Next weekend, June 2nd and 3rd, Fantagraphics will head to the Windy City for the 2018 Chicago Alternative Comics Expo. Read on for special guests, debut books, and some very exciting programming. Fantagraphics Tables #317-#318 Special Guests: Nicole Hollander — Table #314 Nicole Hollander is best known for her syndicated comic strip, Sylvia. Her work has been archived in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library at Ohio State University, alongside Roz Chast’s, Bill Watterson’s, and other greats. She has published fifteen books and blogs at badgirlchats.com. She’ll be debuting her new graphic memoir, We Ate Wonder Bread, a chronicle of her childhood…
Books Not Bombs: Fantagraphics Post-Memorial Day Sale
Hey, Folks! As you’re recovering from your Memorial Day hijinks, why not do some early summer shopping for a good cause? On Tuesday, May 29th, we’ll be running a flash sale/fundraiser—You’ll get 15% off just about everything at Fantagraphics.com, and we’ll donate 10% of the day’s sales to the (2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning) International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. You can read more about their work here. Stock up on summer reading and help save us all from fiery doom! Shop the sale at Fantagraphics.com All titles subject to availability. Sale does not apply to pre-orders, subscriptions, or new 20/20…
Fantagraphics at TCAF 2018!
Come one, come all to the 2018 Toronto Comic Arts Festival in beautiful Toronto, Ontario! Fantagraphics will be at the Toronto Public Library on May 12th and 13th to bring you new releases and an exciting lineup of special guests. Keep reading for the who, what, where, when of this year’s Festival. Fantagraphics will be posted up at tables #148–#150 and we are very stoked to announce the artists who will be signing with us over the course of the weekend. Fanta-published featured guests this year include Inio Asano (Nijigahara Holograph), Ho Che Anderson (Godhead), Jaime Hernandez (Love and Rockets),…
The Fantagraphics 4/20 Sale 2018!
Come one, come all, and enjoy super low prices for super high people during this year’s Fantagraphics 4/20 Sale! Now through Tuesday, April 24th, we’re giving you a smokin’ 20% off of some of our favorite stoner comedies, trippy art books, underground comix, and more! Plus follow us on Twitter and retweet our official sale post between now and midnight 4/24 for the chance to win a copy of Simon Hanselmann’s newest masterpiece, One More Year, signed by the cartoonist! Check out the Fanta staff recommendations below, then head over to Fantagraphics.com/420sale to start shopping! Staff Recommendations: RJ: Starseeds by Charles Glabitz Here’s some science fiction (or…
Fantagraphics Spring Fever Sale! March 26th – 30th!
Let Fantagraphics help you rejuvenate your bookshelf and stock up on summer reading with 35% off select titles on Fantagraphics.com! We’re opening up our warehouse and putting a variety of genre-spanning, old and new titles on sale starting Monday, March 26th and running through Friday, March 30th. Start making your shopping list now at www.fantagraphics.com/spring-fever 20/20 members can use their discount on top of the 35%. All titles subject to availability.
Fantagraphics at ECCC 2018!
Fantagraphics goes to… March 1st-4th – Seattle, WA – Washington State Convention Center Hey Pacific Northwesterners (and out-of-towners)! If you’re planning on being at Emerald City this year, stop by the Fantagraphics table, Booth 210 and say hello. For general info on the weekend’s events, check out their website here. We’ll be there all day every day, but stop by from 2pm–3pm Friday through Sunday to catch Special Guest Jaime Hernandez signing Love and Rockets and Saturday 1–5pm for some of our favorite local cartoonists signing their books, see times below: Signing at Fantagraphics Booth #210 Saturday, March 3rd 1 pm–2 pm: D.W. (Mountebank)…
The End of The F***ing World – Reprinted!
Charles Forsman’s The End of the F***king World goes back to press in the wake of Netflix’s wildly popular live-action series adaptation. Before The End of the F***ing World was a genre-bending, international smash hit on Netflix and Channel 4, it was the 2013 critically-acclaimed graphic novel by Charles Forsman, published (without the asterisks) by Fantagraphics Books! Re-released this past fall in a new hardcover edition, the book flew off the shelves within 24 hoursof the hit series’ debut on Netflix last Friday (the YouTube trailer, which debuted the day before the series, has been viewed almost six million times as of this writing). As a result,…
2017 in Pictures!
Enjoy some of our favorite snapshots from the past year: Ed Luce with Goteblüd at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery Ezequiel Garcia signing Growing Up in Public at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery Cartoonist DJ Bryant and Eric Reynolds look over an early copy of Unreal City at the Fantagraphics Office Daniel Clowes with the cast of Silicon Valley at their Bay Area premiere of Season 4 Gary models the Hernandez Bros. bowling shirt created in collaboration with Pinup Girl Clothing CAKE 2017: A Gary Panter and Ron Regé Jr. jam session Gilbert Hernandez and family at San Diego Comic-Con…
Best of 2017 Lists!
As 2017 draws to a close, we’re compiling a list of Fantagraphics titles named “Best of” by various prestigious news outlets. Here are some of the highlights so far! My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris The only graphic novel on the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 Entertainment Weekly‘s Best Graphic Novel of 2017 Forbes calls it “…one of the 10, maybe 5, best graphic novels ever.” A Boston Globe Best Graphic Novel A Book Riot Best Book of 2017 House of Women by Sophie Goldstein #1 on of The Austin Chronicle‘s list of “Five Recent Graphic…
Ho-Ho-Holiday Shipping Deadlines!
That’s right, folks! We want to get those brown paper packages in the mail on time, so be sure to look over our holiday shipping deadlines, detailed below. And don’t forget, it never hurts to include a note for our warehouse elves letting them know when you need your order to arrive by. Questions can be addressed to fbicomix@fantagraphics.com. Shipping Deadlines Regular Media Mail – December 4th International Shipping – December 4th Ground Shipping – December 11th 2-Day Priority – December 15th Ready to shop? Check out our Holiday Gift Guide here for some of our most highly recommended titles!
