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Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Nancy Loves Sluggo: Complete Dailies 1949-1951by Ernie Bushmiller 336-page black & white with spot color 8.5" x 8.5" softcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-777-2 See Previews / Order Now Many connoisseurs — including Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Scott McCloud (creator of the "Five-Card Nancy" card game), Joe Brainard, and Andy Warhol — have recognized that Bushmiller's often-corny Nancy approached its own kind of zen-like cartoon perfection. In its own way, it turned out Nancy was in fact the most iconic comic strip of all; The American Heritage Dictionary actually uses a Nancy strip…

"Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen is a tour de force. There's something very pure about Dylan Horrocks' comics. That’s perhaps an odd word to describe this book which is so much about desire. But Horrocks' line and his imagination both seem to flow freely and directly from some primal source. If you've ever wished that Hergé had written comics for grown-ups—gorgeously drawn and playful adventures that explore the serious anxieties of midlife—your wish has come true, and then some." – Alison Bechdel "This book is necessary for anyone paralyzed even a bit by the creative/spiritual confusion of the digital…

Our advance copies of Michael Jordan: Bull on Parade are here, and they are looking mighty fine. Whether on the court or off, Jordan's life is full of drama and action, and Wilfred Santiago captures it all with his gorgeous, full color artwork. Bull on Parade arrives in stores this January. Pre-order your copy now, and give yourself a little gift after the holiday season!

The year: 1991. The place: Madison Square Garden. 50 seconds left on the clock. A young basketball player adorned with the number 23 shakes off the Knicks defense as he pounds towards the hoop, leaps into the air, and… Slam. Dunk. In this 16-page, 2.3 MB downloadable excerpt of Wilfred Santiago's Michael Jordan: Bull on Parade, we are immediately immersed in the action through Santiago's wildly kinetic artwork. Read the whole thing right here, then head on over to the pre-order page and grab your copy for a December delivery!

Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictionsby Frank Stack 224-page black & white 7.75" x 10" softcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-808-3 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/foolbertfunnies

Treasury of Mini Comics Vol. 2edited by Michael Dowers 848-page black & white with color 5" x 6.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-807-6 Ships in: December 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now For everyone interested in the history of underground and alternative comics, Treasury of Mini Comics Volume Two gathers prime examples—more than 800 pages' worth—from a quintessential self-publishing format in this compact but hefty hardcover. Previously only seen in limited-run pamphlets, these comics are startling, visionary, hilarious, profane, and profound. This volume also takes a look back at the wild 8-page sex comics called "Tijuana Bibles" that sprang from…

We're seeing a lot of red in the office today. A stack of Love and Rockets (Luba & Palomar Book 5): Ofelia advances are on our desks, and our productivity is at a temporary stall as we fawn over the latest from the Eisner award-winning mind of Gilbert Hernandez. Be sure to grab your pre-order of this new Love and Rockets book for an on-schedule January delivery, and start off the new year right!

Here is our first look at an advance copy of Displacement, the new travelogue out from best-selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley. This sweet, introspective softcover volume has our author on a cruise ship with her elderly grandparents. Between struggling with her care-taking duties and feelings of isolation, Knisley reads excerpts from her grandfather's war memoir and reflects on mortality and human frailty. Displacement will hit bookstores in the new year, but we're ready and waiting for your pre-orders now!

Sam Zabel and the Magic Penby Dylan Horrocks 228-page color 7" x 10" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-790-1 Ships in: December 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Acclaimed cartoonist Dylan Horrocks returns with a long-awaited new graphic novel, the first since his perennial classic, 1998's Hicksville (new edition, VUP 2010). Cartoonist Sam Zabel hasn't drawn a comic in years. Stuck in a nightmare of creative block and despair, Sam spends his days writing superhero stories for a large American comics publisher and staring at a blank piece of paper, unable to draw a single line. Then one day he finds…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Aces Highby George Evans, Al Feldstein, and Harvey Kurtzman 216-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-784-0 See Previews / Order Now George Evans was a master of the aviation war story. This collection includes all of his highly-acclaimed stories for Aces High, EC's famous air war title. As a bonus, we present a rarity: Evans's never-before-reprinted 3-D story of World War I ace Frank Luke (in regular, easy-on-the-eyes 2-D). This volume also includes numerous Evans crime and shock stories, including "As Ye Sow…," "…My Brother’s Keeper," and…