Fantagraphics July 2025 Solicitations

BRAIN DAMAGE HC (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Kago
Price: $29.99 | ISBN: 9798875000935 | Product Code: 0525FB545

In-Store Date: 7/16/2025

In 2018, manga artist Shintaro Kago made his English debut with Dementia 21, a collection of absurdist manga short stories. Readers found themselves delighted and disgusted by his penchant for body horror, black comedy and the surreal paired with his emphatic, kinetic art style. Kago returns at the height of his powers with Brain Damage, where he dials up the gore and absurdity to new heights.Brain Damage collects four new short manga stories, a tantalizing blend of the hilarious and the macabre. In “Labyrinth Quartet,” four identical young women trapped in an eerie building must solve the mystery of why they’ve been gathered there — while being hunted by a knife-wielding stalker. In “Curse Room,” a plucky health aide is tasked with keeping zombies peaceful, lest they go on a brain-eating rampage. In “Family Portrait,” people throughout town are strangely disappearing without a trace, and the key to it all is a senile and perverted old man. Finally, in “Blood Harvest” a series of gruesomely mangled bodies are found in pristine cars — and it appears something sinister lurks within these masses of glass and steel.

DISNEY EPIC MICKEY HC

Creators: (W) Peter David (A) Paolo Mottura, Claudio Sciarrone (CA) Paolo Mottura
Price: $29.99 | ISBN: 9798875000966 | Product Code: 0525FB546

In-Store Date: 7/16/2025

Dive into graphic novel retellings of the video game classics Epic Mickey and Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two—and the “Tales of Wasteland” miniseries that came first! Join Mickey Mouse for wild thrills in Wasteland, a parallel Disney world where Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Gremlin Gus are the big stars… and Donald Duck, Daisy, and Goofy are animatronics!Mickey unwittingly upends Oswald’s world by accidentally unleashing the Shadow Blot—a monstrous, magical version of Mouseton’s Phantom Blot. Can Mickey join forces with Oswald to defeat this colossus and its minions… or will the shady Mad Doctor and an entire family of Peg Leg Petes drive them apart?Comics legend Peter David (The Incredible Hulk, X-Factor, The Little Mermaid, Star Trek novels) and Italian Disney artists Claudio Sciarrone (Duck Avenger), Paolo Mottura, and Fabrizio Petrossi bring us an amazing series of Wasteland adventures!

LOST MARVELS HC NO 02 HOWARD CHAYKIN VOL 01 (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Howard Chaykin
Price: $39.99 | ISBN: 9798875000362 | Product Code: 0525FB548

In-Store Date: 8/13/2025

When Howard Chaykin broke into comics in the 1970s, there was nothing quite like him. His original characters Dominic Fortune and Monark Starstalker took classic pulp heroes and ran them through a postmodern blender. This new volume contains retro-science-fiction bounty hunter Monark Starstalker’s debut appearance and all Chaykin’s color-comic-book Dominic Fortune stories, including the character’s unexpurgated Max series, published a generation later. Completing the package is the collision between pulp heroism and the devastating, bloody realities of World War I in Chaykin’s 111-page collaboration with The Boys writer Garth Ennis on War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle. The collection is introduced by author and comics scholar Brannon Costello. This second title in Fantagraphics’ Lost Marvels series collects some of the most exciting, sought-after work by Howard Chaykin from 1975 to 2008.

PEANUTS ALL YEAR-ROUND MINI COLLECTION HC

Creators: (W/A/CA) Charles M Schulz
Price: $29.99 | ISBN: 9798875001024 | Product Code: 0525FB549

In-Store Date: 7/2/2025

Our newest Peanuts box set presents five of our bestselling seasonally themed mini hardcovers packed with fun and laughs!Books included in this set:A Valentine for Charlie Brown — From Charlie Brown opening an empty mailbox every February 14th to Sally Brown and her “sweet baboo” Linus, this book reminds us of just what love is all about, for better and for worse!Batter Up, Charlie Brown! — This charming collection features three complete baseball stories starring good ol’ Charlie Brown and his frustrating (and frustrated) teammates Lucy, Linus, Pigpen, Snoopy, and the rest of the gang.Waiting for the Great Pumpkin — Linus and his wait for the Great Pumpkin have been a pop culture touchstone for over 50 years thanks to the animated television special, and it all started in the classic Peanuts strips (1959-1962) collected in this fun-sized book. Snoopy’s Thanksgiving — This collection of Snoopy and Thanksgiving themed strips is perfect for anyone whose idea of the holiday is more Charlie Brown than Norman Rockwell.Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking — This adorable little book collects two of his best “extras” from the 1960s: two Christmas-themed stories written and drawn for national magazines. Created in 1963 (two years before the Charlie Brown Christmas TV special) as a supplement for Good Housekeeping magazine, “Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking” comprises 15 original captioned vignettes featuring the entire Peanuts cast of the time each with a joke or reflection about the season. “The Christmas Story” is an original tale created for Woman’s Day in 1968, this one focusing just on Snoopy and the Van Pelt siblings, with Lucy and Linus each explaining the meaning of the holiday to Snoopy. Our Peanuts All Year-Round Mini Collection features over 300 pages of comic adventures in five easy to read square format mini volumes inside a beautiful little slipcase. A perfect celebration for Peanuts fans of all ages!

SOCIETY IS NIX GLEEFUL ANARCHY AT THE DAWN OF THE AMERICAN COMIC STRIP 1895-1915 REVISED EDITION HC (MR)

Creators: (W) Peter Maresca (A) R F Outcault, George McManus, Winsor McCay, George Herriman (CA) Rudolph Dirks
Price: $100.00 | ISBN: 9798875000607 | Product Code: 0525FB550

In-Store Date: 7/16/2025

“Mit Dose Kids, SOCIETY IS NIX!” So said The Inspector about the Katzenjammer Kids. But he could have been speaking of all comic strips in their formative years in the early 1900s. From the very first color Sunday supplement, comics were a driving force in newspaper sales, offering a wild parody of the world and the culture found in the surrounding pages. Society didn’t stand a chance!These are the origins of the American comic strip, born at a time when there were no set styles or formats, when creators had the freedom to experiment, when artistic anarchy helped spawn a new medium. The genesis of comics is laid out in a dozen essays by the greatest in their field—historians like Thierry Smolderen, Brian Walker, Alfredo Castelli, Bill Kartalopoulos, Paul C. Tumey and others. And in the second, revised edition of this seminal collection: over 200 comic strips! The earliest comics by acknowledged greats like R. F. Outcault, George McManus, Winsor McCay, and George Herriman, along with creations of more than fifty other superb cartoonists, known and unknown.The classic strips, most not printed in over 100 years, are presented in their original colors at the incredible oversized format Sunday Press is known for: all the better to see the comics that would inspire the next century of comics to come!

WALT DISNEYS DONALD DUCK DONALD DUCK FINDS PIRATE GOLD HC

Creators: (W/A/CA) Carl Barks
Price: $39.99 | ISBN: 9798875001130 | Product Code: 0525FB551

In-Store Date: 8/27/2025

At last, Fantagraphics presents Carl Barks’s very first Donald Duck stories! This is where it all started, as Carl Barks took control of Donald Duck’s comic book adventures and began a series of clever, creative, complex, and comedic stories that would continue under his cartooning brilliance for more than 20 years — and guarantee his place in comics history.Volume 1 in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library is, naturally, filled with firsts: Barks’s first comic book story (starring Pluto), the first Donald Duck story created for an American comic book (and also the first to see Donald and his nephews go on a treasure hunt), Barks’s first Donald 10-pager, Barks’s first truly solo Donald Duck story, and Barks’s first solo longer-form Donald Duck adventure (“The Mummy’s Ring”). With more than 200 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored, and the insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts, this long-awaited collection of stories makes clear what generations of Disney fans have always known: Carl Barks’s work as The Good Duck Artist is some of the greatest American cartooning in the history of the medium.

HATE REVISITED TP (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Peter Bagge
Price: $19.99 | ISBN: 9798875000485 | Product Code: 0525FB547

In-Store Date: 7/9/2025

Buddy Bradley and Lisa Leavenworth, now middle aged with a free-spirited young adult of their own, confront their own poor decisions as young people in the grungy 1990s. Expertly shifting between the present day (in full color) and their Gen X heyday (in glorious, crosshatched black-and-white), we learn for the first time the story of how Buddy met Lisa, Stinky, George, and Val. Meanwhile, Buddy is forced to come to terms with the tragic — and covered-up — circumstances of Stinky’s untimely death in the original Hate series, while navigating elder care, contemporary politics, family and friendships. Hate Revisited! expertly showcases Bagge’s inimitable humor and knack for character, and the generational shift lends an unexpected gravitas to their lives. While the original Hate is indelibly rooted in a key pop cultural era, the themes and characters of Hate remain timeless. Misanthropy never gets old!