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Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce the debut collection of Joe Daly, SCRUBLANDS, the first book the company has published by a South African cartoonist. Daly's cartoons, offbeat, hallucinatory, and often hilarious, seems descendant from the substance-induced work of Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Victor Moscoso, and S. Clay Wilson, filtered through the artist's own unique vision and sense of the absurd. Stories alternate between full-color and black-and-white, and range from representational Jim Jarmusch-like scenarios to wild visual excursions, albeit linear ones.   Grab this 127 page book for only $8.99 via comiXology and get whisked away into some fine comics reading.  

"Love and Rockets #1 is marvelous. I hope one day to attain the level of the cover drawing myself… it is a perfect drawing." – Moebius, 1982 Love and Rockets: The Covers by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez 144-page full-color 10.25" x 13.25" hardcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-598-3 Available now! Click the thumbnails for larger versions; get more info, see more previews and pre-order your copy here: http://www.fantagraphics.com/lrcovers

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Wandering Son (Hourou Musuko / 放浪息子) Vol. 5 by Shimura Takako 228-page black & white (with some color) 7" x 9.5" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-647-8 See Previews / Order Now Shimura Takako’s sensitive and charming series about two middle- schoolers wrestling with their gender identities continues. Nitori Shuichi, the boy who wants to be a girl, and Takatsuki Yoshino, the girl who wants to be a boy, continue navigating the infatuations, jealousies, and embarrassments of preteen relationships during their first year of junior high. Chiba-san won’t make up with Takatsuki-san, and no…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Love and Rockets: The Covers by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez 144-page full-color 10.25" x 13.25" hardcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-598-3 See Previews / Order Now Five women stand in a police lineup; four of them are garishly dressed super-women — perfectly normal, because this is, after all, the cover of a comic book. A closer look, however, reveals a fifth woman who seems thoroughly out of place — mousy, in a bathrobe and curlers, smoking a cigarette. Surely she's here by mistake — or is she? From this very first cover of…

  Charles Forsman's most recent graphic novel, The End of the Fucking World, is currently being filmed in England by Buchanan Productions in association with Film 4.0. Director Jonathan Entwhistle keeps putting up photos on Instagram and Twitter and we can't help it, we're freaking out! (check out how faithful the shot of young James' animal body count is to the page in TEOTFW)  Craig Roberts (from Submarine) is playing James, the psychotic teen, and we're excited from what we can see so far! Forsman told us there will be some changes since the pilot was cast with British actors (guess they're not…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Heroic Tales: The Bill Everett Archives Vol. 2 by Bill Everett; edited by Blake Bell 248-page full-color 7.25" x 10" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-600-3 Order Now / See More Previews Amazing Man! Skyrocket Steele! Hydroman! They're back from the very earilest days of the Golden Age of Comics in this beautiful collection from one of America's most dynamic, exuberant, and versatile comic book artists — the legendary Bill Everett, creator of Sub-Mariner and co-creator of Daredevil! PLUS: An essential look at Everett's work in other genres, including his not-to-be-missed horror shockers! Look inside…

"Heroic Tales is a wonderful anthology of material from several different eras of Everett's career. After an insightful introduction, editor Blake Bell presents 150 or so pages of comics… Bill Everett was a tremendous and thoroughly unique talent in comics art. Heroic Tales reminds us that Everett's career was long, but his talent was obvious. …[T]his is a delightful book." – Jason Sacks, Comics Bulletin "These publications rode the superhero wave initiated by the companies that would later become DC and Marvel, and while they didn’t withstand the test of time, they’re still a kick to read, buoyed by their no-nonsense action plots and…

Heroic Tales: The Bill Everett Archives Vol. 2 by Bill Everett; edited by Blake Bell 248-page full-color 7.25" x 10" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-600-3 Ships tomorrow! Order Now / See More Previews The 1939 creation of the Sub-Mariner for the first issue of Marvel Comics assures Bill Everett a place in history. Co-creating Daredevil, the Man Without Fear, for Marvel Comics in 1964 gave Everett a link to one of the most popular superheroes of the past 50 years. And producing over 400 additional pages of superhero-related work in the very early days of the Golden Age of Comics (1938-42) makes Bill Everett…

Fantagraphics Bookstore hosts a rare Seattle appearance by alternative cartoonist Brian Ralph on Saturday, September 7 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. The artist will present an entertaining slide talk and sign copies of his recently released book Reggie-12 from Drawn & Quarterly. Brian Ralph has maintained an ambitious publishing schedule since graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 1996 and becoming a member of the influential Fort Thunder comix collective. First serialized in pop culture magazine Giant Robot, Reggie-12 follows the exploits of a hilarious young robot and his bumbling feline sidekick. Ralph’s alternative zombie adventure Daybreak and wordless mystery…

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. The End of the Fucking World (TEOTFW) by Charles Forsman 176-page black & white 5" x 6.5" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-667-6 "[It] pulls you in like no other comic this year. Stunning in its simplicity and brave in its subject matter. Charles Forsman is a future force. . . [it]…