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FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS SUMMER 2022
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One Beautiful
Spring Day
By Jim Woodring
A mesmerizingly mind-bending, wordless 400-page
comics odyssey by a contemporary master of the form.
Jim Woodring has been chronicling the adventures of his cartoon
Everyman, Frank, for almost 30 years. These stories are a singular
rarity in the comics form — both bone-chillingly physical in their
depictions of Frank’s travails and profoundly metaphysical at the
same time. Not since George Herriman’s Krazy Kat has the comics
language been so exquisitely distilled into pure, revelatory aesthetic
expression.
One Beautiful Spring Day combines three previously published
volumes — Congress of the Animals, where Frank embarked upon
a life-changing voyage of discovery, Fran, where he learned, then
forgot, that things are not always what they seem, and Poochytown
in which Frank demonstrated his dizzying capacity for both nobil-
ity and ignominy — along with 100 dazzling new pages. The result
is a seamless, 400-page graphic narrative that forges a new and
Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary even more poignantly realized single story that takes readers deep into the hidden
$39.99 Paperback meanings of the previous stories and offers the most full, complete, astonishing
408 pages, black-and-white, 8.5" × 11" exposition of Frank and his supercharged world to date.
Territory: E • CQ: 6 Frank’s curiosity and risk-taking mixed with a dose of, let’s face it, wanton
ISBN: 978-1-68396-555-8 recklessness, takes him on a series of terrifying peregrinations that often leave his
soul and body shattered, and the reader in a state of creative exaltation. Suffice to
• Age Range: 16 And Up say that if you are a friend to Frank you will find One Beautiful Spring Day to be a
• National review coverage thousand-course feast of agonizing bliss, soul-stirring mystery and luminous depth.
• Targeted outreach to booksellers This is undoubtedly one of the great novels of the 21st century, graphic or otherwise.
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educators
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marketing jim woodring lives on Vashon Island in Washington State’s Puget Sound with his wife,
• Participation in book trade shows Mary. The recipient of numerous awards — including The Stranger's Genius Award
and comic book festivals for Literature — he is an animator and a fine artist as well as a cartoonist.
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“Welcome to another voyage into the visceral sublime “Mr. Woodring [has] extraordinary gifts as a draftsman,
with Jim Woodring, whose uniquely mind-expanding storyteller and creator of hilarious characters and
narratives draw equally on Buster Keaton, Max hallucinatory situations...”
Ernst, and an cross-section of our planet's DNA code — Ken Johnson, The New York Times
apparently extracted in a secret hi-tech laboratory by
the mad scientists who control our fates.”
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— Jonathan Lethem
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Golden Boy:
Beethoven's Youth Ludwig…
By Mikael Ross
Ludwig van Beethoven created music that moves and
inspires us to this day; his very name sparks a melody
in the ear. But are you born a genius? This graphic
biography asks: “Who was Beethoven before he
became ‘Beethoven’?”
Master cartoonist Mikael Ross (The Thud) tells the story of Beetho-
ven from 1778 to his first major public appearance in Vienna in 1795.
It begins when the family is living a difficult life in Bonn. Father
I have a fantasy… We’ll ride from court to court.
Johann battles with alcoholism and is deep in debt. Only young
Ludwig and his talent at the piano offer any hope for the future — if On horseback.
only he would stop composing his own pieces and just play what’s
expected of him.
Author Ross was asked to do a small comic for the Beethoven
Do you
Society. Through this opportunity, he discovered the diaries of the
like my
baker’s son that lived downstairs from Beethoven’s family, the con-
music?
Comics & Graphic Novels / Biography, tent of which inspired Golden Boy. As in his previous book, The Thud, Ross skillfully
Music mixes humor with empathy and pure social drama, crafting a coming-of-age story
$29.99 Hardcover that transcends its biographical subject matter. His colorful, expressive style and
192 pages, full-color, 8" × 10.5" mastery of the language of comics are perfectly suited to the tall task of capturing
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Beethoven’s timeless music visually.
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• Age Range: 16 And Up mikael ross is a Berlin-based cartoonist and tailor. Ross was the recipient of the
• National review coverage very first graphic novel scholarship from Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and And I’ll be a singer.
Europe.
• Targeted outreach to booksellers Princes will duel over me!
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In a dress made of silk.
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Walt Disney's Uncle
Scrooge “The Golden
Nugget Boat”
The Complete Carl Barks
Disney Library Vol. 26
By Carl Barks
This volume of the world-famous Duck comics introduces
Magica De Spell, Scrooge’s sorceress nemesis! Plus
adventures in the frozen North and on a rogue planet
headed straight for Earth.
Uncle Scrooge laughed when the mysterious woman offered him one
dollar for one of his dimes. But she might just have the last laugh because
the dime he accidentally sold her was his lucky Number One Dime — the
first dime he ever earned! — and now she’s about to melt it down for one
of her strange spells! Then Uncle Scrooge gets wind of a big gold-prospecting contest
in Alaska, and he ropes Donald and the boys into helping him prove he’s just as good
Series: Complete Carl Barks Disney
a prospector now as he was back when he was making his fortune. But the infuri-
Library
atingly lucky Gladstone Gander decides he’s going to enter the contest, too — and
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Gladstone never loses! And when a mysterious new planet suddenly appears in the
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sky on a collision course with Earth, Scrooge, Donald, and the boys are whisked
208 pages, full-color, 7.5" × 10.25"
there — only to discover it’s filled with gold and inhabited by the ancient Norse gods!
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ISBN: 978-1-68396-565-7 into iron — or both planets will be destroyed! Plus: the oddball inventions of the
ever-eccentric Gyro Gearloose!
• Age Range: 14 And Up Carl Barks delivers another wildly imaginative collection of outrageous adven-
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educators
national panel of Barks experts.
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• Co-op available carl barks, (1901–2000), one of the most brilliant cartoonists of the 20th century,
entertained millions around the world with his timeless tales of Donald Duck and
Uncle Scrooge. Among many other honors, he was named a Disney Legend and was
inducted into the William Randolph Hearst Cartoon Hall of Fame and the Will Eisner
Comic Book Hall of Fame.
See page 99 for more of The Carl Barks Disney Library
“Enormously well-crafted and equally enormously entertaining, timeless comedy adventures that Fanta
presents in such handsomely designed volumes that they make the perfect gift for just about any reader of
comics, regardless of age, background, or experience with the art form.” — School Library Journal
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Ultrasound
By Conor Stechschulte
In this graphic novel, which has been adapted into a feature
film starring Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), Glen and
Cyndi become unwitting test subjects in a mind-control
experiment after a strange sexual encounter. They search
for answers as their own memories become tools for
manipulation.
Driving home from a wedding late one night during a heavy storm, out
of cell range, Glen blows out his tires. He knocks on the door of the only
house he sees and is greeted by an uncomfortably friendly middle-aged
man, Arthur, and his attractive younger wife, Cyndi. The strange couple
pours him a drink, and then more drinks, followed by odd confessions
and an unexpected offer that Glen can’t refuse. Where Ultrasound zigs and
zags from there is into a dizzying plot involving mind control, government
secrets, gaslighting, and political intrigue that is always one step ahead
of the reader. Stechschulte’s brilliant use of color and mastery of comics
Comics & Graphic Novels / Science storytelling yields a breathtaking puzzlebox of a sci fi thriller — the moment you
Fiction finish, you will want to go back and reread Ultrasound from the start.
$34.99 Hardcover Ultrasound has also been adapted into an acclaimed feature film directed by
376 pages, full-color, 7" × 10" Robert Schroeder and starring Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), from a screenplay by
Territory: E • CQ: 8 Stechschulte. The film earned raves at the 2021 Tribeca Film Fest and is scheduled
ISBN: 978-1-68396-534-3 for theatrical release in March 2022 and will premiere streaming on Hulu in June.
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conor stechschulte grew up in rural Pennsylvania and graduated from the Mary-
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(conorstechschulte.com)
“What begins as a man recounting a bizarre encounter...becomes a psychological, erotic thriller that makes
you question reality itself. It’s filled with tonal shifts, new revelations and Lynchian twists that force you to
observe and rethink what you’ve read previously. It’s also a comic focused on the experience of reading, that
makes the reader engage with it on its own terms.” — Comics Beat “100 Best Comics of the Decade”
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Dog Biscuits
By Alex Graham
Social justice, “woke” culture, social media, gender
dynamics, and insouciance intersect in this pandemic-
inspired graphic novel about the repercussions of making
mistakes.
It’s July 2020 in Seattle. Gussy struggles to keep his dog biscuit boutique
afloat while a global pandemic rages unchecked. The loneliness of lock-
down and social distancing drives his employee Rosie to betray her prin-
ciples. Rosie’s roommate Hissy is at a personal crossroads. A love triangle
emerges as they find themselves tangled in a web of police brutality, pro-
tests, drugs, dating apps, and Covid chaos. Taking place over the course
of just a few days, this is a snapshot of humanity — okay, animals — in
crisis. Alex Graham’s pandemic-inspired graphic novel was initially seri-
alized six panels at a time on Instagram during the lockdowns of 2020 and
became one of the most talked about comics of the year; this hardcover
edition will remain a timeless work long after the pandemic ends.
Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary alex graham is a painter and cartoonist from Denver, Colorado, currently residing
$34.99 Hardcover in Seattle.
416 pages, one-color, 6" × 9"
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“Dog Biscuits deftly shows the complexity and dynamics “Dog Biscuits is a foundational text of what we can call
of the current moment, but with enough substance that pandemic comics, COVID comics, or quarantine comics.
it should prove a timeless testament to the complexity It reads strangely familiar in its most vital moments.”
of living in uncontrollable times. As if there’s any other — Pop Matters
kind.” — Broken Frontier
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Peanuts
1983-1984:
Vol. 17 Paperback
Edition
By Charles M. Schulz, foreword
by Leonard Maltin
As Peanuts hits the mid-’80s, Peppermint
Patty and Snoopy’s brother Spike take
starring roles.
This volume of The Complete Peanuts is particularly
romance-heavy as the Charlie Brown/Peppermint
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Patty/Marcie triangle heats up; love blossoms between two of the “Beagle Scout”
Humor / Comic Strips & Cartoons birds; and Linus still refuses to be Sally’s “Sweet Babboo”! Meanwhile, Peppermint 4 |
$22.99 Paperback Patty goes to the “sleep disorders center” to find out why she’s always nodding off in
344 pages, black-and-white, 8.25" × 6.5" class; Charlie Brown becomes, in his worst baseball-related humiliation to date, the
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ISBN: 978-1-68396-575-6 once and for all; and Snoopy’s brother Spike pops up in hilarious, deadpan vignettes
set in far-flung Needles, California.
• Age Range: 6 And Up The Complete Peanuts is the reprint project that launched a renaissance in comic
• Targeted outreach to booksellers strip publishing and the only place Charles M. Schulz’s classic has ever been col-
• Targeted outreach to librarians & lected in its entirety. Featuring impeccable production values, each volume of this
educators series features two successive years of newspaper strips (dailies and Sundays), plus
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of Schulz himself.
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charles m. schulz (1922–2000) lives on at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and
Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA.
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“Encountering Peanuts for the first time is a treat, like rekindling an old friendship.” — Leonard Maltin, from his foreword
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The Treasure of the
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Using the coordinates the Navy Let’s go.
gave us, it didn’t take long Lower the
to find the wreck site. Triton.
Black Swan
By Paco Roca & Guillermo Corral
Going down.
Based on real events, this thrilling graphic novel Triton at 200
meters.
chronicles the intense legal and political battles sparked
by the discovery of a priceless shipwreck.
May 2007. When an American treasure-hunting company uncovers a
shipwreck containing the greatest underwater trove ever found, the
world is captivated by their discovery. But over in Spain, a group of low-
level government officials surmises that the sunken ship is in fact an
ancient Spanish vessel. Thus begins a legal and political thriller, pitting 850
a group of idealistic diplomats against a rich and powerfully connected meters.
treasure hunter, in which vital cultural artifacts and hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars hang in the balance.
930
Cartoonist Paco Roca and writer Guillermo Corral bring a cine- meters.
matic flair to this graphic novel, combining threads of Tintin-inspired
seafaring adventure, political intrigue, tense courtroom drama, and,
in the midst of it all, a budding romance. A gripping dramatization of a
Comics & Graphic Novels / Historical little-known, unbelievable true story of money, political power, and cultural heritage.
Fiction You can’t see Be patient…
anything.
$29.99 Hardcover
1010…
224 pages, full-color, 7" × 9.8" 1015…
paco roca (Valencia, 1969) is a cartoonist and illustrator whose works have won a
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bottom!
ISBN: 978-1-68396-578-7 best script and best work at the Barcelona International Comic Fair in 2008 and 2011.
guillermo corral has worked as a career diplomat since 1997. The Treasure of the A little more
• Age Range: 16 And Up Black Swan, a work of fiction based on real events that he witnessed firsthand, marks to the left.
Slowly…
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• Co-op available See page 92 for more books by Paco Roca
“Full of nautical adventures, “Roca’s visual style is an appealing, Praise for
diplomacy, and love — a dazzling effective amalgamation of The Winter of the Cartoonist:
true story that brings to mind cartoonishness and realism.”
Tintin comics, the great epics of —Booklist “Roca's massively appealing
Salgari, and the documentaries illustration and masterly sense
of Jacques Cousteau.” — Jesús “A thrilling marine adventure.” of narrative make this true story 134
Marchamalo (journalist, — Guillermo Altares (journalist) exceptionally compelling.”
screenwriter, and writer) — Library Journal (starred review)
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Living & Dying in
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America:
A Daily Chronicle
2020-2022
By Steve Brodner
Every day, late at night or early in the morning,
from March 26, 2020 to January 1, 2022, the
political cartoonist and illustrator Steve Brodner
would get to work. In those midnight hours, he
would review the day’s reportage, sit down at
his drawing board, and memorialize a singular
person or event that played a role, willingly or
unwillingly, in shaping that day.
Living & Dying in America includes many lovingly drawn por-
traits of those who died in the pandemic and of those who
displayed extraordinary strength, decency, courage, and endurance. But Brodner
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History does not ignore those who perpetuated the pandemic in word or deed: he also etches
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in acid caricature those public servants and private entrepreneurs who preyed
upon the public, spread lies, and aided the virus’ spread through their ignorance,
480 pages, full-color, 6.5" × 6.5"
incompetence, and malfeasance. Released via social media, the drawings range
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from quick, expertly realized sketches to elaborate paintings to carefully rendered
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mixed media, depending on how much time and stamina and inspiration he had left
at the end of the day. Each spontaneously drawn or painted image is accompanied
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by a brief biography of those who died, or a short summary of the person’s conduct
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or the event depicted.
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Taken as a whole, Living & Dying in America is a chronicle of those who died
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educators and those who honorably served the living — as well as an indictment of those
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marketing essential moral document, written and drawn on a daily basis with feverish intensity
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steve brodner is an award-winning caricature artist, political cartoonist, educator,
• Author Twitter (@stevebrodner) and and author; publications such as The New York Times, Esquire, and The New Yorker
website (stevebrodner.com) feature his work. The 2011 Gold medal in the editorial category from the Society of
Illustrators counts among his many accolades. He currently lives in New York City,
where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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How to Make a
Monster
By Casanova Frankenstein & Glenn
Pearce
How to Make a Monster is Frankenstein's
unflinching memoir of growing up as a Black INTJ
13-year-old in 1980.
Conveyed as a bleak first-person narrative with darkly humorous
overtones, Casanova Frankenstein reveals how real-life expe-
rience shaped his hard-bitten, survivalist view of life. His was
a world of fear and isolation punctuated by bullying thugs, the
stifling atmosphere of the Lutheran school on the South Side of
Chicago, racial segregation, unapproachable girls, and a home
life consisting of an emotionally distant and unsupportive mother
and a violent, alcoholic cop father who was not above giving his
son a good thrashing now and again while preaching Christian
family values. It is a searing portrait of an unbearably painful
upbringing.
How to Make a Monster is illustrated by Australian outsider artist Glenn Pearce
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in a rare creative symbiosis in which Pearce captures Frankenstein’s inner turmoil
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using a variety of artistic approaches ranging from naturalistic portraiture to out-
224 pages, full-color, 8" × 10"
rageously inventive phantasmagoric imagery. A seamlessly contrapuntal balanc-
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ing act between Frankenstein’s raw, unadorned writing and Pearce’s stunningly
ISBN: 978-1-68396-571-8 detailed drawing.
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casanova frankenstein was a Gen-X latchkey-kid, raised on the incongruous influ-
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ences of ’70s-era Chicago UHF TV-programming and American-hypocrisy. He earned
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educators degrees in Fine Art and Metaphysics and produced art, poetry, and comics. In The
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marketing in 1975, glenn pearce, INFJ and animal and human rights activist, has been an Aus-
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Prince Valiant
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Vol. 25: 1985-1986
By Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, and
Cullen Murphy
Fantagraphics is proud to present the 25th volume
of one of the most enduring comic strips, based on
Arthurian legend, ever created.
As this latest collection begins, Val and Arn are in Lappland, where
they get involved with two twin brothers’ struggle over succession.
Arn consults a mystical hermit about whether his destiny intertwines
with Maeve’s, the daughter of an archenemy. With the sinister Mordred
in control of Camelot, Val and Aleta seek to raise an army; this goal
requires Val to capture a notorious outlaw, battle a troll, and find a
hidden treasure. Arthur’s forces come together at High Cross, and he
wages an epic battle for the fate of Camelot, during which Arn becomes
a knight of the round table. Also included, Prince Valiant writer Cullen
Murphy and colorist Meg Murphy pay tribute to their mother, Joan,
model for Aleta and other female characters for their father.
Series: Prince Valiant
Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy
$34.99 Hardcover Prince Valiant creator hal foster (1892-1982) is considered one of the greatest illus-
112 pages, full-color, 10.25" × 14"
trators to ever grace the newspaper page. john cullen murphy (1919-2004) became
Foster’s hand-picked successor on the strip. cullen murphy, editor at Vanity Fair
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and The Atlantic, scripted the strips drawn by his father.
ISBN: 978-1-68396-574-9
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Boris
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the Potato Child THE SON
By Anne Simon
SHE WAS AGLAIA, THE
GAHHH, MOM! ALL-POWERFUL, WHO BUT HER STORY
In her latest graphic novel, French artist and KILLED VON KRANTZ IS OVER.
illustrator Anne Simon returns to her visually and THE TYRANT.
allegorically rich fantasyland.
Boris, the round-headed child, reigns like a despot in the little
house he lives in with his mother. His mother, Bulle, formerly
known as Aglaia, was once the all-powerful queen of the coun-
try Marylene. Since Marylene’s fall, residents have lived in peace
thanks to a self-governing system they have adopted. But when
Boris meets Sabine, a warrior French fry thirsty for revenge, noth-
ing will ever be the same …
The final book in Anne Simon’s “Tales of Marylene '' graphic
novel trilogy (after The Song of Aglaia and Empress Cixtisis), Boris the FORGET IT! QUEEN AGLAIA I GAVE HER A NEW
Potato Child delivers a bitter critique of our consumerist impulses IS GONE. NAME: AIRHEAD.
and abuses. Mixing literature and pop culture (such as mashing Sim-
one de Beauvoir with the Beatles), Simon has created in Marylene a
world as abundant in visual imagination as Oz or Narnia, but crafted
Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy with a Swiftian pen that’s mightier than any man’s sword.
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164 pages, black-and-white, 6.875" × 8.875"
Territory: E • CQ: 24 anne simon lives in Paris and studied art in the internationally renowned comics
ISBN: 978-1-68396-562-6 city of Angouleme, France.
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Praise for The Song of Aglaia and “Simon’s fierce, dangerous The “[Empress Cixtisis is a] sharp,
Empress Cixtisis: Song of Aglaia was one of the fully-realized feminist parable.
finest and subtlest works of [Simon's work is] never anything
“Surprisingly fun feminist satire.” 2018. How nice it is to see her less than a pure joy to read.”
— B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog expanding that universe of weird — Four Color Apocalypse
critters.” — Paste
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Walt Disney's
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Donald Duck:
20,000 Leaks
Under the Sea
Disney Masters Vol. 20
By Dick Kinney & Al Hubbard
Wild Silver Age comics classics follow squabbling
Donald and Fethry Duck from hill country to the briny
deep!
Who lives in a submarine under the sea? Donald’s cuckoo-bananas
cousin Fethry, that’s who! He’s roping desperate Don into a two-
week treasure hunt on the ocean floor… and a bear-taming trip to
Duckburg’s deepest woods — and a mission to cure hiccups with
scary rural remedies! Are fame and fortune worth it?
In the Disney Masters series, Fantagraphics unearths a treasure
Series: The Disney Masters Collection trove of hitherto untranslated work in the grand Walt Disney tradition, expanding
Humor / Comic Strips & Cartoons the mythologies of fan favorites Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and bringing to
$29.99 Hardcover American readers the work of the acclaimed foreign artists who popularized beloved
184 pages, full-color, 7.75" × 10.5" Disney characters in their own countries. Fresh artwork, fresh new adventures
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and fresh new laughs!
ISBN: 978-1-68396-567-1
• Age Range: 14 And Up Cartoon story man dick kinney (1916-1985) and beloved kids’-comic artist al hubbard
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Metropolis
By Monte Schulz
Metropolis, the sixth prose fiction novel by Monte
Schulz, is a dystopian narrative of love in a time of
war and moral disintegration.
Regency College senior Julian Brehm’s uneventful student life is
derailed when he falls for Nina Rinaldi, a beautiful young revo-
lutionary engaged in political activism against the authoritarian
regime that rules the country and wages a deceitful, distracting
war. Julian's love for — and moral alliance to — Nina eventually
leads him into a vast undercity beneath the metropolis. Then,
east by train and into the war zone itself, where mortal danger
in that expanding cemetery of millions threatens Julian’s life;
what he witnesses will alter how he perceives the Republic and
ultimately his fate within it.
Julian’s adventure can be seen as our own, a world of vac-
illating morality and unceasing violence. Apathy and passion.
Fear and courage of purpose. Julian’s is a hero’s journey into the
dark unknown. A love story, which extends in many directions. A
war novel of incredible scope and horror. A suspenseful mystery novel with a moral
Fiction / Science Fiction puzzle at its core. And a coming-of-age tale of a young man seeing the world he was
$34.99 Hardcover born into, more dangerous and more beautiful than he could have ever imagined.
440 pages, 6" × 9" Metropolis is a meditation on the meaning of virtue and goodness in the face of the
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ISBN: 978-1-68396-579-4
• Age Range: 16 And Up monte schulz received his M.A. in American Studies from University of California,
• National Review Attention Santa Barbara. He published his first novel, Down by the River, in 1990, and spent the
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• Targeted outreach to librarians & Charles M. Schulz. He lives in Santa Barbara, CA.
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The End:
Revised and
Expanded
By Anders Nilsen
Assembled from work done in Anders Nilsen’s
sketchbooks over the course of the year following the
death of his fiancée, Cheryl Weaver, in 2005, The End is
a collection of short strips about loss, paralysis, waiting,
and transformation — a physical manifestation of grief.
The End is a concept album in different styles, a meditation on paying
attention, an abstracted autobiography and a metaphysical travelogue,
reflecting the progress of his struggle to reconcile the great upheaval
of a death, and to find a new life on the other side. The book blends
Nilsen’s disparate styles, from iconic simplicity to collaged art to finely
rendered pieces. This new edition of The End is substantially expanded
and revised — it is almost twice as long as the original edition — incor-
porating new work from the past 15 years that adds greater perspective
Comics & Graphic Novels / Memoir to an already intimate window into the way we grieve, a process that can span
$24.99 Hardcover decades. The new material includes added content from the original sketchbooks,
150 pages, full-color, 7" × 9.625" over a dozen pages of new comics, a new afterword by the author, additional notes,
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ISBN: 978-1-68396-563-3
(Prev. ed. ISBN: 978-1-60699-635-5)
anders nilsen is a cartoonist living in Portland, OR. He is the author of the graphic
• Age Range: 16 And Up novel Big Questions and is currently serializing his next graphic novel, Tongues.
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“As intelligently written and beautifully drawn—whether “Poignant, engaging, and philosophical, Nilsen’s graphic
simply or intricately — as anything else this front-runner memoir documents loss and is a testament to grieving.
in his generation of comics artists has done.” — Booklist Fans of graphic memoirs will find the creator’s use of
surprise appealing. [Starred Review]” — Library Journal
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Red Room:
Trigger Warnings
By Ed Piskor
The smash-hit, most-talked-about comic of 2021 is back
with its second “season” and trade paperback! Collecting
the four-issue comic book series Red Room: Trigger
Warnings, with tons of extras!
In this second Red Room collection, fan-favorite the Decimator pres-
ents… The Rat Queens! And unfortunately for them, they’re front and
center in the Decimator’s most horrific red room broadcast yet! Also,
hoodie horror comes to Red Room by way of the Punkinz: two socio-
pathic, aspiring red roomers who quickly make a name on the scene
with their amateur snuff films. Fueled by a mutual passion and talent
for murder, the young sweethearts aim to be the most notorious and
wanted killers on the dark web… Plus, much more, including the island
of Pitcairn, home to a native civilization that has been sacrificing their
people to the gods for generations in hopes for a good crop season —
until bitcoin pirates discover the uncharted island and hatch their
Series: Red Room own plans. The book also includes Piskor’s exclusive “Director’s Commentary” for
Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror virtually every page, tons of process art, sketchbook material, and other surprises
$22.99 Paperback Original exclusive to this collection.
176 pages, full-color, 6.625" × 10.187" Red Room’s first “season,” The Antisocial Network, was the breakout smash-hit
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ISBN: 978-1-68396-560-2
date. Who are the red room killers? Who are the victims? Who’s watching? Who can
stop it? Trigger Warnings escalates the stakes, with Piskor pushing his masterpiece
• Age Range: 18 And Up of modern horror in new directions and delivering the cyberpunk, outlaw, splat-
• National review coverage terpunk goods as no one else can.
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comic book festivals Grand Design as well as the co-conspirator behind the YouTube channel sensation,
• Book launch events in conjunction Cartoonist Kayfabe. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
with book shops across the US
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YouTube channel
(Cartoonist Kayfabe)
“Aficionados of extreme horror “Red Room is a visceral experience, “Artist Ed Piskor has built a
and splatterpunk will thrill as something you almost can't reputation crafting some of the
nearly every page-turn reveals believe that you're reading as most visually inventive comics on
increasingly gruesome shocks.” it's unfolding before you, and an the stands.” — IGN
— Library Journal extremely effective ride for fans
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As a Cartoonist
By Noah Van Sciver
A series of comic strips joined together by the theme of the
author’s chosen profession — cartooning — reveals a funny
and often poignant reflection on the human condition and
the lives we choose to live.
Acclaimed cartoonist Noah Van Sciver puts to use all the creative arrows
in his quiver in this captivating collection of fiction, biography, memoir,
and more. Van Sciver juxtaposes fictional stories about what life as a “19th
Century Cartoonist” might have looked like with a series of autobiograph-
ical strips about life as a contemporary cartoonist, along with pieces about
his father and childhood that inform the path in life he has chosen. The
resultant effect is a routinely funny (Van Sciver never takes himself too
seriously unless it is intended for comedic effect) but also deeply relatable
book that touches on some of life’s big questions, whether about the ways
we measure happiness or success, the ways we often define ourselves by
our careers, or the ways we can sometimes lose sight of the most important
things. Van Sciver displays a love of the history and form of cartooning
Comics & Graphic Novels / Memoir that recalls Art Spiegelman, a Lynda Barryesque thirst to unpack ideas
$19.99 Hardcover of what creativity really means, and a Harvey Pekar-like way of just trying to stay
100 pages, full-color, 7.4" x 10.3" alive in the face of despair.
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ISBN: 978-1-68396-561-9
Noah Van Sciver is an Ignatz award-winning cartoonist whose work has appeared
• Age Range: 16 And Up in the Best American Comics series, the Fantagraphics anthology series Now, and
• National review coverage Mad magazine. His many graphic novels include The Hypo and The Complete Works
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Praise for Van Sciver’s previous “Van Sciver has established “At its deepest, Fante Bukowski
book, The Complete Works of himself as a thoughtful cartoonist stands as a commentary on
Fante Bukowski: with a talent for exploring the hordes of recognition-hungry
complexities of the human artists with nothing to say, but
“As literary satires go, it’s condition with a pointed sense as a straight parody, it’s hilarious
both gleefully malicious and of humor, and Fante Bukowski enough to summon tears.”
unrepentantly stupid — a winning highlights the combination of — Paste
combination. “ desperation and foolhardiness
— The New York Times that makes this character an
especially compelling trainwreck.”
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The Fabulous Furry
Freak Brothers:
In the 21st Century
and Other Follies
By Gilbert Shelton and Paul Mavrides
The hilarity never stops in this second collection of
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics stories,
featuring the Brothers’ trip to the 21st century and
two Fat Freddy’s Cat solo escapades.
In this collection of hilarious and politically correct short comics,
Freewheelin’ Franklin, Phineas, and Fat Freddy form a band; bring
home a stray container of plutonium; try to make it through a
whole day without getting stoned; and help Phineas through his
pregnancy, in “Phineas Gets an Abortion.” (About which, say no
more). (Oh, did we say: “politically correct?” Just kidding!)
In the titular story, the Freak Brothers venture outside on a
Series: Freak Brothers Follies
mission to score a little weed. It is their first encounter with the wonders of the 21st
century. (“Still illegal?”) Plus: Fat Freddy’s Cat stars in two solo adventures, including
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a visit to “Cat Heaven.” Fat Freddy himself stars in a bonanza of satirical sketches
$22.99 Hardcover
skewering such targets as Star Wars, G.I. Joe, and Superman.
144 pages, full-color and black-and-
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers in the 21st Century and Other Follies by Gil-
white, 8" × 10.25"
bert Shelton and Paul Mavrides is the second release in this special series of seven
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graphic albums. (The series presents all the Freak Brothers’ adventures chrono-
ISBN: 978-1-68396-558-9
logically, but individual albums will come out in a different order.) The Fabulous
Furry Freak Brothers comics have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide in 16
• Age Range: 16 And Up
languages. The Freak Brothers, the animated series now streaming on Tubi, stars
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Woody Harrelson, Pete Davidson, John Goodman, and Tiffany Haddish.
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educators
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marketing creator of the iconic comix characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Fred-
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dy’s Cat, and Wonder Wart-Hog. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of
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Fame in 2012. He lives in Paris, France, with his wife and an ever-changing number
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of cats. Paul Mavrides, an enigmatic cartoonist, painter, and graphic artist, began
• The new animated series, The Freak
Brothers, is now streaming on Tubi!
collaborating with Gilbert Shelton on The Freak Brothers in 1978.
Discover more at
thefreakbrothers.com
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JULY
TaleSpin: Flight of
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the Sky-Raker:
The Disney Afternoon
Adventures Vol. 2
By Bobbi JG Weiss, Michael T. Gilbert,
Lee Nordling, et al.
Can’t you feel the buzz? TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck,
DuckTales, and Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers are
back — with more epic 1990s adventure comics spun off
of beloved Disney Afternoon TV cartoons!
From Disney Adventures and its sister comics magazines come more
feature-length blockbuster tales! In “Flight of the Sky-Raker,” Baloo,
Don Karnage, and Shere Khan wage a midair battle over the world’s
first voice-controlled plane! In “Dime After Dime,” Magica de Spell’s
clever niece Minima befriends trusting little Webby — should Scrooge
McDuck be scared? Then in “For the Love of Cheese,” Chip ‘n’ Dale,
Series: Disney Afternoon Adventures
Gadget Hackwrench, and the gang join forces with Jacques De Brie, international
mouse of mystery! Plus Darkwing Duck, the Gummi Bears and more! “…Everybody’s
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busy, bringing you a Disney Afternoon!”
$29.99 Hardcover
208 pages, full-color, 7.75" × 10.5"
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Pop culture writer and children’s author Bobbi JG Weiss (TaleSpin) has written hun-
ISBN: 978-1-68396-570-1
dreds of books and comics featuring Disney, Warner Bros., and DreamWorks prop-
erties. Writer/artist Michael T. Gilbert (DuckTales) is beloved beyond his Disney
• Age Range: 14 And Up
works for the sci-fi adventures of Mr. Monster. Longtime Disney writer Lee Nordling
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(Adventures of the Gummi Bears) is a two-time Will Eisner Comics Industry Award
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Also Available:
Darkwing Duck: Just Us Justice Ducks
ISBN: 978-1-68396-430-8
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Barely Human
By Johnny Ryan
The cartoons that keep getting Johnny Ryan banned
from Instagram, collected for the first time as one big
ol’ exquisitely gross picture book!
Johnny Ryan’s compulsion to flout any and all accepted standards
of decency in his humor and cartoons have not only garnered him
a tremendous following — Instagram has banned him multiple
times with hundreds of posts scrubbed from those accounts. (He
can be found, currently, at @johnnyryanjohnnyryan1). Guess what?
We’ve got’em! Over 500 of the grossest, crudest, most surrealistic,
scatological, and of course hilarious cartoons you’ll ever see, pre-
sented with loving care in this gorgeous, oversized collection with
fine art paper. They may not meet with your approval, but you will
laugh. Crafted throughout the pandemic and posted daily, these
cartoons helped keep both the author and hundreds of thousands
of others sane during the past two years. From conventional gag
cartoons to pieces decidedly unconventional and almost Dadaist in
their humor, these are some of the most visually imaginative — and
comedically brilliant — single-panel cartoons ever conceived, whether in the service
Comics & Graphic Novels / Humor of boner jokes or sheer visual absurdism.
$49.99 Paperback Original
520 pages, full-color, 9" × 11.75"
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ISBN: 978-1-68396-559-6
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“If Mad Magazine is your cup of tea, if you’ll admit that “Triple-A gutter art that belongs in a museum that mocks
you collected Wacky Packages or Garbage Pail Kids other museums.” — Paste
stickers, AND especially if you refuse to take life too
seriously, creator Johnny Ryan has just the book to
tickle your funny bone.” — Broken Frontier
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The Poe Clan Vol. 2 Edgar, not I was
I’m
certain
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…. some distant raised by
I tell you it’s
I shall ancestor. a woman futile,
By Moto Hagio summon Someone named Old but…
them! close to you. Hannah.
This groundbreaking young adult vampire series
was created by a pioneer of the shojo/shonen-ai She died
nearly
manga genres and one of the world’s most influential two
cen-
cartoonists. turies
ago.
In our concluding second volume, an amnesia-stricken Edgar is found
alone on a snowy night in England. Separated from his “vampirnella”
At the When Then
clan, who feed on the energy of the living and while away the centuries age of summon
did
in a village of roses, he struggles to remember his own name. Will thir- she my
teen. pass? little
Edgar regain his memory and be reunited with them? In stories like sister.
“Piccadilly, Seven O’Clock,” “Edith,” and “The Last Will and Testa-
ment of Oswald Owens,” there are murders, mysteries, seances, and
obsessions — and generations of humans whose lives are profoundly
affected by a boy who does not age, Edgar, and his embraced com-
panions: his little sister, Marybelle, and Alan Twilight, a 14-year-old
from the 1800s. Fantagraphics is proud to present the second and con-
cluding volume of this best-selling manga, which has been adapted
into various media, and is published here in English for the first time. Her
name?
Please note: This book is a traditional work of manga, and reads
Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga, Horror back to front and right to left.
$39.99 Hardcover
404 pages, black-and-white, 7.4" × 9.8"
Territory: E • CQ: 8 Moto Hagio is one of a group of women that broke into the male-dominated manga
ISBN: 978-1-68396-572-5 industry and pioneered the shojo (girls’) movement. Her major works include
mary-
A Drunken Dream, Heart of Thomas, They Were Eleven, and Otherworld Barbara. She’s belle
• Age Range: 16 And Up won the Japanese Medal of Honor with the Purple Ribbon (the first woman comics
• National review coverage creator to do so), received Japan’s SF Grand Prize, the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award
• Targeted outreach to booksellers Grand Prize, and an Inkpot Award, among other accolades. She lives in the Saitama
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Prefecture.
educators
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Quiet. Do
shall ask her ques-
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tions. Is that clear…?
of your
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neighbor’s
hand!
With my
power I
shall bring
her forth.
“[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
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Alison
By Lizzy Stewart
This graphic novel chronicles the life of a woman
painter living in bohemian 1970s London who
navigates a predatory mentor, sexism, classism, and
her lack of self-confidence in her abilities to become a
successful and respected artist. It alarms me to think that
had it been left to me
Alison tells the story of a young British woman who, in her twenties, Tessa and I would never have
seizes upon the opportunity to escape from her quiet life in Dorset become friends. I was so
to the thrumming art scene of late-1970s London. But the vehicle for young and so sure that I was
her escape is a charismatic older man whose reputation as an artist the most misplaced person
and philanderer casts a shadow which will follow Alison for years in that room, in every room.
as she pursues her painting career. I couldn’t see that Tessa, who
Combining immaculate prose and stunning artwork, Alison seemed just as bright and
is a complex love and coming-of-age story, as well as a meditation sharp as anyone else at the
on female friendship and empowerment, class and patriarchy, the party, was on the outside too.
creative process and the thorny world of fine art. British illustra- Of course she was.
tor and author Lizzy Stewart crafts a graphic novel that evokes the I consider it my greatest
atmospheric milieu of bohemian London in the late 20th century, good fortune that Tessa in-
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while at the same time exploring the more universal struggles of women who must vited me for a walk the next
navigate male-dominated spaces. day, and coffee two days after
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Told through quietly powerful interpersonal moments rich with meaning and that. We careened through
192 pages, full-color, 6.69" × 9.45"
mood, this graphic novel will appeal to fans of Sally Rooney and Leanne Shapton, the early stages of friendship
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as well as the great empathic writers Alice Munro, Hilary Mantel, and Tessa Hadley. towards a long-lasting and
ISBN: 978-1-68396-581-7
easy intimacy.
• Age Range: 16 And Up
Lizzy Stewart is an illustrator and author from Plymouth who lives and works in
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the graphic novella Walking Distance and the graphic novel It’s Not What You Thought
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Praise for It’s Not What You “There’s a quiet but powerful “This brilliant debut collection of
Thought It Would Be: immediacy to [Stewart’s work] gorgeous, clever short stories
that will appeal to lit fic fans who explores the intensity of teenage
Mournful, lovely... Stewart’s may not always pick up comics.” ennui and female friendship, with
dynamic, warm, flowing art invites — Publishers Weekly a deft feel for its slights and
the reader in.” — The New York tensions.” — The Guardian
Times Book Review
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Below Ambition
By Simon Hanselmann
Following Simon Hanselmann’s 2021 smash hit graphic
novel Crisis Zone — which captured the zeitgeist of life
under Covid and the New York Times Book Review called
“the first great work of pandemic fiction” — things settle
down, and Megg the Witch and Werewolf Jones get the band
back together.
Megg and Werewolf Jones are Horse Mania. Horse Mania is a test of the
audience’s patience, proudly the “worst band in town,” existing within
and operating far below the status quo of ambition. Join the musicians as
they battle through shoddy, distracted practice sessions, a squalid house
show, and a doomed interstate tour. Watch as they drunkenly flail through
their sets amidst toothaches, nervous breakdowns, hobby forms, suicide
attempts, mounting hatred, and a galaxy of benzos. This is music and
performance in its most primal, multifaceted, and pure form. Feel the
tension. See the dirty looks. Taste the pain. Smell the depravity. Hear the
veiled beauty. Horse Mania wants you to lose your mind.
Series: Megg, Mogg and Owl Below Ambition is a mediation on youth, performance, and memory as only the
Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary, Humor best comedic writer in comics is capable.
$24.99 Paperback Flexibound
172 pages, full-color, 4" × 6"
Territory: E • CQ: 26 Simon Hanselmann hails from Tasmania but resides with his family in Los Angeles,
ISBN: 978-1-68396-549-7 CA. His bestselling New York Times series Megg, Mogg and Owl has been translated
into thirteen languages, nominated for multiple Ignatz and Eisner awards, and won
• Age Range: 18 And Up Best Series at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2018.
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Praise for Crisis Zone: “Hanselmann proves the perfect author to capture
American life in late 2020. His new volume escalates the
“Assuming we have a future ahead of us, Crisis Zone depravity at a relentless pace and delivers both laugh-
will be the keepsake to remind us what we became in out-loud gags and genuine pathos.”
[2020].” — Forbes — Library Journal (Starred Review)
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