Fantagraphics Blog

Wednesday, September 24th Pittsburgh, PA: Tonight! The Copacetic Comics Company is hosting the boys of Summer on their whirlwind tour of books, friendship, and probably a coming of age story. Annie Mok will be joining them at this stop, and all the fun starts at 7 pm!     Thursday, September 25 St. Louis, MO: You won't be lonseome this Thursday if you get yourself over to Subterranean Books for the early early book release and signing of Tim Lane's newest book, The Lonsesome Go; a haunting exploration into the American Myth. This book should be in every college English Lit class, but you can get yours now…

  Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to welcome acclaimed Canadian artist, musician, and producer Don Pyle to Seattle to present his photography exhibit "Toronto Punk and Other Trouble 1976 – 1980" at Machine House Brewery in Georgetown. The show features Pyle's pictures of seminal Toronto punk bands along with early images of The Clash, Ramones, Blondie, Iggy Pop, Dead Boys and others. As a musician, Pyle was a member of Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, widely recognized for their musical contributions to the Kids in the Hall television show.  His photography show opens Wednesday, September 24 and remains on view through…

The 22nd volume of The Complete Peanuts, the first fully comprehensive, chronological collection of Charles M. Schulz's comic strips, covers the years from 1993 through 1994. We have a 20-page, 1.7 MB downloadable excerpt for this latest volume. The excerpt includes the full, heartwarming introduction by CNN anchor Jake Tapper. The Complete Peanuts 1993-1994 (Vol. 22) will be out in October, and you can get your pre-order in right here. Volumes 21 and 22 are also collected in a box set that is coming out next month as well.

Saturday, September 27th If you're home alone watching that show, Too Cute, don't be surprised if you see Hanselmann, Deforge, and Kyle scampering across your screen, playing with puppies and baby ducks. Especially if those baby ducks* are at the Kafe Kerouac in Columbus, OH. Beginning at 9 pm, you can get drinks, books signed, build up some social skills, and hopefully go on a journey that leads to founding a literary movement.  These cute boys may have gotten a head start on you though, because their recent releases: Megahex; Lose #6; and Distance Mover; have been taking the comic world by storm.  You can…

The time is nigh to buy tickets to see Jim Woodring at Town Hall in Seattle! On Sunday, October 5, from 7:30 – 8:45pm you will be glued to your seat for Offhand Gestures: An Evening of Spontaneous Creation with James McNew, Bill Frisell, and Jim Woodring. Woodring will great on-the-spot drawings and paintings inspired by the collaborative musical efforts of jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and James McNew, bassist for Yo La Tengo. An event for the lover of music, comics, visual performance arts and above all, collaboration. Presented by Town Hall Seattle, Fantagraphics and sponsored by City Arts.  Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. $5….

 Thursday, September 25 Planes, trains, and automobiles. Also motocycles, or just your legs. Whichever method you prefer, just make sure you use one of them to get to the early book release and signing for the next great American classic, The  Lonsesome Go. Join author Tim Lane from 7-10 PM at this Subterranean Books event, in St. Louis, MO, to celebrate this beautifully constructed exploration of drama, myth, and classic American storytelling. Tim is the author of the acclaimed book, Abandoned Cars, the existenssial noir collecting stories of mystery and Americana. The Lonesome Go is a follow up to those themes, but if we learned anything…

We are thrilled to be releasing our first boxed set of The Don Rosa Library books, The Son of the Sun and Return to Plain Awful, due to arrive in November along with the second volume in the set. The slipcase cover is brimming with action, and the spine features a single, simple image: a small, padlocked moneybag against a money-green backdrop. We think Uncle Scrooge would approve. You can pre-order this gorgeous slipcase box set now. As with all of our Disney books, these books are available in the U.S and Canada only.

  Tuesday, September 23th is a sumptuous ending to our New York Events as Simon Hanselmann and Michael DeForge give talks at the Bark Room at 8pm in association with Parsons the New School for Design. Moderating the talks will be faculty member, Steven Guarnaccia. This is just one of the many stops on the Cute Boy Alert tour featuring Hanselmann, DeForge and Patrick Kyle. For more information about future stops, click here and flip your hair to the right, left and right again . Here the boys are (RtoL: Hanselmann, DeForge and Kyle) at the Telegraph Gallery last week.   Bark Room, Parsons2 West 13th Street (at…

The Complete Peanuts 1953-1953 (Vol. 2 – Softcover)by Charles M. Schulz 320-page color 8.25" x 6.25" hardcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-792-5 Ships in: October 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-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 most complex and endearing characters in the strip,…

Next up in our treasured Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse series is Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Lost in Lands of Long Ago. The cover sports a menacing Peg-Leg Pete, which surely means shenanigans in store for our intrepid and iconic mouse. Look for previews sporting even more brontosaurs (none o' that Apatosaurus nonsense here), classic western yarns, and ghosts soon! And, you know the drill—the book is ready for your pre-order here.