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Hot on the tail of our first, recently released Don Rosa Library book, here is the cover for Volume 2: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Return to Plain Awful, filled with another dozen or so tales spun by the great Don Rosa. In the titular story—and a direct nod to Carl Barks's Lost in the Andes—Rosa takes us back to the angular world of Plain Awful, where square chickens hatch square eggs, and round objects are the single worst sacrilege imaginable. Pre-order the book now for a November delivery, and stay tuned for more previews to come!

"[Editor Jacques Boyreau] has a knack for picking images; much like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and hardcore porn, Boyreau knows it when he sees it. And luckily, he shares it, this time from the visual-presentation experts of Fantagraphics Books — a match made in poster-art heaven." – Bookgasm "Makes Antonin Artaud look like a picture of mental health." – Dr. K. Malcolm Richards, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Derrida Reframed: A Guide for the Visual Arts Student SuperTrashby Jacques Boyreau 220-page full color 8” x 8” softcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-738-3 Due to arrive in about 2-4 weeks. Click…

It's a Peanuts-filled day at the Fantagraphics office! We've got an exquisite slipcase box set for you from our Complete Peanuts hardcover collection. Volumes 21 and 22 are wrapped in a lovely, navy blue slipcase that will sit quite nicely alongside the rest of your Peanuts collection. We're in our homestretch. There are just three volumes remaining of this comprehensive, chronological series collecting every single Peanuts strip that the famed and beloved Charles M. Schulz has penned. Volumes 21 and 22 span the years from 1991 through 1994, with introductions by Tom Tomorrow and Jake Tapper. For all of you…

As mentioned last week, we've got the first boxed set of The Complete Peanuts Vols. 1-2, paperback edition, coming out in October along with the release of volume 2. These paperback volumes have been redesigned inside and out, including the slipcase cover for this first boxed set. It's like discovering Charles M. Schulz's work all over again!

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente [Softcover Ed.]by Wilfred Santiago 200-page duotone 6.25" x 8" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-775-8 See Previews / Order Now Now available for the first time in paperback, Wilfred Santiago’s instant classic 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente is a human drama of courage, faith, and dignity, inspired by the life of the acclaimed Pittsburgh Pirates baseball star who died too young. 21 chronicles Clemente's life from his early days growing up, through the highlights of his career, capturing the grit of his rise from an impoverished…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: The Ghost of the Grotto Starring Walt Disney's Donald Duckby Carl Barks 96-page black & white with color 5.5" x 7.5" hard/soft/cover • $12.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-779-6 See Previews / Order Now One of Donald Duck's most famous adventures leads off our new line of affordable kid-sized Donald Duck books: just-right half-height books packed with fun, laughs, and adventure in every 96-page edition. Each story is complete with all the original story and art (no panels have been dropped or altered). In "Donald Duck and the Ghost of the Grotto," Donald and his…

In this 10-page, 1.5 MB excerpt of Vapor, Nicodemu—er, nicodem—er, nick—has escaped to the desert, seeking "Solitude, Silence, Privation, Quiet." Instead, he is interrupted after several days of ascetic-level hermitage by the no-nonsense cat mosh, who brings our protagonist crashing back down to reality. Vapor, by award-winning cartoonist Max, will be out in November. No need to meditate on this—head on over and pre-order your copy today!

SuperTrash by Jacques Boyreau 220-page full color 8" x 8" softcover • $29.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-738-3 Ships in: September 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-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 and transgressive…

The year is 1947. Arsène Schrauwen has just boarded a boat to the Belgian Congo, to help his cousin there build a utopia in the wilderness. This is the story of critically acclaimed artist Olivier Schrauwen's grandfather, which Schrauwen first self-published in three issues in 2012. Now, Fantagraphics has collected the stories together in Schrauwen's first full-length graphic novel, Arsène Schrauwen, and we're so pleased to reveal the final cover art for his book. Stay tuned for more previews and sneak peeks soon! In the meantime, the presale is live for Arsène Schrauwen on our site.

The second softcover volume of The Complete Peanuts, covering the years 1953 to 1954 of Charles M. Schulz's timeless comic strips, has landed on our desks for us to fondl—er, for us to review. This is the volume where Pigpen and his perpetual dust cloud join the cast—and where baby Linus acquires his iconic security blanket! You can pre-order your paperback copy of The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954 (Vol. 2) here, or take a peek at our boxset of the first two volumes here. Even if you've been collecting the hardcover editions, these paperback collections make great gifts or to lend…