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The first issue of Art of Fition's flagship title! Featuring artwork by Bruce Timm, Rodolphe Guenoden, Robert Goodin, Shawn McManus, Troy Nixey, Brandon "Ragnar" Johnson, and also including many more talented artists from the realms of comics and animation. All-new artwork and stories starring our own original characters!

Private investigator Andrew Fisch is good at finding people, especially those who don't want to be found. But when his latest assignment (the seductive wife of a high-level Defense Department scientist) turns up in his best friend's bed, he is thrust into the underbelly of post atomic Los Angeles... where science is king and nothing is as it seems. What follows is a night of back alley beatings, triplet Russian thugs, and... lightning shooting revoolvers?

1998 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards - Winner - Best New Series: (by Linda Medley [Olio])
Numbers 1-7 were self-published by Olio. Then four issues were released by Cartoon Books released as Volume 2 #1-4. Then it returned to Olio and continued at number 12!
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Medley initially self-published the series as a series of individual chapters beginning with The Curse of Brambly Hedge through Olio Press using a 1996 grant from the Xeric Foundation. She continued self-publishing, releasing eight issues until the series went on hiatus in 1999. The series was picked up by Jeff Smith's Cartoon Books the following year, during which point Medley released four more chapters. The sales through Cartoon Books were disappointing and Medley returned to self-publishing in 2001. She released five more issues, bringing the total issues for the series to sixteen. Castle Waiting was again picked up by a publisher in 2006, Fantagraphics Books, who proceeded to release a hardcover collection of the first nineteen chapters.
The 2010 release of Castle Waiting Vol. 2 did not include a credit to Linda Medley as creator on the cover or any interior pages. The only mention of her name was in the fine print of the copyright notice on the last page, and on a retro-actively affixed sticker on the back cover. The sticker read "FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS \ STORY AND ART BY L. MEDLEY" and was placed over the "Fantagraphics Books" logo. Fantagraphics has stated that this was at Medley's request. This edition included 11 chapters and the story ended abruptly. In 2013, Fantagraphics Books released a "Definitive Edition" of volume 2 which included an additional 60 pages in 7 chapters and epilogue, to complete the volume. Fantagraphics stated in 2010 that Medley was currently taking a break from writing any additional chapters for the series.
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Castle Waiting v01 (2012)
English | CBR | 461 pages | 885.58 MB
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Castle Waiting v02 (2013)
English | CBR | 469 pages | 576.36 MB

The 25th century as presented in Death Hawk and its companion series Star Rangers was a dystopia of solar system-spanning corporations that held the true power behind the centralized government of the Sol 9 Commonwealth. His true name unrevealed, the protagonist was the surviving member of a group of corporate outcasts who called themselves the Death Hawks. When the group was betrayed by one of their own, Death Hawk escaped in his 50-year-old spaceship the Peregrine. With the aid of his bio-engineered sidekick, Cyke, Death Hawk traveled the spaceways eluding arrest warrants and creditors, his eye always out for ways to keep his salvage business going - often when legality was questionable.

It is a time of upheaval and civil unrest, but for Max Collins life is sweet. As campaign advisor to London mayoral candidate Thom Conran, he can always escape the pressures of the political arena and London city life to his country retreat. But when his errant daughter, whose fifteenth birthday is imminent, becomes embroiled in the politics of change that is sweeping the nation, when the problems show up literally right in his own backyard, Max's true colors begin to surface as he becomes torn between his current political allegiances and his more radical past. And all the while, the madding crowd is getting closer.

The Funniest Comic Strips from the First Decade of ToyFare Magazine.
You know the trend of making classy, oversized collections of some of the greatest comic stories ever told? Take away the 'classy' part and you've got the Twisted ToyFare Theatre 10th Anniversary Collection! Packed with the funniest strips, coolest extras and most scintillating behind-the-scenes tales of ToyFare magazine's 10-year-old comic strip!

A collection of stories from 24 of the participants in one of the most talented cartoonist groups to participate in the International 24 Hour Comics Day annually -- the Denver group. This year's stories were taken from the 4th Annual Denver 24 Hour Comic Challenge on Saturday, October 20, 2007.

Having uncovered the dark secret of her enigmatic classmate, Edward Cullen, Bella Swan embraces her feelings for him, trusting Edward to keep her safe despite the risks. When a rival clan of vampires makes its way into Forks, though, the danger to Bella has never been more real. Will she make the ultimate sacrifice to protect the people dearest to her? The second volume of Twilight: The Graphic Novelcompletes the visual adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's worldwide bestselling debut novel and is a must-have for any collector's library.

The graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, the first book in her four-volume and runaway bestseller Twilight Saga, published by Yen Press and adapted and illustrated by Korean talent Young Kim. The adjective is appropriate since Ms. Kim's monochrome artwork are just about perfect for the subject matter. Anyhow, just as the original books became best sellers, and the movie adaptation of these books box office hits, Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 also set printing records: it sold over 66,000 copies in its first week, the largest debut for a graphic novel in the US, according to publisher Yen Press. It has already broken the record for largest first printing for a graphic novel with 350,000 copies. Of course you can ask any American teenage girl on the street if she has read Twilight and it would be safe to say she has (although we would much rather have them read many other books with better topics). If you're in the US you can ask your girlfriend or wife about it and chances are she's read it, too. And if she has, maybe now's your chance to curl and cuddle up with her with a laptop or e-reader and read the graphic novel.

Imagine a nation that has lost its ability and desire to make things…” With that tagline, we enter the world of TINKERERS, a graphic novel and “original tale of the near future” written by David Brin and illustrated by Jan Feindt. The comic book envisions a dystopian future, painting America’s flailing manufacturing sector as both victim of and primary accomplice to its own demise. As much an economic tale as a moral one, TINKERERS’ authors clearly have the US industry’s failings in their crosshairs.

The first two volumes chronicling the unique art and design of Roger Dean met with huge critical and popular success. Views (1975) went straight to number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list and went on to sell over a million copies. Magnetic Storm (1984) sold over 650,000 copies. These new editions, reworked to accompany the publication of the third book in the trilogy, Dragon's Dream, showcase the instantly recognizable work of Roger Dean. Views showcases the first seven years of Roger Dean's work after his graduation from the Royal College of Art in 1968. It includes paintings and graphics; branding such as the Yes typography and the first Virgin Records logo; groundbreaking stage sets; and album art including iconic early Yes covers such as the award-winning Tales From Topographic Oceans. The new edition streamlines the original square format and retains the combination of concept sketches and brilliantly displayed finished work. Featuring a new foreword, revised typography, and graphic openers and identifying icons, Views showcases and celebrates the art that defined an era.

Collected for the first time, here are the twelve extraordinary illustrated volumes that form the graphic novel of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT. Evocative full-color paintings and an artful abridgment of the original text capture the inimitable spirit and atmosphere of this passionate, complex, and thrilling tale. The story begins in our own time with Lestat, tall, blond, and handsome, a world-renowned rock star. His gifts are timeless, his youth never withers. But he was not always the powerful and famous child of darkness. Before his long earth-encrusted sleep, he was an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-Revolutionary France. It was then that he came face-to-face with the incarnation of evil and the temptations of love that he has ravenously pursued through time. Where it has led him and what he has become is the heart of the tale that has captured millions of readers.

It's 2007. Harry Wyckoff is a lawyer who gets sucked into the secret society of Wild Palms - a cabal of fascist thugs and virtual reality visionaries led by the charismatic Senator Anton 'Tony' Kreutzer. Kreutzer wishes to control the minds of his followers ("New Realists") and the destiny of the world through drugs (Mimezine), religion (Symthiotics) - and television. Harry Wyckoff must fight for the life of his mind as he's flug into a nightmare of smoke and funhouse mirrors; his struggle can only lead to tragedy...or transcendence. In this brave new world, interactive sitcoms commune with death squads, Japanese mythology and Brian Wilson: nothing is real.

Ciress is a world that runs on magic, and those with the most magic run the world. Genevieve Villard was in line to become a great leader, but during her Rite of Ascension something went horribly wrong. Her sister Giselle, a flibbertigibbet society girl, was conferred not only the power that was rightly Genevieve’s but that of every other Guild Master on Ciress. Now Giselle must come to terms with being the magical protector of her entire planet – if the Guild Masters let her live that long. Vibrant color and lush detail brings the magic of MYSTIC to life each month, as Giselle learns to live with her strange new power and the responsibility that goes with it.

After the ambitious graphic novel From Hell (2000) and before recommitting to superhero comics in the America's Best Comics line, Moore, the most popular and innovative contemporary comic-book author, tested the waters by revamping a number of costumed adventurers. In this collection of some of those stories, one member of the superpowered team Youngblood is murdered, and, in a wry commentary on the darker tone superhero comics adopted in the 1980s, one of her comrades stands trial. The investigation uncovers a magical book containing the stories of every person who ever existed; tracing the book's history over the centuries gives Moore the chance to visit various other genres, including the western, the war story, and the jungle tale. The collaborating artists' styles range from Rob Liefield's overblown excessiveness to the comics classicism of Gil Kane in some of his final work before his death.

What does depression look like? What does depression feel like? When you're stuck in the middle of it, is there anything that actually helps?In this collection of short, original comics, 14 young Australians chronicle their close encounters and experiences with depression, capturing snapshots of what depression is like in order to illuminate what is often unexpressed and help fellow sufferers know they are not alone.

Dorothy is a young girl with her heads in the clouds, but her feet planted firmly in the ground that is her foster aunt and uncle's farm in Kansas. Her dreams and outrageous ideas are illustrated in magnificent detail in her sacred journal. It is the day of her 17th birthday when she and her troublesome friend Thomas meet a traveling merchant, who possesses something that Dorothy cannot resist. It may only be a simple blanket, but something tells her it is much more. Could it hold the key to a strange yet familiar place that seemingly only exists in her dreams.

Free from Prison. Trapped in time. Doing Time is an original graphic novel about a colorful cast of convicts running for freedom while the law, and time itself, closes in on them.

Seven days, seven superpowers -- one for each day of the week! After stealing Santa Claus' magic cel phone, Jeremy commanded it to make his every day an adventure! Now the world's been turned upside down, because Jeremy got his wish. Every day of the week brings a different superpower, a different challenge, and big laughs.

Super Indian Volume One combines Issues #2, #3 and #4 and features the comic adventures of Hubert Logan, an ordinary Native American reservation boy who ate tainted commodity cheese and gained super powers.