Events

Peter Bagge will be discussing Buddy Does Jersey and his years making comics with Brian Hibbs at Comix Experience! Buddy Does Jersey collects all 15 issues of Hate describing the arc of Buddy's East Coast experience, including his launch as a small businessman (co-owning and running a nostalgia store with the dubious Jay) and his reintegration with his family (his sister now a harassed mom, his brother still pretty much a psycho, and his parents—well, wait and see). Also included in this volume is the shocking final fate of the exuberant Stinky—a story that caused jaws to drop in unison...

Don't miss the book launch for Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse by Tom Kaczynski! Customers will be asked to wear masks in the store, in the line, and when they approach the signing table, and to maintain social distance while in line. In this new, expanded edition, the starting point is arbitrary. From there, the city expands in all directions. At once SF, a contemporary demonology, an occult theory, a mutant utopia and an architectural treatise, Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse is a collection of graphic fictions about the contemporary global megalopolis. This groundbreaking collection, originally published in an Eisner-nominated, smaller...

Please join Moon Palace Books to celebrate the release of Tom Kaczynski's new book, Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse! Customers will be asked to wear masks in the store, in the line, and when they approach the signing table, and to maintain social distance while in line. In this new, expanded edition, the starting point is arbitrary. From there, the city expands in all directions. At once SF, a contemporary demonology, an occult theory, a mutant utopia and an architectural treatise, Beta Testing the Ongoing Apocalypse is a collection of graphic fictions about the contemporary global megalopolis. This groundbreaking collection,...

Join us at Secret Headquarters to celebrate the release of The Kurdles Adventure Magazine #2! Robert Goodin will be signing copies along with his daughter, Yeimi, who guest colored a story in the magazine. This event will be fun for the whole family *and* you'll get a free tomato plant with the purchase of the book (while supplies last)! About the book: The Kurdles gang is back with an all-new, all-ages adventure! Sally the Bear moves into the woods with rest of the gang: Pentapus, Hank the Reverse-Centaur, Phineas the straw man, and introducing Roy the Millipede — fastest berry...

Hey, Portland! Join us at Floating World Comics to celebrate the release of Ultrasound by Conor Stechschulte! About the book: In this graphic novel, which has been adapted into a feature film starring Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), Glen and Cyndi become unwitting test subjects in a mind-control experiment after a strange sexual encounter. They search for answers as their own memories become tools for manipulation. Driving home from a wedding late one night during a heavy storm, out of cell range, Glen blows out his tires. He knocks on the door of the only house he sees and is greeted by...

Hey, San Francisco! Join us at Mission: Comics and Art to celebrate the release of Ultrasound by Conor Stechschulte! About the book: In this graphic novel, which has been adapted into a feature film starring Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), Glen and Cyndi become unwitting test subjects in a mind-control experiment after a strange sexual encounter. They search for answers as their own memories become tools for manipulation. Driving home from a wedding late one night during a heavy storm, out of cell range, Glen blows out his tires. He knocks on the door of the only house he sees and...

It's a Fantagraphics Showcase! Ron Regé, Jr. (Halcyon), Jordan Crane (Keeping Two), and Conor Stechschulte (Ultrasound) will be signing at Secret Headquarters together--what a night!

*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...