Mark your calendars for Saturday, July 9 from 5:00 to 9:00 PM as we welcome acclaimed indie comix artist Sammy Harkham and wish a fond farewell to the Intruder at the second annual Hot Off the Press book fair at Fantagraphics Bookstore! This colorful festival features tables of local handcrafted comix and zines by many of the Northwest’s most admired artists. Special guest Sammy Harkham will sign copies of the newly released Kramer’s Ergot 9 anthology as well as his alluring self-published serial Crickets. Another attraction is Seattle artist Josh Simmons signing the latest installment of Jessica Farm project,…
Digital Comics by Piskor and Kelso
We’re unloading the new issue of Hip Hop Family Tree and a few Megan Kelso graphic novels digitally just for you this week! In issue #10 of Ed Piskor’s award-winning series Hip Hop Family Tree, the endlessly quoted graffiti documentary Style Wars gets lovingly dissected. Also, did you know Public Enemy were first the Spectrum City DJs? That Flavor Flav can play a dozen musical instruments? Power on your tablets and learn about all these earth-shattering discoveries only through comiXology. Megan Kelso has been a DIY cartoonist and publisher since the early ’90s, equally mastering…
All You Need is LOVF
A brand-new, medium-expanding book by Jesse Reklaw and a murderous old favorite from Richard Sala highlight our digital releases this week. LOVF is the sketchbook companion of a man literally losing his mind. Homeless and broke, he ends up off his meds and on a secret quest from Portland to New York, DC, LA, San Francisco, and Seattle. With wild energy, promiscuity, criminal activity, and substance abuse, LOVF becomes a document of a full-blown manic episode captured by Jesse Reklaw. We know you’ve never read anything like it before and it is now available through comiXology and Google Play. …
What’s in Store: Art & Music Galore
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…
