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Fantagraphics is having a four-day 40% off sale featuring some amazing books by Gilbert Hernandez, Robert Williams, Jules Feiffer, Carol Tyler, and more. You really can’t go wrong with anything on the list, but here are a few of our own picks:

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ABANDONED CARS by Tim Lane — hardboiled short stories where no good ever comes, shown with gloriously retro art.

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ARTICHOKE TALES by Megan Kelso. An intimate story of war in a deceptively charming fantasy setting.

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Daddy’s Girl by Debby Drechsler — quite simply one of the most horrific and powerful comics of all time.

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Drinky Crow’s Maakies Treasury by Tony Millionaire — a giant collection of Millionaire’s Rabelaisian stories of the joys of alcohol and the sea? If you don’t want that on your shelf you need to be kicked out of comics.

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Fuzz & Pluck: Splitsville [with FREE Signed Bookplate] by Ted Stearn — this is the cult cartoonists’ cult comic strip — dark-humored tales of a rooster and bear in the classic comedy duo vein.

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I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason — look, we already told you this is one of our favorite comics of all times, and we won’t stop until everyone has a copy, okay?

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NIGHTMARE ALLEY by Spain — a grim novel from the ’30s gets a powerful adaptation by Spain, a neglected comics master.

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PIM & FRANCIE by Al Columbia — if you love comics — as I do — as a medium where unique creative visions are allowed to find expression with an acceptance few arenas can offer, then Al Columbia is the poster child for that. This unique, one of a kind book will have you rubbing your mind with bleach afterwards, but loving every minute.

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The Chuckling Whatsit by Richard Sala. Scary, mystery, creepy. You cannot go wrong with Richard Sala!

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You’ll Never Know by Carol Tyler — a beautiful, thoughtful exploration of World War II and what it meant to one man and his family.

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