In this month's Diamond Previews, editorial associate Kristy Valenti is asked a few questions about being a comics editor. Check it out for yourself at your local comic book store! You can also enjoy many a book that Valenti has edited include the Wandering Son series by Shimura Takako, Pretty in Ink by Trina Robbins, Nijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano or her Eisner-nominated The Love and Rockets Companion (co-edited by Marc Sobel). GO KRISTY!
Providence: Janet Hamlin Lecture
The Rhode Island School for Design is happy to have Janet Hamlin a guest speaker on Wednesday, May 7th in Providence, RI. Hamlin will be talking about her time as the official courtroom artists at the military tribunal of Guantanamo Bay, from 2006 until NOW. RISD is one of the premiere art schools on the East Coast and Hamlin will not only be speaking but giving a drawing demo the next day for the students. Published in a book called Sketching Guantanamo, Hamlin's drawings and her accompanying text provide rare insight into the military courts of Guantanamo. Guantanamo Bay is one of the most…
New Digital Comics – Bagge, EPW and Jaime
New digital comics are out and available to download via comiXology and Sequential! Chill out, download some comics and enjoy them on the go, be you on the way to the beach, the bus home or freaking out at the dentist's office (which you can afford now that you don't have to spend as MUCH money on bookshelves). Buddy Bradley's back in Buddy Buys a Dumpnbsp;from Peter Bagge! Now in his 30s and married with child, onetime slacker hero Buddy Bradley gets a "real" job, shaves his head, dons an eyepatch, quits his "real" job and buys the local dump – because what…
This Week in Fantagraphics Events: 4/28-5/4
Friday, May 2nd• San Francisco, CA: The Opening Reception for the Gay Comics 3-Way with Justin Hall, Ed Lucy, and Jon Macy in attendance AND signing books is from 8-10pm. (more details) Saturday, May 3rd• Seattle, WA: FREE COMIC BOOK DAY at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. We'll be giving away our two beautiful comics, Don Rosa's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck plus Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree: Two-in-One. PLUS, the Intruder boys will present with their new issue. (more details) • Toronto, Canada: FREE COMIC BOOK DAY at the Beguiling. Ed Piskor will be signing his FCBD Hip Hop Family Tree: Two-in-One with friend Tom Scioli. (more details) Sunday, May…
Employee Highlight: Anna Pederson
We've recently had some new blood join our satanic circle in comics and are proud to highlight them. Meet Anna Pederson, badass at large currently at the warehouse who started back in January but was also an intern back in 2012! What other jobs and experiences have you had in the comics industry? Fantagraphics was my first comic industry initiation when I did a stint as an editorial intern my senior year of college. After moving to New York, I did another internship with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), because this industry is a labor of love, and you have…
We Are Comics
We are comics and so are you. Not pictured: Eric Reynolds, Mike Dean, Preston White, Paul Baresh, Anna Pederson, Larry Reid, TJ, Janice Headley, Dave Holmes, Jacob Covey, Matt Silvie and Dean. Our smooshed spiders-everywhere-in-the-trees-oh-god outtake.
New Comics Day 4.30.14
This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new title. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. Buddy Buys a Dump: The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from "Hate" Comics Vol. 3 by Peter Bagge 144-page full-color 6" x 9" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-745-1 "Pete Bagge created a generational icon who I grew up with, and continued to grow up with even after I was a grown up. This book collects…
Hi-Fructose Special on Al Columbia
"Horror is a peculiar and particular flavor of dis-ease. The body does not respond to it as it does to fear, with the urge toward fight of flight; instead, horror washes over you and lingers, reminding you that all is not as it should be in the world," writes Silke Tudor. In Issue 31 of Hi-Fructose, Al Columbia is featured in a special matte paper insert featuring paintings, illustrations and some comics found in Pim and Francie, published by Fantagraphics in 2009. Columbia's dark hallways and candy-coated big-eyed children create the perfect landscape to lose yourself and your own mind in. Founder and Editor-in-Chief…
OCD EXTRA: May’s Book Review
The next month's issue of Booklist reviewed a recent release by a Fantagraphics cartoonist, excerpted below: Sock Monkey Treasury: A 'Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey' Collection by Tony Millionaire "Millionaire's Sock Monkey comics feature a pair of stuffed toys…who dwell in a large Victorian mansion with their young owner, Ann-Louise…Millionaire's old-fashioned, lushly delicate drawing style is the ideal vehicle for these faux-nostalgic tales, which frequently end in devastation or take a disconcertingly dark turn….While the Sock Monkey strips bear a surface resemblance to classic children's comics, their actual audience is adults who fondly recall the comics of their youth but now…
Justin Hall’s 3-Way Signing in SF
This Friday you can find cartoonists Justin Hall (editor and cartoonist from No Straight Lines), Ed Luce, and Jon Macy joining forces for a Gay Comics 3-Way art show at Magnet! The opening reception for the show, which runs through the month of May, will feature comics readings, signings, and geeky good times. A full array of queer comics and art will be available from all three artists, as well as from Northwest Press, during the reception from 8-10pm on Friday, May 2nd. Check out Justin's work from No Straight Lines and even pick up a copy while you're there!…
