#fantagraphics books

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Cheetah Torpeda in Love and Rockets by Jaime Hernandez

[thesobsister]

Cover by Gilbert “Beto” Hernandez for Love and Rockets #8.

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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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Four Color Fear: Colorama

by Bob Powell and Howard Nostrand

[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.

[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.

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

A Love and Rockets Calendar pin-up by Xaime

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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book Two

by Emil Ferris

The wait is over! The looooong delayed release of the much anticipated second half of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters has finally arrived.

NOW available HERE.

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Marc Hempel and Mark Wheatley: Jonny Quest

Amazing Heroes Swimsuit Special

Fantagraphics

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

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Fathers are like that.

(Usagi Yojimbo Vol I #31)

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"Peering"

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

Gilbert Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books

[panelswithoutpeople]

Four Color Fear: Colorama

by Bob Powell and Howard Nostrand