Finally, a comprehensive guide to everything Crumb has published during his decades-long career in cartooning.

All of Crumb's published work to date-from comics and magazines to book and record covers to merchandise like buttons and t-shirts, as well as listings of articles, interviews, characters, and comic strip titles-are organized into one handy collection.

Peppered throughout with illustrations and featuring a splashy color gallery of rare pieces, The Crumb Compendium is an essential text for Crumb fans and scholars alike.

Reference Book, SC, 7x10, 344pgs, B&W

Ghost World, Nine Short Stories and Critical Materials' Comics about Art, Adolescence and Real Life

A landmark compilation that introduces new readers to Daniel Clowes' award-winning comics and provides longtime fans with new ways of appreciating his visual and literary achievements; Includes critical essays, slice-of-life short stories, comic rants, cultural criticism, a superhero tale, and several newspaper-style comic strips about artists and their audiences.

Flexibound / 360 pgs / Full-Color / 7.25 x 10.5

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This landmark collection features ten of Daniel Clowes's most influential graphic narratives, along with interviews in which he talks about his career and creative process, and twelve thought-provoking essays by contemporary scholars and critics.

A wide-ranging introduction to the work of one of the most important living cartoonists, The Daniel Clowes Reader features Ghost World, Clowes's celebrated graphic novel about the complex friendship of two teenage girls. 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. The volume's dozen critical essays illuminate Clowes's comics by locating them within biographical, artistic, and socio-historical contexts, including the Indie and DIY movements, Generation X philosophy, and the history of American cartooning. Selections by artists who influenced Clowes and a detailed chronology of his work round out the collection, and extensive annotations shed light on the cartoonist's sources and cultural references. Perfect for the college literature/graphic narrative classroom.

Flexibound / 300 pgs / PC / 6.125 x 9
(W) Ken Parille

THE ULTIMATE BOOK FOR PRINCE VALIANT COLLECTORS
Out of print for over a decade, The Prince Valiant Companion has become a Holy Grail for collectors of the series. Now, in anticipation of the seventy-fifth anniversary of comics’ longest-running adventure strip, and to celebrate their own just-launched reprinting of the strip’s classic earliest years, Fantagraphics is proud to present an expanded version of this hard-to-find collector’s item. Compiled by award-winning Foster biographer Brian M. Kane, The definitive Prince Valiant Companion beautifully showcases the careers of artists Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, and Gary Gianni.

In addition to updating the original version’s story synopsis section with over thirty years of material, The definitive Prince Valiant Companion also contains rare and new articles. Included in this volume is a never before reprinted newspa per feature from 1949, Foster’s final interview conducted by Arn Saba, an extensive interview with John Cullen Murphy, and a new interview with the current Prince Valiant creative team of Gary Gianni and Mark Schultz. The Companion also contains a new, in-depth article by Kane on Foster’s artistic influences, as well as a Foreword by comics historian Brian Walker, and an Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ray Bradbury.

A special feature of The Companion is a sixteen-page color section of carefully selected strips from the entire run of the comic. Showcasing this section are eight pages by Foster, scanned and digitally restored from original color engraver’s proofs that had been carefully stored and preserved for over forty years. For the first time ever, collectors will be able to see Prince Valiant as Foster intended it to be seen, with all of his fine inked line work intact. Rounding out this section are four John Cullen Murphy pages from the Murphy family’s collection of proofs, and four Gary Gianni pages that were selected by the artist and digitally recolored under his supervision.

Proceeds from the sale of The definitive Prince Valiant Companion will go to The Friends of Hal Foster Society to aid in the creation of the Prince Valiant statue in Foster’s birthplace of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

By Brian M. Kane
160 pages, color and back-and-white, 8 1/2” x 11”

Conversations with Neil Gaiman and his collaborators edited by Joe McCabe with an introduction by Neil Gaiman. This version of the Neil Gaiman-authorized book is limited to 1,000 signed hardcovers! Part of the proceeds will be donated to the Comics Book Legal Defense Fund. The most intimate look yet into the life and mind of the best-selling author and creator of The Sandman. Artists, writers, editors, musicians over two-dozen creators share their thoughts on working with Gaiman and present a unique mosaic portrait of the writer whose name has become synonymous with modern fantasy. The book features comprehensive interviews with all of the major Sandman artists, including Charles Vess, P. Craig Russell, Bryan Talbot, and Jill Thompson, as well as rare and exclusive interviews with Sandman co-creators Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg. Illustrated with many unpublished photos and comic pages, this is the book Gaiman's fans have been waiting for. 280-page B&W (w/ 16pp. in color.)

While many cartoonists in the late '60s and early '70s were "turning on, tuning in, and dropping out," Jim Osborne was cut from a much darker cloth, delving into the extreme underbelly of American popular culture with unsettling comics about murder, conspiracy, and demons, both figurative and literal.

Jim Osborne: The Black Prince of the Underground includes a biography of Osborne by Dennis Dread and collects all of the artist's stories and illustrations from formative publications like Yellow Dog, Bijou Funnies, and National Lampoon, many republished here for the first time in decades.

SC, 7x10, 132pgs, B&W

Who was Wallace Wood? The maddest artist of Mad magazine? The man behind Marvel's Daredevil? The self-publishing pioneer of Witzend?

With a life as dramatic as his compositions, many fans know the legendary artist, but few know the man inside. Until now. The Art and Life of Wallace Wood is an incisive look back at the life and career of one of the greatest and most mythic figures in cartooning.

Edited over the course of thirty years by former Wood assistant Bhob Stewart, The Art and Life of Wallace Wood is a biographical portrait, generously illustrated with Wood's gorgeous art as well as little seen personal photos and childhood ephemera.

Also: remembrances by Wood's friends, colleagues, assistants, and loved ones. This collective biographical and critical portrait explores the humorous spirit, dark detours, and psychological twists of a gifted maverick in American pop culture.

Contributions by Bill Gaines, Grant Geissman, Larry Hama, Paul Kirchner, Trina Robbins, John Severin, Tom Sutton, Al Williamson and more!

Edited by Bhob Stewart

SC / 304 pgs / PC / 10 x 12

The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2 is a stunning portrait of one of the most mythic figures in American cartooning.

Bursting with artwork and photos along with the remembrances of friends, colleagues, and loved ones discussing the spirit, the psychological twists, the struggles with censorship and alcoholism and the slide into pornography of this complicated maverick of American pop culture.

Compiled over more than three decades, The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2 completes this remarkable portrait of a legendary comics creator.

HC, 10x12, 232pgs, FC

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The Love and Rockets Companion: 30 Years (and Counting) contains three incredibly in-depth and candid interviews with creators Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez: one conducted by writer Neil Gaiman (Coraline); one conducted some six years into the comic’s run by longtime L&R publisher Gary Groth; and one conducted by the book’s author, spanning Gilbert’s, Jaime’s and Mario’s careers, and looking to the future of the ongoing series, with a follow-up conversation with Groth.

This book has foldout family trees for both Gilbert’s Palomar and Jaime’s Locas storylines; unpublished art; a character glossary (which is handy, considering that Gilbert alone has created 50+ characters!); highlights from the original series’ anarchic letters columns; timelines; and the most wide-ranging Hernandez Brothers bibliography ever compiled, including album and DVD covers, posters 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. For longtime fans, it clears up confusion that even those devoted to the groundbreaking alternative comic over its 30-year run can experience, given the sheer amount of material and sophisticated storytelling techniques (such as flashbacks, flash forwards, elliptical narrative and magical realism).

Edited by Marc Sobel and Kristy Valenti

SC / 240 pgs / BW / 7.5 x 9.25

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Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to the hyper-masculine world of Japanese gay manga.

Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It is the first English-language anthology of its kind: an in-depth introduction to nine of the most exciting comic artists making work for a gay male audience in Japan.

Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi and Kazuhide Ichikawa are three of the irresistibly seductive, internationally renowned artists featured in Massive, as well as Gengoroh Tagame, the subject of The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga. Get to know each of these artists intimately, through candid interviews, photography, context-providing essays, illustrations and manga. Massive also includes the groundbreaking, titillating work of gay manga luminaries Takeshi Matsu, Fumi Miyabi, Inu Yoshi, Gai Mizuki and comic essayist Kumada Poohsuke.

Edited by Anne Ishii, Graham Kolbeins & Chip Kidd

SC / 272 pgs / PC / 7 x 10

Out of print for nearly three years, Suckle was the first masterpiece by Dave Cooper in the Suckle/Crumple/Weasel trilogy. A completely original graphic novel that follows the life of Basil from his bizarre "birth" in the desert to his fumbling and ultimately happy relationship with a female artist, Suckle takes place in a wild, surreal universe that will be recognizable to any of Cooper's many fans!

SC, 132pg, PC