Fantagraphics May 2026 Solicitations

LOST MARVELS HC NO 04 GIL KANE RARITIES VOL 01 JUNGLE BOO KA-ZAR GULLIVER & OTHER REDISCOVERED WORK FROM THE 1970S (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Gil Kane
Price: $39.99 | ISBN: 9798875002045 | Product Code: 0326FB0779

In-Store Date: 5/20/2026

The Lost Marvels series again delves into the misty margins of Marvel’s past to shine a light on extraordinary work that has never or rarely been collected for modern readers. This is the first volume of a compendium of some of the legendary Gil Kane’s finest storytelling. Freed from the conventions of super-hero battles, Kane’s art is a revelation here, capturing in flamboyant, imaginative detail the classic settings and characters of Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book tales (made even more vibrant by the great P. Craig Russell’s inking); the origin of Ka-Zar from Astonishing Tales; and episodes of Gullivar Jones, Warrior of Mars, an adaptation by Kane and Roy Thomas of the seminal 1905 SF/Fantasy novel. Plus, a genre-hopping gallery of 100 exciting covers by the artist who almost single-handedly defined the look of 1970s-era Marvel.

COMPLETE HATE TP VOL 03 (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Peter Bagge
Price: $29.99 | ISBN: 9798875002366 | Product Code: 0326FB0777

In-Store Date: 5/13/2026

Peter Bagge is not only one of the primary architects of the alternative comics scene that exploded in the 1980s and 1990s (alongside peers including Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, and Daniel Clowes), but also someone who helped fashion the aesthetics and attitudes of an entire youth movement. His comic book series, Hate, chronicled the exploits of twentysomething Buddy Bradley and his gang of lovable losers through the rise and fall of the grunge era (and eventually beyond). Bagge’s style became a part of the Gen X zeitgeist and Hate became the best-selling alternative comic of its era, with Bagge’s illustrations gracing countless album and magazine covers as well. The Complete Hate Volume 3 collects all the Buddy Bradley stories from Hate Annual (nine issues, 2001–2011), as well as a host of other odds and ends from the original Hate series, Details magazine, I Like Comics, and much more. Now in his 30s and married, with a child, onetime slacker hero Buddy Bradley shaves his head, dons an eye-patch, quits his “real” job and buys the local dump — because what better place to raise a toddler? Part screwball comedy, part soap opera, part loose autobiography, Hate is an enduring chronicle of the 1990s as well as riotously relatable to anyone bumbling through their twenties.

END OF THE ARAB OF THE FUTURE TP VOL 01 A YOUTH IN THE MIDDLE EAST (MR)

Creators: (W) Riad Sattouf, Sam Taylor (A/CA) Riad Sattouf
Price: $22.99 | ISBN: 9798875002373 | Product Code: 0326FB0778

In-Store Date: 5/20/2026

Riad is a teenager growing up in the French region of Brittany, where he lives with his mother and brother and attends high school in Rennes. But his adolescence is anything but typical. Born to a Syrian father and a French mother, Riad spent much of his early childhood in Libya, rural Syria, and France—moving through contrasting worlds, political ideologies, and daily absurdities. Years earlier, his father—charismatic, authoritarian, and obsessed with dictators and with building a utopian Arab society—abducted Riad’s second younger brother, Fadi, and returned to Syria, leaving behind a fractured family. At 14, Riad navigates puberty, isolation, and the pressures of French society, while haunted by the absence of his father and brother, and the sadness of his mother. He turns to books, heavy metal, and drawing as refuge. The tone is darkly comic and sharply observant, capturing both the universal pains of adolescence and the surreal contradictions of the 1990s. Blending personal story and social commentary, this standalone volume offers a biting, poignant portrait of a young man coming of age in a world that feels both familiar and foreign. The End of the Arab of the Future is the first book in a two-volume series that concludes the critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic novel begun in Arab of the Future.

WHAT WE MEAN BY YESTERDAY TP VOL 02 (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Benjamin Marra
Price: $19.99 | ISBN: 9798875002403 | Product Code: 0326FB0781

In-Store Date: 5/13/2026

When Ninkugel, a conniving, peasant farmworker, inadvertently causes an insect plague that destroys his town’s crops, he leaves his village in a self-imposed exile to avert death. From there, he lies and cheats his way across the countryside in a quest for fortune and high-living. When he convinces the elders of another village that he is a champion demon slayer who has arrived to free them from the tyranny of Balthicus the demon’s reign of terror, he is feted as a hero savior. But much like the tale of the scorpion and the frog, will Ninkugel’s devious nature get the better of him? And what does any of this have to do with What We Mean By Yesterday Vol. 1? Although Vol. 2 reads as a distinct and satisfying graphic novel on its own, there are still mysteries to be revealed! What We Mean By Yesterday began as a daily comic strip, one page per day, posted on Marra’s Instagram (@benjamin_marra). Originally begun as an experiment in drawing faster and looser, it quickly became one of the more popular pandemic era webcomics, followed by over 20,000 readers daily, and has morphed into the most ambitious project of Marra’s career.

NAUGHTY BITS #1

Creators: (W/A/CA) Roberta Gregory
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 61520081634600111 | Product Code: 0326FB0780

In-Store Date: 5/20/2026

Roberta Gregory launched Naughty Bits in 1991. It became the longest-running solo alternative comic book series by a female cartoonist, coming to an end in 2004 after an influential and pioneering 14-year, 40-issue run. The series largely focused on her signature character Bitchy Bitch (aka Midge), whose stories remain the pinnacle of a historic career, and a highwater mark in comics and graphic novels over the past 40 years, and this summer sees the release of Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken, a 500-page compilation of Gregory’s “Bitchy Bitch” stories, presenting a life from childhood into middle age, following the character through multiple decades.To celebrate its release, as well as the 50th anniversary of Fantagraphics, we are proud to release this “facsimile edition” of where it all began!