Fantagraphics Blog

Portland, Sunday is YOUR shot to see Ed Piskor while he's jamming up and down the West Coast. Michael Ring and Bridge City Comics are proudly selling Hip Hop Family Tree Volume 1 + 2 plus that sexy box set with the mini-comic insert. From 6-9pm on Sunday, November 16th come get the hottest book to dive into hip hop history. This free event will also be serving sweet refreshments so you can talk all night long. Send your friends the Facebook link so they won't miss out either!  Bridge City Comics 3725 N. Mississippi AvePortland, OR 97227 503.282.5484

Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictionsby Frank Stack 224-page black & white 7.75" x 10" softcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-808-3 Ships in: December 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now "Cult" cartoonist Frank Stack is best known as the artist behind Harvey Pekar's award-winning graphic novel, My Cancer Year (his art was featured in the American Splendor film), and as the creator of the first underground comic book, The Adventures of Jesus. Foolbert Funnies collects comics—inspired by Stack's pop culture-filled childhood and travails as a fine arts professor—that ran in National Lampoon and other publications. (For decades, Stack's work was published…

Oh man, we can hear your double-lined pockets jangling from all the coins to purchase our books this weekend at Short Run, the hottest one day comics show on this coast! We have some FANTASTIC debut comics and graphic novels for you as well as two outta town guests. You'll find two of our finest cartoonists right next to us, Ed Piskor (M59) and Simon Hanselmann. Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2 and the Box Set are a hit across the country while Hanselmann's practically sold out of Megahex, so you should scoop one up QUICK! Local cartoonist and legend, Jim Woodring, will also be signing at…

"His covers are really noir: spirals, figures falling down through space, big spider webs, just great… The colors are all totally primary: just bright red, blue, almost no subtle colors… they really work." – R. Crumb Black Light: The World of L.B. Colebiography by Bill Schelly 272-page full color 9.25" x 13.25" softcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-762-8 Due to arrive in 2-4 weeks. Click on the thumbnails for larger versions; get more info, see more previews, and pre-order your copy here: http://www.fantagraphics.com/blacklight

The next book in our favorite fraternal duo's Eisner Award-winning series, Love and Rockets: New Stories #7, collects more of the epic, poignant, thrilling tales you've come to love and look forward to from Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez. We are so excited to share this book's final cover art for you today! New Stories #7 is up on our site and available for pre-order now, so what are you waiting for? Grab your copy now for a January delivery!

In 2012, Lucy Knisley decided to accompany her grandparents on a cruise vacation for the elderly. In her latest travel memoir, Displacement, she recounts her experiences being their care-taker, reflecting on their ailing health and declining abilities, and coming to terms with mortality. Our 10-page downloadable excerpt introduces Knisley's family, setting up the context for the upcoming getaway cruise story. Once you're done reading that, head on over to the book page to snag your pre-order. Displacement is on schedule to hit bookstores by January 2015!

Spawn of Mars and Other Storiesby Wallace Wood and Al Feldstein 216-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-805-2 Ships in: December 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Wallace Wood fans love his sleek, preternaturally lush art, but they especially love the wonderment of his spectacular science fiction. This highly anticipated mouth-watering collection features over two dozen stories brimming with Wood’s meticulously detailed, genre-defining brushwork—all save the one Wood wrote himself on the typewriter of EC editor Al Feldstein. And with titles like "Spawn of Mars," "The Dark Side of the Moon," "A Trip to a…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 5 + 6 Box Setby Floyd Gottfredson 576-page black & white with color 10.75" x 9" x 2.5" hardcover • $49.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-783-3 See Previews / Order Now Two more volumes of Mickey's thrilling adventures from the 1930s, packaged in a beautiful and sturdy slipcase and priced cheaper than the individual volumes! A perfect gift and/or collector's item.

We are quite pleased to present to you the finalized cover design for our new book collecting cartoonist and 2014 Rockefeller Fellow Peter Bagge's Sweatshop. First published as a six-issue series in 2003, this comic detailing the life of an out-of-touch cartoonist and his "sweatshop" cast of studio assistants has never before been collected until now! We'll have more juicy previews for you soon, but in the meantime, the book is available for pre-order and should be ready by February 2015!

We've got a whopping 50 pages previewing our second volume of Treasury of Mini Comics, including the full table of contents, a four page introduction by editor Michael Dowers, and seven complete minicomics. Check 'em out in our 3.6 MB downloadable excerpt here, then get your pre-order in for the book's December debut!