Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies, 1943–1945
10 best books like Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies, 1943–1945 (Ernie Bushmiller): Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 2: 1953-1954, Prison Pit, Vol. 1, You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation!, Congress of the Animals, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, Maakies, Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories, The Charles Addams Mother Goose, Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man
| Author | Carl Barks |
| ISBN | 1606995359 |
Since Fantagraphics' first release in this series focused on Donald Duck, it is only right that the second focus on Carl Barks' other great protagonist, and his greatest creation: The miserly, excessively wealthy Scrooge McDuck, whose giant money bin, lucky dime, and constant wrangles with his nemeses...
The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 2: 1953-1954
| Author | Charles M. Schulz |
| ISBN | 1560976144 |
The second volume is packed with intriguing developments, as Schulz continues to create his tender and comic universe. It begins with Peanuts' third full year and a cast of eight: Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, Violet, Schroeder, Lucy, the recently-born Linus, and Snoopy. By the end of 1954, Pigpen...
Prison Pit is an original graphic novel from the pen of Johnny Ryan, best known for his humor comic Angry Youth Comix. Prison Pit represents a marked departure from AYC or his Blecky Yuckerella weekly comic strip, combining his love for WWE wrestling, Gary Panter s Jimbo comics, and Kentaro Miura s Berserk...
| Author | Fletcher Hanks |
| ISBN | 1606991604 |
Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur. That is, hewrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories. Hecompleted an astonishing 48 stories in three years from 1939-1941. As aone-man-cartooning-band, his work packs the wallop of a unique andunified artistic vision. He was...
| Author | Jim Woodring |
| ISBN | 1606994379 |
Readers of the "Frank" stories know that The Unifactor is in control of everything that happens to the characters that abide there, and that however extreme the experiences they undergo may be, in the end nothing really changes. That goes for treble for Frank himself, who is kept in a state of total ineducability...
| Author | Dan Nadel |
| ISBN | 0810958384 |
Most of these are simply not interesting to read. This is especially true when many of the comics are not printed so that the writing is reasonable. Also some of the art is designed in a way so that the writing is hard to read even when zoomed in.
But a couple are real gems. . . . In particular, "Herbie."...
| Author | Tony Millionaire |
| ISBN | 1560973919 |
Tony Millionaire's comic strip Maakies is one of the most popular weekly comic strips in America, running in ten of the largest U.S. weekly newspapers, including the L.A. New Times and Seattle Stranger. This first collection, designed by Chip Kidd and Millionaire, reprints every strip from its 1994...
| Author | Ben Katchor |
| ISBN | 0307906906 |
From one of the most original and imaginative American cartoonists at work today comes a collection of graphic narratives on the subjects of urban planning, product design, and architecture—a surrealist handbook for the rebuilding of society in the twenty-first century.
Ben Katchor,...
| Author | Charles Addams |
| ISBN | 0689848749 |
"Girls and boys, Come out to play, The moon does shine As bright as day. Come with a hoop, Come with a call, Come with a good will, Or not at all."
"Addams, master New Yorker cartoonist and black-humor prankster par excellence, has thrown tradition to the winds and taken matters into his own bedeviled...
Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World
| Author | Monte Beauchamp |
| ISBN | 1451649193 |
In a first-of-its-kind collection, award-winning illustrators celebrate the lives of the visionary artists who created the world of comic art and altered pop culture forever.
No one has told the story of comic art in its own medium, until now. In Masterful Marks, top illustrators—including...
Popeye, Vol. 1: I Yam What I Yam!
| Author | E.C. Segar |
| ISBN | 1560977795 |
Fantagraphics' Popeye series will collect the complete run of Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip (dailies and color Sundays) featuring Popeye, re-establishing Segar as one of the first rank of cartoonists who have elevated the comic strip to art. He was the most popular cartoonist of his day, his...
Beta Testing the Apocalypse
| Author | Tom Kaczynski |
| ISBN | 1606995413 |
It would be easy to call Tom Kaczynski the J.G. Ballard of comics. Like Ballard, Kaczynski s comics riff on dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments.Yet while Kaczynski shares many of Ballard s obsessions,...
| Author | Lynda Barry |
| ISBN | 0060965045 |
Another re-read. They are gems of unity, narrative arcs, and humor. They evoke the wild, totemic, self-directed world of childhood--separate from grown-ups, even if oppressed by them. The misunderstanding parents, the feared public school trolls. I still teach Lynda Barry in my short story workshops...
Love and Rockets, Vol. 12: Poison River
| Author | Gilbert Hernández |
| ISBN | 1560971517 |
Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets series) has produced some of the best comics work of the last ten years. Poison River is the story of one of his most engaging characters, Luba-self-possesed, intelligent an iconoclastically sexy- in the years before she arrived in Palomar, Hernandez's mythological...
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 1560970707 |
Lout Rampage! is a collection of comics by Daniel Clowes. This 1991 paperback includes stories from Eightball #1-6, along with strips Clowes created for alternative comics anthologies Blab!, Young Lust, and Weirdo. It includes several of the cartoonist’s one-page collaborations with The Duplex...
Krazy and Ignatz, 1925-1926: There is a Heppy Land Furfur A-waay
| Author | George Herriman |
| ISBN | 1560973862 |
Fantagraphics is proud to re-present Krazy Kat to a new generation of readers. Each volume in this series reprints two full years of Sunday strips, or 104 full-page, black-and-white Sunday strips (Herriman did not incorporate color into the strip until 1935). Krazy Kat is a love story, focusing on...
The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature: The World's Great Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals
| Author | Russ Kick |
| ISBN | 1609805305 |
The original three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon presented the world's classic literature--from ancient times to the late twentieth century--as eye-popping comics, illustrations, and other visual forms. In this follow-up volume, young people's literature through the ages is given new...
| Author | Jaime Hernández |
| ISBN | 1606991566 |
This volume picks up shortly after Maggie and Hopey slong-awaited reunion at the end of the first Locas. Even though her love life remains as chaotic as ever, Hopey takes her first few steps toward responsible adulthoodwith a real job (as a teacher), while a demoralized, divorced Maggie ends up as the...
