Some people don’t like to be reminded that Winter is coming–they’re either still disappointed in the way certain television shows handled that particular promise, or they don’t look great in heavy down parkas, or some other valid reason, like being annoyed they have to travel out of state to see a family who still refuses to understand that working in comics is an actual job, just as respectable and challenging as being an “environmental insurance adjuster”…maybe that last one is too specific, but the general thrust of the point remains. Some people just aren’t looking forward to winter!
To those people, we here at Fantagraphics have to say: we got you covered. Whether it’s the latest installment in the decades-long case we’ve been making that nobody can draw like Jaime Hernandez or the most important graphic novel debut of 2025 (yes, you read that correct; yes, the hyperbole is earned, Kayla E. is that good, we said it), the season we have coming is one that will hit as hard as any. The rest of this email has the comics you’ll want to read, need to read, and all the links that can make that happen. This isn’t the last time you’ll be hearing about them: but you always remember your first blush. You can find highlights from our Winter 2025 catalog below and see them all here on Fantagraphics.com!
Ten years in the making (and torn from the pages of the legendary Love and Rockets), Jaime Hernandez‘s newest graphic novel skillfully weaves two generations of his beloved characters into a satisfying story of love—both young and middle-aged. Life Drawing showcases Hernandez’s brilliant talent for character, weaving relationships, rejections, infidelities, and adventures into one gorgeous book!
Raised By Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn, the acclaimed author of Ephemera: A Memoir, is a powerful, affecting graphic novel for young adult readers. The story is told by shifting between Briana’s first-person class notes and diary entries. In her understated yet masterful approach to comics storytelling, Loewinsohn eschews dramatic confrontations and overt sentimentality, preferring instead to underscore the idea that sometimes acceptance and love can be communicated through quiet, everyday moments and close family bonds.
“If an exorcism can ever be slow and quiet, then every panel I’ve finished has felt something like an exorcism. The gutters give me space to make sense of things: to connect dots and close gaps. To remember.” Kayla E.’s Precious Rubbish is an experimental graphic memoir drawn in a style that references the aesthetics of mid-century children’s comics and tells the story of a childhood shaped by maternal emotional dysregulation, rural poverty, and incest. The author’s childhood is portrayed as a collection of short-form comics and gag panels punctuated by interactive elements like paper dolls, satirical advertisements, games, and puzzles.
This landmark graphic novel debut asks the reader to do the extratextual work of filling out narrative gaps, which mirrors the challenge of trauma recollection. The reader is invited to co-labor in the meaning-making process, an exercise that facilitates an intimacy (between the author, the subject, and the reader) that is at once horrifying and hilarious.
For almost three decades, Jordan Crane has put together a body of short stories that garnered him multiple Eisner and Ignatz Award nominations, via the pages of his comic book series Uptight and the influential comics anthology, Non. Yet they have never been collected until now.
Featuring over a dozen short stories (spanning multiple genres) published over the past 25 years, Goes Like This is a gorgeously packaged anthology (including varying paper stocks and exposed spine) from a master cartoonist.
In 1919, Victorian author Daisy Ashford (1881–1972) published a book she wrote at 9 years old to great success. Inspired by her imaginative adventure, writer Mathew Klickstein and cartoonist Rick Geary have created a delightful graphic novel adaptation, in which little Daisy goes to outer space, visits the cosmic automat, watches TV with a time traveler, and more!
Search and Destroy Vol. 2 is the second volume in manga creator Atsushi Kaneko’s cyberpunk retelling of the timeless, Eisner Award–winning Dororo by “God of Manga” Osamu Tezuka!
This authorized retelling updates the rebellious ’60s spirit of the original Dororo to the equally tumultuous 2020s, mixing Tezuka’s signature dark yet playful storytelling sense with Kaneko’s own wide range of influences which include Western cartoonists like Daniel Clowes and Charles Burns as well as filmmakers like David Lynch.
The Santos Sisters fight crime, date guys, and try to just deal with day-to-day life as young women in a world of deadly assassins, roided-up footballers, zombie attacks, organized crime, and more — while their creators, Greg & Fake, help restore the concept of unabashed fun in comic books with a healthy infusion of nostalgia and laughs. Collecting the first five issues of the charmingly weird and weirdly charming hit indie comic book series!
Dazzling to the eye, Season of the Rosesby Chloé Wary is at once a deeply felt coming-of-age story and an inspirational rallying cry for young women living in a man’s world.
Inspired by the author’s experiences, it is an authentic portrayal of a teenager at a crossroads. Her dazzling illustrations, drawn in colorful felt-tip pens, encompass the thrills of playing soccer as well as the angst of navigating life off the field.
Skin is the striking debut graphic novel by writer Mieke Versyp and illustrator Sabien Clement, a captivating portrait of two women in search of themselves.
In this seamless collaboration, poetic turns of phrase pair with impressionistic watercolors, creating a tangible intimacy between words and imagery. Keen observation and dynamic artistry combine to tell a tender story of the human condition, as playful and devastating as life itself.
Beat It, Rufus is very much a kindred spirit with Noah Van Sciver’s Fante Bukowski series, a comedic character study both played for laughs but also infused with a surprising gravitas that has you rooting for Rufus despite having every reason not to. Van Sciver’s comedic and graphic talents are in peak form in this original graphic novel, his follow-up to the award winning and critically acclaimed graphic bio, Joseph Smith and the Mormons.
Meet Tedward — a blockhead with a heart of gold, and a talent for making bad situations worse.
A spiritual cousin to the humor of Simon Hanselmann and Daniel Clowes, Josh Pettinger’s singularity of tone and style in these episodic comedies mark him as a master cartoonist just entering his prime.
Set in a not-so-distant future where the State polices people’s emotions, this dystopian graphic novel explores themes of mental health, queer identity, and the dangers of unchecked fascism. The English debut of Swedish comics artist Bim Eriksson, Baby Blue is drawn in a delightfully twisted, sad girl style and suffused with pop music and other cultural touchstones!
Coupling the grand guignol morality of Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver with the squashed black-and-white perspectives and grotesque human physiognomy (and humanity) that defines Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Martí’s The Cabbie (starring the eponymous “hero” known only as the Cabbie) was first published in installments in 1980s Spain, a product of a life lived under, and coming out of, Franco’s fascist dictatorship.
Ultra violent, ultra profane, and ultra vicious, The Cabbie is filled with scummy noir characters exaggerated to the absolute limit — and the worst of them all might be the titular cabbie, precisely because, not unlike Travis Bickle, he sees himself as a force for good.
There have been various incomplete English editions over the last four decades, but this is the definitive Cabbie saga published in English for the first time, complete with “extras,” including a cover gallery!
In a parallel reality—in a dystopian future—scavengers rule the Earth: pals like Mickey and Goofy are salvaging rare fuel from the seafloor, and rogues like Peg Leg Pete are fighting to get it first!
The European writer/artist team of Denis-Pierre Filippi and Silvio Camboni present an incredible new Mickey Mouse graphic novel — at once reflecting the Golden Age of comics past, and presenting awesome steampunk sights like no Disney fan has seen before!