Moving to it’s new location in Midtown West, MoCCA has long been a staple of comics and cartooning in New York. This year is no exception with fantastic Fantagraphics special guests like groundbreaking cartoonist and animator R.O. Blechman, and a selection of Wimmen’s Comix contributors like Phoebe Gloeckner. Join us April 2-3rd for a fantastic weekend of comics! Special Guests R.O. Blechman An award-winning cartoonist, animator, and author, R.O. Blechman has been producing top tier work since the 1950’s, earning him an Emmy, BAFTA, and a Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. Best known for his book The Juggler of the Lady, the…
Check out THESE digital releases!
From an Italian innovator to an American stylistic treasure to modern musical history, today’s digital releases couldn’t be more different, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Italy’s Guido Crepax is one of the most acclaimed and innovative cartoonists of all-time and in the ’60s and ’70s, he created and chronicled the adventures of Valentina. Along with Valentina tales, legitimizing the erotic genre in comics at that time, Crepax’s unique take on the works of Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley are also included in The Complete Crepax: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Other Horror Stories. These stories, many never before published…
Fantagraphics Bookstore Celebrates Guido Crepax
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to present an international multimedia tribute to late Italian cartoonist Guido Crepax. The event features an exhibition of original art by contemporary American cartoonists including David Lasky, Peter Kuper, Benjamin Marra, Roberta Gregory, George Pratt, and Mark Wheatley, Spanish artists Javier Olivares, Sandra Hernandez and Pedro Espinosa, and Argentine artists Mister ED and Santiago Caruso, as well as reproductions from the Complete Crepax Volume 1. The opening on Saturday, April 9 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM includes film shorts by Brazilian artist Alex Korolkovas, a sound installation by Sérgio Rocha of Portugal, a limited…
What’s in Store (Decadent Delicacies Edition)
Thanks to everyone who attended the Daniel Clowes signing last Saturday and waited so patiently on line. Great fun with new and old friends. The new book is simply sublime, exceeding all expectations. If you don’t have Patience, get it now! Don’t miss the second annual Georgetown Bites: A Taste of Georgetown on Saturday, March 26 from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This food festival celebrates the delightfully diverse culinary attractions and cafe culture in Seattle’s coolest neighborhood. Georgetown is home to Seattle’s oldest continuously operating beer hall, Jules Maes Saloon, as well as…
It’s Weissman Wednesday on comiXology!
Longtime fan favorite Steven Weissman has put out numerous books through Fantagraphics over the years and now some of the best are available to you digitally through comiXology. To go along with Weissman’s brilliant and surreal Barack Hussein Obama, we are now offering four books in his “Yikes!” series: Chewing Gum in Church Chocolate Cheeks Mean White Flower Day If you’re new to these comics or have been on the Weissman wagon for a while, make sure your personal reading device is stocked with these hilarious selections from the Fantagraphics backlist!
Buckle Up for More Backlist!
We’ve got no new digital releases today, but that’s not stopping us from delivering some more backlist Best-Ofs to you! Fire up your tablets because, for the very first time, these books will be available through comiXology: Out of the Shadows by Mort Meskin Buddy Does Seattle by Peter Bagge Buddy Does Jersey by Peter Bagge Pirates in the Heartland: The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson Vol. 1 by Patrick Rosenkranz Demons and Angels: The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson Vol. 2 by Patrick Rosenkranz
What’s in Store
Thanks to Spanish artist Ricardo Cavolo and everyone who came out to support the release of Red Eye from Seattle’s own Short Run Micropress. The exhibition of prints and original art remains on view though April 6. A limited number of the minicomic featuring 16 international cartoonists are available at the store. Congratulations to our friends at Short Run on another exquisite publication. Our accent on international comix continues on Wednesday, March 9 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM as we welcome our Canadian colleague Tony Cliff signing copies of his new graphic novel Delilah Dirk and the King’s Shilling. The…
Digital Wimmen’s Comix, Uptight, and More!
We are very happy to present the groundbreaking, decades-long anthology Wimmen’s Comix this week. Today also marks the digital return of Jordan Crane and even more goodies from our backlist. In the late ’60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium, but there was an important pronoun missing from the artistic revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology Wimmen’s Comix. Within two years the Wimmen’s Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie and would go on to publish artists…
Zap on Your Tablet and Much, Much More!
Say goodbye to the most influential anthology of all-time and hello to an exciting selection of backlist titles as we introduce our weekly digital releases. This is it. The most important cartooning collective delivers one last issue of their uninhibited, id-stroking mad genius in this farewell 80-page giant issue of Zap. Zap #16 is the only issue to feature all eight Zapsters under one cover and, at long last, a woman joins the boy’s club as Aline Kominsky-Crumb delivers biting and witty strips herself. This final blowout issue not only showcases each artist individually, but also includes three double-page jams…
Daniel Clowes presents Patience at Fantagraphics Bookstore
Daniel Clowes is among the most accomplished artists of his generation. Join us at Fantagraphics Bookstore on Saturday, March 12 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM as we celebrate the publication of Patience, perhaps his most ambitious graphic novel to date. Clowes came to prominence with his groundbreaking Eightball comic book series in the 1990s, which was characterized by biting social satire rendered with a singular graphic sensibility. Eightball also included several cinematic long form stories such as Ghost World, which was adapted to film in 2001 featuring Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch in the lead roles. Clowes received an Academy…
