Fantagraphics Blog

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new title. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability.     Aces High by George Evans, Al Feldstein, and Harvey Kurtzman 216-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-784-0    "Does anyone draw airplanes better than the late great George Evans? Heck no! And the new Fantagraphics EC spotlight does this craftsman's work proud. Outstanding comics presented in rich detail…

Scene 1: The man named Thompson waits in the shadows for his target to enter his bedroom, then kills the man silently. The job finished, he leaves. The very next morning, he meets a new client for a new job. Scene 2: A sleek black car pulls up to the entrance of the asylum. One Michael Hartog emerges from the car, there to pick up Julie Ballanger, his new nanny. During the drive to her new home, she is questioned by Mr. Hartog on what she knows of him. Thus it begins in the latest crime novel adaptation out of…

The gorgeous Melrose Market Studios is hosting local businesses on Sunday, November 30th for a bazaar called The Seattle Collective. At this creative market and bazaar, Fantagraphics will be tabling and selling our classic and new classic comics directly to you! From 11-6pm browse the businesses while sipping some local coffee from Slate Coffee Roasters all day and some sumptuous cocktails from Still Liquor during Happy Hour time 4-6pm (the poster says 5 but we have the inside scoop!). Find only the best comics and graphic novels for your loved ones this holiday season (that includes YOU too!)   The…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: The Complete Zap Comixby R. Crumb, Rick Griffin, Paul Mavrides, Victor Moscoso, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, and S. Clay Wilson 920-page black & white with color 9.75" x 13.25" x 7" hardcover • $500.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-787-1 See Previews / Order Now There scarcely was an underground comics world before Robert Crumb's classic solo first issue of Zap in 1968. By Zap #2, he had begun assembling a Seven Samurai of the best, the fiercest, and the most stylistically diversified cartoonists to come out of the countercultural kiln. All of them…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: The Late Child and Other Animalsby Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger 180-page full color 8" x 10" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-789-5 See Previews / Order Now Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband — with whom she was in the process of adopting a young daughter — has been killed on the way back home from North Africa. She must then complete the adoption alone. A decade later, she gives birth to a bastard daughter, Marguerite. Now…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Nancy Loves Sluggo: Complete Dailies 1949-1951by Ernie Bushmiller 336-page black & white with spot color 8.5" x 8.5" softcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-777-2 See Previews / Order Now Many connoisseurs — including Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Scott McCloud (creator of the "Five-Card Nancy" card game), Joe Brainard, and Andy Warhol — have recognized that Bushmiller's often-corny Nancy approached its own kind of zen-like cartoon perfection. In its own way, it turned out Nancy was in fact the most iconic comic strip of all; The American Heritage Dictionary actually uses a Nancy strip…

Tuesday, November 18th   New York City, NY – Cartoonist super team-up of Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger (of 7 Miles a Second) will release their newest graphic novel The Late Child and Other Animals complete with a reading at First Person Plural at Silvana (300 W 116th St, New York, NY 10026). Think you're a part of the Literati? If so, your butt will be glued to the seat. The free fun starts at 7pm. (more details)   Los Angeles, CA – The Hip Hop Family Tree Volume 2 tour continues down the West Coast as Ed Piskor heads to Meltdown Comics. BoingBoing Founder Mark Frauenfelder will be in conversation…

"Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen is a tour de force. There's something very pure about Dylan Horrocks' comics. That’s perhaps an odd word to describe this book which is so much about desire. But Horrocks' line and his imagination both seem to flow freely and directly from some primal source. If you've ever wished that Hergé had written comics for grown-ups—gorgeously drawn and playful adventures that explore the serious anxieties of midlife—your wish has come true, and then some." – Alison Bechdel "This book is necessary for anyone paralyzed even a bit by the creative/spiritual confusion of the digital…

  Over the weekend, Drew Friedman signed his new book, Heroes of the Comics, at Book Soup for fans of his caricatures and many years of MAD magazine illustrations. During a festive after-party with close friends, Drew continued to sign books for Los Angeles' finest. Here is Drew with Dana Gould, right after Dana interviewed him for his podcast, The Dana Gould Hour (keep your eyes peeled for that episode when it's released!)   Drew signing books for clamoring fans and party-attendees.  Drew Friedman, comedian Dana Gould, and The Dana Gould Hour podcast producer Jeff Fox. Tom Gammill, Dana Gould, Jeff Fox, Drew Friedman. Drew's signature…

Ed Piskor hits San Francisco with a BOOM this Thursday, November 20th at City Lights. At 7pm you should stop, drop and caterpillar over to 261 Columbus Avenue to get a copy of Hip Hop Family Tree Volume 2 AND get it signed by Piskor himself.    This is Ed's second to last tour stop on the Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2 tour and your last chance to see him this year, West Coast! Come on out to City Lights, the nations first ALL-paperbackstore, as it sells you Piskor's sexy flexi-bound book. City Lights 261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway San Francisco, CA 94133