Fiction:

The Metamorphosis

Written by Franz Kafka
Adapted by Peter Kuper

Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $10.95

A brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafka’s classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug.

Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a kinetic illustrated adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Kuper’s electric drawings—where American cartooning meets German expressionism—bring Kafka’s prose to vivid life, reviving the original story’s humor and poignancy in... Read more >

Flight Volume Six

Written by Kazu Kibuishi

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $25.00

STORIES BY [set in 2 columns]

JP Ahonen
Graham Annable
Bannister
Phil Craven
Mike Dutton
Michel Gagné
Cory Godbey
Rodolphe Guenoden
Steve Hamaker
Kazu Kibuishi
Andrea Offermann
Richard Pose
Justin Ridge
Rad Sechrist
Kean Soo

“Regardless of where it’s shelved, this book belongs in every library.”—Library Journal, on Flight: Volume One

“The sheer force of creative energy on display is impressive.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Flight: Volume Two

“Sumptuously... Read more >

La Perdida

Written by Jessica Abel

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $14.95

From the Harvey and Lulu award–winning creator of Artbabe comes this riveting story of a young woman’s misadventures in Mexico City. Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to “find herself.” She crashes with a former fling, Harry, who has been drinking his way through the... Read more >

Chicken with Plums

Written by Marjane Satrapi

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $12.95

“Chicken with Plums is a feast you’ll devour.”
—Newsweek

Acclaimed graphic artist Marjane Satrapi brings what has become her signature humor and insight, her keen eye and ear, to the heartrending story of a celebrated Iranian musician who gives up his life for music and love.

When Nasser Ali Khan, the author’s great-uncle, discovers... Read more >

Black Hole

Written by Charles Burns

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $18.95

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s it. There’s... Read more >

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Written by Kim Deitch

Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $21.00

The newest addition to Pantheon's growing list of graphic novels: a visually beautiful, narratively intricate, and powerful book by one of the most original, and–until now–least recognized comic artists at work today.

The place is New York City in 1933. The setting: the Fontaine Talking Fables animation studio. Teddy Mishkin–definitely alcoholic, possibly... Read more >

Ice Haven

Written by Daniel Clowes

Format: eBook, 88 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $18.95

At long last: Daniel Clowes is back at Pantheon, with a brilliant new graphic novel already hailed by Time as “another of his hilariously slightly off-center worlds that have a vague sense of dread about them. Kind of like where you live.”

Welcome to Ice Haven! “It’s not as cold here... Read more >

Good-bye, Chunky Rice

Written by Craig Thompson

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $12.95

This here be the first ever “graphical novel book” by Craig Thompson. It was winnning a Harvey Award, no less. It documentates the once upon a time in our fishing village town and a short turtle lad name of Chunky, last name Rice.

Mister Chunky Rice be living in the same rooming... Read more >

Flight Volume Five

Edited by Kazu Kibuishi

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $27.00

STORIES BY
JP Ahonen
Graham Annable
Chris Appelhans
Bannister
Matthew Bernier
Scott Campbell
Svetlana Chmakova
Tony Cliff
Phil Craven
Michel Gagné
Kazu Kibuishi
Kness
Sonny Liew
Reagan Lodge
Made
John Martz
Sarah Mensinga
Ryan North
Richard Pose
Paul Rivoche
Dave Roman
Kean Soo
Joey Weiser Read more >

The Essential Batman Encyclopedia

Written by Robert Greenberger

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $29.95

The ultimate guide to the man behind the mask . . . and the mythology behind the man.

“Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot. So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible. . . . I shall become... Read more >

La Perdida

Written by Jessica Abel

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $14.95

From the Harvey and Lulu award–winning creator of Artbabe comes this riveting story of a young woman’s misadventures in Mexico City. Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, heads to Mexico City to “find herself.” She crashes with a former fling, Harry, who has been drinking his way through the... Read more >

The Rabbi's Cat 2

Written by Joann Sfar
Translated by Alexis Siegel

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $22.95

Joann Sfar's beloved, humorous, and wise talking cat is back for more beautifully illustrated adventures in Algiers and across Africa in the 1930s. While the rabbi is away, his cat tags along with Malka of the Lions (the rabbi's enigmatic cousin), who roams the desert with his ferocious-on-demand lion. Some believe... Read more >

Black Hole

Written by Charles Burns

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $18.95

Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards

The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable)... Read more >

Ego & Hubris
The Michael Malice Story
Written by Harvey Pekar

Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $19.95

“Michael Malice is one of the most puzzling twenty-first century Americans I have ever met.”
–Harvey Pekar

Who’s Michael Malice, and how did he become the subject of a graphic novel by Harvey Pekar, the curmudgeon from Cleveland?

First of all, Michael Malice is a real person. He’s 5’6” and weighs 130 pounds. Although... Read more >

Flight Volume Four

Edited by Kazu Kibuishi

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $24.95

A full-color graphic anthology of short stories by some of the hottest creators in the field, FLIGHT, Volume Four is the newest addition to a great success story in graphic novel publishing.

Since 2004, when the first Volume of Flight burst on the scene, the publication of subsequent volumes has become a... Read more >

The Rabbi's Cat

Written by Joann Sfar

Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2007
Price: $17.95

The preeminent work by one of France’s most celebrated young comics artists, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat–a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his... Read more >

Alias the Cat

Written by Kim Deitch

Format: Hardcover, 136 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $23.00

At the center of the novel Kim Deitch deftly places himself and his wife Pam–a passionate collector of Halloween cats from the 1920s and 30s, whose collection is impressive to say the least. But when she buys a mysterious old cat costume, she and Kim find themselves in wholly new territory... Read more >

Flight Volume One

Edited by Kazu Kibuishi

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $19.95

Originally published by Image Comics in 2004, Flight, Volume One launched this graphic novel series with a resounding bang. Since then the Flight series has steadily increased in popularity–and now all of the Flight backlist will be coming to Villard!

Flight, Volume One received a great boost when graphic novel hero Scott... Read more >

Flight Volume Two

Edited by Kazu Kibuishi

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $24.95

The graphic novel anthology that solidified the stature of the FLIGHT series as one of the most thoughtful, beautifully rendered works in the field.

"Last year, the first volume of Flight introduced a squadron of talented young cartoonists whose anime/animation influence struck a fresh note among jaded comics readers. This edition... Read more >

Wolf Boy
A Novel
Written by Evan Kuhlman

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2006
Price: $13.00

On a frosty winter’s day, Francis—the sweet, generous, responsible eldest child of the Harrelson family—dies in a car accident on an ice-covered highway, and Wolf Boy is born.

The earth doesn’t rumble, no angels descend, and the sun doesn’t weep. Nothing, in short, to signify the deep change that each member of... Read more >

Buddha: Volume 4: The Forest of Uruvela

Written by Osamu Tezuka

Format: Trade Paperback, 376 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $14.95

The Eisner and Harvey Winner

In this fourth volume of the award-winning graphic novel biography, Buddha slowly discovers that his destiny lies in a path not readily available to him. With fellow ascetics Dhepa who has complete faith in the purifying quality of painful physical ordeals, and Assaji, who can predict everyone's... Read more >

Ode To Kirihito

Written by Osamu Tezuka

Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $24.95

It may or may not be contagious. There seems to be no cure for it. Yet, Monmow Disease, a life-threatening condition that transforms a person into a dog-like beast, is not the only villain in this shocking triumph of a medical thriller by manga-god Osamu Tezuka. Said to have been the... Read more >

Chicken with Plums

Written by Marjane Satrapi

Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $16.95

In her acclaimed Persepolis books and in Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi rendered the events of her life and times in a uniquely captivating and powerful voice and vision. Now she turns that same keen eye and ear to the heartrending story of her great-uncle, a celebrated Iranian musician who gave up his... Read more >

Buddha: Volume 3: Devadatta

Written by Osamu Tezuka

Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2006
Price: $14.95

The Eisner and Harvey Winner

The third volume of this epic graphic novel send Siddhartha further into a world mired in pain and suffering. The journey to peace and enlightenment looms far but bright.

Prince Siddhartha quickly learns that the monk's path is covered in thorns and self-abuses much more profound than shaving... Read more >

Good-bye, Chunky Rice

Written by Craig Thompson

Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $12.95

This here be the first ever “graphical novel book” by Craig Thompson. It was winnning a Harvey Award, no less. It documentates the once upon a time in our fishing village town and a short turtle lad name of Chunky, last name Rice.

Mister Chunky Rice be living in the same rooming... Read more >