Comic books in 'Fantagraphics Studio Edition'

1st printing.

Story and art by Hal Foster.

Hal Foster's Prince Valiant Artist's Edition is a 192-page collection scanned from Foster's original pages and printed in full color, capturing every nuance of Foster's masterly brush strokes. Each page is so rare that the sum total of the original art reprinted in this book would likely cost millions. From Foster's very first Prince Valiant page to his very last the public will be treated to a selection of some of the most iconic and beautiful comic art ever made.

Hardcover, 17-in. x 23 1/2-in., 192 pages, full color.

Cover price $175.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $175.00

1st printing.

Fantagraphics' latest Studio Edition turns the spotlight to the great Daniel Clowes, author of Ghost World, Patience, Wilson, David Boring, The Death Ray, Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron, and many other books.

This collection features over 150 pages of exact facsimiles of the original art, at original size, to best showcase the artist's cartooning process. Curated by Clowes himself, this career overview collects raw original pages from the very beginning of his one-man anthology, Eightball, and up through his best-selling 2016 graphic novel, Patience.

Plus new covers, endpapers, and more by Clowes himself, including five pages of a never-before-published aborted graphic novel.

Hardcover, 15-in. x 22-in., 150 pages, full color.

1st printing.

Story and art by Ed Piskor.

From Public Enemy to Professor X, this collection of scans of raw, un-retouched original art gives insight into the creative and drawing processes of the best-selling, award-winning Hip Hop Family Tree Tree/X-Men graphic novelist.

This career overview of one of comics' greatest creators collects raw, un-retouched original pages from the best-selling series Hip-Hop Family Tree and X-Men: Grand Design, and includes commercial art, designs for a line of Public Enemy action figures, and much more. It features over 150 pages of exact facsimiles of the artwork sitting on Piskor's drawing table, at the exact size created, scanned in full color to showcase every detail in the artist's process - from blue pencil, to Wite-Out, to swaths of deep, inky blacks. Each piece is annotated by Piskor personally. It's like sitting in the author's studio! A must-have book for students, educators, and collectors.

Hardcover, 17-in. x 23 1/2-in., 192 pages, full color.

Cover price $150.00.

1st printing. Written by Carl Barks and Kim Weston. Art and cover by Carl Barks. Carl Barks: The Fantagraphics Studio Edition collects Barks preliminary pencil pages —or storyboards—of comics he wrote after he retired from penciling and inking, serving as a perfectly legible graphic storytelling map the finishing artist could follow. These are fully written and designed stories —which include Barks hand lettering— and can be read as easily as the rendered final versions. The advantage to these original art renditions is that the reader can not only appreciate but positively savor Barks gorgeous, nuanced penciling. These pages display the architecture beneath Barks final inked pages, revealing how fluid, vital, and effortless his finished panel-to-panel storytelling was, and how the subtlety of his characters facial expressions were baked into the pencil work. Writing the story and breaking down the page graphically is the cartoonists first step to creating a comic, and here is an opportunity to see one of the 20th century's greatest cartoonists thinking as drawing. This book includes King Scrooge the First, the last Uncle Scrooge story Barks wrote and one of his best, as well as Pawns of the Loup Garou and many others. The pages are reproduced from high resolution color scans and printed at the actual size they were drawn. The fidelity to the original art is so uncannily realized that a page framed under glass would be indistinguishable from the original. Every page convincingly conveys the quality and expressivity of Barks pencil linework. Also included are several cover sketches and finished pencil drawings that were never published, and covers that were bought, finished, and submitted but never published. An introduction by Barks expert and editor Kim Weston provides background information and aesthetic commentary on the stories. Hardcover, 11-in. × 14-in., 160 pages, B&W. All Ages