Comics Library comic books issue 8

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The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color. Volumes in this series are squareboud, 8-1/2 x 11, 60-pgs full color on quality paper stock. Each a fitting tribute to the Carl Barks duck legacy of great comics story telling. Cover art by Carl Barks, all story scripts and art by Barks. Letters from the Duck Man, Part Three: A Sense of Fandom article by Geoffrey Blum; A discussion of Barks growing sense of his following in the early 60s. "Jet Rescue"; The nephews experiment with jet engines. "Donald's Monster Kite"; Donald and the nephews compete at kite building. "Bicep Blues"; Donald body builds to impress Daisy. "The Smugsnorkle Squattie"; Donald buys the world's smartest dog. "Swimming Swindlers"; Donald and the nephews engage in a swimming contest. 60 pgs., full color. Cover price $8.95.

Volume 8 - 1st printing. "Snafu!" Collects Snafu Vol. 1 (1955) #1-3. Written by Stan Lee. Art by Joe Maneely, Russ Heath, John Severin, Howie Post, and Bill Everett. Cover by Joe Maneely. When Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Gaines launched ECs Mad comic book as a warmly received satirical magazine, a flood of imitators soon filled newsstands, but the first and best to follow in Mads footsteps (coinciding with the second issue of Mad magazine) was Snafu, edited and written by Kurtzmans former boss: Stan The Man Lee! Snafu was packed with Marvel/Atlas top humor creators and, following the Mad playbook, filled pages with ad and news spoofs, alongside film, television, and book parodies like The Blackboard Forest by Russ Heath, Pete Kelseys Booze and Bleed, You Bum! by Joe Maneely, Drugnet by Howie Post, Emily Toasts Etiquette Page by John Severin, and Snafus Lovely Ladies by Bill Everett, with production supervised by Marie Severin. Seen here is some of the most eye-popping work of Maneelys short life, including great Hollywood caricatures done in a wash style. In this new volume in our Atlas Library collaboration with Marvel, Fantagraphics is tickled pink to present for the first time, the complete Snafu collection along with a history of Martin Goodmans humor publications in all genres by editor Dr. Michael J. Vassallo. Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 256 pages, full color. Cover price $39.99.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. Special salute to Harold Grays influential Little Orphan Annie: The history of the strip; a profile of Gray and his work; reprints of a Little Orphan Annie adventure; unpublished Gray artwork. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. Cover by Gray. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

Volume 8 - 1st printing. "The EC Artists!" The Comics Journal Library Vol. 8: The EC Artists is the first in a two-volume set of interviews with the artists and writers (and publisher!) who made EC great. There are career-spanning conversations with EC legends Will Elder, John Severin, Harvey Kurtzman, and Al Feldstein, as well as short interviews with EC short-timers Frank Frazetta and Joe Kubert. Also: EC Publisher William Gaines on his infamous Senate subcommittee testimony, and probing conversations between Silver Age cartoonist Gil Kane and Harvey Kurtzman, as well as contemporary alternative cartoonist Sam Henderson and Mad great Al Jaffee. Softcover, 10-in. x 12-in., 192 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $28.95.

Volume 8 - 1st printing. "1934: Krazy Kat - King Features Essentials: Book 1!"

Story and Art by George Herriman.

Much attention has been paid to Herrriman's Sunday full-page comics, yet it is in the daily Krazy Kat strips that the cartoonist most frankly illustrates many of his major themes, especially the shifting nature of social identity. The 1934 strips reprinted in this book fit anyone's definition of "essential." They show Krazy Kat at top speed, ever-changing, endlessly inventive, with language that sparkles with double meanings and more in lines such as "his malady drills me to my sole." The year includes homages to old jokes and bricks, followed by playful references to sex, drink, and even drugs. The daily Krazy Kat strips are often Herriman's most personal works and standouts in this year include Krazy Kat's attempt to write a memoir and the Kat's quietly waiting for the last leaf of "ottim" to fall (a tender scene that finds echoes in Charles Schulz's drawing Linus admiring the last autumn's leaf stubborn spirit). It could also be argued that the daily is more accessible to the new reader. Herriman biographer Michael Tisserand provides an insightful introduction.

Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 12-in. x 4-in., 328 pages, B&W.

Cover price $29.99.

Australian Edition. Reprints in black and white. Warfront cover logo. 7-in. x 10 3/4-in., 24 pages, black and white.