Fantagraphics Blog Jen Vaughn

You heard right, digital comics lovers, Fantagraphics Books is now DRM-free on comiXology. Along with a long list of publishers like MonkeyBrain Comics, IDW Publishing and more, you can now keep a backup of your comic. Sweat no more.   "After the wildly successful launch during Comic-Con International we're thrilled to offer our customers an even greater selection with this next wave of publishers offering DRM-free backups," said comiXology VP of Communications & Marketing Chip Mosher. "We look forward to continuing to work with more publishers in offering DRM-free backups to comics fans worldwide."   So check out some of our latest…

This weekend, September 26-28th at the Wizard World convention (held at Music City Center) in Nashville you can find cartoonist Peter Bagge as a special guest amongst all your favorite sci-fi tv and movie stars. Peter will have his newest graphic novel, Buddy Buys a Dump, in addition to Everybody is Stupid Except for Me (and Other Astute Observations). a collection of his polication comics from Reason Magazine. Find him at table A34.   The show is open Friday the 26th from 3pm – 8pm; Saturday the 27th from 10am – 7pm; and Sunday the 28th from 11am – 5pm.     You can buy tickets online and possibly…

Lucy Knisley is appearing at her first big event since the debut at SDCC! Starting Friday, September 26th at 7pm at Challengers Lucy will be signing and customizing your copy of her newest book from us, An Age of License. This travelogue follows recounts the artist's charming (and romantic!) adventures on a book tour in Europe. The comic store has even gone to the kitchen to whip up some of her sweet and savory treats found in a previous graphic novel, Relish. Challengers was also awarded the 2013 Will Eisner Spirit Award so roam the stacks with ease and feel free to ask the…

The time is nigh to buy tickets to see Jim Woodring at Town Hall in Seattle! On Sunday, October 5, from 7:30 – 8:45pm you will be glued to your seat for Offhand Gestures: An Evening of Spontaneous Creation with James McNew, Bill Frisell, and Jim Woodring. Woodring will great on-the-spot drawings and paintings inspired by the collaborative musical efforts of jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and James McNew, bassist for Yo La Tengo. An event for the lover of music, comics, visual performance arts and above all, collaboration. Presented by Town Hall Seattle, Fantagraphics and sponsored by City Arts.  Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5….

  Tuesday, September 23th is a sumptuous ending to our New York Events as Simon Hanselmann and Michael DeForge give talks at the Bark Room at 8pm in association with Parsons the New School for Design. Moderating the talks will be faculty member, Steven Guarnaccia. This is just one of the many stops on the Cute Boy Alert tour featuring Hanselmann, DeForge and Patrick Kyle. For more information about future stops, click here and flip your hair to the right, left and right again . Here the boys are (RtoL: Hanselmann, DeForge and Kyle) at the Telegraph Gallery last week.   Bark Room, Parsons2 West 13th Street (at…

One of the best parts of Austin, Texas is its extreme love for good art and great design. Whether it's a local band playing, new shirt shop or the annual Flatstock or Mondo, the boutique line from Alamo Drafthouse, there is a lot of good stuff on hand. But NOW the aforementioned Mondo is having its own con! And guess who's going to be there? Our great pals, Secret Headquarters! The Daves and Julie of Secret Headquarters sent us some sweet photos of some of the prints they are carrying including the Winsor McCay print called When Black Death Rode (with a horse face…

Monday, Monday, Monday! Eleanor Davis is giving her LAST performance of the How to Be Happy tour at Brooklyn comic shop, Desert Island, 7-9m. You may have gotten your book signed at Brooklyn Book Festival but you haven't L I V E D until you've seen Eleanor give her talk on the relationship of art and the artist.    How to Be Happy is a New York Times Best Selling book that we are already reprinting! Here's what some critics have recently said about Eleanor's fine work:   "…her stories often feature tremendous longing and sadness, but they also lushly suggest what a blessing it…

This September we are stepping out in Brooklyn! The Brooklyn Book Festival is an annual meeting of minds, blue-stockings and page-turners, this year secheduled on Sunday, September 21st from 10am-6pm. We've got three AH-MAZING cartoonists signing this year at Brooklyn Burrough Hall (209 Joralemon St.), Eleanor Davis with How to Be Happy, Simon Hanselmann with Megahex and Jesse Reklaw with Couch Tag. Jacq Cohen will be womanning the table so come on by! Sunday Signing Schedule10am-1pm Eleanor Davis 2pm-4pm  Simon Hanselmann4pm-6pm  Jesse Reklaw The Panels, please note the different addresses 1:00 P.M. Sex, Drugs, Dysfunctional Families–Plus Witches!Hilarious stories from the alt-comics universe, from leading-edge indie artists you love to read…

 On September 15th, today, Eleanor Davis is a guest of the every lovely Takoma Park Library in Maryland, in conjuction with Politics & Prose.  Her most recent book, How to be Happy, is the topic of discussion for this moving a personal presentation and discussion. With beautiful and different styles to match the mood of the story, this collection has grasped ahold of America and is almost sold out! So grab a copy before the librarians get the last remaining copy. As one of our staffers said, library events are the best events, so get some social capital at our nation's capitol!  Presentation begins at…

Tonight at the 'Cute Boy Alert' World Tour with Simon Hanselmann, Michael DeForge and Patrick Kyle hits the Telegraph Gallery in Charlottesville, VA! From 6-9pm you can get the boys to sign not only your comics but a special edition print the gallery owners have made!    The print debuted at SPX this past weekend. This print was designed in collaboration by all three amazing artists on the tour, and will be on display at all the stops on the tour – but is exclusively for sale at the Telegraph Gallery.    Feelin' sad because you can't get to Telegraph…