• Review: Panel Patter explores House by Josh Simmons • Review: The Daily Cross Hatch guarantees that Ted Stearn's Fuzz & Pluck will make you laugh • List: Largehearted Boy names his "Favorite Graphic Novels of 2008," including Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw • List: At RevolutionSF, Rick Klaw names "What Is Best in 2008," including The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 by Thomas Ott (reproduced from his top comics list on his "Nexus Graphica" column) • List: Zack Soto names his personal "best of/favorite" comics of 2008, including Perla La Loca by Jaime Hernandez, Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by…
The Italian Constitution, illustrated
14 Italian artists, including Ignatz creators Marco Corona (above), Gabriella Giandelli, Lorenzo Mattotti and Sergio Ponchione, illustrate the articles of the Italian Constitutional Charter for an exhibit opening in Bologna tomorrow, January 13. Marco Corona's blog has details in Italian; here's the Google translation.
2008 Critics’ Picks: 20% Off for 2 Weeks Only!
Last week we posted our monster tally of critics' Fantagraphics picks for the best comics of 2008. To celebrate the fact that over two thirds of our 2008 releases were chosen as the best of the year by various commentators, all of these titles are now 20% OFF for two weeks only, through 11:59 PM Pacific time, Jan. 26, 2009! Click here to browse the selection of titles. If you're missing anything we put out last year, this is a great chance to catch up!
Preview video/slideshow: Unlovable by Esther Pearl Watson
Scheduled to arrive around the end of this month, Esther Pearl Watson's Unlovable is a glitter-encrusted, hot pink hunk of high school humiliation, heartbreak, halitosis, hairspray and hilarity from the pages of Bust magazine. Click this link if the embedded slideshow doesn't appear above, and/or to open it in a new window.
“Rocky” by Martin Kellerman – #407
{mosimage} Fritz the Cat meets Jane Austen!?! This mostly autobiographical daily strip details the rudely hilarious travails of a young cartoonist and his layabout pals and neurotic girlfriends. Basically, it’s the pottymouthed animal-headed Seinfeld-esque comic strip we’ve all come to love. A smash hit in its native Sweden, presented in English for the first time. Join us Monday through Friday for a new daily strip, with a rolling archive of a week’s worth of strips. “It’s being acclaimed as the funniest Swedish comic of our time, but it’s more than that. Rocky is the long awaited generation novel that no…
Signed bookplate update: Tim Lane
Mr. Tim Lane of St. Louis, MO has kindly supplied us with a batch of signed book plates for his debut book Abandoned Cars, and they are now newly available. A bookplate may be obtained exclusively from Fantagraphics when ordering the accompanying book, at no extra charge! Some conditions apply; click here for more details and the complete list of books available with this FREE premium!
Now in stock: Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes by Anders Nilsen
Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes By Anders Nilsen Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes takes up where the artist’s first volume, Monologues for the Coming Plague, left off. Like Coming Plague, Density of Black Holes is a creatively experimental laboratory, comprising a collection of free flowing stream-of-consciousness gags, strips, and drawings that slowly coalesce into an unexpectedly compelling and complex narrative. The hints of story that came together in Coming Plague are extrapolated and expanded upon and grow to incorporate some of Nilsen's other outré strips from the anthology MOME, two of which are reprinted…
Daily links: 1/9/08
Getting quiet out there: • Review: Rob Clough on Abandoned Cars by Tim Lane • List: In The Cultural Gutter, Carol Borden lists Hall of Best Knowledge by Ray Fenwick as one of "10 Comics I Liked in 2008"
You’re welcome, Colleen
Colleen Coover indulges in a little "Fantastalgia" in this recently rediscovered panel. Read more about it and see a larger version on her new blog.
Webcomics update for 1/9/09
Time for the new installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 32-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures. Steven sez: "Watch in this and next week's installments how a frightened Chubby starts to resemble an Ariel Bordeaux character." And don't forget to catch up on our current 5-day chunk of Martin Kellerman's hilarious Swedish smash-hit Rocky, updated Monday-Friday! This week, Rocky's misadventures abroad in New York City continue!
