New York, NY: Greg & Fake (Santos Sisters Vol. 2) Book Signing at Forbidden Planet

Shake off that NYCC hangover with one more totally awesome signing event. Join us on Monday October 12th from 5-7PM to celebrate the Fantagraphics release of Satos Sisters Vol 2 with the Eisner Award winning artist, writer duo Greg and Fake!

Ambar and Alana, aka the superhero duo Santos Sisters, are back! And now, with an Eisner Award under their collective belt in addition to being imbued with the powers of the goddess Madame Sosostris, they’re even better prepared for whatever comes their way! Whether it be foiling disastrous plots to take down the local power grid, rescuing boyfriends from jealous supervillains, saving senior citizens from drug addiction, or battling the duo’s ever-expanding rogue’s gallery of supervillainery, Amber and Alana always bring the comic book fun in this healthy conflation of four-color nostalgia, action, and laughs!

Greg Petre draws, Fake Petre writes. They’ve known each other since high school in Downers Grove, a suburb of Chicago, and have never stopped tinkering together: coloring comics, illustration, animation, video games, paintings on cardboard, even decorating McDonald’s windows for the holidays. The ” Greg & Fake ” signature dates back to 2009. They came to comics later in life, as adults, after a visit to the artist alley at a convention where they realized they could sell their own drawings.

In 2021, they self-published Giant Sized Santos Sisters #1 , a 56-page newsprint comic, distributed by Floating World Comics , an independent publisher in Portland. The series became a quarterly publication, fueled by a group of gag writer friends ( Graham Smith, from the same high school, Dave Landsberger, Marc Koprinarov ), much like the editorial team of MAD Magazine . Today, one lives in Chicago, the other in Manzanillo, on Mexico’s Pacific coast, and Santos Sisters is created between the two. In 2025, Fantagraphics collected the first five issues into a hardcover volume.

That same year, at San Diego Comic-Con, Santos Sisters received the Eisner Award for Best Ongoing Series , beating out Ultimate Spider-Man , Wonder Woman , Fantastic Four , and Detective Comics . A self-published comic book, born on newspaper, beating Marvel and DC to the punch in the top category: that almost never happens.