Find out what February and March 2023 have in store for Fantagraphics! Discover some amazing graphic novels and don’t miss out.

February 2023

Spa

by Erik Svetoft

This nightmarish debut, a biting critique of consumer society and the “wellness” industry, recalls the films of David Lynch and Lars Von Trier and the horror manga of Junji Ito.

The Extraordinary Part: Book One: Orsay’s Hands

by Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot

Renowned for their great conceptual and graphic originality, acclaimed French cartoonists Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot have masterfully contributed an instant comics classic to the annals of science fiction—this first book in a two-volume graphic novel series is set in a near-dystopian present, where mysterious creatures called “whols” coexist with humans since their sudden appearance a few years earlier.

We’re All Just Fine

by Ana Penyas

This heartfelt graphic biography is a tribute to the artist’s grandmothers and a generation of women who quietly soldiered through over forty years of Fascist rule in Spain.

NOW #12: The New Comics Anthology ed.

by Eric Reynolds

The first new NOW of 2023 features all-new work from several contributors familiar to NOW readers as well as new artists from around the globe. Newcomers to this issue include Cynthia Alfonso (Spain) and Bhanu Pratap (India), while past contributors Noah Van Sciver (U.S.), Cecelia Varhed (Sweden), and Kayla E. (U.S.) all return with new work. As a special feature of this issue, legendary cartoonist Peter Bagge (Hate) collaborates with Brooklyn Nine-Nine writer Matt Lawton on “The Cartoonist,” a satire of the now near-obsolete profession of newspaper gag cartooning.

Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Donald’s Happiest Adventures

by Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Kéramidas

Presented as a “lost” 1960s Disney story — complete with retro-style color — Donald’s Happiest Adventures bristles with wit in the Carl Barks tradition… and bustles with the whole Disney comics cast, including friends and rivals Gladstone Gander, Mickey Mouse, and Pegleg Pete!

The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1927

This Eisner Award–nominated series showcases one of the most renowned and celebrated comic strips in the art form’s history as it strides boldly through the mid-1920s, its quirky characters in full flower in this gorgeous, archival hardcover collection.

TaleSpin: Flight of the Sky-Raker: Disney Afternoon Adventures Vol. 2

by Bobbi JG Weiss, Michael T. Gilbert, and Robert Bat

Can’t you feel the buzz? TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, DuckTales, and Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers are back — with more epic 1990s adventure comics spun off of The Disney Afternoon TV cartoons!

March 2023 Releases

Ephemera: A Memoir

by Briana Loewinsohn

A graphic novel that poignantly blends memoir, magic realism, and graphic medicine—gorgeously illustrated in a painted palette of warm, earthy tones, it is a quiet book of isolation, plants, confusion, acceptance, and the fog of childhood. Loewinsohn’s debut book is an aching, meditative twist on autobiography, infusing the genre with an ethereal fusion of memory and imagination.

Tits & Clits 1972-1987 by Joyce Farmer, Lyn Chevli, Mary Fleener, and more

The groundbreaking, women-edited comics anthology that served as an antidote and rebuke to male-dominated underground comix is now collected in a single volume for the first time.

The Heavy Bright

by Cathy Malkasian

In this allegorical, fantastical graphic novel, a queer young woman aims to dispel the greed and cruel masculine energy that has consumed the world.

Evita: The Life and Work of Eva Perón

by Hector Germán Oesterheld, Alberto Breccia, and Enrique Breccia

In a sequel to their spellbinding, experimental graphic biography of Che Guevara, Hector Germán Oesterheld and the Breccias chronicle the eventful life of Eva Perón.

Ms. Davis: A Graphic Biography

by Amazing Améziane and Sybille Titeux de la Croix

In this follow-up to their New York Times bestselling graphic biography of Muhammad Ali, the acclaimed French writer and artist duo tell the story of Black activist, professor, and prison abolitionist Angela Davis.

Walt Disney’s Mickey and Donald: “For Whom the Doorbell Tolls” and Other Tales Inspired

by Hemingway by Andrea Freccero, Alessandro Perina, Stefano Turconi, and Giorgio Cavazzano

Ernest Hemingway: Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner, war hero, famed novelist, journalist, adventurer — and inspiration to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, and Goofy! These epics range from direct pastiches to shorts loosely based on “Papa” Hemingway’s work — each paired with its authors’ “liner notes,” telling the fascinating tale of how and why they were inspired.