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The Comic Fantagraphics Sued To Publish, In Their April 2024 Solicits

Last year, Bleeding Cool reported on comics publisher Fantagraphics' decision to sue Emil Ferris, creator of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Last year, Bleeding Cool was the only Outlet, it seems, to report on comic book publishers Fantagraphics' decision to sue Emil Ferris, the creator of the graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters published in 2017, over the rights to publication of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two. As well as Emil Ferris' decision to counter-sue. Eventually, the two parties settled, and it was agreed that, on delivery of an acceptable manuscript, Fantagraphics would publish Book Two. And. in Fantagraphics' April 2024 solicits and solicitations, it is listed thus. Well, we can see why Fantagraphics were so keen to enforce their contract given that the first book was the best-reviewed comic of 2017 and brought in millions.

MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS BOOK TWO
By Emil Ferris
ISBN 978-1-68396-927-3
$44.99 / SC / 412 pgs / FC / 8.1" × 10.5"
The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most inspiring "monster" in contemporary fiction. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is the eagerly awaited conclusion to one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade. In Book Two, dark mysteries past and present continue to abound. Young Karen attends the Festival of Life in Grant Park and finds herself swept up in a police stomping. Privately, she continues to investigate her neighbor's recent death. She wrestles with her own sexual identity, the death of her mother, and the secrets she suspects her brother of hiding. Ferris's cast of characters experience revelations and epiphanies that both resolve and deepen the mysteries visited upon them earlier. Visually, the story is told in Ferris's inimitable style that seamlessly combines panel-topanel storytelling and cartoon montages filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster mag iconography.

LOVE & ROCKETS
VOL. IV #15
By Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez
UPC code 609224368790-01511
$6.99 / Comic / 32 pgs / BW / 8.5" × 11"
In the latest issue of "the Great American Comic Book" (as described in Los Angeles PBS station KCET's 2022 Emmy-nominated documentary about the Hernandez brothers), Diana Villasenor returns and we see what she's been up to since her sister Tonantzin disappeared! Also: Palomar! Meanwhile, why can't the Hellmet find Princess Animus? And while Tonta's latest shenanigans

THE COMPLETE WEB OF HORROR
By Bernie Wrightson, Michael Kaluta, Ralph Reese, et al.
Edited by Dana Marie Andra
ISBN 978-1-68396-937-2
$49.99 / HC / 296 pgs / Partial color / 8.75" × 11.5"
Conceived in 1969, the short-lived Web of Horror showcased horror and science fiction by then new stars of comic art as Bernie Wrightson, Michael Kaluta, Bruce Jones, Ralph Reese, Frank Brunner, Roger Brand, and Wayne Howard, as well as veterans such as Syd Shores and Norman Node. Fantagraphics presents all three published issues plus over a dozen recently unearthed stories that have been rarely or never-before published. The Complete Web of Horror features a wealth of essays, a foreword by Terry Bisson, an account of the magazine's origin, rise and demise plus reminiscences by Robert Lewis and Robert Gerson and an Afterword by Richard J. Arndt.

YOU AND A BIKE AND A ROAD
By Eleanor Davis
ISBN 978-1-68396-941-9
$22.99 / SC / 172 pgs / BW / 6.25" × 9.25"
Eleanor Davis's bike tour from Tucson, Arizona to Athens, Georgia is a quest of epic proportions, both geographically and inwardly. Life on two wheels teaches her many lessons, and she narrates them with keen observation and self-deprecating candor through a series of funny, touching vignettes. A tale of serendipitous encounters, surprising friendship, perseverance, and tenderness, Eleanor Davis's You & A Bike & A Road reveals the power, and truth, of the most efficient mode of human transportation — a bicycle.

LOVE AND ROCKETS THE SKETCHBOOKS
By Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez
ISBN 978-1-68396-879-5
$6.99 / Comic / 32 pgs / BW / 8.5" × 11"
Presented as a handsome dual-sided book with two covers, go behind the scenes of The Brothers Hernandez: over 400 pages of sketches, inked drawings, early comics, and uninhibited graphic ephemera that never made it into the pages of Love and Rockets.

THE 7 TH VOYAGE OF THE FABULOUS FURRY FREAK BROTHERS AND OTHER FOLLIES
By Gilbert Shelton and Dave Sheridan
ISBN 978-1-68396-938-9
$22.99 / HC / 144 pgs / FC / 8.3" × 10.6"
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers cool down in Mexico where they are chased off the beach, encounter a Mexican mystic, lose all their money, get thrown into jail, escape into an underground labyrinth, and wind up on a secret poppy farm run by the U.S. military. Plus: Fat Freddy's Cat stars in the mini epic, "I Led Nine Lives." Painstakingly restored and featuring die-cut covers, The 7th Voyage and Other Follies is the fourth of seven volumes representing the first North American bookshelf editions of this underground classic in more than thirty years.

ADVENTURES OF THE GUMMI BEARS A NEW BEGINNING: DISNEY AFTERNOON ADVENTURES VOL. 4
Edited by Various
ISBN 978-1-68396-920-4
$34.99 / HC / 212 pgs / FC / 7.6" × 10.6"
Bounce into epic quests and comedy in the kingdom of Dunwyn: Disney's original Gummi Bears lead a classic Disney Afternoon comics collection which also includes Darkwing Duck, DuckTales and more!

KAMEN'S KALAMITY AND
OTHER STORIES
Illustrated by Jack Kamen; Written by Al Feldstein, Otto Binder, Gardner Fox, Carl Wessler, et al. Introduction by Thommy Burns
ISBN 978-1-68396-918-1
$35.00 / HC / 248 pgs / BW / 7.3" × 10.3"
This volume features 27 Kamen favorites, drawn at the peak of his powers, including: "Kamen's Kalamity," "How Green Was My Alley," and all 13 of his "Grim Fairy Tales," revealing the gruesome underpinnings of the Grimm classics. Plus: seven bonus crime and horror stories by John Alton, Frank Bolle, Leonard Starr, Bill Fraccio, Rudy Palais, and Ed Smalle. Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library, Kamen's Kalamity And Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces.

LIGHT IT SHOOT IT
By Graham Chaffee
ISBN 978-1-68396-682-1
$24.99 / HC / 208 pgs / BW / 7.8" × 10.2"
Fresh out of prison for an arson conviction, clueless 20-year-old Billy Bonney finds himself drifting through the seedy and unsavory world of cut-rate moviemaking, following his brother to the sets of grade B and exploitation 1970s Hollywood until he accidentally lands a job as a handler to a has-been actor. But the bright lights burn harsher and show more than he anticipated as he steps lucklessly into a gangster-driven plot to burn down a studio for the insurance money and finds himself in over his head.

THE ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY
NO. 2 VENUS VOL. 2
Edited by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo
ISBN 978-1-68396-919-8
$49.99 / HC / 280 pgs / FC / 8.75" × 11.25"
In the late 1940s, the first half of the Venus series from Marvel Comics predecessors Timely and Atlas Comics was published as a lighthearted romance comic about the goddess Venus taking a job on Earth at a beauty magazine. Never a company to miss a trend, Atlas began introducing more science fiction elements in the 1950s, and eventually turned Venus' dating adventures into a straight-out horror anthology. Collected here is that swift-changing second half of the 19-issue run. Future Marvel stars Bill Everett (seven issues) and Werner Roth (three issues) take Venus to heights of four-color weirdness and pre-Code horror ghastliness.

NEW FROM MY FAIRY GODFATHER
By Robert Mailer Anderson and Jon Sack
ISBN 978-1-68396-980-8
$25.00 / SC / 144 pgs /
FC / 7.8" × 10.3"
Set in Liberal, Kansas, a teenager moves in with her gay, film geek Godfather and his partner who run the Starlite movie theater, a safe haven for their eccentricities and artistic yearnings. My Fairy Godfather tells a story about how music and film connect us to who we've loved, who we've been, and who we are becoming — and that lying beneath the façade of teenage cynicism is the profound desire to be understood and loved.

THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1991–1992:
VOL. 21 PAPERBACK EDITION
By Charles M. Schulz, Introduction by Tom Tomorrow
ISBN 978-1-68396-936-5
$22.99 / SC / 344 pgs / BW / 8.7" × 6.8"
As Charles M. Schulz's world-famous comic strip enters its final decade, love takes many shapes and shades. Charlie Brown's infatuation with the Little Red-Haired Girl is rekindled; Linus fails to impress Lydia; Sally hoorays for Hollywood; Marcie pines for the World War I Flying Ace; Peppermint Patty and Marcie battle for Charlie Brown's affection; and Snoopy is absolutely obsessed… with cookies. Featuring impeccable production values plus bonus material including an introduction by Tom Tomorrow and a brief biography of Schulz himself.

PRINCE VALIANT VOL. 28: 1991–1992
By Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy and Cullen Murphy
ISBN 978-1-68396-929-7
$39.99 / HC / 112 pgs / FC / 10.5" × 14.3"
Armies converge, mountains crumble, and a father and son are reunited. On a quest in Cathay, Val encounters a mechanical dragon, discovers a lost colony and wrestles with a tusked whale off the coast of Greenland. Meanwhile, Mordred escapes imprisonment and stabs Arn. Plus, an introduction by Turkish/German artist Ertugrul Edirne and behind the scenes of a heavy-metal interpretation of Prince Valiant. Fantagraphics' editions each collect two years' worth of Sunday strips, boasting superbly restored artwork that captures every delicate line of Hal Foster's art.

MYTHOLOGIES & APROCRYPHA #1
By Tim Lane
UPC code 615200816056-00111
$5.99 / Comic / 32 pgs / BW / 6.6" × 10.3"
Acclaimed cartoonist Tim Lane debuts a new, ongoing series exploring the good, the bad, and the ugly of 20th century masculinity through a head spinning blend of fact and fiction featuring Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Walter Cronkite, and others — culminating in a quick-draw shootout on Mars between Steve McQueen, Johnny Cash, and Sammy Davis Jr. This all-new series showcases Lane's meticulous and jaw-dropping artistry — a level of detail echoing illustrative legends like Frank Frazetta, Alex Raymond, and Dave Stevens.

SHELL COLLECTION
By Ron Regé Jr.
ISBN 978-1-68396-974-7
$34.99 / SC / 176 pgs / FC / 9" × 11"
In 2016, Regé began a monthly, subscription only series in an effort to return to his 1990s selfpublishing roots, with 100 copies or so published from month to month. This is a compendium of comics and drawings from the first 75 issues of his minicomics series, The Shell of the Self of the Senses, and is the first time any of this work has been collected, with newly added color: Shell Collection brilliantly showcases Regé's poetic voice, his deeply humane worldview, and his sui generis visual vocabulary — all of which has made him one of the most distinctive stylists in comics.

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