Blubber is back! And we’ve got some backlist books by a few of the medium’s most interesting artists available on your tablets for the first time. Let’s jump right into this week’s digital debuts! Explore the Tower of the Sindog in the latest issue of Gilbert Hernandez’s solo underground side project Blubber. Issue 4 features mummies, zombies, fauns, sex, snowmen, and a new super heroine Red Tempest. Find out why Hernandez is considered one the greatest living cartoonists by picking up Blubber #4 from comiXology. As mentioned above, we’ve also got backlist releases from two…
Digital Underground
This week we have two new Fantagraphics Underground releases. That means your tablet is about to get strange and stranger. Let’s get to it! At long last, what you’ve been waiting for — a big collection of Gerald Jablonski’s psychedelically underground, absurdly avant-garde comics: Farmer Ned’s Comics Barn. Jablonski has been comics’ best-kept secret for decades, telling the tales of imposter ants, bear-faced grumps, and stoic farmers with pun-laden word balloons that wildly snake around the page. This book also includes a discussion with Gary Groth and it can all be yours through comiXology today. You…
What’s in Store: Hey Lady featuring Sylvia Rivera
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to host a release party and art exhibition for Regina Schilling’s Hey Lady #7 on Saturday, February 11. The new issue focuses on Sylvia Rivera, a civil rights pioneer who was a crucial voice for people of color, transgendered, and low-income communities throughout her life. Hey Lady is a colorful celebration of women’s contributions to global art and culture. Olympia resident Regina Schilling selects a subject for each issue and invites women artists worldwide to contribute portraits. Past personalities include artist and musician Yoko Ono, actress Nichelle Nichols, Andy Warhol superstar Candy Darling, musician…
Al Columbia Comes for Your Tablets
Are you ready for even more existential dread? Great! Because today marks the digital debut of an Al Columbia classic, as well as two more back issue books from the Fantagraphics vault. Collecting more than a decade’s worth of art excavations, comic strips, animation stills, and more, this broken jigsaw puzzle of a graphic novel tells the story of two childlike imps. The brilliant backdrops hint at further layers of reality lurking under each gingerbread house and behind every sunny afternoon. Experience the lingering fear of reading Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days now digitally through comiXology and Google…
2017 Eisner Hall of Fame Nominees
Congratulations to all of the 2017 inductees and nominees for the Eisner Hall of Fame! This years judges have already chosen four names to include in the induction including cartoonist Milt Gross, Golden Age Wonder Woman co-creator H.G. Peter, Spy vs Spy‘s Antonio Prohias, and underground cartoonist Dori Seda. Four more inductees will be chosen by voters from the following list of 17 nominees, and announced at the 2017 Eisner Awards Ceremony during Comic-Con International in San Diego. The Nominees: Peter Bagge Howard Cruse Steve Englehart Justin Green Roberta Gregory Bill Griffith Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez Francoise Mouly Jackie Ormes George Pérez P. Craig…
A Digital Dose of Elder and Sala
Today’s digital releases present us with a new look at old work by two of the all-time great cartoonists. The Million Year Picnic and Other Stories is another fantastic collection in our EC Library and the very first highlighting the work of Will Elder. The collection includes all 15 of Elder’s humorous Panic stories (“The Night Before Christmas” got the first issue banned in the entire state of Massachusetts!), all seven of his tales from the pages of Weird Science and Weird Fantasy, and a special horror story that hasn’t been seen since its original publication more than 60 years ago….
First Digital Release of 2017
Welcome back for another year of tablet-tempting digital releases as well as backlist barnburners. This week, we’ve got both! Up first is the second giant collection in the Complete Crepax project: The Time Eaters and Other Stories. Spanning the 1960s–1980s, this science fiction themed volume features Guido Crepax’s adventuress Valentina as well as two more of the famed Italian erotic artist’s heroines. Marianna is a mysterious friend, Belinda is a motorcycle-driving, pop art action star, and in “The Time Eater,” Valentina meets a curious couple in an asylum and is caught in a Rube Goldberg-like death trap. All of this…
What’s in Store: The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood on January 14
Join us at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday, January 14 as we celebrate one of midcentury America’s most influential artists. The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood debuts with an exhibition and slide talk by J. Michael Catron. Wallace Wood was among the most prolific and diverse artists of his era. His work included colorful covers for 1950s science fiction magazines and romance comics before contributing to the wildly popular war, crime, horror, and suspense comics on the notorious EC imprint, prior to its demise as result of the draconian restrictions imposed by the Comics Code Authority. He went…
The Year’s Last Digital Backlog Bonanza
We’re in the last week of the year, but we’ve got time for one more backlog dump before you hang up the new calendars. Working with comiXology and Google Play, we’re attempting to provide you with the best of our back catalog including these four books that are available digitally for the very first time: Nijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental by Drew Friedman and Josh Alan Friedman From Shadow to Light: The Life and Art of Mort Meskin by Steven Brower Mascots by Ray Fenwick HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU…
What’s in Store: Ed Luce at Fantagraphics Bookstore on January 7
Join us at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday, January 7 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM as Bay Area artist Ed Luce presents his latest comix collection, Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal. Luce chronicles the adventures of Oaf Jadwiga, a gay former wrestler looking for love in unlikely places. The oversized Oaf lives in The City with a cluster of kittens and a fondness for Morrissey, queercore, and black metal music. The comical adventures and colorful characters in Luce’s work make for a wildly entertaining modern romance – at once outrageous and charming. With a background in fine art, Luce…
