(W) Paul Murry (A/CA) Giorgio Cavazzano Explore classic Disney adventures with Disney Masters Vol. 21: Mickey Mouse: The Monster of Sawtooth Mountain by Paul Murry and Vol. 22: Uncle Scrooge: Operation Galleon Grab by Giorgio Cavazzano!First: in ?The Monster of Sawtooth Mountain,? Chief O?Hara pitchforks Mickey and Goofy into saving Cousin Frosty?s winter resort from big, fat, hairy trouble! From snowballs to cliffside falls, deadly accidents have Sawtooth Mountain in an uproar? and if a man-eating yeti isn?t responsible, who is? Then Mickey confronts mystical Hawaiian elves in ?Pineapple Poachers?? and is forced to reform the villainous Pegleg Pete in ?Mickey?s Strange Mission?! Next: in ?Operation Galleon Grab,? Uncle Scrooge finds an old model ship covered with clues to a pirate treasure?but hot on its trail are real pirates: rival billionaire John D. Rockerduck and the Beagle Boys! Also in this exciting volume: Donald Duck seeks a crocodile-infested fountain of youth in ?There?s No Fool Like an Old Fool?; Goofy battles supervillains in ?Here Today, Gone Apollo?? and Scrooge disc

(W) Andrew Casty Castellan & Various Two new slipcased sets featuring the latest volumes from our popular Disney Masters series! Collector's Box Set #9 includes adventurous, outrageous Disney comics classics featuring Mickey tries to reform musical ex-convict J. Cobalt Bloogle (Volume 17, Mickey Mouse: The Man from Altacraz) and Scrooge enters the infamous Flitterwobble Airplane Show as a stunt pilot, he ends up defending his priceless antique Sopwith Two-Seater plane from the bombastic Baron Von Strudel (Volume 18, Uncle Scrooge: Pie in the Sky)! Collector's Box Set #10 showcases international Disney comics epics: Mickey faces monster robots and a dimension of danger (Volume 19, Mickey Mouse: Trapped in the Shadow Dimension) and Cousin Fethry leads Donald on a trail of trouble from hill country to the briny deep (Volume 20, Donald Duck: 20,000 Leaks Under the Sea)! Fantagraphics' Disney Masters series unearths a treasure trove of previously unavailable comics epics in the grand Walt Disney tradition: expanding the lore of Mickey, Donald, and Scrooge, anthologizing the work of fan-f

(W) Massimo De Vita (A) Giorgio Cavazzano Featuring: Vol. 11: Mickey Mouse: The Ice Sword Saga Book 2 by Massimo De Vita. (MAR201856) Vol. 12: Donald Duck: The Forgetful Hero by Giorgio Cavazzano. (MAR201856)

(W) Paul Murry & Various Collector's Box Set #7 includes Disney comics classics featuring Mickey and Goofy (Volume 13, Mickey Mouse: The Sunken City) and Donald and Cousin Fethry (Volume 14, Donald Duck: Follow the Fearless Leader)!

(W) Paul Murry & Various New slipcased sets featuring the latest volumes from our popular Disney Masters series! This season we offer two sets of Disney Masters slipcased gift boxes! Collector's Box Set #7 includes adventurous, outrageous Disney comics classics featuring Mickey and Goofy in ripping high-seas yarns (Volume 13, Mickey Mouse: The Sunken City) and Donald and Cousin Fethry in the complete run of their wild 1960s comedies (Volume 14, Donald Duck: Follow the Fearless Leader)! Collector's Box Set #8 showcases international Disney comics epics: Donald and Uncle Scrooge face a spacealien invasion (Volume 16, Donald Duck: Jumping' Jupiter) and we feature Mickey Mouse's inky archenemy, the Phantom Blot, by collecting his full 1960s miniseries (Volume 15, Mickey Mouse: New Adventures of the Phantom Blot)! Fantagraphics' Disney Masters series unearths a treasure trove of previously unavailable comics epics in the grand Walt Disney tradition: expanding the lore of Mickey, Donald, and Scrooge, anthologizing the work of fan-favorite North American talents, and bringing you the best

(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) Luciano Bottaro & Various (A/CA) Luciano Bottaro For Duck lovers, get the all-Donald Disney Masters Gift Box Set #2 featuring our first two Donald Duck volumes (Donald Duck: Uncle Scrooge's Money Rocket and Donald Duck: The Great Survival Test).

(W/A/CA) Romano Scarpa When Floyd Gottfredson stopped creating new Mickey Mouse adventures in 1955, Romano Scarpa pick quickly proved himself a worthy successor, spinning out new Mickey action epics, most of which have never been available in English! Now Fantagraphics is translating and anthologizing Scarpa's best! This volume features the title story plus 'The Bleep-Bleep 15' and 'The Fabulous Kingdom of Shan-Grilla,' two tales making their North American debut!

(W) Carlo Chendi Our second entry in the new Disney Masters series spotlights one of the all-time great Disney Duck artists, Luciano Bottaro! Building on the Carl Barks tradition, Bottaro spun wild, thrilling, and near-psychedelic Duckburg tales for decades! Now Fantagraphics brings Bottaro's best Disney works to the English-speaking world, starring with, Bottaro's great sci-fi bad guy Rebo in three feature-length Duck classics.

(W) Paul Murry (A/CA) Carl Fallberg Classic Disney artist Paul Murry and writer Carl Fallberg created a series of Mickey and Goofy serials for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories that every Baby Boomer remembers. Join Mickey on the trail of cops-and-robbers capers - from shady doings at 'The Last Resort' to Black Pete's raucous wrangles with a Rajah in 'The Lost Legion!' Murry's first seven Mickey serials are all here - all newly recolored in the warm colors from the original Dell comic books!

(W) Daan Jippes & Various When Disney Legend Carl Barks stopped creating new Disney Duck tales in the early 1970s, Daan Jippes and Freddy Milton picked up right where Barks left off. Now, by popular demand, Fantagraphics collects Jippes and Milton's classic teamups - and 'The Great Survival Test' is just the start of the mayhem! From Donald's war with lucky Gladstone in 'The Briefcase Case' to Daisy's race against time in 'Coat of Harms,' an amazing collection of Duck Family adventures is here!

(W/A) Carl Barks, Romano Scarpa (CA) Romano Scarpa, Carl Barks Donald's super secret identity is back-times two! Every diehard Disney Duck fan knows that Donald is secretly that infamous super-anti-hero, Duck Avenger! But when Uncle Scrooge, to promote his wax museum, sends a robot double of Duck Avenger flying past Donald's house, Donald's secret is threatened! Can our hero use his high-tech Avenger gadgets to allay suspicion -- or will hyper-lucky Gladstone Gander make things even worse? (Oh, yes, you know he will!) And, in 'Ellsworth's Ornery Orphan,' Mickey tells the distant desert tale of his mynah bird pal, Ellsworth -- and a showdown with dread pirate Mozambeak! Then, a money-scented perfume sends Brigitta MacBridge and Scrooge to the isle of Bananaland in 'The Other Golden Helmet'-Scarpa's one-and-only collaboration with Duck artist supreme Carl Barks! For the first time in English!

To dethrone the Shadow Prince of Argaar, a wizard summons Mickey and Goofy to plunge the Sword of Ice into a magic stone. They soon find themselves embroiled in a rumble of giants, dragons, and impossible danger! Then, in 'The Tournament of Argaar,' Mickey and Goofy return to brave deadly volcanoes, steampunk whirlamagigs, and rampaging dinosaurs! Hang onto your swords and shields!

(W/A/CA) Massimo De Vita In this second and final collection of Massimo De Vita's epic saga, Goofy and Mickey return to Argaar to battle an old enemy in 'The Prince of Mists Strikes Back,' and then save the world from a sleeping sickness in 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Stars!' De Vita then turns his attention to Donald Duck and reveals the secrets of the 'Belchfire Runabout', a car that Donald thought he knew inside and out!

(W) Paul Murry (A) Carl Fallberg Seven recolored comics tales starring Mickey, Goofy, and the Gang! Mickey and Goofy are lost at sea, and they get caught in a pitched battle between buccaneer Pete and sneaky submarine commander Captain Grapple. At stake: the ancient gold of Port Rancid, a pirate stronghold that sank beneath the waves - and is now guarded by a pack of very jealous sea monsters! Then, Mickey and Goofy have their hands full with a host of mystery puzzlers - from canoe-going ghosts in 'Legend of Loon Lake' to hi-tech arsonists in 'The Phantom Fires' to a piratical parrot in 'The Castaways of Whale Bay!'

(W) Dick Kinney, Al Hubbard With this volume of the Disney Masters series, we begin collecting the Duck tales of Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard - for the first time in North America! Donald's nerdy cousin Fethry Duck is a mallard on a mission, determined to include Donald in all his sudden passions: from a super exercise regimen to building an indoor farm, to stage magic that turns startlingly real! With this volume of the Disney Masters series, we begin collecting the Ducktales of Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard - for the first time in North America! Kinney and Hubbard were a Disney dream team in the '60s, hatching Donald Duck co-stars like Fethry, master spy Mata Harrier, and terrible tomcat Tabby. From Fethry's very first story through the doggy doings of Scamp to Uncle Scrooge in 'The Case of the Purloined Pearls,' Kinney and Hubbard keep the laughs rolling and the hijinks hopping.

(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) William Van Horn, John Lustig (A) Bill Riling Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck battle old foes and ancient curses in wild comics adventures by fan-favorite artist William Van Horn! By popular demand, this volume begins a comprehensive collection of his Uncle Scrooge and Donald adventures! This inaugural volume includes 'Pie in the Sky,' 'The Amazon Queen' and 'Another Vine Mess.'

(W) Stefano Zanchi, Andrew Casty Castellan Mickey Mouse is up against menacing shadows, monster robots, and a dimension of danger in epic comics adventures by modern-day Disney fan favorite Andrea 'Casty' Castellan! All of Mouseton is swooning over the odd 'Mr. Benevolence,' a masked philanthropist who can't stop doing good -or can he? Mickey thinks he's behind the vanishing of the atomic genius Dr. Einmug - and the arrest of Einmug's otherworldly helper, Atomo Bleep-Bleep! But things get strange when the villainous Pegleg Pete turns up where Mickey least expects him: a 'Shadow Dimension' in which fiction becomes fact! Walking in the footsteps of Disney giants Floyd Gottfredson and Romano Scarpa, Italian writer/artist Andrea 'Casty' Castellan is among today's most inspired and beloved Mickey Mouse comics creators. After many reader requests, Fantagraphics Books is thrilled to present the first Disney Masters volume by the beloved Disney cartoonist Casty! And 'Trapped in the Shadow Dimension'' is just the start! Also: in this volume, Scrooge McDuck squares off with 'The Terrible,

(W) Giorgio Cavazzano The Beagle Boys give Scrooge a super sea battle in this wild new collection of adventure comics! Scrooge McDuck and rival billionaire John D. Rockerduck find an old model ship covered with clues to a sunken treasure galleon and the pirate gold seems so close! But are both tycoons being tricked? Also in this exciting volume: Donald Duck seeks a crocodile-infested fountain of youth in 'There's No Fool Like an Old Fool'; Goofy battles supervillains in 'Here Today, Gone Apollo'? and Scrooge discovers a parallel dimension in 'Brother From Another Earth'!

(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) 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) 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

Published concurrently with Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays Vol. 2 will be an attractive, budget priced boxed set that collects the first two volumes in this acclaimed series!

2012 EISNER AWARD WINNER: BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION/PROJECT-COMIC STRIPS He's faster than a speeding arrow... more powerful than the Sheriff of Nottingham... able to leap high taxes in a single bound! He's Mickey Mouse! He's back in color - and traveling back in time: battling evil medievals in our second book of Floyd Gottfredson's Sunday classics. Donald Duck, Goofy, and mischievous Morty and Ferdie are invited along too... if they dare! Standout stories in this volume include 'The Robin Hood Adventure,' in which Mickey joins the Merry Men: swordfighting, jousting, and risking his life to rob the rich! Then Mickey faces Gold Rush gunslingers as the 'Sheriff of Nugget Gulch'- and outwits the ever-sneaky Mortimer Mouse in 'Mickey's Rival!' Restored from Studio art sources and enhanced with a meticulous recreation of the strips' original color, Robin Hood Rides Again also includes more than 30 pages of swashbuckling extra features. You'll enjoy coveted non-Mouse Disney comics by Gottfredson; rare behind-the-scenes art; and commentary by a Round Table of Mickey scholars.

Our big-eared hero is back with more edge-of-your-seat adventures from the pen of Floyd Gottfredson. In this volume, you'll saddle up for Gottfredson's two most famous Wild West epics: a 'Race for Riches' and 'Bat Bandit!' Lovingly restored from Disney's proof sheets, High Noon at Inferno Gulch also contains more than 50 pages of supplementary features including rare behind-the-scenes art and vintage publicity material!

(W/A/CA) Floyd Gottfredson 'Mickey's Dangerous Double' finds an evil twin Mouse in Mickey's house, alienating his friends and committing crimes in Mickey's name. Also featured: 'Dry Gulch Goofy', and the 'Isle of Moola-La.' Restored from Disney's original proof sheets, Mickey vs. Mickey also includes more than 20 pages of extras such as behind -the-scenes art, rare publicity material, and commentary by Disney experts!

(W/A/CA) Floyd Gottfredson In this final volume of narrative Mickey strips, Floyd Gottfredson and co-writer Bill Walsh infect Mouseton with the super-hi-tech of the Sputnik era. Restored from Disney's original proof sheets, The Mysterious Dr. X also includes more than 30 pages of top-secret extras! You'll enjoy behind-the-scenes art, Gottfredson's rare Christmas comics, and commentary by Disney's own scientific geniuses!

(W) Daan Jippes, Laura McCreary (A) Daan Jippes Pour a bowl of cereal and dig into a nostalgic comics tribute to Disney's One Saturday Morning! From Disney Adventures and its sister magazines come classic comics based on your favorite 1990s Saturday morning cartoon block! See sideways schoolkids Doug and Pepper Ann navigate the halls of tween angst-while sneaky Spinelli of Recess is always up to tricks! Join Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and Mira Nova for big space battles. Then return to the Hundred Acre Wood for The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh? and hit Mouseton for Mickey, Goofy, and (hot-cha-cha!) Mortimer in Mickey MouseWorks! Even the Emmy-Award-winning Teacher's Pet is back in comics? back in print for the first time in decades! Daan Jippes (b. 1945), an internationally beloved Duck artist, lives in the Netherlands. Laura McCreary is a writer and producer best known for her work on American Dad and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Scott Gimple is a writer and showrunner best known for his work on Pepper Ann and The Walking Dead.

(W/A/CA) Lucy Knisley New York Times best-selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a stark portrait of contemporary, twenty-something womanhood. In this next installment of her graphic memoir series, Knisley accompanies her ailing grandparents on a cruise. Part memoir, part travelogue and part family history, Knisley tries to connect with her grandparents and also, by using her grandfather's WWII memoir, reconcile their younger and older selves. Readers will identify with Knisley's frustration and her attempts to come to terms with mortality, as she copes with the stress of travel complicated by her grandparents' frailty.

(W/A/CA) Noah Van Following the success of Fante Bukowski, Fantagraphics proudly presents Disquiet, which showcases the best of Noah Van Sciver's short work, including: "The Death Of Elijah Lovejoy," "The Lizard Who Laughed," and "Punks V. Lizards," a darkly comic work that blends Quadrophenia with Jurassic Park. Plus more! As Robin Edwards notes in her introduction, "The stories in this book run all over the place... What comes through is wholeheartedly Noah: anxious and funny and depressed and weird and brilliant.

Two ditch dwelling degenerates and a dog are the protagonists of this dark comedy / absurdist graphic novel from acclaimed filmmaker and animator Amy Lockhart. Body horror, celebrity obsession, and wealth disparity collide in this satirical romp about an aspiring plastic surgeon to the stars who is forced to live in a shapeshifting, maggot-infested pizza box. This full-color hardcover also includes a fold-out board game, Females As: Furniture! Help Barb get her ticket to justice before Smarnold turns her into furniture!

This new graphic novel from acclaimed cartoonist Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, New School) is his most taut book to date. Doctorsfocuses on death, bereavement and knowing when to let go. Part science-fiction thriller, part family drama, part morality play for the 21st century, and quite possibly Shaw's best book to date.

(W/A/CA) Alex Graham Social justice, 'woke' culture, social media, gender dynamics, and insouciance intersect in this pandemicinspired graphic novel about the repercussions of making mistakes. It's July 2020 in Seattle. Gussy struggles to keep his dog biscuit boutique afloat while a global pandemic rages unchecked. The loneliness of lockdown and social distancing drives his employee Rosie to betray her principles. Rosie's roommate Hissy is at a personal crossroads. A love triangle emerges as they find themselves tangled in a web of police brutality, protests, drugs, dating apps, and Covid chaos. Taking place over the course of just a few days, this is a snapshot of humanity - okay, animals - in crisis. Alex Graham's pandemic-inspired graphic novel was initially serialized six panels at a time on Instagram during the lockdowns of 2020 and became one of the most talked about comics of the year; this hardcover edition will remain a timeless work long after the pandemic ends.

(W) Byron Erickson (A) Giorgio Cavazzano 'Help us, Huey, Louie, and Dewey! You're Morgworld's only hope!' A feature-length fantasy epic pits Donald, Scrooge, and the gang against a deadly troll kingdom! Donald, Uncle Scrooge, and their nephews are locked in a Duckburg family feud when an interdimensional doorway appears? and takes them to Morgworld, a medieval realm where trolls rule, humans are serfs, and dragons beasts of burden! Can our squabbling Ducks bring justice to this land of swords and sorcery? Giorgio Cavazzano (Donald Duck: The Forgetful Hero), among Italy's most celebrated comics artists, brings his outrageous energy, emotive characters, and wild 'techno' style to a feature-length 21st-century Disney fantasy tale, filled with fire-breathing frenzy by beloved writer/editor Byron Erickson ('A Mickey Mystery')! Fly on dragonback to the fortress city of Toom! Meet way-out wizard Hintermann, bold warrior Brendon, boy prisoner Jute, and three blazing dragons? Smoky, Sniffles, and Spitfire! It's up to Donald, Scrooge, and the boys to rescue these ragtag rebels - don your armo

(W) Dick Kinney (A) Al Hubbard Wild Silver Age comics classics follow squabbling Donald and Fethry Duck from hill country to the briny deep! Who lives in a submarine under the sea? Donald's cuckoo-bananas cousin Fethry, that's who! He's roping desperate Don into a two week treasure hunt on the ocean floor? and a bear-taming trip to Duckburg's deepest woods - and a mission to cure hiccups with scary rural remedies! Are fame and fortune worth it? 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. Fresh artwork, fresh new adventures and fresh new laughs!

(W/A/CA) Jeremy Baum Contrasting a futuristic natural environment and a Metropolis-style urban backdrop, D?rfler is about space, time and the characters who inhabit the two landscapes. Strange creatures wander the Northern Mountains trying to distinguish between real and false memories while the city's citizens are subjected to experiments that turn them into political tools, leading one woman to seek revenge against the totalitarian state. A sure to be talked about debut graphic novel.

(W/A/CA) Murray Olderman Sports cartoonist/journalist Murray Olderman began his career in 1947 when many metropolitan newspapers had their own full-time cartoonists to decorate their sports sections. Olderman met most of the greatest sports personalities of the 20th century, from Jesse Owens and Babe Ruth to Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant. The Draw of Sport compiles over 150 of Olderman's favorite personalities from the sporting world. Each full-page illustration is accompanied by Olderman's own personal reminiscences of those illustrious stars.

A UNIQUE MIX OF COMICS, POP CULTURE AND AMERICANA The season's first book from Fantagraphics' new imprint Marschall Books is Drawing Power, a lively collection of mass market print advertising from the 1890s to the recent past, starring both cartoonists and cartoon characters. While critics debate whether comics is high art or low art, the fact is that the comic strip was born as a commercial medium and was nurtured by competition, commerce, and advertising. Drawing Power will be the first book-length examination (and celebration) of the nexus of art and cartoons. It will focus on the commercial roots of newspaper strips; the cross-promotions of artists, their characters, and retail products; and of the superb artwork that cartoonists invested in their lucrative freelance work in advertising. Drawing Power is cultural history, chronicling a time in popular culture when cartoonists were celebrities and their strips and characters competed with the movies for the attention of a mass audience. The book will examine cartoonists as public personalities, and their advertising efforts fr