Celebrated Seattle cartoonist Megan Kelso unveils her latest masterpiece ARTICHOKE TALES this Saturday from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. Megan burst onto the comics scene in the early 90s with her provocative self-published zine Girlhero. She has since proven herself to be a master storyteller.. The New York Times' recent rave called her new book “…surprising and wonderful” with a “consistently sweet and airy approach [that] provides a likable surface for a story with much darker and stickier depths…” The Stranger says “Artichoke Tales feels like series of expansions. The characters and their world grow to…
Daily OCD: 6/10/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "…[O]ne of the collection’s great strengths [is that] it offers an extremely wide range of writing produced over eight years. … While there’s a great deal to be learned by reading any such collection, Schwartz’s editorial approach makes The Best American Comics Criticism far more entertaining than I would have thought a collection of criticism could be." – Ken Parille, Blog Flume • Review: "Giraffes [in My Hair]… is a personal lesson in history, love, redemption and all that other crap we look for in a good story — all that, and it's a…
Paul Hornschemeier on shirt.woot
This t-shirt design by Paul Hornschemeier made its debut on shirt.woot! yesterday and is still available as of right now. To celebrate its release, Paul has put all of the shirts in his own Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop on sale for a limited time. More info on Paul's News and Head Lice blog. Go! Buy!
Jim Woodring in San Francisco Tonight!
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Now in stock: Temperance by Cathy Malkasian
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Temperance by Cathy Malkasian 240-page two-color 8" x 10" hardcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-323-1 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Do ideas of war and enemies hold a people together? Is a culture of conflict too seductive not to be irresistible? These are the questions Cathy Malkasian explores in her second graphic novel, Temperance. Malkasian creates, as she did in the critically acclaimed Percy Gloom, a fully realized, multi-layered world, inhabited by vividly realized characters. After a brutal injury in battle, Lester has no memory of his prior life. For…
Now in stock: Meat Cake by Dame Darcy
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Meat Cakeby Dame Darcy 240-page black & white/duotone 7" x 10.25" softcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-346-0 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews For a limited time, receive a FREE issue of the Meat Cake comic when you order the collection! Choose from issues 14, 16 or 17 (15 is sold out) when placing your order. COLLECTING THE BEST STORIES FROM THE FIRST DECADE OF MEAT CAKE COMICS Dame Darcy is one of the most beguiling presences on the comics scene — musician, actress, cable TV star, fortune teller, dollmaker, and…
Now in stock: The Book of Mr. Natural (Hardcover Ed.) by Robert Crumb
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: The Book of Mr. Natural (Hardcover Ed.) by Robert Crumb 128-page black & white 8.25" x 10.75" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-352-1 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews This collection features over 120 pages of vintage Crumb comics starring the white-bearded, diminutive sage-cum-charlatan, ranging from charming, free-wheeling early '70s stories to the disturbing, controversial '90s stories (as seen in the Crumb movie), including the entire 40-page "Mr. Natural and Devil Girl" saga from Hup! (collected here for the first time in book form). Crumb's Mr. Natural is probably the most…
Now in stock: Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird by Tony Millionaire
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird by Tony Millionaire 104-page black & white 6.5" x 9" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-56097-917-3 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Billy Hazelnuts is back for the first time since his acclaimed 2006 Eisner Award-winning debut. Life has settled back to normal in the old house. Becky and her mom are getting used to having Billy around, as he performs various household chores, utilizing his amazing strength. Nothing could be better, aside from a jumpy relationship with the cat. Until one day Billy hears…
Now in stock: Artichoke Tales by Megan Kelso
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Artichoke Tales by Megan Kelso 232-page monochrome 6.75" x 8.25" hardcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-344-6 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Megan Kelso has proved herself a master of the cartoon short story with Queen of the Black Black (1998) and The Squirrel Mother (2006). With Artichoke Tales, six years in the making, Kelso expands her range (and her page count) by creating a family saga spanning three generations and an entire continent. Artichoke Tales is a coming-of-age story about a young girl named Brigitte whose family is caught between…
Daily OCD: 6/9/10
Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Saving the best for last, there’s Blazing Combat, an amazing collection of the stories from the short-lived cutting-edge mid-1960s Warren Publications series. … They’re all written by the outstanding Archie Goodwin, with a few assists, which for most fans would be reason enough to buy this comic all by itself. But then you throw in some of the most amazing art, all of it sharply and expertly reproduced, and you’ve got some real dynamite here. … And there’s fantastic bonus features… If all that doesn’t sell you on this as a must-buy, then you…
