Since it’s debut, Patience by Daniel Clowes has remained on the The New York Times Best Sellers list for 15 consecutive weeks and counting.
Fantagraphics on comiXology Unlimited.
Yesterday, digital comics service comiXology revealed a new subscription service. For $5.99 a month, users will be given access to titles from a myriad of publishers, including Fantagraphics. Some of our most popular series will be available through the service, including Love and Rockets, The Complete Peanuts, Hip Hop Family Tree and more. You can browse the full list of titles currently available on Unlimited below: (subject to change) ‘Taint the Meat…It’s the Humanity! 7 Miles A Second Abandoned Cars Athos In America Barack Hussein Obama Barnaby Vol. 1 Billy Hazelnuts Bottomless Belly Button Casey At the Bat and Other…
Free Comic Book Day 2016
This Saturday marks the 15th annual celebration of Free Comic Book Day. Fantagraphics has been a proud participant from its inception and this year you can pick up a classic collection of Love and Rockets material. Love and Rockets is one of the most acclaimed and beloved series in comics history, and this summer, Fantagraphics has announced that the series will be rebooted as a quarterly comic book series beginning with a new #1 in July! To celebrate, Fantagraphics is offering up this one-shot sampler featuring classic L&R material by the great Hernandez Brothers, including an all-new cover and several other surprises! A…
Fantagraphics at 40: History on Our Side
APRIL 28, 2016: SEATTLE, WA — This summer marks the 40th anniversary of Fantagraphics Books, and the publisher will celebrate the occasion with a series of events throughout the rest of 2016. Founded in 1976 by Gary Groth and Mike Catron (soon to be followed by Kim Thompson), the company published over 5,000 comic books and graphic novels over the next four decades, confirming its reputation as the publisher of the world’s greatest cartoonists, and as a champion for cartoonists who don’t fit within the commercial confines of traditional corporate publishing. The highlight of the anniversary celebrations will be the long…
Fantagraphics Exclusive: Sir Alfred No. 3
SIR ALFRED NO. 3 By Tim Hensley $24.99 signed/numbered edition of 1000 The final publication of Pigeon Press In the last months before comics impresario Alvin Buenaventura passed away, he completed publishing Sir Alfred No. 3, an oversized comic book/graphic novel by the brilliant Tim Hensley (author of the acclaimed 200? Fantagraphics release, Wally Gropius). Sir Alfred No. 3 is an oblique biography of the world’s most famous film director, Alfred Hitchcock. In fact, despite being numbered “No. 3,” no other issues exist. The comic book is composed of multiple gag strips based on anecdotes found in tomes of film lore in the…
Congratulations to Carol Tyler- winner of the 2016 Cartoonist Studio Prize!
Slate has announced the winners of the 2016 Cartoonist Studio Prize: “The winner of the Best Print Comic prize is Carol Tyler for her momentous Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father, a collection of Tyler’s three mournful, angry, beautiful memoirs about her dad, Chuck Tyler, his experiences on the European front in World War 2, and the PTSD—or “soldier’s heart”—that affected not just the rest of his life but his daughter Carol’s as well.” We congratulate her on this well-deserved honor and encourage everyone to purchase their own copy of this extraordinary work. http://www.fantagraphics.com/soldiersheart
Soldier’s Heart by Carol Tyler, nominated for LA Times Book Prize
Congratulations to Carol Tyler, on her nomination for the LA Times Book Prize for Graphic Novels and Comics, for her book Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father: A Daughter’s Memoir. You can read the full list of finalists at the LA Times. Order your copy of this graphic masterpiece at Fantagraphics.com.
Daniel Clowes withdraws from Angouleme Grand Prix consideration
Earlier this morning, news broke that the list of 30 nominees for this year’s Grand Prix d’Angouleme was announced, and did not include a single female creator. The Grand Prix is a lifetime achievement award, and the winner is named president of the following year’s Angouleme International Comics Festival. In the event’s 43-year history, just one woman, Florence Cestac, has been awarded the Grand Prix. Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) and Posy Simmonds (Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe) have been among those nominated in years past. In the wake of today’s announcement, Fantagraphics Books and Daniel Clowes endorse the French group BD…
In-Flight Entertainment for the Holiday Season
Traveling over the holiday season? If you happen to have a flight booked with Virgin Air, you can enjoy in-flight entertainment from Boing Boing TV, including an excellent interview with Eisner Award winner and Fantagraphics artist Ed Piskor. The video was shot on the Comic Book Resources Yacht at Comic-Con International and edited by Eric Mittleman, who produces videos for Boing Boing. Another fun way to pass the time between take off and landing? Digital comics! You can find ours on the following platforms: Comixology Sequential Google Play
Naughty or Nice? Contest
Want to win a giant stocking stuffed with all the best books from Fantagraphics? Enter our Naughty or Nice contest! What you can win: Naughty list (18+): Nice list (all ages): How to Enter 1. Choose whether you’d like to win the Naughty or Nice stocking 2. Share the photo on Twitter, Facebook and/or Instagram. Tag it #NaughtyFTW or #NiceFTW. Each post = 1 entry. 3. Tag a friend That’s it! Contest Rules Entry period: December 9th -December 16th. Be sure to follow us on social so we can tag you as the winner. Winners will be selected at random from qualifying…
