Hip Hop Family Tree not only explores the history of a musical genre, but also the socio-political climate from which it emerged. This latest volume explores the racial tensions between Black communities and government agencies in the mid 80’s- from the the war on drugs to the leveling of “crack houses” by LAPD militarized battering ram tanks. Ed Piskor (literally) illustrates how the famous hip hop lyrics “The roof is on fire” were elevated to anthemic status and connects it to the context of the oft-forgotten bombings by West Philadelphia police that destroyed the compound of MOVE activists; taking the lives…
LOVE AND ROCKETS: THE MAGAZINE returns!
Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez to revive their beloved series Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce that Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez’s beloved Love and Rockets will return this fall in the same magazine format that fans fell in love with during its original 50 issue run from 1982-1996. Love and Rockets has been Fantagraphics’ flagship publication since its initial magazine debut in 1982, and the new series (Vol. IV, for those keeping track) will launch on the eve of the title’s 35th anniversary in September 2016 and continue every four months thereafter. The new format and schedule comes after a decade of the Love…
Patience is a New York Times Best Seller for 15 weeks and counting
Since it’s debut, Patience by Daniel Clowes has remained on the The New York Times Best Sellers list for 15 consecutive weeks and counting.
F-Off Sale and other notes from the Underground
This week only, save 20% off FU Press books. Read staff picks and reviews below: Anna Recidivist Vol. IV by Zak Sally Zak Sally would like you to know that he’s not sorry for making a book that’s difficult to read, because it’s a part of the process. Tilting the book in certain angles to catch the right light is the only way to read some pieces of text that’s found within this zine/comic/object. It’s self-exploratory, probing, and seeking for answers that no one asked the questions to. Straight from brain to paper, the surreal experience of reading The Recidivist…
Fantagraphics on comiXology Unlimited.
Yesterday, digital comics service comiXology revealed a new subscription service. For $5.99 a month, users will be given access to titles from a myriad of publishers, including Fantagraphics. Some of our most popular series will be available through the service, including Love and Rockets, The Complete Peanuts, Hip Hop Family Tree and more. You can browse the full list of titles currently available on Unlimited below: (subject to change) ‘Taint the Meat…It’s the Humanity! 7 Miles A Second Abandoned Cars Athos In America Barack Hussein Obama Barnaby Vol. 1 Billy Hazelnuts Bottomless Belly Button Casey At the Bat and Other…
Joe Daly fans- get stoked for the release of Highbone Theater
Coming this summer and available for pre-order now: Highbone Theater by Joe Daly: Following a succession of some of the most quirky and outré graphic albums ever conceived, including the ongoing, award-winning RPG-inspired Dungeon Quest series, cartoonist Joe Daly has drawn his most ambitious stand-alone graphic novel yet — the 544 page Highbone Theater. Our protagonist Palmer — wallflower, mystic seeker and paper mill worker — moves into a new apartment with his outwardly self-assured and womanizing friend, Perry, and begins an epic struggle of love, hate, and self preservation. Events take a peculiar turn as Palmer befriends an iconoclastic co-worker,…
Free Comic Book Day 2016
This Saturday marks the 15th annual celebration of Free Comic Book Day. Fantagraphics has been a proud participant from its inception and this year you can pick up a classic collection of Love and Rockets material. Love and Rockets is one of the most acclaimed and beloved series in comics history, and this summer, Fantagraphics has announced that the series will be rebooted as a quarterly comic book series beginning with a new #1 in July! To celebrate, Fantagraphics is offering up this one-shot sampler featuring classic L&R material by the great Hernandez Brothers, including an all-new cover and several other surprises! A…
Fantagraphics at 40: History on Our Side
APRIL 28, 2016: SEATTLE, WA — This summer marks the 40th anniversary of Fantagraphics Books, and the publisher will celebrate the occasion with a series of events throughout the rest of 2016. Founded in 1976 by Gary Groth and Mike Catron (soon to be followed by Kim Thompson), the company published over 5,000 comic books and graphic novels over the next four decades, confirming its reputation as the publisher of the world’s greatest cartoonists, and as a champion for cartoonists who don’t fit within the commercial confines of traditional corporate publishing. The highlight of the anniversary celebrations will be the long…
New Comic Book Day: Peanuts, prose, Ducks, Ditko and a new Jessica Farm!
Look for these new releases at your local comic book shop today:
Fantagraphics Exclusive: Sir Alfred No. 3
SIR ALFRED NO. 3 By Tim Hensley $24.99 signed/numbered edition of 1000 The final publication of Pigeon Press In the last months before comics impresario Alvin Buenaventura passed away, he completed publishing Sir Alfred No. 3, an oversized comic book/graphic novel by the brilliant Tim Hensley (author of the acclaimed 200? Fantagraphics release, Wally Gropius). Sir Alfred No. 3 is an oblique biography of the world’s most famous film director, Alfred Hitchcock. In fact, despite being numbered “No. 3,” no other issues exist. The comic book is composed of multiple gag strips based on anecdotes found in tomes of film lore in the…
