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SHOP NEWS ABOUTM FANTAGRAPHICSPUBLISHER OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST CARTOONISTSTAKE 10% OFF ORDERS OF $100+ BY USING THE CODE TAKETEN AT CHECKOUT!2024 MY FAVURITE THING lS MONS 17l TMAY NEWSFantagraphics is going to TCAF on May 11th and 12th! Visit us at tables 158, 159, 160 for book signings, merch, and tons ofbooks—including titles that aren’t out yet (yes, that includes My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris). Check outthe full schedule of panels and signings on our blog!Here’s the news roundup:My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris—the eagerly awaited conclusion to one of the most acclaimed graphic novelsof the past decade—is out 5/28! According to Library Journal’s starred review, it’s a must-read: “Virtuosic illustration,seemingly effortless mastery of plot and tone, and nuanced evocation of her protagonist... gorgeously illustrated, uniquelyimmersive conclusion to Fantagraphics’s story -- well worth the wait."Another starred review for Search and Destroy Vol. 1 by Atsushi Kaneko, this time from Publishers Weekly, who called it “a blastof pure cyberpunk energy”! They also did a feature on the publishing process—read all about it here!“Many monthly comics are paced like television series; “Light It, Shoot It” is paced, appropriately, like a screenplay…If this wasa film, the cast would be stacked.” Sam Thielman included Light It, Shoot It by Graham Chaffee in his monthly graphic novelroundup in The New York Times!Very excited for our shortlist nominees for the 2024 Cartoonist Studio Prize! Anais Nin: A Sea of Lies by Léonie Bischoff, Eden IIby K. Wroten, and Monica by Daniel Clowes are all nominated for Best Long-Form Comic—Comics Beat has the scoop!MAY NEW RELEASES2024 A DOORWAY TO JOE: THE ART OF JOE COLEMAN MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS BOOK TWO TR A ARG MARK TWAIN'S WAR PRAYERA DOORWAY TO JOE: THE ART OF JOE COLEMAN BY JOE COLEMANA comprehensive monograph of the artist Joe Coleman, the "walking ghost of old America."Possessed by the spirits that haunt a nation, Joe Coleman paints minutely-detailed portraits and tableaus that present a uniqueand intensely-personal vision of the world, both hellish and humanistic, seeking the universal in the visceral.His canon of subjects, a compendium of the famous and the infamous, the dispossessed, the deviant, the damaged and the damned,includes historical figures, murderers, musicians, heretics, writers, artists, and other unshakeable non-conformists, whom theartist channels through paintings so vivid they seem to bear the spark of life. The meticulously-researched narratives containedin Coleman's work—which has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide, and exhibited alongside Hieronymous Bosch, Otto Dix,and George Grosz—also serve as an exegesis of the artist's own psyche and history, confronting trauma and celebrating his circleof intimates and acquaintances.A Doorway To Joe spans five decades of Coleman's career as a painter and visual artist. The book includes reproductions of over150 paintings, alongside the artist's own commentary and notes on the works, and fully-illustrated themed essays by leading artcritics, writers, and artists that illuminate key aspects of his oeuvre. From his earliest work in underground comics, through histime with confrontational '70s NYC punk band Steel Tips, and explosive performances as his fearsome, carnival geek alter-ego DrMombooze-o. As a collector and curator of the Odditorium, Coleman's own private sideshow museum of artefacts that trace hispersonal obsessions with true crime, carnival culture, reliquaries and icons. The book also explores the enduring relationshipwith Coleman's wife and muse, Whitney Ward.Featuring an introduction by musician Tom Waits, A Doorway To Joe offers the most complete collection of Coleman's work to date. Afunhouse mirror of the world from this most extraordinary American artist.The deluxe edition of A Doorway to Joe: The Art of Joe Coleman is available exclusively through preorders on fantagraphics.com,and includes a limited edition giclée print signed and numbered by Joe Coleman. Featuring Coleman's 2022 painting, The Sorcerer'sMirror at 100 Seconds to Midnight, this 9.25" x 11" objet d'art is printed with archival inks on 100% cotton rag paper that isboth acid-free and lignin-free, with hand-deckled edges, printed by Jon Barli and suitable for framing. Order now to claim yours!PRE-ORDERSl R R A L i i A A e LTI 5 NG ARSIV - O et %%mwmf”%%w R . ) s en L avak o LUL Moy @L got a Lokel: Zonidle Zher wondlerdfull ,Bonible, grral ond Koveckle BEORTO (%] k2 ?Wfi‘W@%{ VA e ,/cw/f),oj— P Y LRl & N" GIlBERT& T JAME HERNANDEZLOVE AND ROCKETS COMICS VOL. IV #15 BY GILBERT AND JAIME HERNANDEZIn the latest issue of "the Great American Comic Book" (as described in Los Angeles PBS station KCET's 2022 Emmy-nominateddocumentary about the Hernandez brothers), Diana Villasenor returns and we see what she’s been up to since her sister Tonantzindisappeared! Also: Palomar! Meanwhile, why can’t the Hellmet find Princess Animus? And while Tonta’s latest shenanigans mayfinally come to an end this issue, Love and Rockets will never die!PRE-ORDERTHE COORDINATES SEEM TO BE ON TRACK, OVR FUGITIVES NOBODY ESCAPES (MUSTHAVE TRIED TO HIDE THe LONG ARM OF THe: THE EVIDENCE.. INERPLT’Q\‘%{_RY SPACE SOMEBODY STOLEN [ HAD A cookoUT / INTERPLANETARY N\ HERE VIlUCE. R POLICE PATROL < YU TWO BOUGHT THE TOWN <PIPO AND | ONLY BOUGHT OUR TOWN IN THE < DIANA AND | FIXED AND NOW YOU'VE GIVEN IT BACK 7D FIRST PLACE 10 PREVENT IT FROM BEINGRUINED WNEERE NDBH"L)’,CA,NETOILIT()P[T> - BY SLEAZY LAND DEVELOPERS, LUBA.> ~ AAN Ao R, a=e W\ = AA N, SAAE LLE R = é 1 T ; E ¥ e S RMARK TWAIN’S WAR PRAYER BY SEYMOUR CHWASTMark Twain's lambasting of phony, war-mongering patriotism reinterpreted by one of our finest contemporary illustrators.Written in 1910 in his 70th year, Mark Twain, having lived through fourteen wars waged just by his own country on others, declinedto publish this poetic despairing reproof against patriotism. His regular illustrator Daniel Beard even urged Twain to issue thepiece, to which the author replied, "No, I have told the whole truth in that, and only dead men can tell the truth in this world.It can be published after I am dead."It took 13 years after his passing for that prophecy to be fulfilled — and now, another 102 years later, the legendary illustratorand graphic designer Seymour Chwast (himself 92 years young) has fulfilled Beard's dream of enriching the fable with illustration.Chwast brings every aspect of his skills to this interpretation: drawing, design, typography, type design, pastel painting andcomputer color all sit alongside each other with Twain's text in pages that expand and pace the original. With another century anda quarter of warfare passed since its writing, Chwast's artwork echoes advances in technology but Twain's message about thepointlessness of patriotism as a marketing hook for death is only more pointed today.PRE-ORDERPROUD, HAPPY, AND ENVIED BY THE NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS WHOHAD NO SONSAND BROTHERS TO SEND FORTH TO THE FIELD OF HONOR, THERE TO WINFOR THE FLAG, OR, FAILING, DIE THE NOBLEST OF 2NOBLE DEATHS 2 THE SERVICE PROCEEDED); A WAR CHAPTER FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT WASREAD; THE FIRST PRAYER WAS SAID; IT WAS FOLLOWED BY AN ORGAN BURST ‘THAT SHOOK THE BUILDING,AND WITH ONE IMPULSE THE HOUSE ROSE,WITH GLOWING EYES AND BEATING HEARTS, 23BEAUTIFUL, e (1Y ALY LLOV TR IOYOUs.. DESTINED TO BECOME A e viilgl] U LSRN €Ll TS LTy gyS O3 e = >V~ ! | \ ! ) 5 N A l . JON SACKo N Ty DERSON] RMY FAIRY GODFATHER BY ROBERT MAILER ANDERSON,JON SACKSet in Liberal, Kansas, a teenager moves in with her gay, film geek Godfather and his partner who run the Starlite movie theater,a safe haven for their eccentricities and artistic yearnings. My Fairy Godfather tells a story about how music and film connect usto who we’ve loved, who we’ve been, and who we are becoming — and that lying beneath the façade of teenage cynicism is theprofound desire to be understood and loved.PRE-ORDERTHAT'S MIGH | LircraL of you? § v/ \“)\1/ i V. \ " ANS N Rl . ‘M ot N/i{\ WA " HONK IF U LOVE JESUS| | TO'SEE HIM SOON TexT |PS YCHODRAMA TR ) I[[llsrflflrfflPSYCHODRAMA ILLUSTRATED #7 BYGILBERT HERNANDEZGilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets) cannot be contained to one comic! This issue, Fritz is Desalde, official sexual partner andcaregiver to the king. This is Fritz at her most maddening zenith of sexual manipulation.PRE-ORDER111 1R VALUS DROOG AKD HERE 15 INTERNATIONAL MOVIE_ STAR FRITZ FERTURED INTHE TRILOGY CALLED BIACK CAT MOON. soNus FEATURE— v s v eMY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS BOOK TWO BY EMIL FERRISThe most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Fantagraphics Reyes, the most inspiring “monster” incontemporary fiction.Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is the eagerly awaitedconclusion to one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade. Presented as the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-oldFantagraphics Reyes as she tries to solve the murder of her beloved and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaustsurvivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold.In Book Two, dark mysteries past and present continue to abound in the tumultuous and violent Chicago summer of 1968. YoungFantagraphics attends the Yippie-organized Festival of Life in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping.Privately, she continues to investigate Anka’s recent death and discovers one last cassette tape that sheds light upon Anka'sheroic activities in Nazi Germany. She wrestles with her own sexual identity, the death of her mother, and the secrets shesuspects her brother Deez of hiding. Ferris’s exhilarating cast of characters experience revelations and epiphanies that bothresolve and deepen the mysteries visited upon them eariler. Visually, the story is told in Ferris' inimitable style thatbreathtakingly and seamlessly combines panel-to-panel storytelling and cartoon montages, filled with B-movie horror and pulpmonster mag iconography.PRE-ORDERSPAGHETTT, GARLIC BREAD AND ANICE CHIANT. "REEEREE RN E R E R R R R EREREEREEEENEERRRREER NN RERN)MAY EVENTS:TCAF TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL Featured Artists: Nina Bunjevac Anita Kunz Rick Altergott Thijs Desmet 158 Caitlin Cass 159 BethHetland Ho Che Anderson 160MAY “DEAL OF THE MONTH”A little thank you to our loyal subscribers: Every month, scroll down and check this space for a limited-time discount, specialoffer, or other exclusive, plus a sneak-peek excerpt from an upcoming book! Enjoy, and thanks for shopping Fantagraphics! Thismonth:Use code MAYDAYS at checkout through May 31st for 20% off your next purchase at Fantagraphics.com!**Cannot be combined with other offersSHOPSNEAK PEAK OF HATE REVISITED #1 BY PETER BAGGEPRE-ORDERSHOP NEWS ABOUTLogoThis email was sent towhy did I get this?Fantagraphics Books · 7563 Lake City Way NE · Seattle, Wa 98115 · USA

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