“Cult” cartoonist Frank Stack is best known as the artist behind Harvey Pekar’s award-winning graphic novel, My Cancer Year (his art was featured in the American Splendor film), and as the creator of the first underground comic book, The Adventures of Jesus. Foolbert Funnies collects comics—inspired by Stack’s pop culture-filled childhood and travails as a fine arts professor—that ran in National Lampoon and other publications. (For decades, Stack’s work was published under the pseudonym “Foolbert Sturgeon” to protect his career.) In Foolbert Funnies, you will find adventuress Dirty Diana; nostalgic time traveler Frank Crankcase; commonsensical Dr. Feelgood; politician Paddy Booshwah; “Southern Fried Homicide”; and a host of Amazons, artists, and pulp heroes, all depicted in Stack’s scratchy, hatchy “crowquill” style. This “best of the rest” is a tribute to a Texan who’s been quietly creating observational, iconoclastic art for more than forty years.

Thistour-de-force graphic biography explores basketball superstar Michael Jordan’s public successes and private struggles, with Santiago’s passion for his subject shining through on everyfull-color page. At the age of 19, Jordan scoredthe winning jump shot in the final seconds of the 1982 NCAA Championship,earning him the moniker “Air.” He was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 1984, ateam with a decade of failure. By 1991, Jordan led the Bulls to their first NBAchampionship, besting Magic Johnson and the L.A. Lakers. In 1992, Michael Jordanjoined the Dream Team, an assembly of 12 legendary NBA players who steamrolledeveryone at the Barcelona Olympics and brought the gold back home. Despitetaking a season off to try his hand at professional baseball, Jordan still ledthe Bulls to three consecutive NBA Championships. However, his life is not without controversiesor calamities, and no amount of success or money can shield him from it. Buteveryone wanted to be like Mike, and Santiago comes closer than anyone toputting you on the parquet floor of the Chicago’s United Center in your veryown pair of Air Jordans.