Fantagraphics presents a double dose of further Donald Duck adventures!

This season's Carl Barks Library gift box collects our earlier volumes, A Christmas for Shacktown and Trick or Treat in a sturdy slipcase at a special price that even Uncle Scrooge would approve!

HC, 468pgs, FC

Ali Fitzgerald began teaching comics-making to refugees at a Berlin emergency shelter. In her eight years in Germany, Fitzgerald experienced her student's and her own creative highs, along with the deep depression of the disillusioned.

In the refugee center, worlds collide and Fizgerald's story entwines the complex themes of political and personal displacement. Her drawings are compassionate and unflinchingly intimate making for a stunning graphic memoir about what you find when you attempt to help lost people.

HC, 6x7, 196pgs, B&W

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Tony Millionaire's Maakies is one of the best and most popular weekly comic strips in America, running in over a dozen of the largest U.S. weekly newspapers including the Village Voice, L.A. Weekly and Seattle's The Stranger. The strip has also been adapted into the hit animated series The Drinky Crow Show on the Cartoon Network's popular Adult Swim. Designed by publishing's foremost graphic designer, Chip Kidd, Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury collects the second five years of the strip (previously reprinted in the volumes When We Were Very Maakies, The House at Maakies Corner and Der Struwwelmaakies) in a beautiful, deluxe, landscape hardcover format that complements the strip's elegant and classical style.

Maakies features the comical high-seas adventures of a booze-soaked corvid (Drinky Crow) and his equally-soused simian pal (Uncle Gabby), blending vaudeville-style humor and a breathtaking line that hearkens back to the glory days of the American comic strip. The twosome also sometimes makes room for their stuffed-toy alter egos, a clockwork alligator, various other land-, air-, and sea-borne fauna, the Author and his Editor, the heavens, architecture, and occasional guest strips (by Kaz, Renee French, Eric Reynolds and others) and fumetti.

Maakies suggests a contemporary collaboration between E.C. Segar, creator of Popeye, and seafaring novelist Patrick O'Brian (Master and Commander). Millionaire has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards and is also the creator of the popular Sock Monkey and Billy Hazelnuts books.

272p, B&W

Moto Hagio is considered the most beloved shojo manga artist of all time. Unconstrained by genre, she has built a career exemplified by intellectual curiosity, psychological authenticity, and a mature aesthetic sense akin to Osamu Tezuka as opposed to Sailor Moon.

For the first time in English, Fantagraphics is proud to present a Hagio primer: a selection of short stories spanning from 1971 to 2007 by an artist at the peak of her powers.

HC, 7x9, 288pgs, PC

Academy Award winning actor Jim Broadbent (Harry Potter, Game of Thrones) and acclaimed Guardian cartoonist Dix (Roll Up! Roll Up!) team up to tell the story of one of the most singular characters ever depicted in graphic fiction: the inimitable Dull Margaret.

Loosely inspired by Dulle Griet, a 16th-century painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Dull Margaret also draws inspiration from Goya's witches and Daumier's depictions of roving players to paint its own rich portrait of a damaged soul navigating an unsparing world. Anchored by a sharp, black humor, Dull Margaret is a wildly original graphic novel for the ages.

Inspired by Dulle Griet, a 16th-century painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Dull Margaret is the first graphic novel by Academy Award-winning actor Jim Broadbent (Harry Potter, Game of Thrones) and acclaimed Guardian cartoonist Dix (Roll Up! Roll Up!).

Dull Margaret leads a miserable life hunting slippery, slimy eels to sell at the marketplace. In town, she finds that she does not belong: the locals shun her, steal from her, and send her away to her crude shack far away from civilization. Fed up with the cruel world, she decides to take fate into her own hands, mixing a witch's brew to bring her friendship and riches. But she soon learns to be careful what she wishes for, as this powerful magic sends her down a series of shocking and gruesome twists and turns. Intense, bleak, and darkly humorous, Dull Margaret is one of the most unexpected and original graphic novels of 2018.

HC, 6x9, 152pgs, FC

Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how the author copes with the everyday challenges that come with voicelessness.

Webber adroitly uses the comics medium to convey the hurdles she faced as well as the fear and dread that accompanied her journey to regain her life. She learns to lean on the support of her close friends, finds self-expression in creating comics, and comes to understand and appreciate how deeply her voice and identity are intertwined.

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A SURREAL SUBURBAN ROLE PLAYING GAME YARN FROM THE CREATOR OF THE RED MONKEY DOUBLE HAPPINESS BOOK

One day Millenium [sic] Boy decided to grab his hobo stick, his bandana, and his Swiss Army knife, bid his mom goodbye, and head off on a quest for adventure. Joined by his best friend Steve (weapon: baseball bat; clothing: wife beater, cargo pants and sandals), they soon find themselves in a violent altercation with two other adventure seekers. It ends badly for their antagonists ("Whoa, check it out, dude! You actually knocked this dude's brain right out of his cranium!") and Millenium Boy and Steve become the proud owners of fancy weapons upgrades (a crowbar and a steel chain). So on they trek, and the next inductee to their group is the muscle-bound Lash Penis. And then things start getting weird!

Readers of 2009's Red Monkey Double Happiness Book will recognize Joe Daly's delightfully unique stoner/philosopher dialogue and distinctive character designs, but the hilarious over-the-top Role Playing Game action (complete with periodic updates for each character's status in ten criteria, including "dexterity," "intelligence," and "money") propel this new story into a heretofore unachieved action-comedy realm. By the end of this book (the first chapter of a projected four-part epic), the trio has been joined by Nerdgirl the Archer, Lash Penis has nearly had his arm cut off, they've acquired a whole new nifty bag of tricks, and the menaces have become increasingly surreal and lethal. Where will it end?

136p

In this second book, Millennium Boy, Steve, Lash and Nerdgirl continue their quest to find the missing parts of the Atlantean Resonator Guitar. They encounter giant spiders, river trolls and copious amounts of killer weed. Joe Daly’s unique stoner/philosopher dialogue and distinctive character designs, coupled with hilarious over-the-top Role Playing Game action, propel Daly’s story into unachieved actioncomedy heights.

SC / 136 pgs / BW / 6" x 8.25"

Expanded to more than twice the length of the previous volumes, Dungeon Quest Book Three continues the adventures of Millennium Boy, Steve, Lash and Nerdgirl as they traverse mysterious underground realms. This latest installment of the stoner D&D epic brings a whole new level of bizarre comedy, rousing adventure and ass-kicking action — all staged in front of fantastic backdrops replete with strange vegetation, ancient ruins and steam-punk imagery.

SC / 288 pgs / BW / 6 x 8.25

Meet El Borbah, a 400-pound private eye who wears a Mexican wrestler's tights and an eerie mask. Subsisting entirely on junk food and beer, El Borbah conducts his investigations with tough talk and a short temper. He smashes through doors and skulls as he stalks a perfectly realized film-noir city filled with punks, geeks, business-suited creeps and mad scientists. El Borbah is Burns' earliest work, created in the early 1980s, though the work remains eerily contemporary. Steeped in a "sci-fi-noir" aesthetic informed by Burns' steadily childhood diet of B-movies and comic books, but with a sophisticated sense of humor that is often as disturbing as it is funny, El Borbah is comics as its most entertaining.

Fighting cancer isn't just a struggle to the body. It's also a fight with the heart, and the soul, and the spirit.

The non-profit organization Elizabeth's Canvas has been helping with that struggle by providing cancer patients, survivors, and their family members with art, photography, dance and writing classes, at no charge, so that they can better cope with their symptoms and improve their well-being. Elizabeth's Canvas classes are offered inside and outside hostpitals, and are grounded in the belief that the creative process can strengthen the spirit and empower the mind.

Now Elizabeth's Canvas, IDW Publishing and Blastoff have come together to create this graphic novel, in which comic creators from across the industry interview the people behind the struggle with cancer the patients, the nurses, the survivors, the researchers and tell their stories; tales of defiance, perseverance, dedication and triumph. All proceeds from the sale of the graphic novel will go to further fund and grow Elizabeth's Canvas' efforts.

SC, 7x10, 104pgs, FC

To coincide with the forthcoming Netflix television adaptation of Chuck Forsman's best-selling 2013 graphic novel, Fantagraphics is proud to publish this new hardcover edition.

TEotFW portrays James and Alyssa living a typical teen experience that takes a more nihilistic turn as James's character exhibits a rapidly forming sociopathy. Forsman's story highlights the existential search of many teenagers through a road trip drama that owes as much to Badlands as Charles Schulz, creating a wholly unique narrative tension between form and content.

HC, 176pgs, B&W

Now published for the first time in English, this seminal 1950s Latin-American science-fiction graphic novel has it all- Cold War tensions, aliens, and time-travel.

Illustrated in a gritty, realistic style and rich with historical and political commentary, The Eternaut is an allegory based upon contemporary global events. The lasting power of the story of Juan Salvo's fight to save Argentina has proved a potent symbol of the endless struggle against oppression.

372p

Peter Bagge takes on the erosion of our civil liberties, the Iraq war, art and entertainment, the homeless, the drug war, and whether citizens should be allowed to own bazookas in this hilarious and provocative collection of independent-minded satirical strips from the pages of Reason magazine. No sacred cow on either side of the political spectrum is left standing in this new definitive hardcover edition, which adds over 30 new pages to the long sold-out first paperback edition.

HC / 156 pgs / FC / 7.75 x 10

Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War I Paris and a parody of same, Adéle has been enchanting, thrilling, and puzzling readers worldwide through four decades. Adéle becomes involved in a series of mysteries that involve a revived pterodactyl, a frightful on-stage murder, a looming execution by guillotine, and a demon from the depths of hell - plus of course moronic gendarmes, loyal (or perhaps traitorous?) henchmen, and a climax atop the Eiffel Tower.

HC, 8.5X11.5, 96pgs, FC

Jacques Tardi plunges us back into Belle-Epoque Paris for another double dose of heroic derring-do, evil and crazy malefactors, mad actresses and monsters!

The Extraordinary Adventure of Adele Blanc-Sec Volume 2 is the seventh book in Fantagraphics´ acclaimed series of Tardi reprints, showcasing the rich variety of graphic novels from one of France´s greatest living cartoonists (and winner of two Eisner Awards for It Was the War of the Tranches).

HC, 8.5x12, 96pgs, FC

Acclaimed cartoonist Carol Tyler (Soldier's Heart) recreates the exhilaration of Beatlemania at its height in 1965 and the odyssey that leads her to the famous Beatles Chicago concert later that year.

The book brims with rich period details, humor, insight, and beautiful drawings capturing the spirit of the time. It is also about the Beatles, of course, as seen through the eyes of a young, giddy teenager and a reflective, adult artist, and the joy the band gave and continues to give.

Surrounded by the ornate, retro, proto-splatter horror graphics of Jack Davis and Graham Ingels and the slick, futuristic sci-fi stylings of Wally Wood and Al Williamson, EC Comics superstar Johnny Craig stood out in the 1950s with his elegant, crisp, contemporary graphic style. And nowhere did this style work more beautifully than in the dozens of superb crime and horror comics he wrote and drew for EC, mostly for the two comics he also edited, Crime SuspenStories and The Vault of Horror. (Craig was the only EC artist to habitually write his own material for the entire length of EC's run.)

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 writing, stunningly executed (in more than one sense of the word) by one of the great cartoonists of his (or any) era. And all in seven or eight pages per story!

Fall Guy For Murder and Other Stories is once again, as are the other EC Comics Library releases, supplemented with several fascinating essays and informative historical notes on the stories.

HC / 160 pgs / BW / 7 x 10

Vampirism, lycanthropy, assassination, witchcraft, marijuana and perversion!

The notorious hired monster-killer known as The FANG takes the night off to do some personal game hunting, but reconsiders killing him after she's had a taste of his charms. After second guessing herself the next day during a messy hit, The FANG searches for wisdom in the mouthpiece of a bong.

A gnarly story inspires her to take charge of the second date and quit once she's gotten ahead.

4x7, 60pgs, B&W

Fante Bukowski is an aspiring writer making his way to literary fame and fortune, one drink at a time. Living in a cheap hotel, consorting with the downtrodden, searching for the one idea that will rocket him to success as the great American novelist and earn him the respect of his father. But, there's just one problem: Fante Bukowski has no talent for writing. This latest book from Noah Van Sciver mines the author's interest in pathos and the human condition.

SC, 80pgs, FC

The hilarious struggle continues as aspiring literary genius Fante Bukowski bumbles his way to literary fame and fortune, forever searching for that golden idea that will give him the success he yearns for and his father's respect once and for all.

But, there's just one problem: Fante Bukowski has no talent for writing. Noah Van Sciver's 2015's runaway hit Fante Bukowski garnered him a 2016 Eisner nomination for Best Writer/Artist, one of the major awards in the comics industry.

SC, 5x7, 184pgs, FC

In this third and final installment of the fan-favorite series "starring" self-styled literary superstar-to-be Fante Bukowski, Noah Van Sciver once again skewers the literary pretensions of his self-important title character.

With an ear for hilarious dialogue and no end of grist for the mill, Van Sciver has garnered multiple Eisner Awards nominations and made Bukowski more popular than he could have ever hoped.

SC, 120pgs, FC

The French cartooning master Jacques Tardi's first solo graphic novel is a riotous action-adventure comedy set in Paris, 1914.

A strange old man visits Lucien Brinvadoine's flat and implores him to go to Istanbul to seek his destiny. No sooner are these words spoken than a shot is fired through the window and the man is murdered by a mysterious assailant.

Thus kicks off a madcap adventure wherein the mild-mannered Brindavoine races to the Middle East with assassins threatening him at every turn. Farewell, Brindavoine showcases the French cartooning master's signature blend of dark humor, brutal violence, and beguiling mystery.

HC, 64pgs, B&W