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Shout it out! Last month, Northwesterners got the chance to experience The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 in person, and it was indeed, a hoot and a holler! (That's editor Nico Vassilakis leading the call, and Fantagraphics co-founder Mike Catron helping out in the background!) A fleet of poets descended upon the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday, November 24th, and throughout the evening, they performed small batches of readings. Contributor Gustave Morin traveled all the way from somewhere in Southern Ontario — "Let's just say, Detroit," he told us — for his performance. Another Canadian, poet Donato Mancini,…

After several years out of print, new pressings of these essential volumes are coming soon! The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 2: Some More Early Years of Bitter Struggle (New Softcover Ed.) by Robert Crumb 144-page black & white/color 8.5" x 11" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-0-93019-362-1 Ships in: January 2013 (subject to change) – Pre-Order Now Another fascinating collection of early work from one of America's most original, trenchant, and uncompromising artists. "Some More Early Years of Bitter Struggle" features several key stories from Crumb’s pre-underground, homemade comics of the early 1960s (such as Farb and Arcade), with stories featuring early…

 Cartoonist, animator and story teller Dash Shaw's animated music video for band Sigur Ros entitled "Seraph" will be shown at next year's Sundance Film Festival. This six and half minute film will appear in the animated short section of the festival. For those of you not attending, feel free to watch it here from home in your jam-jams. Shaw's book graphic novel and comic New School and 3 New Stories are scheduled to come out next March.

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Spacehawk by Basil Wolverton 272-page full-color 9.25" x 13" flexibound softcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-550-1 See Previews / Order Now Basil Wolverton is one of the greatest, most idiosyncratic talents in comic book history. Though he is best known for his humorous grotesqueries in MAD magazine, it is his science-fiction character Spacehawk that Wolverton fans have most often demanded be collected. The wait is over, as Spacehawk features every story from Spacehawk’s intergalactic debut in 1940 to his final, Nazi-crushing adventure in 1942. Spacehawk is the closest thing to a colorfully-costumed, conventional…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Pogo – The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 2: "Bona Fide Balderdash" by Walt Kelly 356-page black & white/color 11.25" x 9.25" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-584-6 See Previews / Order Now While supplies last, customers who order this volume can also receive the box set slipcase for Vols. 1 and 2 at no extra charge! Even though Pogo had been in syndication for less than two years as this volume begins, Walt Kelly's long professional experience (including seven years creating Pogo stories for comic books) had him at the peak of…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Nancy Likes Christmas: Complete Dailies 1946-1948 by Ernie Bushmiller 336-page black & white 8.5" x 8.5" flexibound softcover • $26.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-599-0 See Previews / Order Now BARGAIN COMBO: Nancy Is Happy + Nancy Likes Christmas Gift Set Price: $51.98 $41.59 Order this book and receive this FBI•MINI comic shown here as a FREE bonus! Click here for details. Limit one per customer while supplies last. It's three more full years of Ernie Bushmiller's beloved comic strip, featuring nearly one thousand meticulously restored daily strips from its post-World-War II graphic high point…

Visitors to the festivities at Fantagraphics Bookstore's 6th anniversary gala on Saturday are in for a treat. In addition to celebrating 30 years of Love & Rockets with Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, and music by cartoonist Geneviève Castrée's Ô Paon, we have a stellar line up of special guests in store. Dutch artist Femke Hiemstra (pictured above) is in town for a show at Roq la Rue with Blab cover artist Ryan Heshka. They'll attend the party with Roq la Rue proprietor Kirsten Anderson (who is also celebrating her birthday that night.) Peter Bagge will also be there. Look for…

  Katelan Cunningham of Soul Pancake recently interviewed Rob Walker, editor of Significant Objects, on the value of story. Significant Objects takes oddball, flea market items and writers you know and will one day know added stories to the items. Editors Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn's social experiment then sold the items for eBay with the stories and lo and behold, used and broken items went for more money once a narrative enhanced their 'meaning.' Walker describes the spark of the project, "I broke a coffee mug. It was just a nothing souvenir mug, nobody would have paid any money…

Thursday, December 6th • Seattle, WA: It's your last chance to see our exhibit for The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery! Prints are a ridiculously-cheap $25 each! (more info)   Friday, December 7th • Seattle, WA: Dutch artist Femke Hiemstra debuts her latest collection "Let the Devil Wear Black" at Roq La Rue, with Blab #18 cover artist Ryan Heshka! (more info)    Saturday, December 8th • Seattle, WA: The Love and Rockets 30th Anniversary Celebration comes to the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery with guests of honor Jaime & Gilbert Hernandez! We'll also have a special…

We're pleased to bring you the rundown on our Spring-Summer 2013 season of upcoming releases by presenting the catalog prepared for our book-market distributor, W.W. Norton. Scroll through it in an embedded reader on this page, and download a better-quality 26.8MB PDF version here. As you read, please keep in mind that most of these books are still in development and all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates (especially release dates) are preliminary and subject to change. With about 3 dozen new books and a fat handful of reprints and new editions of previous books, there's a lot to look forward…