Fantagraphics Blog Jen Vaughn

Trot out of your flat and shake off the holiday malaise Wednesday, January 14th as Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger make a guest appearance at Gosh! Comics in London. On a world tour for The Late Child and Other Animals, Van Cook and Romberger will join the monthly comics discussion group at Gosh! called Process and discuss this beautiful, poignant graphic memoir.    The good stuff starts at 7pm on the nose so don't be late for The Late Child, lest we make some terrible Big Ben jokes from across the pond. The Late Child and Other Animals is not only a gorgeous graphic novel by this comics…

Happy holidays from Fantagraphics past. Here's a sampling of our holiday cards over the years from our cartoonists! (Roberta Gregory knows what's up by the by). We hope you got to spend to with — or away from — your family and look forward to another year of great comics and graphic novels!          

  Google has featured Eleanor Davis' doodles in all four seasons now, the last one for winter showed up on Sunday. They are truly delightful animations and are all up on her Tumblr. Enjoy and check out her recently reprinted and no-longer-sold-out How to Be Happy!

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. Creeping Death from Neptune: The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton Vol. 1 by Basil Wolverton, edited by Greg Sadowski 304-page full color 8" x 10.5" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-505-1  "A revolutionary and a genius with a troubled life and a horrific career path, this volume is the first of two that print his…

There are still dinners to stretch your pants, holidays songs to sing, brightly lit-balls to drop but that doesn't mean you can't start planning parties for next year! On Monday, January 12th in the sparkling new year of 2015, cartoonist Lucy Knisley will be throwing one hell of a new year for a new book, Displacement, at The Strand in New York City. Lucy's last travelogue, An Age of License, featured the whimsical travels of a 20-something with time stretching infinitely in front of her. But in the pretty-yet-gritty Displacement, Lucy takes her two 90 year-old grandparents out on a cruise. It explores ageism, mortality and…

Yeesss, the gifts keep coming on this holiday week. Light a candle and unwrap this gust present: Ed Luce was announced as a special guest for Emerald City ComiCon 2015. Wrestling, kittens, metal, love, body hair: if any of those words trigger a response, you'll absolutely fall in love with Wuvable Oaf, Luce's self-published-turned GIANT Fantagraphics collection. Emerald City runs from Friday, March 27th – Sunday March 29th but if you somehow miss Ed there, he'll be tabling at many a convention and have more than a few store signings.   

   YOU DRIVE!NEW DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGSJanuary 10 – February 27, 2015  The heat is on as Jim Woodring pushes the pedal to the metal at the Scott Eder Gallery this January with a whole show of new paintings and drawings. For the glamourous and sophisticated, visit the gallery for the opening night reception January 10th at 6pm when Woodring will be in attendance! The show will continue to be on display from January 10th through the month of February (until the 27th). Woodring recently won the Pennsylvania Center for the Book's Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize for his graphic novel, Fran, and has been promoting his…

The special guests of Emerald City ComiCon in 2015 are slowly being announced and we are proud to announce that Lucy Knisley will be there read and raring to sign copies of her two new travelogues: Displacement and An Age of License. Emerald City ComiCon happens to take place in the raddest city in the states: SEATTLE. It runs from Friday, March 27th – Sunday March 29th and we've got a bit more up our sleeves along with the swell people at ECCC.   Lucy will also be having a launch party for Displacement on Monday, January 12th at the Strand Bookstore in NYC. More details on that…

From today until Sunday, December 21st (11pm EST) comiXology and Fantagraphics are having a Leading Ladies Sale! Get HALF OFF on our graphic novels featuring ladies in the lead role or female cartoonists or, get this, BOTh. Get titles as new as Lucy Knisley's An Age of License or some deep cut classics like Dame Darcy's gothic Meat Cake (one of my favorites!). With 44 graphic novels and comics to choose from you're bound to find something to read or maybe pick out a gift for a friend!    Looking for something else? The currently out of print Today is the Last Day of the Rest…

This month's issue of Booklist will include review of a recent release by a Fantagraphics creator, excerpted below:   Pogo – The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Volume 3: "Evidence to the Contrary" by Walt Kelly "Despite its cast of anthropomorphic animals-the eponymous possum, Albert the Alligator, Porky Pine, and the rest-Pogo was the most adult-aimed of all newspaper comic strips. The fluid grace of Kelly's artwork and the inventiveness of his humor are matched by his verbal dexterity, from the characters' cornpone patois to their ingenious wordplay. Four decades after its demise, Pogo remains one of a handful of truly essential…