FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! Today’s exclusive look at a recent or upcoming Fantagraphics project comes from their Underground imprint. It’s the first time that underground comix veteran Barbara “Willy” Mendes’ Queen of Cosmos Comix trilogy has been collected in one volume. Check out six pages of psychedelic awe below!

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QUEEN OF COSMOS COMIX TRILOGY

by Barbara “Willy” Mendes

Barbara “Willy” Mendes’ masterpiece of hallucinogenic storytelling, Queen of Cosmos Comix Trilogy, collected for the first time in a single volume.

Queen of Cosmos Comix Trilogy, underground cartoonist, fine artist, and muralist Barbara “Willy” Mendes chronicles women creators’ psychedelic journey through Biblical tableaux, modern life, and into a fantastical, interstellar future, weaving in her own intimate stories of being an artist, mother, and grandmother, especially in the never-before-published third volume. Inspired by Jewish mysticism, Mendes presents a creation myth shaped by feminine cosmic consciousness, with new, immersive worlds— and a radical reimagining of this one.

Includes an illuminating and entertaining interview with Mendes, as well as the 3rd never-before-published chapter of the trilogy

Fantagraphics at 50 Month runs through August at Broken Frontier. You can see articles as they’re published in one tagged list here. 

— Broken Frontier Staff