Fantagraphics is thrilled to present our Summer 2024 catalog, a sweeping collection of iconic classics, contemporary creativity, and new heights of the comics medium from around the globe including a new 80-page book from legendary cartoonist Charles Burns! Fantagraphics is committed to publishing powerful, politically-charged works that resonate in these turbulent times. Ari Richter’s Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz weaves his ancestors’ harrowing Holocaust survivor stories with his personal encounters with contemporary authoritarianism and anti-Semitism; this graphic memoir is an intimate reflection on coming to grips with the past told with delicacy, immediacy, and an attention to surreal detail….
Fantagraphics Winter 2024 Catalog Unveils Exciting New Titles, Including The Long Awaited My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two
Fantagraphics, the renowned publisher of graphic novels, is thrilled to unveil the Winter 2024 catalog, featuring a captivating lineup of new graphic novels, classic comics collections, and spellbinding art books. Among the highly anticipated releases is My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris. Continuing the enthralling tale of young Karen Reyes, an inspiring “monster” whose illustrated diary leads readers on a captivating journey, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two concludes Ferris’s critically acclaimed story set in ’60s Chicago. Unraveling the mystery surrounding her enigmatic neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, Karen’s adventure explores themes of Queer…
Fantagraphics Announces the Publication of BRABA: A Groundbreaking Brazilian Comics Anthology Edited by Rafael Grampá and Janaína de Luna
SAN DIEGO, CA—JULY 20, 2023 – Fantagraphics, the renowned publisher of cutting-edge comics and graphic novels, is thrilled to announce BRABA, a high concept anthology of innovative Brazilian comics. Expertly curated by renowned Brazilian cartoonist Rafael Grampá and famed Brazilian comics editor Janaina de Luna, this extraordinary collection of 13 short stories created by 16 pioneering Brazilian cartoonists captures the vibrant and daring nature of the Brazilian comics scene. Produced in collaboration with Brazilian publisher MINO, BRABA is set to release in Fall 2024. BRABA brings together a diverse array of voices and styles under a unifying theme: deeply personal stories from experimental cartoonists….
Fantagraphics Announces the Publication of My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2 by Emil Ferris
JULY 19, 2023—SEATTLE, WA—Acclaimed cartoonist Emil Ferris and Fantagraphics are set to captivate readers once again with the long-awaited release of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two in April 2024! Following the extraordinary success of the first installment, the eagerly anticipated continuation of the story is an artistic tour de force that will leave fans in awe. Building upon the unique and spellbinding narrative that riveted readers worldwide, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two delves deeper into the mesmerizing world of Karen Reyes, a tenacious young girl navigating the complexities of her own existence amidst the backdrop of…
Fantagraphics and MSX: Mangasplaining Extra Unveil Two Exciting New Manga Titles
JULY 17, 2023—SAN DIEGO, CA—Fantagraphics Books Inc. and MSX: Mangasplaining Extra are thrilled to announce the forthcoming English-language publication of two groundbreaking manga by esteemed creators Atsushi Kaneko and Akane Torikai (respectively). Search and Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko is a three-volume sci-fi punk epic based on Osamu Tezuka’s best selling manga Dororo. Wandering Cat’s Cage by Akane Torikai is a thought-provoking graphic novel exploring a post-apocalyptic matriarchal society. Both works will captivate readers with their unflinching explorations of the human condition. Starting this summer, both titles will be serialized digitally on MSX: Mangasplaining Extra’s platform (mangasplainingextra.com). Following the digital serialization,…
Fantagraphics Rediscovers the Wonders of Marvel’s Atlas Comics
April 26, 2023—SEATTLE, WA—Fantagraphics is pleased to announce the publication of Fantagraphics Presents the Marvel Atlas Comics Library, a series of hardcover volumes reprinting comics from Marvel’s 1950s Atlas Comics line in both facsimile editions of individual titles and compilations of a single artist. Fantagraphics will publish five volumes a year with the first two volumes releasing in Fall 2023. Sequential reprintings of individual titles will comprise four volumes, with a fifth volume devoted to one of the many first-rate illustrators who worked for Marvel during this period. The collections will run the gamut from colorful, weird, deliciously pulpy stories…
Fantagraphics Celebrates Two New Projects With Prolific Cartoonist Ed Piskor
MARCH 17, 2023—SEATTLE, WA—Fantagraphics is thrilled to announce two new books from Ed Piskor, Hip Hop Family Tree: The Omnibus releasing October 2023 and Red Room: Crypto Killaz! with issue #1 releasing May 2023. Red Room: Crypto Killaz!, the next chapter in Ed Piskor’s infamous series. Mistress Pentagram and the Red Room Players return in this all-new, four-issue miniseries. With variant covers by comics celebrities like Peach Momoko and Jim Rugg, splatterpunk has never looked so good! Hip Hop Family Tree has been a global phenomenon and perennial bestseller since the first (of four) volumes was published in 2013, spawning…
Fantagraphics To Publish Original Graphic Novel by Maria Bamford and Scott Marvel Cassidy
JANUARY 6, 2023—SEATTLE, WA—Fantagraphics is proud to announce theworld-wide publishing rights to Hogbook and Lazer Eyes by comedian Maria Bamfordand painter Scott Marvel Cassidy. As recounted in Bamford’s buzzy Netflix series Lady Dynamite!, newly singlefortysomethings Maria Bamford and Scott Cassidy each signed up on the dating siteO.K. Cupid, under the respective usernames “Hogbook” and “Lazer Eyes.” They wenton a date, and then another, and soon, despite a history of Bipolar II disorder andunhealthy relationships, they fall in love and are married in 2015. We view all of thisthrough the prism of their pug housemates. “As a dog lover, and as…
Fantagraphics in 2022: the Year in Review
2022 was a banner year of releases for Fantagraphics! Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have helped define both Fantagraphics as a publisher and literary comics as a whole for over four decades. We had the privilege of celebrating the 40th anniversary of our flagship series Love and Rockets by releasing Love and Rockets: The First Fifty boxed set (link). To continue to honor the foundation of Fantagraphics, we released books by comics legends like One Beautiful Spring Day by Jim Woodring, Upside Dawn by Jason, and Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underground Comix by Drew Friedman. Plus, a new softcover edition…
Fantagraphics in 2021
Another year is coming to an end and what a year it has been! Shipping delays, paper shortages, blocked canals, a long-lasting global pandemic, the list goes on. But Fantagraphics, dear reader, persevered and delivered a full year of fantastic graphic novels! The highlight of 2021 was the release of Monsters by the legendary Barry Windsor-Smith. Nearly 40 years in the making, Monsters exceeded everyone’s expectations and was heralded by NPR as “a harrowing tale that…explore wide-ranging questions about the nature of humanity and the scope of individual responsibility.” Lee Lai’s Stone Fruit was the first graphic novel to make…
