It’s a beautiful thing when New Comic Book Day happens to fall on April 20th and what awaits you in stores includes Kramer’s Ergot #9 and the latest from Simon Hanselmann- Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam. When you buy Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam (or Hanselmann’s previous book, Megahex) from Fantagraphics.com you can also receive an exclusive, free copy of Minihex, a collection of rare, controversial and previously unpublished work packaged in a full-color mini comic. Simon Hanselmann will be signing copies of Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery this Saturday in his new hometown of Seattle. And…
Wimmen’s Comix at Green Apple Books
It was standing room only at The Complete Wimmen’s Comix book signing on April 12th at Green Apple Books in San Francisco. Eleven creators spoke and fielded questions from the crowd. As was once true of the collective’s meetings, the artists’ discussions were lively and slightly contentious (accurately recalling 40-something years ago? Whew.) The passing back and forth of 2 microphones, one of which had a very short cable, lent an air of Three Stooges to the proceedings. The current activities of the women ranged from the theater to scientific illustration to academia to literature and union cartoons. Having been published…
Congratulations to Carol Tyler- winner of the 2016 Cartoonist Studio Prize!
Slate has announced the winners of the 2016 Cartoonist Studio Prize: “The winner of the Best Print Comic prize is Carol Tyler for her momentous Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father, a collection of Tyler’s three mournful, angry, beautiful memoirs about her dad, Chuck Tyler, his experiences on the European front in World War 2, and the PTSD—or “soldier’s heart”—that affected not just the rest of his life but his daughter Carol’s as well.” We congratulate her on this well-deserved honor and encourage everyone to purchase their own copy of this extraordinary work. http://www.fantagraphics.com/soldiersheart
Staff Picks for the Spring Cleaning Sale
Not sure what books to pick up during the sale? Browse our staff picks for suggestions: Anna But I Like It Before tackling the emotional and political quagmire that is Palestine, Joe Sacco hit the really hard topics in the early ‘90s – punk bands. While on European tour with the Portland based band, Miracle Workers, Sacco skewers fans, musicians, and critics with his classic hard-hitting wit and skillful cartooning. Music is my second life, which means I love watching the industry and people who take themselves too seriously get made fun of. Sacco never misses an opportunity to turn…
Fantagraphics Exclusive: Valentina Tribute Art Booklet
Order The Complete Crepax from Fantagraphics.com/crepax and receive a special, numbered, limited edition booklet featuring art created in tribute to the character Valentina, by an international coterie of over a dozen artists including Gilbert Hernandez, Richard Sala, George Pratt and many more! These 6″ x 9″ booklets are printed in full-color on satin finish paper. We’re sharing a few of the images here with quotes from the artists about the inspiration they take from Crepax’s signature character.
The Complete Peanuts Gets Presidential Treatment From President Barack Obama
Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce that President Barack Obama has penned the introduction to the long-awaited 25th volume of the award-winning Complete Peanuts series! As announced in Monday’s New York Times business section (link), “Obama pays tribute to Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the Peanuts gang” in the latest volume of Fantagraphics’ beloved series, which began in 2004 and wraps up this year. “In his final strip, Charles Schulz wondered how he could ever forget the Peanuts gang,” President Obama writes in The Complete Peanuts 1999–2000 (Vol. 25), which covers Jan. 1, 1999, through Feb. 13, 2000, when the final…
New Comic Book Day: The Complete Wimmen’s Comix
In stores today: The Complete Wimmen’s Comix In the late ’60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium — but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology, Wimmen’s Comix. Within two years the Wimmen’s Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie to the comics-reading public, and would go on to publish some of the most talented women cartoonists in America — Carol Tyler, Mary Fleener, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Dori…
Soldier’s Heart by Carol Tyler, nominated for LA Times Book Prize
Congratulations to Carol Tyler, on her nomination for the LA Times Book Prize for Graphic Novels and Comics, for her book Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father: A Daughter’s Memoir. You can read the full list of finalists at the LA Times. Order your copy of this graphic masterpiece at Fantagraphics.com.
The wait for The Complete Crepax is almost over
Have you been patiently anticipating the release of The Complete Crepax: Dracula, Frankenstein, And Other Horror Stories? If you just can’t wait to get your hands on Valentina, we’ve got even more to entice you… We’re offering a Fantagraphics.com exclusive: The first 150 customers to order The Complete Crepax will receive a special, numbered, limited edition booklet featuring art created in tribute to the character Valentina, by an international coterie of over a dozen artists including Gilbert Hernandez, Richard Sala, George Pratt and many more! These 6″ x 9″ booklets are printed in full-color on satin finish paper. We’re also delighted to present…
Alvin
I haven’t wanted to post anything online until now about my friend Alvin Buenaventura, who unexpectedly passed away last Thursday. Alvin was a very private person and it felt unbecoming to mourn publicly. But over the weekend I shared some thoughts and memories with mutual friends, which felt good, and I feel like it’s time to share some of that with the rest of the world. I’ve known Alvin since 1994 or so. He was only a teenager at the time, but he stuck out because of his age and because he would routinely spend large sums of money on…
