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We're pleased to present this 18-page preview of Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013 by Janet Hamlin. Hamlin's drawings are the only complete visual journalistic record of the military tribunal hearings of suspected terrorists at GTMO, and this historic book is the first place they're gathered all together. In this excerpt you'll be able to browse the Table of Contents; read Hamlin's background on her assignment, getting to the base, and her process; and see her sketches of the GTMO compound and her first tribunals. This fascinating volume is due to hit shelves in October and can be…

Ditkophiles rejoice! A fourth heaping helping of Steve Ditko's classic suspense and horror work from the 1950s is on its way to give you the creeps right around Halloween. Impossible Tales collects another 200-plus pages of tales from This Magazine Is Haunted, Tales of the Mysterious Traveler, Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds, Out of This World, Strange Suspense Stories and more, impeccably compiled by Ditko doyen Blake Bell and given our painstaking restoration treatment. Ditko's mastery of the comics page is in full effect here, with a real burst of creativity and innovation that marks this work as one of his peaks. Pre-order your copy here and…

We have some great news for Peanuts fans! First off, we're now offering Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955 for pre-order, kicking off our new series of full-color complete Sunday Peanuts collections! Get in your order now and you'll be among the first people in the world to receive the book in November! Second, our overseas customers have long been disappointed that we've been unable to offer Peanuts books for sale outside North America. Effective immediately, we can now also sell them to retail customers in Japan, China, India, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland & Iceland)! Banzai! Skål! G'day! And to…

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 More 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 the very first issue of Love and Rockets…

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…