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Are you of delicate, easily offended, politically correct sensibilities? Look away, my friend, look away. Coming in October, Ray and Joe: The Story of a Man and His Dead Friend and Other Classic Comics collects classic National Lampoon strips by Charles Rodrigues in a classy-looking hardcover that belies the degeneracy within. A man cavorts with a corpse; a private eye conducts business from within an iron lung; a child ruins minds and causes havoc with her ugliness; conjoined twins put a new twist on self-loathing; and other weirdos get weird.  Meet the titular characters (if you can call a cadaver a…

It's one helluva busy week for Fantagraphics! Monday, September 9th • Portland, OR: Tonight, Danny Bland celebrates his debut novel, In Case We Die, at Powell's Books on Hawthorne at 7:30 PM! (more info) Wednesday, September 11th • San Francisco, CA: Join Danny Bland for a reading of In Case We Die, at Booksmith! (more info) Thursday, September 12th • Seattle, WA: Our very own Jason T Miles will be part of group art show at Cairo, comprised of collaborative and independent ink drawings with artists Darin Shuler and Aidan Fitzgerald! Join them from 7:00 to 9:00 PM for art,…

There's a pretty good chance you've already checked out Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree in serialized form at Boing Boing, but here's the first bunch of pages as they appear in the first print collection, which is debuting at SPX this coming weekend and should be in stores in October! Step back to the mid-1970s in the Bronx as DJ Kool Herc gives birth to an art form, meet the early players on the scene, witness the first rivalries, feel the block-rocking beats… and pre-order first-printing copies for yourself and all your homies!

“Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me is as combative, iconoclastic, and embittered as its title suggests it would be. It is also smart, thought-provoking, and funny as hell. Disconcertingly, you’ll agree with at least half of what Bagge says. Then, gratifyingly, you’ll realize that everybody is stupid except for you, too.” — Esquire “Like all good political cartoonists, Bagge can be cruel. But he’s also willing to skewer himself when he deserves it… as libertarian polemicists go, he’s a lot more fun than, say, Ayn Rand.” — The Washington Post “Bagge has been doing really interesting work, mixing field journalism…

This September 26th enjoy an "Evening of Literary Mayhem & Music" in New York starring Danny Bland, celebrating his new novel In Case We Die and Mike Edison, author of "I Have Fun Everywhere I Go" and "Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!" The night couldn't be complete without featuring the World's Greatest Piano Player, Mickey Finn. And special guest DJ Eric Davidson will be spinning punk rock favorites and more! "Where is this?" screams everyone at once—creating such a deafening noise we wonder if you can possibly still attend because your ear drums erupted and, ew, it's kinda bleeding all over–It's at…

Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me and Other Astute Observations (Expanded Hardcover Ed.) by Peter Bagge 152-page full-color 8" x 10.25" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-656-0 Ships in: September 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Fans of Peter Bagge’s generation-defining, satirical fiction may not realize this, but the cartoonist doubles as an opinionated cuss, and has been contributing provocative (but still hilarious) comic-strip opinion pieces to Reason magazine for the last several years… collected in this volume. Although a libertarian by inclination (hence the Reason gig), Bagge (who lives in the fuzzy-headed, liberal capital of the Northwest, Seattle) is hardly dogmatic, and…

  IFP Filmmaker Conference – Inspiration, Action, Community!Sept. 15-19, 2013, Lincoln Center, New York City Guess what? Your favorite cartoonist-cum-animator Dash Shaw will be appearing at the Filmmaker Conference the week after SPX. Here are the details, friends!   Whatever form your story takes, IFP's Filmmaker Conference showcases how great projects can connect with audiences and stand out in a crowded marketplace. Presenting filmmakers and cross-platform innovators including Oscar-nominated producer Jon Kilik (The Hunger Games), filmmakerLucien Castaing-Taylor (Leviathan) and multimedia musician DJ Spooky, case studies of Fruitvale Station, Our Nixon, Comedy Central's Drunk History, Sound City, and interactive documentary Hollow,…

Get ready, Norway, 'cause the brilliant artist Jason is comin' home this month! On Thursday, September 12th, the Grafill Gallery [ Rosenkrantz Gate 21 ] in Oslo will debut a new exhibit of Jason's works, including pages from Lost Cat, alongside some new paintings, like this one of Bukowski. . An opening night reception begins at 6:00 PM, and the exhibit will be on display through October 4th. And then on Saturday, September 14th, join Jason at Tronsmo Bookstore [ Kr. Augusts Gate 19 ] at 2:00 PM for a signing. Along with his Fantagraphics titles, he'll also be signing…

Oh boy! Join Mickey and his pals (and foes) for his most colorful adventures from the pen of the great Floyd Gottfredson in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays Vol. 2: Robin Hood Rides Again and the slipcased set of Volumes 1-2! Packed with carefully restored strips in crisp remastered color and overflowing with extra features, including Gottfredson's later non-Mickey strips for Disney (starring the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians and more!) along with the usual historical essays and rare artwork, it's a peerless package of Mouse-y mirth and mischief! These items are on their way for a late October-early November release…

"A detail-rich account of an unfathomably awesome childhood in the epicenter of 1960s – 1970s New York culture, and further evidence of the magnificence of the Friedman genes." – Daniel Clowes "I always wanted to know what it would be like to grow up with a famous dad. It sounds as awesome as i feared. I really enjoyed reading Kipp Friedman's stories and hating him for having dinner at Groucho Marx's house." – Joel Stein, Time magazine columnist "Barracuda in the Attic is a poignant and crackling good memoir… and this is coming from someone who doesn't like memoirs." —Ted…