Fantagraphics Blog Jen Vaughn

By Friday everyone was in the San Diego swing by now. Steven 'Ribs' Weissman, Johnny Ryan and Ron Regé, Jr. were ready to WOW everyone! The Kim Thompson Tribute panel was held that day and the room was packed. Thank you to everyone who came out, Eric Reynold's panoramic photo below. Here a librarian freaks out over Ghosts and Ruins by Ben Catmull, which she had preordered for her library! The whimsy and humor surprised her but in a good way. LA cartoonist Joseph Remnant stopped by to finally buy the Jack Davis collection. He even dressed to match. Leader…

  Thursday rocked! Wooo-boy, no joke. Paul Hornschemeier and Philip Nel sign their books above. We were part of the Peanuts Scavenger Hunt and the let us use this bitchin' Woodstock stamp! Frantic moms and desperate children were all over the booth getting stamps and figuring out the quickest way to the next booth.   Associate Publisher Eric Reynolds checks out Ben Catmull's Ghosts and Ruins, a book he finally gets to see in person.   Eric Reynolds and Phil Nel, editors of the complete Barnaby by Crockett Johnson. Love and Rockets' Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez    From Arrested Development,…

Finally! Fantagraphics and comiXology get busy and produce this happily-ever-maybe-never volume of romance comics called Young Romance by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Exciting, innovative, and beautifully drawn romance stories by two towering titans of the field (and originators of the genre).In such best-selling titles as Young Love and Real Western Romances, Simon and Kirby delighted a generation of girls and women (and probably a fair number of boys and men as well) with hundreds of charming and endlessly inventive stories of love and heartbreak. This never-before reprinted material painstakingly restored in full color and edited by Michel Gange. So…

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. 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. The Daniel Clowes Reader: A Critical Edition of Ghost World and Other Stories, with Essays, Interviews, and Annotations  edited by Ken Parille 360-page color/black & white 6.25" x 9" softcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-589-1  "This beautiful collection gives the critical treatment to 10 of Clowes' most important comics stories which it includes in…

Linda Medley, cartoonist of the Castle Waiting series, sent in this fan art she made back in 1987 of Gilbert Hernandez's Tonantzin. Here she is in as drawn by Beto: Featured in part of The Children of Palomar book coming to a store near you, she's a fiery character of the Love and Rockets family and you're sure to fall in love with her too.

  Our hands are hot from unpacking this straight-from-the-presses debut books and meeting all you nice people during Preview Night!   If the table's a rockin'….please grab it because its groaning from the weight of our books! Kristy Valenti holds one of her most recent books Love and Rockets Companion  (co-edited by Marc Sobel)  Abrams ComicsArts' editor Carol Burrell laughs and makes Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon guffaw at the booth. Wired's Graeme McMillan and Douglas Wolk go ape shit over Cathy Malkasian's Wake Up, Percy Gloom.   Scott McCloud came to oooohhh and ahhh over books and ask the most difficult question:…

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. 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.    Goddamn This War! by Jacques Tardi & Jean-Pierre Verney 140-page full-color 8.25" x 10.75" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-582-2 "any work by the great Jacques Tardi is always worth waiting for…and in my opinion every decent graphic novel collection needs some Tardi in it, he is one of the great masters…

 We are READY AND RARIN' to go at San Diego Comic Con! Plenty of new books to score early on in the show. No signings tonight but puh-lenty the rest of the weekend. Fantagraphics is located at booth #1718. Above Jacq inspects a book. Unpacked a delicious box of new Jacques Tardi books called Goddamn This War, a stand-alone book that goes well with It Was The War of the Trenches.   San Diego Comic Con guest Tony Millionaire's new Maakies book, Green Eggs and Maakies, looks perfect! We have plenty more book debuts here. OH MY YES, look at these stacks of books!…

black bikini from al columbia on Vimeo. When Al Columbia is not drawing chilling comics or making home-made flame throwers (they can shoot as far as fifteen feet!), he's with his band cooking up something cool. The music video “Black Bikini” was filmed on location at 'Plum Island.' Columbia has about eight songs ready for his new album called Journey to Death Island, which will be out from Psychopop Records in the near distant future. Give it a listen, maybe even a shimmy and shake.

    Our cartoonists and creators are not only available in print form but LIVE IN PERSON on panels, talking about things they're all about and answering questions (which we know you're all about). Check 'em out and rest those tootsies, you'll be walking on them allll weekend long. Click on these wonder-links if you're wondering about our new books debuting and when people will be signing at our table.   Thursday, July 18th   12:30pm Spotlight On: Gene Deitch Comic-Con special guest Gene Deitch is a legendary cartoonist, animator, Academy Award-winning filmmaker, and creator of Tom Terrific. Join him…