Fantagraphics Blog Eric Reynolds

Wednesday, Sept. 30, 7PM Mysterious Galaxy Books7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd.
Suite #302
San Diego, CA 92111
Tel: 858.268.4747


  Gary Groth and Kim Thompson will be at next weekend's SMALL PRESS EXPO in Bethesda, MD, debuting a slew of new books, including:  • Zak Sally's LIKE A DOG  • Al Columbia's PIM & FRANCIE  • E.C. Segar's POPEYE Vol. 4  • Steve Ditko's STRANGE SUSPENSE  • Kevin Huizenga's GANGES #3  • Hans Rickheit's THE SQUIRREL MACHINE  • MOME Vol. 16  • Jacques Tardi and Jean-Claude Forest's YOU ARE THERE  … and more. We have some very exciting signings as well. To wit: SATURDAY:   KEVIN HUIZENGA: 12PM to 2PM C. TYLER: 12PM to 2PM GAHAN WILSON: 2PM to 4PM HANS…

WHAT IS "THE SQUIRREL MACHINE?" GRAPHIC NOVELIST BEHIND STRANGE NEW BOOK ANNOUNCES BOOK-SIGNING TOUR WHAT IS THE SQUIRREL MACHINE? A rodent ensnarement device? A mechanism for concealing one's guarded harvest? An anachronistic fable for the convulsive elite? A nugatory diversion for the subliterate? The answer to that question can be obtained in the form of an unusual new graphic novel in a book-signing tour working its way up the northeast coast this Autumn. THE SQUIRREL MACHINE is the brainchild of HANS RICKHEIT, who will be making appearances to autograph books, make sketches and speak personally to curious readers. The Plot:…

Drew Friedman and Jerry Lewis in Las Vegas this past weekend, backstage at the MDA telethon. 

  Please join the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – MoCCA forABSTRACT COMICS: a panel discussionSaturday, September 12th, 4 p.m. 2009Admission: $5 | Free for MoCCA Members featuringDerik BadmanRichard HahnPatrick McDonnellAndrei Molotiu Anders PearsonHenrik RehrAlexey Sokolin Join MoCCA for a discussion about Abstract Comics: what they are, who is making them and why. Abstract Comics explores what is essential to the medium of comics – panel rhythm, page layout, the sequential arrangement of formal elements – and tells us how comics function and where they can go. This talk is held in conjunction with the exhibition Silent Pictures at James Gallery, CUNY,…

  Event: PERSONALITY PARADE "Pop Cult® Paintings by Jim Blanchard"What: Art OpeningHost: Jim BlanchardStart Time: Friday, September 11 at 6:00pmEnd Time: Friday, September 11 at 9:00pmWhere: Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA Jim Blanchard debuts a dozen new portrait paintings and who knows what else at the Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle this Friday, September 11 (and through October 3).  Jim says, "This series of paintings  was done using a technique that simulates the grid effect of the 'sticker paintings' I did for Roq La Rue years ago– The subjects are: Lee Marvin, Klaus Kinski, Diana Rigg, Clint Eastwood, Marty Feldman,…

Join Editor Andrei Molotiu, Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell, and others this Thursday afternoon at Jim Hanley's Universe for an exciting ABSTRACT COMICS signing!    WHAT: ABSTRACT COMICS signing WHO:  Andrei Molotiu Patrick McDonnellRichard HahnGeoff GroganHenrik RehrAlexey SokolinAnders Pearson WHEN: Thursday Sept. 10, 5PM WHERE: Jim Hanley's Universe, New York City 

Next week's Not To Be Missed Event: Paul Karasik and "The Fletcher Hanks Experience," an illustrated tour over the brutally surreal Hanks mindscape narrated by the late Fletcher Hanks, Jr.  Part visionary lunatic, part vengeful alcoholic, part cartoonist, Fletcher Hanks created the weirdest comic book stories of all time. And he did them back before anyone even knew what a comic book really was. Hanks worked during the first three years of the comic book industry and then vanished leaving behind 51 twisted tales of omnipotent superheroes and sexy jungle godesses. Unlike most comic book artists, Hanks was a genuine auteur: he wrote, pencilled, inked,…