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Today's Book-A-Day title comes to us from Italy, and it is described thusly: "A high-rise apartment building in an unnamed European city. Its inhabitants come and go, meet each other, talk, dream, regret, hope… in short, live. A ghostly, shape-shifting anthropomorphic white rabbit roams from apartment to apartment, surveying and keeping track of all this humanity… and at the end of every night, he floats down to the basement where he delivers his report to the 'great dark one.'" Yes, it's Gabriella Giandelli's Interiorae, praised both in her native Italy and in the U.S, in Boing Boing's "Best Damn Comics of the…

Today's January Book-A-Day title was named the "Best Funny Comic of 2012" by Paul Gravett. Nicolas Mahler's Angelman turns the superhero trope directly on its head. The titular character is created by Korporate Comics in a flash of money-grubbing cynicism appalling even by their standards. However, Angelman’s powers (which include empathy and the ability to be a good listener) prove less than adequate to deal with the sinister threat of the insane plastic-surgeon villain Gender Bender — or with the fickleness of fashion, the rapacious super-heroine Lady Dentata, the increasingly desperate re-boot attempts by Korporate Comics, his oddly twin-like wife, a…

Our eighth January Book-A-Day Sale title also heralds our new theme of the week—"Across the Pond"—featuring seven Fantagraphics editions of non-U.S. titles. We're starting off with acclaimed Norwegian cartoonist Jason's The Last Musketeer. The premise: the by-now centuries old musketeer Athos has been reduced to a suavely dressed but useless near-panhandler trading on his now almost extinct fame. All this changes when one day the Martians attack Earth. Suddenly there is a need for swashes to be buckled, and Athos leaps back into the fray with a vengeance. You can purchase The Last Musketeer  today for a whopping 45% off! Grab your…

Praise for the series: "That Foster was the most virtuosic comics artist of his time, there is some merit to the claim." – Steven Heller, The New York Times "Hal Foster was an illustrator in the grand tradition of Arthur Rackham and Howard Pyle… Every panel packs a one-two punch." – Vanity Fair "Foster’s meticulously detailed, painstakingly researched, vividly realistic, and often breathtaking illustration made him one of the most revered artists in the comic field." – Library Journal "One of the greatest comic strips of all time and a peak in visual splendor and breath-taking adventure, the story of…

You'll want to sit down for this one, EC Comics fans (the better to flail all four limbs in fervent joy). We know you've been asking about our next boxed set of EC Comics… And here it is! We are proud to show off the slipcase design for our next 4-volume bundle, which will collect Fall Guy for Murder, Child of Tomorrow, Zero Hour, and Sucker Bait into one beautifully packaged box set. From Johnny Craig's crime and horror stories, to Graham "Ghastly" Ingels' legendary horror, to Al Feldstein and Jack Kamen's science fiction gems, the EC Comics Slipcase Vol. 2 makes for a great addition…

Baseball fans, rejoice! Willard Mullin's Casey at the Bat and Other Diamond Tales is shaping up to be an easy catch. With 27 pages alternating poetry by Ernest Thayer and illustrations by Mullin, plus a couple dozen more pages of extra material, including poetry, illustrations, and essays, this little book packs a good-sized punch for any baseball lover! This 9-page downloadable excerpt includes a foreword by Yogi Berra and the first 4 pages of "Casey at the Bat." Read on, then head over to our book page for pre-order info.

Today, our January Book-A-Day Sale features a bittersweet, melancholy book by Jordan Crane—his first self-published graphic novel. The Last Lonely Saturday is a largely wordless, two-color book telling the story of an older man on the day he visits his departed wife's gravesite. In this evocative, romantic novella, told in a beautiful red and yellow palette, Crane's economical images waste not a line, and his narrative flows effortlessly from panel to panel in this heartwarming story of love and love lost. For today only, The Last Lonely Saturday is available at a 40% discount! 

With this 21-page excerpt of our upcoming Angry Youth Comix, collecting all fourteen issues of Johnny Ryan's career-defining comic series, you'll get an appreciable taste of the glory that awaits. After the full table of contents, you'll be treated to 14 pages of "The Whorehouse of Dr. Moreau." Need we say more? Angry Youth Comix will be in bookstores by late February and is available for pre-order now!

Saint Coleby Noah Van Sciver 116-page black & white 7.5” x 9.25” softcover$19.99 | 978-1-60699-817-5 Due to arrive in 2-4 weeks. Click on thumbnails for larger versions; get more info, see more previews, and pre-order your copy here: http://www.fantagraphics.com/saintcole

Today's January Book of the Day is by acclaimed Italian illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti and Argentine comic writer Jorge Zentner. In The Crackle of the Frost, Mattotti's whirling, vivid, and emotionally charged images tell the story of Samuel, who fled his relationship with Alice after she expressed her desire to bear his child. A year later, he receives a letter from Alice announcing that she is pregnant, spurring him to visit her—to re-open, or perhaps close forever, that important chapter of his life The Crackle of the Frost is available today at 35% off! Check out our book page for previews and…