A collection of graphic essays about what it means to be Jewish. In her first collection of graphic essays, Miriam Libicki investigates what it means globally and culturally to be Jewish, dating from her time in the Israeli military to her tenure as an art professor. Toward a Hot Jew is a new high watermark in autobiographical comics and shows Miriam Libicki as a powerful witness to history in the tradition of Martjane Satrapi and Joe Sacco. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Toward A Hot Jew (The Fantagraphics Underground Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Libicki, Miriam

Community & Culture

Fantagraphics Underground - FU Press

A father and son road trip as depicted in a surreal and experimental graphic novel. A father and son go on a road trip to discover train station relics, a professor explains his intricate grading methods, and a pen-pal correspondence gets more suggestive and dangerous. These are all interconnected in John Hankiewicz's Education through reveries, memories, and nostalgic abstraction to tell a story that only the medium of comics could do justice. In this experimental and rewarding graphic novel, chronology and permanence are in flux while surreal illusions weave in and out of lucid states, remarkably held together by Hankiewicz's confident, clean line and crosshatchings. Much like Here by Richard McGuire, Education is a time-fracture stream of consciousness told by a veteran cartoonist in his poetic prime. Black &amp; white illustrations throughout.

Education

Comics & Graphic Novels

Hankiewicz, John

Graphic Novels

Maxon Crumb's life has been one of turmoil and each absorbing chapter of Maxon: Art Out of Chaos recounts each painful struggle while developing into a fiercely independent artist. Included are excerpts from Maxon's writings, letters and anecdotes from his brother Robert plus a gallery of Maxon's stunning artwork.

Maxon: Art Out of Chaos: The Illustrated Biography of Maxon Crumb (The Fantagraphics Underground Series)

Arts & Photography

Crumb, Maxon

Individual Artists

An atmospheric bank robbing fantasy. This exquisite and mostly-silent graphic novel takes place in a fantasy cityscape loosely inspired by German expressionist film. Cult of the Ibis tells the story of an occultist getaway driver who, after escaping with the loot from a bank robbery gone wrong, orders a build-your-own homunculus kit and goes on the lam. Steeped in architecture and atmosphere, Tessler's gorgeous cartooning fuels this strangely gripping yarn, which is packaged in a gorgeous hardcover design. Black &amp; white illustrations throughout.

CULT OF THE IBIS (The Fantagraphics Underground Series)

Tessler, Daria

Autobiographical comics vignettes of being a black weirdo.In the Wilderness is an intimate look into the rich inner life of an odd-man-out comics creator. In a series of wryly funny autobiographical vignettes, Casanova Frankenstein endures schoolyard bullies, fumbles through ill-fated romances, and grapples with the anxieties of being a black weirdo. Black &amp; white illustrations.

IN THE WILDERNESS (The Fantagraphics Underground Series)

Frankenstein, Casanova

A satirical look at patriarchal ownership, dehumanization, and sexual objectification when middle-aged virgin buys a sex-doll.Doll is celebrated cartoonist Guy Colwell’s (Inner City Romance) darkly satirical take on patriarchal ownership, dehumanization, and sexual objectification. When an artist crafts a lifelike sex doll for a disfigured, middle-aged virgin, it soon takes on a lurid life of its own. Like an erotic Frankenstein’s monster, the mannequin brings out the basest instincts in each person it crosses paths with. Black &amp; white illustrations.

DOLL (The Fantagraphics Underground Series)

Colwell, Guy

Body horror, celebrity obsession, and wealth disparity collide in this satirical romp.

DITCH LIFE (The Fantagraphics Underground Series)

Lockhart, Amy

Comics and modern American advertising exploded into the public conscious at much the same time in the early 20thcentury. Long unseen and collected now for the first time: the gorgeous, funny, attention-grabbing comics, cartoons and illustrations from the OTHER career of comics creators Jack Davis (Mad), Al Capp (Li'l Abner) John Romita (Spider-Man), Mort Meskin (Sheena), Ross Andru (Spider-Man), Sheldon Moldoff (Batman), Neal Adams (X-Men), Noel Sickles (Scorchy Smith), Stan Drake (Blondie), Joe Simon, (Captain America), Basil Wolverton (Mad), Dik Browne (Hagar the Horrible), Clifford McBride (Napoleon), Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace), Lou Fine (The Spirit), Dan Clowes (Ghost World) and many more.

Comics Ad Men (The Fantagraphics Underground Series)

Brower, Steven

Graphic Design

Don Simpson, master of superhero parody (creator of Megaton Man and Splitting Image and original letterer, inker, and logo designer of 1963) brings to life the avatars of the Little Comics Group That Could in satirical form--as avatars of avatars. They're all here: Cyclobster, Black Bug, Psychic Psquid, Dr. UG, Helldiver, Limber Lass, Moonrock, and more--and if you don't recognize the names, you'll dig the thinly-disguised archetypes! With cameos by the Big Bang Universe, refugees from In Pictopia, and even Megaton Man and friends! Written, drawn and hand-lettered in an authentic Old School manner, X-Amount is just enough to satisfy! A comic for the ages that may finish off the Silver Age once and for all!&nbsp; For sophisticated readers.

X-Amount of Comics: 1963 (WhenElse?!) Annual (Fantagraphics Underground: Megaton man in Pictopia)

SIMPSON, DON

A sci-fi adventure romp that brims with dark humor, danger, and ominous allegorical undertones. When Delia receives mysterious radio signals from beyond the planet, her curiosity is sparked. The plucky young scientist teams up with the esteemed Professor Tak and his bohemian son Theodore to convince the skeptical citizenry that this is not all just some elaborate hoax. The implications of her discovery may shatter her world. 
Set in an atmospheric ’50s-era city in a parallel universe populated by anthropomorphic squirrels, Delia is a sprightly comics collaboration between cartoonist Hans Rickheit (The Squirrel Machine, Cochlea & Eustachia) and his wife, Krissy Dorn. This sci-fi adventure romp brims with dark humor, danger, and ominous allegorical undertones. Black and white illustrations throughout

Delia

Rickheit, Hans

Dorn, Krissy

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