Events

*Please note: This event will take place live on Crowdcast. RSVP here to join the livestream or watch the replay. Preorders will include an exclusive bookplate signed by Benjamin Marra, David Birke and Nicholas McCarthy while supplies last! Order yours here! About the book: Marin County, 1978. In this graphic novel, teens Clara and Wendy get high one night alone at home. Before the night ends, they've disappeared — until five months later, when Clara is found, disheveled, but alive, in Death Valley National Park. From Clara's mysterious reappearance in Death Valley, Disciples cuts to the present day, where stories of "The California Cult" and...

Join Goethe Pop Up Seattle, Elliott Bay Book Company, and Fantagraphics for a virtual book talk in celebration of the launch of the English edition of Golden Boy: Beethoven's Youth. Comic artist & author Mikael Ross will discuss the book and his process with translator Nika Knight. Fantagraphics' own Eric Reynolds will moderate the talk. The book talk will take place online on Saturday, June 11th at 11:00 AM PT. Please register to receive Zoom access info. Want a copy of the book? Order now from Elliott Bay Book Company!   About the book: Ludwig van Beethoven created music that moves and inspires us...

Jim Woodring has been chronicling the adventures of his cartoon everyman, Frank, for almost 30 years. These stories are a singular rarity in the comics form — both bone-chillingly physical in their depictions of Frank’s travails and profoundly metaphysical at the same time. Not since George Herriman’s Krazy Kat has the comics language been so exquisitely distilled into pure, revelatory aesthetic expression. One Beautiful Spring Day combines three previously published volumes — Congress of the Animals, where Frank embarked upon a life-changing voyage of discovery; Fran, where he learned, then forgot, that things are not always what they seem; and...

Don't miss the book launch for the highly-anticipated collection of Liniers' comics! Liniers (Ricardo Siri) will be joined in conversation by Françoise Mouly, art editor at The New Yorker and the publisher of TOON Books, to discuss Macanudo: Welcome to Elsewhere. This event is co-presented by the Society of Illustrators at the Strand in New York--get your tickets here! About the book: Fantagraphics is proud to present Argentine cartoonist Liniers' internationally-acclaimed newspaper comic strip in a new English-language collection. In the spirit of Calvin & Hobbes, Mutts, and Krazy Kat, Liniers (Ricardo Siri) uses a shifting cast of children, talking animals,...

Jordan Crane will be signing copies of his bestselling new book (twenty years in the making!), Keeping Two, at the Skylight Books Arts Annex--don't miss it! About the book: A young couple is stuck in traffic, reading a book aloud to each other to pass the time. The relationship is already strained, but between the encroaching road rage, and a novel that hits way too close to home, tensions are running especially high by the time they arrive back at their apartment. When one of them leaves to get takeout and a movie, each of the young lovers is individually...

Hey LA, don’t miss this double feature book launch for See You At San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture by Mathew Klickstein! On September 8th at 6:00, Mathew will be signing copies of the book at the Skylight Books Arts Annex! Then at 7:00, American Cinematheque will host a screening of Scott Pilgrim VS the World and a panel discussion with Comic-Con legends Scott Shaw, Mike Towry, Floyd Norman (virtual), Paul M. Sammon, Wendy All, Dave Clark, Jim Cornelius, Gus Krueger, Clayton Moore, Maggie Thompson (virtual), Jim Valentino (virtual) and Mathew Klickstein,...

Don’t miss Steve Brodner in conversation with Rick Meyerowitz at the Society of Illustrators to celebrate the release of Living and Dying in America: A Daily Chronicle 2020-2022! Every day, late at night or early in the morning, from March 26, 2020 to January 1, 2022, the political cartoonist and illustrator Steve Brodner would get to work. In those midnight hours, he would review the day’s reportage, sit down at his drawing board, and memorialize a singular person or event that played a role, willingly or unwillingly, in shaping that day. Taken as a whole, Living & Dying in America is...

Fantagraphics is going to SPX! Don’t miss Special Guests Megan Kelso (Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories), Ho Che Anderson (Godhead 2), Tommi Parrish (Men I Trust), and Carla Berrocal (Illustrating Spain in the US), plus panels and signings with Noah Van Sciver (As a Cartoonist) and Kate Lacour (Vivisectionary)! Stop by our booth W51-55 for author signings, plenty of books (including some that aren't even out yet!), and giveaways!

Hey NYC, head to Forbidden Planet for Johnny Ryan's book signing--he'll also have original art for sale! About Barely Human: The cartoons that keep getting Johnny Ryan banned from Instagram, collected for the first time as one big ol' exquisitely gross picture book! Johnny Ryan's compulsion to flout any and all accepted standards of decency in his humor and cartoons have not only garnered him a tremendous following — Instagram has banned him multiple times with hundreds of posts scrubbed from those accounts. (He can be found, currently, at @johnnyryanjohnnyryan1). Guess what? We've got 'em! Over 500 of the grossest,...