#fantagraphics books

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Cheetah Torpeda in Love and Rockets by Jaime Hernandez

[panelswithoutpeople]

Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds No. 8 - Adrift In Space

by Steve Ditko

[vertigoartgore]

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

[thebristolboard]

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

[smashpages]

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.

[figcatlists]

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".

[kozralex]

Frank on the Waves

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

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Daniel Clowes draws Lloyd Llewellyn #3 (Fantagraphics, 1986)

[panelswithoutpeople]

Four Color Fear: Colorama

by Bob Powell and Howard Nostrand

[vertigoartgore]

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

[balu8]

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

[brokehorrorfan]

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris will be published in paperback and e-book on May 28 via Fantagraphics. The 412-page graphic novel is the conclusion to 2017's award-winning My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.

Its presented as a diary of a 10-year-old girl as she attempts to solve the murder of her Holocaust survivor neighbor, illustrated with ballpoint pen. An excerpt can be read at The New Yorker.

Dark mysteries past and present continue to abound in the tumultuous and violent Chicago summer of 1968. 10-year-old Karen Reyes attends a protest in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she continues to investigate her beloved and enigmatic upstairs neighbor Anka Silverberg’s recent death and discovers one last cassette tape that sheds light upon Anka's heroic activities in Nazi Germany. She wrestles with her own sexual identity, the death of her mother, and the secrets she suspects her brother Deez of hiding. Ferris's exhilarating cast of characters experience revelations and epiphanies that both resolve and deepen the mysteries visited upon them earlier. Visually, the story is told in Ferris's inimitable style that breathtakingly and seamlessly combines panel-to-panel storytelling and cartoon montages filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster mag iconography.

Pre-order My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two.