The Boston Globe recently hosted a live chat with Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy. Authorsontourlive.com's latest podcast features Jules Feiffer and his recent appearance at Tattered Books in Denver a couple of weeks ago. Available beginning tomorrow: Paul Hornschemeier's Werewereyouwolf.
20/20 Club: get an extra 10% off this week only!
Today is my birthday and you get the presents! Starting now, and for one week only, the 20/20 Club is the 20/30 Club: members get 30% OFF instead of the usual 20%! This applies to everything on our site: new stuff, old stuff, exclusive stuff, you name it. And just in time for early holiday shopping! Here's how it works: If you are a current 20/20 Club member and we have your email address, check your inbox for a message from me. This message includes a special Members-only coupon code for you to use to get your additional discount. (This…
For One Day We Shall Rule the World
Today marks something of a milestone for Fantagraphics: our very first — in 32 years of publishing — cover of the venerable New York Times Book Review. Featured is Jules Feiffer's EXPLAINERS, in review by David Kamp titled "Cartoons for Grown-Ups" (who'da ever thunkit??). The online version even has the requisite NY Times slideshow. As my good pal Thom put it to me this morning via email, "What's next… a black president?" There is hope. But wait, that's not even all! The very same issue of the NYTBR features a full-page review of Jaime & Gilbert Hernandez's recent work, by the critic Douglas Wolk,…
Blogosphere roundup for 10/17/08
Our weekly compilation of online reviews and such: • Madinkbeard (aka Derik Badman) examines Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw • Jog examines Deitch's Pictorama • Comic Book Bin looks at Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers; L.S.D. – Letras Sin Desperdicio also checks it out • Publishers Weekly looks at Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975 by Patrick Rosenkranz • Sequart gets in the first word on John Kerschbaum's Petey & Pussy, calling it "one of the best [books] of the year to date" • The Guardian reprints excerpts from Matt Groening and Jonathan…
Our Own Little Economic Stimulus
In these uncertain economic times, there's nothing to lift your spirits like FREE comics, eh? Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery came into possession of a stash of Steven Weissman's LE SKETCH #06 micro mini comic, free for the asking to all store visitors. This delightful 16-panel accordion fold cartoon sketchbook on sturdy cardstock provides a great introduction to this popular Fantagraphics star. While you're at the store, check out Weissman's "Affect Horror" print, published by our friends at Payseur & Schmidt and available exclusively at Fantagraphics Bookstore for only $20. This 18" x 24" silkscreen is printed on an ultra-bright white…
Webcomics update for 10/17/08
Time for the lucky 13th installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 32-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures. In this week's episode: Try, try again. We also have our first Monday-Friday chunk of Martin Kellerman's Rocky up now. We'll be keeping a rolling 5-strip archive going, but this is your last chance to catch the first strip before the next one goes up on Monday. As a reminder, registration is no longer required to read our webcomics; they're free for all! (We did have a few technical glitches along…
Yoda-lodel-lay-hee-hoo
Six words sure to give him a nerdgasm: Mike Baehr is interviewed by StarWars.com (about his Yoda sketchbook).
Maggie for Obama
Bid on this killer piece and more HERE.
Beasts Print Show | Modern Printmaking Fulmination
I have quietly been organizing a BEASTS! print show for the Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery's Second Anniversary in December. Details will come in November but in short: The show will feature art from any of the 180 international artists who wish to make non-digital prints of their beast, whether it's the art that ran in the books or new variations. What follows here is simply a manifesto of sorts– an explanation for why this print show is what it is. This came about because some people were confused why I don't want to sell digital prints, including our hard-working gallerist…
Empathy for the whole universe
Ivan Brunetti on An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Vol. 2 from Yale University Press on Vimeo. Description for this video produced by Yale University Press (link if you don't see it embedded above): "Ivan Brunetti on An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories, Volume 2 from Yale University Press – Video director John Kuramoto brings together dozens of images from leading indie comics artists featured in the book, along with commentary by its editor, award-winning cartoonist Ivan Brunetti. For more info, visit yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300126716"
