Frank Carlson Library

Billy continues to wake in the same hotel bed, but his mind is jumbled about exactly how he got there. He's avoiding a phone call, but who's on the other end, and who's the woman in the hotel room with him?

The sixth issue of Now includes many new and familiar names: from rising international talent such as Keren Katz, Mariana Pita, and Veronika Muchitsch, to acclaimed lit comics stalwarts like Noah Van Sciver, Zohar Lazar, Steven Weissman, and Tim Lane. Now aims to blow the lid off what comics are and can be.

See here four more strange and sad stories of the critically lauded horror-adjacent anthology series, Ice Cream Man. See here a tetrad of atypical tales: a suppurating superhero satire; a lamentation of lost memory; a field guide for being a ghost; a rotten retelling of your favorite children's stories. See here some other confections, too. See here, see here!

Gumballs dispenses an array of bright, candy-colored short comics about Erin's gender transition, anecdotal tales of growing up as a triplet, and fictional stories of a socially inept love-struck teenager named Tobias. The wide-ranging series is filled with single-page gag cartoons, visual diaries of everyday life, funny faux personal ads, and real-life horror stories from customers at his day job. Gumballs offers a variety of flavors that will surely...

In the spirit of essayist David Sedaris and monologist Spalding Grey, SEAGLE and 19 emerging global cartoonists take drawn storytelling into the world of the "graphic essay." 19 stories of global attitudes about the naked body balance raw comedy, raw emotions, and raw cartooning. SEAGLE honestly chronicles his place as an undressed metaphorical fish out of water on different continents-from not recognizing a famous naked celeb in Hollywood to being...

Six months have passed since the events of Project Stardust and the theft of the Lado computer program by the rogue defense contractor Armawood. As Agent Scarlett Carver and the Covert Investigation Group hunt for clues that will lead them to its location, the real mastermind behind the theft, Project Stardust CEO Simon Klass, has been using the program to create the biggest criminal empire the world has ever seen. Now, with time running out,...

"Métal Hurlant" magazine was created in Paris in 1974 by Moebius, Druillet and Dionnet, the founding fathers of Les Humanoïdes Associés. This movement soon revolutionized the medium and inspired countless writers, artists and filmmakers the world over. Versions in various languages flourished everywhere, including in the States with "Heavy Metal." The French version was eventually shut down in 1987. But in 2002, Humanoids relaunched a limited publication...

The fifth volume of Mome includes the following: Tim Hensley (Weird Tales of the Ramones) returns for the first time since the third volume with the first-installment of his first book-length story, titled "Gropius," which tells the story of teen millionaire Wally Gropius, who will be disinherited unless he marries the saddest girl on earth; Martin Cendreda depicts a mostly wordless, surreal adventure starring three peculiar musicians, and what happens...

The first in a series of anthology stories designed to shed light on the rich history of the world of Battlecats. Each issue is crafted by a different creative team and will enhance the already lush characterization of some of the most important felines in the millennia since Valderia's inception.

Fantagraphics celebrates The Flapper Queens, a gorgeous collection of full-color comic strips. In addition to featuring the more well-known cartoonists of the era, such as Ethel Hays, Nell Brinkley, and Virginia Huget, Eisner award-winning Trina Robbins introduces you to Eleanor Schorer, who started her career in the teens as a flowery art nouveau Nell Brinkley imitator but, by the '20s, was drawing bold and outrageous art deco illustrations; Edith...