete Peanuts is the publishing project that launched a renaissance in comic strip publishing and the only place Charles M. Schulz's classic has ever been collected in its entirety. Featuring impeccab

(W) Charles M Schulz, Jake Tapper (A/CA) Charles M Schulz In the 22nd volume of The Complete Peanuts, new in paperback, Schulz?s cartooning has never been more expressive, and the strip continues to surprise and delight. Welcome Andy to the cast of characters, as all three dog brothers reunite to cheer on Snoopy, who bounces back from a bout of pneumonia. In other news, Charlie Brown is a baseball hero after hitting a game-winning home run. Linus lobbies the White House to nominate Snoopy for an open Supreme Court seat (alas, he doesn?t make the cut). And Woodstock discovers his long-lost grandfather?s diary, recounting the indignities of life trapped in a (gasp!) birdcage.The Complete Peanuts is the publishing project that launched a renaissance in comic strip publishing and the only place Charles M. Schulz?s classic has ever been collected in its entirety. Featuring impeccable production values, each volume of this series features two successive years of newspaper strips (dailies and Sundays), plus bonus material such as celebrity introductions, interviews, and a brief biography o

(W) Charles M. Schulz A box set collecting two volumes of the series presenting the entire run of the world's greatest newspaper comic strip, in chronological order, dailies and Sundays, two years per volume (In Vols. 15-16, we leave the 1970s behind as we enter the 1980s!) and includes forewords by famous fans and friends. The Complete Peanuts 1979-1982 gift box set includes paperback editions of Vols. 15 and 16 and introductions by Al Roker and Lynn Johnston. The Complete Peanuts: 50 Years of Art. 26 Books. The publishing project that launched a renaissance in comic strip publishing: the complete reprinting of Charles M. Schulz's classic, Peanuts. This is the only place Peanuts has ever been collected in its entirety. Featuring impeccable production values, every single strip is reproduced better than ever before. The series presents the entire run in chronological order, dailies and Sundays, two years per volume, and includes forewords by famous fans and friends.

(W/A/CA) Charles M. Schulz Also, this season, a new box set collects the latest two volumes (Vols. 17 and 18) of the paperback series.