FAIRSQUARE GRAPHICS
RED FLOWER GN VOL 01 THE YOUNG ROOSTER AND THE SUN
(W/A/CA) Loui
AN EXPLORATION OF AFRICAN MYTHOS THROUGH THE EYES OF A YOUNG ASPIRING WARRIOR!
A FOX IN MY BRAIN GN (O/A)
(W/A) Lou Lubie
STRESS AND MENTAL AWARENESS MONTHS!
Do you know any cyclothymics? Good luck if you encounter them in your daily life, be it in your family or at work! Unpredictable, often irritable, loud, fast-paced, euphoric, sometimes sluggish and sad. In two words: destabilizing and exhausting. It's challenging to navigate life with them on their roller coasters or even just to wait for their storms to calm. You have to tread carefully, be patient, diplomatic, not easily offended. Solid, in short!
Lou had to deal with it, all of it, tame the Fox playing tricks with her mind and learn to overcome her condition… With humor. Lots of it!
Based on the creator's personal journey, A Fox In My Brain is a positive take on Mental Health. A breath of fresh air that will give everyone an extra boost of self-love. Actually, the doctor should prescribe you a copy! (STL304112) (C: 0-0-1)
SC, 160pgs, PC SRP: $19.99
I RUN TO MAKE MY HEART BEAT GN (O/A)
(W) Rachel Khan (A) Aude Massot
BLACK HISTORY MONTH!
Nina was born in a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic family. A mixed young woman with many questions about herself and her space in the world. Track and field competition will help her overcome her doubts. She runs, not to escape reality, but to be the champion of her own life!
It's the mid-1990s. Nina is 18. She's trying to find her place in a world constantly throwing her differences back at her face. Her father is black Muslim of Gambian origins, and her mother is of Polish-Jewish descent. But Nina will turn her differences into strength as she embraces track and field. She runs to escape injustice, history, the big and small things in her life.
This beautiful and inspirational graphic novel takes us through the various stages of adult life, including first loves, mourning, physical violence, self-acceptance, self-transcendence. We witness Rachel Khan's character (and quasi alter-ego) rise as a woman and a great athlete. Aude Massot sincerely and compassionately illustrates this touching story.
A critically essential message of tolerance and unity in a divided world. (STL274552) (DEC231457)
SC, 164pgs, FC SRP: $29.99
NOIR IS THE NEW BLACK TP (EXPANDED ED) (MR) (O/A)
(W/A) VARIOUS
THE 'OG' IS BACK IN PRINT!
The bestselling anthology comes back to print in a brand-new expanded edition packed with extra material, including an all-new original story by Joseph Illidge (MPLS Sound) and ChrisCross (Milestone, Firestorm,…) and more!
NOIR IS THE NEW BLACK is the foundation of FairSquare Comics, the first graphic novel we published and an obvious fan-favorite which sold over 5,000 copies. This January, we're reissuing this modern classic with more Black Noir goodies. The now 17 Noir stories are 100% crafted by the finest Black creators from all around the world. We added tons of bonuses including illustrations, behind the scenes material and much more. A must-have!
Featuring stellar talents: Brandon Thomas, Greg Burnham, Gary Phillips, Mark MD Bright, Melody Cooper, N.Steven Harris, Joseph Illidge, Chriscross, Brandon Easton, David Walker
Dorphise Jean, Vladimir Alexis, Hannibal Tabu, MD Marie, Nick Allen, Tyrone Finch, Trowa Christopher Harris, Greg Anderson Elysée, Erika Hardison, Roxxy Haze, Marcus Williams, Mikhail Hardy, Dietrich Smith, Walt Barna, Quinn McGowan, Eder Messias, Don Walker, Larry Welch, Mervyn McKoy, Todd Harris, David Brame, Guile, Eric Van Elslande, Karen S. Darboe, Pat Masioni, Toyin Ajetunmobi, Makena, Paris Alleyne, Jackson Godwin, Eli Johnson, Victor Dandridge Jr, Robin Davis, Andworld Design. (STL298616) (C: 0-1-2)
MATURE THEMES
SC, 164pgs, FC SRP: $29.99
NOT A NEW YORK LOVE STORY TP (O/A)
(W) Julian Voloj (A/CA) Andreas Gefe
Is this a dream or reality? He can feel her presence. He knows she's there… But she isn't. She takes him on a trip around New York. In all the places he wouldn't go before. Before the accident. From Coney Island to the Lower East Side, he's turning the pages of his life with the one he loved. The one he lost. NOT A NEW YORK LOVE STORY is a tale of emotions, grief and a love letter to a city like no other in the world
Dream or reality? Julian Voloj's tale plays tricks on your mind and your emotions but never loses his way through a powerful but simple story about two people forever intwined.
Andreas Gefe's art brings a mix of fine art and raw expressiveness with a muted color palette that puts New York at the center of the story.
NOT A NEW YORK LOVE STORY is not a romantic comedy. It's a drama, a tale of two lost souls with 'the Big Apple' as its witness. The kind of story you'll need to read twice to peel its many (STL263139)
SC, 120pgs, FC SRP: $17.99
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
RAISED BY GHOSTS TP
(W/A/CA) Briana Loewinsohn
This brilliant YA graphic novel is a love letter to family and all of the messy complexities they come with, from the acclaimed author of Ephemera: A Memoir. Set in the author's own teenage years, Raised By Ghosts begins in 1991 with semi-autobiographical Briana in middle school. Classes are a bummer, but lunches are worse; either spent alone, or being teased. Traditionally a good student, Briana is not doing well in her academics, but keeps it a secret. Her parents (divorced) are a mess, and largely absent. She spends a lot of time by herself. By high school, she makes friends, and those connections are her only source of happiness as they help each other navigate adolescence. But life at home with each parent remains fraught. When her relationships at school begin to falter, she has no one to turn to, forcing Briana to grapple with her sense of self-worth, her longing for belonging, and her desire for authenticity in her relationships.
Raised By Ghosts is a powerful, affecting graphic novel for young adult readers. The story is told by shifting between Briana's first-person class notes and diary entries. In her understated yet masterful approach to comics storytelling, Loewinsohn eschews dramatic confrontations and overt sentimentality, preferring instead to underscore the idea that sometimes acceptance and love can be communicated through quiet, everyday moments and close family bonds. (STL343273) (C: 0-1-2)
SC, 7x10, 224pgs, FC SRP: $18.99
EPHEMERA HC (O/A)
(W/A/CA) Briana Loewinsohn
A debut graphic novel that poignantly blends memoir, magic realism, and graphic medicine. Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts among a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to a parent who struggles with mental illness. Gorgeously illustrated, it is a quiet book of isolation, plants, confusion, acceptance, and the fog of childhood. (STL244424) (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 6x9, 200pgs, FC SRP: $24.99
WAR ON GAZA ONE-SHOT
(W/A/CA) Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco is well known as a chronicler of Palestinian pain (Palestine, 1993; Footnotes on Gaza, 2010). He continues this self-created tradition in War on Gaza, a series of graphic commentaries on Israel's genocidal war on Gaza that has been going on non-stop for the last year. Originally published in installments on The Comics Journal's website, War on Gaza is a series of comics continuities and single panels as morally devastating as the war itself. Employing his trademark combination of earnestness, compassion, satire, and dark humor, Sacco's War on Gaza is a relentless critique of Israel's warmongering and President Joe Biden's complicity. (STL349653)
SC, 8x11, 32pgs, B&W SRP: $7.99
DAISY GOES TO THE MOON HC
(W) Mathew Klickstein (A/CA) Rick Geary
In 1919, Victorian author Daisy Ashford (1881-1972) published a book she wrote at 9 years old to great success. Inspired by her imaginative adventure, writer Mathew Klickstein and cartoonist Rick Geary have created a delightful graphic novel, in which little Daisy goes to outer space, visits the cosmic automat, watches TV with a time traveler, and more!
Rick Geary turns his pen from vintage true crime to whimsy in Daisy Goes to the Moon, an adaptation of a novella written by Mathew Klickstein inspired by the real-life Victorian author Daisy Ashford's successfully published juvenilia, co-written with her parents.
Geary's version stars little Daisy herself and pastiches everything in his unique visual stylization from Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz to late-19th-century and early-20th-century comics: Daisy is lured to adventure by a 'rokitship' as she decides to go to the moon with a man named Mr. Z. They encounter many-eyed monsters, time travelers with TVs, her duplicate, a 'troobador,' and more delights and vexations. Geary places his expressive, clean-line black-and-white figures, each with distinct body language, in ornate frames to denote settings and narrative layers. There's rollicking verbal and physical comedy as characters (sometimes literally) bounce off each other.
Geary's rare artistic gift of being able to depict ornate period detail without sacrificing storytelling clarity or fun pairs perfectly with Klickstein's imaginative writing. Showcasing elements of Philip K. Dick, Douglas Adams, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the book will delight readers as they discover Daisy's playful, madcap space adventures. (STL343267) (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 8x11, 96pgs, B&W SRP: $19.99
GEORGE HERRIMAN LIBRARY HC VOL 05 KRAZY & IGNATZ 1928-1930
(W/A/CA) George Herriman
In this volume: What insights can Krazy glean from an art exhibit of the old masters? What happens when Krazy applies for a job as a debt collector? What's with all the balloons? And volcanos? Why is a giraffe wandering lost in the desert? These are just some of the questions in this collection of the surreal adventures of Krazy Kat, Ignatz, and Offisa Pup. With incisive essays by Herriman scholars, and reproductions of rare Herriman ephemera, this entry in our ongoing series makes it plain why this is considered this to be 'the greatest comic strip of the 20th Century.' (STL343282) (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 11x13, 200pgs, B&W SRP: $49.99
GEORGE HERRIMAN LIBRARY HC VOL 04 KRAZY & IGNATZ 1925-1927 (O/A)
(W/A/CA) George Herriman
Meticulously and lovingly restored, this exquisite, generously sized volume collects the acclaimed and groundbreaking Krazy Kat Sunday strips of 1925, 1926, and 1927.
This Eisner Award–nominated series showcases one of the most renowned and celebrated comic strips in the art form's history as it strides boldly through the mid-1920s, its quirky characters in full flower in this gorgeous, archival hardcover collection.
In this volume: Ignatz repeatedly sets elaborate traps for Krazy (long before the Road Runner), adventures on the 'enchanted mesa,' wacky weather, literal cliffhangers - and what happens when Santa and the stork arrive at the same chimney at the same moment? BONUS: The most complete collection of Herriman's long-lost Book of Magic pages ever assembled.
With incisive essays by Herriman scholars, this entry in our ongoing series makes it plain to Herriman fans and newcomers alike why historians, scholars, and cartoonists consider this to be the best comic strip ever created and why The Comics Journal proclaimed it to be 'the greatest comic strip of the 20th Century.'
Krazy Kat is an ongoing story of a (head-) achingly unrequited love triangle. Krazy adores Ignatz, who returns that affection by launching literal bricks at Krazy's cranium. Offisa Pup loves Krazy and seeks to protect 'her' (Herriman always maintained that Krazy is genderless) by tossing Ignatz in the pokey. With this deceptively simple structure, Herriman builds entire worlds of meaning into the actions, building thematic depth and sweeping his readers up with the looping verbal and visual rhythms of his characters' unique dialogue and his loopy, ever-shifting surrealistic backgrounds. (STL234639) (NOV221504) (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 228pgs, B&W SRP: $49.99
GEORGE HERRIMAN LIBRARY HC VOL 02 KRAZY & IGNATZ 1919-1921 (O/A)
(W/A/CA) George Herriman
George Herriman’s Krazy Kat detailed the comings and goings of a lovestruck vagabond “Kat,” a malicious mouse, and a diligent dog trying to keep order. This new deluxe hardcover collects the full-sized Sunday pages from 1919 through 1921 including photographs, artwork, and introductory text by comic historians Bill Blackbeard and Michael Tisserand. (STL160059) (AUG201333) (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 11x14, 184pgs, B&W SRP: $35.00
GEORGE HERRIMAN LIBRARY HC VOL 03 KRAZY & IGNATZ 1922-1924 (O/A)
(W) George Herriman
One of the most renowned and celebrated comic strips in the art form's history waywardly treks on through the 1920s, with all its madcap animal inhabitants in tow, in this gorgeous, archival hardcover collection. In this volume: precarious coconuts, incarcerated elephants, and witty weather patterns. Krazy Kat themself take a swing at singing, astronomy, and starring in … their own comic strip! It also features essays by Herriman scholars, plus ten rare full-color experimental strips by Herriman.
This Eisner Award-nominated series, featuring all the Krazy Kat Sunday strips' eternally beguiling love triangle, luminous language, and grand desert décor, makes it plain to Herriman fans and newcomers alike why historians, scholars, and cartoonists consider this the best comic strip ever created. (STL194365) (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 11x12, 280pgs, B&W SRP: $49.99
GEORGE HERRIMAN LIBRARY HC VOL 01 KRAZY & IGNATZ 1916-1918 (O/A)
(W/A/CA) George Herriman
This new collection of George Herriman’s masterpiece Krazy Kat brings back into print the inventive language, haunting vistas, and brick throwing that makes this strip so special. Perfect for Krazy Kat veterans or brand-new readers, this collection provides you with the joy of joining the inhabitants of surreal Coconino County in the strip that originally elevated the comics medium into a celebrated art form. (STL122245) (OCT191893) (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 11x13.5, 168pgs, 2C SRP: $35.00
I LIKE PEOPLE THAT CANT SING HC
Two long lost interviews with two of the greatest pop singers of the modern era by one of the greatest rock journalists and interviewers.
In 1991, legendary but down-and-out rock critic Paul Nelson landed his dream assignment: fly from New York to Los Angeles and separately interview two of the most distinguished popular music artists: Leonard Cohen and Lucinda Williams. He encounters them at a time in their careers when both are wrestling with their respective record companies to be better taken seriously-in some cases just to be heard. Previously unpublished, these landmark interviews provide the opportunity to compare, among other things (upbringing, education, influences, loves and losses), the thought processes behind Cohen and his music ('I've always admired the people who could write great songs in the back of taxicabs like Hank Williams. I was never one of those guys') to Williams and hers ('See, I'm trying to dispel the myth … that you have to be miserable and suffering and so on and so forth to be able to write').
I Like People That Can't Sing allows us to read the minds, so to speak, of these nonpareil singer-songwriters over three decades after the fact. Whether it's the sometimes prickly Williams, protecting her time and privacy, or the ever-elegant Cohen, openly discussing his bouts with depression, the book sometimes reads like an intimate conversation (Williams discussing her estranged brother), other times as a late-night confession (Cohen on the breakup of his marriage). Includes a heartfelt foreword recounting her relationships with Cohen and Nelson by Suzanne Vega. (STL343269) (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 6x9, 320pgs, B&W SRP: $29.99
FANGORIA PUBLISHING LLC
FANGORIA VOL 2 #26
(W) Various (A/CA) VARIOUS
Fangoria is a quarterly magazine covering the horror film genre since 1979. Fangoria relaunched in October 2018 as a quarterly collectible with in-depth interview with filmmakers, as well as retrospectives and columns by those in the horror film business. (STL346286) (C: 0-1-0)
Magazine, SC, 100pgs, FC SRP: $19.79
1FIRST COMICS
BADGER MAD MONKEY SHOCK N ROLL #1 (OF 5)
(W) Mike Baron (A) Val Mayerik (CA) John McCrea
Mike Baron is back with more martial arts mayhem in the latest installment of The Badger! When Badger's friend purchases an island paradise off the coast of Venezuela, it may hold the cure for cancer or the end of the world! Will Badger be able to avert this apocalyptic crisis? (STL346916)
28pgs, FC (1 of 5) SRP: $6.99
FIRST SECOND BOOKS
HISTORY COMICS ELLIS ISLAND GN
(W) Felipse Galindo Feggo (A) Tait Howard
Many Americans know someone who can trace their ancestry through Ellis Island. In addition to being part of the world-famous Statue of Liberty National Monument, this small piece of land once housed the main immigration processing center for the US, documenting upwards of twelve million people between 1892 and 1954! But how did it all get started? Discover the storied past of this once-great gateway to the United States and the countless people who it continues to inspire. (STL346790) (C: 0-1-0)
SC, 6x9, 128pgs, FC SRP: $13.99
HISTORY COMICS ELLIS ISLAND HC GN
(W) Felipse Galindo Feggo (A) Tait Howard
Many Americans know someone who can trace their ancestry through Ellis Island. In addition to being part of the world-famous Statue of Liberty National Monument, this small piece of land once housed the main immigration processing center for the US, documenting upwards of twelve million people between 1892 and 1954! But how did it all get started? Discover the storied past of this once-great gateway to the United States and the countless people who it continues to inspire. (STL346794) (C: 0-1-0)
HC, 6x9, 128pgs, FC SRP: $21.99
MIXED UP GN
(W) Kami Garcia (A/CA) Brittney Williams
Stella knows fifth grade will be the best year ever. Her closest friends, Emiko and Latasha, are in her class and they all got the teacher they wanted. Then their favorite television show, Witchlins, announces a new guidebook and an online game! But when the classwork starts piling up, Stella struggles to stay on top. Why does it take her so long to read? And how can she keep up with friends in the Witchlins game if she can't get through the text-heavy guidebook? It takes loving teachers and her family to recognize that Stella has a learning difference, and after a dyslexia diagnosis she gets the support and tools she needs to succeed. (STL346778) (C: 0-1-0)
SC, 6x9, 208pgs, FC SRP: $14.99
MIXED UP HC GN
(W) Kami Garcia (A/CA) Brittney Williams
Stella knows fifth grade will be the best year ever. Her closest friends, Emiko and Latasha, are in her class and they all got the teacher they wanted. Then their favorite television show, Witchlins, announces a new guidebook and an online game! But when the classwork starts piling up, Stella struggles to stay on top. Why does it take her so long to read? And how can she keep up with friends in the Witchlins game if she can't get through the text-heavy guidebook? It takes loving teachers and her family to recognize that Stella has a learning difference, and after a dyslexia diagnosis she gets the support and tools she needs to succeed. (STL346783) (C: 0-1-0)
HC, 6x9, 208pgs, FC SRP: $22.99
SONG OF A BLACKBIRD GN
(W/A) Maria Van Lieshout
Fictionalized but based on actual events, Song of a Blackbird is a graphic novel with two intertwined timelines: one is a modern-day family drama, the other a courageous tale of art and resistance under Nazi occupation. In 1943 Amsterdam, Emma Bergsma's world changes when she witnesses Jewish families being forcibly deported to concentration camps. In that moment, she decides to joins the Dutch Resistance. In 2011 Amsterdam, Annick's world has changed as well. A search for a bone marrow donor for her beloved oma leads to a shocking revelation: her grandmother was secretly adopted as a child. The only clues to finding their lost family are a series of art prints hanging on the wall—each signed by a mysterious 'Emma B.' These two intertwining timelines reveal how art, in the face of nearly insurmountable adversity, can become our greatest lifeline. (STL346786) (C: 0-1-0)
SC, 6x9, 256pgs, FC SRP: $17.99
SONG OF A BLACKBIRD HC GN
(W/A) Maria Van Lieshout
Fictionalized but based on actual events, Song of a Blackbird is a graphic novel with two intertwined timelines: one is a modern-day family drama, the other a courageous tale of art and resistance under Nazi occupation. In 1943 Amsterdam, Emma Bergsma's world changes when she witnesses Jewish families being forcibly deported to concentration camps. In that moment, she decides to joins the Dutch Resistance. In 2011 Amsterdam, Annick's world has changed as well. A search for a bone marrow donor for her beloved oma leads to a shocking revelation: her grandmother was secretly adopted as a child. The only clues to finding their lost family are a series of art prints hanging on the wall—each signed by a mysterious 'Emma B.' These two intertwining timelines reveal how art, in the face of nearly insurmountable adversity, can become our greatest lifeline. (STL346788) (C: 0-1-0)
HC, 6x9, 256pgs, FC SRP: $25.99
FLIP CITY MAGAZINE
FLIP CITY MAGAZINE 23 (MR)
(W) Scott McKenzie & Various (A) David MacDowell & Various
First Time in PREVIEWS! Irreverent comic satire returns with classic parodies, comics, savage articles, news, reviews, and puzzles from an international team of artists and writers in a magazine that Eisner Award-winner Mike Baron calls 'brilliant satire' and 'funnier than MAD and Cracked.' Volume 23 gets mental with our Joker 2 musical parody; a look back from the year 2055; plus Woke World goes to the Fair; The Regressives; Stoopid Tunes and more. Find out why Flip City may be America's last laugh! (STL347576) (C: 0-1-2)
MATURE THEMES
Magazine, 68pgs, FC SRP: $11.95
FLOATING WORLD COMICS
AMERICAN NATURE PRESENTS #2 (MR)
(W) Greg & Fake, MARC KOPRINAROV (A) Greg & Fake, Josh Pettinger (CA) Greg & Fake
This newsprint magazine features stunning black and white comics by Greg and Fake, Nick Pyle, and more. A perfect introduction to the vibrant world of indie comics for those seeking something fresh and exciting. (STL347626) (C: 0-1-0)
MATURE THEMES
7x10, 32pgs, B&W SRP: $6.00
GRAND ELECTRIC THOUGHT POWER MOTHER HC (MR)
(W/A/CA) Lale Westvind
Grand Electric Thought Power Mother collects six of Lale's past / omnipresent / futuristic minicomics. Previously printed in one-color Risograph, Lale has adapted these stories of woman & machine for juicy, three-color spot offset. In addition, find one new, never-before-seen story, writing from the artist, and more. Presented by Perfectly Acceptable Press. (STL347627) (C: 0-1-0)
MATURE THEMES
HC, 8x10, 336pgs, FC SRP: $40.00
REVELATIONS IN THE WINK OF AN EYE SC
(W/A) Jeffrey Lewis
It's the long-awaited complete (and completely mind-blowing) Jeffrey Lewis analysis of Moore and Gibbons's Watchmen! Musician/cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis has been writing and lecturing on Watchmen worldwide since 1997; now he collects this work into one enlightening and entertaining volume. This is an essay book that carefully justifies itself, a mega-zine of rare depth and insight. Get ready for a dazzling close look at the hidden themes and symbolic interplay that combine to make Watchmen tick. No matter how many times you've read Watchmen you'll never see it, or any comic book, the same way again! (STL347629) (C: 0-1-0)
Comic Journalism, SC, 7x10, 144pgs, FC SRP: $20.00
86th Floor Comics November 2024 Catalogue
