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THE FANTAGRAPHICS WINTER 2011 CATALOG PRESENTS CENTURY a of COMIC STRIPS, COMIC BOOKS,GRAPHIC NOVELS, AND MORE! PAGE 47 PAGE 52 PAGE 42 PAGE 48 PAGE 43 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s PAGE 74 PAGE 29 PAGE 14 PAGE 13 PAGE 18 New & FJoin2 thea ReceNtn ReleasestCall toa order: 1-g800-657-r1100 aphics 20/20 club Savings • Free Shipping • Exclusive Previews • More Goodies What is this “20/20 Club?” It’s a way for our most loyal customers to save some dough and get a slew of exclusive goodies, all for a low annual fee of $20. What do I get for my 20 bucks? • 20% off on ALL Fantagraphics, EROS, and Comics Journal purchases for the next Calendar Year! (NOTE: This is 20% off all posted prices, so if an item is being offered at 50% off already, you take an additional 20% off. For instance, a $20 comic listed for sale at $10 would cost you just $8.) • FREE standard shipping on all orders worldwide (rush or air mail shipping: 50% off posted rates)! • E-mail PDF previews of coming projects TOTALLY EXCLUSIVE to 20/20 CLUB members, with exclusive extra Club savings! • FREE annual renewals — spend $100 or more through the end of your first year's member- ship on Fantagraphics titles and your 20/20 CLUB renewal will be automatic, and FREE, for the following year! • A nifty MEMBERSHIP CARD with your 20/20 CLUB MEMBER card number. Is that really such a good deal? Heck yeah! All you have to do for your membership fee to pay for itself is order $60 worth of books per year (and that’s not even counting the FREE renewals if you spend $100 or more)! Let’s break down the math: WITHOUT a club membership, a (say) $60 order will cost you $68.00 including shipping. WITH a club membership, a $60 order will cost you... $60 minus 20% equals $48 plus $20 for the membership equals $68... and you get all the 20/20 goodies for the entire next year! Wotta deal! I’d be crazy not to join! How do I sign up? To join the Fantagraphics 20/20 Club right now just send $20 to us — and yes, you can combine it with a new order and apply your discount to that order! Sign up via mail (just check the box on our order form), by phone at 1-800-657-1100 (206-524-1967 outside the U.S.) or on our website at www.fantagraphics.com. I’m already a member — is there anything I should know? Yes! If you haven’t already given us your e-mail address, you’re missing out on special members-only offers that will save you even more money (not to mention our exclusive sneak-peek previews)! Don’t worry, we’ll keep your address all to ourselves. And thanks for joining the 20/20 CLUB! New & ReceNt Releases Order online: www.fantagraphics.com 3 toys in the Basement By Blanquet With appearances in such anthologies as Zero Zero, BLAB! and Kramers Ergot, Stéphane Blanquet has been delighting and terrifying American readers with his superslick, ultradetailed creepiness. So it makes perfect sense that his first graphic novel to be published in the U.S. would be… a children’s book? Our hero, attending a Halloween party in an embarrassing pink bunny costume (he wanted to be a pirate) stumbles across a secret society of damaged, forgotten, and pissed-off toys in the basement of his friend’s house—including the terrifying Amelia, not an adorable gamine played by Audrey Tautou but a towering sentient assemblage of broken toy parts out for revenge! Imagine Toy Story as reimagined by David Lynch and Charles Burns and you’ll have a good idea of what this story is like. And yes, it is for kids! 32-page full-color 8.25” x 11” hardcover $14.99 (TOYSIN) More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/toysinthebasement the littlest Pirate King By David B. and Pierre Mac Orlan For decades they have roamed the seas, this shipload of undead pirates. They are desperate to die, but every time they try to dash their ship to splinters and end their miserable existence, a malevolent God scoops them out of danger. And so they have no choice but to continue to sail the seas, looting and killing. Until one day, having exterminated yet another ship of the living, they come across a pink little baby. Adopting him as their mascot and dubbing him their “Littlest King,” they continue their journeys. But eventually the King begins to grow up... Adapted by David B., the creator of Epileptic, from a short story by Pierre Mac Orlan, The Littlest King is David B.’s first full-color graphic novel to be released in English, and his vivid palette combines with his stunningly elegant graphics to create a magical yarn that can be enjoyed by young and old alike. 48-page full-color 8.25” x 11” hardcover $16.99 (LITTPK) More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/littlestpirateking alsO BY DaVID B.: BABEL #1-2, $7.95 each (BABEL, BABEL2) In this continuing spin-off of his award-winning masterpiece Epileptic, David B. focuses once again on his relationship with his ailing brother, but delves deeper into their fantasy life and obsession with history. See also page 34-35 for David B.’s appearances in MOME, and page 36- 37 for other releases in the Ignatz series. New & Recent Releases 4 Call to order: 1-800-657-1100 Hate annual By Peter Bagge Bagge continues to chronicle the exploits of Buddy Bradley, now married, with kid, bald and eyepatched, in this ongoing comic book. Also includes such gems as Bagge’s entire “Batboy” serial done for the late, lamented Weekly World News, stories featuring his new character “Lovey,” and autobiographical, reportorial, and satirical comics from one of the funniest cartoonists alive. Eight issues to date (sorry, #2-5 are sold out); the new issue #8 shines a spotlight on Lisa, who gets way more than she bargained for when she makes her first foray into show business — plus biographies of obscure scientists, and Japanese gumball machine mini comics. 40-page b&w/color comics Hate annual #1, 6, 7, 8: $4.95 each (HATA1, 6-8) the Bradleys everybody By Peter Bagge Is stupid Meet the Bradleys, America’s except For Me most dysfunctional family: Pops, Mom, Buddy, Babs and Butch Bradley. This volume collects all By Peter Bagge of Bagge’s early, explosively funny pre-Hate tales of the dysfunctional Bradley family from Neat Stuff, Peter Bagge doubles as an opinionated cuss, and including “You’re Not the Boss of Me!,” “Merry his Libertarian leanings have been chronicled for F*cking Christmas!,” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll Refugee.” The the past decade in comics published in the party or- best-selling humor cartoonist of his generation, Bagge gan Reason. Bagge, a longtime resident of liberal has been hailed as one of comics’ great satirists, and Seattle, is hardly dogmatic: Many of the pieces un- the Bradleys remain his most enduring creation. dermine traditional Libertarian party lines in favor Created in the 1980s while Bagge was also editing of a personal, rational and informed approach to R. Crumb’s Weirdo magazine, this family for the ages controversial issues that will force partisan Demo- has its roots firmly planted in All In the Family’s Bunker crats and Republicans alike to rethink them. Bagge’s family and MAD magazine, with a healthy punk rock well-researched comic strip “essays” crackle with the anger occasionally exploding — think of an R-rated same colorful energy and wit that propelled him into Simpsons and you’re close. 160-page b&w 8” x 10” the collective Gen X consciousness with his amaz- softcover $16.95 (BRADL) ing comic book series Hate. As always, his work re- mains seriously funny. 120-page full-color 7.75” x 10” softcover $16.99 (EVESTU) More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/every- bodyisstupid New & Recent Releases Order online: www.fantagraphics.com 5 Buddy Does seattle By Peter Bagge These legendary stories, from the classic first fifteen issues of Bagge’s Hate comic, are a defining icon of Seattle’s early 1990s culture (the Seattle Weekly has written, “20 years from now, when people wonder what it was like to be young in 1990s Seattle, the only record we’ll have is Hate.”), as well as Generation X in general. This is the first time these hilarious stories, starring the hapless Buddy Bradley and his cast of loser cohorts (including the neurotic Lisa and the ineffable Stinky), have ever been available under one cover, and never have they been available at such a low price. Bagge’s riotous tales of the early 1990s subculture are more hilarious now than ever. All mail- 340-page b&w 6” x 9” softcover $16.95 (BUDSEA) oarudtoegr rcaopphieesd by author! All mail- oarudtoegr rcaopphieesd by author! Buddy Does Jersey By Peter Bagge For the first time, the second half of the Buddy Bradley saga from the pages of Hate is collected in a single, handsome, affordable volume. This sequel to Buddy Does Seattle describes the arc of Buddy’s East Coast experience after he slinks home to his native New Jersey with his tail between his legs. Watch Buddy contend with running a small business with a less-than-reliable partner; reintegrating with his dysfunctional family; his girlfriend Lisa’s brief conversion to lesbianism and subsequent breakup with Buddy; and the shocking final fate of the exuberant Stinky. Originally released in color, these stories are here presented in the pristine black and white of earlier Buddy stories, in order to better show off the crisp beauty of inker Jim Blanchard’s linework. With a long introduction by Bagge and a hilarious cartoon foreword by Johnny Ryan. (These are the stories that precece and set up the Hate Annual continuity.) 352-page b&w 6” x 9” softcover $16.95 (BUDJER) New & ReceNt Releases 6 Call to order: 1-800-657-1100 Bent By Dave cooper All mail- oarudtoegr rcaopphieesd by author! Dave Cooper’s work has found a devoted and passionate following with visitors to his solo gallery shows in Los Angeles and New York in recent years. Cooper continues to obsess and fixate over his bizarre procession of milky figures as they crawl and wriggle into hidden meadows, jungles and cities. Everything in this world seems to be undulating and overripe — the multi-colored Jell-O vegetation, the billowing clouds, and the twitching, agitated women, whether thin like sinewy rubber, or fat and bursting with doughy flesh. This monograph collects Cooper’s finest, most revealing paintings, ink drawings, pencil sketches, and photographs from the past five years, many of which enjoy homes in the collections of influential collectors and some of Hollywood’s elite. Among this esteemed crowd is the great auteur, Oscar-nominated Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth and the Hellboy movies), who provides an enthusiastic, thoughtful introduction for this splendid new collection. 80-page full-color 10.25” x 9” hardcover $22.99 (BENT) More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/bent alsO BY DaVe cOOPeR: WEASEL #7: UNDERBELLY, 48pp. h/c, $22.95 (UNDERB) Another collection tributes to pillowy female forms, featuring over 50 of Cooper’s luminescent oil paintings and lush drawings. | WEASEL #6: OVERBITE, 44pp. h/c, $16.95 (WEAS6) “Paintings and Draw- ings of Mostly Pillowy Girls”: this coffee-table artbook, Cooper’s first, showcases his sometimes disturbingly cute canvases of young women. | RIPPLE: A PREDILECTION FOR TINA, 120pp. s/c, $14.95 (RIPPLE) A floundering painter hires a homely model to pose for a series of “erotic” paintings. Over time, their relationship evolves into a confused sexual entanglement. Introduction by David Cronenberg. | SUCKLE: THE STATUS OF BASIL, 136pp. s/c, $14.95 (SUCKL) Suckle is a bizarre travelogue through a nightmarish cartoon landscape. Born from a strange vulvic eruption in the desert, Basil sets off on a tangled, twisted quest through the wilds of sex, disease, religious belief and urban living. But mostly sex. Cooper’s first graphic novel remains one of his very best. New & ReceNt Releases Order online: www.fantagraphics.com 7 Dungeon Quest By Joe Daly One day Millennium 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 Millennium 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 last year’s The 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. 136-page b&w 6” x 8.25” paperback $12.99 (DUNQUE) More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/dungeonquest1 the Red Monkey Double Happiness Book By Joe Daly Set in Cape Town, South Africa, The Red Monkey Double Happiness Book is stuffed to the gills with mystery, suspense, action, adventure, conspiracy theories, cool cars, and excellent weed as Dave and his freeloading pal Paul, well-meaning stoners in the tradition of Cheech & Chong and Harold & Kumar, thwart criminal malfeasance even as they ponder the larger questions, such as, “What steps can I personally take to help protect the Earth and the species that inhabit it?” (though most people’s answers to these questions don’t involve sword fights and hovercrafts). Joe Daly brings a refreshingly original — and hilarious — voice to the comics medium, a dry, deadpan wit anchored in everyday reality combined with unnervingly deranged plots, rendered with a hyper-detailed, half-realistic and half-cartoony Tintin-style crispness. 112-page full-color 7.75” x 10.25” hardcover $22.99 (REDMON) More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/redmonkey alsO BY JOe DalY: SCRUBLANDS, 128pp. S/c, $16.95 (SCRUB) Offbeat, hallucinatory, often hilarious strips ranging from representational Jim Jarmusch-like scenarios to wild visual excursions, albeit linear ones — a unique mix of deadpan absur- dity and surreal imagery. Eisner Award nominee for Best Graphic Album! New & ReceNt Releases 8 Call to order: 1-800-657-1100 the search for smilin’ ed By Kim Deitch Originally created in 1997 and 1998 for the underground anthology Zero Zero, The Search for Smilin’ Ed has Deitch once again burrowing into the nooks and crannies of vintage American popular culture. Launched on his latest investigation by a remark from his brother about a shared childhood favorite (“Y’know, I heard that when Smilin’ Ed died... his body oaruAdtloel grm rcaaopiplh-ieesd wtoa s uNncEoVvEeRr fosuonmde!” ),t rDuleyi tcha mbaezgiinngs by author! things about the kiddie-show host and his malevolent sidekick, Froggy the Gremlin. Meanwhile, Deitch’s muse and nemesis Waldo the Cat abandons Deitch to hang out with some demon buddies, and soon both Waldo and Deitch are closing in on the mysteries of Smilin’ Ed and Froggy. Ranging across the entire 20th century, replete with flashbacks, stories within stories, and guest appearances from other Deitch regulars, The Search for Smilin’ Ed is a narrative whirligig that shows Deitch at his wildest and woolliest. For those whose heads have started to spin at the complexity of Deitch’s mythology, there’s an essay on the subject, and a full-color double fold-out guide to “The Kim Deitch Universe.” Plus a brand new story starring Waldo in his 21st century post-Alias the Cat state of domestic bliss, stumbling across an army of (French-) talking beavers. 144-page b&w 6.75” x 9”.75 paperback $16.99 (SMILIN) More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/smilined Deitch’s Pictorama Kim Deitch, creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Shadowland, Alias the Cat and Boulevard of Broken Dreams, has recruited his siblings to produce a unique, all- new “picto-fiction” pocket book. Alternating between heavily illustrated near-comics stories and outright prose pieces, Deitch’s Pictorama is a testament to the Deitch family’s amazing yarn-spinning abilities! Featuring five tall tales involving bottle cap oaruAdtloel grm rcaaopiplh-ieesd craotlsle, cthtoer sG, odlreumg , doeladl-etirms,e f acrmoiolyn esresc,r eatnsd, vKeirmy uDneuitscuha hl idssoeglfs!, Tah icso ennstpirirea “cDy eoiftc she ntrteieant”t by author! is wrapped up with an introduction by legendary Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator and proud papa Gene (Tom Terrific, Terr’ble Thompson [see page 102], Tom and Jerry) Deitch. 240-page b&w softcover 6” x 8” $18.99 (PICRAM) MORe KIM DeItcH BOOKs: THE STUFF OF DREAmS #2, 3, 40-to-48- pp. comics, BARGAIN PRICE 99 cents each (STUFD2, STUFD3) In this fan- tastic mini-series (since released by Pantheon as the graphic novel Alias the Cat but sans the great covers — and certainly not at our great price, see below), Kim and his wife Pam’s pursuit of vintage Hallloween cats for their collection leads to a series of fascinating mysteries and filmic tall tales! Waldo the Cat and his new paramour turn up, the sexual subculture of “furies” is given a turn in the spotlight, and it all winds in the shock corridors of Bellevue hospital! New & ReceNt Releases Order online: www.fantagraphics.com 9 lucky in love Book 1: a Poor Man’s History By George chieffet and stephen Destefano “I was fifteen in 1942, and I was five foot three, which is the tallest I ever was. I had jet black hair and a smile as big as day.” Readers and moviegoers have read and seen many growing-up-in-the-bigcity- then-being-drafted-into-World- War-II tales, both real and fictional, but none with the visual pizzazz and feisty humor of Lucky in Love. Co-created by George L. Chieffet (script) and veteran cartoonist and animator Stephen DeStefano (plot and art), Lucky in Love is almost the flipside to dramatic works on the same theme such as Alan’s War and You’ll Never Know. Elegantly drawn in a supremely confident, lively, cartoony black-and-white style that recalls Milt Gross as well as classic Disney animation and comics, Lucky in Love is a unique coming-of-age story that follows its lovable eponymous hero Lucky Testatuda from his rascally teen years in Hoboken, New All mail- Jersey’s Little Italy to his induction into the air force and subsequent wartime oarudtoegr rcaopphieesd experiences. 120-page one-color 7” x 10” hardcover $19.99 (LUCKY1) by author! More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/luckyinlove1 Meat cake By Dame Darcy Dame Darcy is one of the most beguiling presences on the comics scene — musician, actress, cable TV star, fortune teller, dollmaker, and last but not least, cartoonist to the core — and has been bewitching readers for over 15 years with her neo-Victorian horror/humor/romance comic Meat Cake. Alternating between one-off (often cruelly tragic) fairy tales and ongoing romps starring her eclectic cast of characters, including Effluvia the Mermaid, the roguish roué Wax Wolf, Igpay the Pig-Latin pig, Stregapez (a women who speaks by dispensing Pez-like tablets through a bloody hole in her throat), the mischievous Siamese twins Hindrance and Perfidia, Scampi the Selfish Shellfish, the stalwart Friend the Girl, and the blonde bombshell Richard Dirt, all delineated in her inimitable luxurious scrawl, Meat Cake is like a All mail- oarubdtyoe gra rucaothppohiere!sd pexepeakn idnetod trheep rminto ostf cthreea otiuvte o, fd perriannt ghaedrd cdoovllehro wuisteh myoour ee vsteorr iseasw a.s sMemeabt liCnga kteh ei sv earny best of Darcy’s work (including “Hungry Is the Heart,” the legendary collaboration with Watchmen’s Alan Moore) from the first 11 issues of the beloved comic. 240-page b&w 7” x 10.25” paperback $22.99 (MEATCS) More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/meatcakesc cOMIcs FROM DaMe DaRcY: mEATCAKE #3, 24-pp. comic, $2.50 (MEAT03) mEATCAKE #13, 14, 16-17, 32-pp. comics, $3.95 each (MEAT13, 14, 16, 17) None of these (except #3) collected in the book! Issue #14 offers histo- ries of rock star witches Clara Bow and Cleopatra, tips on how to “exercise” one’s demons, and a magical-doll story. Issue #16 profiles Rudolph Valentino, the se- cret language of flowers, love spells, and spells for mermaid hair, plus...sex magic! In #17 God is revealed to the Faeiry Sisters — so of course they get into a fight over it. Also, Trixxie Roxx stars in “The Horrors of Fame,” what Darcy describes as “a punk-rock version of those cheesy 1940s romance novels where the girls are going through hyperdrama all the time.” New & ReceNt Releases 10 Call to order: 1-800-657-1100 special exits By Joyce Farmer Joyce Farmer, best known for co-creating the Tits ’n Clits comics anthology in the 1970s (a feminist response to the rampant misogyny in underground comix) spent 11 years crafting her first full-length comic: Special Exits, a stunning graphic memoir in the vein of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, and Frank Stack’s Our Cancer Year, about caring for her dying father and stepmother, Lars and Rachel. Special Exits gracefully deals with the hard reality of caring for aging loved ones: those who are or who have been in similar situations might find comfort in it, and those who haven’t will find much to admire in the bravery and good humor of parents and daughter. Dense, detailed, and drawn with exquisite All mail- sensitivity, Special Exits proceeds at a leisurely pace that not only helps to convey oarubdtyoe gra rucaothppohiere!sd tthhee stilmowb,r ein oexf otrhaeb leex cdheacnlingee si nb eLtawrse’e na nad lRoancgh-eml’as rhrieeadl thco, ubpulte :p ethrfee catlfyf eccatipotnuaretes bickering, the gallows humor, the occasional querulousness, and the love and acceptance beneath it all. “It had a power-ful effect on me,” says R. Crumb; “towards the end I actually found myself moved to tears.” 208-page b&w 8” x 10” hardcover $26.99 (SPECEX) More info & previews: www. fantagraphics.com/specialexits Mascots By Ray Fenwick In Mascots, a collection of impressionistic stories combine to create a wildly absurd — yet vaguely familiar — parallel world. Like Fenwick’s previous work, the acclaimed Hall of Best Knowledge (one of Booklist’s “Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2008” — see below), Mascots is driven by lettering and language, part art and part comics, this time taking the form of bright, full-color paintings on found book covers. These paintings can be experienced individually, each on their own terms, but together they reveal a surreal world that captures the mood of our times with manic energy. 128-page full-color 5” x 7.5” hardcover $22.99 (MASCOT) More info & previews: www.fantagraphics.com/mascots All mail- oarudtoegr rcaopphieesd alsO BY RaY FeNwIcK.: HALL OF BEST by author! KNOWLEDGE, $19.95 (HALLBK) This 168- page softcover collection of “typographical comics” dispensing dubious pearls of wisdom is part graphic novel, part art object, part satire, and part puzzle. See also page 34-35 for Fenwick’s appearances in MOME.

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