Fantagraphics Blog Jen Vaughn

  Fantagraphics and comiXology bring you a delight for children and adults of all ages, Barnaby by Crockett Johnson. Barnaby revolved around a precocious five-year-old named Barnaby Baxter and his fairly godfather Jackeen J. O'Malley. Yet O'Malley, a cigar-chomping, bumbling con-artist and fast-talker, was not your typical protector. His grasp of magic was usually specious at best, limited to occasional flashes, often aided and abetted by his fellow members in The Elves, Leprechauns, Gnomes, and Little Men's Chowder & Marching Society. Hilarity and confusion often ensue all couched within the setting of World War II. Edited by Associate Publisher Eric Reynolds and Philip…

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.    Barnaby Vol. 1 by Crockett Johnson Edited by Eric Reynolds & Philip Nel; Introduction by Chris Ware; art direction by Daniel Clowes   320-page black & white (with some color) 11"x 6.75" hardcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-522-8  "Johnson combined low-impact serialized adventure with some gentle comedy based around the ways that adults and kids diverge…

The last thing you'll read before the San Diego PR Storm 2013:   • Review: The AV Club looks at Ulli Lust's Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life. Noel Murray writes, "Today Is The Last Day Of The Rest Of Your Life takes the form of a post-apocalyptic horror story, wherein the heroine ekes out a meager existence by day and then fights off monsters by night.…Lust takes readers inside her experiences, letting them feel how high hopes can devolve into raw survival." • Review: Ulli Lust's Today is the Last Day of the Rest…

  The only thing that could make Al Columbia's Pim and Francie even more terrifying is to add color. Columbia recently sent Hi Fructose some exclusive new paintings they are featuring on their website that continue the horrorscape he created in 2009's Pim and Francie. Turn the lights down low, grab that gristle pie you made for lunch and enjoy these haunting illustations after the jump.      

The Edge Of Allegiance – Episode 1: Immigration! – watch more funny videos Maakies and Sock Monkey cartonist, Tony Millionaire, continues to be funnier than you on paper, in person and on film. This weekend Funny or Die released the video The Edge of Alligiance featuring Millionaire as George Washington on Mount Rushmore. If this made you spit out your cuppa joe, check out the older Fun With God where Millionaire plays who else but God? Keep your eyes peeled for our San Diego announcements so you know when Tony Millionaire will be signing books at our booth!

Join us this weekend at CAKE at Center on Halsted in Chicago from Saturday, June 15 through Sunday, June 16th! Table 13-14 is the place to be. We're pumped to announce our special guests, Kim Deitch, Ben Catmull, Charles Forsman, Leslie Stein, Josh Simmons, Tom Kaczynski, Lilli Carré, and Noah Van Sciver! Check out our lush signing schedule: Saturday, June 15th Leslie Stein               11:00am-NoonChuck Forsman      Noon-1:00pmLilli Carré                  1:00pm-2:00pmKim Deitch               2:00pm-3:00pmBen Catmull             3:00pm-4:00pmNoah Van Sciver    4:00pm-5:00pmJosh Simmons        5:00pm-6:00pm  Sunday, June 16th Tom Kaczynski      11:00am-noonNoah Van Sciver   Noon-1:00pmKim Deitch              1:00pm-2:00pmChuck…

Today is a two-fer digital comics day at Fantagraphics and comiXology! Cathy Malkasian's beautiful Candidesque tales of Percy Gloom and just released Wake Up, Percy Gloom are now available to download. The perfect fable for someone on a journey, Percy Gloom unique gem of a story, humorous and bewitching at the same time. Its diminutive hero is as complex and unique as the fantastical world he inhabits.  Only $12.99 at comiXology for an 180-page adventure. Meanwhile, in Wake Up, Percy Gloom we find our bulb-headed hero awaken from (what he thinks is) a 200-year nap and finds himself in a strange new land, embarking on a wide-ranging quest to…

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 Endby Anders Nilsen 80-page two-color (with 16pp. full color) 7.25" x 10.5" hardcover • $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-635-5 "these pages come from such a raw emotional place that they'll reverberate like an echo from a well.…It's a message we've heard before, but its majestic delivery and the difficult path that…

How cute is Jason walking by the Jason-inspired mural by Kolstadgata 15? His next book, Lost Cat, comes out soon!

We have a new co-worker here at Fantagraphics, her name is Wanda, she's roommates with Jacq and Tony and she's into comics. She's particularly excited about Lost Cat by Jason.  Although, she DID protest at this photo because she couldn't read the book. Okay, okay, Wanda.  There ya go. Jason comics are page-lickingly good, aren't they!