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.) Pirates in the Heartland: The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson Vol. 1by S. Clay Wilson; edited by Patrick Rosenkranz 224-page color/black & white 7.5" x 11" hardcover • $34.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-747-5 This is the definitive account of the boldest and most audacious of the legendary underground cartoonists: the taboo busting, eyeball…
We’re halfway there! New Blighted Eye prints & more
We've hit the halfway mark in the month of our Kickstarter campaign. To celebrate comics, and hitting our goal, we're offering a quartet of signed, limited-edition prints featuring artwork from our upcoming book The Blighted Eye. (You can also just get the book, signed by Glenn Bray.) We also have the iconic cover of one of the seminal 1972 autobiographical underground comics: Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary as a $150 print. Scanned from the original black and white art and signed by cartoonist Justin Green. Also from The Blighted Eye is a six-panel painted comic strip titled “Henry Webb” (1992), starring Gary Panter’s every-idiot; a stand-alone…
Prince Valiant Vol. 8: 1951-1952 by Hal Foster – First Look
Tally ho, adventure lovers, another volume of Hal Foster's masterpiece is coming your way in a couple of months, as heralded by the appearance of advance copies of Prince Valiant Vol. 8: 1951-1952 in our hallowed halls. A theological thread runs through this volume with storylines about the coming of Christianity to Val's Nordic homeland (see Val getting a lesson on the Norse pantheon with a pre-Lee/Kirby Thor on the cover) along with all the usual derring-do, epic battles, domestic comedy, and dramatic life changes. Pre-order now for your express ticket to comics Valhalla!
Fantagraphics & ComiXology Debut Violenzia by Richard Sala, Our First Digital Exclusive Comic
Fantagraphics Books Partners With ComiXology to Debut Violenzia Fantagraphics Books’ First Digital Exclusive Comic November 20th, 2013 – Seattle, WA/New York, NY – Fantagraphics Books, publisher of the world’s greatest cartoonists, partners with comiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform, to debut Fantagraphics’ first original, digital exclusive comic book: Violenzia. Written and illustrated by acclaimed creator Richard Sala (Delphine, Cat Burglar Black), Violenzia is an all-new, full-color, $5.99, 50-page one-shot exclusively available today across comiXology’s entire platform including iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and comiXology.com. "Let there be no mercy or forgiveness for they have shown none." With these…
Spring-Summer 2014, part 10: International Innovators
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.) Arsene Schrauwen by Olivier Schrauwen 250-page full-color 8" x 10" hardcover • $34.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-730-7 In 1947, the author's grandfather, Arsene, traveled across the ocean to a mysterious, dangerous jungle colony at the behest of his cousin. Together they would build something deemed impossible: a utopia of modernity, in the…
Sucker Bait and Other Stories by Graham Ingels (The EC Comics Library) – First Look
Are you ready to get Ghastly? Our next EC Comics Library volume Sucker Bait and Other Stories, featuring the nauseatingly expressive artwork of Graham Ingels, is a couple of months from haunting your shelves, as evidenced by the acrid arrival of advance copies in our cobwebbed lair. The Old Witch serves up a cauldron-ful of grue and rue in over two dozen classic creepfests, reprinted in glorious, gory-ous black and white. Peek through your fingers at 3 full stories and pre-order your copy right here.
Experience Nirvana with Bruce Pavitt on December 7 at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
November 19, 2013 – Seattle, WA. The Seattle music scene in 1989 was on the precipice of altering the course of global pop culture. Ironically, the punk music of the Pacific Northwest was having difficulty gaining traction beyond a small but enthusiastic regional following. While critically acclaimed, the embryonic movement was in imminent danger of a premature demise. In an effort to draw international attention to their fledgling label, Sub Pop sent their three marquee acts to Europe. The rest, as they say, is history. Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989 is Bruce Pavitt’s account of this pivotal period of…
Jim Woodring at Olympia’s Danger Room
An interview and book signing by everyone's favorite Jim Woodring to take place at Danger Room on Saturday, December 7th at 3pm. For a hoppin' good time head over to the downtown Olympia Library for a live drawing demonstration by Jim and his GIANT pen Nibbus Maximus at 7pm. (The poster pretty much sums it up!) Jim will also be signing copies of his book FRAN so either bring your copy or buy the newest installment of his series set in the surreal Unifactor. 201 W 4th Avedowntown Olympia360.705.3050 info@dangerroomoly.com downtown Olympia Timberland Library313 8th Ave SE Olympia WA 98501
Spring-Summer 2014, part 9: Ducks! Rosa! Barks!
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.) Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Son of the Sun (The Don Rosa Library Vol. 1) by Don Rosa 208-page full-color 8.5" x 11" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-742-0 “Great howling crashwagons!” The Richest Duck in the World is back — and so are noisy nephew Donald, wunderkinder…
Kickstarter Update: Swell Shirts and more
We thank all of you for your support and love of great comics. We've been adding new things daily so here are few great ones! The new aim is still $200,000 so we can continue on with Kim Thompson's excellent taste in bande dessinee and the tradition of translating foreign comics in English for future generations. So find a gift for a friend or another one for yourself today! For only $20, you can get Guardsmen of Infinity #1, an EARLY zine by Gary Groth who typeset the whole damn thing with a Leroy lettering system (for you fellow…
