(W/A/CA) Jack Davis When Jack Davis took up his pen for EC Comics, he imbued his stories with a playful sense of (gallows) humor that made his innocent victims more eye-poppingly terrified, his ax-murders more gleefully gruesome, and his revenge-seeking corpses more morbidly motivated than any other EC artist. These horror and suspense tales ? from the pages of Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, and Shock SuspenStories ? include frightful fare such as ?Hyde and Go Shriek!?, ?Tombs-Day!?, ?Witch Witch?s Witch!?, ?Head-Room!?, ?Chop Talk!?, ?Coffin Spell!?, and more, all leavened with the cackling, pun-laced wit of scripter Al Feldstein and illuminated as only the virtuoso brushwork of Jack Davis could present them.But the standout story has to be ?Foul Play,? the most infamous of all EC horror stories, in which a baseball team takes revenge on a murderous rival player by, um (spoiler alert), ?repurposing? various parts of his anatomy for one final blood-spattered, organ-scattered inning. You?ll never see a baseball game the same way again. And as gruesome as that so

(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.

(W) Wallace Wood, Al Feldstein, Ray Bradbury (A/CA) Wallace Wood This mouth-watering collection features the finest (and rarest!) science fiction stories Wallace Wood ever drew — more than two dozen! Wood’s meticulously detailed, genre-defining brushwork introduces you to breathtaking planetary vistas, terrifying aliens, and sleek rocket ships surging with the power to conquer the stars.Our title story is a rarity that never appeared in any EC comic. Writtenand drawn for a 3-D comic that was canceled before it could be printed, we present it here in easy-on-the-eyes 2-D. Then, Wood’s most iconic story, “My World” is a stunning showcase of the preternatural talent and technique he brought to all his stories. Also included are his trilogy of Ray Bradbury adaptations — “Home to Stay,” “There Will Come Soft Rains…” and “Mars Is Heaven!” — plus “He Walked Among Us,” a “what if…?” variation on Bradbury’s “The Man” from The Illustrated Man.But that’s not all! An incredible science fiction bonus: Al Feldstein wrote many stories of people reaching from the beyond to right a wrong, but with t

For years, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has taken a large sketchpad and a magic marker on speaking tours to help teach the most important topics of the day with illustrations. Economics in Wonderland is a collection of both his mini essays and the cartoons he drew to illustrate them. Reich's erudite talks are collected here for the first time, accompanied by his clean-line and confident cartoons, clearly explaining the consequences of the disastrous policies of global austerity with humor, insight, passion, and warmth.

(W/A/CA) Rutu Modan Eddie Spaghetti gets into all kinds of delightful mischief in this early reader's instant classic. Eddie Spaghetti is just an average kid who finds himself caught up in silly, sweetly innocent adventures. In these charming stories Eddie, accompanied by his big goofy dog, goes fishing in his goldfish bowl, saws the legs off a too-high table, and takes a bath with his clothes on! The bright colors, lively drawings, and sing-songy rhymes will delight young readers as they follow along Eddie's lighthearted mischief. Eddie Spaghetti, originally created by Israeli artist Aryeh Navon and poet Lea Golberg in the 1930s, is one of the most beloved characters in the Hebrew language. As a tribute to these renowned creators, cartoonist Rutu Modan offers her own playful take on this classic character for a new, international generation of young readers. This is an exceptional book of high-quality comics designed specifically for children four and up.

(W/A) Kenny Wroten A blistering critique of digital media and a kaleidoscopic depiction of consumer culture, Eden II is both fanciful and satirical, a combination of deft cartooning and virtuosic storytelling. In the grungy, punk-inflected world Kenny Wroten creates, a cast of disaffected young characters struggle to find their purpose in life. Faced with a dying Earth and numbingly useless jobs, protagonists Ellis and Dr. Otis Heck invent an immersive virtual reality game, Eden II. But when Heck betrays Ellis and sells the game to a mysterious corporation, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur. As each chapter highlights a new character in the ensemble, the game's impact grows as the world becomes consumed by fantasy. Coming off the heels of their acclaimed queer comics Cannonball and Crimes, Eden II is Wroten's magnum opus, establishing them as a breakout graphic novelist. Philosophical, sarcastic, self-assured, Eden II is a vital work of the moment that positions Wroten alongside recent comics luminaries like Emily Carroll, Caroline Cash, Isabel Greenberg, Melanie G

(W) Dominique Grange (A/CA) Tardi In May 1968, France exploded. Leftist student groups occupied the streets of Paris, riot police clashed with protesters, and a general strike spread across France like wildfire, threatening to grind government and industry to a halt. And at the heart of it all ? Elise.Ten years earlier, Elise came to Paris to try her luck in show business. While she met with success as a pop singer, she soon found herself radicalized by the Algerian War and the poor treatment of Algerian immigrants in Paris. For the next 20 years, she would join the fight against labor exploitation, social injustice, and racism in France ? risking it all for progressive causes. The firsthand account of activist and singer Dominique Grange,Elise and the New Partisansis an authentic and exhilarating glimpse into the front lines of the spirited social movements of late-20th century France. Drawn with typical mastery by legendary French cartoonist Tardi, this graphic novel resonates powerfully at a time when the fight against injustice still rages.

(W/A/CA) Anne Simon Set in the same world as Anne Simon's The Song of Aglaia, Empress Cixtisis tells the story of another female ruler who kidnaps all of the men from Agalaia's kingdom and brings them to Tchitchinie to castrate them and make them her slaves. Will Queen Aglaia be able to bring the men back and restore peace to the region? Anne Simon showcases a deft touch in this allegorical fantasy that blends feminism, satire, and farce into a story brimming with subversive twists and comical turns.

(W/A/CA) Mia Wolff The Empty Lotis a visually stunning roller coaster ride through brain of Mia Wolff. It is a surreal and fascinating journey that begins with a dream that spills into the author?s local Brooklyn neighborhood and her favorite empty lot, which naturally serves as the portal to the demon on Canal St who we find just happening to be cavorting in a flood of blood. This monograph features Wolff's astonishingly beautiful and accomplished paintings and a fantastic narrative of strange ecstasies amidst war.With a conversation between the author and famed SF author, essayist, and memoirist Samuel R. Delany.

(W/A/CA) Charles Forsman To coincide with the forthcoming Netflix television adaptation of Chuck Forsman's best-selling 2013 graphic novel, Fantagraphics is proud to publish this new hardcover edition. TEotFW portrays James and Alyssa living a typical teen experience that takes a more nihilistic turn as James's character exhibits a rapidly forming sociopathy. Forsman's story highlights the existential search of many teenagers through a road trip drama that owes as much to Badlands as Charles Schulz, creating a wholly unique narrative tension between form and content.

LARRYBEAR HAS MOVED TO THE CITY IN NEW VOLUME Eye of the Majestic Creature Vol. 2 is the second book collecting Leslie Stein's loose, funny and charming autobiographical narratives that combine idiosyncratic fantasy and stark reality. Larrybear, our hero, has moved from the countryside to the city, where she finds work as a shop girl. Quotes from Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie are sprinkled throughout the story to add humor and poignancy. Stein then takes us back to a childhood in the '80s filled with odd experiences including joining a rock band with older people, sitting in on her mother's AA groups, and the mystery of the disappearing gumballs. Finally, a fun story in which Larrybear and her new friend, Poppin the Flower go on a strange trip to see his father. Let us not forget that Marshmallow, Ping-Ping and Mimolette, Larry's walking and talking instruments, have adventures all their own. Stein's gorgeous cartooning, highlighted by incredibly detailed stippling, and her dry sense of humor combine to make one of the most unique and immersive narrative experiences in comics.

LARRYBEAR HAS MOVED TO THE CITY IN NEW VOLUME Eye of the Majestic Creature Vol. 2 is the second book collecting Leslie Stein's loose, funny and charming autobiographical narratives that combine idiosyncratic fantasy and stark reality. Larrybear, our hero, has moved from the countryside to the city, where she finds work as a shop girl. Quotes from Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie are sprinkled throughout the story to add humor and poignancy. Stein then takes us back to a childhood in the '80s filled with odd experiences including joining a rock band with older people, sitting in on her mother's AA groups, and the mystery of the disappearing gumballs. Finally, a fun story in which Larrybear and her new friend, Poppin the Flower go on a strange trip to see his father. Let us not forget that Marshmallow, Ping-Ping and Mimolette, Larry's walking and talking instruments, have adventures all their own. Stein's gorgeous cartooning, highlighted by incredibly detailed stippling, and her dry sense of humor combine to make one of the most unique and immersive narrative experiences in comics.

(W/A/CA) Briana Loewinsohn A debut graphic novel that poignantly blends memoir, magic realism, and graphic medicine. Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts among a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to a parent who struggles with mental illness. Gorgeously illustrated, it is a quiet book of isolation, plants, confusion, acceptance, and the fog of childhood.

(W/A/CA) Carol Tyler During collisions between life and death, estrangement and loss, Carol Tyler turned to her pen to face facts and extract meaning from the oddly sacred experience. Exploring realms metaphorical, half-imagined, and all-too-real, she explored previously uncharted emotional territory for herself and others, in a work that is both painfully intimate and philosophically rich.An artistic advancement nearly forty years into Tyler?s comics-making career, The Ephemerata features Tyler?s most breathtaking picture making ever ? fine, dense brush lines complemented with occasional color washes or highlights ? and formally stunning cartooning. Combining art and text in multiple ways ? in the traditional comics panel grid, as words-and-illustration, as organically flowing images surrounded by floating text ? she depicts the inner monologue of a fallible human being grappling with questions of profound relevance. Tyler?s memoirist skills also rise to the fore, excavating and colliding scenes from her history, delineating with sensitive intuition ways in which the inevitability

(W) Josh Mills & Various Fantagraphics presents a career retrospective of Ernie Kovacs featuring never-before-seen material from Kovacs's archive. Best known for his television show in the 1950s, Kovacs was also an illustrator, novelist, essayist, newspaper columnist, and poet. The book offers a unique glimpse into the mind of a pioneering humorist who inspired countless comedians, musicians, humorists, and writers in the latter half of the 20th century and beyond.

This rollicking prose travelogue is a biting and witty examination of a country that, for many, seems alien and distanced from the modern world. Brimming with anecdotes of Theroux's encounters with Estonian people and using his trademark acrobatic allusions, quotations, and digressions, Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery establishes Theroux's place beside Thomas Pynchon as one of the sharpest cultural commentators of our time.

(W) Pat Thomas (A/CA) Various From the late 1950s to the mid-70s, work by contributors like Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Eldridge Cleaver, Tim Leary, Dennis Hopper, Jean Genet, Jerry Rubin, Bernadette Devlin, and Germaine Greer regularly appeared in the countercultural magazine Evergreen Review. Their subversive work and radical politics defined outsider literature for an entire generation. Edited by Barney Rosset of Grove Press, Evergreen Review was a quarterly illustrated/photography driven reflection of that genre. For the first time ever since their original print date, full color reproductions of all front covers of all 100 issues of the Evergreen Review from 1957 to 1973, plus hundreds of pages from many of the issues are reprinted exactly as they looked then ? with all illustrations, photography, even the ads for other books, albums, letters to the editor, subscription offers, etc. ? left intact! Historian Pat Thomas interviewed original 1960s era Evergreen staffers to get the inside scoop on the day-to-day operation of the magazine, and those conversations

Foreword by Nick Tosches. Rock critic Paul Nelson was an early champion of visionaries such as The New York Dolls, the Ramones and Warren Zevon amongst others before walking away from music criticism in 1982 and dying a lonely death in 2006. This unique anthologybiography compiles Nelson's best works while also providing a vivid account of his private and public lives. Author Kevin Avery interviewed almost 100 of Paul Nelson's friends, family, and colleagues, including several of the artists about whom he'd written.

(W) Alberto Breccia & Various In a sequel to their spellbinding, experimental biography of Che Guevara, Hector Germ?n Oesterheld and the Breccias chronicle the eventful life of Eva Per?n. Published in 1970, Evita: The Life and Work of Eva Per?n was daringly intended to be the follow-up to the artists' successful and controversial 1969 graphic biography Life of Che. Hector Germ?n Oesterheld plotted the book and the father and son team of Alberto and Enrique Breccia drew the comic - but the text was 'sanitized' before its publication. In 2001, a restored version of Evita featuring Oesterheld's original, uncensored script wasfinally published in Spanish; it is translated in English here for the first time. In just 72 boldly penned chiaroscuro pages, this graphic biography paints a complex portrait of a pivotal Argentine figure who was at once beloved and reviled by her people. Born in rural Argentina to extreme poverty, she moved to Buenos Aires where she met and married Colonel Per?n, who would become president of Argentina. As First Lady, affectionately nicknamed Evita, she devoted h

(W/A/CA) Max Andersson A new German Expressionist-influenced graphic novel from the author of Pixy and Bosnian Flat Dog where nothing is as it seems. A man and his girlfriend go to visit his family, only to find their home destroyed and his father Frankensteining his siblings. Based on the author's dreams, The Excavation's surreal verisimilitude recalls cult films like The Forbidden Zone and Eraserhead and reads like a collaboration between Gary Panter and Edvard Munch.

A collection of semi-autobiographical and fantasy-based comics that combine dry humor, psychedelia, and emotion to show the viewpoint of one person's world internally and externally. The stories follow Larrybear, a young girl, and her acoustic guitar Marshmallow on their adventures through the countryside, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. In a constant struggle between the desire to connect with those around her and to be left to her own devices, Larrybear is a heroine for our times!

(W) Gilbert Shelton & Various The third release in our Freak Brothers Follies series traces the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers back to their hippie origins! The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers - Freewheelin' Franklin, Phineas, and Fat Freddy - score some sinsemilla from a country cousin, start a softball league to score free drinks, adopt a possessed parakeet that outwits the D.E.A., and inadvertently take in a couple of undercover cops as housemates! The title story collects an epic that ran for over six months in newspapers, in which the Brothers, evicted from their apartment, move to the country to get back to nature - only to discover that nature doesn't want them! Meanwhile, Fat Freddy's Cat adapts much more readily to outdoor living. Then, in a bonus tale, the cat leads the way in the accidental animal rights adventure, 'Animal Camp.' Grass Roots and Other Follies is the third release in this special series of seven volumes compiling the complete Freak Brothers comic adventures. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide in 16 languag

(W/A/CA) Gilbert Shelton, Dave Sheridan In this early epic of the hilarious and politically correct Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Freewheelin? Franklin, Phineas, and Fat Freddy think they?re in the money when they establish their own low-fare one-vehicle bus line in the full-color (painted!) adventure, ?The $29.95 SF to NYC Non-Stop Whiteline Cannonball Express.? But that cheap price means lots of unexpected detours ? especially when they decide to let the passengers vote on the stops along the way! (Of course, they forget to include the cost of gas in their plans, and they don?t seem to understand the meaning of ?express.?) Then, the brothers give Fat Freddy money to score some weed, and he proudly returns with...an electric train set?Other Freak follies in this volume include all of the color strips from the Freak Brothers? adventures as originally published in High Times and Playboy magazines. Plus: Fat Freddy?s Cat stars in the black-and-white ?Chariots of the Globs? and the color ?The Burning of Hollywood,? along with other solo outings!High Times and Misdemeanors is the fifth

(W) Gilbert Shelton, Paul Mavrides The hilarity never stops in this second collection of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics stories, featuring the Brothers' trip to the 21st century and two Fat Freddy's Cat solo escapades. In this collection of hilarious and politically correct short comics, Freewheelin' Franklin, Phineas, and Fat Freddy form a band; bring home a stray container of plutonium; try to make it through a whole day without getting stoned; and help Phineas through his pregnancy, in 'Phineas Gets an Abortion.' (About which, say no more). (Oh, did we say: 'politically correct?' Just kidding!) In the titular story, the Freak Brothers venture outside on a mission to score a little weed. It is their first encounter with the wonders of the 21st century. ('Still illegal?') Plus: Fat Freddy's Cat stars in two solo adventures, including a visit to 'Cat Heaven.' Fat Freddy himself stars in a bonanza of satirical sketches skewering such targets as Star Wars, G.I. Joe, and Superman. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers in the 21st Century and Other Follies by Gilbert Shelton and P

(W/A/CA) Gilbert Shelton Back to the beginning! See the original hippie days (and hippie daze) of the unrelated Brothers and watch as Shelton shifts from stoner slapstick to both sitcom and satire, building a broad approach that would let him comment comedically through these hapless mouthpieces for five decades. Also in this volume: the earliest appearances of the Freaks’ feline flat mate Fat Freddy’s Cat, and a selection of other contemporaneous cartooning by Shelton, showing the range of styles and voices that he would soon channel into the Freak Brothers as their stardom ensued.Times of No Money is the sixth release in this special series of seven graphic albums. (The series presents all the Freak Brothers’ adventures chronologically, but individual albums are being released in a different order.) The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide in 16 languages. These painstakingly restored hardcovers, featuring die-cut covers, are the first North American bookshelf editions in more than thirty years.

(W/A/CA) Marc Palm VAMPIRISM! MYTHOLOGY! DECAPITATION! WITCHCRAFT! MARIJUANA! and DEFAMATION!! Before, her life was all fun and profits. Now, after receiving a hallucinogenic snake bite, famed 'monster hunter' The FANG experiences a psychedelic nightmare. The Hash Hag and Weed Witch dispense scaly insight to help unravel these twisted visions. The FANG is sent on a journey of mythologically

(W/A/CA) Joe Queenan For two and a half millennia, generals and CEOs alike have followed the lessons of Sun Tzu. But for the time-poor modern warlord on the go, humorist Joe Queenan has condensed these precepts into their vital essence. The sprightly illustrations of Keith Bendis help to focus the student's attention on this entirely serious, in no way sardonic, take on the 2,500-year-old text.

(W) Hans Rickheit, Krissy Dorn When Delia receives mysterious radio signals from beyond the planet, her curiosity is sparked. The plucky young scientist teams up with the esteemed Professor Tak and his bohemian son Theodore to convince the skeptical citizenry that this is not all just some elaborate hoax. The implications of her discovery may shatter her world. Set in an atmospheric '50s-era city in a parallel universe populated by anthropomorphic squirrels, Delia is a sprightly comics collaboration between cartoonist Hans Rickheit (The Squirrel Machine, Cochlea & Eustachia) and his wife, Krissy Dorn. This sci-fi adventure romp brims with dark humor, danger, and ominous allegorical undertones.

(W/A/CA) Jason Novak In this adaptation of the original 1924 version of In Our Time, cartoonist Jason Novak finds the graphic equivalent of Hemingway's lean, muscular prose - stark, punchy, beautifully composed panels that convey the understated poetics of those early, famously breathtaking stories.

(W) Elizabeth Haidle Portland-based artist Elizabeth Haidle muses, "Drawing from live models is hard. Why do we do hard things?" And as she paints the human form in dazzling watercolors, uncovering the nuances of gesture, evoking the personalities behind the poses, embellishing her figures with whimsical details - in short, striving to capture the enormity of humanity - she may have just found her answer. (STL213972) (C: 0-1-1)

(W/A/CA) Johnny Ryan FATCOP never passes up a possible grift, a chance to use excessive force, or a pit stop at any chain restaurant he passes. He chafes when forced to take a new partner, Pete Rick, to keep him on the up and up. Even when he lucks into a heroic deed, he manages to do so repulsively. But when FATCOP uncovers a child slave ring operating out of the local Trader Joe?s, he may have met his match on the reprehensibility scale. If he?s not careful, it might be a transformative experience that causes him to reconsider his role as a loving partner and father. Well, up to a point, anyway ? sometimes a fat cop is just a FATCOP.Johnny Ryan returns to his lowbrow humor roots following his cult classic and violent fantasy series, Prison Pit. Ping-ponging his antihero through an ever-escalating and cascading series of violent, scatological, and wildly imaginative absurdities (most but not all of FATCOP?s own making), Ryan?s brilliance as a visual and verbal gag writer shines on every page of this master class in physical humor and comics storytelling. FATCOP is as hilarious as i

(W/A/CA) Joe Ciardiello In this gorgeous graphic memoir, Joe Ciardiello weaves together his Italian family history and the mythology of the American West while paying homage to the classic Westerns of the '50s and '60s. Ciardiello's sinuous ink line and vivid watercolors illuminate the oversized characters that dominated the cinematic American West-featuring John Ford, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Claudia Cardinale, Sophia Loren, and many more. A paean to Hollywood, a love letter to the Western, and a tribute to its Italian influences.

(W) Nicki Michaels An intimate (and sometimes goofy) portrait of cartoonist Willy Murphy's life, loves, and struggles - and a revealing glimpse into the underground comix scene in San Francisco in the early and mid-1970s. Written and edited by those who knew him best, this book is bursting with personal reminiscences, Willy's playful sketches and drawings, never-before-seen photographs, and a cornucopia of the comix - most newly scanned from his original art.

THE SEQUEL TO FRANK AND THE CONGRESS OF THE ANIMALS FEATURES EVEN MORE STUNNING VISUALS For the past 20 years or so, Jim Woodring's beloved trilobular chuckbuster Frank has enjoyed one mindbending catastrophe after another in the treacherous embrace of The Unifactor, the land into which he was born and from which escape seemed neither desirable nor likely. And then, abruptly, in 2011's acclaimed Congress of the Animals (the second Woodring orginal graphic novel, following Weathercraft) Frank did leave the Unifactor for uncharted lands beyond-where, after a string of trials, he acquired a soulmate named Fran. This development raised far more questions than it answered. Would Frank become placid and domesticated? Would he be jilted? Would he turn out to be a dreadful cad? Would he become a downtrodden and exhausted paterfamilias staring vacantly into the dimming fire of life as obnoxious grandchildren pulled his peglike ears and stole his porridge? The answers to these fruitless speculations and many more are delivered in a devastatingly unpredictable fashion in Fran, which is in effec

(W/A/CA) Thomas Woodruff A stunning, head-turning, 'graphic opera' masterpiece from an acclaimed painter and illustrator. Francis Rothbart follows a feral child who is raised by magpies and other creatures and is repeatedly struck by lightning. Because of these phenomena, the child develops eccentric talents, which he then abuses, leading to his ultimate destruction by the same natural world that once nurtured him. Written mostly in rhymed verse, Francis's picaresque saga unfolds in an allegorical environment, much like the topographical constructions behind renaissance religious paintings. Referencing both the Venetian landscapes of Bellini, Pierro di Cosimo, and Carpaccio, mixed with the unlikely animated backdrops of Jay Ward and Chuck Jones, Woodruff's images recall the fictive gardens of a paradise lost that lingers somewhere deep in all our souls, moist and dark like the caves of the pious saints. Combining both paintings and drawings, each scene is a visual and verbal feast that transports us to a place in which trees anthropomorphize into figures bending from the weight of s

(W) Keith Mayerson, Chris Byrne An astonishing historical and artistic discovery: a 2300 page proto-graphic novel begun by a 'weekend cartoonist' in 1928 and continuing over the next 50 years! When Frank Johnson, an itinerant musician and shipping clerk, died in 1979, he left behind a startling discovery: more than 2,300 notebook pages of comics and 131 unbound drawings, among them a massive, continuous story line beginning in the earliest surviving notebook dated 1928 - before the existence of comic books! - and following the exploits of his own cast of characters across 50 years until Johnson passed away. During this lifelong project, Johnson invented in private many of the conventions and tropes that define comics storytelling, effectively enacting an alternative secret history of the comics medium. This debut publication of Johnson's work is the first of two 600+ page volumes that will collect the best 1200 pages of his comics, including Wally's Gang, his 50-year magnum opus chronicling the humorous, cliff-hanging adventures of a group of bachelor friends; The Bowser Boys, a s

(W/A/CA) Frank Stack Frank Stack has been been quietly creating observational, iconoclastic art for more than forty years and is best known as the artist behind Harvey Pekar's award-winning graphic novel, My Cancer Year and as the creator of the first underground comic book, The Adventures of Jesus. Foolbert Funniescollects comics that ran in National Lampoonand other publications and features characters such as Dirty Diana, nostalgic time traveler Frank Crankcase, commonsensical Dr. Feelgood, politician Paddy Booshwah and a host of Amazons, artists, and pulp heroes, all depicted in Stack's scratchy, hatchy "crowquill" style.

(W/A/CA) Roger Langridge This nearly wordless romp from master cartoonist Roger Langridge is the author's paean to the silent, heartbreaking slapstick comedies or the teens and '20s, spun for a contemporary audience. Though Langridge has garnered considerable acclaim the past few years for his brilliant takes on The Muppet Show, Popeye, Betty Boop, and Marvel Monsters, he is at heart a cartooning auteur, earning multiple Eisner, Harvey, Reuben, and Ignatz Awards nominations.

Alex is an animator and he's angry. Stuck in a traffic jam on his way to his job at 'Mickey Walt' Studios, Alex rages, reminisces, fantasizes and hallucinates about his early days as a starry-eyed animator landing his dream job, through the increasingly depressing political battles and creative compromises. Loaded with insider information on two generations of animators, Freeway is another ambitious step forward for a major cartooning talent.