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Info: Your browser does not accept cookies. If you want to put products into your cart and purchase them you need to enable cookies. BrowseComics History & Culture Fantagraphics Books's commitment to the comics as an art form extends beyond publishing the world's greatest cartoonists — we also publish some of the finest books of comics scholarship available. These works of history, criticism, and analysis cover a range of topics from the forgotten to the famous, from the nice to the notorious, from the Golden Age to the Underground to the cutting edge. Written by the pre-eminent experts in the field (John Benson, R.C. Harvey, Bob Levin, Fredrik Strömberg, and more), these books all belong in any serious comics lover's library. And of course, for the best source of comics journalism for over 30 years, don't forget The Comics Journal. ![Olaf G.: A Life in Pictures [Release TBD]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=5c7f28c24d56e9ac259c50d73cbb596f.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Olaf G.: A Life in Pictures [Release TBD]")
Olaf G.: A Life in Pictures [Release TBD]
Lars Fiske & Steffen Kverneland A graphic document of the life and art of brilliant Norwegian cartoonist Olaf Gulbransson. A hilarious, incisive, informative and ultimately touching work of comics journalism.
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Outlaws, Rebels, Freethinkers and Pirates
Bob Levin In these profile/essays, Levin explores the back roads of creative genius in as off-beat a collection of characters as can be found outside a carnival midway, fashioning powerful arguments for the value of unfettered expression.
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$16.95 ![Pretty in Ink: American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 [Aug. 2013]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=d7ebc282b92c6ce4efa3061ffa98d226.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Pretty in Ink: American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 [Aug. 2013]")
Pretty in Ink: American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 [Aug. 2013]
Trina Robbins The ultimate, revised, updated and rewritten history of women cartoonists by the preeminent historian of the subject, from the first pioneers to the current generation, full of startling new discoveries and colorful illustrations.
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Reading the Funnies
Donald Phelps In this extensive collection of essays, Phelps takes piercing, revelatory looks at over a dozen classic comic strip masterpieces, including Dick Tracy, Thimble Theatre, Gasoline Alley, B. Kliban and more.
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$19.95 
Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975
Patrick Rosenkranz Through in-depth interviews, decades of meticulously documented research, and other materials, this comprehensive and copiously illustrated book offers an intimate look at a phenomenon that changed comics forever.
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$39.95 ![Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975 [Revised Softcover Ed.]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=d0b8057fb469fd4ec31e94c0b9552210.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975 [Revised Softcover Ed.]")
Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975 [Revised Softcover Ed.]
Patrick Rosenkranz This definitive chronicle is the only major historical work about the most influential artistic movement in America since the Beat Generation. Now in a newly designed, expanded and revised softcover edition.
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Squa Tront #10
The legendary EC fan magazine is back with an interview with Al Feldstein; a 1978 panel discussion with Wally Wood, Bernie Krigstein and Harvey Kurtzman; a conversation between Kurtzman, Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth; rare art, and much more!
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Squa Tront #13
John Benson, ed. The story behind Basil Wolverton’s first EC art; Howard Nostrand’s last interview; art from the unpublished third issue of Flip; Jack Davis’s WWII cartoons; plus EC era art by a host of greats.
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$9.99 ![Storm P.: A Century of Laughter [Release TBD]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=4a2813793f1526278c5ee9ba484bea94.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Storm P.: A Century of Laughter [Release TBD]")
Storm P.: A Century of Laughter [Release TBD]
ed. by Steffen Rayburn-Maarup & Kim Thompson A lavish coffee-table book celebrating one of Denmark's most beloved artists and public figures, and one of the great unknown (in America) cartooning geniuses of the 20th century.
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Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko
Blake Bell The first critical retrospective of the work of the reclusive Spider-Man co-creator traces his life and career, his stylistic innovations, and his philosophical principles, in a lushly-illustrated coffee-table book.
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$39.99 ![Tales of Terror! [Hardcover Ed. - Sold Out]](http://www.fantagraphics.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=bookcover_tterrh.jpg&newxsize=145&newysize=&fileout= "Tales of Terror! [Hardcover Ed. - Sold Out]")
Tales of Terror! [Hardcover Ed. - Sold Out]
Grant Geissman & Fred Von Bernewitz An exhaustive compendium of EC Comics-related information, with hard-to-find interviews, rare art, a transcript of Bill Gaines' Senate Subcommittee testimony, and a full-color cover gallery checklist!
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Talk to Her
Kristine McKenna More of McKenna's incisive, informative interviews with cultural luminaries like Robert Altman, Elvis Costello, Dick Dale, Jacques Derrida, John Lydon, Joe Sacco, Orson Welles's assistant on Welles's last days, and more.
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$16.95 
The Art of Joe Kubert
Bill Schelly, ed. A deluxe, full-color coffee table book that honors this legendary creator with beautifully reproduced artwork from every phase of his career, spanning the history of comics, with critical commentary by the book’s editor.
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The Art of Joe Kubert + Man of Rock
Bill Schelly Celebrate the legendary creator whose career spans the history of comics with a comprehensive biography and a deluxe, full-color coffee table book with beautifully reproduced artwork from every phase of his career.
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The Artist Himself: A Rand Holmes Retrospective
Patrick Rosenkranz The whole truth about the life and work of Canada's most revolutionary Underground Comix artist. This unique collection of art documents a lifetime of work by one of the most talented artists of his generation.
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The Best American Comics Criticism
Ben Schwartz, ed. This essential compilation separates the signal from the noise by assembling the greatest lineup of comics critics the world has yet seen to testify on behalf of this increasingly vital medium.
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$19.99 
The Book on the Edge of Forever
Christopher Priest This Swiftian essay is the simultaneously humorous and horrifying chronicle of Harlan Ellison's non-publication of The Last Dangerous Visions anthology, first promised 1971. Cover portrait by Drew Friedman.
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$6.95 
The Comics Go to Hell
Fredrik Strömberg The Devil is such a potent image that comics have used him often and in all sorts of ways, in all different genres. This survey of Satanic cartoons features concise illustrated essays.
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$18.95 
The Comics Journal Library Vol. 3: R. Crumb
Collecting four long out-of-print interviews in an oversized artbook format. An absorbing oral history of comics in the latter half of the 20th century, from an artist who single-handedly shaped it to a great extent. Heavily illustrated.
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The Comics Journal Library Vol. 4: Drawing the Line
This volume gathers together the epic, exhaustive Journal interviews with four of the sharpest social commentators of our times: Ralph Steadman, Jules Feiffer, Edward Sorel, and David Levine. With a full-color gallery of rarely seen work.
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