Yesterday, Publisher Gary Groth's interview with the team from Tell Me Something I Don't Know went live on Boing Boing. Jason Lex, Jim Rugg, and Ed Piskor asked for some of Gary's Fantagraphics recommendations. Here are the quick descriptions and links to the books Gary mentioned.
Good Dog by Graham Chaffee is a beautiful black and white graphic novel that chronicles the tales of stray dog, Ivan, on his search for a home, friends and more. Ivan is a good dog – if only someone would notice. Chaffee combines illustrative gravitas with cartooning verve for a richly textured, dog's-eye view of the world. Coming this May 2013.
Wake Up, Percy Gloom is the second Percy Gloom graphic novel by Cathy Malkasian. Kindhearted Percy awakens from (what he thinks is) a 200-year nap and finds himself in a strange new land. As Percy goes on a quest to locate his mother in addition to his long-lost love and soul mate, Miss Margaret. Coming out this April 2013.
Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball is a collection of the sports comics by Willard Mullin. Mullin was to baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate and critic, investing them with personality, humanity, dignity, and poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and Mullin had the Brooklyn Bum, his affectionate 1939 character representing the bedraggled figure of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Coming this April 2013.
Finally, His Wife Leaves Him by Stephen Dixon is a new book from the Fantagraphics' prose line. One of America's great literary treasures has completed his first novel in five years – a long, intimate exploration of the interior life of a husband who has lost his wife. Coming this May 2013.