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Fantagraphics is the largest publisher of creator owned comics in America. Beginning in the mid-1970s as publisher of The Comics Journal -- still the most widely respected comics periodical in the USA -- they expanded into classics reprints with their long runing series of Prince Valiant collections, and comics history with the erstwhile long running periodical Nemo. But things really took off when they launched their new comics line with LOVE & ROCKETS #1 (along with the less well remembered Don Rosa's Comics and Stories #1) in 1982. The rest is history. What follows is a listing of our core offering of Fantagraphics publications. Love & Rockets, which we specialize in, is listed on separate pages which you can link to from here. For the most part, we are only listing items here that are currently in print. The few items that are not in print are duly noted as such. The Copacetic Price on all in-print Fantagraphics publications is 10 - 20% off (or more!) of the retail/cover price. All the prices that follow incorporate this discount, unless otherwise noted. The fact that a particular item is not listed does not mean that we don't have it: if you're looking for an item from Fantagraphics that you don't see listed here, just let us know what you're looking for, and we'll get back to you; if it's from Fantagraphics, even if we don't have it at the moment, we can certainly get it for you (and sell it to you for 20% off if it's still in print-- and maybe even if it's not) if you're willing to wait a bit.

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Title	Creator	Publisher	Series	Price
The Complete Peanuts, Volume 13: 1975 - 1976	Charles Schulz	Fantagraphics	The Complete Peanuts	$23.19 ($28.99 list)
Read more and comment...	<<•>> introduction by Robert Smigal <<•>> And, finally, we'd be remiss if we let you go without pointing out that with this thirteenth volume The Complete Peanuts, "The definitive collection of Charles M. Schulz's comic strip masterpiece," has passed the half way mark. Peanuts ran everyday for nearly half a century, with Schulz drawing every line, and here we are right smack dab in the middle. An excellent vantage point from which to view both the earlier strips and those to follow. Peanuts has the cure for those everyday ailments – glumness, loneliness, confusion, doubt, the blues and the blahs – and the Copacetic Society for Comics as Medicine recommends having at least a two-year supply of unread Peanuts strips on hand at any given time, so check your shelves! Here's a free sample to help you set your dosage.
Prince Valiant, Volume Two: 1939-1940	Hal Foster	Fantagraphics	Prince Valiant	$25.00 ($29.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This one picks up right where the first one left off in bringing us what is likely to become the definitive version of the finest and longest running historical fantasy comic strip of all time. This eminently affordable edition leaps off the shelf and begs to be read. We're not giving you any preview of this one, as the art is simply too good to be subjected to a computer screen.
Blazing Combat (softcover)	Archie Goodwin, Wally Wood, John Severin, Alex Toth and more ...	Fantagraphics		$17.77 ($19.99 list)
Read more and comment...	edited, and largely written, by Archie Goodwin Yes, you are correct: this is yet another softcover edition of a previously released hardcover from Fantagraphics. Featuring the art of EC (and Two-Fisted Tales) alumni like Wally Wood and John Severin, along with heavy hitters like Alex Toth and Gene Colan, this hefty softcover collects the entirety of Warren's Blazing Combat series that was originally published in 1965 and 1966. This hard hitting series took an unvarnished look at the hard realities of war just as the protests against the Vietnam were gaining traction and so is an important historical document at the same time that it offers up some spectacular comics work. See what mean by reading this 19-page PDF preview.
Abandoned Cars	Tim Lane	Fantagraphics		$16.99 ($18.99 list)
Read more and comment...	Here's another softcover edition of a previously released hardcover. Tim Lane's Abandoned Cars is a hardboiled, hard-drawn, hard-livin' look at the underbelly of America that deserves a look, and the new, attention grabbing cover for the softcover works hard to get you to do just that. We'll do our part by offering up this major league 16-page PDF preview, and referring you to our review of the hardcover.
Meatcake	Dame Darcy	Fantagraphics	Meatcake	$19.99 ($22.99 list)
Read more and comment...	This is the softcover edition of the long out-of-print, hard-to-find, and (now) super-pricey hardcover that collects 240 pages of the best of the first ten years of Meatcake comics by the one-and-only pop-art polymath and , Dame Darcy! If you ain't hep then you'll want to dive into this whoppin' 20-page preview of her pen-and-ink visions of gaunt and haunted beings, taunted by their inner sexual frustrations and lost chances.
Tales Designed to Thrizzle #6	Michael Kupperman	Fantagraphics	Tales Designed to Thrizzle	$4.44 ($4.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Cultural miscegenation at its finest, TDTT#6 crossbreeds high and low like there's no tomorrow (Is he trying to tell us something?) in tales of the Jungle Princess, Cowboy Oscar Wilde, two new installments in the soon-to-be-classic™ Twain & Einstein saga, and the epic historical meta-drama, "All About Drainage." "NOW WITH TOO MUCH COLOR"
Billy Hazelnuts and Crazybird	Tony Millionaire	Fantagraphics		$17.77 ($19.99 list)
Read more and comment...	No, we're not on the Fantagraphics payroll, it's just that they've issued a wagon load of new material since we last had the chance to sit down and clue you in to what's been arriving here on the Copacetic shelves. This one is the "long-awaited" sequel to 2006's Eisner Award-winning Billy Hazelnuts. It is chock-a-block with the patented Victorian-era-esque hijinks that we've all come to expect from mr. Millionaire. And we can't refrain from mentioning, that of all of Millionaire's creations, Billy Hazelnuts seems to us to owe the biggest debt to Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot; there's just something about Billy H. that says, "Flaming Carrot" (at least, we hear it).
King of the Flies, Volume One: Hallorave	Pirus, Mezzo	Fantagraphics		$17.17 ($18.99 list)
Read more and comment...	Fans of Charles Burns's epic masterwork, Black Hole, who have been wondering if anything would ever come along that would that was nourished by the fecundity of that uniquely powerful work, should be at the very least curious to look at this work from Germany which explores the grimy underbelly of contemporary German suburbia employing a visual vocabulary that is very much drawn from Burns's work, most notably Black Hole. Read the first chapter and see what you think.
Werewolves of Montpellier	Jason	Fantagraphics		$11.75 ($12.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This one is an all-new graphic novella by the undisputed master of the form. Really, that's all you need to know, but we'll throw this 6-page PDF preview your way, on the off chance someone still needs convincing.
Artichoke Tales	Megan Kelso	Fantagraphics		$19.99 ($22.99 list)
Read more and comment...	It took a while, but she did it! This chunky, pert, hardcover volume finally delivers on the promise of Kelso's self-published mini-comics trilogy of the same name that brought her multiple Ignatz awards way back in 2002. During the intervening years, Kelso has been busy with – among other things, such as having a major work run 24 weeks in the New York Times – raising a child. And as anyone who has done so knows, personal creative work not only necessarily retreats into the background of the rigorous demands of the day-to-day, but is very difficult to find the time to do. In other words, the fact that an artistic work is completed during the trials of parenthood is as sure a guarantor that the work is passionately cared about as any we can think of, and Artichoke Tales is a work that can be cited in defense of this premise. This volume provides (if memory serves) roughly twice the amount of the previously extant material, and all long suffering Kelso fans are sure to be pleased. Doubt us? Then check out this massive 16-page PDF preview, and doubt no more!
The Search for Smilin' Ed	Kim Deitch	Fantagraphics		$15.00 ($16.99 list)
Read more and comment...	A new book by Kim Deitch is always a cause for celebration and the release of Smilin' Ed is certainly no exception. This graphic novel at long last collects the entirety of the Smilin' Ed saga from the pages of the 1990s anthology, Zero Zero, along with an ALL-NEW chapter. A true comics powerhouse, Kim Deitch has spent the better part of five decades forging a mythography of American entertainment folklore in comics form. It is a veritable Yoknapatawpha County of the collective unconscious, and The Search for Smilin' Ed is the latest installment of this modern masterwork. Please do yourself a favor and read the first ten pages, and then, if you feel like delving deep into the significance of this work, go right ahead and read the entirety of Bill Kartopolis's introduction.
Wally Gropius	Tim Hensley	Fantagraphics		$17.00 ($18.99 list)
Read more and comment...	If ever there was a comic book character that embodied Art Spiegelman's definition of comics as "the bastard offspring of art and commerce" then Wally Gropius is him. Hensley is clearly an intellectual who is employing the language of comics with a specific aim in mind. He has something to say and has managed to effectively leverage the capacities of the medium to his advantage in delivering his message. Wally Gropius is an obvious success as a logically consistent piece of work – but it is definitely not a work for everyone. The degree of archness (archity?) embodied in these full color pages is at times almost overwhelming. Yet, we have no problem recommending that copacetic readers take a stab at this smartly designed, well executed, and surprisingly affordable, oversize hardcover volume which collects the entirety of the Wally Gropius stories that have appeared in MOME over the last several years, along with – we believe – a few that haven't. Go ahead and sample a story with this PDF download. And then, those who would like to further explore the ramifications of this work are hereby encouraged to read the discussion that Dan Nadel's (obscenely titled) appreciation of this collection at ComicsComics got going (start with Dan's piece, and then keep reading the [14 as of this writing] responses that follow). This is a book that will definitely give you something to think about!
Weathercraft	Jim Woodring	Fantagraphics		$17.77 ($19.99 list)
Read more and comment...	He's back! An all new wordless Frank epic by the one and only Jim Woodring! Manhog, Whim, Pupshaw & Pushpaw, along with "Betty and Veronica" all join Frank in the magical world of Woodringian archetypes where unconscious drives and desires take on vivid cartoon reality that dives right through your eyeballs and straight into the center of your brain. If you have yet to get a hold of a copy of the Weathercraft Free Comic Book Day preview, just let us know and we'll hand one over, so you' can get revved up.
The Culture Corner	Basil Wolverton	Fantagraphics		$19.99 ($22.99 list)
Read more and comment...	This 169-page, vertically formatted, full color hardcover volume is wacky and wonderful and Wolverton through and through. Format fiends and practicing artists will relish this chance to see over 100 examples of a master working in the relatively rare half-page format. Originally published in the pages of Whiz Comics (home of Captain Marvel) and several other Fawcett Comics titles, from 1944 through 1952, Culture Corner is a conceptual, idea-centered strip, that occupies a place in Wolverton's oeuvre that is analogous to that which "Hey, Look!" occupies in Kurtzman's. The challenge was to repeatedly present a humorous concept month after month in a specifically ascribed format. Culture Corner took modern manners as its taking off point and then gets going and gets goofy. And it's all here – and then some! Culture Corner not only collects the series in its entirety, but, offers up a truly amazing bonus feature of including the original pencil roughs for nearly every one of the published strips AND an incredible treasure trove of an additional 41 pencil roughs for strips that were rejected by the publisher (why? who knows! see if you can figure it out...). Plus an introduction by Basil Wolverton's son, Monte that lays out the history of the strip and helps to puts it all in context of Wolverton's career and comics history.
Captain Easy, Volume One	Roy Crane	Fantagraphics	Captain Easy	$35.00 ($39.99 list)
Read more and comment...	What do Milton Canniff, Alex Toth, Hergé, Frank Santoro and a whole heck-of-a-lot of other cartoonists all have in common? A solid appreciation of the genius of Roy Crane, that's what. In the family tree of comics, one of the sturdiest and vital branches is that of Roy Crane. A natural story-teller and fluid draughtsman who knew how to lay out a page like nobody's business, Roy Crane originated the adventure comic strip in 1924 with his Wash Tubbs daily strip (a full decade before Terry and the Pirates). Populated with thoroughly likable, humble, human heroes, the Wash Tubbs daily comic strip, and its later outgrowth, the Captain Easy Sunday pages established Crane at the forefront of the cartoonists of his day. Crane achieved a magic balance between realism and cartooning that went a long way towards defining the visual identity of comics in the twentieth century, and Captain Easy is his masterpiece. This wonderful, oversize, full color, hardcover volume presents the first two years – and then some! – of this classic, from its very first strip, 7/30/33 through to 12/1/1935. And, best of all, this is only the first volume of a promised complete collection, which will run through four volumes! Five full adventures are herein assembled – "Gungshi," "The Slave Girl," "The Sunken City," "Pirates," and "The Princess." Learn more about Roy Crane, Wash TUbbs and Captain Easy by reading this excellent article by R.C. Harvey.
Krazy & Ignatz 1916 - 1918	George Herriman	Fantagraphics	Krazy & Ignatz	$22.22 ($24.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This month we have an embarrassment of riches in the comics classics department, and the lead off can be none other than this absolutely essential volume. Here it is: the first three years of George Herriman's splendiferous Sunday pages for the one and only Krazy Kat! With this volume, Fantagraphics launches its third and final leg of collecting the entirety of Krazy Kat Sunday pages. Due to the fact that the first nine years of the run had been collected in a series of nine volumes jointly published by Eclipse Books and Turtle Island Press roughly twenty years ago, Fantagraphics Potentates, Kim Thompson and Gary Groth decided it was best to pick up the run after that point and then, if the series met with success (which it, of course did) then they would circle back and start over from the beginning and collect those first nine years. And, so here we are. And what a glorious place to be!
MOME: Spring 2010 #18	Eric Reynolds, Nate Neal, Frank Santoro, Ben Jones and more ...	Fantagraphics	MOME	$12.75 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This issue's editorial claims that, with the publication of MOME 18, MOME has now published over 2000 pages of comics, and that this "may be a record for an English-language alternative comics anthology." Who knew? To start off the celebration we have Nate Neal's cover feature, the multi-layered and multi-levelled, "Neurotic Nexus of Creation." This one should leave you with much to ponder, especially regarding its innovative formal qualities, but as well as for its worldview. Of special interest to Copacetic customers is the latest message from the Cold Heat universe, brought to you by the combined powers of Ben Jones, Frank Santoro and John Vermilyea. This feature is a vigorously rendered and sumptously colored tale of drugs, rock 'n' roll, sex, and gruesome horror. Also in this issue we have: an all-new Tim Lane tale, "The Passenger"; a surprise new Pip and Norton adventure from Dave Cooper and Gavin McInnes; "Burrow World," wherein Joe Daly does Mat Brinkman; three short pieces by Nicolas Mahler; the third installment of Fuz & Pluck in "The Moolah Tree"; the second installments of both T. Edward Bak's WIldman – "A Barvarian Botanist in St. Petersburg," and Michael Jada & Derek Van Gieson's "Devil Doll"; a four-pager by Lilli Carré that had us thinking of old Rick Geary; the pastoral "Autumn" by Conor O'Keefe; more René French; and the Chris Ware homage, "The Jerk Machine," by Jon Adams. MOME!
High Soft Lisp	Gilbert Hernandez	Fantagraphics	Love and Rockets	$13.99 ($16.99 list)
Read more and comment...	And for any Love and Rockets fans who thought things were getting a little too Jaime-centric there, we now present the latest in the original series of trade paperback volumes collecting the work that originally appeared in comic book form. High Soft Lisp collects work that originally appeared in both the second volume of Love and Rockets, as well as from Gilbert's solo title, Luba's Comics and Stories. Collectors should take note of the fact that the indicia states that "a few pages have been added, and some have been altered" in the service of creating a more unified feel. And readers should also take note that Gilbert's hormones were, apparently, in overdrive during the period when this work was created, as there is quite an abundant amplitude of sexual activity on display here as Gilbert puts Fritz & Co. through the paces in his attempt to delineate the heartbreak that is immanent in every act of sexual congress that occurs in a world where all is surface, where what you see – and only what you see – is what you get; a world where everyone is living in their own personal movie and every life is merely a role.
Penny Century	Jaime Hernandez	Fantagraphics	Love and Rockets	$14.99 ($18.99 list)
Read more and comment...	Well, talk about an embarassment of riches! Not only have we been treated to the long awaited Art of Jaime, but now we also have the latest in the splendiferous series of trade paperback volumes that, since 2007, have been repackaging the classic work of both Jaime and Beto. Penny Century is the fourth Jaime volume and the first to present his work that appeared after the conclusion of the initial seminal run of Love and Rockets. The book opens with the one of kind classic of comics choreography that is Whoa Nellie!, Jaime's 68 page ode to women's wrestling. Then we are treated to the super fabuous experience of the Maggie and Hopey Color Fun one-shot in glorious black & white. The bulk of the book collects the titular seven-issue series in its entirety (yes?), followed by the "secret origin" of the lead character, "Bay of Threes," from the fifth issue of the second volume of Love and Rockets. 248 pages of Jaime Hernandez in fine form. Is there really anything else that needs to be said?
Almost Silent	Jason	Fantagraphics		$19.99 ($24.99 list)
Read more and comment...	Here is a perfect embodiment of the well worn phrase, "All things come to he (or she, of course) who waits." This chunky 302 page hardcover omnibus collects four – count 'em! – previously issued and out of print Jason softcovers, and sells for just a hair over half the combined price of the softcovers! So, those who didn't manage to get these the first time around, are hereby rewarded for their procrastination (or, in the case of those who are arriving late to the party, it's a variation on "the last will be first.") The four volumes collected are: Tell Me Something, You Can't Get There From Here, The Living and the Dead, and – the Copacetic Favorite – Meow, Baby! All are in glorious black & white, with the exception of You Can't Get There, which has an added color (an olive-tinged goldenrod). We are especially happy that Almost Silent enables us to be able to once again offer Meow, Baby! This is the work in which Jason really struts his stuff by plugging his patented comics language into a veritable panopticon of forms, from the classic three-panel gag-strip, through an assortment of one-pagers, two-pagers and four-pagers, all the way through to a TinTin-esque novella. Meow, Baby! offers the perfect opportunity to really study Jason's working method, and have a great time doing it, as this is some of his best (and funniest!) work. Tell Me Something is a "silent-film" treatment of Jason's favorite theme, sex and death, this time around seasoned with crime and marriage. You Can't Get There From Here is Jason's morbidly funny twist on the Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein relationship. And, finally, The Living and the Dead is, yes, you guessed it, Jason's zombie book. And there you have it. Wotta Deal!

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