Fantagraphics Blog Press Highlights

Praise for The Complete Eightball: “Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron, ’Eightball’ Will Knock You Out” Read more at NPR “Combining freestanding absurd vignettes, autobiographical rants and lengthy pieces like the surreal…Clowes offset cynicism with sympathy as he cast an outsider’s eye on members of society some might classify as ‘the dregs.’ As the anthology developed, Clowes proved himself a master of the short story in comics form…” Read more at the Chicago Tribune “Eightball is considered one of the most influential titles of all time, and with the loving care this reprint has received, it’s easy to see…

Praise for Black River “Black River, unlike the many other post-apocalyptic stories, doesn’t give its reader the satisfaction of a glimmer of hope. Nothing is going to get better. No one is going to survive.” Sequential Slate “It’s this molasses drip of eventuality that Simmons hooks us on, demonstrating that humanity may morph into its simplest and truest form when the darkest of hours is upon us.”  Cleaver Magazine Praise for Ofelia: A Love and Rockets Book “Engrossing, sexually explicit, violent, and satirical.” Booklist June 17, 2015 Praise for Wandering Son Vol. 8 “Wandering Son won critical acclaim for its…

Fantagrahics books and artists have been featured on MTV, XXL, Vulture and more. Hip Hop Family Tree Drops Monthly! “Marvel at hip-hop greatness.” Read more at MTV.com “Though hip-hop and comic book culture have often borrowed from one another, there has been relatively little in the way of direct intersections. Other than one-issue takeovers of existing series, the worlds have remained, for the most part, mutually exclusive. That’s all changing now, with the announcement that Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree will become a monthly comic book series.” Read more at XXL

Fantagraphics Books and Artists are featured in Paste Magazine, the A.V. Club and more! Praise for Wuvable Oaf– “Luce has done considerable work to fully immerse the audience in this world, and hopefully it won’t be too long a wait before he invites readers back to spend more time with Oaf and his eclectic group of friends.” Read more at A.V. Club

Praise for Wuvable Oaf  by Ed Luce “Wuvable Oaf is definitely a book you’ll want to eat up.“ Read more at Paste Magazine “There isn’t really anything else out there like Ed Luce’s Wuvable Oaf. Not only does it star one of the most charming and likable gay characters in comics, it also features a cross-section of gay subculture that doesn’t get much play in other media.” Read more at Mental Floss, Most Interesting Comics of the Week “It’s a great comic. It’s well drawn, and the dialogue and story are grounded, believable and really damn funny…” Read more at Topless…

Fantagraphics Books and artists have been featured in Rolling Stone, Playboy, The Atlantic, Boing Boing and more this week. Check out some selections below. “After reading Josh Simmons’ Black River I had to read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and watch Requiem for a Dream to cheer myself up.” Read More at Boing Boing