A brilliantly illustrated survey of the international comic book landscape over the past sixty years. Published to accompany a major exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris in May 2024, this is a timely reframing of the international comics landscape over the past six decades. From the mid-1960s, the world of comics rapidly evolved into a highly creative art form for a sophisticated readership: in France, the magazine Hara-Kiri provided new terrains for graphical humour, while the adventures of Jean-Claude Forest’s Barbarella were published in albums by Éric Losfeld; the launch in Japan of Garo in 1964, an avant-garde monthly, presented the concept of auteur comics; and the release of Robert Crumb’s Zap Comix in 1968 established his reputation as the leader of the underground comics movement in the United States.

For the first time, this major historical survey of the ninth art establishes a dialogue between the three leading regions of comic book culture – Europe, Asia and America – and offers an immersive odyssey of the medium through its development over six decades ranging from the explosion of the twentieth-century counterculture scene to the most abstract contemporary styles. Built around twelve themes encompassing the many worlds of the comics imagination, Comics: 1964–2024 features artists including André Franquin, Gotlib, Claire Bretécher, Osamu Tezuka, Moebius, Edmond Baudoin, Alison Bechdel, Ulli Lust, Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi and Chris Ware, as well as introductions on each theme by leading authorities of the form, a brand new interview with renowned cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco, and a foreword by Paul Gravett.

I en liten bygd står 15 år gamle Denver plutselig uten et hjem. Ikke bare sliter han med å finne et nytt sted å bo: Mystiske skikkelser lusker i skyggene og på nettene herjer skremmende mareritt. Dette er første bok av to bøker om tenåringen Denver. En historie om identitet, vennskap og et rykte om en naken morderklovn. Oliver Levang er en Norsk tegneserieskaper kjent for nett-tegneserien, Hell(P), som han lager med samboeren, Vinter.

Arne pratar om allt mellan Trump, pandemier och Putin. En krönika över de senaste bevisen på människans storhet och dårskap, allt det som omger och komplicerar vår vardag. Kort sagt, Arne Anka är hyperrealism i fabelform!

Arne Anka, the swedish cult comic, finally in English!

Arne was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in the winter of 1983, and right from the get-go he has been pointing a finger at the sicknesses of the world and of humanity as a whole. Like a drunken medic his diagnoses were sometimes quite accurate and put to print, spread through magazines and newspapers stirring up more than one polemic. He didn´t speak about monsters, superheroes, fantasy or adventure; he spoke of daily life, and we all know that nothing is more political than how we live, and are allowed to live our short lives. That’s why we insist on labelling this comic as “hyperrealism in fable form”. Its inspiration is found in conversations in bars and cafeterias; the foundations of democracy.

This doesn´t stop the duck from travelling in space and time, and to reincarnate in different souls of his forefathers. That is why he can be found in Paris in the 1920´s drinking beer with Ernest Hemingway or discussing love & marriage in Brooklyn during the reign of Donald Trump. Arne Anka moves in a truly machiavellian universe, it is all to try and give us a better understanding of who we are and why we are here. And if he sometimes might seem a bit opinionated, it is only to invite the reader to form their own opinion.

Here is a presentation of some of his best comics, both old and new, a selection made by its author, Charlie Christensen.

Clover Press and The Library of American Comics prove that size does matter as we fulfill fans' long-standing requests to produce new editions of the first six volumes of Chester Gould's The Complete Dick Tracy. This is no simple reprinting – these volumes have been reformatted to be the same larger size as Volumes 7 through 29. In this premiere offering, we return again to those hardscrabble days of 1931, when tragedy in the Trueheart family puts young Dick Tracy on the police force and pits him against mobster “Big Boy,” Larceny Lu, the counterfeiter Alec Penn, the nefarious “Stooge” Viller, and Steve the Tramp! As an added bonus, the first thirty-four Tracy Sunday pages, with stories separate from the daily continuity, have been rescanned to make them sharper and cleaner than their original reprinting. There’s never been a better time than now to get reacquainted with Chester Gould’s crime-busting plainclothesman, with the publication of the new bigger edition of The Complete Dick Tracy Volume 1!

Samtidsvittnet Arne Anka är tillbaka i en ny krönika, som täcker åren 2010-2013. Hans dyrköpta erfarenheter och observationer har gått löpande i Dagens Arbete, Aftonbladet samt i hans egen serietidning, som lades ner 2011. Som alltid, hans moral är hög, hans humör gott, hans lektioner i vett och etikett är glödande, även om han aldrig skulle erkänna det.

Vardagens absurdism går som en kubistisk tråd genom alla dessa betraktelser av rutiner, krig, korruption och diskbänksrealism. Serierna är gjorda i kölvattnen av Irak-invasionen, bankkrisen, tsunamin och den medföljande härdsmältan i Fukushima samt den misslyckade “arabiska våren”, så de är egentligen inte alls särskilt roliga. Arne Anka är en serie i Machiavellis anda, där han analyserar och systematiserar tidens elände och försöker ge det ologiska den logik det förtjänar.

Boken är försedd med 10 sidor kommentarer kring vissa av sidornas tillkomst och bakgrund.

On a future, frozen Earth, a train that never stops circumnavigates the globe. On board: all of humanity that we could save from the great disaster that wrapped the planet in ice. At the front of the train, the survivors live in comfort and luxury - at the rear, their lives are worse than cattle, trapped in the squalid dark.

When one of the occupants of the tail breaks through into the main train - all hell follows in his wake!

The second volume of the graphic novel series that inspired the movie Snowpiercer presented in English for the very first time!

On a future, frozen Earth, a train that never stops circumnavigates the globe. On board: all of humanity that could be saved from the great disaster that wrapped the planet in ice. It has long been thought that Snowpiercer was the last bastion of human civilization...

but there is another train. Coursing through the endless, wintry night, its occupants live in a constant state of terror that they will collide with the train that went before... From this second train emerges a small group of the passengers who are willing to risk their lives in the deadly cold to explore what's left of our world.

The third volume of the graphic novel series that inspired the movie Snowpiercer, starring Chris Evans - presented in English for the very first time!

On a future, frozen Earth, humanity has been packed onto self-sustaining trains, doomed to circumnavigate the globe until the end of the interminable ice age - or until the engines give out.

When a scrap of music piques their interest, the inhabitants of the Icebreaker take the ultimate risk and cross the frozen ocean, a vast expanse with no train tracks... and no way to return to them.

Since its first publication in the 1990s, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important and successful—and beloved—history books of our time. As the late Howard Zinn said, “Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book.” Having sold well over 2 million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and numerous other commendations and prizes and was even heralded on the front page of the New York Times long after its first publication.

Now, the brilliant and award-winning artist Nate Powell—the first cartoonist ever to win a National Book Award—has adapted Loewen’s classic work into a graphic edition that perfectly captures both Loewen’s text and the irreverent spirit of his work. Eye-popping illustrations bring to life the true history chronicled in Lies My Teacher Told Me, and ample text boxes and callouts ensure nothing is lost in translation. The book is perfect for those making their first foray past the shroud of history textbooks, and it will also be beloved by those who had their worldviews changed by the original.

In the end, we're all the same…we just want to be smothered like babies against another
human's beating heart

Through a cracked door, heartsick Emi hears a playful growl. Cautiously, she lets her lover in―a wolf of a man wielding a bouquet of roses. His shoulders must have been four inches wider than mine. As I stood behind him, I fantasized about the broadness of his chest and the thickness of his neck...and about becoming his mistress once again.

And so their story goes. For a young woman interested in love without the hassle of a traditional relationship, an affair with someone else’s spoiled husband is just what she ordered―until it's time to move on.

Then there’s Yuko: with even less time for married men's shenanigans, she turns her attention to her aging father and the guilt of adultery that has gnawed at his heart for years. Her mother is long dead, yet her memory is enshrined for eternity in their―both father’s and daughter's―mirrored indiscretions.

Drawn soon after the critically-acclaimed Talk to My Back, the two stories in Second Hand Love mark the triumphant return of Yamada Murasaki, one of literary manga's most respected feminist voices. Translated by noted historian Ryan Holmberg, this edition includes an interview with the artist from the height of her career in 1985, where her wit and wisdom are on shimmering display.

On a quest in the Asian lands of Cathay, Prince Valiant encounters a fire-breathing mechanical dragon and the legendary adventurer Prester John. Armies converge, mountains crumble, and a father and son are reunited. Mordred escapes imprisonment and treacherously stabs Arn, who learns that Maeve is soon to give birth. Val discovers a lost colony and wrestles with a tusked whale off the coast of Greenland, but a spell overcomes the expedition on the Isle of Lost Youth. Plus, an introduction by Turkish/German artist Ertugrul Edirne and behind the scenes of a heavy-metal interpretation of Prince Valiant. 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 swordfights, 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.