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…
Soldier’s Heart by Carol Tyler, nominated for LA Times Book Prize
Congratulations to Carol Tyler, on her nomination for the LA Times Book Prize for Graphic Novels and Comics, for her book Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father: A Daughter’s Memoir. You can read the full list of finalists at the LA Times. Order your copy of this graphic masterpiece at Fantagraphics.com.
What’s in Store (International Edition)
Join us on Friday, February 26 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery as we host an exhibition of international artists for the debut of Red Eye from Short Run Micropress. This event features a special appearance by Spanish cartoonist Ricardo Cavolo, signing copies of his bestselling book 101 Artists to Listen to Before You Die. Red Eye is best described as a curated chain letter. The publishers reached out to international artists whose work they admired and asked them to choose an artist from their community to contribute artwork to the book. The resulting handcrafted anthology…
Fantagraphics Bookstore presents Underworld with Kaz
When not working as an Emmy-winning writer for animated series like Camp Lazlo, Phineas and Ferb, SpongeBob SquarePants, the cartoonist Kaz has been drawing his weekly Underworld comic strip since 1992. Come celebrate the first comprehensive collection of his clever creation on February 13 with a book signing and art exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. Underworld: From Hoboken to Hollywood collects the most memorable strips from the 23 year lifetime of the strip, together with photos, anecdotes, and related Underworld ephemera. The strip, which enjoyed a long run in Seattle weekly The Stranger, chronicles a degenerate society populated by parodies of…
The Book of Hope is Now Digital
An exploration into quotidian moments and timeless humor, the Fantagraphics debut of Finnish artist Tommi Musturi The Book of Hope is now available digitally. In a way that only the medium of comics can, The Book of Hope slows the reader down to the rhythms of the silent life of a retired couple living in a rural countryside. But behind the static, routine moments, something bigger takes shape — a flash of encroaching death starts to consume the husband leading to all-encompassing visions and important questions. The strong presence of silence and nature reflect the arctic exotica of Musturi’s native…
Invisible Ink- now available with bookplates by Bill Griffith
Get Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist with a limited edition bookplate featuring an original drawing, sketched and signed by Bill Griffith.
Crossing Eden Makes Its Digital Debut
Monte Schulz’s Jazz Age Trilogy of historical fiction novels are collected for the first time in Crossing Eden and available on your own personal reading device. Crossing Eden is the story of an American family on the eve of the Great Depression. It’s also the tale of a nation in the last months of the “Roaring Twenties”, a glittering decade of exuberance and doubt, optimism and fear. Monte Schulz’s grand opus includes big business, family drama, speakeasies, séances, bank robberies, lynchings, circuses, and skyscrapers. Crossing Eden’s grand tapestry of American experience is available now on Google Play.
Fantabucks are back! Spend $50 and get $100 with this 2-for-1 coupon
You know those websites that offer “coupons” to “groups” or “groups” of “coupons”? We’re offering own special home-grown version of that for a very limited time (January 1-4, 2016)! Here’s the deal: Each FantaBucks 2-for-1 Coupon costs just $50 and gets you a unique coupon code worth $100 toward your next purchase of $100 or more on Fantagraphics.com! That’s like getting half off $100 worth of merchandise! You can buy as many coupons as you like, but you can only use one coupon per order and you must redeem each coupon entirely in a single purchase. Beginning on Monday, January…
