We are proud and pleased to be publishing our first Nicolas Mahler book (a full-color hardcover, no less) in April 2012: Angelman. We are serializing the first quarter of the book with the rest of our weekly digital comics… at the end of which, you will be so absorbed in Angelman’s travails that you will have no choice but to pick up the book. Enjoy!
Daily OCD: 12/29/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Love and Rockets: New Stories #4 is ComicsAlliance's Best Comic of 2011, with Jason Michelitch saying "The final 15 pages of 'The Love Bunglers' isn't just the end of a great new issue of a Bros. Hernanadez comic book. It isn't just the sixth part of a fantastic serialized graphic novel that's run since last year. It is the culmination of nearly thirty years worth of nuance, gesture, shading, pacing and dialogue — of angst, mania, fear, friendship, anger, and love. It is the finale to an epic of human scale feeling and…
What’s in the January 2012 Diamond Previews
The new Diamond Previews catalog came out yesterday and in it you'll find our usual 2-page spread (download the PDF) with our releases scheduled to arrive in your local comic shop in March 2012 (give or take — some release dates may have changed since the issue went to press). We're pleased to offer additional and updated information about these upcoming releases here on our website, to help shops and customers alike make more informed ordering decisions. This month's Spotlight item is Nicolas Mahler's superhero spoof Angelman: Fallen Angel, an excerpt of which we are currently serializing here on our…
Daily OCD: 12/28/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: The National Post's David Berry names The Best Graphic Novels of 2011, saying of his #3 choice "This does feel somewhat like cheating, since there’s only a few sequences of proper graphic work here, but why quibble about format: Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910-2010 is, quite simply, one of the funniest things you’ll read in any genre. Kupperman has a child’s free-ranging imagination and an aging intellectual’s dry wit… This supposed telling of Mark Twain’s 20th-century life… would be an awe-inspiring work of imagination if it wasn’t so absurdly hilarious. Somewhere between John Hodgman…
Daily OCD: 12/27/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: The first part of Comic Book Resources' Top 100 Comics of 2011 countdown includes Jim Woodring's Congress of the Animals at #88… "It takes a bit of daring to be willing to alter the status quo in a respected body of work and considerable talent to be able to do so in as assured manner as Woodring does here." – Chris Mautner …Mark Twain's Autobiography 1910-2010 by Michael Kupperman at #87… "Through war, animal make-out sessions and film writing, Kupperman takes Twain through the ringer in a hilariously catastrophic epic that the real-life…
Things to See: new Tim Lane story page
At last, a new page of Tim Lane's story in progress "Notes of a Second-Class Citizen (Into the Basement)." See more from his forthcoming collection Folktales here. [Follow our Tumblr blog for lots more Things to See every day.]
Kim Thompson interview at The Comics Reporter
Your must-read of the day: The Comics Reporter's Tom Spurgeon talks to our second-in-command Kim Thompson. This, from Kim's very first answer: "…[I]t was more the one-two combination of [Carl] Barks's duck stories and the acquisition of the EC material that gave me a sort of 'holy shit' moment of realizing that if you take, say, the Comics Journal's Top 100 list of yore and go down it, Fantagraphics is now so dominant it becomes almost ridiculous. I think the current Fantagraphics list is unambiguously the greatest list of cartoonists ever to be assembled under one publishing roof, period. I'm…
Inventory Reduction Sale – 40% off overstocked items 4 days only!
You have all that Xmas cash burning a hole in your pocket. We've got teetering piles of books in our warehouse. Let's make a deal! We've put together a list of titles we have too many of and we've slashed the prices on these books by 40% for 4 days only — Tuesday December 27, 2011 through Friday, December 30. (Sale not in effect at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery.) This is a HUGE assortment including some primo stuff from your favorite artists: Bagge! Clowes! Cooper! Crane! Foster! Friedman! Hernandez! Herriman! Jason! Kelso! Millionaire! Ryan! Sacco! Sala! Sakai! Tyler! And many…
Daily OCD: 12/23/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Tucker Stone counts down The Best of 2011 at comiXology. and we sure like the looks of his top 5: At #5, Jim Woodring's Congress of the Animals: "Deftly exploring the individual's relationship with labor, consequence and love, Congress of the Animals might be Woodring's least nightmarish work yet. (Although there's still a decent portion of it involving face-robbed humanoids that you shouldn't leave lying open if you have junkies visiting.)" At #4, Prison Pit Book 3 by Johnny Ryan: "Back in 2009, when Ryan began Prison Pit, it was a revelation; a…
Weekend Webcomics for 12/23/11: Kupperman, Mahler & more
Our weekly strips from Kupperman & Mahler (Weissman is on holiday hiatus), plus links to other strips from around the web: — Up All Night by Michael Kupperman (view at original size): Angelman by Nicolas Mahler (view at original size): And elsewhere: The All-New Cartoon Boy Adventure Hour by John Kerschbaum at ACT-I-VATE: Amazing Facts… and Beyond! with Leon Beyond by Kevin Huizenga: Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane: Humblug by Arnold Roth (4 updates this week, continuing serialization of his unpublished 1979 strip Downtown): Lucky by Gabrielle Bell : Maakies by Tony Millionaire: Truth Serum by Jon Adams: What's in…
