#fantagraphics books

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Love and Rockets by Jaime Hernandez

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Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds No. 8 - Adrift In Space

by Steve Ditko

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1986's The Comics Journal #107 cover by artist Bill Sienkiewicz.

[evilhorse]

I was almost reluctant to steal his purse.

(Usagi Yojimbo Vol I #32)

[theblackestofsuns]

"We Want The World"

Perla La Loca (2007)

Jaime Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books

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Hard to believe that this book I started writing 17 years ago is finally coming out this March!

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Out this week: Search & Destroy (Fantagraphics, $14.99): 

Atsushi Kaneko reimagines Osamu Tezuka’s Dororo as a “cyberpunk thriller” in this first of three volumes. The original Dororo was set in feudal Japan and featured a swordsman and a thief hunting for the swordsman’s organs, which were bartered away by his father to demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Search & Destroy moves the story into a dystopian post-cold-war future where mercenary robots serve the human elite and victimize the city’s scrabbling, desperate masses. The violent death of one of these robots connects an orphaned thief named Doro with a mysterious girl with deadly cybernetic implants.

See what else is coming to a comic shop near you this week.

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Alternative comics and literary graphic novels chart

This chart is a selection from my list of 200 alternative, art, and experimental comic books, as well as graphic novels with a literary bent. I arranged the chart in reverse order of publication to highlight the more recent titles; I also excluded some of the obvious big-name classics to make it somewhat more interesting than your standard "comic books aren't just for kids starter pack".

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Jaime Hernandez draws Rocky

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Four Color Fear: Colorama

by Bob Powell and Howard Nostrand

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1986's Amazing Heroes #99 cover by cover artist Bill Sienkiewicz.

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By Denis-Pierre Filippi and Silvio Camboni

Fantagraphics

Feb 26, 2025

[evilhorse]

Fathers are like that.

(Usagi Yojimbo Vol I #31)

[theblackestofsuns]

"Peering"

Love & Rockets: New Stories #1 (July 2008)

Gilbert Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books

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Frank on the Waves

I've been reading a lot of comics by Jim Woodring as of late.

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Propaganda under the cut