Hot on the heels of Jaime Hernandez's masterpiece, Is This How You See Me?, comes a stand-alone graphic novel that focuses on one of Hernandez's most memorable characters, Tonta, while she confronts her family history. Her half-sister Vivian gets involved with a small-town gangster while Tonta befriends a young woman who keeps tabs on the neighborhood from the surrounding woods.

Meanwhile, back at school, Tonta discovers that Coach Angel harbors a secret while local punk band Ooot provides the soundtrack.

HC, 9x11, 104pgs, B&W

Dig this scene! Low-life drug dealer Dewey Booth has $200,000 that even-lower-lifes want. BLING! Wes is a rock and roll loser that only wants to buy a club where nobody can tell him he can't sing or perform. WAILIN'! He's known Dewey for years, but that isn't enough to get his dough. Wes needs help. Nala is an über-stacked bombshell whose pleasure in life is to seduce and then humiliate men dumb enough to fall for her. HUSH HUSH! For half the dough, she agrees to help Wes get Dewey's ill-gotten goods. Things don't go so well when a wily grifter from Wes's past shows up to complicate things. GULP! Vincene is another troublemaker who enjoys wrecking people's plans and wants the Dewey dough, too. In the end, deadly fires ignite, heads literally roll, eyes are shot out — and all Wes wants to do is sing in a rock and roll club.

The Troublemakers is the second volume in a series of original graphic novels in which Gilbert Hernandez creates comics adaptations of movies starring or co-starring Luba's half-sister Rosalba "Fritz" Martinez from Love and Rockets. The first, the dystopian Chance in Hell (in which Fritz has only a bit part), was released in 2007. This hard boiled, pulp graphic novel will delight longtime Hernandez fans as well as provide a perfect introduction to newcomers to Hernandez's work.

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Dimensions: 5.5" x 7.5"
Colors: black & white

Fantagraphics presents two experimental, early works by the French cartooning legend Tardi. These comics, created in the mid-'70s, provide a fascinating preview of the masterworks of his prolific career. While they are not narratively linked, an eerie sense of foreboding suffuses stories in this collection: they both depict sex and brutal violence and condemn the horrors of war.

The True Story of the Unknown Soldier follows a pulp novelist turned soldier who, driven to delirium amidst the trenches of WWI, becomes tormented by visions of his own seedy creations. This stream-of-consciousness tale visualizes the tortured psyche of its protagonist through dazzling dreamscapes and surreal scenarios. In The National Razor, a soldier returns from war a shattered man. Drowning himself in drink, he wanders the streets of Paris without purpose; in this numb stupor, he finds himself caught up in strange situations, lashes out in unexpectedly violent ways, and ultimately meets with a bloody end. At once a visceral depiction of the trauma wrought by war and a powerful denunciation of the death penalty and France's iconic guillotine.

HC, 9x12, 64pgs, FC

Before the Ghost World graphic novel and film propelled Daniel Clowes to international superstardom as the preeminent cartoonist of his generation, his ongoing comic book Eightball was already the most talked-about series of the 1990s. Renowned for its gleefully incisive social satire and riotous absurdity, Entertainment Weekly proclaimed it "the year's best regularly published comic book" upon its debut in 1989. The Village Voice proclaimed it "brilliant," and Art Spiegelman called it "curdlingly good." Simpsons creator Matt Groening has repeatedly called it his favorite comic book.

20th Century Eightball collects the very best humor strips from Eightball, written and drawn between 1988 and 1996. Included within are such seminal strips/rants as "I Hate You Deeply," "Sexual Frustration," "Ugly Girls," "Why I Hate Christians," "Message to the People of the Future," "Paranoid," "My Suicide," "Chicago," and over three dozen more. Other favorites include "Art School Confidential," one of Clowes' most popular strips of all-time: it was recently optioned as a major motion picture by Drew Barrymore, with a screenplay by Ghost World's Clowes and Terry Zwigoff. Also included is Clowes' hilariously Freudian deconstruction of professional athletes, "On Sports," which caused a stir in San Antonio last year when reprinted in the city's most popular weekly paper, prompting an advertising boycott and demands for the paper to be destroyed by local sports fans.

Noted comics historian Roger Sabin, author of Phaidon's Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels, calls 20th Century Eightball a "corrosively satirical vision of an America cracking apart, and confirms Clowes as a worthy successor to the underground greats of the 1960s."

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Eisner-award winner Paco Roca (Wrinkles) reconstructs World War II through the memories of Miguel Ruiz, a member of "La Nueve," a company of men that went from fighting against the Franco regime in the Spanish Civil War to battles across Europe and Africa, spurred on by their patriotism and hate for brutal dictatorships.

Ruiz's stories are filled with horror and humor but Twists of Fate is much more than a forgotten hero's personal story. It's a timely look into what we remember and why we forget, a reminder that everyone has a tale to tell, and an ode to a generation that stood up to, and beat back, violent fascism.

HC, 7x10, 328pgs, FC

Super-hero school is in session!

The world’s No. 1 peacekeeping organization, S.H.I.E.L.D., is fed up with Spider-Man —specifically, the millions of dollars spent cleaning up his collateral damage. But instead of throwing the teenaged web-slinger in jail, they’ve settled on a far worse punishment: after-school super-hero training, courtesy of the Ultimates!

While Spider-Man takes notes from his first tutor — his idol, Iron Man — Mysterio and the Black Cat vie for possession of a mysterious artifact from the archives of the former Kingpin of Crime. Can even Spider-Man and Iron Man, working together, contain the object’s?unimaginable power?

Collecting ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN (2009) #15 and #150-155.

192 PGS.

Our second Barks Library volume turns to the miserly, excessively wealthy Scrooge McDuck, whose giant money bin, lucky dime, and wrangles with nemeses the Beagle Boys are well-known to, and beloved by, young and old.

This is the Scrooge story famous for providing Steven Spielberg and George Lucas with inspiration for parts of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of clever plot twists, laugh-out-loud comedy, and all-around cartooning brilliance.

HC, 7x10, 240pgs, FC

Worried about an earthquake that might swallow his money, Uncle Scrooge digs deep to secure his fortune and discovers an underground civilization!

This story restores two pages that were cut from its original publication. Then, Scrooge shanghais Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie to help him recover “The Lost Crown of Genghis Kahn.”

Once again, Carl Barks delivers a superb collection of all-around cartooning brilliance with more than 200 pages of stories, each meticulously restored and newly colored plus insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts.

HC, 232pgs, FC

In this absolutely bonkers comics collection, Norwegian cartoonist Jason follows his most oddball impulses, presenting to readers an intergalactic assortment of his weirdest, wildest short stories yet.

A dinner date devolves into a Dadaist farce. Death decides his victim's fate over a high-stakes game of chess. Kafka is ensnared in a confounding bureaucracy of his own imagination. Spock beams down to 1920s Paris to live a double life as an avant-garde painter. Hitchcockian thrillers, literary adaptations, and homages to classic EC comics abound. Dinosaurs! David Bowie! Vampires! Elvis! Welcome to the cosmic gumbo of Upside Dawn.

Norwegian cartoonist Jason is beloved for his signature dry wit, deadpan humor, and elegantly minimalist style. His newest compilation of short comics stories leans into the playful and experimental, as he mixes and matches genres, mashes up low and high brow culture, from Star Trek to Georges Perec, and leads readers through dizzying twists and turns - in sum, a beguiling collection for both stalwart Jason fans and the blissfully uninitiated.

HC, 7x9, 256pgs, PC

The bunny's back and this time with a new cover! This long-awaited reprint features Usagi's origins as a wandering rabbit warrior in feudal Japan, and introduces many members of the cast of characters. If you're unfamiliar with this multiple Harvey and Eisner-winning comic for all ages, this is a great opportunity to get your history lesson and become acquanted with the rabbit warrior.

152-page softcover

Perhaps the best samurai rabbit story ever told, Usagi Yojimbo Book 3 collects full-length stories from the original Fantagraphics series including: "The Tower" (which introduces Usagi's traveling companion, Spot the Wonder Lizard), "Return of the Blind Swordspig," and the hilarious Groo tribute, "The Tea Cup." Plus, the little-seen team-up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: "Turtle Soup and Rabbit Stew"! A must-have for adventure lovers of all ages!.

152-page softcover

The first novel-length Usagi thriller!
This highly demanded reprint from the Usagi Yojimbo series features the novel-length tale, "The Dragon Bellow Conspiracy." Jam-packed with lethal sword battles alternating with humor, horror, suspense, and slapstick, this beautifully crafted and exciting volume is both an excellent starting point for new readers, and an absolute necessity for Usagi completists! Now with a fresh new redesigned cover.

179-page softcover

Circles features the epic adventure title story (in which Usagi returns to his native village), plus other stories (including the hard-to-find "The Tangled Skein").

Usagi Yojimbo Book Six, with its flashbacks to Usagi's childhood village, is a crucial segment in the Usagi canon. This beautifully crafted and exciting volume is both an excellent starting point for new readers, and an absolute necessity for Usagi completists. Featuring an introduction by Jeff Smith.

168-page softcover

The seventh volume in this legendary series about a wandering rabbit samurai in feudal Japan is back in print! This dense tome collects issues 32 through 38 of the original Usagi series as well as the Usagi strip from Critters #38.

In addition to the novel-length "Gen's Story," which forms the centerpiece of this volume, and which relates the heretofore untold story of the mercenary swordsrhino Gennosuke, Usagi Yojimbo Book 7 includes "Kitsune" (introducing a new romantic interest for Usagi), "The Last Ino Story" (the final fate of the Blind Swordspig Zato-Ino), "The Return of Kitsune," and "Broken Ritual," a tale of hara-kiri based on an idea by Sergio Aragonés, who also contributes this volume's introduction. This perennial favorite features dragons, ghosts, demons, bats and more, all in set in Sakai's warrior landscape. A classic!

SC, 152pg, b&w

Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo is one of the most iconic modern comics characters of the past quarter century and is a perennial favorite amongst young boys and adult fans. Usagi Yojimbo chronicles the action-packed wanderings of a masterless samurai (a “ronin”) in feudal Japan — as told with funny-animals. (If PIXAR and the late Akira Kurosawa were to collaborate on a movie, it might very well look like this.)

For the first ten years of his career, the battling bunny was published by Fantagraphics Books. This slipcase set collects that entire run (previously published as seven trade paperbacks).

With over 1000 pages of story, this is the complete, definitive, early Usagi. This Special Edition will also brims with extra material, including a complete full-color gallery of the more than 50 Usagi covers from that period; preparatory sketches, including Sakai’s original first draft of the “Samurai” story; two “non-canon” Usagi stories by Sakai co-starring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (with whom Usagi also shared screen time in the TMNT TV series); the rare behind-the-scenes “How I Draw Usagi Yojimbo” strip; Introductions by Stan Sakai and Stan Lee; and a feature-length, career-spanning interview with Sakai.

SC / 1160 pgs / BW with 24 pages color / 6.875 x 10.5

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Official Selection, 2014 Festival International de la Bande Desinée de Angoulême (French edition)

Nominated for the Premio a la Mejor Obra de Autor Español (Best Work by a Spanish Author) at the 2013 Saló del Cómic de Barcelona

Disgusted and appalled with the today’s noisy and noisome world in which all is spectacle and surface sensation, Nick flees into the solitude of the desert. But even as he manages to recover some sort of spiritual balance thanks to an ascetic regimen of fasting and meditation, Nick is seduced by the most spectacular and mesmerizing spectacle of all time: The procession of the Queen of Saba.

In Vapor, the award-winning Spanish cartoonist Max (best known for his 2006 book Bardín the Superrealist) once again engages in delightful philosophical mind games, starring another wildly stylized and endearing protagonist — this time deploying a striking, crisp black and white graphic style perfectly suited for this desert-based fantasia.

HC / 120 pgs / BW / 7 x 9.75

This collection of 25 Johnny Craig favorites includes such shockers as 'Horror House!,' 'Werewolf Concerto,' 'Terror on the Moors,' and the title story, 'Voodoo Vengeance' ' along with seven Craig crime classics.

Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library, Voodoo Vengeance and Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces.

HC / 216 pgs / BW / 7.25 x 10.25

Shattuck is a super-sexy western full of gun-toting femmes fatale, fastdrawing lawmen, and snarling outlaws that has never been re-published since it first appeared more than 40 years ago.

As a bonus, the entire book has been scanned in full-color to mimic the original art, complete with paste-overs, notes, art corrections and published in the same format as Fantagraphics’ best-selling edition of Woods’ Cannon.

HC / 72 pgs / FC / 11.5 x 7

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In this volume of the acclaimed series about transgendered kids exploring their unfolding identities, we’ve reached a big event; the junior high school entrance ceremony.

The boys wear black uniforms with stand-up collars based on mid-19th century European military uniforms and the girls wear navy blazers, tan skirts, and red ribbon neckties. Enter our heroes; Nitori-kun is forced to wear a boy’s uniform while Takatsuki-san has to wear a girl's! Yet one girl — Sarashia Chizuru — draws stares, whispers, and pointed fingers, because this long-haired beauty is wearing a boy’s uniform. Both Nitori-kun and Takatsuki-san are awed by the girl's courage, but Takatsuki-san is particularly vexed by their own faintheartedness. They envy more than a few other students who experience such liberty in wearing either uniform and ponder what it ultimately means about themselves.

Envy and jealousy are prominent themes in Volume 5: Chiba-san is jealous of Takatsuki-san, for whom Nitori-kun still carries a torch. Maho envies Anna-chan's professionalism as a model. And Chii-chan’s loyal sidekick, Shiri Momoko, is intensely jealous of anyone in whom Chii-chan shows the slightest interest. And so our protagonists set off on the journey to adolescence...

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Shimura Takako’s groundbreaking, critically acclaimed, and beloved Wandering Son continues to explore gender identity among its cast of middle school students in our 7th volume.

Nitori-kun gets his first signs of acne. This may well be the end of the world. But when he turns to nationally famous model Anna-chan for help, events take an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Nitori-kun and Chiba-san are scouted by the theater club after the success of their gender-bending play, The Rose of Versailles.

But when Takatsuki-san congratulates Chiba-san, Chiba-san calls her a hypocrite. If Takatsuki-san wanted to join the theater club, she wouldn’t congratulate Chiba-san — she’d be jealous. So says Chiba-san, but what does she know?

HC / 200 pgs / BW / 7 x 9.25

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Curiosity and transphobia collide in the latest volume of Fantagraphics' critically acclaimed manga about a boy who wants to be a girl, and a girl who wants to be a boy.

In Volume 8, Nitori-kun, a boy who wants to be a girl, explores kissing with girlfriend Anna-chan; and Yoshino-san, a girl who wants to be a boy, finds the courage to go to school wearing a boy's uniform. Meanwhile, one of their male classmates, Doi-kun, who has caused our protagonists misery in the past, becomes intrigued with their grown-up friend Yuki-san, a transwoman. But Nitori-kun finds himself strangely drawn to Doi-kun…

Shimura Takako's Wandering Son has been rightly hailed as one of the most progressive and enlightened treatments of gender identity in the history of comics. The eighth volume continues to explore the lives of its characters with insight and sensitivity.

HC / 200 pgs / BW / 7 x 9.25

First published in 2010, Woodring's first full-length graphic novel stars Manhog, a pathetic, brutish everyman. After enduring almost incomprehensible suffering, Manhog embarks upon a transformative journey and finally attains enlightenment.

Fantagraphics is proud to present a newly designed edition of this timeless classic featuring as new cover painted for this edition by the author.

A funny and romantic teenage ghost story that marks a departure from the author's more abstract and esoteric work, The Weaver Festival Phenomenon is a touching story of love & loss that retains a sense of magic that readers have come to expect from Regé.

HC, 8x9, 64pgs, FC