We're going deeper underground this week on comiXology with the release of Frank Stack's Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictions. "Cult" cartoonist Frank Stack is best known as the artist behind Harvey Pekar's award-winning graphic novel My Cancer Year (his art was featured in the movie American Splendor!), and as the creator of one of the first underground comic books The Adventures of Jesus. Foolbert Funnies collects his comics—inspired by Stack's pop culture-filled childhood and travails as a fine arts professor—that ran in National Lampoon and other publications. In this book, you will find adventuress Dirty Diana; nostalgic time traveler Frank Crankcase; commonsensical Dr. Feelgood; politician…
NYC: Drew Friedman at New School TONIGHT
The 120th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 7pm at The New School University Center, 63 5th Ave., room L104 (lower level). Free and open to the public. Please note new location this week only! Drew Friedman on 40 Iconic Paperback Book Covers.Artist Drew Friedman shares and discusses 40 of his favorite paperback book covers. Paperback books are the cheaply printed (held together by glue rather than stitches) books released by publishers in a low-cost format. Friedman has amassed a large collection of vintage paperbacks over the years. The book covers…
Daniel Clowes Returns to Fantagraphics Bookstore on April 18
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to host the return engagement of one of America’s most influential artists, Daniel Clowes. His cynical satires of popular culture in the pages of the wildly popular Eightball comic book series helped define the attitudes and aesthetics of an entire generation. His appearance in Seattle on Saturday, April 18 marks the global debut of The Complete Eightball 1 – 18. Clowes will be available to sign a limited number of advance copies of this collection as well as other publications from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Clowes’ meticulously rendered artwork and cinematic narratives set a standard for…
Black River by Josh Simmons – Photoset Preview
Black Riverby Josh Simmons 112-page black & white 6.5″ x 8.5″ softcover$18.99 | 978-1-60699-833-5 Josh Simmons returns with his first full-length graphic novel since 2007’s acclaimed House. A group of women, one man, and two dogs are making their way through a post-apocalyptic world in search of a city that supposedly still has electricity and some sort of civilization. Along the way, they go to a comedy club, take a drug called Gumdrop, and encounter gangs of men who are fools, lunatics, or murderous sadists. In other words, all manner of terrors. Josh Simmons is one of the field’s most…
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Vol. 7: March of the Zombies by Floyd Gottfredson – First Look
Zombies, lions, and Nazis… Oh my! The seventh volume of our Eisner Award-winning Mickey Mouse series, March of the Zombies, has all of that and more. Under Disney artist Floyd Gottfredson's capable pen, Mickey must prevail against evil scientists, the Axis powers, and… the consequences of Goofy's impulsive decision-making. These ever-delightful tales are as entertaining to read today as they were when Gottfredson began the fledgling strip in 1930, and our exquisite packaging of these strips means you'll be able to enjoy them for years to come. March of the Zombies is due to arrive at bookstores this May, but you can…
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: The Pixilated Parrot (The Complete Carl Barks Library Vol. 9) – Excerpt
Huey, Dewey, and Louie think they’ve scored a great deal when they buy a talking parrot off a sailor for only a dime, but this parrot seems only interested in counting bananas! Then, to top it off, they lose their parrot to Donald, who gives him to an ungrateful Uncle Scrooge as a birthday present. ("Ten cents a month for crackers he'll cost me!") Our latest volume in the critically acclaimed The Complete Carl Barks Library series is as full of laughs, wit, and Barks' beautifully penned panels as ever, beginning with the story of the same title, "The Pixilated…
Wandering Son Volume 8 by Shimura Takako – Video/Photoset Preview
Wandering Son Vol. 8by Shimura Takako 200-page black & white 7" x 9.25" hardcover$24.99 | 978-1-60699-831-1 Ships in: May 2015 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Curiosity and transphobia collide in the latest volume of Fantagraphics' critically acclaimed manga about a boy who wants to be a girl, and a girl who wants to be a boy. In Volume 8, Nitori-kun, a boy who wants to be a girl, explores kissing with girlfriend Anna-chan; and Yoshino-san, a girl who wants to be a boy, finds the courage to go to school wearing a boy's uniform. Meanwhile, one of their male…
Patience… Coming in March 2016
Coming in March 2016. Five years in the making.
Fantagraphics at MoCCA Festival 2015
Fantagraphics is ready and rarin' to go with at MoCCA Festival 2015 at the brand-new-to-you-and-me location. All weekend long you can find Gary tabling at 204-207 on the Second Floor (Red Zone) along with some of the world's finest cartoonists and their excellent books at the hot new location for MoCCA! Debuts: • The Kurdles by Robert Goodin In the spirit of Hergé's Tintin or Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge, The Kurdles is an all-ages comic spiced up with a teaspoon of strange. Sally is a teddy bear who gets separated from her owner. Desperate to find her way home, she stumbles upon…
Krazy Backlist Bonanza!
No foolin’ — starting today on comiXology, you can get every volume of the Krazy & Ignatz daily strips by George Herriman ! Krazy & Ignatz is a love story, focusing on the relationship of its three main characters. Krazy Kat adores Ignatz Mouse. Ignatz Mouse just tolerates Krazy Kat, except for recurrent onsets of targeting tumescence, which found expression in the fast delivery of bricks to Krazy’s cranium. Offisa Pup loves Krazy and seeks to protect “her” (Herriman always maintained that Krazy was genderless), mostly by throwing Ignatz in jail. Each of the characters was ignorant of the other’s…
