By R. Crumb
Fantagraphics Books, $19.99, 126 pages
Fred Natural, a former taxi driver in Afghanistan during World War II, Himalayan wanderer, later retreating to Death Valley in 1955 to “start anew,” came to “Sham” Francisco as “Mr. Natural” during the 1967 Summer of Love looking for nubile girls, and secondly, to bring the hapless hippies wise [...]
By Fredrik Stromberg, Peter Kuper
St. Martin’s Griffin, $19.99, 178 pages
People want to make themselves look good or their enemies look bad. Comic Art Propaganda explores how comic books have been used to do so since the 1930’s. It’s divided into separate sections (war, sex, religion, communism, politics, and gender), and explores how each has been [...]
By Josh Dysart
Vertigo, $19.99, 160 pages
Sometimes, taking an album and basing a story on it is a good idea. Neil Young’s Greendale is not one of those good ideas. The book follows the story of Sun Greendale, a young woman with powerful abilities, and how she becomes a force for Nature. The problem is that [...]
By Darby Conley
Andrews McMeel Publishing, $16.99, 253 pages
It’s been a couple of years since the last Get Fuzzy treasury collection, bringing together a complete roundup of this great comic strip, and now fans can rejoice with Treasury of the Lost Litter Box. Whether you’re a Get Fuzzy veteran and looking to increase your collection (like [...]
By Bill Amend
Andrews McMeel Publishing, $16.99, 144 pages
If you’re a fan of FoxTrot, then it’s time to buy a new book. The Fox family is back in FoxTrot Sundaes, with all the traits you love and remember. Jason is just as geeky, Paige is just as shopping-obsessed, and Roger is just as loveably clueless as [...]
By Stephan Pastis
Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.99, 127 pages
In this newest collection of Pearls Before Swine comic strips, Rat, Pig, Goat, and Zebra join the notoriously dumb Crocs, Lil’ Guard Duck, and Snuffles the cat for plenty of funny adventures. Pastis not only shows himself a master of puns, but adept at incorporating current events as [...]
By John Scalzi with illustrations by Gahan Wilson
Subterranean Press, $18.00, 32 pages
Judge Sn Goes Golfing is the hilarious chapbook by the Hugo and John W. Campbell award-winning author John Scalzi. Set in the world of his popular The Android’s Dream novel, the story tells the tale of how Judge Nugan Bufan Sn – a selfish [...]
By Todd Hignite
Abrams ComicArts, $40.00, 224 pages
Most biographies merely tell the story of their subject and forget the passion that make them worth writing about. The Art of Jaime Hernandez skimps on none of the details while remembering the passion of why Jaime Hernandez does what he does.
Hernandez is most famous as one of Los [...]
By Jordan Mechner
First Second, $12.99, 139 pages
Solomon’s Thieves is one of those books that you need to run from. It’s the first of three books of the adventures of Eric, a Templar who joined the order because his sweetheart was forced to marry someone else and he has the luck to be out on the [...]
By Matt Wagner
Dark Horse, $19.99, 184 pages
To this day I can remember when, as a teenager, I first experienced Matt Wagner’s dark crime boss Grendel. With the brilliant three color art work, the story within the story, and the shifting between traditional panels and long form narration, Wagner explored and expanded the understanding of his [...]
By Carla Jablonski; Leland Purvis, Illustrator
First Second, $16.99, 121 pages
It is 1942, as World War II rages across Europe and Nazis occupy France. Paul Tessier and his sister Marie are too young to fully understand what is going on all around them, but they are brave enough to hide their Jewish friend Henri after his [...]
By Jordan Mechner
First Second, $7.99, 179 pages
At once awe-inspiring and metamorphic, even as remote as a faceless roof-jumping guy on an old Apple computer screen, the original concept of Prince of Persia has been translated into both film and graphic novel. Reworking the simple plot, creator Jordan Mechner has decided to elongate and elaborate the [...]
By Gerard Way, Gabriel Ba
Dark Horse, $17.95, 192 pages
A post-modern, self-referential dark super hero farce, somewhat in the spirit of Warren Ellis’s “Next Wave: Agents of Hate,” Umbrella Academy: Dallas picks up where the first volume left off. Bereft, mourning heroes, still trying to process the secrets revealed at the death of their “father,” wander [...]
By Dash Shaw
Pantheon, $27.95, 384 pages
Some comics are pretty straight-forward; BodyWorld is not one of those. BodyWorld explores what we consider of ourselves, and the boundaries that separate one from another. An alien race is conducting an experiment in consciousness, and have dispatched agents to spread a plant that, when burnt, causes individuals to share [...]
By Matt Groening; Bill Morrison
Abrams ComicArt, $24.95, 208 pages
Except for brief jokey asides and passing references, the two have never crossed paths. But the wait is finally over. It might take rending the fabric of space-time asunder, but by Jebus, the casts of the Simpsons and Futurama will meet in The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis!
Collecting [...]
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