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Now: cheaper! Not a sale, but a permanent price reduction! Was: $49.99; now: $29.99! If you don't already have this must-have book… have at it! Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture – A Career Retrospectiveby Jack Davis 208-page full-color 10.25" x 13.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-447-4 See Previews / Order Now A gigantic, unparalleled art book retrospective, in which lies the greatest collection — in terms of both quantity and quality — of Jack Davis's work ever assembled! Comprising comics, sketches, commercial illustrations, and paintings for comic books, comic strips, magazines, LP covers, movie posters, bubblegum cards, and much more!…

Moody, atmospheric, finely observed, shot through with post-punk tension… Carol Swain's comics voice is singular, and has been lauded by Alan Moore, Time, The Guardian, Time Out, and Publishers Weekly. We're excited to be bringing out her first solo graphic novel in several years, Gast, this Summer. Part mystery, part character study, part magical-realist fable, told through her quietly bold, tactile pencil artwork, Gast is a book that only Swain could create. Look for our usual preview rollout over the weeks and months to come until the book's release in July or so; in the meantime, you can get in…

"All of these books are essential purchases for comics fans… These are the books that best show off how EC took genre stories seriously, striving to create comics that didn't treat readers as naive or ignorant." – Los Angeles Times "Fantagraphics' current series of handsome hardcovers makes familiar material fresh by focusing on individual artists… it's never been easier to appreciate the contributions of these iconic inkslingers." – Chicago Tribune "…I am not only appreciative…but also very impressed. [The books] are spectacular packages of their featured artist and their stories." – Al Feldstein "These collections show comics in a pure,…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Unlovable Vol. 3by Esther Pearl Watson 412-page two-color 5.75" x 5.75" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-737-6 See Previews / Order Now BARGAIN COMBO: Unlovable Vols. 1-3 Gift Set Price: $68.98 $55.18 Summer vacation is here and Tammy Pierce is back with more sometimes ordinary, often humiliating, occasionally poignant, and usually hilarious exploits! Her hopes, dreams, agonies, and defeats are brought to vivid, comedic life by Watson's lovingly grotesque drawings, filled with all the eighties essentials — too much mascara, leg warmers with heels, and huge hair, etc. — as well as timeless…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: The Love Bunglersby Jaime Hernandez 112-page black & white 9" x 11.25" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-729-1 See Previews / Order Now "There are certain things about my family Mom always preferred to keep hush hush." The suppression of family history and the cumulative effects of these secrets are the initial threads that tie together this masterful graphic novel from Jaime Hernandez. Much like John Updike in his four Rabbit novels, Hernandez has been following his longtime heroine, Maggie Chascarillo, for several decades, all of which has seemed to build towards The…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Buz Sawyer Vol. 3: Typhoons and Honeymoonsby Roy Crane 232-page black & white/color 9.25" x 9.25" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-703-1 See Previews / Order Now A hurricane in the Caribbean! A typhoon in the South Seas! And a whirlwind of international intrigue as two-fisted Buz Sawyer is trapped behind the Iron Curtain! These are just some of the dangers that threaten to down our high-flying daredevil. Then the biggest challenge of all — Buz gets married! But Christy isn't just some ordinary dame. She's brave, bold, and beautiful — just the…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Buddy Buys a Dump: The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from "Hate" Comics Vol. 3by Peter Bagge 144-page full-color 6" x 9" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-745-1 See Previews / Order Now Slacker antihero Buddy Bradley returns for the first time in this sequel to the acclaimed classics Buddy Does Seattle and Buddy Does Jersey. Now married with child and his thirties, Buddy is forced to settle down and support his family. What better way than to buy the local dump? Torn from the pages of the legendary Hate comic books, with an…

"The Amateurs is great. Conor Stechschulte knocked it out of the park." – Sammy Harkham "Stechschulte just has an uncanny knack for merging the humor of awkwardness with bloody, visceral violence." – Rob Clough The Amateursby Conor Stechschulte 64-page black & white 6" x 9" softcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-734-5 Due to arrive in about 2-3 weeks. Click the thumbnails for larger versions; get more info, see more previews and pre-order your copy here: http://www.fantagraphics.com/theamateurs

Pat Thomas, the author of our critically acclaimed book Listen Whitey, is now working on Invitation to Openness, a book of previously unpublished jazz photos of the 1960s and '70s. We need a reasonably priced and experienced scanner to spend a few days in Baton Rouge, LA to scan about 300 black and white 8" x 10" photos and save them as print quality high-res TIFFs. A reasonable payment to be discussed. You need to have your own scanner, computer, etc. Please contact us with your bona fides if interested.

"Charles Schulz was an American treasure — an artist, philosopher, and keen observer of human life." – Bill Clinton "The Complete Peanuts has framed Charles Schulz’s enduring masterpiece about as well any lifelong fan could’ve hoped." – "The Best Comics of the '00s: The Archives," The A.V. Club "The Complete Peanuts confronts us afresh with what a brilliant, truly modern and totally weird idea it was to create a comic strip about a chronically depressed child…" – TIME "Fantagraphics has won numerous awards for this series and they deserve them all for creating such a wonderful archive of this American treasure….