Fantagraphics Bookstore Presents Contemporary Cartoonists Charles Burns, Chris Ware, Gabrielle Bell, Tom Kaczynski, and more! (Really.) September 27, 2012 – Seattle, WA. Fantagraphics Bookstore is pleased to present two of America’s most celebrated cartoonists, Charles Burns and Chris Ware, together with emerging artists Gabrielle Bell and Tom Kaczynski on October 20 – 22. Burns, Bell and Kaczynski appear on Saturday, October 20 at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, followed by Burns and Ware at Town Hall on Monday, October 22 at 7:30 PM. Seattle native Charles Burns will appear at Fantagraphics Bookstore to sign his new…
The Horror: Selections from the EC Comics Library opens Oct. 13 at Fantagraphics Bookstore
THE HORROR: SELECTIONS FROM THE EC COMICS LIBRARY seduces Seattle at Fantagraphics Bookstore on October 13. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery celebrates the legacy of two American masters in “The Horror: Selections from the EC Comics Library” opening Saturday, October 13 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. On display will be pages reproduced from the work of acclaimed EC editor (and creator of EC’s insurgent MAD magazine) Harvey Kurtzman, as well as Wallace Wood, among the world’s most admired cartoonists. The exhibition celebrates the publication by Seattle-based Fantagraphics Books of the first two titles in the EC Comics Library series: Corpse on…
“Tarantula” by Mark Kalesniko
We are pleased to present this exclusive all-new original 40-page comic by Mark Kalesniko. Books by Mark Kalesniko (click covers for ordering info & previews): {product_snapshot:id=219,true,false,false,left} {product_snapshot:id=1959,true,false,false,left} {product_snapshot:id=865,true,false,false,left}
Fantagraphics to publish Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree
What started out as a web comic Ed Piskor‘s Hip Hop Family Tree traces the foundation of hip hop from its Bronx origins with DJ Kool Herc and DJ Hollywood through Doug E. Fresh, Run DMC and beyond in four color fury. The comic easily transitions from depictions of live shows to breaking in the streets to the foundation of record companies, eager to spread the music. Currently published weekly at the epicenter of cool, Boing Boing, Piskor’s work will be collected and printed by Fantagraphics next year. The full-color book will be around 112 pages, collecting the first year’s…
“Apology” by Chris Wright
Regarding the 2012 release of Chris Wright‘s debut graphic novel Blacklung:
Gary Panter Dal Tokyo Exhibit & Signing at Fantagraphics Bookstore Saturday, September 8
Gary Panter’s Dal Tokyo exhibition and book signing at Fantagraphics Bookstore! August 23, 2012 – Seattle, WA. Cartoonist Gary Panter has indelibly influenced four decades of American popular culture. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery celebrates this remarkable artist with an exhibition of original drawings and colorful prints on Saturday, September 8, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Panter will appear to sign copies of his new collection Dal Tokyo, published by Seattle-based Fantagraphics Books. Gary Panter’s manic “Jimbo” comix and dense illustrations were emblematic of California’s punk movement in the 1970s and later became fixtures in Art Spiegleman’s avant garde RAW Magazine…
Love and Rockets 30th Anniversary Northeast Tour with Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez
Friday, Sept. 14 • Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 15 & 16 • SPX, Bethesda, MD Tuesday, Sept. 18 • Atomic Books, Baltimore, MD Wednesday, Sept. 19 • Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia, PA Friday, Sept. 21 • The Rock Shop, Brooklyn, NY Sunday, Sept. 23rd • Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, NY September 14th-23, the seminal Love and Rockets creators Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez will tour from Washington D.C. to Brooklyn as part of the 30th Anniversary of Love and Rockets. Signings and readings await the Northeast this fall. First stop on the Love and Rockets train…
GAME OVER at Fantagraphics Bookstore on Saturday, August 11
A+ B, Down, Down + Forward, Down + Back, Pencil, Ink, Fail. GAME OVER. To celebrate Geek Girl Con and PAX Prime, Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery presents “GAME OVER.” This exhibition, opening on Saturday, August 11th, will feature the “box art” of some of our most famous graphic novels reimagined as failed videogame adaptations. No set of killer button combos or brute force could make these “graphic novels as games” playable, but Prison Pit for Nintendo 64 is even gorier than Mortal Kombat, and you can bemoan Pete Bagge's Hate-come-to-virtual-life as a CD-ROM. You can even draw your own failed…
The Complete Comics Journal Joins Online Archive from Alexander Street Press
THE COMPLETE COMICS JOURNAL ARCHIVES JOIN THE UNDERGROUND AND INDEPENDENT COMICS ARCHIVE FROM ALEXANDER STREET PRESS Fantagraphics Books, publisher of The Comics Journal, has announced a partnership with Alexander Street Press to make the complete archive of the The Comics Journal available as part of its Underground and Independent Comics online collection. This is the first-ever scholarly online collection for researchers and students of literary and underground comic books and graphic novels, and the inclusion of more than 25,000 pages of interviews, commentary, theory and criticism from the 35 year history of The Comics Journal marks a significant contribution to…
Fantagraphics and comiXology Announce Digital Distribution Agreement
COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL 2012: FANTAGRAPHICS and COMIXOLOGY ANNOUNCE DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT Love and Rockets: New Stories #1-4 Available NowTo Help Celebrate30 Years Of The Hernandez Brothers’ Groundbreaking World July 14th, 2012 – San Diego, CA. / New York, NY. — Today in a wide-ranging panel celebrating the 30th anniversary of publishing the Hernandez Brothers’ groundbreaking Love and Rockets series co-publisher Gary Groth, president of the 36 year-old publishing house, announced Fantagraphics Books’ entrance into the digital age through a brand new digital distribution agreement with comiXology, the revolutionary digital comics platform with over 75 million comic downloads to date and a…
