Don't miss Kim Deitch at Desert Island: he'll be celebrating the release of How I Make Comics with a book signing on 5/15 at 7:00 pm!

We've got three new releases out tomorrow: Art & Beauty by R. Crumb, Young Shadow & the Watchdogs by Ben Sears, and Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Sketchbooks: An Illustrated Memoir: Volume 2 by Brian M. Kane! https://ow.ly/ULcj50YN91j

It's not 4/20 without the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers! Our latest collection, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Break Up! and Other Follies by Gilbert Shelton + Paul Mavrides, is out 8/18. https://ow.ly/Ft0j50YN8F6

Congratulations to xaimeh winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics for Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection! https://ow.ly/jvjQ50YMTfh

Presenting all three issues of R. Crumb's series in one book, Art & Beauty is arranged chronologically, from the earliest images in the 1990s to drawings completed in 2016--out Tuesday! https://ow.ly/s8hf50YLras

Don’t miss the book launch for The Book of Murmurs: Goblin Purwin will be at Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop on May 14th at 7:00 pm!

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Way to conserve electricity, Nancy!

(Art from Nancy For All Seasons by Ernie Bushmiller) https://ow.ly/vhpO50YLr3R

Inspired by the powerful true story of Tiodora da Cunha Dias, Eisner Award-winner Marcelo D'Salete reconstructs a forgotten part of Brazil's dark history of slavery in Tiodora's Letters: An Enslaved Woman's Fight for Family and Freedom--out now! https://ow.ly/1VLI50YLr2f

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"Comics technique repurposed as liturgical grammar." — @retrofuturista.bsky.social

We're collecting Barbara "Willy" Mendes' masterpiece of hallucinogenic storytelling, Queen of Cosmos Comix Trilogy, for the first time in a single volume--out 7/14! https://ow.ly/FHvx50YLqPM

Spike's got some prime real estate!

(Art from The Complete Peanuts 1985-1986: Vol. 18 by Charles M. Schulz) https://ow.ly/6NC750YLqJL

Uncle Scrooge Legacy #467: The McDuck Journals: The Duckburg Years is out now and AIPT has a sneak peek--see more at https://ow.ly/V71X50YLpyw

I’m bringing my Hot Sauce T-shirts to @hollywoodtheatre.org Tuesday for the merch table at the CRUMB (1994) screening presented by @floatingworld.bsky.social also they’ll have new Crumb ART & BEAUTY books from @fantagraphics.bsky.social

What are you doing on May 7th at 7:00 pm? You could be at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, celebrating the release of What We Mean By Yesterday Vol. 2 with Benjamin Marra!

"Entirely illustrated in a lovely black, white, and yellow, the book is a visual treat before you even get a handle on how delightful the cartooning is." — AIPT

Young Shadow & the Watchdogs by Ben Sears is out 4/21! https://ow.ly/LU7E50YLlWj

C'mon, pre-order The Complete Hate Volume 3 by Peter Bagge--everybody's doing it! https://ow.ly/UYtC50YLkIb

Tradewatch: exciting bookshelf editions for the week of 04/22/26 Trades and collections worth adding to your pull list next week.

Tradewatch: exciting bookshelf editions for the week of 04/22/26 including titles from @darkhorse.com, #DCComics, #MarvelComics, and @fantagraphics.bsky.social:

Graphic Novel Review: CORTO MALTESE – FABLE OF VENICE is an effective sampler to introduce the character With Corto Maltese: Fable of Venice and Other Adventures, Fantagraphics has published a nice introduction to Hugo Pratt's masterworks.

Graphic Novel Review: CORTO MALTESE – FABLE OF VENICE is an effective sampler to introduce the character

With Corto Maltese: Fable of Venice and Other Adventures, Fantagraphics has published a nice introduction to Hugo Pratt's masterworks.

Love and Desire in Paradise cover

Prestigious publisher Fantagraphics brings this excellent work to North America, overlapping graphic journalism and graphic medicine. Originally published in French, the book brings numerous interviews with Palestinians and Israelis to life as they talk about two universal topics: love and sex. Parent-Rachdi travels between the two regions where she meets with each interviewee in a variety of settings, including a studio, a café, online, and more. Her travels and each of these encounters are brought to vivid life by Deloupy, whose immaculate backgrounds and foregrounds blend perfectly with the traditional comics look of the characters. Readers will spend just as much time admiring Deloupy's attention to detail as they will absorbing the touching and sometimes troubling stories of the interviewees. These stories range from the differing experiences of LGBTQ+ people raised in Palestine and Israel, to a single man using a service to be paired with a woman to "coparent" with, to a woman who conceives a child with her imprisoned husband through the clever smuggling of contraband-each story is an exercise in inspiration and examining societal expectations. Heartbreakingly, each of these interviews was conducted before the deadly attacks of October 7, 2024, and the reader learns in the epilogue how the subjects' lives have changed. This is a stunning work that humanizes groups of people so often defined internationally by their conflict. — Jack Phoenix

My @ala-booklist.bsky.social STARRED review of LOVE AND DESIRE IN THE PROMISED LAND by Salome Parent-Rachdi and Deloupy is now available

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The Collected Peanuts by Fantagraphics | Humble Bundle

Last call on The Collected Peanuts by Fantagraphics! Don’t miss out on this huge library of titles like:

- The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952
- Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron
- Peanuts Game Day Collection
- and more! Supports Canine Companions.

An Interview with Icons: Tasha Lowe talks to PAUL THEROUX and STEVE LAFLER about CRAZY FOR YOU - SOLRAD Today on SOLRAD, Tasha Lowe talks to PAUL THEROUX and STEVE LAFLER about CRAZY FOR YOU

SOLRAD Magazine interviewed Paul Theroux and Steve Lafler about their collaboration on Crazy for You (out now!)--read all about it here: https://ow.ly/GMzi50YKEZE

Need something to read? We've got a few suggestions... https://ow.ly/OHeK50YKBal

Don't miss Gilbert and xaimeh Hernandez at the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend: they'll be in conversation with Jordan Crane on 4/19 at 3:00 pm in the Ray Stark Family Theatre, followed by a book signing in Signing Area 5 hosted by Mysterious Galaxy!

Charlie Chaplin's birthday (today!) seems like the perfect time to pick up a copy of CHARLIE, a delightful and whimsical homage to one of the world's greatest celebrities by Seymour Chwast and Steven Brower! https://ow.ly/pGPy50YK7iJ

Fantagraphics is going to the L’Alliance New York Comic Arts Fest! We'll be at the Artist Alley and Bookstore area on 4/25 + 4/26 and we’ll have signings with Kim Deitch, Julia Gfrörer BICS Yellow 393, and Peter Kuper--head to https://ow.ly/rH2450YK7Ag for more info!

Next Tuesday the 21st I’ll be at the @hollywoodtheatre.org screening of Crumb, with @floatingworld.bsky.social who will have prints of my new poster for sale! It’s also a release party for the latest @fantagraphics.bsky.social Crumb publication ART & BEAUTY. I’ll have my own work for sale too!

Atsushi Kaneko appeared on Direct Edition to discuss his bestselling manga series, Search and Destroy--watch here: https://ow.ly/OtEE50YK2QK

"Reincarnation Stories goes flamboyantly off the rails, making a hash of narrative throughlines and pulverizing the divide between truth and fiction. Underneath the appearance of lawlessness, there's a huge amount of craft and care." — NPR

Out in paperback on 4/28! https://ow.ly/ESI650YJ9iJ

ULTRASOUND | Graphic Medicine A work of fiction, the book is framed as a science fiction thriller that deals with medical themes such as mind control, human experimentation, gaslighting, and depression, among others. For scholars and practitioners of comic studies and graphic medicine, Ultrasound is particularly significant not only for its comic affordances, but also for its departure from the ‘lived experience’ aspect of graphic medicine toward a speculative engagement with ethically fraught medical experimentation that highlights the human consequences of unregulated research practices and invasive technologies.

"In adopting this narrative structure, Stechschulte employs a distinctly Lynchian twist, in which the ordinary slips into the macabre, grotesque, and surreal." Graphic Medicine International Collective recommends Ultrasound by Conor Stechschulte! https://ow.ly/FoQe50YK2hQ