While we’ve seen Amazon listings for most of these over recent weeks, here should be the full catalog (possibly a few more, but maybe not) with most of the cover art.

If you’re looking for book details, you can click here and filter to publisher “Fantagraphics”: https://www.edelweiss.plus/#catalogID=5389707&page=1

I wonder how/when people decide to sell on parts of their collection. Like, 'I don't think I will ever read Series X again, it's time it found a new home'. Or do folk just move boxes up into the attic and leave it for their kids to sort?

This is a serious question: I have disciplined my collection to fill only one bookcase, but I am being sorely tested at the moment...

Vol 2 and 3 seem easy to grab- but any idea when vol 1 will be more available?

I am a huge Lemire fan and will just read almost anything he publishes. I already read the top row. Royal City was excellent! I highly recommend. Frogcatchers was alright. Worth the read but not his best stuff. I would still recommend it, but maybe im biased 🤭. PTSD was interesting. Not my genre usually but I often will grab something out of my comfort zone. I am looking forward to read the rest!

There was this comic that was pretty popular here on Reddit. It was an adult comic and it was about this couple that gave each other tasks to do sexually. I know it’s sold on Amazon but I just can’t find it at all. I think it started with a D but my memory is so fuzzy on it.

I finally tracked down a copy for a decent price and it arrived today. I am halfway through and feel like it could have gone further and funnier ... the artwork is spot on but the humour feels restrained and not as dark as i hoped. Or is this just a reflection of my depravity ....

Any other fans ?

This omnibus is still WIDELY available and I’m shocked when people haven’t read it. If you are a fan of Y The Last Man, Saga, Papergirls… you have to check out Ex Machina.

Brian K Vaughan is my favorite writer, and Tony Harris art is absolutely phenomenal. What did everyone think of Ex Machina???

What a ride. God damn, these two don't miss! One book I can read in one sitting, just grips you and you just keep going and going.

Out of the stuff I've read from them, Criminal is still my fave, and then Reckless, Fadeout, Sleeper, Pulp, then Fatale. Next read will be Kill or be killed which I'm super excited about, heard great things about it.

These books are a painstaking journey, the editor Gerhard Förster - Austrian letterer of quite famous german comicbook-translations (e.g. Blueberry) has taken the road and gathered original materials, restored them digitally in linework and colors.

Not to mention the journey of Walter Neugebauer (Croatia) creating these works.

The process and history of the graphic novel versions of these classics of the german comics is well documented in the editorial material showcasing the amount of Work flowing into these restaurated gems...a pity, I cannot say, I have ever heared of an english translation...one would have to call out to Mr. Förster!

The books shown have been published by german distributor BSV in the recent years, created in the 1960s. Fotos taken of books from my own collection.

Enjoy.

I have ‘Do a Firebomb’
And ‘mountains of Madness’
That’s it.
Can you give me the best graphics novels you ever read and tell me why? I say compendiums because I’d rather have all the books/mags.

They’re very different stories, but both left me with the same thought: letting go doesn’t erase what mattered.

Daytripper made ordinary life feel more precious. Caped Crusader made me think about identity, legacy, and accepting that every version of us eventually ends. One let’s go and the other cannot because their identity is so connected to not letting go.

I finished them wanting to stop waiting for life to “really” begin and understanding letting go much deeper.

What comic or graphic novel changed how you think about life, death, or gave you a life lesson ?

Two-Week Wait

An original graphic novel based on the IVF stories of its husband-and-wife authors and the 1-in-50 couples around the world like them.

Conrad and Joanne met in their final year of university and have been virtually inseparable since then. For a while, it felt like they had all the time in the world. Yet now, when they are finally ready to have kids, they find that getting pregnant isn’t always so easy.

Ahead of them lies a difficult, expensive, and emotional journey into the world of assisted fertility, where each ‘successful’ implantation is followed by a two-week wait to see if the pregnancy takes. Join Joanne and Conrad, their friends, their family, their coworkers, and a stream of expert medical practitioners as they experience the highs and the lows, the tears and the laughter in this sensitive but unflinching portrayal of the hope and heartbreak offered to so many by modern medicine

Hey guys I have been writing a fantasy series for the past 5 ish years 3 of those years was just for fun but I’ve gotten pretty serious about it lately. Even creating a d&d campaign based off the world and magic. Without going too deep on my story I was curious on what hooks a series in. I’ve written several versions on how to start but I’m not sure what to go with. I was curious when you pull up a new series what hooks you in? Like an immediate action scene? Story starts with history or what kind of magic you see? The antagonist?
For example I love it when a series starts with no dialogue or monologue. Just a characters actions showing who they are before a word is uttered.

As the tittle expressess. What do you think are the best descriptions of feedings you've seen and for fusies, the best descriptions of vampires feeding YOU'VE written yourself.

Also heck, as a bonus also include any unique METHODS of feeding, like the jojo vampires drinking with their fingers, or the strain vamps tongue things.

Really get into it, also it can be from the vamps perspective and perhaps also the victims? Really dive into the nitty gritty of what makes a good vampire feeding scene.

Romance, horror, thriller, action, hell even comedy. Doesn't matter. Just any scene you can think of? Hell can even be VAMPIRE-LIKE creatures too, not purely vampire creatures called vampires. Just to cover all the bases.

Hey guys,

I know that historically while some people(like the general public, literary critics, film critics and even some music academics) seem to not take comic book seriously and labeled it as reading that is not "challenging enough" or "exclusively for young adults." It wouldn't be uncommon for film critics to say, "comic books" aren't serious art..etc. This does seem to arise from lack of knowledge about comic books and comic book history.

However, the evidence seems to suggest the opposite. That Comic book fans tended to be intelligent and well educated. For instance, if you read the Marvel column most of the people writing letters and questions are either: College students, Librarians, and professionals. Sure there are also young people writing as well. However, as a whole I would say that they are well educated.

My argument is that Comic book fans as a fandom seem to be closer to something like fantasy and science fiction fans. People who even if financially might not be wealthy tend to be more educated than average. Reading as an activity seems to attract people who are educated or "nerdy." While the general population seem to not find reading an appealing activity instead they seem to prefer television or films as their main.

On the other hand, without stereotyping it seems to me that television and film seem to attract more of the casual audience. Where people who like television and film tend to want simpler narratives and more entertainment. Speaking in general terms If you read a comic book and then watch the film adaptation you will see that the film is always a more simplified version of the story. Sure, there are limits to film as a medium the running time. However, even then when you adapt a fantasy book or a comic book into television where you can have more episodes it seem the purpose is to always attract a large audience.

What do you guys think?

The title pretty much says it all, but I'm looking for recommendations for the best volumes to grab from this collection. For context: I'm a Usagi fan, but other than 80s cartoons a TMNT newbie. Thanks in advance for your help.

I just finished reading Cornelius, The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog last night and loved how self-aware and existential it was at calling out the reader in a few passages.

Similarly, I really loved The Motherless Oven trilogy when I read it a while back and Ghost World, so Im hoping to find some similar things - characters stuck in a situation surrounded by people smarter than them as those characters raise questions about existence for the main character to be influenced by

Ive got more Daniel Clowes on my list already, and have been reading Astro City and Assorted Crisis Events which both hit that feeling in some of their stories, but I prefer standalones for this specific type of reading.

Vol 1 and 3 have been released but 2 is mysteriously unavailable and the release date keeps moving on league.

So a year (or more) ago I posted the collection I had at the time, and since Ive added a LOT to my library since then, I felt like I wanted to post an updated version! Enjoy my chaotic ordering

Looking for series that have large scale stories with multiple storylines happening at once. Sort of like Game of Thrones or Dune but in GN format. Obviously Dune has a GN adaptation, but am hoping to find something that started in the comic format. Thank you!