Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez’s long-running Love and Rockets comic series contains decades of incredible storytelling—here’s a list of essential reading!
The Fantagraphics Warehouse is Moving!
Fantagraphics is moving to a bigger warehouse! The good news: that means more room to house the books you love and greater shipping capabilities in the future. The bad news: we’ll be operating at reduced capacity while we transfer stock and all orders placed between September 10th* through September 19th will not be shipped out until the week of September 20th. If you’re in a hurry to get your next read, we recommend placing an order at your favorite bookstore or comic shop! The better news: to show our appreciation for your patience and support, we’re offering a $10 coupon…
Sneak Peek at Winter 2022 New Releases
We have no idea what the future holds, but we can guarantee you have some really amazing reads in store! We’ve got a great lineup of books coming out in 2022 and we’re offering you a sneak peek now–see the full list here! The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: the Idiots Abroad and Other Follies by Gilbert Shelton & Paul Mavrides With the imminent release of a new animated series, Gilbert Shelton’s legendary underground comix heroes find a new crash pad at Fantagraphics. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers are the most iconic and enduring underground comix characters ever created, having sold…
September Newsletter
Despite the present circumstances (and the fact that all of us here at Fantagraphics are all well past graduation), September always brings with it a “Back to School” feeling. We don’t have Trapper Keepers or bouquets of pencils for you, but we do have *tons* of great new books to fill your book bag! But first, the news: Forbes reviewed Simon Hanselmann’s magnum opus, Crisis Zone and wrote, “In the deluxe and beautifully designed Fantagraphics edition, Crisis Zone ends up looking like a children’s book produced in an institution for the criminally insane. … Assuming we have a future ahead of us, Crisis…
Nod Away 2 Pre-Order Deal
Love art? Love a good deal? Well here we are giving you BOTH! Order Nod Away 2 and get 20% off Nod Away 1! Offer good from 8/27/2021 to 10/7/2021. Vol. 2 moves away from the deep space transport where Vol. 1 took place and moves to earthly terrain, peeling back layers of Cotter’s world-building to reveal the bigger picture of this graphic novel series in ways that upend expectations. Aveline Moiré is a headstrong but self-destructive young French woman. When she meets and moves in with a young artist, Walter Walker, little do they know that the wheels they set in…
Fantagraphics August Newsletter
Summer marches on and temps are rising everywhere—it seems like a good time to read something cool! We’ve got some amazing new books coming out this month and events both physical and virtual, so there’s plenty to stay busy with. But first, the news! Fantagraphics is the second-winning-est publisher with 4 wins at this year’s Eisner Awards! Congratulations to our talented artists and the editors and designers working behind the scenes! The New York Times reviewed Lizzy Stewart’s It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be in a round-up of graphic novels that explore the theme of loneliness, calling it “mournful, lovely” and noting that…
What’s In Store: Gates of Heck Retrospective Exhibition
Catch Gates of Heck visionary Katherine Gates at the Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery Saturday, July 31, with her curated exhibit running through August 11.
Comic-Con@Home 2021 Panels & Sale
Another year without an in-person Comic-Con! Here’s hoping that next year we’ll all be able to get together in person down in San Diego, but until then we’ve got Comic-Con@Home, and all that comes with it! You can find a full schedule of this year’s online programming here, and we’ve collected all the Fanta-centric stuff into this one handy blog post. You can also shop our virtual booth, and attend the Eisner Awards, all from the comfort of your couch. And then of course, there’s our big annual Comic-Con Sale, with 25% off just about everything in our webstore! Scroll…
What’s In Store: Hot Off the Press Book Fair July 10!
Join some of Seattle’s most talented cartoonists, comics presses, and other artists for the Fantagraphics Bookstore’s first in-store event in a year!
Fantagraphics June Newsletter
Summer is upon us, and there’s no better time to kick back with an ice cold bev and a fresh stack of comics! We have some incredibly cool books, coming out this month, and can’t wait to tell you all about ‘em, but first, the news! Barry Windsor-Smith’s Monsters received great reviews from both The Guardian and The New York Times Ed Piskor’s Red Room #1 got great reviews from SYFYWire, Daily Dead, and Multiversity.com among many others IGN compared Glenn Head’s new memoir Chartwell Manor to Maus in this great review Publisher’s Weekly ran a great feature on Stone Fruit by Lee Lai ScreenRant ran a great advance review and preview of Celestia by Manuele Fior TCAF…
