September 5, 2013 – Seattle, WA. With baseball’s pennant races heating up and the postseason fast approaching, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery looks back to an earlier era of the national pastime. Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934 – 1972 chronicles the game and its legendary players. The bookstore will display pages from the artist’s long career opening Saturday, September 14. As America’s premier sports cartoonist, Willard Mullin documented the game of baseball in a more genteel era. He was in New York to record the careers of Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, and Lou Gehrig. He witnessed Jackie Robinson’s historic integration…
Alternative Comix Artist Brian Ralph at Fantagraphics Bookstore
August 28, 2013 – Seattle, WA. Fantagraphics Bookstore hosts a rare Seattle appearance by alternative cartoonist Brian Ralph on Saturday, September 7 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. The artist will present an entertaining slide talk and sign copies of his recently released book Reggie-12 from Drawn & Quarterly. Brian Ralph has maintained an ambitious publishing schedule since graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 1996 and becoming a member of the influential Fort Thunder comix collective. First serialized in pop culture magazine Giant Robot, Reggie-12 follows the exploits of a hilarious young robot and his bumbling feline sidekick. Ralph’s alternative…
Fantagraphics Follies at Bumbershoot Arts Festival
August 21, 2013 – Seattle, WA. Diverse works by accomplished Seattle cartoonists are featured in Fantagraphics Follies at the Bumbershoot arts festival on Saturday, August 31 at 6:00 PM in the Leo K. Theater. This entertaining production, in the format of a late night television talk show, includes Jim Woodring, Ellen Forney, Eroyn Franklin, Kelly Froh and Danny Bland. Music will be provided by Peter Bagge’s Can You Imagine? featuring Steve Fisk. Fantagraphics resident curator Larry Reid will serve as host for the festivities. Iconoclastic cartoonist Jim Woodring demonstrates his drawing skills with a giant quill pen measuring over 7 feet…
Brandon Graham appears at Fantagraphics Bookstore on Saturday, August 24
August 12, 2013 – Seattle, WA. Please join us on Saturday, August 24, as Fantagraphics Bookstore welcomes Brandon Graham. The cartoonist behind popular projects like Prophet, Multiple Warheads, and King City returns to his former Seattle home to sign copies of his new book Walrus from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. A product of West Seattle now living in Vancouver, B. C., Graham was recently acclaimed by Publishers Weekly as “…one of the most inventive action cartoonists working.” As a member of the Meathaus group, his influence on contemporary popular culture extends beyond comix. Walrus, from adventurous PictureBox press, is an…
Danny Bland Tour Dates and Trailer for In Case We Die
LOCAL 638 RECORDS AND FANTAGRAPHICS TEAM UP TO PRESENT DANNY BLAND'S NOVEL IN CASE WE DIE; AUDIOBOOK READ BY AIMEE MANN, DUFF McKAGAN, MARC MARON, MIKE McCREADY, MARK ARM, MARK LANEGAN, MORE! BLAND ANNOUNCES BOOK TOUR! BOOK TRAILER (PLEASE POST & SHARE): http://youtu.be/ApFIGfRf0m8 Fantagraphics Books and Local 638 Records are proud to announce the September 2013 release of In Case We Die, the first novel by Danny Bland, in hardcover and audiobook. Bland, a 25-year veteran of Seattle’s music scene (The Dwarves, Cat Butt, Best Kissers In the World) brings his own experience to the depiction of a harrowing…
Fearsome fun at Fantagraphics Bookstore with Ben Catmull and Josh Simmons on August 10!
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery hosts two of the country’s most accomplished young cartoonists on Saturday, August 10. Josh Simmons and Ben Catmull will appear from 6:00 to 9:00 PM to sign copies of recent publications from Fantagraphics Books. Ghosts and Ruins is Ben Catmull's follow-up to his wildly popular debut Monster Parade. With a rendering style suggestive of Edward Gorey's gothic masterworks, Catmull ingeniously imagines haunted dwellings and the circumstances of their otherworldly occupants. Ghosts and Ruins provides a perfect complement of exquisite art and enchanting narrative. Josh Simmons’ recent collection of short stories similarly explores a sinister world of undiluted horror. By turns…
Fantagraphics Books To Publish Simon Hanselmann’s Megahex
San Diego, CA 7/20/2013 — Fantagraphics is excited to announce the acquisition of the first book by acclaimed Australian cartoonist Simon Hanselmann, to be released in the summer of 2014. Megahex will be a deluxe hardcover featuring over 200 pages of Hanselmann’s beloved Megg, Mogg, and Owl comics, including over 70 never before seen pages. Hanselmann’s Tumblr site Girl Mountain has already propelled Megg, Mogg, Owl & Co. to Internet infamy, and Megahex will be the solid collection those fans have long been waiting for. Megg (a green-skinned witch), Mogg (a black cat), and Owl (an anthropomorphic owl) are a trio of…
SODA POP: Super Sugar Big Buzz exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore for the Sub Pop Silver Jubilee
SODA POP: Super Sugar Big Buzz exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore examines formative years of Sub Pop coinciding with Sub Pop Silver Jubilee Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery celebrates the Sub Pop Silver Jubilee celebration in Georgetown with an exhibition, panel discussion and reading on Saturday, July 13. The show examines the influence of alternative comix, illustration, and graphic design on the legendary music label, which gave rise to the last significant youth movement of the millennium. This event coincides with the Sub Pop Silver Jubilee, a free music festival commemorating 25 years of Sub Pop featuring 15 bands on 3 stages…
Fantagraphics Co-Publisher Kim Thompson, RIP
(photo credit: Lynn Emmert) Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson died at 6:30 this morning, June 19. "He was my partner and close friend for 36 years," said Gary Groth. Thompson was born in Denmark in 1956. He grew up in Europe, a lifelong comics fan, reading both European and American comics in Denmark, France, and Germany. He was an active fan in his teen years, writing to comics — his letters appeared in Marvel's letter columns circa early 1970s — and contributing to fanzines from his various European perches. At the age of 21, he set foot, for the first time…
The Umpteen Millionaire Club: Discussion Questions for Julio’s Day
[The Umpteen Millionaire Club is our series which puts forth book club discussion questions for Fantagraphics titles. The Comics Journal interns Brooke Chin, Tom Graham and Toby Liebowitz put together this set of questions. Please note that this is intended for those who have read the book and contains spoilers. – Ed.] Julio’s Day is a graphic novel by Gilbert Hernandez that spans the hundred-year life of one man. It opens with his birth; it follows Julio and his family and friends in a small farming village as successive generations are born and die. Packed within the pages is a…
