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One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing the thrilling uncertainty of life after high school. As they attempt to carry their life-long friendship into a new era, the careful dynamics of their inseparable bond are jolted, and what seemed like a future of endless possibilities looks more like an encroaching... (more)

La Perdida

by Jessica Abel

From the Harvey and Lulu award–winning creator of Artbabe comes this riveting story of a young woman’s misadventures in Mexico City. Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to “find herself.” She crashes with a former fling, Harry, who has been drinking his way through the capital in the great tradition of his heroes, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Harry is good—humored... (more)

David Boring (Spanish Edition): David Boring (Bola Ocho/Eight Ball)

David Boring (Spanish Edition): David Boring (Bola Ocho/Eight Ball)

by Daniel Clowes

Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case, an orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder) the primal nature of humandkind will come... (more)

Ice Haven

by Daniel Clowes

At long last: Daniel Clowes is back at Pantheon, with a brilliant new graphic novel already hailed by Time as “another of his hilariously slightly off-center worlds that have a vague sense of dread about them. Kind of like where you live.” Welcome to Ice Haven! “It’s not as cold here as it sounds,” declares Random Wilder, our reluctant guide to this sleepy Midwestern town. He’s also its would-be poet... (more)

One Hundred Demons

by Lynda Barry

One Hundred Demons collects a series of memoiristic strips that appeared in Salon’s popular "Mothers Who Think" section. Here are 20 stories told in Lynda Barry’s distinctive cartoon-narrative style that delve into the funk and sweetness of love, family, adolescence, race and the 'hood, identity — all the forces that made her the "wreck" she is today. Barry distinguishes these stories with her pitch-perfect... (more)

Buddy Go Home! (Hate S.)

by Peter Bagge

Peter Bagge takes us back to where it all began: the suburban New Jersey home of the Bradley clan. Babs is now a single mother of two too cute/too annoying kiddies, Butch is an oafish simpleton, Mom is drunk, Dad's almost dead and Buddy and Lisa are still in hate with each other. Bagge's talent for charaterization and his hyperactive comic style shine in this volume. The subject matter is a little more serious... (more)

Frank Vol. 1

by Jim Woodring

Neil Gaiman says that Jim Woodring's Frank will "take you to another world, rearrange your consciousness, and reprogram the inside of your head." You might think the description is fitting for any good literature, but this comic book is particularly adept at fulfilling that promise. Frank , which features stories from Woodring's and Mark Martin's series of children's comics, Tantalizing Stories, is... (more)

Champs

by Steven Weissman

Harvey award winner's first graphic novel.

Blab! #16

by Monte Beauchamp

The preeminent anthology of painting and the illustration arts. BLAB! is an annual coffee-table showcase of fine art, illustration, and comix, and a gold-standard in the work of the professional visual arts. This new volume features Geoffrey Grahn's "The Man Who Saved the World," which tells the tale of Vasily Arkhipov, the Russian sub brigade commander, who, during the Cuban missile crisis, kept a cool head... (more)

BLAB! Vol. 15

by Monte Beauchamp

The preeminent anthology of the graphic design and illustration arts. Conceived, edited and designed by five-time New York Festival of Advertising award-winner Monte Beauchamp, BLAB! has been an annual coffee-table showcase of fine art, illustration and comix for over a decade. It is an objet d'art that has become a standard-bearer in the world of the professional visual arts. Every volume of BLAB! ... (more)

Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1926: "There is a Heppy Land Furfur A-waay" (Krazy Kat)

Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1926: "There is a Heppy Land Furfur A-waay" (Krazy Kat)

by George Herriman

In 1999, The Comics Journal —the most respected magazine about the artform of comics since the mid-1970s - named Krazy Kat the greatest example of the artform in the history of the medium. In 1999, The Comics Journal named Krazy Kat the greatest example of the artform in the history of the medium. "Krazy Kat has been the acknowledged greatest comic for so long, by so many esteemed critics, that it... (more)

Krazy & Ignatz 1937-1938: "Shifting Sands Dusts its Cheeks in Powdered Beauty" (Krazy Kat) (Krazy and Ignatz)

Krazy & Ignatz 1937-1938: "Shifting Sands Dusts its Cheeks in Powdered Beauty" (Krazy Kat) (Krazy and Ignatz)

by George Herriman

Our second collection of full-color Krazy Kat comics! George Herriman integrated full spectacular color into Krazy Kat in June 1935. The gorgeous evolution continues in our second color volume, which includes the Sunday strips from all of 1937 and 1938. The color format opens the floodgates for a massive amount of spectacular rare color art from series editor Bill Blackbeard and designer Chris Ware's files. ... (more)

Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928: "Love Letters in Ancient Brick" (Krazy Kat)

Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928: "Love Letters in Ancient Brick" (Krazy Kat)

by George Herriman, Chris Ware, Bill Blackbeard

The greatest comic strip of all-time. In a 1999 special issue, The Comics Journal named George Herriman's Krazy Kat as "the greatest comic strip of the 20th Century." In 2002, Fantagraphics embarked on a publishing plan to reintroduce the strip to a public that has largely never seen it: this volume is the second of a long-term plan to chronologically reprint strips from the prime of Herriman's career,... (more)

Maggie the Mechanic: The First Volume of "Locas" Stories from Love & Rockets

Maggie the Mechanic: The First Volume of "Locas" Stories from Love & Rockets

The legendary Love & Rockets comic book series returns to bookshelves in a comprehensive series of new paperbacks. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, Love and Rockets will finally be released in its most accessible form yet: as a series of compact, thick, affordable, mass-market volumes that present the whole story in perfect chronological order. The 25th anniversary Love and Rockets celebration... (more)

Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron

by Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes's first book remains a modern classic 15 years after its debut in Eightball #1, the comic book title that made Clowes a household name in comics circles. This surreal graphic novel is couched within a noir-ish detective structure and rich with recurring psychosexual motifs and imagery. The story follows a deadpan Candide named Clay Loudermilk, on a search for a former lover through a landscape that... (more)

Black Hole

by Charles Burns

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s it. There’s no turning back. As we inhabit the heads of several key characters — some kids who have it, some who... (more)

I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks

I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks

by Fletcher Hanks

A dizzying collection from the Ed Wood of comics. Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the Inkwell. Fletcher Hanks worked for only a few years in the earliest days of the comic book industry (1939-1941). Because he worked in a gutter medium for second-rate publishers on third-rate characters, his work has been largely forgotten. But among aficionados he is legendary. At the time,... (more)

MOME Summer 2005 (#1)

A new quarterly anthology of the best new talent in the sequential arts. Written and Illustrated by Andrice Arp, Gabrielle Bell, Marc Bell, Jonathan Bennett, Jeffrey Brown, Sophie Crumb, Sammy Harkham, David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, John Pham, and Kurt Wolfgang. Designed by Jordan Crane. Edited by Gary Groth & Eric Reynolds. MOME: (mome) n. 1. (archaic) blockhead; fool. 2. The... (more)

The Girl From Hoppers: The Second Volume of "Locas" Stories from Love & Rockets (Love and Rockets (Graphic Novels))

The Girl From Hoppers: The Second Volume of "Locas" Stories from Love & Rockets (Love and Rockets (Graphic Novels))

by Jaime Hernandez

The legendary Love and Rockets comic book series continues in a comprehensive series of new paperbacks. The 25th anniversary Love and Rockets celebration continues with this, the first of three volumes collecting the adventures of the spunky Maggie; her annoying, pixie-ish best friend and sometime lover Hopey; and their circle of intimates, including the blonde bombshell Penny Century, Maggie's weirdo mentor... (more)

Eightball #23: The Death RayDaniel Clowes

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Ghost World

by Daniel Clowes

La Perdida

by Jessica Abel

David Boring (Spanish Edition): David Boring (Bola Ocho/Eight Ball)

by Daniel Clowes

Ice Haven

by Daniel Clowes

One Hundred Demons

by Lynda Barry

Buddy Go Home! (Hate S.)

by Peter Bagge

Frank Vol. 1

by Jim Woodring

Champs

by Steven Weissman

Blab! #16

by Monte Beauchamp

BLAB! Vol. 15

by Monte Beauchamp

Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1926: "There is a Heppy Land Furfur A-waay" (Krazy Kat)

by George Herriman

Krazy & Ignatz 1937-1938: "Shifting Sands Dusts its Cheeks in Powdered Beauty" (Krazy Kat) (Krazy and Ignatz)

by George Herriman

Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928: "Love Letters in Ancient Brick" (Krazy Kat)

by George Herriman, Chris Ware, Bill Blackbeard

Maggie the Mechanic: The First Volume of "Locas" Stories from Love & Rockets

Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron

by Daniel Clowes

Black Hole

by Charles Burns

I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks

by Fletcher Hanks

MOME Summer 2005 (#1)

The Girl From Hoppers: The Second Volume of "Locas" Stories from Love & Rockets (Love and Rockets (Graphic Novels))

by Jaime Hernandez

Eightball #23: The Death Ray

by Daniel Clowes