Seattle’s Short Run Comix & Arts Festival has become one of the country’s liveliest celebrations of the independent comix movement. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to again host the Short Run Marathon art exhibition and pre-festival reception this Friday, November 4 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. The Marathon exhibition includes paintings, drawings, and prints by an international array of the festival’s featured artists: Dash Shaw, Vanessa Davis, Ivana Pipal, Brendan Kiefer, Phoebe Wall, Trevor Alixopulos, Hatem Imam, and Kerascoët (French cartoonists Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset.) Shaw will screen a clip from his new animated feature, My Entire High School…
Fantagraphics at Short Run 2016
Stretching their legs for the second year at Fisher Pavilion (in the home of the space needle, Seattle Center) Short Run Comix and Arts Fest returns for their 6th festival of books, handmade zines, mini-comics, prints, patches, a bake sale and more! Join hundreds of artists on November 5th from 11am-6pm and get some holiday shopping done early! Special Guests & Exhibitors Dash Shaw – Table B7 Dash Shaw is a comic artist and animator, currently living in New York. We have been fans since “Bodyworld”; and Shaw’s every project, whether it be the amazing 720-page familial adventure “Bottomless Bellybutton”…
What’s In Store: Jim Blanchard’s Visual Abuse
Fantagraphics Books continues its 40th anniversary celebration with a book launch party and exhibition for Visual Abuse: Jim Blanchard’s Graphic Art, 1982 – 2002 at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday, November 12. Blanchard relocated to Seattle in 1987 from Oklahoma City, where he self-published his popular punk fanzine, Blatch. He soon found work as an art director at Fantagraphics Books, while continuing to create posters and graphics for bands associated with Seattle’s emerging grunge movement. He published several comix on Fantagraphics’ provocative Eros imprint, and later worked as inker for Peter Bagge’s influential Hate comic book series….
New Comic Book Day! Oct. 19th 2016
Listening to Primal Scream and reading our #NCBD releases; there’s nothing better! You can find these titles in any decent store near you, or on any decent website (like ours!) Love & Rockets Vol. 4 #1 by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez Original Cover by Jaime Hernandez The comic book event of 2016! Love and Rockets is back as an all-new, ongoing comic book series (Vol. IV for those keeping track at home)! On Jaime’s side: What do you do when none of your old punk friends want to be punk any more? And just who does the evil Princess Animus think she…
Digital Releases: New Love and Rockets and more!
Today marks the beginning of a new chapter for Love and Rockets and heralds in a collection of one of punk rock’s best artists—all on your tablets and personal reading devices! Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez are back with brand-new stories in Love and Rockets Vol. IV #1! You get Maggie and Hopey! You get Princess Animus! You get Fritz and Pipo! You get it all! The punk friends and family drama begins again right here—catch the first issue of the new ongoing series on comiXology today. Also, to continue celebrating the return this series, we’re…
Matt Furie Partners with ADL to #SavePepe
Pepe the Frog has been on a long wild ride this year. From a book release of Boy’s Club to bring his peace-loving ways to the masses, to being intentionally coopted by 4chaners and/or alt-righters to make him dangerous and dare I say, deplorable. From political volleyball used by both presidential candidates to charm and then warn against racists. And finally, from categorized hate-speech by the Anti-Defamation League to his current form of experimental message of peace and love through a partnership with creator Matt Furie and the ADL. The ADL made their announcement in a press release last Friday…
Re/Read: Inner City Romance
Re/Read in a recurring column by Fantagraphics Bookstore curator Larry Reid that examines backlist titles you may have missed or are worthy of another read. This time we’ll look at Guy Colwell’s essential Inner City Romance. Inner City Romance collects five issues of the transitional underground comic book series of the same name, originally published from 1972 to 1978. Colwell’s comix provide an unvarnished look at the impact of crippling poverty, substance abuse, and violent crime in the aftermath of the Bay Area’s sixties counterculture. His work is informed by his incarceration at McNeil Island federal penitentiary as a Viet…
New Comic Book Day! Oct. 12th 2016
Digging those fall vibes and digging these #NCBD releases. You can find these titles in any decent store near you, or on any decent website (like ours!) Band for Life by Anya Davidson Band for Life is the story, told in comic strip form, of a noise rock band and their community of friends and acquaintances based in an alternate reality version of Chicago. Though beset with disaster at every turn and frequently reduced to squabbling, they stick together because the band is the fulcrum of their otherwise confounding lives, and together they help each other find their way. Fusing…
This Week’s Digital Releases
Old favorites Fuzz and Pluck are back with a brand-new adventure and an incredible artists makes their Fantagraphics debut . . . this week in digital releases! You might know Ted Stearn’s Fuzz and Pluck from Zero Zero or Mome. You might know them from their own series and previous collection. The only thing you need to know now, however, is that they’re back! Carrying on their tenuous, co-dependent friendship, the irritable rooster and awkward bear find themselves on a ramshackle barge slowly drifting out to sea. How they got there, how they will escape, and all the classic cartooning…
Bill Griffith and Zippy Go Digital!
Today Fantagraphics and comiXology are teaming up to celebrate one of the all-time greats: Eisner Award winner Bill Griffith! Not only is Griffith’s underground comix collection Lost and Found available digitally for the very first time, but also all of his Zippy the Pinhead comic strip collections ranging from 2004 to 2013. Whether you are an avid Griffith fan catching up on all his work or someone who’s just being introduced to his unique brand of comedy, it’s all here! Starting today you can find all these books on comiXology: Lost and Found: Comics 1969–2003 Zippy the Pinhead: From Here…
