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While perusing the finery at the Georgetown Trailer Park Mall and imbibing in locally-brewed beer during this Saturday's Georgetown Art Attack, be sure to drop by Georgetown Records and Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. In addition to finding the world's greatest comix, the neighboring record store hosts a live ambient performance by Seattle experimental musician Rob Angus. I fondly recall Angus and his collaborator Jeff Grienke holding their own while opening for the Skeleton Crew — featuring legendary avant garde guitarist Fred Frith and cellist Tom Cora — in 1984 at my Graven Image gallery. In our current environment of forgettable and regrettable pop music, it's refreshing to…

Fantagraphics is excited to be taking part in the Second Annual Small Press Festival here in Seattle, a month-long series of events celebrating independent publishing that includes a show this Saturday, April 9th at the Richard Hugo House from 2:00 to 6:00 pm. Our office assistant Eric Buckler will be manning the table, so be sure to swing by and say hi! To help celebrate Seattle's vibrant book scene, we'll be featuring selections from local artists like Jim Woodring, Megan Kelso, Ellen Forney, Peter Bagge, Jim Blanchard and more! We'll also have a selection of half-price "damaged" books, chosen from…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind – A Visual History from the Permanent Collection of Experience Music Project Edited by Jacob McMurray, Senior Curator of EMP 248-page full-color 7.5" x 9" softcover with DVD • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-433-7 Previews & Ordering Info Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind visually documents the explosion of Grunge, the Seattle Sound, within the context of the underground punk subculture that was developing throughout the U.S. in the late 1970s and 1980s. This musical journey is represented entirely through the collection…

The 1968 Jim Flora painting Bell Island at Night has been turned into the latest limited edition art print to be offered by Jim Flora Art. It's a beaut — see all the specs and place your order here.

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "…The Arctic Marauder [is] a gorgeous, sprawling tale that — thanks to translator Kim Thompson's finely tuned ear for tone — boasts chewy Vernian narration… Call it ur-steampunk — one of the works that laid the groundwork for a genre that would, just a few years later, fill bookstore shelves with soot, goggles and gutta percha. […] Tardi's arctic seascapes and undersea trenches are things to marvel over, as is his ability to evoke the eerie undulations of the Aurora borealis with just a few finely scratched lines. The Arctic Marauder is at…

The Small Press Expo announced a new batch of special guests for their 2011 show (September 10-11) today, including underground comix great Diane Noomin, whose upcoming collection Glitz-2-Go we'll be debuting at the show; and Johnny Ryan, whose upcoming third volume of Prison Pit will be on hand (as well as his new Angry Youth Comix collection Take a Joke). They join a lineup which already includes Jim Woodring for what's shaping up to be a great show!

In a recent spring cleaning at Casa Reynolds, I unearthed these original PEANUTS strips I created in the late-1970s at the tender age of 8 or 9. I apparently thought I was really onto something with the no pants gag. Or perhaps it just reveals something about my id that I'd rather not consider. Either way, I bet the folks at BOOM! are now kicking themselves for not adding me to the creative team of their new PEANUTS graphic novel. 

We recently received a shipment of Prince Valiant books that are in less than tip-top condition — dinged corners on the covers, mostly — and we've decided to make lemonade out of damaged books by offering them to you at half off the cover price! This includes Vol. 1 (1937-1938), Vol. 2 (1939-1940) and the new Vol. 3 (1941-1942). They're perfectly readable — just cosmetically slightly marred — so if you don't care about mint condition this is your chance to save a bunch of dough! We've got limited quantities, fortunately for us but unfortunately for you if you wait…

Watch Peter Bagge ham it up with his Can You Imagine? bandmates Steve Fisk, Rachel Frost, Susan Merrill and Michelle Plaitis in their first music video — oh and it features Pete’s artwork too!

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Safe Area Gorazde: The Special Edition by Joe Sacco 272-page black & white 7.75" x 10.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-396-5 Previews & Ordering Info First released in 2000, Safe Area Gorazde confirmed Sacco as one of the pre-eminent journalists of his time, and earned him a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship. Now for its 10th anniversary, Fantagraphics is releasing an expanded hardcover edition which, much like 2007’s Palestine: The Special Edition, supplements the original work with page after page of special features, listed below. In the wake of his acclaimed Palestine, Joe Sacco…