(W) Charles Forsman, Max de Radigues Hobo Mom was collaborated on and drawn simultaneously by two cartoonists across the Atlantic: Charles Forsman, author of The End of the Fxxxing World (now a hit Netflix series), and Max de Radigu?s, winner of a prestigious prize at the Angoul?me International Festival of Comics for his 2018 graphic novel Bastard. Both of their clean line styles fit together perfectly to tell a sober and intimate story about an emotionally damaged family and the price of freedom. Tom lives a simple life as a single father of pre-teen daughter Sissy, but their estranged wife and mother has chosen a much different path. Natasha hops trains and has become a vagrant since leaving her family a few years earlier. After a dangerous encounter riding the rails, Natasha chooses to show up on the doorstep of the family she abandoned and finds an upset husband, although still deeply in love, and a little girl yearning for a mother. Can someone who covets independence settle down? Forsman and de Radigu?s's Hobo Mom explores the ideas of being trapped in domesticity and whether

(W) Maria Bamford, Scott Marvel Cassidy (A/CA) Scott Marvel Cassidy Newly single fortysomethings Maria Bamford and Scott Cassidy each signed up on the dating site OkCupid, under the respective usernames ?Hogbook? and ?Lazer Eyes.? They went on a date, and then another, and soon, despite a history of Bipolar II disorder and unhealthy relationships for each of them, they fell in love and were married in 2015. We view all of this through the prism of their pug housemates, including Blueberry and Bert (who has an unnatural obsession with Michael Flatley of ?Riverdance? fame), and the elderly bonded pair Betty and Arnold (who recount their star turn as interplanetary canine scientists in the second season of Lady Dynamite). Cassidy?s fine art training translates with ease into graphic storytelling, with a naturalistic illustrative style that is a pitch-perfect match for Bamford?s comic timing, making Hogbook and Lazer Eyes a beautifully illustrated love story, told by some incredibly charming pugs.

(W/A/CA) Janice Shapiro When Ida is sent away for the summer to stay with the Murphys — friends of her father, but also of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald — she travels from New York to France and, unknowingly, into the artistic epicenter of 1929. There, she meets their haughty, sullen, and precocious daughter, Honoria, and wonders if she can be friends with the prettiest girl in the whole world. In the “perfect inverted world” of adults, one of constant play and leisure — and inebriation, of course — it’s the children who most acutely perceive the pervasive unhappiness bubbling beneath the surface gaiety.Achingly sad and effortlessly funny, full of the kind of youthful sincerity unclouded by pretenses of age, short story writer and cartoonist Janice Shapiro’s debut graphic novel, Honoria, is the complex story of the education of two young girls who have started moving slowly into womanhood.

(W/A/CA) Sophie Goldstein When Sarai and her fellow emissaries from the Empire disembark from their ship, they find themselves on a planet teeming with life and mystery. The natives, whom they intend to 'civilize,' are not as malleable as expected and their only other human contact, a man, causes further conflict within their ranks. House of Women is Sophie Goldstein's second solo graphic novel, following 2015's muchlauded The Oven.

(W/A/CA) Ulli Lust Ulli Lust's follow-up to the award winning Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life picks up where its predecessor left off. Revealing and powerful, Lust recounts her life in Vienna in the 1990s and her relationships with two men where jealousy leads to violent outbreaks. How I Tried to Be a Good Person is a story of sexual obsession, gender conflict, and self-liberation, told with an honesty few cartoonists are capable of.

Eleanor Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. How to Be Happyrepresents the best stories she's drawn for such connoisseurial venues as Momeand Nobrow, as well as her own selfpublishing and web efforts. Davis achieves a rare, subtle poignancy in her narratives that are at once compelling and elusive, pregnant with mystery with a deeply satisfying emotional resonance.

(W) Casanova Frankenstein (A) Glenn Pearce How to Make a Monster is Frankenstein's unflinching memoir of growing up as a Black INTJ 13-year-old in 1980. Conveyed as a bleak first-person narrative with darkly humorous overtones, Casanova Frankenstein reveals how real-life experience shaped his hard-bitten, survivalist view of life. His was a world of fear and isolation punctuated by bullying thugs, the stifling atmosphere of the Lutheran school on the South Side of Chicago, racial segregation, unapproachable girls, and a home life consisting of an emotionally distant and unsupportive mother and a violent, alcoholic cop father who was not above giving his son a good thrashing now and again while preaching Christian family values. It is a searing portrait of an unbearably painful upbringing. How to Make a Monster is illustrated by Australian outsider artist Glenn Pearce in a rare creative symbiosis in which Pearce captures Frankenstein's inner turmoil using a variety of artistic approaches ranging from naturalistic portraiture to outrageously inventive phantasmagoric imagery. A seamles

(W/A/CA) Igort ?The collapsing bodies look like marionettes. The clouds of dust captured by drones have a surreal beauty. The crumpling buildings look like houses of cards. Even so, it?s upsetting, panic-inducing. How can you not think about the human lives, just like your own, buried under that rubble??In this real-time work of graphic journalism (posted serially on Facebook), the cartoonist Igort uses the medium of comics to depict the telephone testimonies of Ukrainians as Russia invaded in 2022. In vignettes that grow ever more horrifying ? infiltrating spies, bombed cities, recorded accounts of children whose parents were murdered in front of their eyes, and more ? Igort also relays the events that led up to the invasion, such as the torture and killing of human rights activists. He tells stories of individual struggle and suffering with no resolutions because they are still happening: Of Tetiana, who fled in the middle of the night with her children and whose car broke down on the steppe. And Maksim, who lived in Belgium and went for a five-day family visit and who could not r

(W/A/CA) Nancy Burton Nancy Burton was among the earliest underground cartoonists, creating comic strips that appeared in The East Village Other (?Gentle?s Tripout?) and Gothic Blimp Works (Busy Boxes?) in 1966. Under the pen names ?Panzika? and ?Nancy Kalish? and most importantly, ?Hurricane Nancy,? she contributed to many notable underground comix including It Ain?t Me, Babe. Drawing on abstract expressionism, art nouveau and formline art, working in parallel to the psychedelic art movement and outsider artists like Consuelo ?Chelo? Amezcua, Burton?s comics feature birds and people, dreamlike landscapes, and psychedelic imagery that grows darker as the 1960s come to a close, reflecting the darkening mood of the era and her uniquely personal vision of the world. Burton stopped making art in the early 1970s and seemed to disappear, having met few cartoonists during her short tenure but making an impression on many with her unique psychedelic approach. In 2009 she began drawing again, posting artwork online without explanation and though many aspects of her work had changed, it remai

(W/A/CA) Manuele Fior A sublime and romantic journey into Egyptian grandeur and a romance in the making, from the incomparable Manuele Fior (Celestia). Teresa's life has always been a comfortable straight line, with every goal set for herself achieved right on schedule. It comes as little surprise when she wins a prestigious scholarship to help mount an exhibition in Berlin celebrating the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922. Ruben is a fellow young Italian who never finished his art studies and views Berlin as his personal playground. When Teresa and Ruben meet, fate will forever change the trajectory of their existence. Hypericum follows, in parallel, Carter's landmark 1920s discovery in Egypt and Teresa and Ruben's passionate yet tormented love affair, set in 1990s Berlin. Between Egypt and Berlin, the two eras confront and intertwine in a story that has at its center the hypericum, or St. John's wort, a plant with unusual properties?. This sublimely romantic journey into Egyptian grandeur, the vibrations of youth, and the anxiety of the heart is a masterpiec

(W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez Collects (and expands!) the graphic novellas 'Hypnotwist' and 'Scarlet by Starlight' from Love and Rockets: New Stories in a handsome 'Double Feature' package. In the Eisner Award-winning wordless comic (silent movie?) 'Hypnotwist,' Hernandez's B-movie star Fritz plays a character who doesn't seem to be going anywhere, until she puts on a pair of glittery pumps. Her wanderings become increasingly surreal as she confronts motherhood, alcoholism, a sinister smiley face, cruelty, and her worst fate: 'Killer' cameos! Includes 16 pages of previously unpublished, additional material. 'Scarlet by Starlight' is a B movie that's Star Trek meets Heart of Darkness. 'Scientists,' or colonizers, are doing research, surrounded by 'primitive' fauna they affectionately nickname or treat like pests. Fritz plays Scarlet, a peaceful, catlike humanoid with a mate and children. When she becomes infatuated with one of the scientists, the fragile web of relationships explodes into violence and death, calling into question who the 'advanced, civilized' creatures really are. The

(W/A/CA) Charles Forsman Sydney seems like a normal, rudderless 15-year-old freshman. She hangs out underneath the bleachers, listens to music in her friend's car, and gets into arguments with her annoying little brother - but she also has a few secrets she's only shared in her diary. Like how she's in love with her best friend Dina, the bizarre death of her war veteran father, and those painful telekinetic powers that keep popping up at the most inopportune times. After his first two critically heralded graphic novels, Celebrated Summer and The End of the Fucking World (recently adapted into a TV show on the UK's Channel 4 and soon to be streaming stateside on Netflix), Forsman once again expertly channels the teenage ethos in a style that evokes classic comic strips while telling a powerful story about the intense, and sometimes violent, tug of war between trauma and control. I Am Not Okay with This collects all of Forsman's self-published minicomic series into one volume. It comments naturally on familial strain, sexual confusion, and PTSD in his usual straightfaced-but-humorous

(W/A) Charles Forsman Charles Forsman (The End of the F***ing World) once again expertly channels teen ethos while telling a powerful story about the tug of war between trauma and control. Sydney seems like a normal 15-year-old freshman but she also has a few secrets- like how she's in love with her best friend, the bizarre death of her war veteran father, and those telekinetic powers that keep popping up at the most inopportune times. Forsman's I Am Not Okay With This comments on familial strain, sexual confusion, and PTSD with his signature dry style and firmly stakes his place among the world's best cartoonists.

This story is told in dual perspective by Miriam (a second-generation Iranian immigrant living in Edinburgh with her family) and George (a visitor from Wales). Their relationship throughout the decades mirrors the Beatles's. In the other stories in this book, thematically bound by relationship flux and the impact of culture, Dean experiments beautifully with style and storytelling devices in each piece.

(W) Kevin Avery, Suzanne Vega In 1991, legendary but down-and-out rock critic Paul Nelson landed his dream assignment: fly from New York to Los Angeles and separately interview two of the most distinguished popular music artists: Leonard Cohen and Lucinda Williams. He encounters them at a time in their careers when both are wrestling with their respective record companies to be better taken seriously?in some cases just to be heard. Previously unpublished, these landmark interviews provide the opportunity to compare, among other things (upbringing, education, influences, loves and losses), the thought processes behind Cohen and his music (?I?ve always admired the people who could write great songs in the back of taxicabs like Hank Williams. I was never one of those guys?) to Williams and hers (?See, I?m trying to dispel the myth ? that you have to be miserable and suffering and so on and so forth to be able to write?).I Like People That Can?t Sing allows us to read the minds, so to speak, of these nonpareil singer-songwriters over three decades after the fact. Whether it?s the someti

(W/A) Mannie Murphy In this graphic memoir, what begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's dark history of white nationalism. Murphy is a Portland native who has a genuine affection for River Phoenix, and her heart-racing descriptions of scenes like the infamous campfire kiss My Own Private Idaho serves as a moral anchor to a deeply amoral history. Murphy details the relationship between white supremacist Tom Metzger, former KKK GrandWizard and founder of the White Aryan Resistance, and the 'Rose City' street kids like Ken Death that infiltrated Van Sant's films - a relationship that culminates in an infamous episode of Geraldo. Told in the style of an illustrated diary, with wet, blue ink washes, this story brilliantly weaves 1990s alternative culture th two centuries of the Pacific Northwest's shameful history as a hotbed for white nationalism: from the Whitman massacre in 1847; to the Ku Klux Klan's role in Portland'

(W/A/CA) Dix In Wales 1974, a fisherman inadvertently reels in a Nazi flag. Meanwhile, young Idris and his mother ride a train in the countryside. Idris’s mother has a new housekeeping job awaiting her in the small town of Bothelli, by the sea. Her new employer, a wealthy man named Mr. Miller, is confined to a wheelchair and beginning immediately upon their arrival, Mr. Miller’s unceasing demands as an employer leave the socially awkward Idris adrift in his new town, friendless. That is, until he meets the mysterious and profane Gwen in the local cemetery. When Idris shows Gwen a map that he found at Mr. Miller’s, it sucks them into a web of mystery and unimagined horrors. As he did in his acclaimed 2018 graphic novel Dull Margaret, co-created with Jim Broadbent, Dix brings his world to life with his distinctive cartooning, weaving lumpy characters, earthy palettes, grim rumination, deadpan humor, supernatural elements, and a dreary countryside setting into one of the gnarliest graphic novels of the year.

Jason's latest collection consists of eleven wildly off-kilter stories that mix elements of pop culture and a variety of genres, pastiches and mash-ups in a delightful melange of graphic storytelling. Featuring Frida Kahlo as a hired killer, Santo, the Mexican wrestler, Chet Baker, the JFK assassination, Rene Magritte, Nostradamus and Van Morrison's Moondance album as a horror comic, all told with Jason's beguilingly deadpan style.

Not comics! This debut prose novel by veteran musician Danny Bland follows a pair of outsiders who find themselves locked in the dizzy grunge-rock scene of early-'90s Seattle. It is the unfiltered tale of the balancing act two heroin addicts must maintain to stay together - and the fall-out when one person decides to clean up. Fast-paced, gritty and darkly funny.

(W) Mike Taylor 'Ok, here I go. Remember to steer into it - Don't take your mind off it, get comfortable in your discomfort - Your body isn't trying to kill you - Panic attacks aren't actually dangerous - your heart will beat totally normally soon?' Thus begins Mike Taylor's raw and beautiful soul cry for America, as a modern-day Virgil in a hoody traverses the gasping and confusing psychological landscape of right now. In this inclusive and experiential journey, Taylor's ecstatic mark making comes together to form a transcendental bridge that guides the reader to a more elemental place - not unlike paradise.

(W/A/CA) Guy Colwell In the tradition of Kipling's The Jungle Book comes a gorgeously rendered all ages fable reminiscent of the Golden Age of children's book illustration. Created by underground cartoonist and fine artist Guy Colwell (Inner City Romance), this instant classic is a metaphor for the artist's previous incarceration, and a meditation on masculinity.

(W/A/CA) Casanova Frankenstein In the Wilderness is an intimate look into the rich inner life of an odd-manout comics creator. In a series of wryly funny autobiographical vignettes, Casanova Frankenstein endures schoolyard bullies, fumbles through ill-fated romances, and grapples with the anxieties of being a black weirdo.

(A/CA) Guy Colwell Beginning in 1972, Guy Colwell's Inner City Romance forged new territory for underground comix, portraying stories about prison, black culture, ghetto life, the sex trade and the realities of inner city life. Every issue is included in this collection, as well as many of the highly detailed paintings he created at the same time. Colwell recounts in the accompanying text, his personal journey to artistic maturity forged by radicalism and frustration. Beginning in 1972, Guy Colwell's Inner City Romance forged new territory for underground comix, portraying stories about prison, black culture, ghetto life, the sex trade and the realities of inner city life. Every issue is included in this collection, as well as many of the highly detailed paintings he created at the same time. Colwell recounts in the accompanying text, his personal journey to artistic maturity forged by radicalism and frustration.

Gabriella Giandelli's masterpiece Interiorae is a mash-up of day-to-day drama and surreal fantasy set in a high-rise apartment building. Lushly delineated in penciled halftones, this moody graphicnovel was originally serialized in Fantagraphics' acclaimed 'Ignatz' series in duotone form, but this complete edition restores the artist's original striking full-color treatment.

(W) Jess Ruliffson Candid, compassionate graphic interviews with returning war vets from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Cartoonist Jess Ruliffson spent five years traveling across the country interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, from kitchen tables in Georgia and libraries in New York City to dive bars in Mississippi and back porches in Vermont. What she finds is that the real experience of soldiers at war is a far cry from depictions in popular media like Zero Dark Thirty or American Sniper. In these illustrated interviews, Ruliffson shares the stories of men, women, and non-binary ex-soldiers who struggle to reconcile their wartime experiences with their postwar lives. Identity lies at the heart of these stories, as they grapple with their gender, their race, and the brutality they've witnessed and caused. In this compassionate, probing book, Ruliffson reveals how America's endless entanglement in wars have affected the psyches of the people who wage them.

(W) Lo Hartog van Banda (A/CA) Th? Tjong-Khing The characters? emotions drive the anti-capitalist, dystopian narrative in Iris: A Novel for Viewers, the earliest graphic novel produced in the Netherlands. A young woman, Iris, has her heart set on a singing career, and, despite her boyfriend Mark?s warnings, is seduced by the capitalist producer, ?dream lover M.G.? He molds her into a megastar, which leaves Mark peddling her merch: a life-sized Iris (sex) doll. Attempts to rescue Iris come to nothing; all they accomplish is allowing the dream lover to go on playing his games.Th? Tjong-Khing?s Iris marks the peak of his career as a comics artist. He and scriptwriter Lo Hartog van Banda wanted to reach the socially motivated young people of the late 1960s, who were growing up with comics and television. Khing?s style here, drawn with virtuoso ?lan, shows an affinity with his contemporaries, such as Guy Peellaert, and Iris herself is reminiscent of Barbarella. This edition includes an afterword by graphic designer and colorist Rudy Vrooman, which provides fascinating context?about the h

(W/A) Lizzy Stewart In her graphic novel debut, Lizzy Stewart chronicles the lives of two close friends from adolescence to adulthood. In a series of interconnected vignettes, Stewart charges ordinary, slice-of-life moments with a quiet intensity, revealing the complex natures of her characters as life nudges them in directions that they never could have expected until finally, in their thirties, they hardly recognize the women they have become.

(W/A/CA) John Pham John Pham?s simple-seeming stories of best friends Jay and Kay and their misfit friends weave in and out, with unexpectedly sad twists and comical turns, all steered by Pham?s mastery of the cartooning craft and the language of comics storytelling. Pham?s bold use of bright color and high hilarity draws the reader in, only to slowly reveal extra layers of psychological acuity, character depth, and existential gravitas.For all of its emotional richness, at its heart, J + K?remains laugh out loud funny throughout, whether driven by Pham?s gift for memorable one-liners, his expertly delivered sight gags, or the inherent humor in his character designs and their physicality on the page. This new paperback edition will feature a few of the extra items that were included in the hardcover edition package ? collectible trading cards, a mini magazine with inserts, a sticker sheet, and a fold out map and poster ? which will all be printed as interior pages within the book. Combined with Pham?s brilliant use of color and innate grasp of printing, packaging, and graphic design

(W) Bill Schelly The definitive biography of the visionary publisher of Famous Monsters of Filmland, the magazine that inspired filmmakers Steven Spielberg, George Lucas - now available in paperback. In Empire of Monsters, the award-winning biographer Bill Schelly digs beneath the hype and myth-making to tell the true story of James Warren, one of the 20th century's most influential and independent publishers. Featuring numerous eye-opening, often outrageous anecdotes about the colorful, larger-than-life figure, this book covers Warren's childhood in the slums of south Philadelphia, a traumatic military injury during the Korean War, the hardscrabble origins of Warren Publishing, its great success and ignominious end - as well as his reemergence on the public scene in the 1990s, and the lawsuit to regain ownership of his literary properties. For this impeccably researched biography, Schelly offers insight from new interviews with Warren's colleagues, editors, and friends, augmented by unpublished interviews gathered in past years with Frank Frazetta, Archie Goodwin, Al Williamson, Bi

In Is This How You See Me?, Maggie and Hopey get the band back together - literally. Now middle-aged, they leave their significant others at home and take a weekend road trip to reluctantly attend a punk rock reunion in their old neighborhood. The present is masterfully threaded with a flashback set in 1979, during the very formative stages in Maggie and Hopey's lifelong friendship, as the perceived invincibility of youth is expertly juxtaposed against all of the love, heartbreak, and self-awareness that comes with lives actually lived. The result is no sentimental victory lap, however - this is one of the great writers of literary fiction at the peak of his powers, continuing to scale new heights as an artist. Hernandez's acclaimed ongoing comics series Love and Rockets has entertained readers for over 35 years, and his beloved characters - Maggie, Hopey, Ray, Doyle, Daffy, Mike Tran, and so many others - have become fully realized literary creations. Is This How You See Me? collects Hernandez's latest interconnected vignettes, serialized over the past four years in Love and Rockets

(W/A/CA) Jason In this absolutely bonkers comics collection, Norwegian cartoonist Jason follows his most oddball impulses, presenting to readers an intergalactic assortment of his weirdest, wildest short stories yet. A dinner date devolves into a Dadaist farce. Death decides his victim's fate over a high-stakes game of chess. Kafka is ensnared in a confounding bureaucracy of his own imagination. Spock beams down to 1920s Paris to live a double life as an avant-garde painter. Hitchcockian thrillers, literary adaptations, and homages to classic EC comics abound. Dinosaurs! David Bowie! Vampires! Elvis! Welcome to the cosmic gumbo of Upside Dawn. Norwegian cartoonist Jason is beloved for his signature dry wit, deadpan humor, and elegantly minimalist style. His newest compilation of short comics stories leans into the playful and experimental, as he mixes and matches genres, mashes up low and high brow culture, from Star Trek to Georges Perec, and leads readers through dizzying twists and turns - in sum, a beguiling collection for both stalwart Jason fans and the bliss

(W/A/CA) Josh Simmons Jessica Farm fuses adventure, fantasy and psychological horror, all stamped with Josh Simmon's macabre sensibility. In Book 1, Jessica arrives at her Grandparents farm and the banality is subverted by a ratcheting sense of dread, as we discover that Jessica's increasingly nightmarish house is filled with creatures around every corner. In Book 2, our hero comes upon the Groovy Room, where the atmosphere is different and if you configure your mind just right, you can hover in the air. These books are the beginning of a life-spanning project which will continue for 50 years, until Simmons amasses a 600-page body of work.

(W/A/CA) Josh Simmons Jessica Farm fuses adventure, fantasy and psychological horror, all stamped with Josh Simmon's macabre sensibility. In Book 1, Jessica arrives at her Grandparents farm and the banality is subverted by a ratcheting sense of dread, as we discover that Jessica's increasingly nightmarish house is filled with creatures around every corner. In Book 2, our hero comes upon the Groovy Room, where the atmosphere is different and if you configure your mind just right, you can hover in the air. These books are the beginning of a life-spanning project which will continue for 50 years, until Simmons amasses a 600-page body of work.

(W/A/CA) Josh Simmons Like a Lynchian take on Alice in Wonderland, Jessica Farm opens with an exterior of what could be any Midwestern farmhouse. Once inside, we track our titular heroine (she is a person, not a place) as she bounds out of bed on Christmas morning and goes about her routine, eventually breakfasting with her grandparents. The banality of the situation is subverted by a ratcheting sense of dread as we discover that Jessica?s increasingly nightmarish house ? where the inside seems bigger than the outside, like Snoopy?s doghouse ? is filled with creatures around every corner: some whimsical, some sexual, some despairing, and some malevolent. Most terrifying of all is Jessica?s father. Will she even get to open the presents under the Christmas tree?Taking place over a single Christmas Day, Jessica Farm is a career-spanning comics project in which Simmons has been drawing one page every month for the past 24 years, starting in January 2000. This is a horror-fantasy-psychodrama that will appeal to fans of Charles Burns, David Cronenberg, and Dario Argento.

Jewish Images in the Comics presents more than 150 works from all over the world demonstrating how Jewish culture has historically been depicted in comics. The book is divided into chapters such as 'Anti-Semitism', 'The Old Testament' and 'The Holocaust' and features works from well-known artists like Art Spiegelman and Will Eisner to much more obscure (and in some cases far less savory) cartoonists. Each example is spotlighted via an informative essay and a representative illustration.

(W/A/CA) James Swinnerton James Swinnerton is one of the most creative, respected, and prolific comic artists from the first half of the 20th century. Yet to the disappointment of classic comics lovers, his work has seen little reproduction. Until now. This sumptuous volume covers Swinnerton?s six-decade career in comics, from his beginnings as a sports/editorial cartoonist for William Randolph Hearst in San Francisco to his years in the America?s Southwest desert, where his love for the land and its people came through in his comics and illustration.Swinnerton is an excellent storyteller offering a cinematic style with humor that is both slapstick and sophisticated. At the forefront is his long-running Little Jimmy comic strip. This namesake character began by mixing satire of New York society with stories of rural America. He then took the characters on the road to South America, Mexico, and then settling for many years in Swinnerton?s beloved Southwest. Also included in this book are his early one-shots and series like the rakish Mr. Jack and the anthropomorphic Mt. Ararat, and h

(W) Joe Frank (A) Jason Novak Joe Frank is one of the greatest radio dramatists who ever worked in the medium. His programs, which he wrote and voiced ran from 1978 to 2018, attracting a huge following, including Francis Coppola ('I couldn't believe the originality and sheer brilliance of what I was hearing') and Charlie Kaufman ('His shows were hypnotic, psychotic, neurotic, sad, terrifying, and some of the funniest stuff I have ever heard anywhere.') Jason Novak, author of Et Tu, Brute, has lovingly adapted six of Frank's most memorable stories into comics form, an introduction to those who have never heard Frank, and an aesthetic accompaniment to those who have.

(W/A/CA) Massimo Mattioli On the heels of our collection of the cult classic Italian comic Squeak the Mouse, Fantagraphics is thrilled to present the outrageous comic strip series that started in the 1970s and which put the underground cartoonist Massimo Mattioli on the map. The anthropomorphic eagle Joe Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventurer always on the make. Whether smuggling holo-videos of intergalactic porn, cheating at interstellar poker with bug-eyed monsters, or contending with the evil lizards of Calisto IV, our wisecracking hero finds himself embroiled in one absurd scenario after another.A dizzyingly boundless cartoon world chock full of parody, pop culture references, and oodles of over-the-top sex and violence, and drawn in a colorful and kinetic medley of styles, Joe Galaxy collects a nearly 25 year run of the strip and lays bare the twisted genius of its infamous creator. This luxe hardcover edition features every story in the Joe Galaxy universe, plus a bonus short penned by Mattioli in 2018, as well as a spirited intro by Coconino Press editor Oscar Glioti.

(W/A/CA) John Cuneo Enter a world where behind every suburban front door is a licentious bacchanal. Whether it?s ramheaded, alcoholic, paperpushers; hand puppet sex parties; or Hokusai?s insatiable octopus (who turns out, knows a thing or two about the saxophone), Cuneo renders each intimate tableaux with delightfully feverish pen strokes and delicate watercolors. Effortlessly combining the fantastical and the grotesque, with bulbous heads, dapper cats, muses depicted as gargantuan women, and a multitude of sex acts invented for the occasion. A pearlclutching, monoclepopping, kneeslapping graphic revelation.

Johnny Appleseed spread the seeds of apple trees from Pennsylvania to Indiana, along with notions of nonviolence, vegetarianism, good relations with the indigenous peoples, and peace among the settlers. The story runs counter to the prevailing glorification of violent conquest depicting how the West was won. Johnny Appleseed brings this quintessentially American story to life through the deft skills of biographer Paul Buhle (Radical America, The Beats) and award-winning graphic novelist Noah Van Sciver