Fantagraphics Blog

This weekend is gonna be so busy for the cartoonists of Fantagraphics. Some are getting ready for Brooklyn Book Fest or SPX but at this moment Tony Millionaire is ready to have a helluva time over at Cincy ComiCon in Covington, Kentucky. Right across the state line! Cincy ComiCon is located at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center at One West RiverCenter Boulevard, Covington, KY. Friday from 3-7pm, Saturday from 10-7pm, and Sunday from 10am -5pm.   And over at Baltimore Comic-Con that starts today.    Friday through Sunday, September 5-7th, Don Rosa will be holding court with his always impressive display…

Paul Constant over at The Stranger has an excellent write-up on Jim Woodring's new "Notorious Autojournal", Jim: Jim is a brand-new collection of Woodring's earliest comics work, which was originally produced as zines in the early 1980s until Fantagraphics cofounder Gary Groth fell in love with his work and became his lifelong publisher. This isn't a stack of embarrassing juvenalia; the quality of work is very high, but if you stare at the pages for a while, you'll notice a bit of uncharacteristic uncertainty resonating through the ink. In an interview with Woodring, he admits that "it is hard to…

Here's a sneak peek of Jacques Boyreau's upcoming SuperTrash, due out later this month! This sequel to the artist-curator's last book, Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters, uses a collage of movie imagery, advertisements, and comix—with an essay by the author interwoven throughout—to explore and challenge the concepts of art as trash as art. The book is already up for pre-sale, and we will be prepping previews galore soon! Stay tuned for a visual feast of freaky delights.

What's even better than the first two volumes of Ed Piskor's excellent, Eisner-nominated visual history of hip hop, Hip Hop Family Tree? Having those two volumes wrapped in this sweet slipcase cover, along with a special, limited-edition 24-page comic, created just for this set! We are super psyched to unbox this set for your eyes, and we will have more photo and video previews for your viewing pleasure soon! The Hip Hop Family Tree Vols. 1-2: 1975-1983 Box Set is due out in late October. Snag your pre-order today!

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. An Age of License by Lucy Knisley 196-page black & white with color 5.5" x 7.5" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-768-0 "Like the best travelogues, An Age of License shows you what it would be like to visit a place while reminding you that you can never have the same experience…This book is…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Son of the Sunby Don Rosa 208-page full color 8.5" x 11" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-742-0 See Previews / Order Now "Great howling crashwagons!" The Richest Duck in the World is back — and so are noisy nephew Donald, wunderkinder Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and rascally richnik Flintheart Glomgold! Because you asked for it, we're proud to present our first complete, chronological book of Duck adventures by contemporary fan favorite Don Rosa — following in the footsteps of Disney legend Carl Barks with…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: An Age of Licenseby Lucy Knisley 196-page black & white with color 5.5" x 7.5" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-768-0 See Previews / Order Now Acclaimed cartoonist Lucy Knisley (French Milk, Relish) got an opportunity that most only dream of: a travel-expenses-paid trip to Europe and Scandinavia, thanks to a book tour. An Age of License is Knisley's comics travel memoir recounting her charming (and romantic!) adventures. It’s punctuated by whimsical visual devices (such as a "new experiences" funnel); peppered with the cute cats she meets along the way; and, of course,…

  Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition of posters featured in the new book 101 Best Film Noir Posters from the 1940s – 1950s. The show opens on Saturday, September 13 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Editor Mark Fertig will be available to discuss the work and sign copies of the book. The exhibition continues through November 10, 2014. The film noir genre holds a special place in American cinema and the posters reveal a lot about mid-century aesthetics. As director William Friedkin observes in the book's introduction, "The posters convey the style and content of the movies…

Thursday, September 11  One of the leading courtroom sketch artists, Janet Hamlin author of Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013, is the main subject of a two month long exhibition at the University of Richmond, Lora Robins Galley of Design from Nature. And to open up the exhibition, at 6 pm, Hamlin will be giving a lecture in the Moot Courtroom about her time in military trials at Guantanamo Bay. The lecture is open to the public. As one of the only sketch artists allowed to witness the 9/11 trials, since audio and recordign equipment are banned, Hamlin was presented with…

Sometimes getting together with friends and family for Thanksgiving isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, as Snoopy learns when his brother Spike invites him to spend Thanksgiving in the desert, and things don’t quite work out as planned. At least it’s a change of pace for Snoopy, who spends most Thanksgivings with the ol’ supper dish (and one lonely one at the malt shoppe as Joe Cool). It’s also a tense time of year to be a bird who’s afraid of being mistaken for a turkey and roasted, and Woodstock copes with his anxieties in various ways, including…