Al "Mad Fold-In" Jaffee will be on Craig Yoe's Arf book panel at the New York Comic Con Sunday Room IE03 at 3:00! FANTAGRAPHICS NEW YORK COMICON SIGNING SCHEDULE: FRIDAY: 3 – 5PM: DASH SHAW (The Bottomless Belly Button, Mome) 7PM: PAUL KARASIK & MARK NEWGARDEN at Desert Island Comics in Brooklyn SATURDAY: 11AM – 1PM: CRAIG YOE (Arf!) 1 – 3PM: PAUL KARASIK (I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!) 1 – 3PM: MICHAEL KUPPERMAN (Tales Designed to Thrizzle) 3 – 5PM: MISS LASKO-GROSS (Escape from "Special") 3 – 5PM: DASH SHAW (The Bottomless Belly Button, Mome) SUNDAY: 11AM – 1PM:…
Sketchbook #18
Whoops. only 10 minutes left to post my sketchbook pic of the day. Courtesy the horribly underrated Francesca Ghermandi.
Members Preview: Rebel Visions
This week's free preview is a downloadable 25-page excerpt — the entire first chapter — from the upcoming expanded and revised softcover edition of Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975, the definitive history of the era by Patrick Rosenkranz. These previews are exclusive to registered Fantagraphics.com users, so sign up and/or sign in to view. (As a reminder, 20/20 Club members receive these previews two weeks before we post them on the website, just one of many great reasons to join up…)
Crumb, Comics & Seattle on Radio
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery Curator Larry Reid just taped an interview scheduled to air tomorrow (Thursday) at 2:00 PM on KUOW (94.9 FM) in Seattle, in anticipation of this event tomorrow night at the Frye Museum:
Now in stock: Jessica Farm Vol. 1 by Josh Simmons
Jessica Farm Vol. 1 By Josh Simmons Hot on the heels of his first graphic novel, House, Josh Simmons' Jessica Farm fuses serialized adventure, fantasy and psychological horror and stamps it with his signature macabre sensibility in his atmospheric new graphic novel. Like a Lynchian take on Alice in Wonderland, Jessica Farm opens with an exterior of what could be any Midwestern farmhouse: once inside, we track our titular heroine as she bounds out of bed on Christmas and goes about her morning routine, eventually breakfasting with her grandparents. The banality of the situation is subverted by a ratcheting sense…
Now in stock: Mineshaft #21
Mineshaft #21 By various artists Front cover hand lettered and designed by Robert Crumb, plus five wonderful pages of sketchbook drawings inside! Back cover by Christoph Mueller, "My Angel of Sin"! The life of famous Beat underground poet, Diane Di Prima, drawn and written by Mary Fleener (with guest Harvey Pekar)! Poetry by Diane Di Prima! "Pat & Corky" fiction by J.R. Helton, Zippy the Pinhead and how Bill Griffith got his start! New artwork by Christoph Mueller (with guest Joe Coleman) and William Crook, Jr.! Jay Lynch & Ed Piskor's story about Lynch and Crumb going to visit Chester…
Now in stock: The Comics Journal #289
The Comics Journal #289 Gary Groth, Executive Editor In this issue of The Comics Journal: In a mammoth interview, Marvel Zombies writer Robert Kirkman discusses everything from starting out as the publisher of Battle Pope to his work with Image and Marvel Comics. Plus: Kirkman-related essays by Michael Dean and Simon Abrams, and zombies, zombies, zombies! The Arrival author Shaun Tan talks about the Australian comics scene, children’s books and the breakaway success of his immigrant-themed latest work. Our comics section this issue features 100 consecutive strips from Ed Wheelan’s classic Minute Movies, plus a history of the strip by…
NYCC Friday Night: DESERT ISLAND!
Don't miss the inaugural event this Friday night at Brooklyn's DESERT ISLAND COMICS! LISTING INFO: WHO: Paul Karasik & Mark NewgardenWHAT: Book signing, curiosities, and discussionWHERE: Desert IslandWHEN: Friday, April 18, 7PMWHY: Because we care Desert Island Comics540 Metropolitan Ave.Brooklyn, NY 11211
Martin Kellerman: Get rich or die tryin’
Apparently in the alternate universe known as Sweden cartoonists are given their own glossy entertainment magazine and hang around with Fiddy and his G-Unit crew. (Photo supplied to Kim Thompson by Häkon Strand of Strand Comics.) This seems like a good time to remind you to stay tuned for daily Rocky strips in English here on Fantagraphics.com starting in the near future!
Ray Fenwick’s coming out party
Ray Fenwick's amazing first book, The Hall of Best Knowledge, hits stores any day now from Fantagraphics and the publicity is just starting to come in. Today there's a great feature on Ray in The National Post of Canada. Meanwhile, the May 1 issue of Booklist features a starred review of Hall of Best Knowledge. "This is a life-passage story that reveals itself as such so slyly that the joy and loving humilty it evokes at the end are breathtaking," writes Ray Olson. Couldn't agree more.
