Fantagraphics November 2025 Solicitations

DOGTANGLE HC (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Max Huffman
Price: $19.99 | ISBN: 9798875001291 | Product Code: 0925FB0746

In-Store Date: 11/5/2025

Dogtangle opens with a town hall meeting in a Taco Bell nestled in the bland corporate environment of Business Park. A man, bleating to anyone who will listen about the evils of current zoning laws, meets a woman who works in pharmaceutical marketing. They begin a relationship. They get married. From their union springs the idea of the Hypermutt: a many-headed mass of dogs that absorbs each new dog it encounters. This debut graphic novel from Chicago cartoonist Max Huffman, about an awful power couple who defy God and nature in creating a hound of hell for our times, is at turns a rich satirical fable, a white-collar black comedy, and a stylistic tour de force blending elements of abstraction, cubism, mid-century modernism, and visual sight gags. One of the most visually distinctive and funny graphic novels in recent memory, Dogtangle is also underpinned with a deep mistrust of corporate and cultural hegemony, cementing its relevance in our increasingly oligarchal times.

SHADOWS OF THE SEA HC (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Cathy Malkasian
Price: $24.99 | ISBN: 9798875001376 | Product Code: 0925FB0747

In-Store Date: 11/5/2025

On the lonely road meet two outcasts — Doris, a small but spitfire woman and Stanwick, a shy and sensitive dog. Each of this unlikely pair harbors grief, and must decide whether to stay with the pain or run from it. On their journey, the two travel through lush forests, to the eerily abandoned town of echoes, clear to the “mudder” sea, where they finally confront the unbearable trauma of their pasts. Cartoonist Cathy Malkasian’s graphic novels are known to be crafted with layered, affecting allegory and metaphor, and Shadows of the Sea is no exception. In this story, shadows become characters themselves, weighed down with painful truth. They cannot be released until their owners acknowledge, reflect, and heal. Charged by the magic of the “mudder” sea, the shadows reveal the loss Doris and Stanwick have been carrying — a husband and a child — and sets them free at last.

LOST MARVELS HC NO 03 SAVAGE TALES OF THE 1980S (MR)

Creators: (W) Archie Goodwin, Michael Golden (A/CA) John Severin
Price: $65.00 | ISBN: 9798875001390 | Product Code: 0925FB0751

In-Store Date: 11/19/2025

For 13 months in the mid-1980s, Marvel assembled some of its strongest artists and writers to tell gritty, harrowing, and blackly humorous adventure stories ranging from gangster noir to historical battlefields to the deadly old West to post-apocalyptic futures. Unseen for nearly 40 years, here is some of the most shocking work of artists John Severin, John Buscema, Sam Glanzman, Val Mayerik, Ron Wagner, Gray Morrow, Wayne Vansant, Herb Trimpe, Michael Golden, Joe Jusko, Mary Wilshire, Arthur Suydam, Will Jungkuntz, Vincent Waller, and Ken Steacy, and writers Chuck Dixon, Bill Wray, Don Kraar, Robert Kanigher, Denny O’Neil, Doug Murray, and Archie Goodwin. Stories include Severin and Dixon’s “By Rail to Vladivostock,” Murray and Golden’s “The Nam, 1967,” Glanzman’s “Of War and Peace: The Trinity,” Jungkuntz’s Blood & Gutz series, and Trimpe’s Skywarriors series.Savage Tales of the 1980s reprints all 8 issues of the magazine’s run, the first time they have seen print since 1986 — nearly 40 years ago! They are reproduced in facsimile format, including color covers.

PRINCE VALIANT HC VOL 19-21 GIFT BOX SET (MR)

Creators: (W) Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy (A/CA) Hal Foster
Price: $99.99 | ISBN: 9798875000829 | Product Code: 0925FB0752

In-Store Date: 11/19/2025

In Vol. 19, Prince Valiant is sent to defend the borders against invading barbarians, but it is young Arn who takes center stage as he travels to his homeland and loses his heart to Lydia, daughter of Haakon. In Vol. 20, Aleta defeats a wizard, then Aleta’s younger sister Helene is gambled away by her husband to a Corsair mercenary, drawing Val and his Singing Sword into a deadly duel. In Vol. 21, it’s election time for the King of Minstrels. Arn and Court Jester Sir Dinadan travel to France to set things right, while Val accompanies the headstrong Gunther of Germany on his quest to recover stolen holy relics and claim a wife in Jerusalem. The mercenary army of a Persian warlord sweeps across the Middle East, forcing Queen Aleta to seek refuge in a hidden utopian city ruled by women. Val competes in tournaments in Marseille and Camelot and reunites with Sir Lancelot, but a tragic death impacts a member of Val’s family. Also in this set: Hal Foster’s complete comic-strip adaptation of Franz Werfel’s “The Song of Bernadette” and beautiful color illustrations for the 1930-31 Lucky Bag Naval yearbooks. And: The historical reality behind Prince Valiant’s world!

CLOVEN HC VOL 03 (MR)

Creators: (W) Garth Stein (A/CA) Matthew Southworth
Price: $29.99 | ISBN: 9798875001307 | Product Code: 0925FB0753

In-Store Date: 11/19/2025

In The Cloven: Book Three, our hero, Tuck, the most successful Cloven ever created, is discovered frozen solid in a mountain river. Reanimated by the medicinal mushrooms of The Healer, a legendary member of the Feral Herd of Cloven, Tuck easily integrates with his half-brothers and sisters with the help of Willie, a human “stray” who lives with the Herd. Tuck finds himself on the verge of taking over the Herd and leading them out of the shadows of the mountain mines and into daylight, until he sees a People magazine cover in a mini mart with a photo of a very pregnant Stella Goff, and a headline: “But Who’s the Daddy?” Tuck knows all too well who’s the daddy, and he now must leave his Feral friends to track down the daughter of the richest man in the world…Moody and mysterious and atmospheric as a fever dream, The Cloven is a raucous, funny, and dynamic sci-fi graphic novel series about James “Tuck” Tucker, a genetically modified human organism known as a Cloven, written by Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain) and drawn by Matthew Southworth (co-creator of the graphic novel series Stumptown), two of today’s bestselling and critically acclaimed storytellers.

EC ARTISTS LIBRARY HC SLIPCASE VOL 07 (MR)

Creators: (W) Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman (A/CA) Wallace Wood
Price: $120.00 | ISBN: 9781683966791 | Product Code: 0925FB0754

In-Store Date: 11/19/2025

Our acclaimed EC Comics Artists Library collects the best comics of the 1950s from the greatest mass market comic book publisher in history.Featured in this latest set are:The Woman Who Loved Life And Other Stories, illustrated by Johnny CraigAtom Bomb And Other Stories, illustrated by Wallace WoodMan and Superman And Other Stories, illustrated by Harvey KurtzmanTerror Train And Other Stories, illustrated by Al FeldsteinCollectively, that’s more than 120 stories and more than 1,000 pages, plus rarities, bonus features, and insightful commentary from EC scholars. A superb gift for the person in your life who’s into great comic art, illustration, or gripping storytelling!

COMFORTLESS TP (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Miguel Vila
Price: $19.99 | ISBN: 9798875001284 | Product Code: 0925FB0749

In-Store Date: 11/12/2025

“This book makes no claims to scientific validity and is in no way intended for informational purposes.” So declares Miguel Vila in the outset of his new graphic novel, Comfortless, a taxonomy of the masks with which we pretend to live, executed with the precision of a master sociologist. It collects a kaleidoscope of weaving character studies, united by the ways vanity, jealousy, and selfishness manifest via fear, vice, and lust. Giorgia ends her relationship with Eva because she thinks her fling with Nic has resulted in her pregnancy. Nic has a secret to reveal to Daniele, but he can’t express it. Stella meets Daniele and tells him about the strange events they have experienced in recent years. Simone attends a New Year’s Eve party knowing that he is positive for Covid.Set in the Venetian province of Italy, the themes Vila addresses are global. Comfortless is a catastrophic fresco of a humanity adrift, where fears and selfishness draw a merciless map of the emptiness of our times.

LOVERS AND HATERS TP A LOVE AND ROCKETS BOOK (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez
Price: $19.99 | ISBN: 9798875000980 | Product Code: 0925FB0750

In-Store Date: 11/12/2025

The first story collection in Gilbert Hernandez’s Palomar saga to take place after the events of 2010’s High Soft Lisp is torn from the pages of Love and Rockets: New Stories, Love and Rockets Vol. IV, and Psychodrama Illustrated—and expanded with 14 new pages! In Lovers and Haters, 50-year-old cult movie actress Fritz, in addition to her alcoholism and the ups and downs of her career, must also contend with a controlling lover, Danny; a jealous rival, Mila; a score of younger Fritz imitators, a sex cult; and mad scientists. Also in her orbit is her niece, Killer (sometimes literally, as seen in a Doctor Who-inspired TV show), a teen actress trying to launch a singing career while solving math problems. The specter of Fritz’s mother, Maria — also a cult movie actress — haunts them all with her beauty from beyond the grave.With a sprawling cast, Lovers and Haters is about mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, complex and often toxic relationships, artists and exploiters, personas and obsessions. It reads like an X-rated The Substance mixed with Mommy Dearest and Performance, with an added dash of giallo.

TURN LOOSE OUR DEATH RAYS AND KILL THEM ALL TP THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FLETCHER HANKS (MR)

Creators: (W) Fletcher Hanks, Paul Karasik (A/CA) Fletcher Hanks
Price: $44.99 | ISBN: 9798875001444 | Product Code: 0925FB0748

In-Store Date: 11/5/2025

Fletcher Hanks was arguably the first great comic book auteur: He wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories — an unprecedented solo act in the 1940s comic book industry. Between 1939 and 1941 he created nearly 50 comics stories, all unified by a uniquely artistic vision — primitive, bizarre, and singularly idiosyncratic. Whether it’s the superhero Stardust doling out ice cold slabs of poetic justice, or the jungle protectress Fantomah tearing evildoers from limb to ragged limb, contemporary readers will be stunned by the pop surrealism and unfiltered violent mayhem of Hanks’ work. This new paperback edition brings back into print all of Hanks’ previously published material and is the most complete collection of his work.

UNCLE SCROOGE FLINTHEART GLOMGOLDS SINISTER SECRET #2

Creators: (W) Francesco Artibani, Jonathan H. Gray (A) Alessandro Perina (CA) Henrieke Goorhuis
Price: $5.99 | UPC: 61520081610046211 | Product Code: 0925FB0756

In-Store Date: 11/12/2025

“Flintheart Glomgold’s Sinister Secret,” Part 2 of 3! Following Percy Fawcett’s trail to the Lost City of Z, Scrooge McDuck and Donald are captured by villainous General Switchit Onoff of Brutopia—while thousands of miles away, off the African coast, Huey, Dewey, and Louie are prisoners on the floating island of Ophir! Is second-richest duck Flintheart Glomgold behind it all… and can our feuding Duckburg clan reunite to prove it?

MICKEY MOUSE THE PHANTOM BLOTS DOUBLE REVENGE #1

Creators: (W) Andrea Casty Castellan, Ted Osborne, Simone Sio Albrigi (A) Roberto Vian, Floyd Gottfredson, Stefano Intini (CA) John Loter
Price: $5.99 | UPC: 61520081611733111 | Product Code: 0925FB0759

In-Store Date: 11/19/2025

“The Phantom Blot’s Double Revenge!” The rumors are true… Mickey is once again an epic hero with an incredible rogues’ gallery! In our debut tale by fan favorite Andrea “Casty” Castellan, Mickey’s inky arch-enemy, the Phantom Blot, invades Mouseton with an army of its own citizens—cloned! Can Mickey beat back lots of duplicate Blots—or figure out which Minnie he’s dating tonight? All this and a new Super Goof backup story too!