The fun never stops at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. Visit us this weekend and enjoy our wildly entertaining Georgetown arts community while you’re at it. The Georgetown Art Attack on Saturday from 6:00 to 9:00 PM features wonderful visual and performing arts presentations throughout the historic neighborhood, including original drawings from Gina Siciliano’s amazing graphic biography of Artemisia Gentileschi at the bookstore.
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A puzzling Jim Woodring project is featured at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery this week. Cosmocopia includes a full-color print, a Woodring inspired hand-bound novelette by steam punk pioneer Paul Di Filippo, and a 513-piece jigsaw puzzle of a wondrous Woodring image (pictured above). This signed limited edition box set is on sale for $30 while supplies last. Discover treasures like this every time you visit the bookstore.
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Fantagraphics Bookstore curator Larry Reid and colleague Martin Imbach of Georgetown Records have organized a fascinating exhibition for the Bumbershoot arts festival. Between Garage & Grunge: Glitter, Glam & Proto-Punk in Seattle’s Subversive 70s examines the seminal counterculture that laid the foundation for a movement that would later influence pop culture on a global scale. The show includes period posters, photos, zines, records, film, and flamboyant fashion from an amazing era. The Labor Day weekend festivities feature music by Faith No More, Babes in Toyland, Dead Moon, The Melvins, Brand New, Social Distortion, Neko Case, and many more. Free preview of…
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When visiting Seattle this summer, make a mandatory stop at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in the historic Georgetown arts community. Search for coveted single-issues of Eightball, Hate, JIM, Palestine, Love & Rockets, and other hard to find merchandise. Check out original art and prints by your favorite artists. This week you can pick up a copy of the new edition of Phoebe Gloeckner‘s Diary of a Teenage Girl along with a revealing 2004 interview by Gary Groth in The Comics Journal #261. The new film, featuring Kristin Wiig, Alexander Skarsgard and Bel Powley opens locally on Friday. Looks fascinating.
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And the winner is…Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery was named Best Comic Book Shop by the Seattle Weekly in their 2015 Readers Poll with the following editorial: “While its role as publisher of high-quality comic work from legends and future legends gives the Fantagraphics name its gravitas, it’s the bookstore and gallery in Georgetown where you can bring out-of-towners to say, ‘Yup, this is the city where I live—how cool is this!’ It has the culture of a traditional comic shop, where you hunt through shelves looking for hidden treasures. Universes of comics can be found on its shelves, but…
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Prepare to party in Georgetown all weekend. This Friday, August 7 marks the 19th annual Dead Baby Bike Club Downhill Race. The reckless sprint ends in Georgetown about 7:00 PM, which marks the start of an apocalyptic party that includes BMX daredevils, drinking, tall bike jousting, drinking, punk and heavy metal mayhem, drinking, and…more drinking. Free entertainment all evening right outside the bookstore. Return to Seattle’s liveliest neighborhood on Saturday at 5:00 PM for the slightly more sedate Hot Off The Press book fest featuring special guests Noah Van Sciver, Ryan Boudinot, and Gina Siciliano presenting new works….
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More exciting news and debuts at our Hot Off the Press book fair at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday, August 8. The Intruder comix collective will publish the Extruder anthology, available for the first time here. Allen Gladfelter will present Casino Nation, a collection of the bankers, bureaucrats, criminals, and politicians responsible for the great recession of 2008 and the income disparity that lingers today. Original artwork from this series will be on display at adjacent All City Coffee. We’ll also have new comix, zines, and books from Noah Van Sciver, Gina Siciliano, Ryan Boudinot, Kelly Froh, Maire Masco,…
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Our Hot Off the Press fest on Saturday, August 8 will feature an amazing array of local artists in addition to special guest Noah Van Sciver, a prominent force in the minicomics movement. This event marks the debut of Desperate Times: The Summer of 1981, edited by Maire Masco. This essential Seattle zine was widely recognized for printing the first reference to “grunge” in a letter penned by future Fantagraphics staffer and Mudhoney front man Mark Arm to describe his then-imaginary band Mr. Epp and the Calculations. The six issues of this 25-cent tabloid serve as a time capsule of…
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If you missed Art Chantry’s book signing last Saturday at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, there’s plenty of time to see his colorful exhibition. The show remains on view through August 6 and we have a few signed copies of his new book available. (Well, three to be exact, but we’ll get more by the end of the week.) We’d like to thank Art and our colleagues at Feral House publishing for a fun and informative evening. Mark your calendars for Hot Off the Press, A Cool Summer Small Press Fest on August 8 featuring Noah Van Sciver, Ryan Boudinot, Gina…
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We can’t wait to unveil Art Chantry Speaks: A Heretic’s History of 20th Century Graphic Design. Come meet the influential graphic arts guru at a book signing, art exhibition and reception this Saturday, July 11 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. This event coincides with the Georgetown Art Attack featuring visual and performing arts presentations throughout the lively industrial arts corridor. The exhibition continues through August 6, 2015. Be sure to check out our vast array of small press publications including a beautiful new portfolio of Black Hole drawings from Charles Burns. Both Burns and Chantry contributed to the aesthetics…
