The Big Town by Monte Schulz 440-page hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-503-7 Ships in: March 2012 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now A novel of the Jazz Age, The Big Town is the story of a failed businessman whose dreams of prosperity hinge on the secret proposition of a millionaire industrialist and a dangerous relationship he finds with a poor orphan girl chasing love in the great American metropolis. Harry Hennesey’s hopes of success, both in his household and the world, have driven him to sell his home in an Illinois small town and take his chances in the big city….
Angelman by Nicolas Mahler – page 9
We are proud and pleased to be publishing our first Nicolas Mahler book (a full-color hardcover, no less) in April 2012: Angelman. We are serializing the first quarter of the book with the rest of our weekly digital comics… at the end of which, you will be so absorbed in Angelman’s travails that you will have no choice but to pick up the book. Enjoy!
Black Classroom by Steven Weissman – “Are You Suffering?”
Each week we bring you a new strip from Steven Weissman, creator of the long-running series of “Yikes!” adventures. Chocolate Cheeks, the newest collection of the Yikes! gang’s adventures, is now available. Recent books by Steven Weissman (click covers for complete product details): {product_snapshot:id=1648,true,false,true,left} {product_snapshot:id=873,true,false,true,left} {product_snapshot:id=204,true,false,true,left} {product_snapshot:id=703,true,false,true,left} All books by Steven Weissman
Young Romance: The Best of Simon & Kirby’s Romance Comics – Now in Stock
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Young Romance: The Best of Simon & Kirby's Romance Comics by Jack Kirby & Joe Simon; edited by Michel Gagné 208-page full-color 7.75" x 10" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-502-0 See Previews / Order Now Together, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created such classic two-fisted comic series as Captain America, Boys' Ranch, The Newsboy Legion, and The Boy Commandos. But few people realize that one of their greatest successes — from 1947, when they singlehandedly created the genre, to the end of the 1950s — was… romance comics!…
The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by Robert Crumb – Now in Stock
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by Robert Crumb 96-page black & white 8.25" x 10.75" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-480-1 See Previews / Order Now “I can express something [with animals] that is different from what I put into my work about humans… I can put more nonsense, more satire and fantasy into the animals…” — R. Crumb Created by an adolescent R. Crumb in the late 1950s, Fritz the Cat rose to fame — along with his creator — during the underground comix revolution…
Daily OCD: 1/26/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "This collection of strips [The Frank Book] doesn’t have much of a thread running through it, apart from the characters and their surroundings. Like classic cartoons and newspaper strips, they are there to have situations inflicted upon them. In his afterword, Woodring suggests that each strip is intended to be a mystery but that one concept runs through each one, like a sort of moral or statement. Finding these can, at times, be challenging, but this obscurity and strangeness is a large part of what gives the book it’s charm." – Grovel •…
The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 1 (Expanded Softcover Edition) by Robert Crumb – Previews, Pre-Order
The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 1: The Early Years of Bitter Struggle (Expanded Softcover Ed.) by Robert Crumb 208-page black & white/color 8.5" x 11" softcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-558-7 Ships in: March 2012 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now This long out-of-print first volume of the multiple Harvey and Eisner award- winning Complete Crumb Comics series has been one of our most demanded reprints. Now, this landmark volume of Robert Crumb’s formative years not only returns, but also boasts a major discovery not included in prior editions: a never-before-published, 60 page “home-made” Arcade comic from 1962. Growing up, Robert and…
Daily OCD: 1/25/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Plug: USA Today Pop Candy's Whitney Matheson, posting that Wilco music video with Popeye & co. that's everywhere today, adds "If you're looking for more Popeye, I highly recommend the beautiful collections from Fantagraphics." • Plugs: Lee and Gwen of Comics and… Other Imaginary Tales comment on a few of our upcoming releases, including Angelman by Nicolas Mahler, Significant Objects, and Interiorae by Gabriella Giandelli
ALA’s GLBT Round Table honors books by Jaime Hernandez & Shimura Takako
More honors coming in from the American Library Association following yesterday's Great Graphic Novels for Teens announcement: the ALA's Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Queer Round Table has selected Esperanza by Jaime Hernandez for their 2012 Over the Rainbow List of recommended books for adults and Wandering Son Vol. 1 by Shimura Takako (Matt Thorn, editor & translator) for the 2012 Rainbow List of recommended books for younger readers (jointly selected by the ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table)! We're greatly honored that these books have been selected for young and/or GLBT readers. Support your local library!
Daily OCD: 1/24/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "And indeed, [Carl Barks's] work of c. 1948–54 ranks amongst the most consistently inspired, inventive, touching, and plain fun in the history of comics. Fantagraphics’ inaugural volume in their complete edition of Barks’s Disney comics [Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes] drops the reader in right at the onset of this creative surge, covering the years 1948–49. …[T]his is a series that finally promises Barks done right, promising a major revival of one of our greatest cartoonists." – Matthias Wivel, The Comics Journal • Interview: The Believer blog presents part 1…
