Let Fanta be your Santa this year! We’ve got hundreds of incredible titles to choose from, but we’ve narrowed it down to our top gift picks of 2024. We’ve got something for everyone on your list: groundbreaking manga, gorgeous work from “one of the most important comics artists of our time” (Art Spiegelman), Disney favorites for the whole family, and more!
“It’s a great tribute to love and friendship, and a journey into underworlds literal and metaphorical, full of horrors that are hard to put into words but that can – with lush, exaggerated obliqueness – be drawn. A great graphic novel has a worthy sequel.” — The Guardian
“My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is not only Ferris’s first graphic novel but also her first published work. … Yet her mastery of comics, her pyrotechnic drawings, and her nested narratives are already placing her among the greatest practitioners of the form.” — The New Yorker
Behind the scenes of The Brothers Hernandez: 400 pages of sketches, inked drawings, early comics, and uninhibited graphic ephemera that never made it into the pages of Love and Rockets–perfect for both new fans and longtime readers!
Fans of Maria Bamford’s acclaimed quasi-autobiographical Lady Dynamite! Netflix series already know of her romance with LA painter Scott Marvel Cassidy, as well as her droll pug sidekicks Blueberry and Bert. Now the story has been recounted in this graphic novella, written by Bamford/Cassidy, drawn by Cassidy, and all told by the rescue dogs they’ve adopted!
“Kaneko reimagines Tezuka’s 1960s epic fantasy saga Dororo as a gritty, fast-paced cyberpunk thriller… Kaneko retains Tezuka’s relentless pacing, flair for melodrama, and thematic focus on justice, corruption, and individuality within an oppressive society, while integrating elements of body horror and an increased focus on the unsustainability of societies where vital resources are controlled by a thriving minority, to the detriment of the masses.” — Library Journal Starred Review
This is Burns at his most playful, imaginative, and suggestive, using the format of the comic book to continue to explore many of the themes that run through all his longer-form work — adolescence, metamorphosis, nightmares, and sexuality — and provide a pretext for the creation of some of the most mysterious and bewitching imagery of Burns’s incredible career. Kommix is like discovering an entire box of comic books you never knew existed.
“With the exception of one or two novelists and poets, no one has ever rendered this terrible state of affairs better than Joe Sacco.” — Edward W. Said
This new hardcover edition of Joe Sacco’s breakthrough work of graphic journalism includes a new afterword by Israeli journalist Amira Hass and also features Palestinian academic and critic Edward Said’s timeless 2001 introduction to the work.
This gorgeous art book celebrates the work and legacy of Barbara Shermund, one of the first female cartoonists for humor and lifestyle magazines in the United States, including The New Yorker and Esquire! Through close readings, archival research, reproductions of original art, correspondence and photographs, this volume uncovers and celebrates a trailblazing female magazine cartoonist, and rightfully places her in the canon of cartoon art history.
“A bored everyman does battle with the colossal enemy that is a dull Sunday in this epic mock-Proustian graphic novel from Belgian artist Schrauwen. … [A] surprisingly touching and life-affirming portrait of indolence.” — Publishers Weekly Starred Review
My Time Machine takes off when Carol Lay’s silver-haired protagonist (who happens to resemble the author) embarks on a foolhardy odyssey that transports her from the politically addled and environmentally anxious America of 2020 to a bleak and distant future–a sly and funny cautionary political satire!
“Enormously well-crafted and equally enormously entertaining, timeless comedy adventures … the perfect gift for just about any reader of comics, regardless of age, background, or experience.” — School Library Journal
“There have been quite a few books… published to celebrate the momentous 100th celebration of The Walt Disney Company, but this may be the best one. Each included story has been expertly curated for this collection.” — DuckTalks
Fréderic Brémaud and Federico Bertolucci, the team behind the world-renowned Love graphic novels, present a comics tribute to Donald’s Golden Age animation career in this wild adventure that sends Donald Duck and Chip ‘n Dale on a not-so-relaxing holiday!
“[Hagio’s] work is inspired by American science-fiction and European film, suffused with markedly fluid notions of gender and evinces her unflinching eagerness to explore some very dark psychological places.” — NPR