Fantagraphics Blog

Castle Waiting Vol. II #10By Linda Medley This issue: Jain, Tolly and Simon get some unexpected help when they find an unpleasant surprise in the Castle's hidden passageways, while the other castle folk learn how not to construct a doorway. 24-page black & white comic book $3.95Order Now!

Jim Blanchard is offering this new, limited edition giclée print of Redd Foxx, over at his website. Only 12 printed — at $36, it's a steal.

  Evan Dorkin has posted some 20-year-old con sketches he's collected from Los Bros Hernandez and Daniel Clowes. 

The New Yorker has a flickr pool with entries in their aforementioned Eustace Tilley redesign contest. I was partial to this one, courtesy robotalphabet:   And here's a fine contribution from our own Wilfred Santiago:

At the Thought Balloonists blog, Craig Fischer offers an in-depth analysis of Thierry Groensteen's theories of comics semiotics and structure, using this page from Jason's (out of print) graphic novel Hey, Wait… as an example:

"Congratulations to Fantagraphics for being the best-represented North American comics publisher I encountered in Japan: two stores." Thanks, Chris.

Timed propitiously for the imminent arrival of the new printing of Small Favors Vol. 1, OregonLive.com has a great profile of Colleen Coover.

Our Eric Reynolds made the scene at the Frye Museum for the gala opening of "R. Crumb's Underground" and has the photos to prove it — click here for the whole set on Flickr. I also uploaded a few of Eric's photos from Ellen Forney's talk at Comixtravaganza — see those here.

  "He devoured everything from history to biography, and was also fond of reading Dennis the Menace comic books imported for him from the US. People asking for autographs were greeted with stern silence."

  Happy 20th birthday to our fellow purveyors of counterculture, SubPop Recordings.