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.

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) 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

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce walk into a Parisian bar. Set in 1920s Paris, The Left Bank Gang is a deliciously inventive re-imagining of these four literary figures as not only typical Jason anthropomorphics, but graphic novelists!

(W/A/CA) Jason O Josephine! contains four brand-new short stories. blending popular-culture pastiche with dry wit, and stylish storytelling. Included are a trek into the green hills of Ireland where Jason encounters more sheep than he had bargained for, Leonard Cohen's life story filled with Jason-esque liberties, a mysterious stakeout with a pair of two-faced private eyes, and the rollercoaster love story of Napoleon and Josephine Baker. These tales are all told in a hilariously deadpan style making this another triumph in Jason's already lauded catalog.

(W/A/CA) Jason To mark his 50th birthday, the brilliant Norwegian cartoonist Jason decided to walk the historic pilgrimage route of The Camino de Santiago in northwestern Spain. On the Camino is Jason's memoir of that 500 mile trek, chronicling both the good and the bad. Full of quiet incidents, odd encounters, small triumphs, and the occasional setback, On the Camino is the latest graphic novel by a master cartoonist.

(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.

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.

(W/A/CA) John Kenn Mortensen Gruesome, spindly figures gather outside a house, then spirit away a dreaming youth, bed and all. The stage is set for 32 skin-crawling poems imagining various children?s nightmares, all with sequential illustrations by Danish horror master Mortensen.His eerie visions fade to black at the edges, like a dreamer unable to shift their focus, and inspire delicious terror all by themselves. Similarly, the short poems each evoke a distinct sense of dread for the sleeping imagination to expand upon; together, the words and pictures conjure a nightmarish world tinged with pitch black humor. The sequences splay across double-page spreads, evoking Edward Gorey gone grand scale, and grand guignol.For those of a nervous disposition, read in bright sunlight. For those in search of a nervous disposition, take two before bed.

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

(W/A/CA) Jason Novak With a stylistic nod to the wordless novels of Frans Maserell and the expressionist drawings of Franz Kafka himself, Kafka?s Manuscript begins at Kafka?s deathbed, where he entrusts his friend Max Brod with the task of destroying his unpublished papers. Brod refuses, and what follows is the story of how Kafka?s literary legacy escaped Europe under the shadow of fascism. It is a survey of Kafka?s paranoia in kinetoscopic monochrome, exploring in a new way what countless books about Kafka have previously attempted to explore with words. What better way to capture Kafka?s enduring but evasive voice than with pantomime?

(W) Eddie Campbell (A/CA) Kate Carew Kate Carew was America?s first?great woman cartoonist, drawing for newspapers in the first?two decades of the 20th century. She drew Sunday color comics?and also interviewed and sketched many of the celebrities?of her time including the Wright brothers, Pablo Picasso,?champion heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson and the leading?figures of the suffragette movement in the years before women?won the right to vote. Her most endearing achievement?was her cartoon alter ego ?Aunt Kate,? whom she sketched?into the proceedings, turning graphic reportage into her personal?adventure from San Francisco and New York to London?and Paris.

(W/A/CA) Jesse Reklaw Cartoonist Jesse Reklaw's other books (LOVF, Couch Tag) have dug deep into the themes of childhood trauma and mental illness. This new collection of diary comic strips takes the concept of 'art as therapy' even further, as Reklaw uses the comics form to help maintain stability in his everyday life.

(W) Jordan Crane 20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan Crane. A young couple is stuck in traffic, reading a book aloud to each other to pass the time. The relationship is already strained, but between the encroaching road rage, and a novel that hits way too close to home, tensions are running especially high by the time they arrive back at their apartment. When one of them leaves to get takeout and a movie, each of the young lovers is individually forced to confront loss, grief, fear, and insecurities in unexpected and shocking ways. Crane's formal use of the comics medium - threading several timelines and the interior and exterior lives of its protagonists together to create an increasing, almost Hitchcockian sense of dread and paranoia - is masterful. But as the title hints, there are dualities at its core that make it one of the most exciting works of graphic literary fiction in recent memory, a brilliant adult drama that showcases a deep empathy and compassion for its characters as well as a visually arresting showc

Scandinavia has become a hotbed of cartooning activity, from the internationally acclaimed Jason (Norway) to Sweden's Martin Kellerman and Denmark's Eisner-nominated Nikoline Werdelin. This anthology of comics, many of them created for this book, offers an intoxicating and compelling sampling of current works from a new generation of Scandinavian alternative cartoonists.

(W/A/CA) Charles Burns Master cartoonist Charles Burns has never hidden his passion for comic books and pop culture from the 1950 and 1960s. Inspired by the romance, horror, and sci-fi comics of his youth, as well as the 1960s American underground, the author of Black Hole has created a collection of 80 original comic book covers that, through his own inimitable aesthetic, present an alternate universe of stories that never were, but that you will wish existed.The covers ? some with otherworldly titles in alien letterforms, and others that riff on classic genres (Throbbing Hearts, Unwholesome Love) and eras (Drug Buddy, Huss) ? each inspire a multitude of interpretations, build entire worlds, and suggest entire narratives that lie within their non-existent guts. This is Burns at his most playful, imaginative, and suggestive, using the format of the comic book to continue to explore many of the themes that run through all his longer-form work ? adolescence, metamorphosis, nightmares, and sexuality ? and provide a pretext for the creation of some of the most mysterious and bewitching

Kramers Ergot gathers the work of many of the best and brightest contemporary short form cartoonists in one giant oversized collection. Kramers Ergot 9 will feature the work of Michael Deforge, Noel Freibert, Steve Weissman, Anya Davidson, Stefan Marx, Abraham Diaz, Leon Sadler, Julia Gfr?rer, Adam Buttrick, Kim Deitch, Ben Jones, Andy Burkholder, Antony Huchette, Trevor Alixopulos, Antoine Coss?, Archer Prewitt, Kevin Huizenga, Renee French, along with many other greats to be announced.

(W/A/CA) Robert Goodin In the spirit of Tintin or Uncle Scrooge, The Kurdles is an all-ages comic spiced up with a teaspoon of strange. A teddy bear, desperate to find her way home, stumbles upon Kurdleton, home to a most peculiar group in the midst of a crisis: their forest house has grown hair, eyes, and a mouth! Robert Goodin's debut graphic novel is a timeless classic. Printed in an oversized format showcasing Goodin's stunning, hand-painted artwork, The Kurdles will captivate both parents and children.

(W/A/CA) Santiago Garc?a, Javier Olivares Two of Spain's most sophisticated comics creators examine the legacy of one the most enigmatic works in the history of art: Diego Vel?zquez's Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-Waiting). Olivares's art moves from style to style as The Ladies-in-Waiting uses fiction to explore the ties between artists and patrons, institutions and audiences and creators and creativity. Their combined efforts have made the book a commercial and critical sensation in Spain, garnering international comics prizes along with the equivalent of the National Book Award in Spain.

(W) Gipi (CA) Gipi Land of the Sons is Gipi's most artistically accomplished work to date, juxtaposing the stark savagery of the post-apocalyptic narrative with the Italian master's dense and expressive line work. While similar tonally, Sons, unlike Lord of the Flies, lays the groundwork for humanity overcoming sheer brutality and personal desires, while commenting on the fragile state of masculinity and human nature itself.

(W/A/CA) Trina Robbins Trina Robbins' Last Girl Standing chronicles a life of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and comics. From her New York childhood in the 1940s to visiting the EC offices and posing for men's magazines in the 1950s, interacting with rock royalty and entering the orbit of underground cartoonists in the 1960's before moving to San Francisco, co-founding Wimmen's Comix and ultimately transforming into a comics historian and lecturer in the '90s and 2000s, Trina Robbins broke the rules and takes no prisoners in this heavily illustrated memoir.

Monte Schulz, son of celebrated Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz, examines the surprising truths of three strong-willed women in the summer of 1929. Schulz delicately charts the tender rhythms of a small East Texas town as its inhabitants grapple with identity as related to gender, race and family. With respect, this generous novel tunes our emotions to the collective and poetic web of experience, shattering the varnish of everyday fiction into a constellation of real life.

The Last Vispo Anthology gathers the work of visual poets from around the world into one stunning volume where the alphabet is turned insideout and results in a compilation of daring and surprising verbo-visual gems. Features 148 contributors and includes 12 essays that illuminate the history and the state of vispo today.

(W) Marguerite Van Cook, James Romberger Created by the team responsible for the acclaimed 7 Miles A Second, legendary poet Marguerite Van Cook and artist James Romberger (Post York) present a generational autobiography of Hetty and her daughter Marguerite. Set against the backdrop of post WWII Britain and France and linked in five episodes that veer between lyricism, wry wit, and harrowing suspense, it tells of the journeys and struggles over decades of this mother and daughter.

(W/A/CA) Daishu Ma In this wordless, all-ages graphic novel, a man discovers a leaf that radiates a vibrant light, thus beginning a quest. Unfolding at a dream-like pace and drawn in a delicate style reminiscent of Shaun Tan's The Arrival and Chris Van Allsburg's Jumanji, Leaf is ultimately a hopeful vision of the coexistence of the urban and natural worlds.

(W) Joris Chamberlain (A) Fabrizio Petrossi Return to Uncle Scrooge's epic past in this all-new stand-alone Disney graphic novel full of thrills and chills in the long-ago coal mines of Scotland! Decades before becoming Donald Duck's tough tycoon uncle, Scrooge McDuck lived a childhood of struggle-and adventure! An all-new saga set in the world of Don Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck series, 'The Dragon of Glasgow' forges a new trail with thrills and chills rendered in a modern, animation-inspired style.

(W/A/CA) Jaime Hernandez Ten years in the making (and torn from the pages of the legendary Love and Rockets), Jaime Hernandez?s newest graphic novel skillfully weaves two generations of his beloved characters into a satisfying story of love?both young and middleaged. Life Drawing darts primarily between the youthful Tonta and the venerable Maggie. Tonta has a crush on her art teacher, Ray, as well as an axe to grind with an older woman in the neighborhood. When Tonta finds that the woman, Maggie, is married to Ray, things get complicated. And Tonta does not handle complications well.Life Drawing showcases Hernandez's brilliant talent for character, weaving relationships, rejections, infidelities, and adventures involving: Tonta?s selfinvolved sisters Vivian, Violet, and Mu?eca; her colorful pals Gomez, Judy Fair, and Brown Alice; her mother, the infamous ?Black Widow of the Valley?; and of course, the two great loves of Maggie?s life, Ray and Hopey. There?s also a forest spirit, two weddings, some cosplay, a little pole dancing, and page after page of breathtaking comics by the medi

(W) Natan Alterman (A/CA) Batia Kolton When the father of a large family makes a beautiful winter coat, little does he know how much use it will get. Little Gedalia wears the coat all year, but when it gets too tight for him, it's given to his sister. Thus begins the journey of the coat, as it's passed down from child to child, falling apart bit by bit during their play until it's in tatters. Based on a beloved Yiddish poem, The Life of a Coat is a charming portrait of a loving family that will delight young readers and their parents.

(W) Hector German Oesterheld (A) Alberto Breccia, Enrique Breccia Published in 1969, this Argentine graphic biography about Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was an instant bestseller, banned by a military dictatorship, and almost lost - and it has never been available in English. Until now. Life of Che is one of the most anticipated entries in Fantagraphics' The Alberto Breccia Library. Originally released as part of a graphic biography series in January 1969, it came out in Argentina only a year after Ernesto 'Che' Guevara had died and reached an audience beyond comics readers. In the 1970s, the military government raided its publisher, destroying the means to reprint the book. It was a lost comic until a publisher in Spain restored it in 1987 - and never translated into English. Until now. The book begins in Bolivia in 1967, then flashes back through Che's life - his childhood, his radicalizing motorcycle trip with Alberto Granado, his taking up of arms in Guatemala, his meeting with Fidel Castro, and his subsequent military and political maneuvers, ending in a fade-out to his death. Alberto

(W) Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria (A/CA) Warren Pleece ?I?m psyched. I?m totally psyched. I?m not a loser? Who the hell am I kidding??Life sucks for Dave Miller ? he?s broke, girlfriendless, and stuck in a dead-end job. Really dead-end: Dave is the night manager at the Last Stop, LA?s finest vampire-owned and operated, all-night convenience store. Facing an eternity of turning hot dogs and restocking blood broth for his crappy boss and Vampire Master, the future looks about as appealing as the sunrise. It?s bad enough that Dave is clinging to his days as a vegetarian and refusing to feed off humans, leaving him weak as a kitten. But when he finds himself competing with psychotic surfer-vamp Wes for the affections of Rosa, a beautiful mortal flirting with the dark side, unlife gets about as sucky as it possibly can.Originally published in 2008, Fantagraphics is proud to bring this YA classic back into print with a new edition. Veteran comics creators Jessica Abel (Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars), Gabe Soria (Batman ?66), and Warren Pleece (Incognegro) have crafted a timeless goth love tr