We just announced that the just-arrived High Soft Lisp by Gilbert Hernandez is available exclusively to Fantagraphics customers with this signed bookplate as a FREE bonus:

Well, we have a couple more Beto books now available with signed bookplates for the first time — the Luba omnibus hardcover:

...and The Troublemakers:

Not only that, we've restocked with a fresh supply of signature plates for the volumes Heartbreak Soup, Human Diastrophism, Beyond Palomar, and Chance in Hell. Gilbert was a trouper and plowed through a stack of these while he was in town earlier this month.

Each bookplate is printed on acid-free cardstock and hand-signed by the author. Signature plates are limited in quantity and available only while supplies last and exclusively to individual consumers who purchase the associated books direct from Fantagraphics. We have many more books available with free bonus signed bookplates — click here for the full selection!

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship:

High Soft Lisp (Love and Rockets Book 25)
By Gilbert Hernandez

144-page black & white 6.5" x 9.75" softcover • $16.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-318-7
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While supplies last this book is available with a signed bookplate (pictured below) as a FREE premium!

“Five six. Hundred twenty-eight pounds. Forty-three twenty-two thirty-six. High soft lisp. Genius level I.Q.” That’s how motivational speaker Mark Herrera sums up Rosalba “Fritz” Martinez, bombshell, former punkette, former psychiatrist, “Z” movie star — in this supremely sexy, constantly surprising graphic novel.

And Herrera should know, being only one of many to fall under Fritz’s “lithping” spell — others including slobbish rocker Scott “The Hog” and high school nerd turned obsessive bodybuilder Enrique Escobar (and that’s just her husbands).

Hernandez has taken this suite of stories (including the 48-page graphic novelette “High Soft Lisp”), originally serialized in Luba's Comics and Stories and the second volume of Love and Rockets, and fleshed them out with a dozen brand new pages, creating an original and inventive (and very steamy) volume that, through its connections to his main character Luba (Fritz is Luba’s half sister, and characters from the Luba stories pop up here), works both as a standalone graphic novel and a further exploration of Hernandez’s rich world.

Unsure how to build your Love and Rockets collection? See our handy guide on How to Read Love and Rockets.

Download an EXCLUSIVE 11-page PDF excerpt (762 KB).

Starting now, when you order Esther Pearl Watson's Unlovable Vol. 1 direct from us, you can choose to receive the exclusive signed bookplate pictured above as a free bonus (and why wouldn't you?)! Supplies are limited and the usual conditions and caveats apply; click here for more details and the complete list of books available with this FREE premium!

We've just received a fresh batch of signed book plates from Ivan Brunetti for the new Second Edition of Misery Loves Comedy; you can obtain one exclusively from Fantagraphics at no extra charge when ordering the book! Some conditions apply; click here for more details and the complete list of books available with this FREE premium!

Here's a teaser for ya: Bob Fingerman has provided the image above, an outtake from his upcoming book Connective Tissue, for use on the exclusive signed bookplate that will be available when you order the book from us (we'll probably have it up for pre-order sometime in the next couple of weeks). Bob's the first -- and won't be the last -- artist to provide us with exclusive artwork for one of our free signed bookplates!

Mr. Tim Lane of St. Louis, MO has kindly supplied us with a batch of signed book plates for his debut book Abandoned Cars, and they are now newly available. A bookplate may be obtained exclusively from Fantagraphics when ordering the accompanying book, at no extra charge! Some conditions apply; click here for more details and the complete list of books available with this FREE premium!

Thanks to Steven "Ribs" Weissman for supplying us with a batch of signed book plates for his book Mean, now available for the first time, and to Richard Sala, for replenishing our supply of signed bookplates for The Grave Robber's Daughter. As always, these are available exclusively from Fantagraphics when you order their accompanying books, at no extra charge! Some conditions apply; click here for more details and the complete list of books available with this FREE premium!

Back in stock: signed bookplates for Big Baby, El Borbah and Skin Deep by Charles Burns; Percy Gloom by Cathy Malkasian; and Billy Hazelnuts by Tony Millionaire. How do you acquire these delightful hand-signed-by-the-artist little extras, you might ask? We give 'em away for FREE when you buy their respective books from us (while supplies last)!

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The next best thing to a signed edition: with select books we'll include a signed "ex libris"-style bookplate, and best of all, it's FREE! The latest additions to our selection are Zippy: Welcome to Dingburg by Bill Griffith (above) and Jessica Farm Vol. 1 by Josh Simmons (below). We also have a restock of plates for Josh's House.

Some conditions apply; click here for more details and the complete list of books available with this FREE premium!

More signed bookplates continue to come in: we've got brand new ones available for Johnny Ryan's Comics Are for Idiots!: Blecky Yuckerella Vol. 3, and they're back in stock for Peter Bagge's Buddy Does Seattle. These nifty, gifty signed bookplates are only available when you order direct from us!

Some conditions apply; click here for more details and the complete list of books available with this FREE premium!