Just arrived in our warehouse & ready to ship: Prince Valiant Vol. 3: 1941-1942 by Hal Foster 112-page full-color 10.25" x 14" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-407-8 Previews & Ordering Info With this volume, Foster reaches (by common critical consensus) the peak of his drawing and storytelling prowess – a peak at which he will remain for most of the run of this glorious strip. Almost the entirety of 1941’s strips feature a single ten-month epic entitled “Fights for the Singing Sword,” a globetrotting adventure fueled by Valiant’s obsessive search for his bride-to-be Aleta throughout Northern Africa, with stops in Jerusalem,…
Now in stock: Popeye Vol. 5: “Wha’s a Jeep?” by E.C. Segar
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Popeye Vol. 5: "Wha's a Jeep?" by E.C. Segar 168-page black & white/color 10.5" x 14.75" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-404-7 Previews & Ordering Info Remember last volume’s cliffhanger? The penultimate installment of this acclaimed reprinting of E.C. Segar’s masterpiece begins with “Popeye’s Ark: Part Two,” the tale of Popeye’s eventful reign over Spinachovia — a bleak island populated only by men and lacking all “femininity” — even as Olive Oyl controls the country of Olivia (not to mention the men of Spinachovia). Then in “War Clouds,” the two monarchies come tumbling…
Now in stock: Freeway by Mark Kalesniko
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Freeway by Mark Kalesniko 420-page black & white 7" x 10" softcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-356-9 Previews & Ordering Info Alex Kalienka is in an awful jam. Literally, a traffic jam — but figuratively, his whole life is a mess. A dream job turned nightmare at the biggest animation studio in the world. A love affair that is not what he imagined. And possibly someone with a life-threatening grudge against him… In his first new graphic novel since 2001’s acclaimed Mail Order Bride, Mark Kalesniko compresses an entire life into a single…
Now in stock: The Last Rose of Summer by Monte Schulz
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: The Last Rose of Summer by Monte Schulz cover illustration by Cathy Malkasian 332-page 6" x 9" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-401-6 Previews & Ordering Info With the Great Depression looming and about to define America's next decade, three strong-minded women related by marriage form an uneasy household in the summer of 1929. Forced by her husband Harry to uproot their two small children from Illinois and take up residence in East Texas, Marie Hennessey struggles to find a place not only within her mother-in-law's home but in a Southern town whose…
Now in stock: Krazy & Ignatz 1919-1921 by George Herriman
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Krazy & Ignatz 1919-1921: A Kind, Belevolent and Amiable Brick by George Herriman 176-page black & white 9" x 12" softcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-364-4 Previews & Ordering Info As Fantagraphics’ ambitious plan to reprint every single Sunday Krazy Kat page created by George Herriman for close to three decades (this being the penultimate book) careens toward the finish line, this volume features another three years’ worth of Sunday strips — over 150 little masterpieces by the greatest cartoonist of all time, featuring the greatest comic-strip love triangle of all time: “kat,”…
Now in stock: Buz Sawyer Vol. 1: The War in the Pacific by Roy Crane
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Buz Sawyer Vol. 1: The War in the Pacific by Roy Crane 240-page black & white/color 9.25" x 9.25" hardcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-362-0 Previews & Ordering Info Roy Crane created the adventure comic strip with Wash Tubbs, and many a superhero owes a debt to Crane’s square-jawed, hard-hitting adventurer Captain Easy. But during World War II, he left the Captain Easy strip to create a more realistic fighting man, a Navy pilot named John Singer Sawyer, who fought in the Pacific Theater from 1943 until V-J Day in 1945. This book,…
Lorenzo Mattotti & Dave McKean discussion & signing in London
Comica, the London International Comics Festival, announces: "On Saturday March 12th, mesmerising Italian maestro Lorenzo Mattotti makes a rare visit to London to discuss his career in comics and beyond, including his latest graphic novel Stigmata, translated by Fantagraphics, and his collaborations, from his animated terrors in the movie Fear(s) of the Dark to illustrating Lou Reed’s concept album The Raven. Joining Mattotti in conversation will be his friend and fellow artist Dave McKean, famed for his multi-media solo projects, most recently the erotic graphic novel Celluloid, and his works with Neil Gaiman notably on The Sandman. Introduced and hosted…
Bookmark: Nancy Panels
I'm enjoying the flow of decontextualized absurdity and sight gags at the anonymous Nancy Panels Tumblr page, which is exactly what it says it is. Perhaps it will tide you over while you patiently (or impatiently) await Nancy Is Happy, our first collection of Ernie Bushmiller Nancy strips, which is now rescheduled for December 2011.
New Chicago Comics buttons at MCA Chicago
The New Chicago Comics exhibit at MCA Chicago may be over but they still have a Busy Beaver Button vending machine dispensing buttons featuring artwork by the exhibiting artists: Jeffrey Brown, Lilli Carré, Paul Hornschemeier, and Anders Nilsen. Oh, me and my precious laundry quarters would soon be parted. (Via Lilli's Kettle of Fish blog.)
New comic & zine from Tim Lane
Tim Lane reveals two new forthcoming self-published items: above, the third issue of his comic book series Happy Hour in America (the first two come highly recommended and are still available through Spit and a Half), and below, a second issue of his zine Myth of Jack. Can't wait!
