Fans of The Hernandez Brothers will be delighted to learn that Love & Rockets: New Stories #8 and Comics Dementia from Gilbert Hernandez are both in stores now and available online at Fantagraphics. You can also pick up Beto’s recently released Blubber #2. Underground and Underworld Zap, the world’s most important and influential cartooning collective, delivers one last issue of their uninhibited, id-stroking, mad genius in this farewell 80-page giant – the biggest issue ever! Zap is the most historically and aesthetically important comics series ever published and Zap #16 is the only issue to feature all eight Zapsters under…
New Comic Book Day: Beyond Time and Again
The latest release from Fantagraphics Books is Beyond Time and Again by George Metzger. In 1967, George Metzger began serializing his counterculture comic strip Beyond Time and Again in underground West coast newspapers, combining high fantasy with prescient views of science, climate change, and political authoritarianism. Faithfully reproduced, for the first time, from the original art, this comix collection brings Metzger’s exquisite craft and mind-bending imagination to a new generation. Check out a video preview below: A video posted by Fantagraphics Books (@fantagraphics) on Feb 3, 2016 at 3:01pm PST
New Comic Book Day: Hip Hop Family Tree #6 and Blubber #2
Hip Hop Family Tree #6 by Ed Piskor drops in comics shops today, including three variant covers. From left to right: Regular edition, Fantagraphics exclusive, AOD Collectables and Velocity Comics variants. Find them at your local store or order a copy from http://www.fantagraphics.com/hhftmonthly6 Gilbert Hernandez keeps things weird with Blubber #2. Catch a glimpse in the video preview below: A wtf glimpse of #newcomicbookday release Blubber No. 2 from Gilbert Hernandez A video posted by Fantagraphics Books (@fantagraphics) on Jan 27, 2016 at 11:38am PST
New Comic Book Day: Frank in the 3rd Dimension by Jim Woodring
This is your chance to see Frank as you’ve never seen him before. Not the stark black-and-white Frank. Not even the glorious fully-painted Frank. No, this is Frank in the third dimension: about as real as you can get him. Frank and Frank’s world are already hallucinatory, but seeing him in the most technologically advanced and artistically crafted 3-D ever produced is an experience that has to be savored to be believed. The 3-D process for Frank in the 3rd Dimension involves creating more than 150 layers per drawing in order to round and “sculpt” each image into full, volumetric…
Sneak Peek: The Complete Crepax
The Complete Crepax is darkly sexy, surreal and erotic. We can’t wait for you to get your hands on this horror themed edition of Valentina stories. Coming this Spring and available for pre-order now at Fantagraphics.com/crepax
New Comic Book Day: Book of Hope
Book of Hope by Finnish cartoonist Tommi Musturi hits stores today. Check out a video preview and order your copy from Fantagraphics.com. Under the Radar gives Book of Hope by Tommi Musturi 7/10 in this review: “…filled with weird jokes, funny cartoon gags, and surprisingly poignant observations on aging, death, and—yes—hope…the books’ portrayal of the little scenes that make up life and lend it its meaning are uniformly lovely. The illustrations are beautiful, and without trying to spoil anything, the later chapters more than live up to the name of the book. It’s a nice, off-kilter story about…
Preview: Patience by Daniel Clowes
Advance copies of Patience by Daniel Clowes have arrived at the Fantagraphics office and they are glorious. Check out a preview below and pre-order your book at Fantagraphics.com/patience A video posted by Fantagraphics Books (@fantagraphics) on Jan 13, 2016 at 12:38pm PST
Invisible Ink- now available with bookplates by Bill Griffith
Get Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist with a limited edition bookplate featuring an original drawing, sketched and signed by Bill Griffith.
Daniel Clowes withdraws from Angouleme Grand Prix consideration
Earlier this morning, news broke that the list of 30 nominees for this year’s Grand Prix d’Angouleme was announced, and did not include a single female creator. The Grand Prix is a lifetime achievement award, and the winner is named president of the following year’s Angouleme International Comics Festival. In the event’s 43-year history, just one woman, Florence Cestac, has been awarded the Grand Prix. Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) and Posy Simmonds (Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe) have been among those nominated in years past. In the wake of today’s announcement, Fantagraphics Books and Daniel Clowes endorse the French group BD…
MORE RAGE PER PAGE, MORE SLAUGHTER FOR YOUR DOLLAR! The Real Deal Comes to Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics is proud to announce the complete collection of the provocative Real Deal Comix. The deluxe 176-page hardcover will be released in May 2016. A vital collection of sociopolitical comics history, Real Deal Comix was inspired by a shared frustration with racial tensions in south central Los Angeles. Creators Lawrence Hubbard (a.k.a. RawDog) and H.P. McElwee (a.k.a. R.D. Bone) created Real Deal Comix in their spare time as an incendiary yet satirical response to the brutality and inequality witnessed firsthand in their community. Dubbing the genre “Urban Chaos,” Hubbard and McElwee tell stories of inner city lives on the precipice, where everyday tasks…
