Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: King: The Special Edition By Ho Che Anderson 312-page color/b&w 7.5" x 11.25" hardcover • $34.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-310-1 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews (NOTE: For academic/volume discounts on this title, please call toll-free at 1-800-657-1100 or 206-524-1967 outside the U.S.) Ho Che Anderson’s biography of America’s great civil rights advocate Martin Luther King is both a monumental recreation of his tumultuous public life (and death) and an intimate portrait of the man as politician, friend, lover, husband, and father. With the triumphant ascendancy of Barack Obama to the…
Now in stock: Hank Ketcham’s Complete Dennis the Menace 1959-1962 Box Set & Slipcase
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1959-1962 Box Set By Hank Ketcham two 672-page black & white 5.5" x 6.25" hardcovers in a custom slipcase • $39.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-312-5 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews slipcase also available separately, exclusively from Fantagraphics • $4.99 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews A swell custom-designed case containing the fifth and sixth volumes of Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace with strips from the years 1959 through 1962. (Sorry, case is not peanut butter or root beer resistant.) (Click the…
Now in stock: Chocolate Cheeks by Steven Weissman
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Chocolate Cheeks By Steven Weissman 112-page color/b&w 7.5″ x 7.5″ softcover • $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-56097-927-2 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Hilarious, frightening, mysterious, adorable and utterly bleak, Chocolate Cheeks has arrived to disgust and delight comic-book readers of all ages. “Sweet” Chubby Cheeks and the Pullapart Boy (a 21st Century Frankenstein’s monster for kids) are driving each other crazy. Forced together by their dating parents, these two bitter enemies have alienated — or otherwise disposed of — most of their social circle, leaving them with plenty of quality…
Things to see: 2/4/10
Looks like these posts are pretty much daily, huh? • Three "lost" prints from Paul Hornschemeier's vaults have been found and are now for sale on his blog • Holy smokes, it's a multi-page Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond epic by Kevin Huizenga, Ted May and Dan Zettwoch, from the pages of the Riverfront Times (with "DVD extras" on Zettwoch's blog)! Will someone in St. Louis PLEASE send us some copies of this? • Speaking of Huizenga, holy moly, he just opened up a memory that's been dormant in my head for around 30 years with this bit…
Daily OCD: 2/4/10
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions starts with a rave: • Review: "This is a fascinating book on a lot of levels. For one, it's distinguished by Adam Grano's design work to a degree I think noteworthy: on many levels, Newave! represents better than any book I've seen the clash of comics publishing impulses now and then. … It says something about Grano's increasingly compelling body of work with Fantagraphics that he provides the work with much of the energy that helps the reader through nearly 900 pages. It's Michael Dowers that makes that trip worthwhile. By avoiding a summary statement…
DISTRICT 9
District 9 is the best socially conscious sci-fi story I've experienced since Ender's Game. I don't know if it was animatronics or computer-graphics or a combination of the two, but Christopher Johnson has my vote for actor of the year. Look at those eyes — they will melt your cold, cold heart. (Sharlto Copley as Wikus is a close second for actor of the year.) To avoid potential spoilers I won't go into too much detail here just PLEASE SEE THIS MOVIE. And it doesn't hurt that the graphic design within the movie is gorgeous as well. Here's some of…
Help Giant Robot
I'm a bit late with this, it somehow escaped me until last night, but the fine folks at Giant Robot need your help. Peggy Burns at D&Q already made a better case than I could as to why you might want to do this, so I'll simply direct you to her if you need reasons to help. I wholeheartedly concur with everything she wrote.
The Complete Peanuts 1975-1976 (Vol. 13) by Charles M. Schulz – Previews
Our contract with the Peanuts licensor stipulates that we can't pre-sell The Complete Peanuts books before they are relased, but we can still bring you these previews! The Complete Peanuts 1975-1976 (Vol. 13) By Charles M. Schulz 344-page black & white 8.5" x 7" hardcover • $28.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-345-3 Ships in: March 2010 (subject to change) 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…
An Appreciation of R. Crumb’s Kafka
Amid all the well-deserved praise directed at R. Crumb's Book of Genesis, I was reminded of another often-overlooked Crumb masterpiece. As Fantagraphics newly minted 4th printing of Kafka reaches bookstore shelves, it seems like a good moment to reflect on the amazing achievement of Crumb and author David Zane Mairowitz. Entering college I was assigned The Trial for freshman lit. I just wasn't ready for it. I wasn't a total dunce, but there were so many alluring diversions (i. e. booze and babes.) Thus began, and ended, my brief exposure to the works of Franz Kafka. Only decades later did…
Things to see: 2/3/10
(…And this didn't get posted on time either. Yeesh!) I'm still trying to figure out how to handle frequent art bloggers like Renee French and Debbie Drechsler (below). Pick one post to highlight each week? Any suggestions or preferences? Also, some credit: I think I was inspired subconsciously to start these "Things to see" posts by Robot 6's Comics Cavalcade posts. • Our cartoonist pals rule our hometown alt-weeklies this week as Jeremy Eaton does the cover and cover story illustrations for the current Seattle Weekly • Twelve original collages by Robert Pollard for the Guided by Voices release Suitcase…
