Help me spend a credit at Fantagraphics

Do you have any Eightball?

Jesus, Fantagraphics is such a great publishing house, you're almost better off asking what you shouldn't get.

Some random recomendations, keeping in mind your price limit:

* Have you read any Usagi Yojimbo? If you don't mind (or, indeed, if like me, you flat-out enjoy) funny animal art, and have any interest in the samurai genre, that series just gives you rock solid storytelling and lovely clean art, volume after volume.

* Jacques Tardi's Adventures Of Adéle Blanc-Sec is an awesome gritty eurocomic about a badass heroine in a belle age setting. There's a pterodactyl in the first story. Luc Besson's working on a movie adaptation. I know this all sounds a bit Pirates-Robots-Zombies-Ninjas, but believe me, it's no fanwank.

* Martin Kellerman's Rocky is widely known as "the swedish Hate"; it's similairly witty in its nastyness and slacker protagonist, though Rocky has very different tastes (less Beach Boys, more Gang Starr.) I liked the second volume best.

* The Ketcham complete Dennis The Menace volumes - the gags in these aren't always or even often funny, but there's something about those clear lines that's just endlessly pleasing to me.

* If you've never treated yourself to the twisted acid trip fairy tale stylings of Jim Woodring, don't ask! Just buy it! (though frankly I would splurge 40 bucks on The Frank Book instead of going for single volumes, but if you wanna get yer feet wet there's no such thing as a bad investment when it comes to this guy.)

* Tony Millionaire if you dig absurd, scatological humor (urgh this makes it sound like Family Guy, doesn't it?) and unprettified, curiously intricate art.

* Jason - Downbeat, darkly humurous pulp with stylin' animal protagonists. All of his stuff is pretty affordable. I did a thread on this guy once.

* Harvey Pekar- Pour one out.

EDIT: If you know your Hernandez Bros and your Clowes chances are you'll already know some of these reccomendations, too; hope I didn't go overboard in repping stuff.