Barnaby

In 2013, Fantagraphics began collecting Crockett Johnson's classic comic strip Barnaby—a whimsical, long-running newspaper feature about a young boy and his cigar-chomping fairy godfather, Mr. O'Malley—into a series of handsome hardcover volumes. Spanning five issues through 2025, this reprint series preserves Johnson's gentle satire and charmingly offbeat art, making the beloved strip accessible to a new generation of readers. A labor of love for the publisher, it celebrates Johnson's influential yet often overlooked work from the mid-20th century.