Pretty proud of this solid roster of books that are coming out today. If you’re not too full from Turkey, we suggest filling up on these great reads. Available in the finest stores, and of course, on our fine website. Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal by Ed Luce Hot on the heels of 2015’s wildly popular Wuvable Oaf debut comes this fullcolor sequel! Still the same wuvable Bay Area bear searching for love in the big city, Blood & Metal collects a number of Oaf short stories focusing on his involvement in the local metal and wrestling scenes. Luce celebrates his…
New Comic Book Day – Nov 23, 2016
Happy almost turkey day, you turkeys (which is what my grandma calls us). Hope your family dinners are free of food flying political arguments. But if not, you can bury, calm, and reset yourself with one of these titles, available in stores now The Realist Cartoons – by Ethan Persoff, Paul Krassner The Realist was the legendary satirical magazine published from 1958 to 2001. Founded and edited by the brash provocateur, radical, and prankster Paul Krassner, humor and ridicule were the magazine’s weapons of choice, and Krassner assembled an amazingly eclectic list of contributing writers—including Norman Mailer, Lenny Bruce, Ken Kesey, Joseph Heller, and Woody…
New Comic Book Day Nov. 16th 2016
Get the lead out and pick up some new books today! Offered in the finest shops and right here on our website A Cosplayers Christmas by Dash Shaw What do you get the Cosplayer who has everything? What do you get your best friend to show her how much she means to you? Cosplayers Annie and Verti return to do some holiday shopping in this all-new, one shot special from the acclaimed Dash Shaw, appearing hot of the heels of his feature film directorial debut, the animated My Entire High School is Sinking Into the Sea. Peanuts Every…
New Comic Book Day! Oct. 12th 2016
Digging those fall vibes and digging these #NCBD releases. You can find these titles in any decent store near you, or on any decent website (like ours!) Band for Life by Anya Davidson Band for Life is the story, told in comic strip form, of a noise rock band and their community of friends and acquaintances based in an alternate reality version of Chicago. Though beset with disaster at every turn and frequently reduced to squabbling, they stick together because the band is the fulcrum of their otherwise confounding lives, and together they help each other find their way. Fusing…
New Comic Book Day: Peanuts, prose, Ducks, Ditko and a new Jessica Farm!
Look for these new releases at your local comic book shop today:
Celebrate 4/20 with new releases and a sale!
It’s a beautiful thing when New Comic Book Day happens to fall on April 20th and what awaits you in stores includes Kramer’s Ergot #9 and the latest from Simon Hanselmann- Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam. When you buy Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam (or Hanselmann’s previous book, Megahex) from Fantagraphics.com you can also receive an exclusive, free copy of Minihex, a collection of rare, controversial and previously unpublished work packaged in a full-color mini comic. Simon Hanselmann will be signing copies of Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery this Saturday in his new hometown of Seattle. And…
Digital Yucks and Yuckerellas
In an attempt to plug all the digital holes in your collection, we’re rolling out even more backlist titles on comiXology. This week is perfect for comedy lovers because it features past publications by Drew Friedman and Johnny Ryan. The genius illustrator Drew Friedman has been drawing and documenting the 20th Century’s greatest “Borscht-Belt” entertainers and they are all here in the three collections: Old Jewish Comedians More Old Jewish Comedians Even More Old Jewish Comedians! Names and faces of legends like Mel Brooks, Milton Berle, and Joan Rivers can now be proudly displayed in all their glory on your…
New Comic Book Day: The Complete Wimmen’s Comix
In stores today: The Complete Wimmen’s Comix In the late ’60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium — but there was an important pronoun missing from the revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together in San Francisco to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology, Wimmen’s Comix. Within two years the Wimmen’s Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie to the comics-reading public, and would go on to publish some of the most talented women cartoonists in America — Carol Tyler, Mary Fleener, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Dori…
Today’s Massive Bulk of Digital Books
Is your personal reading device plugged in? Good, because it’s going to need all the juice to handle our digital offerings this week! First up is our next grisly gathering of EC stories by Reed Crandall. The High Cost of Dying and Other Stories captures Crandall’s fine line detail and collects stories such as “The Silent Towns,” a Ray Bradbury story about the last man and woman on Mars; “Carrion Death,” a stark horror story about man struggling through the desert with a corpse handcuffed to his wrist; and “Sweetie-Pie,” about a ghoul who sets up roadside hazards to procure…
#NewComicBookDay- free digital downloads, new Love & Rockets, the final issue of Zap and more!
Fans of The Hernandez Brothers will be delighted to learn that Love & Rockets: New Stories #8 and Comics Dementia from Gilbert Hernandez are both in stores now and available online at Fantagraphics. You can also pick up Beto’s recently released Blubber #2. Underground and Underworld Zap, the world’s most important and influential cartooning collective, delivers one last issue of their uninhibited, id-stroking, mad genius in this farewell 80-page giant – the biggest issue ever! Zap is the most historically and aesthetically important comics series ever published and Zap #16 is the only issue to feature all eight Zapsters under…
