This week’s digital releases features Robert Triptow’s highly-touted, underground-inspired Class Photo and two new Peanuts collections! Like any good writer, cartoonist Robert Triptow likes to invent stories. When he stumbled across a real-life class photo of an anonymous 1937 public school under a pile of garbage, his imagination took off. Several years later, the result is the utterly charming, completely original graphic novel Class Photo.
Kurt Cobain, creepy dolls, locks of hair and Dame Darcy
File Under: News headlines you were not expecting to read this morning. Memorabilia site Julien’s posted this auction listing: “A lock of Kurt Cobain’s hair given to doll maker and comic artist Dame Darcy by Courtney Love. In a comic book style letter of authenticity, Darcy explains that in the 1990s she sold her handmade dolls in the back of her comic book Meat Cake. Love became a client and commissioned a doll for her daughter Frances using Cobain’s hair. This lock was the hair that remained once the doll was made. Accompanied by both a black and white and…
Fantagraphics at Short Run 2015
Ghosties and Ghoulies! The best holiday of the year is getting a comix takeover when Short Run comes to the Fischer Pavilion at the Seattle Center on the treasured All Hallow’s Eve. Special guest, Jim Woodring designed this year’s poster of a nightmarish hell-scape. These limited babies are available for purchase only to those who are brave enough to wander the haunted halls of the Seattle Center and find what comix and spirits may be lurking.
Fantagraphics at CAB 2015
Not like cartooning and comics ever left Brooklyn, but Comic Arts Brooklyn returns this year to Williamsburg to remind people of the vibrant, diverse, and ever growing community of artists and supporters invested in the comics medium. With special guest Daniel Clowes, Fantagraphics has a stellar signing schedule, and exclusive CAB offers and debut books.
Digital Hip Hop Family Tree #3
Ed Piskor’s coolest comic magazine in the universe continues with the digital release of the third issue of Hip Hop Family Tree.
Fantagraphics on Google Play
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What’s in Store
Join us at Fantagraphics Bookstore this Saturday, October 10, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, as we celebrate Cartoons for Victory with visiting editor and comics scholar Warren Bernard. This event features an exhibition from Bernard’s fascinating archive of World War II home front ephemera. Bernard returns to Seattle following the recent Small Press Expo (SPX) in Bethesda, MD, where he serves as executive director. He co-authored the Eisner-nominated Drawing Power, which examines the role of classic comics in advertising. Bernard will give an informative slide presentation at 7:00 PM at the reception on Saturday. Senator Bob Dole, a decorated WWII…
Digital Whacks and Tracks
Jack Kamen’s EC collection Forty Whacks and the second issue of Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree monthly series are this week’s digital releases.
Para nuestros admiradores que leen en español
Last week Fantagraphics founder Gary Groth traveled to Bogota, Columbia as a guest of the ENTRE VIÑETAS international comics festival. You can read more about it in this article, which Google excellently translates to: “HATE SUPERHERO AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE: GARY GROTH IN BOGOTA”
Invisible Ink and Gag on This go digital
Two comic masters who shoved the mid-century towards the counter culture return this week with a brand-new graphic novel and a best-of collection.
