Fantagraphics Blog

Hometown hero, Ed Piskor, is coming back atcha with the release of Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2 at 7pm on Saturday, September 23rd. At this release party at Copacetic Comics, you may need to bring the bucks but never the beats.  Book 2 covers the early years of 1981-1983, when Hip Hop has made a big transition from the parks and rec rooms to downtown clubs and vinyl records. As meticulously documented in Piskor's panels, the performers make moves to separate themselves from the paying customers by dressing more and more flamboyantly until a young group called RUN-DMC comes on the scene to take…

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.    Megahex by Simon Hanselmann 212-page full color 6" x 8.75" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-743-7  "Simon Hanselmann is the real deal, for sure. He captures that stoner stay-at-home life so accurately that I actually find his comics really depressing and thank God I don't ever have to hang out with anybody like that…

"I consider [Carl Barks’ comics] to be the best form of storytelling I’ve read." – Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) "A priceless part of our literary heritage." – George Lucas The Ghost of the Grotto, Starring Walt Disney’s Donald Duckby Carl Barks 96-page full color 5.5” x 7.5” softcover • $12.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-779-6 Due to arrive in about 2-4 weeks. Click the thumbnails for larger versions; get more info, see more previews and pre-order your copy here: http://www.fantagraphics.com/ghostofthegrotto

Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Son of the Sun by Don Rosa 208-page full color 8.5" x 11" hardcover • $29.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-742-0 Ships in: September 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-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 an exciting,…

Snoopy gliding gracefully across frozen ponds, Linus' mad snowfort-building skillz, Charlie Brown's unending kite problems, Lucy's piano-leaning flirting tactics—these strips and more are in our 22-page, 8.3 MB excerpt of Vol. 2 of Peanuts Every Sunday. This collection of full color, full-page Sunday strips by Charles M. Schulz is sure to delight Peanuts fans new and old. Look for the book to hit bookstores in October. Our presale is up for you to reserve your copy, and make sure to follow our Flog for continued updates and previews!

We are pleased to present you with our finalized cover design for Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: The Seven Cities of Gold! In a story that inspired Steven Spielberg and George Lucas—both big fans of Carl Barks themselves—with iconic parts of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the titular "The Seven Cities of Gold" has Uncle Scrooge and his kin on the hunt for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola, said to have streets paved with gold. This and other stories, notes, and cover art make up our newest volume of classic, carefully remastered work by the one and only Carl Barks.

With this sleek, elegantly minimalistic slipcase design, Jacques Tardi's award-winning Goddamn This War! and It Was the War of the Trenches are beautifully encased in a matte, dark grey boxset that quietly reflects the books' somber, heavy material. We expect to see Tardi's WWI boxset out in October. Until then, we'll have more juicy previews and unboxing video in the coming weeks. And as per usual, our presale for the boxset is up and raring to go.

This week's hen's egg clutch of Online Commentaries and Diversions: Review: Gast by Carol Swain "What’s most impressive about Swain’s story is its quiet nature, and its delicate portrayal of darkness. Instead of going for the obvious and imposing gruesome imagery to match the backdrop of macabre, Swain portrays the setting as a far more subtle place to contain unease, at time bucolic even with the fog of despair that sometimes hangs there." – John Seven, Vermicious   Review: How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis "That's Davis' sensibility. In her roundabout way, she dramatizes not the prospect of happiness,…

The Small Press Expo and Ignatz award nominating committee listed it's list of nominees for this year's awards. For those attending the show on Saturday and Sunday, September 13-14th please make sure to vote on Saturday! Whom should you vote for? Well, your favorite comics of course but here are some *cough cough* suggestions!   Best Artist: Kim Deitch Ed Piskor Jesse Reklaw    Outstanding Graphic Novel: Kim Deitch, The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley    Anthologies: Anders Nelson, The End Leslie Stein, Eye of the Majestic Creature Vol. 2 Tony Millionaire,  Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey Treasury   Outstanding Comic: Dash Shaw, Cosplayers (Issue #2 is…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 1 [Softcover Ed.]by Michael Kupperman 160-page full color 7" x 9.75" softcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-764-2 See Previews / Order Now Fans and comedy cognoscenti alike, basking devotedly in the glow of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, have made it the smash hit humor comic of the decade. And now the first four issues of Michael Kupperman’s revered series are finally collected into one deluxe hardcover. Even better, Kupperman has taken the original two-color printing and made the entire book full color! These tales are more thrizzling than…