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Fantagraphics’ Releases Caught Up in Strait of Hormuz Missile Strike

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A ship carrying graphic novels from Fantagraphics was struck by an Iranian missile around the Strait of Hormuz. The attack came during the escalating war between Israel, the United States, and Iran. The Strait of Hormuz is a major shipping channel. There have been multiple ships attacked which have resulted in the death of crew members. The loss of graphic novels is nothing compared to the loss of life and incalculable amount of damage already due to the war.

It’s unknown if any crew members were injured or killed in this particular attack but the ship did make it to port after the attack. Fantagraphics editor Mike Catron in a Facebook post broke the news.

Two graphic novels were impacted, The Atlas Comics Library No. 9: Adventures Into Weird Worlds Vol. 1 by Russ Heath, Bernard Krigstein, Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, Carmine Infantino, et al. and Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken by Roberta Gregory and Helen Chazan. Both were printed in India and bound for the Port of New York. It’s unknown if other graphic novels and releases were also part of the shipment.

Both of the books were scheduled to go on sale in early June and it’s unknown if any of the cargo on the ship, including the books, have been damaged, or if the cargo can even be offloaded onto another ship and get safely out of the area. It is believed that the ship was making a stop to drop off cargo before making its way to further destinations.

Diamond vs. Publishers Heads into 2027

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We brought the news in early March that there was some movement in the court case between Diamond and numerous publishers. The various parties and Diamond met on February 26 and March 3-4 in an attempt to find a resolution, the nature of the claims and defenses, to arrange disclosures, and propose a discovery plan. On March 4, there was a filing hashing out the plan for discovery, the process where documents pertaining to the case are handed over.

The issue is who owns the consigned goods that are still being held by Diamond. Ablaze, Battle Quest Comics, American Mythology Productions, Action Lab Entertainment, BOOM! Entertainment, and Fantagraphics are all fighting to get their inventory back. Diamond wants to keep the inventory to be able to sell it off to pay creditors. JPMorgan Chase Bank wants Diamond to sell off the inventory so it can get paid back by Diamond. Sparkle Pop is involved because it has sold off some of the inventory when it wasn’t supposed to and currently is holding the physical product in a warehouse it controls.

We said in our recent reporting that the earliest the trial would happen is November but likely December due to holidays. Well, we were off, because there is now a “hearing on dispositive motions” is set for January 27, 2027. That’s a hearing that asks the court for a ruling before a trial begins. The trial is expected to last 3 to 4 days.

How recent moves to have Diamond’s claims over the consigned inventory dismissed by other publishers, as well as the Trustee’s proposed deal with Sparkle Pop to sell the consigned goods impacts this is unknown… but get settled, because this could go for quite a while.

Fellow is an example of one of the orders released today.

Celebrate 50 Years of Fantagraphics with the Love and Rockets and More Humble Bundle supporting the ACLU

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Lovers of comics, fantasy, and any combination of the two will want to check out this comprehensive collection of everything published by the Hernandez brothers! The prolific trio is best known for their Love and Rockets series, which is included here in its entirety, plus Love and Rockets: The Covers and Love and Rockets: The Sketchbooks. (And if you’re a newbie to the series, we recommend starting with The Love and Rockets Primer!) But that’s not all: Humble Bundle and Fantagraphics has also included Maggie the Mechanic, Proof That the Devil Loves You, and Psychodrama Illustrated, along with a ton of other miniseries and one-shots to choose from. Pay what you want for the full Hernandez brothers experience, and support the ACLU with your purchase!

The Love and Rockets and More Humble Bundle has a retail value of $635 and you can get it all for just $18.

Love and Rockets and More Humble Bundle

Preview: Uncle Scrooge Legacy #465

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Uncle Scrooge Legacy #465

“First Aiders of Dawson!”
Story: Carlo Panaro
Art: Daniela Vetro
Translation and Dialogue: Thad Komorowski

“Klondike Calculations”
Story: Knut Nærum
Art: Arild Midthun
Translation and Dialogue: Joe Torcivia

Cover A: Arild Midthun
Cover B: Daniel Branca
Cover C: Carl Barks, Daan Jippes, and Ulrich Schroeder

Covers A and B available at Fantagraphics and your favorite comic shop.
Cover C—featuring a previously unfinished Carl Barks cover completed by Daan Jippes and Ulrich Schroeder—exclusively available at comic shops!
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$5.99 – 40 pages of comics!

Grab your legendary super-pickax for two untold Scrooge McDuck Gold Rush adventures… featuring Glittering Goldie!

Duckburg’s ongoing cast extends way way beyond just Scrooge, Donald and their nephews. We can’t go an issue without a fan-favorite co-star striking back. But if we mentioned Klondike “ice queen” Glittering Goldie O’Gilt, Uncle Scrooge‘s infamous inamorata, he might blow his stack… too late, she’s here!

In “First Aiders of Dawson,” Goldie is mining Scrooge’s gold claim at White Agony Creek when she takes a mortal blow… or does she? And when Scrooge, sinister Soapy Slick, and the Canadian Mounties all try to help or hinder her, just how much gold may change hands? Next, in Arild Midthun’s “Klondike Calculations,” a trained bear seems to be robbing Goldie’s Blackjack Saloon blind! Can Scrooge tame the savage thief before things get hairy?

Uncle Scrooge Legacy #465

Fantagraphics to Publish Requiem For Gaza, New Investigative Graphic Journalism by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco

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Requiem for Gaza

In the spring of 2025 the cartoonist Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, and Chris Hedges, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, traveled to Cairo where they interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had recently left Gaza. In Requiem for Gaza, they use the experience and stories of these families to detail the crucible of the genocide, the loss of homes and communities, the appalling death toll among friends and loved ones, the constant displacement, the terror of indiscriminate killing, the hunger and deprivation, the obliteration of all that was known and familiar, and the struggle to cope with the callous indifference of a world that continues to supply Israel with weapons despite its wholesale destruction of Gaza and mass slaughter.

Requiem for Gaza, like their New York Times best seller Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, combines comics and single images drawn by Sacco within the narrative written by Hedges. Hedges’ vivid prose and Sacco’s visceral images complement each other and together paint a portrait of dignity and suffering under genocide. The collective power of the individual stories that chronicle the first day of the genocide, the forced evacuation of homes, the targeted assassinations, the false hopes engendered by ceasefires, the dislocation and alienation of exile, the brutal killing and hasty burial of family members, and the humiliation of living under tarps without clean food and water bring every aspect of the genocide to life. Set against this horror are stories of self-sacrifice and compassion that show how Palestinians not only clung to their humanity, but morally triumphed over their killers.

Requiem For Gaza will be available wherever books are sold as a hardcover graphic novel (ISBN: 979-8-8750-0272-4) as well as a digital edition, in October 2026, for a list price of $24.99.

Roman Muradov’s All the Living is hauntingly beautiful

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Waking up in Purgatory, a young woman is forced to take part in a lottery, which she wins. Unfortunately for her, since she has had enough of life, the prize is to return to the world of the living and continue her life from where she had left it, with one significant difference: this time, she can see and communicate with ghosts–her own included. Her dull, monotonous life carries on, though her profound solitude is now mitigated by the presence of the ghosts of the dead, most notably her own. She discovers that living with her ghost has its advantages, until this relationship suddenly turns into a spectral triangle…

By turns compassionate and cruel, All the Living is a quiet, melancholy story full of delicate details, and unexpected humor. It’s a slow and subtle meditation on loneliness, rendered in Muradov’s shifting style, full of finesse and sensuality. A parable — at the same time gentle, penetrating, and occasionally profane — that marks the return of a master of the modern graphic novel.

Story: Roman Muradov
Art: Roman Muradov

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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Atsushi Kaneko and Briana Loewinsohn receive the inaugural ALA Outstanding Comics Awards

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Atsushi Kaneko and Briana Loewinsohn

Fantagraphics has announced that Atsushi Kaneko and Briana Loewinsohn are recipients of  inaugural Outstanding Comics Awards from the American Library Association’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table.

Briana Loewinsohn received the Outstanding Comics Award – Young Adult in the Category of Nonfiction Winner for Raised By Ghosts. Set in the author’s own teenage years, Raised By Ghosts follows a semi-autobiographical Briana through middle school and high school in the 1990’s. It’s a love letter to friends and family and all of the messy complexities they come with that reads like “slightly-grungy Wes Anderson” (Comics Beat). Briana had this to say about the announcement!

Atsushi Kaneko received the Outstanding Comics Award – Adult in the Category of Series Honor Books for Search and Destroy Vol. 1, 2, and 3. Translated by Ben Applegate, the series—”a blast of pure cyberpunk energy” (Publishers Weekly Starred Review)—is a contemporary reimagining of the timeless, Eisner Award–winning Dororo, by “God of Manga” Osamu Tezuka.

These aren’t the first awards for these titles either! Search and Destroy already has a fancy American Manga Awards seal on its catalog page, and Raised by Ghosts has been packing the trophy case full since its 2025 release, with a Harvey Award, a spot on both the Missouri Association of School Librarians Denny O’Neil Graphic Novel List AND the New York Public Library’s Best Comics For Adults List.

Fantagraphics launches Takumigraphics, a New Imprint focused on East Asian Comics

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Fantagraphics has announced a new imprint, Takumigraphics, devoted exclusively to East Asian Comics. This new imprint will feature comics, manga, manhwa, and more from Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and other countries. The launch is part of the publisher’s 50th Anniversary celebration taking place in 2026.

Ever since Fantagraphics was founded in 1976, they’ve sought out graphic works that are imaginative, daring, and aesthetically compelling. For the first 30 years, the focus was primarily on English language cartoonists, with forays into definitive translations of exceptional European and South American works. 2010 marked the publisher’s first serious entry into literary manga with the publication of A Drunken Dream and Other Stories by the pioneering shojo manga creator Moto Hagio. Since then they continued to publish manga by Atsushi Kaneko, Kago, Inio Asano, Susumu Higa, Gengoroh Tagame and others.

Takumi is a double-bottomed meaning encapsulating the imprint’s editorial goals: it refers to “excellence,” skillfulness,” “adroitness,” “ingeniousness” — as well as a person who embodies those qualities. It’s a term they feel exemplifies the aesthetic caliber of the books that will comprise this imprint — works of mastery and vision.

While the initial focus of Takumigraphics will be on Japanese comics, future titles will include comics by authors from Korea, China, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, and other Asian countries. While this represents a wide range of nuanced cultures and backgrounds, comics from these countries often share an aesthetic and visual language that they believe readers will recognize and appreciate.

The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief is dour but hauntingly beautiful

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Drawing upon her own bereavement, renowned comics artist and writer Carol Tyler emerges from a decade long period of grief to create an allegorical masterpiece.

During collisions between life and death, estrangement and loss, Carol Tyler turned to her pen to face facts and extract meaning from the oddly sacred experience. Exploring realms metaphorical, half-imagined, and all-too-real, she explored previously uncharted emotional territory for herself and others, in a work that is both painfully intimate and philosophically rich.

An artistic advancement nearly forty years into Tyler’s comics-making career, The Ephemerata features Tyler’s most breathtaking picture making ever ― fine, dense brush lines complemented with occasional color washes or highlights ― and formally stunning cartooning. Combining art and text in multiple ways ― in the traditional comics panel grid, as words-and-illustration, as organically flowing images surrounded by floating text ― she depicts the inner monologue of a fallible human being grappling with questions of profound relevance. Tyler’s memoirist skills also rise to the fore, excavating and colliding scenes from her history, delineating with sensitive intuition ways in which the inevitability of grief is built into our lives and our loves. To struggle in the face of loss is a universal experience. To turn it into this compassionate, deep and beautiful book takes a true artist.

Story: Carol Tyler
Art: Carol Tyler

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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Preview: Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagl

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Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle

by Howard Chaykin

When Howard Chaykin broke into comics in the 1970s, there was nothing quite like him. His original characters Dominic Fortune and Monark Starstalker took classic pulp heroes and ran them through a postmodern blender. This new volume contains retro-science-fiction bounty hunter Monark Starstalker’s debut appearance and all Chaykin’s color-comic-book Dominic Fortune stories, including the character’s unexpurgated Max series, published a generation later. Completing the package is the collision between pulp heroism and the devastating, bloody realities of World War I in Chaykin’s 111-page collaboration with The Boys writer Garth Ennis on War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle. The collection is introduced by author and comics scholar Brannon Costello. This second title in Fantagraphics’ Lost Marvels series collects some of the most exciting, sought-after work by Howard Chaykin from 1975 to 2008. Full-color illustrations throughout

Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle
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