Praise for Not Funny Ha-Ha “It’s human, humane, and full of information that every person should have and many try to deny people from having. This is the rare book that is bigger than the sum of its parts.” Read more at Large Hearted Boy “It’s not only a beautifully-made and well-actualized book, but it’s also probably the most accessible and relaxed, while still being frank, discussion about abortion that I’ve ever seen…. It feels like Hayes is giving you a reassuring hug and a warm cup of tea and then calmly talking you through what your next few days…
Winter 2016 Season Preview: part two
In our previous post we promised we’d reveal a new, upcoming title each day of the week. Today we’re sharing: 5000 KILOMETERS PER SECOND Winner of the prestigious Grand Prize at both the 2010 Angoulême Comics Festival in France and the 2010 Lucca Comics Festival in Italy, 5,000 Kilometers Per Second tells—or almost tells—the love story between Piero and Lucia, which begins with a casual glance exchanged by teenagers across the street through a window and ends with a last, desperate hook-up between two older, sadder one-time lovers. Executed in stunning watercolors and broken down into five chapters (set in…
Show us your piece of #HipHopHistory
Dig through your crates, dig through your pullbox and show us your piece of #HipHopHistory! We want to see your favorite vinyl, posters and band shirts. Upload a pic and tag it with #HipHopHistory and #Fantagraphics for a chance to win a bundle of covetable, collectible variant covers of the brand new monthly Hip Hop Family Tree #1 before it drops.
Fantagraphics Winter 2016 Season Preview
The historic heat wave currently hitting Seattle has us daydreaming about winter. There are so many cool things to look forward to- like wearing sweaters again and spending a lot of rainy days curled up with some good comics. We’ve got some especially fantastic ones set to be published during our Winter 2016 Season and we’ll be introducing a new one each day this week. Today, we’re proud to announce the upcoming: Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
This Week’s Press Highlights
Praise for Hip Hop Family Tree “The amount of research he’s done sets a rather terrifying new standard for anyone else inclined to study the birth of hip-hop…No less brilliant than Piskor’s journalism is his graphical skill.” Read more at NPR “While the stories were great, Ed Piskor’s art may be better. I loved the combination of realistic looks with comic conventions to create a book that looked like a hip hop daydream. I also loved the technique that made the comic look like something that had been in my parent’s basement since 1984 along with all my old records,…
New Comics Wednesday
Is there any better way to spend a sunny summer day than to take some fresh comics to the park? Leaf is the perfect companion for a shady spot under your favorite tree. This all-ages, wordless graphic novel offers a hopeful vision of the coexistence of the urban and natural worlds.
Humble Bundle: Comics & Books for Music fans
Fantagraphics is proud to announce our participation in the latest Humble Book Bundle; featuring comics and books sure to please any music fan. Two Fantagraphics titles included in this bundle are: Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1 and Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind.
National Hot Dog Day
Today is National Hot Dog Day! The Fantagraphics staff (*cough, hard working interns, cough*) have taken this occasion to scour the archives for those tasty mystery meats treats appearing in our comics. We found dogs all overThe Complete Eightball, Megg Mogg Owl and Wally Gropius. Suggested ways to celebrate: Though you can no longer visit the (appetizingly-named) Funhole in Seattle, you can still recreate your own Jim Woodring hot dog by topping it with Pineapple, cream cheese & Sriracha. Sounds pretty good TBH. Also read the full cautionary tale “The Hot Dog with the Open Packaging” on Vice
This Week’s Press Highlights
Praise for The Complete Eightball “A lovingly restored two-volume collection of Daniel Clowes’s seminal comic book series, gives readers old and new a chance to reassess the great cartoonist’s work, allowing them to trace back the roots of later masterpieces and to enjoy some of the caustic, experimental, and just plain strange short stories.” Read more at The Comics Journal Praise for Jason’s If You Steal “Full of pop culture kitsch, genre-mashing experimentation, and quiet ennui-heavy contemplation” Read more at Comic Book Resource Praise for Dörfler “In Dörfler, his debut graphic novel from Fantagraphics, Pittsburgh-based cartoonist Jeremy Baum…
New Book Wednesday: The Octopus Rises & Fante Bukowski
The Octopus Rises by Ryan Boudinot Man, I had so many stab wounds, it was crazy. There I was at the conference center, and I hadn’t even adequately prepared my presentation. And so begins “Bleeding Man and Wounded Deer,” one of the stories in this collection of literary short fiction from the pen of acclaimed Seattle novelist Ryan Boudinot. Bouncing among experimental fiction, absurdist farce, paranoid futurism, and stinging satirical and stinging satire, Boudinot’s comic, inventive prose lays bare the hopes and anxieties of our age. From a heartbreaking and pitch-perfect account of the end of Bert and Ernie’s relationship,…
