Fantagraphics August 2025 Solicitations

BUFF SOUL HC (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Moa Romanova
Price: $29.99 | ISBN: 9798875000683 | Product Code: 0625FB502

In-Store Date: 8/20/2025

How do you prevent history from repeating itself, and is it possible to protect the one you love from themselves? When cartoonist Moa Romanova joins her rock star bestie on a U.S. tour, life quickly turns chaotic, as adolescent trauma begins to haunt her. Buff Soul tackles addiction, friendship, and loss in a rollicking road trip adventure involving selling speed, breaking bones, massive hangovers, drug withdrawal, having your entire fist inside your best friend, and shooting guns in the desert. What begins as an insanely comical, hedonistic road trip in the spirit of Pineapple Express, takes a dark turn when her best friend disappears. This event triggers memories of an adolescent trauma she had yet to reckon with, leading Romanova to confront the reality of how far she’s let her self-destruction go.

DUCKTALES TREASURE OF THE LOST LAMP HC VOL 06 DISNEY AFTERNOON ADVENTURES

Creators: (W) Bobbi JG Weiss, John Lustig (A/CA) Cosme Quartieri
Price: $34.99 | ISBN: 9798875000959 | Product Code: 0625FB504

In-Store Date: 8/13/2025

Quackaroonies! In the one-and-only comics adaptation of DuckTales: The Movie, Uncle Scrooge’s quest for Collie Baba’s treasure gives Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webby a genie of their own… but wicked wizard Merlock wants the magic and power for himself, and he’ll stop at nothing to get it!Then Baloo, Becky, and the TaleSpin crew seek their own lost treasure beyond “The Gates of Shambhala”—not knowing Don Karnage and the Air Pirates have joined the expedition in disguise! And in “Watts the Problem,” supercharged scoundrel Megavolt becomes a human battery… sucking the power out of St. Canard! Can Darkwing and Launchpad pull the plug? All this and Gummi Bears, Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers, and Goof Troop too!

PRINCE VALIANT HC VOL 30 1995-1996 (MR)

Creators: (W) Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, Cullen Murphy (A/CA) Hal Foster
Price: $39.99 | ISBN: 9798875001055 | Product Code: 0625FB507

In-Store Date: 8/6/2025

Premonitions of the future inform and confound Prince Valiant and his son Nathan. An earthquake rocks the Misty Isles. Val encounters danger among the Mayans in Guatemala. A druid civil war breaks out in Hibernia. Val arrives in Utopia and discovers a dark secret.Universally acclaimed as the most stunningly gorgeous adventure comic strip of all time, Prince Valiant ran for 35 years under the virtuoso pen of its creator, Hal Foster. Starring a daring and gallant young hero, the series features epic sword fights, elaborate scenes of pomp and pageantry, and breathless plotting that always leaves the reader wanting more. Fantagraphics’ deluxe editions, each collecting two years’ worth of Sunday strips, boast superbly restored artwork that captures every delicate line and chromatic nuance of Foster’s art.

COMPLETE HATE TP VOL 01 (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Peter Bagge
Price: $29.99 | ISBN: 9798875001093 | Product Code: 0625FB503

In-Store Date: 8/6/2025

Peter Bagge, along with the Hernandez brothers and Daniel Clowes, is one of the primary architects of the alternative comics genre that exploded in the 1980s and 1990s. His compelling and best-selling comic book series Hate chronicled the exploits of Buddy Bradley and his gang of lovable losers through the rise and fall of the grunge era, and beyond. Going beyond mere satire, Bagge’s observations helped fashion the aesthetics and attitudes of the only significant youth movement to emerge from the Pacific Northwest. A contemporary review by Bruce Barcott in the Seattle Weekly stated, “Twenty years from now, when people want to know what it was like to be young in 1990s Seattle, the only record we’ll have is Peter Bagge’s Hate.”The Complete Hate is a new paperback series that includes the original 30-issue run from 1990–1998, the nine subsequent Hate Annuals, and tons of other Hate-related comics, illustrations, and ephemera created for books, magazines, comics, toys, and other merchandise. Bagge combined his cartoony drawing style with uncomfortably real Gen X characters, and the comic books resonated with readers. Vol. 1 collects the first major arc of the series, (Hate 1-15), focusing on young Buddy Bradley’s travails in early 1990s Seattle, with a lengthy introduction by Bagge. Each volume contains new covers, endpapers, title pages, and other surprises by the author.

MOON PRINCE TP (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Kevin Fraser Mutch
Price: $29.99 | ISBN: 9798875000751 | Product Code: 0625FB505

In-Store Date: 8/13/2025

Mistreated for being mixed-race and forced into hard labor at a workhouse in West Hoboken, New Jersey, young Max and Molly are ordinary orphans — or so they think. That is, until a wise old man hears their last name: M’Chawi. Rattled by this realization, he sends them off on a journey that will uncover the secret behind their mystic lineage and give them purpose and power far from home — on the Moon! There, they encounter the Moon’s fantastic inhabitants: the Sky Pirates and their merciless Queen Melissa; the Groos, blue primates and genius mechanics — literal grease monkeys — and their robot protector, Moma Machina; and a kingdom of singing spiders giant enough to eat a man. Looks can be deceiving, and those who first appear frightening can turn out to be allies, and even friends. Take Prince Grakko, pampered heir-apparent to the Bat-People.The Moon is a land locked in constant battle. Races live in fear and ignorance of one another. To make matters worse, the siblings’ getaway isn’t as clean as they’d hoped, and the Earth Queen’s Grand Inquisitor is hot on their trail. Armed with a bejeweled dagger, pendant, and pure hearts, Max and Molly must unite the denizens of the Moon under a common cause, before humanity’s folly reduces their world to rubble. Equal parts Jules Verne and Bone, The Moon Prince is a star-spanning, page-turning epic for the ages.

MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS TP BOX SET BOOK ONE & TWO (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Emil Ferris
Price: $79.99 | ISBN: 9798875000997 | Product Code: 0625FB506

In-Store Date: 8/27/2025

2025 Whiting Award WINNER in FictionKirkus Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far)New York Times Notable Books of 2024Chicago Public Library Favorite Books of 2024Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2024NPR Books We Love 2024Forbes Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2024The Guardian Best Graphic Novels of 2024Library Journal Best Graphic Novels of 2024Taking the form of the fictional graphic diary of ten-year-old self-identifying “monster” Karen Reyes, and set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters has become a worldwide sensation since Book One announced Emil Ferris as one of fiction’s world-class storytellers in 2017 and 2024’s Book Two triumphantly concluded the epic graphic novel.Influenced by B-movie horror, classical painting, and pulp monster magazine iconography, Monsters tells the story of Karen as she tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor. While the interconnected stories of those around her unfold, Karen struggles with the recent death of her mother while questioning her own sexuality and identity. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the personal, the political, the past, and the present collide.Ferris’s exhilarating cast of characters come to life in this landmark work of graphic fiction that has captivated readers of all ages around the world with its story of love, friendship, and empowerment. And now, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is available in one complete package for the first time!

ROY #1

Creators: (W) Gilbert Hernandez, Natalia Hernandez (A) Gilbert Hernandez, Natalia Hernandez (CA) Gilbert Hernandez
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 61520081592900111 | Product Code: 0625FB508

In-Store Date: 8/6/2025

The Hernandez family’s role in the history of comics is undeniable. With Love and Rockets, Gilbert Hernandez, along with his younger brother Jaime (and occasionally his older brother, Mario) have pushed the boundaries of what comics can do. In Roy #1, the family’s legacy expands, as Gilbert teams up with his daughter, Natalia! Fan favorite everyman Roy returns in a two-part story, teaming up with the Little Stunt Boy to deal with Roy’s arch nemesis — the Froat! Or, should we say: the Froats?!? They’re multiplying! Meanwhile, Natalia delivers a surreal eight-pager detailing an Alien spiritual encounter! It’s a family affair!