Fantagraphics Blog

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…

Malcolm McNeill has put out a video compilation of images from his collaborative work with famed writer William Burroughs, which Fantagraphics published as The Lost Art of Ah Pook Is Here in 2012. Check it out below:

21: The Story of Roberto Clemente [Softcover Ed.] by Wilfred Santiago 200-page color 6.25" x 8" hardcover • $19.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-775-8 Ships in: September 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Now available for the first time in paperback, Wilfred Santiago’s instant classic 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente is a human drama of courage, faith, and dignity, inspired by the life of the acclaimed Pittsburgh Pirates baseball star who died too young. 21 chronicles Clemente's life from his early days growing up, through the highlights of his career, capturing the grit of his rise from an impoverished Puerto Rican…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Waiting for the Great Pumpkinby Charles M. Schulz 64-page black & white with spot color 5.75" x 5.75" hardcover • $9.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-772-7 See Previews / Order Now Linus and his wait for the Great Pumpkin have been a pop culture touchstone for nearly 50 years thanks to the animated television special ("I got a rock"), and it all started in the classic Peanuts strips from 1959-1962 collected in this affordable, fun-sized gift book. Linus's belief and proselytizing that on Halloween, the Great Pumpkin rises from the pumpkin patch and travels the…

Our talented designers have done it again! This gorgeous design you see here will grace the cover of a new book by award-winning Spanish cartoonist, Max. Vapor stars a disgruntled, ascetic-seeking character named Nick, who escapes to the desert for some solitude and spiritual balance. Instead, he finds himself mesmerized and seduced by the procession of the Queen of Saba. The book is slated to be out by the end of the year. We'll have lots more previews and info in the next few weeks and months, and presale for the book is up now!

"No one does giddy surrealism quite like Kupperman…" – "The Best Comics of the ’00s,” The A.V. Club "A comic masterpiece." – Peter Serafinowicz (Look Around You, The Peter Serafinowicz Show) "The second funniest cartoonist worldwide, after me." – Tony Millionaire "The shit-yourself funniest book I’ve ever read." – Box Brown, The Daily Cross Hatch, "The Best Damned Comics of 2009 Chosen by the Artists" Top 5 comics of the year – Minty Lewis, The Daily Cross Hatch, "The Best Damned Comics of 2009 Chosen by the Artists" "It has become cliché to say I laughed until I cried, but…

  Advancements in modern technology have rendered the art of the prank phone call to be something of an anachronism. Which is a shame, and all the more reason why I'm rooting for this kickstarter to succeed. Never forget. Once upon a time, Park Grubbs was legendary, if mostly known only via tenth-generation cassette tapes shared through the mail by weirdos and misfits. Longtime Daniel Clowes  fans will remember Grubbs as the esteemed winner of the "Eightball  Prank Call Contest" (surely the Oscar of prank phone call awards). One of the kickstarter rewards is a signed print from longtime Grubbs co-conspirator / Fantagraphics friend…

Friends and family, gather 'round! Ed Piskor is coming to your neighborhood! Ed's coming and his gaggle of comics to Philadelphia and Brooklyn.  SATURDAY, August 16th Piskor will be signing copies of Hip Hop Family Tree Volume 1, Volume 2 and the box set at Locust Moon Comics at 7pm.  SUNDAY, August 17th at 7pm, you can find Piskor at Bergen Street Comics in conversation with rapper Reggie Ossé (also known to many of you as Combat Jack)! Can't imagine how cool that would be? Well check out this video from the Chicago Ideas conference as a little pre-game action.  At both signings, Ed's pal and stellar cartoonist…

Part trash zine, part essay, and part exhibition, SuperTrash is Jacques Boyreau's latest curation of multimedia objects—movie posters, comic strips, illustrations, collages, and more—exploring the relationships between and interplay of art and trash. To get a taste of this singular collection, we've got a downloadable, 26-page PDF preview (5.5 MB). Give it a read, and keep your eyeballs peeled for more upcoming photos and video. Check out the book page for more info and to pre-order yourself a copy!