Fantagraphics Blog Mike Baehr

Did y'all see Jaime Hernandez's cover for The New York Times Magazine this past Sunday? What a smug creep (Paul Ryan, not Jaime).

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Came the Dawn and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)Illustrated by Wallace Wood; written by Al Feldstein et al.; edited by Gary Groth 208-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-546-4 See Previews / Order Now BARGAIN COMBO: Corpse on the Imjin! + Came the Dawn (The EC Comics Library) Gift Set Price: $57.98 $46.38 Order this book and receive the Jack Davis's Tales from the Crypt Halloween mini-comic shown here as a FREE bonus! Limit one per customer while supplies last. The 20th century had hit its…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)by Harvey Kurtzman, et al. 240-page black & white/color 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-545-7 See Previews / Order Now BARGAIN COMBO: Corpse on the Imjin! + Came the Dawn (The EC Comics Library) Gift Set Price: $57.98 $46.38 Order this book and receive the Jack Davis's Tales from the Crypt Halloween mini-comic shown here as a FREE bonus! Limit one per customer while supplies last. The creation of MAD would have been enough to cement Harvey Kurtzman’s reputation as…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: The Cartoon Utopia by Ron Regé, Jr. 144-page black & white 10.25" x 12.25" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-596-9 See Previews / Order Now Ron Regé, Jr. is a very unusual yet accomplished storyteller whose work exudes a passionate moral, idealistic core that sets him apart from his peers. The Cartoon Utopia is his Magnum Opus, a unique work of comic art that, in the words of its author, "focuses on ideas that I've become intrigued by that stem from magical, alchemical, ancient ideas & mystery schools." It's part sci-fi, part philosophy,…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Heads or Tails by Lilli Carré 200-page full-color 7" x 9" softcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-597-6 See Previews / Order Now SPECIAL OFFER: Add Lilli Carré's acclaimed debut The Lagoon to your order for just $9.99 ($5 off)! Use the option menu when ordering. The creator of 2008’s acclaimed graphic novel The Lagoon — named to many annual critics’ lists including Publishers Weekly and USA Today’s Pop Candy — is back with a stunningly designed and packaged collection of some of the most poetic and confident short fiction being produced in comics…

Just arrived and being shipped with love by the co-editor himself from our mail-order department: The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 by various artists; edited by Nico Vassilakis & Crag Hill 336-page full-color 8" x 10" softcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-626-3 See Previews / Order Now Fantagraphics spotlights the intersection of art and language in this innovative new collection — without peer in English — that gathers the work of visual poets from around the world into one stunning volume. The alphabet is turned on its head and inside-out and the results culminate in a compilation of daring and surprising…

While we're still mourning the passing of the great Joe Kubert, it's now our distinct pleasure to take you back to the early days of his incredible career with Weird Horrors & Daring Adventures: The Joe Kubert Archives Vol. 1, compiling 33 of the best of his pre-Code freelance stories for the first time. Edited by the preeminent Kubert expert Bill Schelly (acclaimed author of the Kubert bio Man of Rock and The Art of Joe Kubert), and produced and restored to the usual Fantagraphics standard, it's an essential volume for the serious comics library and a heck of a…

A lot of painstaking work is about to come to fruition as we're preparing to send our new edition of the cult classic The Adventures of Jodelle by Guy Peellaert & Pierre Bartier off to the printer. From Kim Thompson's new English translation to the meticulous recreation of the eye-popping colors to the 80 pages of new supplemental material, with the entire package overseen by Peellaert's son Orson, we've gone all-out to bring you the definitive edition of this psychedelic, satirical, and sexy Pop Art masterpiece. We're pleased to bring you this first look at the finalized cover design; the…

Here is a book that we are very proud to be presenting this December: Jack Jackson's American History: Los Tejanos & Lost Cause, combining two of Jackson's historical graphic novels from the 1980s into a new, lovingly-produced hardcover volume (the first in a series of three). Together they comprise a masterful and unflinching look at Texas during its decades-long pre-Civil War conflict with Mexico and its struggles during the Reconstruction. Combining historical verisimilitude with crisp, muscular artwork, Jackson's uncompromising work is unparallelled in his milieu, and we are pleased to present his great works in a format befitting their stature….

At last, Volume 1 of Linda Medley's beloved Castle Waiting is coming out in an omnibus softcover edition following multiple printings of the hardcover collection. If you've never read this wonderful series before, this fat, affordable paperback will be the perfect place to start! Here's a quick peek at one of the advance copies we received a few days ago — you can read the entire first chapter for free right here, and we'll be posting more detailed previews in the near future. We'll have copies available in about a month and it should hit shelves shortly after that.