Fantagraphics Blog

DETROIT! Let's grease the wheels and get on down to the Jazz Cafe. Author Pat Thomas will be in Detroit on Wednesday, October 29th from 7:00pm-9:30pm at the Jazz Cafe at Music Hall, reading from his book, Listen Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 plus spinning rare "Black Power" recordings and showing unusual photos from the era. ML Liebler presents a special Detroit Tonight Live featuring Thomas that will also include special guests: poets Diane DeCillis & Dawn McDuffie plus fiction writer Brian Smith along with The Good Shepherd Poetry Blues Band.  Thomas is also working a new book coming out next year called Invitation to Openness, a book…

This weekend is THE Texas Book Festival in the heart of the state, Austin, on the grounds of the State Capital. Tim Lane of The Lonesome Go and Abandoned Cars will also be in attendence and holding court. Lane is known for his dense cartooning of American legends and dusty Route 66 tales. Stark washes of white and black pools of ink draw readers to the page while the mystery and mayhem leave them fraught with distress at each page turn. Here's were you can find Lane during the festival:    Saturday, October 25th Foxing Quarterly and Fantagraphics LitCrawl with Tim Lane – 9:30 PM The Volstead…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Sock Monkey: Into the Deep Woodsby Matt Danner and Tony Millionaire 80-page black & white 6" x 9" hardcover • $16.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-746-8 See Previews / Order Now The precocious sock monkey Uncle Gabby, his innocent pal Mr. Crow, and their tiny doll-friend, Inches, are the heroes of this funny, unsettling, and all-new Sock Monkey storybook. Convinced that their human, Ann-Louise, has been kidnapped by a vicious monster dubbed the Amarok, our heroes bravely venture into the Haunted Woods to rescue her. The epic quest that follows takes them by sea, land,…

Pogo – The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 3: "Evidence to the Contrary"by Walt Kelly 356-page color 11.25" x 9.25" hardcover • $45.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-694-2 Ships in: October 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now It’s in this volume (featuring another two years' worth of Pogo strips) that we meet one of Walt Kelly's boldest political caricatures. Folks across America had little trouble equating the insidious wildcat Simple J. Malarkey with the ascendant anti-Communist senator, Joseph McCarthy. The subject was sensitive enough that by the following year a Providence, Rhode Island newspaper threatened to drop the strip if Malarkey's face were…

Nancy Loves Sluggo is our next volume collecting the complete daily comic strips drawn by Ernie Bushmiller between 1949 and 1951. In the very first panel of our 21-page 3.4 MB downloadable excerpt, Mr. Bushmiller shows his signature minimalistic, irreduceable style. Along with the full introduction by cartoonist and comics scholar Ivan Brunetti, this excerpt should whet your appetite until the book's debut in late November. The book is up for pre-order, so go grab your copy now!

Dash Shaw's Doctors has been optioned by Twentieth Century Fox. Producer David Goyer (Batman Begins; Man of Steel; The Dark Knight) has jumped on board to adapt Shaw's sci-fi graphic novela into a feature film. "I'm curious and excited to see what they do with it," says cartoonist Dash Shaw.     Doctors is centered around a machine called the Charon that can bring a dead person back to life by manipulating the memories of the recently deceased. The creator of the device, Dr. Cho, has found a way to make death into a profitable venture. When a young woman loses her…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Peanuts Every Sunday 1956-1960 (Vol. 2)by Charles M. Schulz 288-page full color 13.25" x 9.5" hardcover • $49.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-794-9 See Previews / Order Now Since their original publication, Peanuts Sundays have almost always been collected and reprinted in black and white. But many who read Peanuts in their original Sunday papers remain fond of the striking coloring, which makes for a surprisingly different reading experience. These late-1950s strips comprise the first golden age of Peanuts Sundays in one gorgeous, full-color coffee table book. Linus, Charlie Brown, Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, Sally, Patty,…

It is our very distinct pleasure to finally be able to show you a physical copy of the long-awaited Creeping Death from Neptune: The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton Vol. 1! Packed cover to cover with photographs, letters, early illustrations as well as tons of full-page comics, this is THE definitive first volume detailing the cartoonist's full, prolific life from 1909 to 1941. You can pre-order this book now and expect it on your doorstep by the end of the year. We'll have our usual previews available in the following weeks, so keep your eyes peeled for more sneak…

Arsène Schrauwenby Olivier Schrauwen 250-page color 8" x 10" hardcover • $34.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-730-7 Ships in: November 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now In 1947, the author’s grandfather, Arsène, traveled across the ocean to a mysterious, dangerous jungle colony at the behest of his cousin. Together they would build something deemed impossible: a utopia of modernity, in the wilderness — but not before Arsène falls in love with his cousin’s wife, Marieke. Whether delirious from love or a fever-inducing jungle virus, Arsène’s loosening grip on reality is mirrored by the reader’s uncertainty of what is imagined or real by Arsène….

   Can't find a copy of Eleanor Davis' debut book How to Be Happy anywhere? Is your local bookstore sold out of Simon Hanselmann's Megahex already? No wonder. These two titles have both been virally popular and well-received since their respective releases, garnering rave reviews left and right! But don't worry if you haven't been able to grab a copy of your own. We have just sent Megahex off to the printer for its second printing for an end of year/January 2015 delivery, and How to Be Happy is currently in production for a new print run for a late…