Fantagraphics October 2025 Solicitations

LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING HC THE JAZZ PHOTOGRAPHY OF DON SCHLITTEN (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Don Schlitten
Price: $49.99 | ISBN: 9798875000645 | Product Code: 0825FB0801

In-Store Date: 10/22/2025

Don Schlitten was working as a photographer and commercial artist in New York City when he co-founded Signal Records in 1955.  When Signal was folded into Prestige Records shortly thereafter, Bob Weinstock, head of Prestige, enlisted Don to produce music, photograph musicians, and design album covers. His name graces the album covers of over 400 records produced between the 1950s and 1980s, either as producer, photographer, or album designer, often all three.This book features over 100 photos, personally selected by Don Schlitten as his personal best, many unseen, others familiar as album covers but given new context in their original format. Featuring icons of jazz like Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins, and Frank Sinatra, it also includes candid photos of such unsung giants of jazz as Booker Ervin, Eric Dolphy, Mal Waldron, Don Patterson, Etta Jones, and Sonny Criss and more.The book includes a biographical essay written by jazz scribe Ted Panken with an introduction by the “Jazz Detective” himself, Zev Feldman. As an extra bonus, this book features an American Splendor comic strip that features Don educating Harvey Pekar, as well as a gallery of Don’s personal favorite top 30 album covers.

NOCTURNOS HC (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Laura Perez
Price: $29.99 | ISBN: 9798875001260 | Product Code: 0825FB0802

In-Store Date: 10/22/2025

“The night does not belong to us. She harbors her own mysteries.” Nocturnos delves into the ethereal world of the night, when the mundane vibes of the day cede to a mysterious atmosphere in which anything seems possible. In the twilight hours, the darkness feels vast and untamable, the dead can intrude upon the land of the living, and the distance between imagination and reality seems closer than ever. Haunting narration connects a series of vignettes that capture glimpses of people’s lives as they navigate the nighttime. A traumatic collision while driving down a dimly lit road; a bedtime story that blurs the bounds of the imaginary, a walk through the woods that leads to strange symbols; this nighttime tour encompasses lush forests, dreamscapes, and the shadowy corners of private rooms. Along the way, these stories question the truths veiled in dreams, the nature of fear and loneliness, and the unknowable aura of the nocturnal world. In Nocturnos, her most masterful work to date, Spanish comics artist Laura Pérez explores the magic and melancholy we encounter when dusk descends.

SILLY SYMPHONIES COLLECTORS BOX SET HC

Creators: (W/A/CA) Ted Osborne
Price: $74.99 | ISBN: 9798875001468 | Product Code: 0825FB0803

In-Store Date: 10/29/2025

The 1930s were the heyday of Disney’s second-ever newspaper comics feature: the full-color weekly Silly Symphonies! And with it came Donald Duck’s first starring roles… from his debut as a barnyard brat to his battles with Mickey’s naughty nephews—and the unforgettable debut of Donald’s own riotous relatives, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, first created for this strip by artist Al Taliaferro!Also included in this two-volume set: Zeke the Big Bad Wolf, always in pursuit of the Three Little Pigs—and Bucky Bug, the daring, mischievous beetle whose escapades took him from brutal birds of prey to the trenches of the Great Flyburg War! Plus more golden-age Silly Symphony cartoon stars: feisty Max Hare, slow-but-sure Toby Tortoise, that awful bandit Dirty Bill (who “never took a bath, and he never will!”)… and timid Elmer Elephant, one of his adventures plotted by comics maestros Carl Barks and Walt Kelly!

THE PAST IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL HC (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Tommi Parrish
Price: $29.99 | ISBN: 9798875001321 | Product Code: 0825FB0804

In-Store Date: 10/15/2025

Tommi Parrish is an Australian trans cartoonist and one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary comics and graphic novels. Balancing emotional honesty with a keen awareness of the human condition, Parrish navigates fear, loneliness, identity, body politics, queer desire, masculinity, fear, and the ever-fluid nature of all human relationships. The Past is a Grotesque Animal collects over two dozen short stories of varying lengths, interspersed with ephemera from Parrish’s own life: diary entries, photographs, illustrations, paintings, and more.Parrish’s autobiographical elements inform their voice as a writer and the ways their characters constantly find one another adrift in their own seas of experience, current situations, trauma, and desire. How those characters coexist, how they are complicated by outside forces, and internal ones, affect our hardwired need for meaningful connection. The book also showcases Parrish’s singular and assured visual style, blending clear lines, expressionistic character designs and gorgeously complex, hand-painted color.

WALT DISNEYS DONALD DUCK HC THE LONELY LIGHTHOUSE ON CAPE QUACK

Creators: (W/A/CA) Carl Barks
Price: $39.99 | ISBN: 9798875001505 | Product Code: 0825FB0809

In-Store Date: 10/15/2025

In the title story, it’s a cold and lonely night at the lighthouse on remote Cape Quack when the storm of the century suddenly pounds and pummels the tiny outpost. Donald and the boys are trying to help light the light to warn off all the ships at sea, but a sneaky crook who wants to claim the land for himself has wrecked the controls. With every passing minute, the storm grows fiercer, the waves crash higher, and the ships draw nearer to the deadly reef.Then, Magica De Spell is back, this time with a Valentine’s Day threat to steal Uncle Scrooge’s No. 1 Dime. His only hope to save it lies with Donald and the boys — but can they even fend off Magica’s secret plan?And, Donald sets out on a new career as a “Master Wrecker,” demolishing old and outdated buildings. Hmm. Giving a crane and wrecking ball to Donald Duck. What could possibly go wrong? Plus: The Junior Woodchucks are back in four new crafty adventures, written and penciled by Barks and finished and inked by Daan Jippes.The Good Duck Artist delivers another superb collection of surprise, delight, comedy, adventure, and all-around cartooning brilliance. Seventeen stories in all, more than 180 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored. Plus, insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts.

WALT DISNEYS UNCLE SCROOGE GIFT BOX SET HC THE GOLDEN NUGGET BOAT & CAVE OF ALI BABA

Creators: (W/A/CA) Carl Barks
Price: $69.99 | ISBN: 9798875001499 | Product Code: 0825FB0810

In-Store Date: 10/29/2025

This season’s Carl Barks Library slipcased gift box set collects two of our earlier volumes in this popular series: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: “The Golden Nugget Boat” (the introduction of Magica De Spell, Scrooge’s sorceress nemesis! Plus adventures in the frozen North and on a rogue planet headed straight for Earth) and Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: “Cave of Ali Baba” (the secret of Ali Baba’s hidden treasure, the return of Magica De Spell, and the ever-eccentric Gyro Gearloose). Over 400 pages in two volumes snugged into a sturdy slipcase at a special price that even Uncle Scrooge couldn’t resist!

WITCHCRAFT TP (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Sole Otero
Price: $34.99 | ISBN: 9798875001277 | Product Code: 0825FB0812

In-Store Date: 10/8/2025

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1768. It is a dark and foreboding night when the boat arrives from Europe, bringing three shadowy figures to shore. The María sisters have come to take the New World by storm. At once righteous and menacing, the sisters will exert their insidious powers over generations, leaving a wreckage of shattered spirits in their wake.Told through the eyes of the people whose lives the sisters have cast asunder, Witchcraft is a mesmerizing mystery to piece together. Strange magic, dark humor, and a fiery undercurrent of female rage cohere into a heady tale of colonialism, indigenous folklore, and modern agoraphobia. A kaleidoscopic work of literary fiction, crafted with vision and verve, that assures Sole Otero as one of South America’s most dynamic cartoonists.

WISH WE WERENT HERE TP (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Peter Kuper
Price: $19.99 | ISBN: 9798875001451 | Product Code: 0825FB0811

In-Store Date: 10/8/2025

45 years after his first political cartoons focused on capitalism’s impact, Peter Kuper takes stock of the state of the world… and isn’t optimistic about what he sees. Across 100 pages of vivid, colorful, silent four-panel comics, Kuper traces as many aspects of how business and politics have accelerated the climate crisis, and looks at how, if things keep going in the direction they are, our oligarchic lives will be further transformed. Witty and angry in equal measure, Kuper deploys bold figures, clever metaphors, despairing howls, and some of the best drawings of his career to get his message across. Originally serialized in the legendary French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, each page is a single blackly funny gag strip, but themes flow, recur and build across sequences to create a true hybrid of political cartoon and graphic novel. Since co-founding the influential political comics magazine World War III Illustrated in 1979, Kuper has maintained his deeply humanist / anti-capitalist perspective, while developing and broadening his graphic and story-telling skills across a range of topics and styles. In this book, he brings all of that experience, study and passion together into a powerful work that stands as a culmination of his career. See the future now, and laugh hollowly while you still can.

UNCLE SCROOGE FLINTHEART GLOMGOLDS SINISTER SECRET #1

Creators: (W) Francesco Spreafico, Jonathan H. Gray (A) Alessandro Perina (CA) Alessando Perina
Price: $5.99 | UPC: 61520081610046111 | Product Code: 0825FB0805

In-Store Date: 10/8/2025

“Flintheart Glomgold’s Sinister Secret,” Part 1 of 3! Fandom asked, and Fantagraphics answers: the legacy Disney comic books return to comic shops! And Scrooge McDuck’s ruthless rival, second-richest tycoon Flintheart Glomgold, returns to Duckburg—claiming he’s reformed for good, and inviting Huey, Dewey, and Louie to his luxurious new island estate! Since when was Glomgold a good guy… or a big spender? Soon a trail of deadly trouble ensnares Scrooge and Donald Duck, pointing them to the Amazon and the legendary lost city of Z… where the thrills and chills are only beginning! COVER by Alessandro Perina