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Memoir & Autobiography

Fantagraphics is proud to present the finest in graphic memoir and autobiography, from a diverse group of voices in a variety of styles. Sometimes the names are changed and details dramatized, but these stories based on true life will enthrall, amuse, shock, inspire and/or move you.



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A Mess of Everything [with FREE Signed Bookplate]

Miss Lasko-Gross The second volume in this semi-autobiographical trilogy finds self-effacing non-conformist Melissa now in high school facing a drug habit, alienation, accidental heartbreak and other issues in an intense, honest, and funny memoir.  Product Details...
$19.99



Approximate Continuum Comics

Lewis Trondheim One of the very first autobiographical graphic novels to come from France, from one of Europe’s most beloved cartoonists, sets the standard for the honest, often hilarious chronicling of a cartoonist’s life.  Product Details...
$18.99



Babel #1

David B. The first installment of the breathtaking series by French cartoonist David B. The stunning two-color artwork evokes an extraordinary range of influences, from the boldness of primitive art to the lyricism of Winsor McCay.  Product Details...
$9.95



Babel #2

David B. Obsessed with fantasy and history, David and his brother become fascinated by the Papuan Wars, and David discovers odd metaphorical parallels between those long-ago events and rituals and his brother's struggle with his disease.  Product Details...
$7.95



Beg the Question

Bob Fingerman Courtship and perversity in Manhattan! The definitive collection of Fingerman's series about twentysomething bohemians making their way through the twists and turns of New York life, with added greytones and bonus material!  Product Details...
$16.95



Belly Button Comix #1 [Sold Out]

Sophie Crumb Thrill to these vivacious autobiographical stories, with stories of young love, cell phones, and sexual frustration, each drawn in a variety of styles, with a handsome purple two-tone effect throughout.  Product Details...
$4.95



Belly Button Comix #2

Sophie Crumb In the second issue of this acclaimed, award-winning series, Sophie spotlights herself again in a series of autobiographical vignettes that find her moving from Paris to Berkeley, not to mention falling in love!  Product Details...
$4.95



But I Like It [with FREE Signed Bookplate]

Joe Sacco Sacco hits the rock 'n' roll beat. Joe follows punk band the Miracle Workers on their European tour (with a bound-in live CD) and pens strips that range from biting satires to self-deprecating autobiography.  Product Details...
$24.95



Cruisin' with the Hound: The Life and Times of Fred Toote [Pre-Order]

Spain Rodriguez Memoirs of the artist's misspent youth. Raunchy, hilarious, and often violent as hell, an unsentimentally nostalgic trip to half a century ago — the anti- Happy Days, set to a true rock ’n’ roll beat.  Product Details...
$19.99



Daddy's Girl

Debbie Drechsler A new edition of the groundbreaking collection of short comic stories. Drechsler's quasi-memoir is one of the most searingly honest, empathetic, and profoundly disturbing uses of the comics medium in its history.  Product Details...
$14.95



Escape from "Special" [with FREE Signed Bookplate]

Miss Lasko-Gross A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story blending humor (sometimes of the gross-out variety) and keenly observed insights, with the sensibility of a love child of Linda Barry and David B. midwifed by Judy Blume.  Product Details...
$16.95



Giraffes in My Hair: A Rock 'n' Roll Life

Bruce Paley & Carol Swain A comics memoir of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, a life lived in the countercultural margins, from the optimism of the Summer of Love to the nihilism of the punk years, vividly brought to life with compelling visuals.  Product Details...
$19.99



I Love Led Zeppelin

Ellen Forney The long-awaited collection of strips, characterized by bold, sensual brushstrokes and striking images of powerful, butt-kicking women. Forney's collaborators range from her Grandma Florence to comedian Margaret Cho.  Product Details...
$18.95



Late Bloomer

C. Tyler The biggest, richest and most delightful collection of Tyler's work to date. Tales of loss, difficult relatives and questionable relationships are infused with Tyler's rueful humor, pitiless wit and deep empathy.  Product Details...
$28.95



Love That Bunch [Softcover Ed.]

Aline Kominsky-Crumb For nearly two decades, Aline has been venting her artistic spleen with her disturbingly honest autobiographical comics. This comprehensive volume is Aline at her most irresistibly neurotic.  Product Details...
$16.95



Misery Loves Comedy [2nd Edition]

Ivan Brunetti A psychiatric case study masquerading as a fancy-pants graphic novel. Comics for those who enjoy witnessing one man's sanity in its final death rattle, swinging its tail from anhedonia to schadenfreude and back again.  Product Details...
$24.95



Notes from a Defeatist

Joe Sacco Sacco's pre-Palestine journalistic and autobiographical works are at last collected, as well as a sizable collection of his satirical strips, in book form for the first time. War stories, hilarious reminiscences and more.  Product Details...
$19.95



Recipe for Disaster

Penny Moran Van Horn A collection of short stories and vignettes, mostly autobiographical, part mystical exploration, depicting incidents from the life of the author and her friends and relatives in a shockingly intense scratchboard style.  Product Details...
$9.95



Rocky Vol. 1: The Big Payback

Martin Kellerman This mostly autobiographical daily strip details the rudely hilarious travails of a young cartoonist and his layabout pals and neurotic girlfriends. A smash hit in its native Sweden, now in English for the first time.  Product Details...
$12.95



Rocky Vol. 2: Strictly Business

Martin Kellerman Fritz the Cat meets Jane Austen!?! Basically, it's the pottymouthed animal-headed Seinfeld-esque comic strip from Sweden we've all come to love. Won't you join us for more?  Product Details...
$12.95




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