If you want your order to arrive before Christmas, tomorrow (Monday, December 21) is the FINAL day to get your order in and you MUST select the 2nd Day UPS shipping option! Hop to it! Our handy Holiday Gift Guide will help you find lots of gift ideas for every interest and budget!
Webcomics update for 12/18/09
Friday webcomics are off next week due to Christmas (and possibly the week after due to New Year's). Enjoy! Tears of a clown in this week's The House of No by Derek Van Gieson… …we've all been there, am I right, in this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan…. …and a festive booze recipe in this week's Barack Hussein Obama strip from Steven Weissman!
Viva VHS – tonight & tomorrow
Live in Seattle? Like Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box? Tonight and tomorrow night at 9:30 at Central Cinema catch VIVA VHS, a rollicking compilation of tape-only rarities and oddities organized and curated by our pals at Scarecrow Video, who co-sponsored and participated in our Portable Grindhouse panel discussion at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery last weekend. Local synergy! Dig it!
Daily OCD: 12/18/09
Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Critic John Seven names Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco one of the Decade's Best Graphic Novels, in a list focused on "graphic novels for people who don’t want to read comics." (via The Comics Reporter) • List: Matthew Price of The Oklahoman gives Ganges #3 the 9th position on his 10 Best Periodical Comic Books of 2009: "Kevin Huizenga continues to be one of comics' brightest indie creators… Huizenga uses his talents to immerse the reader inside Ganges' head." • List/reviews/analysis: On the Inkstuds radio program, a roundtable of prominent critics (Sean T….
Now in stock: Sublife Vol. 2 by John Pham
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Sublife Vol. 2 By John Pham The acclaimed graphic novel anthology continues with Sublife, Volume 2. Creator John Pham enlarges the scope and expands the style of his series with an all-new collection of stories and strips. “The Kid” is a self-contained short story set in an eerily familiar post-apocalyptic future. Bloodthirsty marauders roam the blasted desert. A nomad and his dog, scavenging the road for gas and supplies, stumble upon a sealed bomb shelter, the contents of which will test whatever humanity he has left, as the marauders pursue him…
Now in stock: The Great Anti-War Cartoons
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: The Great Anti-War Cartoons Edited by Craig Yoe For centuries, cartoonists have used their pens to fight a war against war, translating images of violent conflict into symbols of protest. Noted comics historian Craig Yoe brings the greatest of these artists together in one place, presenting the ultimate collection of anti-war cartoons. Together, these cartoons provide a powerful testament to the old adage, “The pen is mightier than the sword,” and remind us that so often in the last couple of centuries, it was the editorial cartoonist who could say the…
Now in stock: The Definitive Prince Valiant Companion (Softcover Ed.)
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: The Definitive Prince Valiant Companion (Softcover Edition) Compiled by Brian Kane Out of print for over a decade, The Prince Valiant Companion has become a Holy Grail for collectors of the series. Now, in anticipation of the seventy-fifth anniversary of comics’ longest-running adventure strip, and to celebrate our own just-launched reprinting of the strip’s classic earliest years, Fantagraphics is proud to present an expanded version of this hard-to-find collector’s item. Compiled by award-winning Foster biographer Brian M. Kane, The Definitive Prince Valiant Companion beautifully showcases the careers of artists Hal Foster,…
Now in stock: Conceptual Realism by Robert Williams (Softcover Ed.)
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Conceptual Realism: In the Service of the Hypothetical (Softcover Edition) By Robert Williams Conceptual Realism: In the Service of the Hypothetical is a catalog accompanying Robert Williams’ Fall 2009 solo exhibition of new work at New York City’s prestigious Tony Shafrazi Gallery; the show will continue on in 2010 to galleries in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and elsewhere. (See photos of the NYC opening reception and exhibit at the Arrested Motion blog.) The book features approximately 25 new paintings, complete with essays on each piece by the artist, insights into the…
First Look: The Complete Peanuts 1977-1978 (Vol. 14)
The 1975-1976 volume of The Complete Peanuts is still a few months away (March 2010) but we just can't wait to bring you this first glimpse of the volume after that, 1977-1978, featuring cover star Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt (yep, that's her full name, as revealed in 1971-1972). Design, as always, by Seth. Note that this is a preliminary version and that some details may change between now and next Fall when the book is released. Hey, let's have some fun: the first person in the comments to correctly guess the cover star for the 1979-1980 volume wins a copy…
Daily OCD: 12/17/09
When these Online Commentary & Diversions posts get long enough I get an error message in our blogging interface; this is one of those, so buckle in: • List: Heeb's Graphic Novel Gift Guide includes Popeye Vol. 4: "Plunder Island", which editor Jeff Newelt says contains "heartfelt masterpieces of illustrated slapstick adventure." (via Robot 6) • List: Design Observer's recommended Holiday Books 2009 includes Abstract Comics: "…[T]his arresting book is like a scoop of primordial narrative, representational mud. Which is to say, it has vitaminic powers." • List: Jason's Low Moon and Michael Kupperman's Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 1…
