Lynn Johnston has generously placed her entire foreword to the new volume of The Complete Peanuts (1981-1982) online for everyone to read at her For Better or For Worse website (online headquarters for her beloved long-running newspaper strip). Read, enjoy, pass along and (of course) order the book here.
Even More Old Jewish Comedians by Drew Friedman – Previews, Pre-Order
Even More Old Jewish Comedians by Drew Friedman 36-page full-color 10" x 10" hardcover • $16.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-489-4 Ships in: August 2011 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Master caricaturist/portraitist Drew Friedman’s spectacular visual tribute to, well, old Jewish comedians returns with a third and concluding installment that throws its net a bit wider to include a few women (Olive Oyl voice Mae Questel, Ed Sullivan show regular Jean Carroll, and The Rise of the Goldbergs creator Gertrude Goldberg); a handful of more contemporary figures (Richard Belzer, whose Law & Order: SVU gig has eclipsed his stand-up comedy, and Welcome Back,…
Now in stock: Twentieth Century Eightball (3rd Printing) by Daniel Clowes
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Twentieth Century Eightball (3rd Printing) by Daniel Clowes 100-page 6.75" x 10.25" black & white/color softcover • $19.00ISBN: 978-1-56097-436-9 See Previews / Order Now Twentieth Century Eightball collects the very best humor strips from Eightball, written and drawn between 1988 and 1996. Included within are such seminal strips/rants as "I Hate You Deeply," "Sexual Frustration," "Ugly Girls," "Why I Hate Christians," "Message to the People of the Future," "Paranoid," "My Suicide," "Chicago," and over three dozen more. Other favorites include "Art School Confidential," one of Clowes' most popular strips of all…
Now in stock: The Pin-Up Art of Humorama
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: The Pin-Up Art of Humorama by various artists; edited by Alex Chun; designed by Jacob Covey 216-page duotone 5.75" x 7.75" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-56097-959-3 See Previews / Order Now During the 1950s, Abe Goodman — brother of Marvel Comics publisher Martin Goodman — was the largest buyer of cartoons in the world. Publishing out of New York City under the Humorama banner, Goodman churned out scores of cheap digest-sized magazines boasting inventive titles like Romp, Stare and Joker that featured hackneyed jokes, cheesecake photos and the publications’ bread and butter,…
Now in stock: Esperanza: A Love and Rockets Book by Jaime Hernandez
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Esperanza: A Love and Rockets Book(Love and Rockets Library: "Locas" Book 5) by Jaime Hernandez 248-page black & white 7.5" x 9.25" softcover • $18.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-449-8 See Previews / Order Now Esperanza, the fifth volume of “Locas” stories by Jaime Hernandez, collects the remainder of the stories from the acclaimed Love and Rockets Volume II, picking up where 2010’s Penny Century collection left off. Taking its title from Hopey Glass's birth name, Esperanza follows the somewhat settled-down ex-punkette in her new life as a schoolteacher's assistant — which doesn't mean that…
Daily OCD: 8/5/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: To the surprise of few, The Hooded Utilitarian's International Best Comics Poll tops out with Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts in the #1 spot. HU editor Noah Berlatsky writes, "If you like charming, Peanuts is charming, and if you like dark, it’s dark, but it isn’t just charming, or just dark, or even just charming and dark. There are countless ways to like Peanuts, which is no doubt why it — deservedly, inevitably — tops this poll." • Review: "The squeaky-voiced character from the animated shorts was especially bold in his daily newspaper comic…
Meet Ian Burns
Ian Burns has his fortune told by Dame Darcy, July 10, 2010 Ian Burns is the second-most recent staff acquisition here at Fantagraphics (designer Tony Ong holds current "new guy" status) — you may know him as one of the voices who answers our phone and takes your orders, or as the friendly bearded fellow at our Emerald City Comicon booth this year, or perhaps you've read his "Diaflogue" interviews with Leslie Stein and Kim Deitch. If the latter, you know that Ian is a pretty thoughtful guy about comics, and I'm happy to learn that he's been contributing essays…
Weekend Webcomics for 8/5/11: Kupperman, Weissman & more
Our weekly strips from Kupperman & Weissman, plus links to other strips from around the web: — Up All Night by Michael Kupperman (view at original size): Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman (view at original size): And elsewhere: Amazing Facts… and Beyond! with Leon Beyond by Kevin Huizenga: Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane: Cochlea & Eustachia by Hans Rickheit: Humblug by Arnold Roth (3 new udpates!): Lucky by Gabrielle Bell (the conclusion of July's daily diary strips — they come down August 15 so catch them while you can): Maakies by Tony Millionaire (compare to last week's drunk version):…
Love & Rockets – the strip club??
Australian fan Phillip Marsden tweeted this picture to us, and… what the…??!! Yup, it's real. Somebody owes the Hernandez Bros. a cut of the profits, if you ask us.
Comic art exhibit with Jim Woodring et al. tonight at Gage Academy in Seattle
(Artwork by David Chelsea) We learned of this so last minute I don't even have time to write anything clever, so I'm just copy & pasting this info from the Gage Academy website: Steele Gallery: Think Ink August 5 – September 5Opening Reception: Friday, Friday, August 5, 6:00pm-8:00pm Local artists, cartoonists and graphic illustrators exhibit pen and ink artworks that display exceptional technical skill and creative, narrative story lines. Working with the constraints and possibilities of the fluid nib and inkwell, artists David Chelsea, David Lasky, Bob Rini, Jim Woodring and more dazzle the viewer with complex compositions and unexpected…
