Don’t miss the amazing Georgetown Carnival on Saturday, June 11. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery features Tatiana Gill presenting her new adult coloring book Down to Clown from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. She’ll appear in full clown costume and encourage customers to contribute to the exhibition with their own creations from the book. (Tatiana is a guest of honor along with Peter Bagge and Brandon Graham at Olympia Comics Festival this Saturday.) At 5:00 PM, Lisa Prank will perform right outside the store, following her guest appearance at last week’s Sasquatch music festival (and ahead of her appearance at…
What’s in Store: Carnival, Clowns, Music and More!
Don’t miss the Georgetown Carnival on Saturday, June 11 from noon to 10:00 PM. In addition to Hazardfactory’s World Famous Power Tool Races, the free festival features acrobats, art, carnival games, crafts, confections, and music by El Vez, Lisa Prank, Star Anna, Less Than Equals, Danny Newcomb & the Sugarmakers, MKB Ultra, Paper Dolls, and many more. This year’s Carnival includes a colorful new attraction organized by Celeste Kean and bookstore curator Larry Reid. Georgetown Clown Town includes art, performances, balloon making, magic and more. The Clown Show at The Stables event space – (one block north of the bookstore)…
Digital Wednesday
This week we are featuring two new collections — one assembling short stories from a modern-day marvel and another a continuation of Crockett Johnson’s great 20th century strip. Noah Van Sciver’s Disquiet highlights a dozen short comics by the acclaimed cartoonist behind Fante Bukowski and The Hypo. In this book you have “The Death of Elijah Lovejoy,” on Midwestern abolitionists in the 1830s; “The Lizard who Laughed,” about a painfully dysfunctional reunion; and “Punks Vs. Lizards,” an anarchic, darkly comic piece of absurdity that blends Quadrophenia with Jurassic Park. Find Disquiet on comiXology and Google Play. …
Digital Feels Good, Man
Action! Adventure! Romance! Drugs! This week’s digital releases have it all and the artists span several generations of brilliant cartooning. Turn on those tablets because here’s what’s going digital today: Boy’s Club is Matt Furie’s deadpan comics showcase featuring roommates Andy, Brett, Landwolf, and the infamous Pepe in a series of hilarious vignettes combining laconic psychedelia, childlike enchantment, drug-fueled hedonism, and impish mischief. Need we say more? Catch this internet sensation on comiXology. In Highbone Theater, Joe Daly’s new graphic novel epic, Palmer — wallflower, mystic seeker, and paper mill worker — moves into a new…
What’s in Store: Pirates! Mice! Witches! Comix!
Be sure to join us at the University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery on Sunday, June 5 for a rare public appearance by legendary Seattle cartoonist Shary Flenniken. Counterculture Comics and the Semiotics of Disney Icons will attempt to clear the apocryphal haze from one of pop culture’s most intriguing episodes. Flenniken was a central figure in the Air Pirates comix collective. After meeting at a rock festival near Seattle in 1970, the group took up residence in a prop warehouse owned by Francis Ford Coppola in San Francisco’s Mission District. They created a sensation by appropriating Walt Disney’s signature…
Something Digital for Everybody
Make sure those tablets are turned on because we’ve got a wide array of digital releases for you this Wednesday! Collecting the final year of Charles Schulz’s classic strip, The Complete Peanuts Vol. 25 also has a forward by none other than the President of the United States. Rerun become a comic artist, Snoopy’s playing pranks, and the Li’l Folks are here — Schulz’s precursor to Peanuts that ran in his hometown paper. Be a part of history and read Volume 25 through comiXology. Josh Simmons is undertaking a grand experiment . . . Drawing one page each…
Billy Ireland Museum Opens Two Exhibits
Our wonderful friends at The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum are opening two new exhibits this June 4th, and running until October 23rd. Titled Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream and Good Grief! Comics and Children respectively, both exhibits feature pieces from the museum’s collection as well as new and original works from artists like Peter Bagge. From their press release: Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream Winsor McCay (186? – 1934) was one of the most significant American artists of the 20th century, known best for his groundbreaking newspaper comics and early animated films. Much of his most beloved work appeared in…
Digital Goodness
We’ve got such a diverse array of digital releases today, there’s guaranteed to be something for everybody to connect with. Or, if you’re like us, you love them all! Plug those tablets in because here they are . . . Issue #9 of Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree marks a new era in rap music as Beastie Boys assemble, Run DMC become superstars, and the Fat Boys make a name for themselves. Your favorite rapper’s favorite rappers are all covered in this bold installment of the award-winning, best-selling series. Find it at comiXology. Also, from the Fantagraphics vaults comes…
New Digital Releases
Get your reading devices ready for Kramers and consternation because this week marks the digital debut of Kramers Ergot #9 and Josh Simmons’s The Furry Trap. Powerful and uninhibited cartooning of the highest caliber still exists in the short form and in Kramers Ergot #9, the best and brightest voices have been collected. Whether you’re laughing with joy or cowering in terror, Kramers has you covered with contributors like Michael Deforge, Renee French, Archer Prewitt, Anya Davidson, Julia Gfrörer, Kim Deitch, and more. Get it on your tablet through comiXology. Josh Simmons’s 2012 collection The Furry…
What’s in Store: Art, Music, Comix and More!
Don’t miss the action this Saturday, April 23 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM with Simon Hanselmann and HTML Flowers. This promises to be a wildly entertaining evening of art, music, and comix action. You might want to arrive a little early. The following Saturday, April 30 is Independent Bookstore Day (like Record Store Day, only for bookstores.) To commemorate the occasion we published a 32-page mincomic, Underground Seattle, featuring stories by a crew of exceptional local artists including Tom van Deusen, David Lasky, Eroyn Franklin, Peter Bagge, Ellen Forney, Kelly Froh, Robyn Jordan, Max Clotfelter, Laura Knetzger, Joe Garber, Pat Moriarity,…
