O Josephine! contains four brand-new short stories. Blending popular-culture pastiche with dry wit, and stylish storytelling. Included are a trek into the green hills of Ireland where Jason encounters more sheep than he had bargained for, Leonard Cohen's life story filled with Jason-esque liberties, a mysterious stakeout with a pair of two-faced private eyes, and the rollercoaster love story of Napoleon and Josephine Baker.

These tales are all told in a hilariously deadpan style making this another triumph in Jason's already lauded catalog.

HC, 6x8, 176pgs, FC

With his previous book, BWS: OPUS Vol. 1 (when released, Fantagraphics' all-time quickest selling book), Barry Windsor-Smith joined the ranks of the experiencers and researchers at the new frontiers of consciousness and the revolutionary crossroads of reality. After astonishing encounters with precognition and time loops the artist found himself on a transcendental journey into another dimension of time and space.

Now, in the second volume of the OPUS series, Windsor-Smith continues his autobiography called "Time Rise." Following his bizarre interdimensional journey, the young superstar of Marvel Comics' Conan the Barbarian fame discovers that he has acquired advanced psychic abilities! This is the true story of the artist's struggles to deal with the transcendental, yet maddening, effects of meta-consciousness. In addition to Windsor-Smith's groundbreaking text, OPUS is, of course, also a deluxe art collection, featuring the renowned artist's never-before-published paintings and drawings, as well as gorgeous, evocative artworks culled from over thirty years of comics art, comic strips, illustration, and sketchbooks.

HC, 224p

In the first volume (of two) of Moto Hagio's Otherworld Barbara, Tokio discovers a phantom island named Barbara, there's a missing geneticist, an eccentric clergyman, a grandmother granted temporary youth, a psychologist killed by a freak tornado and more. Hagio offers a sci-fi explanation for these seemingly random paranormal elements, and makes it all matter with believable characters in complex and subtle relationships.

This book won the "Nebula Award of Japan" (Nihon SF Taish Award) in 2006.

400p

In the second (and concluding) volume in Moto Hagio’s award-winning science fiction saga, the poltergeist phenomena has become more intense as Nanami and Kiriya both travel to Engaru, where Aoba has dreamt of the island of Barbara for seven years. In the end, it comes down to a father’s frantic efforts to save the life of his son. But... which son? And who is the dreamer and who is the dreamed? Can the dreamer become the dreamed, and the dreamed the dreamer?

HC, 7.5x10.5, 400pgs, B&W

Out of the Shadows collects the very best of legendary Golden Age comics artist Mort Meskin’s stories from the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s and features work in every genre Meskin worked in: super-hero, adventure, kid gangs, romance, crime, westerns, science fiction, and horror. Meskin set a new a high bar for comics in the first three decades of the medium, and this book will be a revelation to both the casual graphic novel reader and the ardent fan.

SC / 192 pgs / FC / 7.5 x 10.5

Yokoyama Yuichi, critically acclaimed for his gekiga ("dramatic pictures") comics further pushes the boundaries of what comics can do with Outdoors.

The acclaimed artist has a clear fixation with sound and time and an unbelievable eye for bringing such abstract concepts to life in panel form. Yokoyama uncannily shows the passing of time, suggesting that we should simply see things without labelling them. If he were a musician, he would be John Cage.

SC, 6x8, 128pgs, FC

Prior to SAFE AREA GORAZDE: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 - Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of graphic journalism - the acclaimed author was best known for PALESTINE, a two-volume graphic novel that won an American Book Award in 1996. Fantagraphics Books is pleased to present a single-volume collection of this 288-page landmark of journalism and the artform of comics.

Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews), Palestine was the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, whose name has since become synonymous with this graphic form of New Journalism. Like SAFE AREA GORAZDE, PALESTINE has been favorably compared to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, by Art Spiegelman, for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically-sensitive subject matter within the confines of the comic book medium. Sacco has often been called the first comic book journalist, and he is certainly the best.

Sacco's insightful reportage takes place at the front lines, where busy marketplaces are spoiled by shootings and tear gas, soldiers beat civilians with reckless abandon, and roadblocks go up before reporters can leave. Sacco interviewed and encountered prisoners, refugees, protesters, wounded children, farmers who had lost their land, and families who had been torn apart by the Palestinian conflict.

In 1996, the Before Columbus Foundation awarded PALESTINE the seventeenth annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARD, a prestigious rarity for something told in comic book form that rightfully recognized Sacco's unique talents as both a journalist and cartoonist, stating that the author should be recognized for his "outstanding contribution to American literature," while his publisher, Fantagraphics, is "to be honored for their commitment to quality and their willingness to take risks that accompany publishing outstanding books and authors that may not prove 'cost-effective' in the short run."

288-page softcover

This collects six wildly inventive short comics stories that might collectively be dubbed "speculative memoir."

Schrauwen's deadpan depictions of his and his offspring's upcoming lives include alien abduction, dialogue with future agents, and coded messages in envelopes at breakfast.

SC, 128pgs, FC

A classic comics collection from "The Tom of Finland of Japan," now in paperback!

The often violent, visceral, and always provocative style of Japanese manga legend Gengoroh Tagame, one of the originators of Japanese bear culture, comes to life like never before in The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame, a new edition of the artist's first English-language collection. Known as "The Tom of Finland of Japan," Tagame is celebrated around the world for his groundbreaking work, masterful imagery, and craft, as well as an unbridled exploration of bondage, lust, passion, and romance.

This first English paperback edition includes ten short stories dating from the late 1990s to the early 2010s, with an introduction by celebrated novelist and biographer Edmund White, as well as an essay and new jacket design by acclaimed novelist and graphic designer Chip Kidd. With its over-the-top explicitness, this intense collection of erotic stories depicting scenes of BDSM between hypermasculine men, The Passion of Gengoroh Tagameis a must-have for Tagame fans, as well as fans of bear cultures in general.

Produced by veteran "Japanist'' Anne Ishii and filmmaker Graham Kolbeins, the book also contains sixteen full-page color illustrations.

SC, 288pgs, PC

This is the graphic novel of 2016.

Patience is a psychedelic science-fiction love story that swings from violent destruction to deep personal tenderness. It is also the first all new graphic novel from master cartoonist Daniel Clowes (Ghost World, Eightball) in over a half-decade!

This full-color story is the biggest book of his career and affords Clowes the opportunity to draw some of the most exuberantly breathtaking pages of his life, and to tell his most suspenseful, surprising and affecting story yet.

HC / 180 pgs / FC / 7.5 x 9.75

In this first volume in a planned series of ten oversized coffee-table quality books, Charles Schulz's cast of Peanuts characters are presented in full, vibrant color, just as readers back in the 1950s first experienced them. Every Sunday Peanuts strip from 1952-1955 has been scrupulously re-colored to match the original syndicate coloring (including some unusual colors for Charlie Brown's trademark zig-zag shirt, before it was officially yellow) -allowing readers once again to plunge back into Charles Schulz's marvelous world.

HC / 288 pgs / FC / 12.75 x 10

Since their original publication, Peanuts Sundays have almost always been collected and reprinted in black and white. But many who read Peanuts in their original Sunday papers remain fond of the striking, pastel-heavy coloring, which makes for a surprisingly different reading experience.

hese late 1970s strips showcase Schulz at his philosophical and illustrative peak in one gorgeous, oversized, full-color coffee table book, Schulz's work has never looked better. Linus, Charlie Brown, Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, Sally, Patty, and Schroeder are all present, as is the burgeoning international superstar, Snoopy.

Peanuts Every Sunday: 1976-1980 has been scrupulously re-colored to optimize the original newspaper coloring, but with far better printing and paper than ever used on any newspaper, allowing readers once again to immerse themselves in Charles Schulz's timeless masterpiece.

HC, 13x10, 288pgs, FC

We are proud to present a deluxe slipcased boxed set of Peanuts Every Sunday volumes five and six, showcasing an entire decade of Schulz's 50-year opus, one of his most creatively fruitful!

The fifth volume, Peanuts Every Sunday: 1971-1975, welcomes two new members to the cast of Peanuts: the bookish Marcie and the strip's youngest character, Rerun Van Pelt!

The sixth volume, Peanuts Every Sunday: 1976-1980, showcases Schulz at his philosophical and illustrative peak. Linus, Charlie Brown, Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, Sally, Patty, and Schroeder are all present, as is the burgeoning international superstar, Snoopy.

576pgs, FC

Told almost entirely without words, Penguins is a series of interconnected short strips that does more to showcase the breadth of emotion we as humans experience than most prose novels.

As author Nick Thorburn explains, "Penguins go through a lot of hell that could be avoided if they had the ability to fly. This cruel irony lends itself to humor, as well as sadness. Death and the desperate search for love and companionship seem so tethered to life as a penguin, as well as for humans, and so the goal was to bridge those two and make them funny."

HC, 7x10, 288pgs, B&W

Created by Hergé when he was drawing the first few Tintin adventures, Peppy in the Wild West is a freewheeling all-ages adventure featuring some of the loopiest takes on tried and true tropes of the Old West that you’ve ever seen.

After his hat business fails, the adventurous bear Peppy heads west to start a new life. What follows is a rollicking cascade of one darned thing after another!

First serialized in black and white in 1934, this is the first publication of Peppy in the Wild West and the only English translation since 1969.

HC, 8x11, 56pgs, FC

Näytettä.

During the 1990s and 2000s, Peter Bagge worked mostly on his "Buddy Bradley" stories in Hate and a series of standalone graphic novels (Apocalypse Nerd), but in-between these major projects this ever-energetic cartoonist also cranked out dozens of shorter stories, which are now finally being collected in this riotously anarchic book.

Peter Bagge's Other Stuff includes a few lesser-known Bagge characters, including the wacky modern party girl "Lovey" and the aging bobo "Shut-Ins" — not to mention the self-explanatory "Rock 'N' Roll Dad" starring Murry Wilson and the Beach Boys. But many of the strips are one-off gags or short stories, often with a contemporary satirical slant, including on-site reportage like "So Much Comedy, So Little Time" (from a comedy festival) and more. Also: Dick Cheney, The Matrix, and Alien!

Other Stuff also includes a series of Bagge-written stories drawn by other cartoonists, including "Life in these United States" with Daniel Clowes, "Shamrock Squid" with Adrian Tomine, and the one-two parody punch of "Caffy" (with art by R. Crumb) and "Dildobert" (with art by Prison Pit’s Johnny Ryan)... plus a highlight of the book, the hilarious, literate and intricate exposé of "Kool-Aid Man" written by Alan Moore and drawn by Bagge. (Other collaborators include the Hernandez Brothers and Danny Hellman.)

Bagge is one of the funniest cartoonists of the century (20th or 21st), and this collection shows him at his most free-wheeling and craziest... 50 times over.

SC / 136 pgs / PC / 7.25 x 10.5

John Kerschbaum's Petey and Pussy return, and so does their unique brand of animal neuroses.

Imagine a Secret Life of Pets where the animals hang out in dive bars. Petey is a compulsive dog that values his unchecked freedom and Pussy is a self-absorbed cat with a gambling problem. Their darkly hilarious stories all intertwine at an oddly surreal breakneck pace, making Kerschbaum's tales of balding domestic animals read as if Larry David wrote an R-rated Tom and Jerry for Adult Swim.

SC, 136pgs, B&W

During the 1950s, Humorama churned out scores of cheap digest-sized magazines that featured hackneyed jokes, cheesecake photos and single panel pin-up cartoons. These digests featured the likes of Jack Cole, Dan DeCarlo, Bill Ward, Jefferson Machamer, and Basil Wolverton. Drawing from private collections, editor Alex Chun has once again selected the best of these long out-of-print images.

Edited by Alex Chun; foreword by Howard Chaykin SC / 200 pgs / PC / 6 x 8

The Poe Clan are a race of undead "vampirnella" whiling away the centuries in a village where time and geography have no meaning. Through three eternal adolescents and the mortals whose lives they touch, Moto Hagio explores what it means to live and to die, to have loved and to have lost.

The Poe Clan is Fantagraphics' fifth graphic novel by the revered Shojo artist, Moto Hagio.

504p

In our concluding second volume, an amnesia-stricken Edgar is found alone on a snowy night in England. Separated from his “vampirnella” clan, who feed on the energy of the living and while away the centuries in a village of roses, he struggles to remember his own name. Will Edgar regain his memory and be reunited with them?

In stories like “Piccadilly, Seven O’Clock,” “Edith,” and “The Last Will and Testament of Oswald Owens,” there are murders, mysteries, seances, and obsessions ― and generations of humans whose lives are profoundly affected by a boy who does not age, Edgar, and his embraced companions: his little sister, Marybelle, and Alan Twilight, a 14-year-old from the 1800s. Fantagraphics is proud to present the second and concluding volume of this best-selling manga, which has been adapted into various media, and is published here in English for the first time.

HC, 404p

Walt Kelly started his career at age 13 in Connecticut as a cartoonist and reporter for the Bridgeport Post. In 1935, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the Walt Disney Studio, where he worked on classic animated films, including Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Fantasia. Rather than take sides in a bitter labor strike, he moved back east in 1941 and began drawing comic books.

It was during this time that Kelly created Pogo Possum. The character first appeared in Animal Comics as a secondary player in the “Albert the Alligator” feature. It didn’t take long until Pogo became the comic’s leading character. After WWII, Kelly became artistic director at the New York Star, where he turned Pogo into a daily strip. By late 1949, Pogo appeared in hundreds of newspapers. Until his death in 1973, Kelly produced a feature that has become widely cherished among casual readers and aficionados alike.

Kelly blended nonsense language, poetry, and political and social satire to make Pogo an essential contribution to American “intellectual” comics. As the strip progressed, it became a hilarious platform for Kelly’s scathing political views in which he skewered national bogeymen like J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, and Richard Nixon.

Walt Kelly started when newspaper strips shied away from politics — Pogo was ahead of its time and ahead of later strips (such as Doonesbury and The Boondocks) that tackled political issues. Our first (of 12) volume reprints approximately the first two years of Pogo — dailies and (for the first time) full-color Sundays.

This first volume also introduces such enduring supporting characters as Porkypine, Churchy LaFemme, Beauregard Bugleboy, Seminole Sam, Howland Owl, and many others. And for Christmas, 1949, Kelly started his tradition of regaling his readers with his infamously and gloriously mangled Christmas carols.

Special features in this sumptuous premiere volume, which is produced with the full cooperation of Kelly’s heirs, include a biographical introduction by Kelly biographer Steve Thompson, an extensive section by comics historian R.C. Harvey explaining some of the more obscure current references of the time, a foreword by legendary columnist Jimmy Breslin, and more.

HC / 360 pgs / BW / 11 x 9

Näytettä kustantajan sivuilta.

Even though Pogo had been in syndication for less than two years as this volume begins, Walt Kelly's long professional experience (including seven years creating Pogo stories for comic books) had him at the peak of his powers, and this book features page after page of gorgeously drawn, hilarious vaudevillian dialogue and action among the swamp denizens, as well as Kelly's increasingly sharp-tongued political satire — especially on display during the 1952 election season.

Kelly was famous for his prolific creation of recurring characters, and by the end of this second volume, the count will already have topped over one hundred. New arrivals include Tammanany the Tiger, the voluble P.T. Bridgeport, the sinister Sarcophagus MacAbre (with his funereal speech balloons), Uncle Antler the bull moose... and Bewitched, Bothered, and Bemildred, the adorable trio of bats.

The two years of daily strips in this volume (all the strips from 1951 and 1952) have been collected before but in now long out of print books; and even there they were not as meticulously restored and reproduced as in this new series. Bona Fide Balderdash also reprints, literally for the first time ever in full color, the two full years of Sunday pages, also carefully restored and color-corrected, shot from the finest copies available.

This second volume is once again edited and designed by the cartoonist’s daughter, Carolyn Kelly, who is also handling much of the restoration work. It includes a new introduction by the legendary author, recording artist, and satirist Stan Freberg, who was not only a friend of Kelly’s but the voice of Albert the Alligator in the I Go Pogo: Pogo for President movie. There are also be more extensive annotations by comic strip historian and expert R.C. Harvey, as well as additional historical information from writer Mark Evanier.

HC / 352 pgs / PC / 7.25 x 10.5

Näytettä kustantajan sivuilta.

It’s in this volume (featuring another two years' worth of Pogo strips) that we meet one of Walt Kelly's boldest political caricatures. Folks across America had little trouble equating the insidious wildcat Simple J. Malarkey with the ascendant anti-Communist senator, Joseph McCarthy. The subject was sensitive enough that by the following year a Providence, Rhode Island newspaper threatened to drop the strip if Malarkey's face were to appear in it again. Kelly’s response? He had Malarkey appear again but put a bag over the character's head for his next appearance. Ergo, his face did not appear. (Typical of Kelly's layers of verbal wit, the character Malarkey was hiding from was a "Rhode Island Red" hen, referencing both the source of his need to conceal Malarkey and the underlying political controversy.) The entirety of these sequences can be found in this book.

But the Malarkey storyline is only a tiny portion of those rich, eventful two years, which include such classic sequences as con-man Seminole Sam's attempts to corner the market on water (which Porkypine's Uncle Baldwin tries to one-up by cornering the market on dirt); a return engagement of Pup Dog and Houn'dog's blank-eyed Little Orphan Annie parody "Li'l Arf and Nonny"; Churchy La Femme going in drag to deliver a love poem he wrote, Cyrano style, on Deacon Mushrat’s behalf to Sis Boombah (the aforementioned hen); P.T. Bridgeport's return to the swamp in search of new talent; and of course two rousing choruses of "Deck Us All With Boston Charlie."

In addition to presenting all of 1953 and 1954's daily strips complete and in order for the first time anywhere (many of them once again scanned from original syndicate proofs, for their crispest and most detailed appearance ever), Pogo Volume 3: "Evidence to the Contrary" also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years, presented in lush full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday sections 60 years ago — plus the usual in-depth "Swamp Talk" historical annotations by R.C. Harvey, spectacular samples of Kelly's work scanned from original art, and a whole lot more!

HC / 368 pgs / PC / 7.25 x 10.5

In addition to presenting all of 1955 and 1956’s daily Pogo strips for the first time anywhere, Pogo: The Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 4 also contains all 104 Sunday strips from these two years in full color for the first time since their original appearance in Sunday newspaper sections 60 years ago!

Plus the usual in-depth annotations, samples of Kelly’s work scanned from original art, and a whole lot more!

Introduction by Neil Gaiman

HC / 344 pgs / PC / 7.25x 10.5