Bucking the odds, Fantagraphics will be selling new, wonderful comics at Booth #1718. If past years any any indication, here you will find the cohorts of Team Comics crouching under a bunker as Big Bang Theory shrapnel whizzes over head. But you will be able to buy COMICS.COMICS I SAY. I have stolen the text and pictrues from their blog post to show you these comics. If you cannot find something to entice you here, you are not only dead inside, you are a flesh eating zombie roaming a cold, harsh world:
Maakies is the comical adventures of a drunken crow on the high seas, blending vaudeville-style humor and a breathtakingly beautiful line that harkens back to the glory days of the American comic strip. More Drinky Crow, more Uncle Gabby, more beautifully rendered boozing, violence and other degeneracy in this, the eighth volume, collecting 2 years of strips 2009-2011.
• Love and Rockets Covers by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez A beautiful, oversized art book featuring over 120 iconic comic covers (front & back) from the first 3 decades of Love and Rockets, collected for the first time in full color. The perfect gift for L&R fan, this book presents them without trade dress (logos, marketing hype, etc.) when possible, allowing the original cover illustrations to communicate on their own. With a fancy clear plastic book jacket, you need to grab a copy, get it signed and return home a hero.
• Nudnik Revealed by Gene Deitch All of Deitch’s animation artwork for the mid-1960s shorts starring bumbling everyman Nudnik (cross between Candide and Godot), one of his most creatively personal and commercially successful creations in a long career of innovative and successful work are showcased in this process book.
• The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove by Gene Deitch The Oscar-winning animation director and jazz fan Gene Deitch worked from 1945-51 on Record Changer magazine, illustrating the cartoon feature “The Cat” as well as almost all the covers, collected in this previously sold-out yet stunning book, reprinted in soft cover.
• Lost Cat by Jason The new graphic novel by Jason is both a playful take on the classic detective story. A detective happens to find a lost cat and finds that he and the woman to whom he returns it have a lot in common. They agree to meet again… but she’s disappeared. Isolation and memory intertwine in the longest story by Jason to date.
Lost Cat, the new graphic novel by Jason (after years of “graphic novellas” of less than 50 pages, arguably his first genuine graphic NOVEL) is both a playful take on the classic detective story, and a story about how difficult it is to find a sister spirit, someone you feel a real connection to — and what do you do if you lose that person? – See more at: http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=2266&category_id=325&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=62#sthash.N7RSppQG.dpuf
i & Jean-Pierre Verney (translated by Kim Thompson) Tardi’s second WWI masterwork is told with a sustained sense of outrage, pitch-black gallows humor, and impeccably scrupulous historical exactitude, in masterful full color. Goddamn This War! shares with It Was the War of the Trenches its sustained sense of outrage, pitch-black gallows humor, and impeccably scrupulous historical exactitude.
• Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York by Samuel ‘Chip’ Delany and Mia Wolff. A new edition of the groundbreaking memoir of (and by) award winning science fiction author Samuel R. Delany, and drawn by artist/martial arts instructor Mia Wolff. Bread & Wine flashes back to the unlikely story of how Delany befriended Dennis, and how they became an enduring couple – Delany, a professor at Philadelphia’s Temple University, Dennis, an intelligent man living on the streets. Touching and honest, this moving, sexually charged love story resonates to this day.
moving, sexually charged love story,
• Wake Up, Percy Gloom by Cathy Malkasian Cathy Malkasian’s second Percy Gloom graphic novel is another fable that the author brings to vivid life through her lush and detailed pencil renderings, surreal humor, absurdist characters, breathtaking landscapes, and luminous storytelling. The further adventures of the small, immortal man with a light-up head. Kindhearted Percy awakens from (what he thinks is) a 200-year nap and finds himself in a strange new land, embarking on a wide-ranging quest to find his mother.
An indispensable guide to the Hernandez brothers’ award-winning, world-renowned series. Interviews, family trees, timelines, unpublished art, letter-column highlights, bibliography and more. The obsessive-yet-accessible detail and high production values make it a must-have for comics collectors, scholars, libraries and old and new fans alike: for those new to the series, it will make jumping in seem less daunting.
• The Daniel Clowes Reader: A Critical Edition of Ghost World and Other Stories, with Essays, Interviews, and Annotations edited by Ken Parille This landmark collection features ten of Clowes’s most influential graphic narratives, along with interviews about his career and creative process, and twelve thought-provoking essays by contemporary scholars and critics. Aside from the celebrated Ghost World, it also includes stories – some reprinted for the first time – about boys coming of age, troubled superheroes, and the place of artists and critics in popular culture. Perfect for the college literature/graphic narrative classroom.
It also includes stories — some reprinted for the first time — about boys coming of age, troubled superheroes, and the place of artists and critics in popular culture. – See more at: http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/the-daniel-clowes-reader-a-critical-edition-of-ghost-world-and-other-stories-with-essays-interviews-and-annotations-2.html#sthash.OWCDSGBn.dpuf
• No Straight Lines (softcover) edited by Justin Hall Queer cartooning encompasses some of the best and most interesting comics of the last four decades, with creators tackling complex issues of identity and a changing society with intelligence, humor, and imagination. This book celebrates this vibrant artistic underground by gathering together a collection of excellent stories that can be enjoyed by all. With comics by Alison Bechdel, Trina Robbins, MariNaomi, Roberta Gregory, Mary Wings, Eric Orner, Edie Fake and more makes this book a one-of-a-kind collection plus an important text of both LGBTQ and comics history.
• Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball Drawings 1934-1972by Willard Mullin; edited by Hal Bock and Michael Powers In Fantagraphics’ ceaseless effort to rediscover every world-class cartoonist in the history of the medium, we turn your attention to a neglected part of the art form – sports cartooning – and to its greatest practitioner – Willard Mullin. You’ll be able to see why millions of baseball fans from the ’30s to the ’70s looked forward to Mullin’s cartoons in their daily paper in the first-ever retrospective of the dean of American sports cartooning.
• Ghosts and Ruins by Ben Catmull Who doesn’t love a good ghost story? This gorgeous, coffee-table art book is a compendium of old, forgotten haunted houses imagined by artist Ben Catmull, along with the stories and rumors of who haunts them, and why. Each spread features a different haunted house, lovingly and exquisitely rendered in scratchboard on masonite, with a short, nightmare-inducing description of each scene.
• Eye of the Majestic Creature Vol. 2 by Leslie Stein This is the second book collecting Leslie Stein’s loose, funny and charming autobiographical narratives that combine idiosyncratic fantasy and stark reality. Larrybear, our hero, has moved from the countryside to the city, where she finds work as a shop girl. Stein’s gorgeous cartooning, highlighted by incredibly detailed stippling, and her dry sense of humor combine to make one of the most unique and immersive narrative experiences in comics.
•The End of the Fucking World by Charles Forsman In his debut graphic novel, Forsman follows James and Alyssa, two runaway teenagers. James exhibits a rapidly forming, violent sociopathy that threatens both of their futures, while Alyssa remains blinded by young love. Forsman’s story highlights the disdain, fear and existential search that many teenagers fear, but through a road trip drama that owes as much to Badlands as The Catcher in the Rye. The End of the Fucking World is certain to be one of the most talked-about graphic novels of 2013.
ollows James and Alyssa, two runaway teenagers. James exhibits a rapidly forming, violent sociopathy that threatens both of their futures, while Alyssa remains blinded by young love – See more at: http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?keyword=end+of+the+fucking+world&Search=Search&Itemid=62&option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse#sthash.lg7Zy6j4.dpuf
ollows James and Alyssa, two runaway teenagers. James exhibits a rapidly forming, violent sociopathy that threatens both of their futures, while Alyssa remains blinded by young love – See more at: http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?keyword=end+of+the+fucking+world&Search=Search&Itemid=62&option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse#sthash.lg7Zy6j4.dpuf
• Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Color Sundaysby Floyd Gottfredson Four years’ worth of wild weekend epics… taking our hero from Uncle Mortimer’s Wild West ranch to the icy peak of frigid Mount Fishflake! And in this volume, Mickey is joined by a famous co-star: Donald Duck! enjoy rare Gottfredson drawings, vintage publicity material, and fascinating commentary by a prismatic pack of Disney scholars, including an appreciation of Gottfredson by celebrated alternative cartoonist Kevin Huizenga.
• Fall Guy for Murder and Other Stories by Johnny Craig Superb crime and horror comics from Crime SuspenStories and The Vault of Horror, stunningly executed (in more than one sense of the word) by one of the great cartoonists of his (or any) era. Featuring murderous husbands and wives, executioners, thieving surgeons, vengeful sword-swallowers, time bombs, private dicks, vampires, werewolves, and ghouls, the 23 stories in this book comprise a perfect encapsulation of the very best and darkest kind of noir and horror comics. Not available in stores until August.
• Child of Tomorrow and Other Stories by Al Feldstein Al Feldstein is best known as the main writer/editor of the EC Comics and Mad Magazine but what many don’t remember is that Feldstein was also an accomplished and distinctive cartoonist. His powerfully composed, meticulously inked pages, often featuring grotesque creatures or scenes of ghastly destruction, were a vital part of the allure of these classic comics. This collection features things from outer space, flying saucers, robots and the end of the world! Plus a new interview with Feldstein! Not available in stores until August.
