Fantagraphics January 2027 Solicitations

Taking up where last year's award winning Tongues Volume I left off, Tongues #7 finds Prometheus hosting a surprise visitor with a mysterious message. Elsewhere Teddy Roosevelt attempts a daring escape amidst an explosive collision of worlds, leaving Nico and I.O. at an enemy's mercy. And Astrid wakes up above ground and discovers in herself a striking new quality.

Originally published in 1987, this latest Fantagraphics facsimile reprints Jim Woodring's first ever comic book! Showcasing Woodring's surreal, phantasmagoric, and non-Frank alternative comics, prose, and uniquely hallucinatory style and voice. Featuring: "Two Children Inadvertently Kill an Agent of the Devil Through an Excess of Youthful High Spirit," "Seafood Platter from Hell," "Like Something," and more!

Two-fisted Mickey is usually ready for anything; but not after a close encounter with “The Amorphium Menace,” a shapeshifting alien glob that that’s turning Mouseton upside down! Atom-smashing scientist Dr. Einmug is on hand to help Mickey defend his city… but Pegleg Pete and Trudy Van Tubb are also on the space-varmint’s trail, and promise bigger trouble if they get there first! Then, in “Plotted Rant,” Mickey and Butch are on the case when a titanic “Venus Mantrap” plant gulps Goofy whole! Can our pal be saved from a fate worse than fertilizer?

Long before lightsabers, a Sith was a Scottish highland faerie—but the Ancient Cat Sith of Dismal Downs is a giant demon feline with eyes like fire and claws like razorblades! Where did she come from? Why is she squatting in Castle McDuck… and terrorizing nearby MacDuich village? When angry citizens demand Scrooge find out, it might take the Junior Woodchucks to save him from becoming cat chow! Then stick around for Donald’s piano-moving mishaps in Daan Jippes’ “Music Box Botch”!

Here, for the first time, in a deluxe two-volume collection, is the best compilation of the covers from EC Comics. From the company’s earliest days of its earnest Picture Stories titles to its kiddie, Western, and romance titles of the 1940s, through the heyday of such titles as Tales From the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Weird Science, Shock SuspenStories, Crime SuspenStories, Two-Fisted Tales, and Piracy, through its “New Direction” and “Picto-Fiction” period with titles such as Aces High, Extra, Impact, Terror Illustrated, and Confessions Illustrated — they’re all here! These covers were drawn by the greatest array of artistic talent ever assembled at one comic book company (excepting Fantagraphics, of course). Their names are legend — Craig, Crandall, Davis, Evans, Feldstein, Frazetta, Ingels, Kamen, Krigstein, Kurtzman, Orlando, Severin, Torres, Williamson, and Wood. And most of these covers are colored by the equally legendary Marie Severin. Each of the hundreds of full-color covers is lovingly scanned from pristine original comics and presented in a lush, oversize format to show off with spectacular precision every meticulous line, brushstroke, and nuance of chromatographic splendor. But it doesn’t end there. This unique collection also showcases alternate covers, original artwork, paperback covers — even unpublished, “what if” covers by EC “grand old man” Angelo Torres that have never seen print before. The Crypt of Covers: The Complete EC Covers Compendium takes you on a curated tour of the history of EC Comics through its cover art from start to finish, guided by EC expert Grant Geissman. Each cover in this stunning collection is worthy of gallery or museum display.

Love and Rockets Vol. IV Book One collects the first six issues of the new, magazine-sized comic book just as they are—with Jaime's and Gilbert's storylines as intertwined segments. Published 2016–2018, this is the continuation of the 40+ year series fans have been clamoring for! While portions have appeared as standalone graphic novels, much of this material has yet to be reprinted. In this book, when a Hoppers punk show reunion throws Maggie, Hopey, and the rest of the Locas/Locos gang back together, glimpses of their past helps them move into their future. Plus: in further installments of Jaime's SF serial, Lumina and Isla search their galaxy for the See Stone, aided by the powerful and mysterious Princess Anima. Meanwhile, Gilbert's storyline concerns the break-up of Fritz's and Pipo's marriage—just as Fritz reconnects with her teen twin daughters, Baby and Rosy, and grapples with aging as an artist. And, in one of the most moving chapters in the Palomar saga, Luba and her grown children reconnect at Guadalupe's wedding. Here comes the groom … Steve?!

A terrible explosion occurs at a factory; the injured are evacuated. The worst is averted, but this industrial accident triggers a series of macabre events. The top executives who were touring the factory that day are now the targets of numerous assassination attempts. After each attack, a white car speeds off. Its trail disappears at the edge of a forest, a dark alley, or a vacant lot. The mystery remains unsolved. While contracts continue to be signed in the corridors of power, an investigation is launched, private security agents are hired, and former rock stars are called in to help. Everything is shrouded in secrecy and conspiracy. White Volvo unfolds in a bygone 1980s Scandinavia; a world of businessmen sporting forced smiles, tinted aviator sunglasses, ties that hang below the belt, bald heads, and long hair. Following the acclaimed Spa, Erik Svetoft's new graphic novel is a thriller, as gripping as it is hilarious. Who is driving the white Volvo? While horror is still present, it manifests itself in a grotesque depiction of neoliberal society, inherited from a magical realism that flirts with the occult. The author's virtuoso artwork is combined with caustic writing that mimics the excesses of bureaucratic jargon. A mercilessly surreal and absurd thriller.

Acclaimed cartoonist Bhanu Pratap (NOW, Cutting Season) delivers the first long form work of his still-ascending career. Pratap seamlessly blends his core obsessions—distortion, abstraction, romance, sex, body horror, isolation, violence, color, humor, and a seductive sense of design and composition—into a thrilling love story about an HR manager and her girlfriend who get sucked into the life of a young man experiencing a terrifying phenomenon that traps him in his apartment. When Brina attempts to visit the man at home after he stops showing up at work, she discovers something way beyond her pay grade. The World Is An After-Image is simultaneously both the most vividly accessible work of Pratap’s career, while also remaining true to his distinctively haunting and romantic artistic vision.