In our previous post we promised we’d reveal a new, upcoming title each day of the week. Today we’re sharing: 5000 KILOMETERS PER SECOND Winner of the prestigious Grand Prize at both the 2010 Angoulême Comics Festival in France and the 2010 Lucca Comics Festival in Italy, 5,000 Kilometers Per Second tells—or almost tells—the love story between Piero and Lucia, which begins with a casual glance exchanged by teenagers across the street through a window and ends with a last, desperate hook-up between two older, sadder one-time lovers. Executed in stunning watercolors and broken down into five chapters (set in…
Fantagraphics Spaces Out With Joshua Cotter’s Nod Away
For Immediate Release: July 9, 2015-Seattle, WA-Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce its acquisition of Joshua Cotter’s new sci-fi epic Nod Away, to be released Spring 2016. Nod Away moves back and forth between physical and psychological worlds, utilizing traditional and abstract storytelling styles to explore what consciousness could be, where it’s located, and what function or point it serves. Nod Away is set on a near-future version of Earth. Deep-space transport has been developed to take a small crew to a habitable planet in a nearby system in an attempt to begin colonization/repopulation. The Internet is now telepathic…
The Complete Eightball tops the New York Times best seller list!
Congratulations are in order to Daniel Clowes. The Complete Eightball has taken the #1 spot for graphic novels on the New York Times best seller list! We couldn’t be more proud! Get your copy from Fantagraphics.com
New Comics Wednesday
The long wait is finally over. The Complete Eightball 1-18 by Daniel Clowes is in stores now! Praise for The Complete Eightball 1-18: “Daniel Clowes is…widely considered a one-man embodiment of nineties cool.” – The New Yorker “With an acrid storytelling voice and a clean, spare drawing style, Mr. Clowes used Eightball… to skewer pop culture, spin surrealistic horrors and sympathetically portray youth adrift.” – The New York Times “A comic book that eviscerated the medium.” – Publisher’s Weekly Best Books of Summer 2015 “A better-than-perfect facsimile of an iconic comic book.” – Boing Boing “Clowes’s comics work is as vital as it’s…
Where Demented Wented – Exclusive Preview
{product_snapshot:id=1496,true,false,true,left} The First-Ever Collection by the Underground’s Most Notorious Modern Primitive The controversial cartoonist Rory Hayes was a self-taught dynamo of the underground comics revolution. Attracting equal parts derision and praise (the latter from the likes of R. Crumb and Bill Griffith), Hayes emerged as comics’ great primitive, drawing horror comics in a genuinely horrifying and hallucinatory manner (some have called him the Fletcher Hanks of the underground). He has influenced a generation of cartoonists, from RAW to Fort Thunder and back again. This book, the first retrospective of Hayes’ career ever published, features the best of his underground comics…
Ignatz Series Summer 2008 – Exclusive Preview
Our “Ignatz” Line of Deluxe, Oversized Comics Continues This Summer The next five eagerly-awaited installments in our Ignatz Series are due in late summer 2008! Look for Delphine #3 and Grotesque #2 in late July; Baobab #3 will be joined by Interiorae #3 and Sammy the Mouse #2 in mid-August. See below for preview download links! {product_snapshot:id=1480,true,true,true,left} {product_snapshot:id=1479,true,true,true,left} {product_snapshot:id=1481,true,true,true,left} Baobab #3: download a 4-page PDF excerpt taken from our I.G.N.A.T.Z. Free Comic Book Day sampler (410 KB). Delphine #3: download an exclusive 4-page PDF excerpt (4 MB). Grotesque #2: download a 5-page PDF excerpt taken from our I.G.N.A.T.Z. Free Comic…
Pocket Full of Rain – Exclusive Preview
{product_snapshot:id=1484,true,false,true,left} An Anthology of Materful Shorts from the Creator of I Killed Adolf Hitler This multifaceted anthology collects over 25 stories from the first decade of Jason’s career, including his remarkable calling card, the novella-length thriller “Pocket Full of Rain,” which has never before been published in English. Like a number of his initial stories, “Pocket” is actually drawn with realistic human beings instead of blank-faced animal characters — a true revelation for Jason fans. In fact, this book showcases three distinct styles: his earliest “realistic” drawing style (used to unsettling effect in some particularly creepy stories), an intermediate “bighead”…
Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko – Exclusive Preview
{product_snapshot:id=1474,true,false,true,left} The First Critical Retrospective of the Work of the Reclusive Spider-Man Co-Creator Steve Ditko is best known as the co-creator, with Stan Lee, of Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, and other classic Marvel and DC characters. But, in the context of Steve Ditko’s 50-year career in comics, his creative involvement with Spider-Man is merely the tip of the iceberg. Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko is a coffee table art book tracing Ditko’s life and career, his unparalleled stylistic innovations, and his strict adherence to his philosophical principles, with lush displays of obscure and popular art from the thousands…
The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 – Exclusive Preview
Swiss Horror Master Thomas Ott Returns with His First Full-Length Graphic Novel {product_snapshot:id=1418,true,false,true,left}When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the moment, he puts it into his pocket. As the guard lives a solitary, monotonous life, the numbers on the paper awake his curiosity. To find out their hidden meaning could add a new meaning to his life as well, so the guard stumbles into situations in which the number or…
Mome Vol. 11: Summer 2008 – Exclusive Preview
Another Humdinger of a Volume of Our Cutting-Edge Comix Anthology {product_snapshot:id=1459,true,false,true,left}Vol. 11 of our acclaimed anthology series welcomes Killoffer, the acclaimed French cartoonist whose work has previously only been seen in the acclaimed collection 176 Apparitions of Killoffer. Killoffer delivers a new 12-page comic as well as front and back covers. Mome also features returning regulars Al Columbia, Kurt Wolfgang, Ray Fenwick, Eleanor Davis, Dash Shaw, John Hankiewicz, Émile Bravo, Andrice Arp, Tom Kaczynski, and Paul Hornschemeier. Plus, newcomers Conor O’Keefe and Nate Neal, as well as an interview with Ray Fenwick by Gary Groth. Download an EXCLUSIVE 15-page PDF…
