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Another excellent volume of Carl Bark's cherished Duck tales is collected here in Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Pixilated Parrot, out in May! Here's the beautiful final cover designed by our very own Keeli and highlighting the two stories "The Pixilated Parrot" and "Vacation Time"—the latter of which sees Barks cutting loose from his regular panel designs to deliver one of his finest stories. The Pixilated Parrot is available for pre-ordering now, and we'll have more previews in the coming weeks!

We're pleased to present the final cover image for the next volume in our award-winning Mickey Mouse series celebrating Disney artist Floyd Gottfredson! Volume 7, titled March of the Zombies, takes us to a time when our brave Mouse protagonist faced off against wartime foes and even the walking dead! These strips are restored from Disney's original proof sheets, and the book includes over a dozen of Gottfredson's stories as well as extra commentary and behind-the-scenes artwork. Pre-order your copy now to add this classic volume to your collection!

The Kurdlesby Robert Goodin 60-page color 8.75" x 12" hardcover$24.99 | 978-1-60699-832-8 Ships in: April 2015 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now In the spirit of Hergé's Tintin or Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge, The Kurdles is an all-ages comic spiced up with a teaspoon of strange. Sally is a teddy bear who gets separated from her owner while on a drive in the country. Desperate to find her way home, she stumbles upon Kurdleton, home to a most peculiar group of characters in the midst of a crisis; their forest house has grown hair, eyes, and a mouth! The creatures…

Shimura Takako's beloved manga series, Wandering Son (放浪息子), continues to be ably translated by Matt Thorn for American publication. Volume eight will be released this May, and we have included a 16-page downloadable (2.2 MB) excerpt for you to read, in anticipation of its release. It's the start of a new school year, with new homeroom assignments that scatter our friends to all corners of the school. Nitori-kun continues to battle his desires internally, with help from his older sister Maho. And will Takatsuki-kun work up the courage to wear a boy's uniform to school? Read the excerpt, then head…

Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created MAD and Revolutionized Humor in Americaby Bill Schelly 644-page 6" x 9" hardcover$34.99 | 978-1-60699-761-1 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/harveykurtzmanhc

The Complete Eightball 1-18 by Daniel Clowes 560-page full color 7" x 10.625" hardcover$119.99 | 978-1-60699-757-4 Ships in: May 2015 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Before he rose to fame as the author of the bestselling graphic novels Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, and The Death Ray, Daniel Clowes made his name from 1989 to 1997 by producing 18 issues of the beloved comic book series Eightball, which is still widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. Now, for the 25th Anniversary of Eightball, Fantagraphics is collecting these…

Collected Poemsby Alexander Theroux 672-page 6" x 9" x 2" hardcover$39.99 | 978-1-60699-802-1 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/collectedpoems

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: The Complete Zap Comix: Special Signed Editionby R. Crumb, Rick Griffin, Paul Mavrides, Victor Moscoso, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, and S. Clay Wilson 920-page black & white with color 9.75" x 13.25" x 7.5" hardcover$750.00 See Previews / Order Now The Complete Zap Comix collects every issue of Zap — every cover and every story, and even the Zam mini comic jam among the Zap artists — in a multi-volume, slipcased hardcover set. It will also include the 17th unpublished issue with work by Crumb, Moscoco, Wilson, Rodriguez, Shelton,…

Grab your leather jacket and the nearest cat, and plop yourself down to enjoy this first look at our advance copies of Wuvable Oaf! The books are gorgeous to behold with their bright pink exterior, cover overflowing with cats, and featuring our most wuvable protagonist. The generous page size really lets you see every individual hair on Oaf's chest and shows off the bold linework of artist Ed Luce. And, just when you thought it couldn't get any better, we've also got a limited edition dust jacket and slipcased version personally designed by Ed Luce and our own Mike Baehr. It's the…

Praise for previous volumes in The Steve Ditko Archives: "Even though he'd only been working in comics for a couple of years when he drew these 1956 tales, they already display Ditko's distinctively cockeyed style and his characteristically powerful compositions. […] As Bell remarks in his insightful introduction, what makes Ditko's early work notable is 'the dichotomy between what he was given and what he was able to accomplish.'" – Gordon Flagg, Booklist "[In] Fantagraphics' second volume of Ditko's portfolio… Ditko moves away from gore to short sci-fi tales, yet his grasp at relaying natural character depth and dramatic heft…