(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!
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
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.
(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.
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
(W/A/CA) Ali Fitzgerald
Ali Fitzgerald began teaching comics-making to refugees at a Berlin emergency shelter. In her eight years in Germany, Fitzgerald experienced her student's and her own creative highs, along with the deep depression of the disillusioned. In the refugee center, worlds collide and Fizgerald's story entwines the complex themes of political and personal displacement. Her drawings are compassionate and unflinchingly intimate making for a stunning graphic memoir about what you find when you attempt to help lost people.
(W) Merrill Markoe (A/CA) Drew Friedman
Featuring over 100 of Drew Friedman's portraits of artists, cartoonists, comedians, musicians, actors, politicians, the famous and the infamous, rendered by the man Boing Boing calls 'The greatest living portrait artist.' No one is spared the loving Friedman treatment, including Drew Friedman himself!
A decades-spanning collection from the 'founding mother' of modern sho-jo manga. Fantagraphics Books' first volume of manga is a collection of short stories by one of Japan's most influential and critically lauded comics innovators.
(W/A/CA) Georgia Webber
Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how the author copes with the everyday challenges that come with voicelessness. Webber adroitly uses the comics medium to convey the hurdles she faced as well as the fear and dread that accompanied her journey to regain her life. She learns to lean on the support of her close friends, finds self-expression in creating comics, and comes to understand and appreciate how deeply her voice and identity are intertwined.
Expanded to more than twice the length of the previous volumes, Dungeon Quest Book Three continues the adventures of Millennium Boy, Steve, Lash and Nerdgirl as they traverse mysterious underground realms. This latest installment of the stoner D&D epic brings a whole new level of bizarre comedy, rousing adventure and ass-kicking action - all staged in front of fantastic backdrops replete with strange vegetation, ancient ruins and steam-punk imagery.
(W/A/CA) Cathy Malkasian
Cathy Malkasian's Eartha is an expansive tale of pastoral life, city corruption, greed, and addictions, and reverberates with questions plaguing us today, such as the alienating effects of hyper-connectivity and the self-destructive obsession with novelty. Malkasian's rigorous draftsmanship, stunning landscapes and sophisticated storytelling are all on display in Eartha, making this the author's lushest and most impressive graphic novel yet.
SCIENCE FICTION COMICS FROM THE GLORY DAYS OF CLASSIC COMIC BOOKS Al Feldstein is best known as the main writer/editor of the EC comics line during the first half of the 1950s-and then the editor of Mad Magazine for the first three decades of its existence. But what many don't know or remember is that Feldstein was also an accomplished and distinctive cartoonist, whose comics (which he both wrote and drew, a relative rarity in those days) adorned the pages of many of those selfsame EC comics. His powerfully composed, meticulously inked pages, often featuring grotesque creatures or scenes of ghastly destruction (and some of the greatest stiffly handsome/beautiful specimens of 1950s humanity ever put to paper), were a vital part of the allure of these classic comics. Feldstein's contributions to the first year and a half of EC's two SF titles, Weird Science and Weird Fantasy-comprising 16 classic O. Henry-style shock-ending stories with such evocative, vintage title as ''Things' From Outer Space.' 'The Flying Saucer Invasion,' 'Spawn of Venus,' 'Destruction of the Earth,' and 'Am I Man
(W) Al Feldstein, William M Gaines (A/CA) Graham Ingles
Even in this era of explicit horror films, "Ghastly" Graham Ingels still delivers a shock to readers with his grisly depictions of the fates of evil doers. Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC line, Grave Business And Other Stories superbly showcases these classic comic book masterpieces and enhances the reader's experience with commentary and historical and biographical detail from EC experts.
(W) Al Feldstein (A/CA) Jack Davis
These classic tales from the pages of Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, and Shock SuspenStories offer everything a horror fan could ask for: re-animated cadavers, a body-hoarding ghoul, a vampire who moonlights at a blood bank and other assorted grotesqueries. All leavened with the cackling humor of Al Feldstein and illustrated as only Jack Davis can. More than 30 stories, plus extensive story notes and bonus features.
Death Stand And Other Stories collects all the combat tales Davis and Kurtzman did together for EC's Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, and even includes Davis's adaptation of an excerpt from James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans. More than 30 stories illustrated by Jack Davis, most scripted by EC legend Harvey Kurtzman, plus extensive story notes and bonus features.
INTO THE HELL OF BATTLE WITH SEVERIN, ELDER, AND KURTZMAN The team of Harvey Kurtzman and John Severin was one of the most fruitful collaborations in the history of comics. The work they did combines the taut emotional and psychological insights of Stephen Crane with a verisimilitude so gritty that it seems as if they are reporting from the scene. Together with inker and friend Will Elder, whose own obsession for detail perfectly heightened the impact of every line, they produced 34 war stories - emotionally draining and dramatically eloquent - in just under three years. This book collects them all. Settings include: the Roman empire; the Revolutionary War; the American-Indian Wars; the Alamo; the Civil War; World War I (in the trenches and in the air); World War II (in the Pacific and in Europe, including the D-Day invasion); and the Korean War.
MAD would have been enough to cement Harvey Kurtzman's reputation as one of the titans of American comics, but he also created two other landmarks: the scrupulously-researched and superbly-crafted war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat. Like every book in the new Fantagraphics EC line, 'Corpse on the Imjin!' will feature extensive essays and notes by EC experts - but Kurtzman's stories, as vital, powerful, and affecting and as when they were created 60 years ago, make this a must-have.