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Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Prince Valiant Vol. 5: 1945-1946 by Hal Foster 112-page full-color 10.5" x 14.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-484-9 See Previews / Order Now Fully half of this latest volume of Hal Foster’s epic masterpiece — again scanned from superb syndicate proofs — is devoted to the remaining chapters of “The Winning of Aleta,” a 20-month (!) epic in which Valiant obsessively pursues his bride to be. Not surprisingly this is followed by a sequence called “Matrimony,” which ends with a newly wed queen adjusting to the luxurious, exciting…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: The Furry Trap by Josh Simmons 140-page full-color 8.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-536-5 See Previews / Order Now Graphic novelist Josh Simmons (House) returns with a harrowing and genre-bending collection of modern horror short stories that could curl the toes of a corpse in a state of rigor mortis. Simmons’ disturbing, uncomfortable and even confrontational stories often work on multiple levels: straight, uncompromising horror; blackly humorous, satirical riffs on the genre; or as vicious assaults against the political correctness that rules so much of our…

The latest Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Josh Simmons' book The Furry Trap is truly disturbing in its depravity. Makes Ultra Gash Inferno look cute. An inspiring & exhilarating read! How many comics can you honestly say made you sick or upset when you read them? Furry Trap made me question the First Amendment at times." – Sammy Harkham • Review: "By this point, the reader will know if [Dungeon Quest] is their cup of tea; anyone who enjoys alt-comics takes on fantasy and/or stoner humor will find this a sheer delight. I'd say the sheer level of craftsmanship…

The tragedy in Seattle this morning made national headlines but it hit very close to home for us. Café Racer, the scene of the first shootings, is about a half a mile right down the street from our headquarters, and for many years has been a gathering place and exhibit space for local cartoonists, including Jim Woodring and the Friends of the Nib. (I'd wager heavily that that's Jim in the green shirt in the photo above, taken this evening by The Stranger's Kelly O as friends and neighbors gathered outside the cafe in a spontaneous show of mutual support.)…

Wednesday, May 30th • Hanover, NH: Join our very own Jen Vaughn at the The Howe Library for a lecture and discussion on Mother, Come Home by Paul Hornschemeier! (more info) Thursday, May 31st • Brooklyn, NY:  It's your last chance to see the exhibit Drew Friedman: My Way, his very first New York gallery show of comic strip and illustration art at the Scott Eder Gallery! (more info) • Seattle, WA:  Join Jeffrey Brown at the SIFF Cinema Uptown for a screening of his new film Save the Date! See if you can spot artwork by  Paul Hornschemeier and…

Get your summer vacation off to a melancholy start with Mother, Come Home by Paul Hornschemeier!  The Howe Library in Hanover, NH and The Center for Cartoon Studies will be co-sponsoring a discussion series and lecture focusing on the graphic novel this summer, and they'll be kicking it off with this very title! Join them this Wednesday, May 30th, at 6:15 PM in the Howe Library cafe [ 13 South Street ]. The discussion will be co-led by Heather Backman from Howe Library and our very own Jen Vaughn, also from The Center for Cartoon Studies!

Two of our most-demanded reprints have finally arrived in our warehouse and are ready for immediate shipment from our mail-order department! Castle Waiting Vol. 1 by Linda Medley 456-page black & white 5.5" x 8" hardcover • $29.95ISBN: 978-1-56097-747-6 A fable for modern times, Castle Waiting is a fairy tale that's not about rescuing the princess, saving the kingdom, or fighting the ultimate war between Good and Evil — but about being a hero in your own home. The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. (Love and Rockets Library — Locas Book 2) by Jaime Hernandez 272-page black & white 7.5" x 9.25"…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: What Is All This? (Softcover Ed.) by Stephen Dixon 568-page 5.75" x 8.25" softcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-527-3 See Previews / Order Now Stephen Dixon is one of the most acclaimed authors of short stories in the history of American letters. His work, characterized by mordant humor and a frank attention to human sexuality, has earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Fantagraphics Books is proud to re-present his 2010 hardcover…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Mr. Twee Deedle: Raggedy Ann's Sprightly Cousin – The Forgotten Fantasy Masterpiece of Johnny Gruelleby Johnny Gruelle 128-page full-color 14" x 18" hardcover • $75.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-411-5 See Previews / Order Now From our Marschall Books imprint comes this magnificent collection of Mr. Twee Deedle, Johnny Gruelle’s masterpiece, unjustly forgotten by history and never before reprinted since its first appearance in America’s newspapers from 1911 to 1914. The title character in the Sunday color page, Mr. Twee Deedle, is a magical wood sprite who befriends the strip’s two…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Black Images in the Comics (Softcover Ed.) by Fredrik Strömberg 304-page black & white 6" x 6" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-562-4 See Previews / Order Now This book spotlights over 100 comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels to feature black characters from all over the world over the last century, and the result is a fascinating journey to, if not enlightenment, then at least away from the horrendous caricatures of yore. The book begins with the habitually appalling images of blacks as ignorant “coons” in the…