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942-page full-color 8" x 10" three-volume hardcover set with slipcase, $125 ISBN: 978-1-60699-298-2 www.fantagraphics.com Limited Collectors Edition with signed letterpress print and box set of facsimile holiday cards, $175 ISBN: 978-1-60699-334-7 www.fantagraphics.com OVER ONE THOUSAND CARTOONS SPANNING 50 YEARS OF A LEGENDARY CAREER Fifty-one, to be exact, but lets not quibble. Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read, and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose ...

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136-page b&w/color 8.5" x 11" softcover, $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-56097-264-8 www.fantagraphics.com Back in print in a new 2009 softcover edition after a several-year absence, the 12th volume of The Complete Crumb spotlights Crumbs first collaborations with national treasure Harvey Pekar, which appeared in the legendary American Splendor. This collection also includes a skeptical report-in-comics on an aerospace symposium (commissioned by CoEvolution Quarterly, it comes off like one of Michael ...

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144-page black & white/color 8.5" x 11" softcover, $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-56097-107-8 www.fantagraphics.com Now back in print in a new softcover edition! Robert Crumb's long day's journey into the '70s continues with this volume of classic material from 1972 and 1973. The sunny psychedelic era is a fading memory for the counterculture, and Crumb's work of that period reflects a darker, more introspective artist at work. This volume includes Crumb's first collaboration with Harvey Pekar — a long ...

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134-page b&w/color 8.5" x 11" softcover, $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-56097-061-3 www.fantagraphics.com Back in print in a new 2009 softcover edition! This superb collection of work by Robert Crumb continues into the '70s with another 120-page slab of pure Crumb work, all topped off with a brand new Crumb cover (featuring Mr. Natural) and a two-page introduction by Mr. Sketchum himself! This volume includes all the Crumb work from Zap! #5, Bijou #4, and San Francisco Comic Book #3, as well as the ...

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160-page black & white/color 8.5" x 11" softcover / hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60699-305-7 / 978-1-60699-306-4 www.fantagraphics.com www.fantagraphics.com Out of print for over a decade, The Prince Valiant Companion has become a Holy Grail for collectors of the series. Now, in anticipation of the seventy-fifth anniversary of comics longest-running adventure strip, and to celebrate our own just-launched reprinting of the strips classic earliest years, Fantagraphics is proud to present an expanded ...

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192-page b&w/color 9" x 12" softcover, $24.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-150-3 www.fantagraphics.com For centuries, cartoonists have used their pens to fight a war against war, translating images of violent conflict into symbols of protest. Noted comics historian Craig Yoe brings the greatest of these artists together in one place, presenting the ultimate collection of anti-war cartoons. Together, these cartoons provide a powerful testament to the old adage, The pen is mightier than the sword, and ...

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88-page full-color 11.5" x 13.25" softcover, $24.99 / signed hardcover, $49.99 ISBNs: 978-1-60699-299-9 / 978-1-60699-300-2 www.fantagraphics.com www.fantagraphics.com Conceptual Realism: In the Service of the Hypothetical is a catalog accompanying Robert Williams Fall 2009 solo exhibition of new work at New York Citys prestigious Tony Shafrazi Gallery; the show will continue on in 2010 to galleries in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and elsewhere. The book features approximately 25 new paintings ...

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104-page full-color 7" x 9" hardcover, $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-307-1 www.fantagraphics.com One part MOME collection, one part authorized IFC Channel spinoff, the first quarter of this jacketed hardcover collects the work — storyboards, scripts, character designs, etc. — that Shaw has created for a series of original shorts to begin airing on IFC in Nov. 2009. The latter 3/4ths collect his acclaimed short stories from MOME, as well as several little-seen stories from elsewhere, and a new 20 ...

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200-page full-color 5.5" x 9.25" softcover with slipcase, $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-56097-969-2 www.fantagraphics.com Harken back to those thrilling days of yesteryear when the advent of rental videos astonished the movie-going consumer who could only feed his addiction by going to the theater or watching chopped up movies in between commercials on TV. Like vinyl, here is the revenge of another analog cast-off: the VHS is once again insinuating itself into American culture, and this book celebrates ...

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288-page b&w/color 7.5" x 9.5" squarebound softcover magazine, $14.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-187-9 www.fantagraphics.com A spectacular anniversary issue featuring intergenerational dialogues between the cream of the cartooning biz: Alt wiz Kevin Huizenga and reigning Maus king Art Spiegelman; indy comics publisher/cartoonist/musician Zak Sally and Love and Rockets co-creator Jaime Hernandez; Bottomless Belly Button auteur Dash Shaw and Asterios Polyp elder auteur David Mazzucchelli; inflammatory ...

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