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FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS!
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Cats don't Exist
Best-selling Mexican cartoonist Jis (Jose Ignacio Solorzano) makes his American debut. With a childlike
mastery of the obvious, an inspired sense of mischief, and hilarious insight into the human divine, Jis'
comics at once recall the sensibilities of both Jules Feiffer and Terence McKenna. Deceptively
minimalistic, the book collects a handful of comic stories and individual drawings that will nudge the lucky
reader gently into a dissonant universe. Included in this collection is the title story, "Cats Don't Exist," which
introduces us to a world where cats replace aliens as the boogeyman of the human psyche.
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Felix the Cat: Nine Lives to Live Hardcover
By Otto Messmer; This 9" x 11" hardcover offers 144 pages from Felix's first, and most creative, decade,
including over 100 pages of never-before-reprinted full-color Sundays, several sequences of rare dailies,
and much more!
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Fred the Clown
The signature creation of cartoonist Roger Langridge, Fred the Clown is the thinking man’s idiot. Fred has
an eye for the ladies, as well as several other organs, but the only part of themselves they’re willing to
share with him is a carefully placed kneecap...
Fred the Clown’s misadventures are a curious balance of bleakness and joyful absurdism; the universe
may dump on Fred from a great height, but he never gives up. More often than not, they involve the pursuit
of a lady – any lady will do, it seems, but bearded ladies are at the top of the list. Disappointment seems
inevitable, and it usually is; yet, almost despite himself, Langridge will occasionally give Fred a happy
ending out of nowhere...
Langridge’s comics betray a restless stylistic playfulness, a pessimism about human nature, and an
absurdist perspective on human folly that can be traced back through Monty Python, The Goon Showand
even as far back as Lewis Carroll.Fred the Clown’s visual look often harks back to earlier eras, evoking the
styles of (among others) Max Fleischer cartoons, classic newspaper strips, 19th-century illustration, the
children’s books of Maurice Sendak and Doctor Seuss, and more. The sensibility, though, is thoroughly
modern – no classic style goes unsubverted, no narrative is left without ending in emotional ambiguity or a
pomposity-puncturing ironic gag. Underlying it all is Langridge’s own meticulous brush style. 192 PGS,
B&W, 6” x 8 1/4”
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Freedom Fries
For three decades, Steve Brodner has been the most savage editorial cartoonist/illustrator to work in the
United States. (Internationally, his only rival for acid-tipped outrage is England’s Ralph Steadman.) And,
unlike the handful of his American colleagues who share his go-for-the-jugular approach, Brodner is also
a virtuoso draftsman, whose every line and splash of color is an exquisite treat for the eyes.
Brodner’s pitiless illustrations, cartoons, comic strips, and illustrated reportages have appeared in
Esquire, The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek as well as most other major
magazines and newspapers in North America.
Freedom Fries, weighing at a hefty 240 full-color 9” x 12” pages, is Brodner’s absurdly nightmarish journey
through the last 30 years of American politics.
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Humbug Hardcover
By Harvey Kurtzman, with Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Jaffee & Arnold Roth
Harvey Kurtzman changed the face of American humor when he created the legendary MAD comic. As
editor and chief writer from its inception in 1952 until he left MAD in 1956, he influenced an entire
generation of cartoonists, comedians, and filmmakers. In 1962, he co-created the long-running Little
Annie Fanny with his long-time artistic partner Will Elder for Playboy, which he continued to produce until
his virtual retirement in 1988. Between MAD and Annie Fanny, Kurtzman’s biographies note that he
created and edited three other magazines, Trump, Humbug, and Help!, but, whereas his MAD and Annie
Fanny are readily available in reprint form, his major satirical work in the interim period is virtually
unknown. To those who treasure the rare original copies, Humbug equals or even exceeds MAD in
displaying Kurtzman’s creative genius. Humbug was unique in that it was actually published by the
artists who created it — Kurtzman and his cohorts from MAD Will Elder, Jack Davis, and Al Jaffee, were
joined by universally acclaimed cartoonist Arnold Roth. With no publisher above them to rein them in, this
band of creators produced some of the most trenchant and engaging satire of American culture ever to
appear on American newsstands. At last, the entire 11-issue run is reprinted in a deluxe format, much of
it reproduced from the original art, allowing even owners of the original cheaply-printed issues to
experience the full impact for the first time. 8 x 10 Format, 400 PGS.
Release Date October 2008
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Let Us Be Perfectly Clear Hardcover
Written & Illustrated by Paul Hornschemeier
Let Us Be Perfectly Clear is a collection of Paul Hornschemeier’s full-color short stories and shows off
his playful experimental side and his protean stylistic verve. Perfectly Clear brings back into print stories
that Hornschemeier published in a variety of sources — his own self-published Forlorn Funnies, as
well as strips that originally appeared in independent magazines and papers — none of which has
been available to the book trade. The book is designed as a “flip book” in the tradition of the old Ace
paperbacks, with one side featuring comedic work (or as comedic as Hornschemeier's mind allows),
and the other decidedly more morose. With almost every page, we see a new style, a new direction;
with the resultant effect being that of an anthology by creators of vastly contrasting sensibilities. Let Us
Be Perfectly Clear demonstrates Paul Hornschemeier’s versatility and breadth in an elegantly
produced book that will appeal to connoisseurs of contemporary, cutting-edge cartoons and graphic
novels. 136 PGS.
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Romance Without Tears '50s Love Comics - With a Twist!
A first-time collection of the best romance comics of the 1950s. These bright, naturalistic tales (originally
published by Archer St. John and written by unrecognized comics master Dana Dutch) are about high
school girls who may be inexperienced but definitely have minds of their own. Many of these stories are
illustrated by Matt Baker, who achieved fame for his work on Phantom Lady and other sexy female
characters in the 40s and 50s.
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Skin Deep Hardcover by Charles Burns
Charles Burns is the Harvey Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator whose work became legendary in Art
Spiegelman's RAW magazine. SKIN DEEP is the third (following EL BORBAH and BIG BABY) of a
hardcover series of four volumes reprinting his acclaimed oeuvre up to his current magnum opus, the
ongoing BLACK HOLE comic book series. SKIN DEEP includes Burns' popular character, Dog Boy (a
red-blooded all-American boy with the transplanted heart of a dog), and the classic strip "Dog Days," in
which a hash-slinging vixen wags her tail at our fearful hero. The book also collects "Burn Again," which
features a strange fella named Bliss Blister, claiming to bring the Word of God, but some fear he brings
something evil and profane. In "A Marriage Made in Hell," a young wife's flesh tingled with passion, but the
sight of her made her husband's skin crawl. Was the love-knot she tied really a hangman's noose? These
tales of doomed romance set a tone for the rest of SKIN DEEP. In addition to the work collected, SKIN
DEEP features new covers and endpapers, as well as several pages of new illustrations reprinted from
Burns' sketchbooks as well as covers and other illos from foreign editions of Burns' work that have never
previously appeared in the U.S. 96 PGS, B&W.
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Strange & Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko Hardcover
By Blake Bell
The first critical retrospective of the work of the reclusive Spider-Man co-creator! Steve Ditko is best
known as the co-creator, with Stan Lee, of Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, and other classic Marvel and DC
characters. But, in the context of Steve Ditko’s 50-year career in comics, his creative involvement with
Spider-Man is merely the tip of the iceberg. Strange & Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko is a coffee table
art book tracing Ditko’s life and career, his unparalleled stylistic innovations, and his strict adherence to
his philosophical principles, with lush displays of obscure and popular art from the thousands of pages
of comics he’s drawn over the last 55 years. 9 X 12 Format, 220 PGS.
Special Order, Ships Within 5-8 Business Days
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Underworld: My Little Funny
Kaz’s Underworld has been entertaining weekly newspaper readers for over a decade now, and each
volume collects two riotous years of the strip. Imagine a Peanuts paperback for manic-depressive perverts,
or E.C. Segar on crystal meth; a perfect mixture of clever humor and twisted laffs—bad for your soul, but
great for your funnybone! Along with Tony Millionaire, Kaz is one of the reigning kings of the humor comic
strip, which he has continued to produce in between other gigs, such as gag writing for Nickelodeon’s
SpongeBob Squarepants and contributing to Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly’s Little Lit series of
children’s books. Bonus: This new volume contains 15 full-color strips!
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