You Torontoans won't want to miss this event on Aug. 7, featuring an art show with Ray Fenwick, Ho Che Anderson, Chester Brown, and many more. The awards themselves are the following night, August 8th, where you can presumably obtain this unlikeliest of jam posters featuring Brown channeling Harold Gray in the lettering dept. and Lynn Johnston channeling Charlie Brown:
Goodin goods
Mome contributor Robert Goodin has a couple of new items available in his online shop. How can you not want to buy this silkscreened-on-wood-veneer postcard of a giraffe wearing goggles riding a bike with a sissy bar? C'mon!
Nilsen Schmilsen
The latest batch of sketchbook comics from Anders Nilsen ranges from pure abstraction to some trenchantly funny political commentary.
Tim Lane’s blog & website
Shame On Us Dept: Tom Spurgeon scoops us on pointing out the blog and website of Abandoned Cars cartoonist Tim Lane.
Sneak peek video & photos: Baobab #3
Our daily (almost — sorry we missed yesterday) video and photo teasers of upcoming releases continue with the second of three releases in our Ignatz format due later this month: Baobab #3 by Igort. Watch the video above, and take a closer look in our photo gallery.
Blab! exhibit pics
Bill North, Senior Curator at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, sends us this link to photos of the exhibit "BLAB! A Retrospective," featuring artwork from the past several volumes of our BLAB! anthology. The exhibit opened last week and runs through November 2, 2008.
Attention Pros: Harvey Deadline Approches
Don't forget to vote in the Harveys! Ballots due Aug. 15. UPDATE: The email address to return ballots to is a dreaded SBCglobal address that no one at Fantagraphics can email to. I guess no Harvey Awards for us this year!
Summer Sidewalk Sale – 50% Off!
To make room in our warehouse for a boatload of new arrivals, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery will host a SUMMER SIDEWALK SALE this Saturday, August 9. You’ll get 50% OFF selected backlist books by your favorite Fantagraphics geniuses. These recent returns and slightly marred books will fill your dog days of August with endless amusement. This Saturday also features the August installment of the colorful Georgetown Second Saturday Art Attack. This monthly art walk celebrates the creative diversity of Georgetown in an effort to generate public sentiment favoring preservation of this wonderful civic asset. More than 30 Georgetown enterprises participate,…
Blippo Bold
Please enjoy this not-comics video and take a moment to appreciate your Friendly Neighborhood Fanta Graphic Designers, Jacob Covey and Adam Grano, for beautifying America's bookshelves with their graceful designs and for keeping us safe from any Comic Sans atrocities (the Blippo Bold of Graphic Novel Design).
Zak Sally & Nate Denver at Play
The day after Zak Sally and Nate Denver played the Fantasygraphics comic book store we tried to go see the batman (stinks) movie at the imax bubble but it was sold out so then we went to Archie Mcphee's and looked at stuff. Capt. Zak! We found a photo of Xaime stapled to the wall! Nate Denver surveys the land. (Zak and I did eventually see the 12 and a half hour long batman movie and it was… uh… the best movie ever… I guess…)
