Fantagraphics Blog

This October 17-19th Fantagraphics cofounder and editor Mike Catron will be appearing at the San Diego Comics Fest. Like a comics library come to life, Catron has talks on L.B. Cole, Siegel and Shuster, and ZAP in anticipation of a few of our new books coming out.  Happy Birthday, Jerry and Joe! Friday, October 17th 6-6:50PMJerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were born exactly one century ago. (Joe on July 10, 1914 and Jerry on October 17, 1914). These two lifelong friends created the most iconic superhero of the 20th century and jumpstarted the comic book business. Fantagraphics editor Mike Catron presents a look at…

Our next Don Rosa Library book is here, filled with more richly dense and action-packed stories featuring our favorite duck family! It's easy to lose oneself in the page after page of Don Rosa's stories and artwork, and we may in fact have been slightly delayed in putting up these photos, such was the draw of reading each and every tale. And—what's this?—the first box set collecting volumes 1 and 2 of the Don Rosa Library is at our office as well? Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Return to Plain Awful and The Don Rosa Library Vols. 1-2 Gift Box…

Dubbed by The New York Times as the "Michelangelo of Mad Magazine," Basil Wolverton sold his first nationally published work at the age of 16. Wolverton's work has been published by Marvel, DC, Mad, and a variety of other publications, and in 1991 he was posthumously inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame. We are excited to reveal the cover design for the first of two volumes recounting the life of this varied and unique cartoonist: Creeping Death from Neptune: The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton Vol. 1. The book will collect all of Wolverton's non-humorous comic stories…

The Complete Peanuts 1993-1994 (Vol. 22)by Charles M. Schulz 344-page color 8.5" x 7" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-773-4 Ships in: October 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Even the most devoted Peanuts fan will be surprised by revisiting Schulz's last decade of work. Schulz's cartooning has never been more expressive, and his sense of humor never more unencumbered by formula or tradition. In one sequence, the gang waits… and waits… for a school bus that never comes. Another shockingly showcases Charlie Brown hitting a game-winning home run—off Roy Hobbs's great-granddaughter? Then, Linus lobbies the White House to nominate Snoopy…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954 (Vol. 2 Softcover)by Charles M. Schulz 320-page black & white with spot color 8.25" x 6.25" softcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-792-5 See Previews / Order Now Our second paperback volume of the acclaimed Complete Peanuts series finds Schulz continuing to establish his tender and comic universe. It begins with Peanuts' third full year and a cast of eight: Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, Violet, Schroeder, Lucy, baby Linus, and Snoopy. By the end of 1954, Pigpen and his dust cloud join the crowd. Linus emerges as one of the…

During the Golden Age of Comics, Leonard "Len" Brandt Cole earned fame for his proto-psychedelic comic book covers. We've collected Cole's work from throughout his prolific career in Black Light: The World of L.B. Cole—a lush, oversized full color art book that includes an exclusive biography by Bill Schelly and proofs of never-before-seen unpublished covers. Our final cover art for this wondrous book highlights Cole's style, described by the editor as "a brilliant spectacle of primary colors sizzling against intense black backgrounds." The book is slated for a December release and is available for pre-order now!

"Tony Millionaire’s Sock Monkey disturbs me for all the right reasons." – Time "I think Tony Millionaire can only do important things." – Dave Eggers "Tony Millionaire is one of our true genii" – John Hodgman "…evokes the anything-goes child-logic found in darker fairy tales and the Oz stories with a pinch of Lewis Carroll thrown in for the sheer bizarreness of it all." – Publishers Weekly 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 Due to arrive in 2-4 weeks. Click on the thumbnails for…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Bumf Vol. 1: I Buggered the Kaiserby Joe Sacco 100-page black & white 6.625" x 10.5" softcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-748-2 See Previews / Order Now Author Joe Sacco promises that, in the vein of underground comix like ZAP or Weirdo, "Bumf will go where it needs to go, and do what it needs to do." Though Sacco is world-famous for his serious, journalistic books like Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, and Footnotes in Gaza, Bumf promises to echo back to his earlier days as a satirist and underground cartoonist. Bumf is a…

B'Gawrsh! It's another volume of rip-roarin', shoot-em-up, and time-travelin' Mickey Mouse adventures, penned by the masterful Floyd Gottfredson. Lost in Lands of Long Ago starts off with a six-page foreword by Thomas Andrae that's packed with original sketches and illustrations, followed by a full illustrated spread by Stephen de Stefano titled "I Sat at Floyd Gottfredson's Desk!" All of this, plus seven pages of comics, are included in our 22-page, 5.1 MB downloadable excerpt. Lost in Lands of Long Ago is available for pre-order now, which means you'll receive it on your doorstep, front porch, P.O Box, or via brontosaurus* in…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: The Seven Cities of Gold (The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 14)by Carl Barks 240-page full color 7.5" x 10.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-795-6 See Previews / Order Now Uncle Scrooge takes Donald and the nephews on a perilous trek in search of the fabled seven cities of gold! This is the Scrooge story famous for providing Steven Spielberg and George Lucas with inspiration for parts of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Speaking of gold and movies, James Bond fans might recognize in “The Mysterious Stone…