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…
New Gahan Wilson… Digitally
Our final digital release of 2015 is out there… Gahan Wilson’s Out There. Gahan Wilson is best known for his macabre Playboy cartoons — filled with charming monsters, goofy scientists, and melting victims — and his cutting-edge work in National Lampoon, but in 1964, Wilson brought his brilliantly wiggly-but-sophisticated pen line to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Wilson’s playfully black sense of comedy was on full display in the cartoons found in this magazine and Out There features over 250 of them Wilson drew during his tenure with the publication, as well as four covers he rendered —…
Cheech Wizard and Hip Hop Digitally
Cheech Wizard and hip hop have always made a perfect pair, so it’s fitting that they are the subjects of today’s digital releases. Once upon a time at two-thirty in the afternoon, on the enchanted island of York, lived a Wizard… a mild-mannered, lovable Wizard who wore a big hat to mask his true identity. But who is under the hat? Who is Cheech Wizard? Vaughn Bode created Cheech in 1956 and the character remained a constant companion for the rest of Bode’s life, surfacing in his college papers, underground comix, the National Lampoon, and in the world of graffiti…
Josh Cotter at Comix Experience
Comix Experience in San Francisco boasts an impressive lineup of guests and books that have been a part of their monthly graphic novel club. Artists such as Liz Suburbia, Neil Gaiman, Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba, and Ryan North have joined book club members either in store or via simulcast for a discussion and Q&A about their work. We’re very pleased that the February special guest will be Josh Cotter with his soon to be released, Nod Away. Cotter will be in store to do a public signing beginning at 6 PM, and then a private meeting for club members…
MOME Now Available on comiXology!
It is the holiday season and boy, do we have a gift for you! Every issue of MOME (all 22 of them) is now available on comiXology, each for the low price of $9.99. Every period of modern comics history has had its anthology that tapped into the zeitgeist and foreshadowed a new generation of cartoonists — Zap in the ’60s, Arcade in the ’70s, Raw and Weirdo in the ’80s. For the new millennium, there was MOME. This accessible, quarterly book put a spotlight on a regular cast of dozens of today’s most exciting cartoonists. Running from 2004 to…
Angouleme Official Selection 2016
Fantagraphics is proud to announce that the French editions of four of our very favorite graphic novels have been nominated for Angoulême’s Grand Prix Official Selection for the 2016 Festival International de la Bande Dessinee that will take place in Angoulême this January. Megg, Mogg, & Owl Magical Ecstasy Trip (aka some selections from Megahex) by Simon Hanselmann Fin (aka The End) by Anders Nilsen Doctors (aka Doctors) by Dash Shaw Arsene Schrauwen (aka Arsene Schrauwen) by Olivier Schrauwen Congratulations to all nominees, which you can check out here. The Angoulême International Comics Festival was founded by French cultural ministers Francis Groux…
What’s in Store (Best of 2015 Edition)
It’s time that I select my favorite comix of 2015. Lots of incredible books to choose from this year. I was particularly impressed with the quality of self-published and small press editions, which I’ll list separately on the bookstore’s Facebook page. – Larry Reid, Curator, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery Black Light: The World of L.B. Cole. The colorful covers of golden age comix are the focus of this exceptional and long overdue volume on mid-century master L. B. Cole. Essential. We Are Gypsies Now. Tacoma-born media artist Danielle de Picciotto chronicles her nomadic adventures with husband and collaborator…
Eternaut art on display in Berlin
“Mafalda and Eternauta are Saving the world” – the critical Art of Argentinian comics, is an impressive installation/projection on display now through January 17th, in Berlin. “Immigration, Art and Politics are the DNA of Argentinian Comic-Artists. One is an Argentinian with german roots, one was born in Paraguay. A third one is italian, a fourth one from Uruguay. The next is from Andalucia and the last one has roots in Libanon and Malaga. We are talking about the writer Hèctor Germán Oesterheld, the Artist Francisco Solano López, about Hugo Pratt Alberto Breccia, Quino and Miguel Rep. They are…
