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Set to Sea [Softcover Ed.]by Drew Weing 144-page color 5" x 6.25" hardcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-771-0 Ships in: October 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now The central character of Set to Sea is a big lug and an aspiring poet who runs up tabs at the local bars by day and haunts the docks by night, writing paeans to the seafaring life. When he gets shanghaied aboard a clipper bound for Hong Kong, he finds the sailor's life a bit rougher than his romantic nautical fantasies, but he learns to live — and love — a Conradian life on…

It's always a good day at the office when we get to hold a freshly printed advance copy of a new EC Comics Library book! Here is Aces High, featuring high-flying, plane-focused illustrated stories of George Evans, as written by himself, Harvey Kurtzman, and Al Feldstein. The book is due to arrive at your local shop this November, but trust us, you'll want to pre-order it sooner rather than later.

In the opening pages of The Late Child and Other Animals, a new biographical memoir out from acclaimed artists and powerhouse duo Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger, Van Cook's mother Hetty navigates the ruins of Portsmouth, where Nazi bombings have destroyed buildings and started fires. Meanwhile, her husband Fred—with whom she has decided to adopt a child—is stationed somewhere in North Africa. You can read and download the full 17-page (10.2 MB) excerpt here. We'll have more previews soon, but in the meantime, our presale is up and ready to take your orders.

"[Sacco’s comics are] a vital pure comix experience." – Time "Joe Sacco is a genius. Easily one of the most important journalists, writers and cartoonists alive, every stroke of his assured and humblingly mature pen captures what the camera simply cannot. Through his reserved yet compassionate use of words and pictures, he allows us to occupy the horrifying inner and outer boundaries of human cruelty and desperation — yet all, I believe, with the aim of returning to what it means to be a civilized, sympathetic and possibly even forgiving soul." – Chris Ware "There’s nobody else anywhere near Sacco’s…

This 11-page, 2.4 MB downloadable excerpt of the next volume in our EC Comics Library series—Aces High by George Evans, Al Feldstein, and Harvey Kurtzman—takes us into a cold December night in 1805, where the Russian and French armies are preparing for battle near Austerlitz. The ensuing battle comes alive under Evans' deft pen, with the French troops led by Emperor Napoleon I to a decisive, cunning victory. Aces High will be coming to a store near you this November, and you can always pre-order the book to have it delivered right to your doorstep.

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: SuperTrashby Jacques Boyreau 220-page full color 8" x 8" softcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-738-3 See Previews / Order Now SuperTrash is the awaited, mutagenic sequel to Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002, Chronicle), the book that became a prophecy of the lasting influence of grindhouse and a model describing the shared evolution between art and trash. Now, original Trash author and curator Jacques Boyreau returns to the gonzo archives of 20th century design in pursuit of more bionic art-agony and trash-ecstasy. Serving together a mix of traditional movie signage…

Two young lookalike girls named Cochlea and Eustachia, whose exact relationship to each other remains unclear, wake up and survey their surroundings, spying on another mysterious, wheelchair-bound mole-ish character as he moves throughout this strange Victorian house. Enjoy our 10-page, 5.3 MB excerpt here, and find out more abou Hans Rickheit's new, darkly humorous book here, where you can also grab it on pre-sale. Cochlea & Eustachia is due to hit bookstores in November, and we'll have more previews coming soon.

Here it is! Advances of The Complete Peanuts 1993-1994 (Vol. 22), featuring Peppermint Patty on a mint-green cover, have arrived at Fantagraphics headquarters. Inside are another 300+ pages of Snoopy's blanket-snatching shenanigans, Charlie Brown's ceaseless home run attempts, Schroeder's dedicated and oft-interrupted piano practices, and much more from the whole Peanuts gang. Be on the lookout for this book at a bookstore near you in the upcoming month! You can get ahead of the game and pre-order your copy now. We've also got the next slipcase box set for volumes 21-22 on pre-sale, due out at the same time.

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Doctorsby Dash Shaw 96-page full color 6" x 8" softcover • $16.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-803-8 See Previews / Order Now This new graphic novel from acclaimed cartoonist Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, New School) is his most taut book to date. Dr. Cho is the creator of the Charon, a device that allows his staff to enter a dead patient's afterlife by taking the form of a memory in the patient's consciousness, and bring him or her back to life, with one catch: the experience is traumatic and the process kills them…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Tardi's WWI: It Was the War of the Trenches/Goddamn This War!by Jacques Tardi 260-page black & white with color 8.25" x 10.75" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-769-7 See Previews / Order Now Jacques Tardi is responsible for the two acknowledged graphic novel masterpieces about World War I: It Was the War of the Trenches and Goddamn This War! To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI in 2014, Fantagraphics is proud to release a two-volume boxed set collecting these two perennial classics. The first book, It Was the War of…