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Continueing to ride the high and wave of pleasured comics readers every where, seen laughing or observing their comics through slit eyes, Cute Boy Alert is about slide into Secret Headquarters with the sole intent of rocking your pages. We've probably bored you with their tour details, LA, until you slammed your fists on the table screaming "GET TO ME!" Your time is now! Simon Hanselmann (Megahex), Michael DeForge (Lose #6) and Patrick Kyle (Distance Mover) are signing copies of their newest comics in your favorite comic store on Sunday, October 5th at 5pm. Come for the signings, stay for the fun!   Secret…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: SuperTrashby Jacques Boyreau 220-page full color 8" x 8" softcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-738-3 See Previews / Order Now SuperTrash is the awaited, mutagenic sequel to Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002, Chronicle), the book that became a prophecy of the lasting influence of grindhouse and a model describing the shared evolution between art and trash. Now, original Trash author and curator Jacques Boyreau returns to the gonzo archives of 20th century design in pursuit of more bionic art-agony and trash-ecstasy. Serving together a mix of traditional movie signage…

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. The Lonesome Go by Tim Lane 296-page black & white/color 8" x 10.75" softcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-754-3  "[Tim Lane] is part of the tradition of American authors, like Nelson Algren, John Fante and Raymond Carver, able to carve out small slices of down-and-out despair with sensitivity, perception and pathos, and, quite often, a…

Two young lookalike girls named Cochlea and Eustachia, whose exact relationship to each other remains unclear, wake up and survey their surroundings, spying on another mysterious, wheelchair-bound mole-ish character as he moves throughout this strange Victorian house. Enjoy our 10-page, 5.3 MB excerpt here, and find out more abou Hans Rickheit's new, darkly humorous book here, where you can also grab it on pre-sale. Cochlea & Eustachia is due to hit bookstores in November, and we'll have more previews coming soon.

Say it loud, say it proud, Ed Piskor is coming to San Francisco! The Isotope is honored to be kicking off their annual Alternative Press Expo APE AFTERMATH celebrations with Eisner Award nominee and New York Times best selling cartoonist Ed Piskor! 8PM to Midnight on October 4th join the party at the Istope along with DJ BEARZBUB. Known for his historical graphic novel explorations like the fictional look at the early world of computer hacking WIZZYWIG and also THE BEATS: A GRAPHIC HISTORY with comics legend Harvey Pekar, Piskor's most recent works are exploding in popularity and also his most…

  This Friday and Saturday marks the 10th annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival, featuring dozens of tasty punkin beers from over 60 Northwest brewers, at the Elysian brewery in Georgetown. Stagger down the street a few blocks to Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery afterward and pick up a copy of Waiting for the Great Pumpkin.   If you don't have tickets to the sold out beer festival, be sure to take in the  Macefield Music Festival in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, where the Tom Price Desert Classic, featuring our own Martin Bland, open for legendary Northwest proto punk band The Sonics on Friday.

This weekend, October 4th and 5th, Fantagraphics will be tabling at one of the sunniest conventions of the year! APE, Alternative Press Expo, also has a new look to it. You'll find the convention center And you can bet your bippy you can find us at tables 331, 332, 333, when you enter just go straight up the middle aisle and we'll be on the left. The show is from Saturday: 11:00-7:00, Sunday: 11:00-6:00 so stop by our table and say hello to Associate Publisher, Eric Reynolds!   Signing ScheduleSaturday1-2:30PM Robert Williams2-4:00PM Trina Robbins  4-6:00PM Justin Hall Sunday2-4:00PM Justin Hall PanelsSaturday 1:45-2:30PM The Hip Hop/Comics Connections Panel APE special guest Ed…

Here it is! Advances of The Complete Peanuts 1993-1994 (Vol. 22), featuring Peppermint Patty on a mint-green cover, have arrived at Fantagraphics headquarters. Inside are another 300+ pages of Snoopy's blanket-snatching shenanigans, Charlie Brown's ceaseless home run attempts, Schroeder's dedicated and oft-interrupted piano practices, and much more from the whole Peanuts gang. Be on the lookout for this book at a bookstore near you in the upcoming month! You can get ahead of the game and pre-order your copy now. We've also got the next slipcase box set for volumes 21-22 on pre-sale, due out at the same time.

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Doctorsby Dash Shaw 96-page full color 6" x 8" softcover • $16.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-803-8 See Previews / Order Now This new graphic novel from acclaimed cartoonist Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, New School) is his most taut book to date. Dr. Cho is the creator of the Charon, a device that allows his staff to enter a dead patient's afterlife by taking the form of a memory in the patient's consciousness, and bring him or her back to life, with one catch: the experience is traumatic and the process kills them…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Tardi's WWI: It Was the War of the Trenches/Goddamn This War!by Jacques Tardi 260-page black & white with color 8.25" x 10.75" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-769-7 See Previews / Order Now Jacques Tardi is responsible for the two acknowledged graphic novel masterpieces about World War I: It Was the War of the Trenches and Goddamn This War! To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI in 2014, Fantagraphics is proud to release a two-volume boxed set collecting these two perennial classics. The first book, It Was the War of…