Fantagraphics Blog

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth at Emerald City Comicon this past weekend and our official afterparty/Jordan Crane exhibit opening on Saturday! We've got a bunch of photos, of which the two below are just the tip of the iceberg; click here for the whole set on Flickr. Eric Reynolds and Kristy Valenti on Con duty: Jordan Crane signs comics:

Left to right: Shannon Anderson of Georgetown Tile Works, Georgetown Merchants' association chair Kathy Nyland, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery curator Larry Reid accept a big check from City of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels to support the fabulous monthly Georgetown Second Saturday Art Attack.

In the tradition of such internet memes as Garfield without the thought balloons and Garfield without Garfield, now there's New Yorker cartoons without the drawings.

I enjoyed this interview with IT Crowd creator Graham Lineham. Especially this incredibly flattering quote:  "The thing I'm happiest about is getting lots of Fantagraphics comics onto the set and also lots of Guided By Voices records." 

Everybody loves Willie & Joe! 

Courtesy Julie Doucet (click thru for her awesome website):

Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery curator Larry Reid is the subject of a must-read profile by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's art critic Regina Hackett, wherein Reid and Hackett have contentious opinions about Peter Bagge. Speaking of the Bookstore, we hope to see you there tomorrow night for the Emerald City Comicon afterparty-slash-Jordan Crane exhibit opening!

It's time for your weekly installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks"! In this week's strip: a surprise revelation! (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

Here are a few reviews of our books that have popped up in the web-o-sphere over the past week or so (minus ones that Eric has already linked to): • Sean T. Collins on Mome Vol. 9 • Sean T. Collins on Mome Vol. 10 • Book By Its Cover on Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw • The Austin Chronicle on The Education of Hopey Glass by Jaime Hernandez (and other non-Fanta titles)

Colleen Coover's on Inkstuds and Ellen Forney's on SexTV. Hotcha!