Fantagraphics Blog

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!

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I'd never seen this magazine before (it looks like a mash-up between Grand Royal and Your Flesh), but I'm told this issue will debut at MoCCA: 

Courtesy Peter Kuper:     

  VICE magazine has put an interview with Johnny Ryan and a back log of some of the comics he's been doing for them the last few years onto a dedicated "Johnny Ryan Page of Pages" page.   

This weekend is the big Emerald City Con in Seattle, and we'll be hosting signings with Jordan Crane (all day Sat. & Sun), Peter Bagge (Sat. 1PM) and Ellen Forney (Sunday at noon). We'll also have new books like Bottomless Belly Button, Explainers, Rebel Visions, Most Outrageous, Amor Y Cohetes and Mome 11. But, if you do one thing this weekend, do this, it's gonna be fun and the Jordan Crane art is fantastic and goes well with beer: 

Gasoline Alley bisque bobbleheads from the 1930s:  Good times: