FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
LITTLE MAAKIES ON THE PRAIRIE
(W/A) Tony Millionaire
$19.99 / HC / 112 pgs / BW
Drinky Crow may be the drunken star of the weekly comic strip Maakies, but more often than not, he plays straight man to the hapless drunk ape, Uncle Gabby. Here is the newest, drunkest collection of Tony Millionaire’s drunk strip, featuring two drunk years of drunk comics collected for the first time, drunk.
FORLORN FUNNIES VOL 1
(W/A) Paul Hornschemeier
$8.99 / SC / 48 pgs / FC
Sci-Fi to surrealism, period pieces to the modern quotidian. Forlorn Funnies is an ongoing collection of stories, experiments and gags by one of our most skillful and prolific cartoonists. The centerpiece of this volume is Act One of “Obvious Amenities,” the story of traveling salesman Edward Molson and his harrowing journey through the wilds of America.
THE SANCTUARY
(W/A) Nate Neal
Introduction by Dave Sim
$22.99 / SC / 200 pgs / BW
In Nate Neal’s first graphic novel, the author explores the primal mysteries and sordid inner workings of a Paleolithic cave-dwelling tribe, creating an original “silent” reading experience by using symbols instead of words. When a nomad girl is offered up as an item of trade, she seeks refuge by forming a tenacious friendship with the local cave-painter. Together they set out on a dangerous mission to bring truth to their corrupt tribe.
LAST ROSE OF SUMMER
(W) Monte Schulz
$29.99 / HC / 304 pgs
PROSE NOVEL! Monte Schulz, son of celebrated Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz, examines the surprising truths of three strong-willed women in the summer of 1929. Schulz delicately charts the tender rhythms of a small East Texas town as its inhabitants grapple with identity as related to gender, race and family. With respect, this generous novel tunes our emotions to the collective and poetic web of experience, shattering the varnish of everyday fiction into a constellation of real life.
THE LITTLEST PIRATE KING
(W/A) David B.
$16.99 / HC / 48 pgs / FC
For decades they have roamed the seas, this shipload of undead pirates. They are desperate to die, but every time they try to dash their ship to splinters and end their miserable existence, a malevolent God scoops them out of danger. Until one day, having exterminated yet another ship of the living, they come upon a pink little baby. Adopting him as their mascot and dubbing him the “Littlest King,” they continue their pillage. But eventually the King begins to grow up... Adapted by David B. (Epileptic) from Pierre Mac Orlan’s classic tale.
TOYS IN THE BASEMENT
(W/A) by Stéphane Blanquet
$14.99 / 32 pgs / HC / FC
Dressed in an embarrassing pink bunny costume, the young hero of this story while attending a Halloween party stumbles upon a hidden doorway which leads him to a secret society of damaged, forgotten, and angry toys — including the terrifying Amélie: a towering sentient assemblage of broken toy parts out for revenge! Imagine Toy Story by David Lynch and Charles Burns and you’ll have a good idea of what this story is like. And yes, it is for kids! Written and illustrated by Stéphane Blanquet (Dungeon: Monstres).
SAFE AREA GORAZDE SPECIAL EDITION
(W/A) Joe Sacco
$29.99 / HC / 272 pgs / BW
Released in 2000, Safe Area Gorazde confirmed Sacco as one of the preeminent journalists of his time, and earned him a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship. Now for its 10th anniversary, Fantagraphics is releasing an expanded hardcover edition which, much like 2007’s Palestine: Special Edition, supplements the original work with page after page of related drawings, on-site sketches, photographs, and transcripts from Sacco’s notes.
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HIGH SOFT LISP
(W/A) Gilbert Hernandez
$16.99 DEC090866
“Five six. Hundred twenty-eight pounds. Forty-three twenty-two thirtysix. High soft lisp. Genius level I.Q.” That’s “Fritz” Martinez, bombshell, former punkette, former psychiatrist, “Z” movie star, and subject of this book.
BASIL WOLVERTON’S CULUTRE CORNER
(W/A) Basil Wolverton
$22.99 JAN100956
If life’s conundrums perplex and mystify you, the remedy is at hand in this indispensable guide to life’s most worrisome and disconcerting social quandaries. These Golden Age strips are miniature masterpieces of visual humor.
DRINKY CROW’S MAAKIES TREASURY
(W/A) Tony Millionaire
$29.99 DEC084026
A sumptuously designed hardcover collecting the second five years of the world’s most riotous comic strip, featuring the high-seas hi-jinx of the booze-soaked corvid and simian stars of TV’s The Drinky Crow Show.
ALL & SUNDRY
(W/A) Paul Hornschemeier
$29.99 JUL090865
A collection of short strips, illustrations, album covers, short prose stories, sketchbook work, and other miscellanea from one of comics’ most acclaimed young creators, all previously uncollected.
MOTHER, COME HOME
(W/A) Paul Hornschemeier
$22.99 NOV084062
With clean, distinctive art and poignant storytelling, this is a quietly stunning tale of a father and son struggling, by varying degrees of escapism and fantasy, to come to terms with the death of the boy’s mother.
THIS SIDE OF JORDAN
(W) Monte Schulz
$22.99 JUN090895
PROSE NOVEL! A picaresque prose novel told in the voice of a lost generation hurtling toward the Great Depression. A farm boy meets a violent gangster and an eccentric dwarf, encountering more curious characters as they traverse the American South.
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FLESK PUBLICATIONS
XENOZOIC: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION TP
(W/A) Mark Schultz
Forced into hiding by a global ecological cataclysm, humans emerge from their underground warrens half a millennium later to discover that the Earth has been totally transformed. The familiar flora and fauna are gone, replaced by a radically altered natural order populated by rampaging dinosaurs and strange, new creatures. It takes guts, grim determination, ingenuity and a whole lot of old-fashioned luck just to survive, much less thrive, in this alien wilderness. Xenozoic combines lush artwork with a pulp-fueled narrative to create an action-packed fantasy. (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 8x11, 352pgs, FC SRP: $39.95
FREE LUNCH COMICS
SKY PIRATES OF VALENDOR VOLUME 1 GN
(W) Everett Soares (A) Brian Brinless
Welcome to Valendor, where the continents float and airships traverse oceans of sky. Guilds, races, and factions vie for control while magic and technology collide in this steampunk fantasy world. Follow the adventures of Tobin Manheim and the rest of the Sky Pirates of the Rogues' Revenge as they become unlikely heroes to a world in desperate need.
SC, 7x10, 148pgs, B&W SRP: $15.00