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The Seattle Art Museum's popular Remix series at the sculpture park continues this Friday, August 27. The event features the public debut of the Bureau of Drawers, Seattle's new cartooning salon, which includes Fantagraphics friends David Lasky, Marc Palm, Jen Ralston, Tom Dougherty and many other fine cartoonists. (This provides a preview for the big "Counterculture Comix" exhibition at Bumbershoot when Bureau of Drawers will join Friends of the Nib in cartooning demonstrations over Labor Day weekend.) Also on the bill at Remix is a major new work and gallery talk by Houston artist Trenton Doyle Hancock whose amazing narrative…

You'll Never Know, Book 2: Collateral Damage by C. Tyler 104-page full-color 12" x 10.25" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-418-4 Ships in: September 2010 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now This book is available with a signed bookplate as a FREE premium! The bookplate has been uniquely designed for this book, and each bookplate is printed on acid-free cardstock and hand-signed by the author. (Click here for more books available with signed bookplates.) Please select your preference above before adding the item to your shopping cart. Note: Signature plates are VERY limited in quantity and available only WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. The…

We love seeing photos of people reading our books and we need more Fantagraphics representation (and more dude representation) on Hot Nerds Reading Comics (via Read Comics in Public). We know you're out there. Oh wait, here's a dude… not reading one of our books but it's Bob Fingerman for crying out loud:

Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "What to say about Catalog 439? It's a crazy-arse thing, full of richly illustrated intricate drawings of smartly dressed men torturing each other with ridiculous devices. […] What you get with this book then is not just a fascinating glimpse into a little known corner of American social history, but the template for many of the ad pages from the silver and bronze age comics that so many of us comic collectors love. I really enjoyed it and, although it isn't about comics, I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in the…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: A Drunken Dream and Other Stories by Moto Hagio 288-page black & white/color 7.25" x 9.75" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-377-4 Ordering Info & Previews This book is available with a signed bookplate as a FREE premium! The bookplate has been uniquely designed for this book, and each bookplate is printed on acid-free cardstock and hand-signed by the author. (Click here for more books available with signed bookplates.) Please select your preference when adding the item to your shopping cart. Signature plates are VERY limited in quantity and available only WHILE SUPPLIES…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: The Complete Peanuts 1975-1978 Slipcase by Charles M. Schulzdesigned by Seth 8.75" x 7.125" x 3" slipcase • $4.99 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Even if you purchased the fifth pair of volumes of The Complete Peanuts (1975-1976 and 1977-1978) separately rather than in the two-volume set, you can still have this handsome, durable two-volume slipcase designed by Complete Peanuts series designer Seth. This item is exclusively available directly from Fantagraphics. (Books not included.) PEANUTS ® & © United Feature Syndicate. All rights reserved.

What Is All This? Uncollected Stories by Stephen Dixon 528-page 6.25" x 9.25 hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-350-7 Ships in: September 2010 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Stephen Dixon is one of the most acclaimed authors of short stories in the history of American letters. His work, characterized by mordant humor and a frank attention to human sexuality, has earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Fantagraphics Books is proud to present this incredible volume of short stories, a massive collection of vintage…

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators are saying about our releases this week, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. The Complete Peanuts 1977-1978 (Vol. 14) by Charles M. Schulz introduction by Alec Baldwin 344-page black & white 8.5" x 7" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-375-0 The Complete Peanuts 1975-1978 Box Set by Charles M. Schulzdesigned by Seth two 344-page black & white 8.5" x 7" hardcovers in a custom slipcase • $49.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-376-7 "Continuing Fantagraphics’… presentation of Charles Schulz’s original iteration of eventually finite childhood,…

Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Early reviews of The Artist Himself: A Rand Holmes Retrospective are heralding it as a much-deserved tribute to a forgotten genius… Around these parts, Holmes, who passed away in 2002, has been a revered figure for decades. […] Through excerpts from the artist’s own journals and interviews with those who knew him, Patrick Rosenkranz presents his subject as a man of contradictions, both prodigiously gifted and painfully insecure. […] Holmes’s art was always marked by sharp visual wit and a sometimes astonishing attention to detail. He was indeed a genius, and thanks to Fantagraphics,…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Norman Pettingill: Backwoods Humorist by Norman Pettingill; Introduction by Robert Crumb 144-page full-color 12" x 9" hardcover (with wood cover) • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-319-4 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Norman Pettingill is a true underground cartoonist, known and admired by a small coterie of cartooning connoisseurs, but completely unknown in the wider world. Norman Pettingill was an avid trapper and fisherman from Northern Wisconsin, and a self-taught artist. In 1947, at the age of 51, he created hundreds of pen-and-ink drawings and marketed many of them as postcards, printing…