Have you been patiently anticipating the release of The Complete Crepax: Dracula, Frankenstein, And Other Horror Stories? If you just can’t wait to get your hands on Valentina, we’ve got even more to entice you… We’re offering a Fantagraphics.com exclusive: The first 150 customers to order The Complete Crepax will receive a special, numbered, limited edition booklet featuring art created in tribute to the character Valentina, by an international coterie of over a dozen artists including Gilbert Hernandez, Richard Sala, George Pratt and many more! These 6″ x 9″ booklets are printed in full-color on satin finish paper. We’re also delighted to present…
New Comic Book Day: Hip Hop Family Tree #6 and Blubber #2
Hip Hop Family Tree #6 by Ed Piskor drops in comics shops today, including three variant covers. From left to right: Regular edition, Fantagraphics exclusive, AOD Collectables and Velocity Comics variants. Find them at your local store or order a copy from http://www.fantagraphics.com/hhftmonthly6 Gilbert Hernandez keeps things weird with Blubber #2. Catch a glimpse in the video preview below: A wtf glimpse of #newcomicbookday release Blubber No. 2 from Gilbert Hernandez A video posted by Fantagraphics Books (@fantagraphics) on Jan 27, 2016 at 11:38am PST
New Comic Book Day: Frank in the 3rd Dimension by Jim Woodring
This is your chance to see Frank as you’ve never seen him before. Not the stark black-and-white Frank. Not even the glorious fully-painted Frank. No, this is Frank in the third dimension: about as real as you can get him. Frank and Frank’s world are already hallucinatory, but seeing him in the most technologically advanced and artistically crafted 3-D ever produced is an experience that has to be savored to be believed. The 3-D process for Frank in the 3rd Dimension involves creating more than 150 layers per drawing in order to round and “sculpt” each image into full, volumetric…
Sneak Peek: The Complete Crepax
The Complete Crepax is darkly sexy, surreal and erotic. We can’t wait for you to get your hands on this horror themed edition of Valentina stories. Coming this Spring and available for pre-order now at Fantagraphics.com/crepax
Preview: Patience by Daniel Clowes
Advance copies of Patience by Daniel Clowes have arrived at the Fantagraphics office and they are glorious. Check out a preview below and pre-order your book at Fantagraphics.com/patience A video posted by Fantagraphics Books (@fantagraphics) on Jan 13, 2016 at 12:38pm PST
New Comic Book Day
Two new classics hit comic book shelves today! Look for Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Vol. 8: The Tomorrow Wars (also available as a gift set with Vol.7) and Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant Vol. 12: 1959-1960 When a magic cloak sends Mickey to the future, he expects to see wild high-tech innovations — but he didn’t count on high-tech warlord Pegleg Pete, whose robot Mekka Men hold the World of Tomorrow in an iron grip. It’s up to Mickey, Minnie, and fembot femme-fatale Mimi to end this electronic enemy’s reign of terror! Floyd Gottfredson, artist of Mickey Mouse from 1930-1975, created…
The Eternaut: Video Preview
Some books are so handsomely designed that they really need to be observed in video to fully comprehend. Eternaut is one such book and this shiny new English edition will be a welcome addition to your bookshelf. The Eternaut Fantagraphics is proud to publish, for the first time in English, a graphic novel so powerful its main character’s image (much like Che Guevara’s) has become a potent symbol of the endless struggle against oppression; “Juan Salvo” appears on walls and in subways throughout Latin America to this day. This seminal Argentinian science fiction graphic novel was originally released as a serial…
Coming Soon… Frank in the 3rd Dimension
Jim Woodring designed these awesome, custom 3D-glasses that will ship with each copy of his upcoming book, Frank in the 3rd Dimension, available for pre-order now.
Winter Season 2016 Preview Part Four: Comics Dementia
Announcing: COMICS DEMENTIA By Gilbert Hernandez In the bygone days when graphic novels were just comic books, much of the innovation that sprung from the medium stemmed from the need to fill thirty-two pages (or so) of a comic with new material. Some cartoonists, when faced with those blank pages, fed the maw with unbridled id, and this is where the weird, the wonderful, and the wild flourished. Comics Dementia collects the best of such work by Gilbert Hernandez, one of Earth’s greatest living cartoonists. Most of these stories haven’t been available since their original appearance in comic shops in the…
Winter Season Preview Part Three: BABEL
Announcing Babel Babel is the long-awaited, unofficial sequel of sorts to David B.’s award- winning masterpiece, Epileptic. A boy’s world is shattered by his brother’s epileptic seizures and his growing awareness of turmoil in warring countries. As in Epileptic, David B. focuses on his relationship with his ailing brother, but delves deeper into their fantasy life and obsession with history. The two become fascinated by the Papuan Wars, and David discovers odd metaphorical parallels between those long-ago events and rituals and his brother’s struggle with his disease. The stunning two-color artwork evokes an extraordinary range of influences, from the boldness…
