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Don't miss a minute of the action at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery this holiday season. We kick off the fun on Saturday, December 7 with an extraordinary event featuring Sub Pop founder Bruce Pavitt. His new book, Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989 documents a pivotal period in late 20th century pop culture. In an improbable effort to attract international attention to the fledgling label, Sub Pop sent Nirvana, Mudhoney, and TAD to Europe. Pavitt chronicled the triumphant tour with candid observations and captivating images. Members of all three bands will attend this monumental party. Georgetown Records will have recently reissued vinyl…

Zip on over to the Monte Cristo Bookshop for a signing and discussion with noneother than Bill Griffith! On Saturday, December 14th, you can hear a talk from this legend of underground cartooning, and get your Zippy's signed!  If you haven't gotten one yet, this would be a great time to get a copy of Zippy: The Dingburg Diaries, which comprises a full two and a half years' worth of dailies and full-color Sundays! The fun will start at 7:00 PM! Monte Cristo Bookshop is located at 38 Green Street in New London, Connecticut. 

Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter is ongoing, and we're continuing to spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.) The Lonesome Go by Tim Lane 220-page black & white/color 7" x 9.5" softcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-754-3  Tim Lane continues his exploration of the Great American Mythological Drama that began with his first book, the critically acclaimed Abandoned Cars. This collection of stories is broadly linked together by the…

Celebrated Summer by Charles Forsman 68-page 7.75" x 10.25" black & white flexibound softcover • $16.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-685-0 Ships in: December 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now This original graphic novella is a funny and moving story of escalating humor and tension between two disaffected teens, Mike and Wolf, who take a spontaneous summer road trip after dropping acid. As the stark black and white of Forsman's cartooning indicates, however, this is not a psychedelic, Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby kind of trip. Instead of the escapism they crave from their fragile home lives, the LSD only heightens their sense of ennui, exacerbates…

Thank you so much! We hit $200,000 yesterday and since then more great cartoonists have donated to the cause. The Kickstarter campaign will end Thursday morning at 10am, PST. If the Fantagraphics Kickstarter hits a total of $250,000 we will increase our line of literary and experimental manga translation. We have been printing the fantastic Shimura Takako's Wandering Son series since 2011 (translated by Matt Thorn), a perennial title on the ALA Rainbow List for teen reading, in addition to Moto Hagio, who is widely considered the most beloved shōjo manga artist of all time. Hagio's The Heart of Thomas created a new genre of manga while the collected…

Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter is ongoing, and we're continuing to spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.) Bumf 1: I Buggered the Kaiser by Joe Sacco 64-page black & white 6.625" x 10.5" softcover • $12.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-748-2  Author Joe Sacco promises that, in the vein of underground comix like ZAP or Weirdo, "Bumf will go where it needs to go, and do what it needs to…

Show the world you take no guff with this brand-new, argument-stopping t-shirt featuring immortal artwork by the great Michael Kupperman, available from Topatoco. Wear it to your local saloon and let 'em know you mean business.

Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter is ongoing, and we're continuing to spotlight the books in question. As we approach our $200,000 stretch goal toward translating and publishing the European material that was left in the wake of Kim Thompson's untimely passing (which is what necessitated the campaign in the first place), and to show our gratitude on this day of giving thanks, we're turning a solo spotlight on the first "Kim book" to be rescheduled. While no one can ever duplicate Kim as a translator, we're extraordinarily pleased that stepping into his shoes for this volume…

Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter is ongoing, and we're continuing to spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.) Special Exits — Paperback Edition by Joyce Farmer 208-page black & white 8" x 10" softcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-760-4 The acclaimed, award-winning graphic novel, in a new softcover edition.  In the vein of Alison Bechdel or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health,…

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