For Immediate Release:
(not final cover)
The living will forever be
obsessed with death and those who have started on that grand adventure
before them. This Fall, Fantagraphics presents two books to capture the
imagination and haunt each and every night by the young and talented Julia Gfrörer and Ben Catmull.
by Julia Gfrörer
September 2013
$9.99 Paperback • 72 pagesBlack-and-white • 6" x 9"
ISBN: 978-1-60699-717-8
The push and pull, ebb and flow of the water calls out to all men. In this harrowing new graphic novella, Black Is the Color, Julia Gfrörer delicately hatches away this sailor-at-sea story until the reader drowns in imminent destruction. Gfrörer states, "Black Is the Color
is my most ambitious single story comic to date, and I'm thrilled that
Fantagraphics will be publishing it in a format that matches my vision
for the work." Originally serialized at the Study Group web collective, Gfrörer's work is as seductive as the mermaids she draws beneath the waves.
(final cover may vary)
Ghosts and Ruins
by Ben Catmull
September 2013by Ben Catmull
$19.99 Hardcover • 88 pages
Black-and-white • 10.25" x 8.50"
ISBN: 978-1-60699-678-2
Black-and-white • 10.25" x 8.50"
ISBN: 978-1-60699-678-2
Continuing his expanding Fantagraphics catalog, Ben Catmull's chilling compendium of long-forgotten and still-occupied haunted houses joins his 2006 critically-acclaimed Monster Parade. "For Ghosts and Ruins
I wanted to take my obsessions with ghost stories, abandoned
architecture, and forgotten history and illustrated them with images
full of shadows, atmosphere, and texture. I'm looking forward to see how
people react to a book that approaches the horror genre not with
adrenaline fueled sadism or tongue in cheek goofiness but with haunting
meloncholy and a little deadpan humor," Catmull summarizes. This
coffee-table sized collection is the perfect gift for the future ghost
in your life, and fans of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton are sure to enjoy
these sweeping landscapes that echo of loss, dilapidation and dread.
Coming September of 2013, make room on your bookshelf for Julia Gfrörer's Black is the Color and Ben Catmull's Ghosts and Ruins.
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