Fantagraphics Blog

FANTAGRAPHICS NEW YORK COMICON SIGNING SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY:

3 – 5PM: DASH SHAW (The Bottomless Belly Button, Mome)

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: LEAH HAYES (Funeral of the Heart)

11AM – 1PM: DASH SHAW (The Bottomless Belly Button, Mome)

1 – 2:30PM: KIM DEITCH (Shadowland, The Stuff of Dreams)

1 – 3PM: GLENN HEAD (Hotwire Comix)

1 – 3PM: CRAIG YOE (Arf!)

3 – 4PM: LEAH HAYES (Funeral of the Heart)

3 – 5PM: MISS LASKO- GROSS (Escape from "Special")

4 – 5PM: KIM DEITCH (Shadowland, The Stuff of Dreams)

New York Comic Con, taking place April 18-20 at the Javits Center in New York City, is the East Coast's biggest popular culture convention, and in 2008 Fantagraphics Books – the west coast's biggest alternative comics publisher – will join the ranks of exhibitors for the first time. Publishers Gary Groth and Kim Thompson will be on hand all weekend, hosting round-the-clock signings for several authors and debuting several new titles at the show.

We ended voting on our poll question "Which part of our product listings do you find most useful or persuasive?" and more than half of you who responded said "Preview images & downloads." We're already stepping up our efforts to give you more of what you want (and now that Flickr is hosting videos, watch for video previews in the near future), so thanks for your feedback! See the final poll results here. If you have any other comments, please drop us a line. For our new poll, we're asking what your primary consideration is when making a purchase from…

Time for another daily photographic sneak peek at an upcoming book that we recently received "in the flesh" at the office. Today it's the latest and final (for now) volume in our Love and Rockets Library reprint series, Amor Y Cohetes, collecting all the stand-alone non-continuity stuff from L&R Vol. 1. For a Flickr slideshow, click here, or to browse manually, click here.

There are a few artists who I've been wanting to post about before I get swamped with fatherly duties. I'll be trying to do that over the next week or so. Up first… Meg Hunt is still a young illustrator but one whose details you can look at and see that she works hard to flesh out her images for her own development as an artist– her clients probably wouldn't notice if she spent half the time she does on her work. Which is exactly why I enjoy watching her evolve and why she's someone who will be working for…

Fun with the new Flickr video feature from Ray Fenwick: (By the way, now that there's video on Flickr, we've added a few clips to our own stream.)

Coming soon from Presspop of Japan: The "I Will Eat Tokyo" Enid doll!

"[The Clouds Above is] dedicated to Andalucia and Skeezix – if those are Jordan Crane's kids then I married the wrong person." Pink Me, I got news for you: you blew it.    

Courtesy Marc Bell. Marc, we want a Worn Tuff Elbow #2! #1 is apparently so rare I couldn't find even any existence of it on our website.

Read a nice meaty chunk of Josh Simmons' goosebump-inducing new book right here!

Above is the poster triptych for the upcoming film for Will Eisner's Spirit, as done by Frank Miller– a poster set that I feel deserves some scrutiny in this age of design consciousness. Basically there are two mediums coalescing here: Comic Books, a medium defined by multi-panel narrative, and The Poster, a medium that relies upon bold, single-image impact to resonate at a glance. Granted, the poster can have multiple levels– allowing for a more involved, secondary narrative within the primary image– but at the most basic level it must compel people with the initial impact of a single, overall…