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Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "The quality of [Gilbert] Hernandez's cartooning is unassailable. Part of the reason [High Soft Lisp] is so hard to quantify is his uncanny ability to shift focus on a moment's notice, effortlessly jumping from one character to another, suggesting whole thought processes and histories with just a handful of images." – Jason Michelitch, Comics Alliance • Review: "The sort of horror Columbia presents in Pim & Francie works even better without the trappings of recitation and the cause and effect on which they depend. This sort of dread-inducing fright functions without regard to the…

The hits keep coming to our signature Seattle showroom as Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery heats up with enough amazing art, crazy comix, and amusing music to keep everyone entertained.   Saturday, April 10 features music by our resident warehouse composers Martin Bland, Tom Price and friends in the dissonant Zinjanthropus, joined by the audio assault of Ajax in Ardent Vein. Outside, our annual Spring Cleaning Sidewalk Sale will be accompanied by the sounds of 20 eccentric marching bands from across the country in Honk Fest West. Defies description. Really. Don’t miss it. Oh yes, it’s also the infamous Georgetown Art…

We just announced that the just-arrived High Soft Lisp by Gilbert Hernandez is available exclusively to Fantagraphics customers with this signed bookplate as a FREE bonus: Well, we have a couple more Beto books now available with signed bookplates for the first time — the Luba omnibus hardcover: …and The Troublemakers: Not only that, we've restocked with a fresh supply of signature plates for the volumes Heartbreak Soup, Human Diastrophism, Beyond Palomar, and Chance in Hell. Gilbert was a trouper and plowed through a stack of these while he was in town earlier this month. Each bookplate is printed on…

We are pleased to bring you "Diaflogue," a new semi-regular series of exclusive Q&As with Fantagraphics artists conducted by various members of our staff! Leading things off: Peter Bagge interviewed by Larry “The Love God” Reid, curator and events coordinator for Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. We’re anxiously awaiting the arrival of HATE ANNUAL #8. Can we expect the responsibilities of parenthood to have an effect on the maturity of Buddy and Lisa? Yes — or an effect on their immaturity. As a father yourself, how much of your child-rearing experience will we find reflected in Buddy? Lots. The big difference,…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: It Was the War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardi 120-page black & white 7.75" x 10.5" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-353-8 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, has long been an obsession of Jacques Tardi’s. (His very first — rejected — comics story dealt with the subject, as does his most recent work, the two-volume Putain de Guerre.) But It Was the War of the trenches is Tardi’s defining, masterful statement on the subject, a graphic novel…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole (Softcover Ed.) By Jack Cole; edited by Alex Chun 104-page b&w/color 7.5" x 10.25" softcover • $18.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-284-5 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews In the rarefied realm of classic cartoon pin-up art, nobody did it better than Jack Cole. With his quirky line drawings and sensual watercolors, Cole, under Hugh Hefner's guiding hand, catapulted to stardom in the 1950s as Playboy's marquee cartoonist, a position he held until his untimely death at the age of 43. Jack Cole has been justly…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Penny Century: A Love and Rockets Book (Love and Rockets Library — Locas Book 4) By Jaime Hernandez 240-page black & white 7.5" x 9.25" softcover • $18.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-342-2Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Picking up right after Perla La Loca, the third volume of the definitive “Maggie” series repackaging, this compilation of stories from Jaime Hernandez’s solo comic Penny Century and his subsequent return to Love and Rockets (Volume II) charts the further lives of his beloved “Locas.” But first… wrestling! Penny Century starts off with a blast…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: High Soft Lisp (Love and Rockets Book 25) By Gilbert Hernandez 144-page black & white 6.5" x 9.75" softcover • $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-318-7Add to Cart • More Info & Previews While supplies last this book is available with a signed bookplate (pictured below) as a FREE premium! “Five six. Hundred twenty-eight pounds. Forty-three twenty-two thirty-six. High soft lisp. Genius level I.Q.” That’s how motivational speaker Mark Herrera sums up Rosalba “Fritz” Martinez, bombshell, former punkette, former psychiatrist, “Z” movie star — in this supremely sexy, constantly surprising graphic novel. And Herrera…

Arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to North American customers: The Complete Peanuts 1975-1976 (Vol. 13) By Charles M. Schulz 344-page black & white 8.5" x 7" hardcover • $28.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-345-3Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Good grief, Charlie Brown, we're halfway there! That’s right! With this volume, The Complete Peanuts reaches the halfway point of Charles M. Schulz’s astounding half-century run on the greatest comic strip of all time. These years are especially fecund in terms of new canine characters, as Snoopy is joined by his wandering brother Spike (from Needles), his beloved sister…

Arrived at our warehouse and ready to ship: Sand & Fury: A Scream Queen Adventure By Ho Che Anderson 144-page two-color 7.5" x 9" softcover • $16.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-321-7Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Sand & Fury is a story of blood, of sex, of death — of sound and retribution. It opens as a girl by the side of a desert road accepts a ride from a stranger. How could she know that behind that wheel sits the angel of death? Of course, even the angel of death once had a life. During that life, death was a…