Fantagraphics August 2026 Solicitations

PEEPSHOW HC (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Joe Matt
Price: $49.99 | ISBN: 9798875002304 | Product Code: 0626FB0856

In-Store Date: 8/12/2026

Few comic book series can claim to have influenced a generation of cartoonists, comics fans, and comedians the way Joe Matt’s Peepshow did during its fourteen issues from 1992 to 2006. With an often alarming and always hilarious compulsion to confess, Matt found no aspect of his life that wasn’t more grist for the humor mill: his dysfunctional (and sometimes abusive) relationships, his Catholic repression, his horrible social skills, his addiction to pornography, his masturbation habits, etc. Yes, the character Joe Matt was usually an insufferable outsider, but in the hands of Joe Matt the writer/artist, his life was depicted with an eye and ear for human folly that rivalled R. Crumb, as well as an entertainer’s instinct and sense of comedic timing to rival Larry David, and it made Peepshow one of the most essential reads of its era. This book collects for the first time the entire original fourteen-issue series in one hardcover volume, as well as the posthumously-published fifteenth issue from 2024 (detailing Matt’s move to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue an ill-fated HBO adaptation of his work), each presented as painstakingly-restored facsimiles of the original issues. This definitive Joe Matt collection also includes other art and ephemera from the artist’s personal archives, including a hand-written introduction to a complete Peepshow collection that at the time was purely hypothetical and was only discovered after his death in 2023. Peepshow is rounded out with an insightful afterword by Diana Schutz, the Will Eisner Hall of Fame comics writer and editor, and longtime friend of Matt’s (and sister of Trish, Matt’s ex-girlfriend and key player in Peepshow’s cast).

PRINCE VALIANT HC VOL 31 1997-1998 (MR)

Creators: (W) Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, Cullen Murphy (A) Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, Cullen Murphy (CA) Hal Foster
Price: $39.99 | ISBN: 9798875002328 | Product Code: 0626FB0857

In-Store Date: 8/26/2026

On its sixtieth anniversary, the strip looks back on Prince Valiant’s eventful life as many threads begin to come together in a climactic and fateful series of events that will change the face of Camelot. Dire times are ahead for Prince Valiant and his companions, as a three-way war erupts between Arthur’s British kingdom, the Picts, and the Jutes; Aleta, Maeve, and Ingrid are thrown into prison by Lord Hussa; Camelot falls to a barbarian army; and King Arthur makes a last stand. Plus: Galleries of the best images from Prince Valiant by its creator Hal Foster chosen by artist admirers and comic-strip experts. 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.

UNCLE SCROOGE HC CLAN MCDUCK STORIES AND GLORIES

Creators: (W) Alessandro Gatti, Kari Korhonen, Giulia Lomurno, Gianmarco Paraggio (A/CA) Kari Korhonen
Price: $39.99 | ISBN: 9798875001789 | Product Code: 0626FB0860

In-Store Date: 8/12/2026

For generations, Scrooge McDuck’s biggest fans have studied and saved classic comics by Carl Barks and Don Rosa—striving to learn about Scrooge’s past in Scotland and his canny, courageous Clan McDuck. Now, for the first time, Scrooge presents (and co-stars in!) adventures starring his epic ancestors, created by fan-favorite international comics talents! In “The Lost Months of Swamphole McDuck,” Scrooge’s most mysterious ancestor joins the outlaws of Sherwood Forest… as a hostage! In “The Double Life of Molly Mallard,” Scrooge’s theatre-girl grandma battles Glasgow’s richest crook—then “Matey McDuck, Corsair” faces fiendish Flameheart Glomgold on the high seas! In “For King and Bonnie Scotland,” Scrooge even learns how the knightly Sir Eider McDuck became Scotland’s king until scandal brought him down… in less than a day. And more—much, much more!

BIMBO AGITPROP TP (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Raquelle Jac
Price: $34.99 | ISBN: 9798875002212 | Product Code: 0626FB0854

In-Store Date: 8/5/2026

Bimbo Agitprop captures the reality of growing up in West Texas in the early 21st century, through Satanic Panics, Y2K, a recession, abusive parents, shitty men, identity-centric politics, and woke/anti-woke pendulum swings. Reflective of the author’s era (born in the late 1990s) of hyperindividualist over-sharing of late 2010s internet, while being firmly grounded in the unfiltered, handmade, radically anti-establishment art of the 1960s underground comix, Raquelle Jac keeps her wounds fresh and open to both remember the past and protect herself in the future. At turns explicit, hilarious, profane, and defiant, Bimbo Agitprop is both an act of self-preservation and a call to arms. Jac boldly embraces frivolity, “bimboism,” comedy, memory, and storytelling to interrogate reality in the 2020s, ping-ponging among relationships, psychedelic trips, good sex, bad sex, romance, and trauma. Her dense, obsessive pages read like a manifesto, announcing the arrival of a remarkable new voice in comics.

ON THEIR FRONTLINES TP VOL 01 THE LIVES OF JAPANESE WAR BRIDES (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Marina Lisa Komiya
Price: $22.99 | ISBN: 9798875002298 | Product Code: 0626FB0855

In-Store Date: 8/26/2026

After Japan lost the War, the country was thrown into devastation. No one felt this devastation as much as Japanese women, who, left with few paths to choose from, took low-wage jobs, fell into sex work, and wed American G.I.s. In their affecting graphic novel debut, Marina Lisa Komiya follows the lives of two Japanese women and the American soldiers they marry in this tumultuous time period. Best friends (and possibly more) before the War, Haru and Yoriko are separated in the evacuation of their town during the air raids. As they search for each other afterward, Haru gets by as a waitress, while Yoriko sells her body at a brothel. Their fortunes change when they each meet respectful American soldiers, who take their hand. Arthur, a Japanese American, grapples with the inner conflict of his dual identity, while Scott is at once fascinated by Japanese culture and wracked with guilt over the destruction American forces have wrought. Amidst the postwar desolation, love finds a way, in this powerful work of manga that explores sexuality, identity, and unlikely cross-cultural connection.

QUACKY TP (MR)

Creators: (W/A/CA) Jim Woodring
Price: $19.99 | ISBN: 9798875002335 | Product Code: 0626FB0858

In-Store Date: 8/12/2026

Jim Woodring has been drawing the otherworldly, allegorical adventures of his cartoon Everycreature, Frank, for three and a half decades. These stories are a singular rarity in the comics form — both bone-chillingly physical in their depictions of Frank’s travails and profoundly metaphysical at the same time. Not since George Herriman’s Krazy Kat has the comics language been so exquisitely distilled into pure, revelatory aesthetic expression. With Quacky, Woodring adopts the format of 1930s Big Little Books to deliver a text story with illustrations, in which the typically nonplussed Frank’s reactions are told to us explicitly, through narration and his own thoughts. Frank is buffeted by generosity, anguished to see how loving friends perceive him, distraught by the process of aging and physical transformation in a beloved pet, delighted by nature and physical experiences shared with others, and ultimately sees a path toward radical acceptance in the face of trauma. Frank cast regulars Pupshaw, Pushpaw and Manhog are here, along with new entries to Frank’s world of the Unifactor. And, in a backup feature, we meet a cast of toontown pigs in a story that undercuts the kiddie book format: “Hoggy Goes Hogwild.” Cunningham, the clever pig who helps all his friends, and his confirmed fiancée, Porceline, are called on to assist local pal Hoggy – who turns out to have gone on a violent crime spree, presaging a possible psychotic break. Jim Woodring is back, and no two worlds wouldn’t be the same without him.

ROY #2

Creators: (W) Gilbert Hernandez. Natalia Hernandez (A/CA) Gilbert Hernandez
Price: $4.99 | UPC: 61520081627800211 | Product Code: 0626FB0859

In-Store Date: 8/19/2026

Roy is haunted by nightmares of the Froat, so he gets up and goes for a stroll and runs into Tom-Jim-Jack Clown — battling a generic Froat for control of each other’s life force! In “Captain Cockatiel & Rudy,” the duo sail the high seas and discover an island of scaredy cats! Plus, Roy reveals his secrets of Christmas shopping!