FANTAGRAPHICS WINTER 2025 NEW RELEASES
Some people don't like to be reminded that Winter is coming--they're either still disappointed in the way certain television shows handled that particular promise, or they don't look great in heavy down parkas, or some other valid reason, like being annoyed they have to travel out of state to see a family who still refuses to understand that working in comics is an actual job, just as respectable and challenging as being an "environmental insurance adjuster"...maybe that last one is too specific, but the general thrust of the point remains. Some people just aren't looking forward to winter!
To those people, we here at Fantagraphics have to say: we got you covered. Whether it's the latest installment in the decades-long case we've been making that nobody can draw like Jaime Hernandez or the most important graphic novel debut of 2025 (yes, you read that correct; yes, the hyperbole is earned, Kayla E. is that good, we said it), the season we have coming is one that will hit as hard as any.
Raised By Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn, the acclaimed author of Ephemera: A Memoir, is a powerful, affecting graphic novel for young adult readers. The story is told by shifting between Briana’s first-person class notes and diary entries. In her understated yet masterful approach to comics storytelling, Loewinsohn eschews dramatic confrontations and overt sentimentality, preferring instead to underscore the idea that sometimes acceptance and love can be communicated through quiet, everyday moments and close family bonds.
“If an exorcism can ever be slow and quiet, then every panel I’ve finished has felt something like an exorcism. The gutters give me space to make sense of things: to connect dots and close gaps. To remember.” Kayla E.’s Precious Rubbish is an experimental graphic memoir drawn in a style that references the aesthetics of mid-century children’s comics and tells the story of a childhood shaped by maternal emotional dysregulation, rural poverty, and incest. The author’s childhood is portrayed as a collection of short-form comics and gag panels punctuated by interactive elements like paper dolls, satirical advertisements, games, and puzzles.
This landmark graphic novel debut asks the reader to do the extratextual work of filling out narrative gaps, which mirrors the challenge of trauma recollection. The reader is invited to co-labor in the meaning-making process, an exercise that facilitates an intimacy (between the author, the subject, and the reader) that is at once horrifying and hilarious.
For almost three decades, Jordan Crane has put together a body of short stories that garnered him multiple Eisner and Ignatz Award nominations, via the pages of his comic book series Uptight and the influential comics anthology, Non. Yet they have never been collected until now.
Featuring over a dozen short stories (spanning multiple genres) published over the past 25 years, Goes Like This is a gorgeously packaged anthology (including varying paper stocks and exposed spine) from a master cartoonist.
In 1919, Victorian author Daisy Ashford (1881–1972) published a book she wrote at 9 years old to great success. Inspired by her imaginative adventure, writer Mathew Klickstein and cartoonist Rick Geary have created a delightful graphic novel adaptation, in which little Daisy goes to outer space, visits the cosmic automat, watches TV with a time traveler, and more!
Beat It, Rufus is very much a kindred spirit with Noah Van Sciver’s Fante Bukowski series, a comedic character study both played for laughs but also infused with a surprising gravitas that has you rooting for Rufus despite having every reason not to. Van Sciver’s comedic and graphic talents are in peak form in this original graphic novel, his follow-up to the award winning and critically acclaimed graphic bio, Joseph Smith and the Mormons.
Many more great title await your discovery! You can find highlights from their Winter 2025 catalog and see them all here on Fantagraphics.com! Thanks to Fantagraphics for sharing their exciting upcoming titles with us!
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