This week's of Online Commentaries and Diversions: Review: An Age of License by Lucy Knisley "…the in-process method of writing and drawing her adventures as they happen gives a vibrant immediacy to situations and sensations. Belying her relatively simple but charming cartooning style, Knisley pages are a cornucopia of information and detail: oversized seagulls, bilingual schoolchildren, and lying sat-navs populate her travels." – Publishers Weekly Review: Twelve Gems by Lane Milburn "In Twelve Gems, Milburn has created a playful homage to the genre that also incorporates some of the “Marvel-isms” that were injected into the form in the '60s…
Gast by Carol Swain – Now in Stock!
Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Gastby Carol Swain 176-page black & white 7.5" x 10" softcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-755-0 See Previews / Order Now Helen is an amateur bird watcher and naturalist who lives in a rural community in Wales. When local farmer Bill tells Helen that a "rare bird" named Emrys killed himself at Cuddig farm, she decides to investigate. One of the dogs at the farm tells her, by way of explanation, that Emrys "had no feathers and couldn’t fly." She plucks an old cosmetic kit from a dumpster and discovers it belonged to…
Eisner Awards for Jacques Tardi, Jaime & Gilbert Hernandez
It was bound to happen with 32 years of comics in the making. On Friday at the Eisner Awards Ceremony, the two cartoonists Fantagraphics has grown up with received their due. In the category of Best Writer/Artist, Jaime Hernandeznbsp;received an Eisner for his work on Love and Rockets to be followed quickly by Gilbert Hernandez for his standalone story "Untitled" in Love and Rockets: New Stories #6 (page 59 for those of you at home). Gilbert gave a touching speech and we even snapped a photo of his notes. Jaime juggled his Eisner a bit, speechless yet very endearing. AND Félicitations are due to Jacques Tardi and Jean-Pierre Verney! The…
Wandering Son Vol. 7 by Shimura Takako -Video/Photo Slideshow
Wandering Son (Hourou Musuko / 放浪息子) Vol. 7 by Shimura Takako 220-page black & white (with some color) 7" x 9.5" hardcover • $24.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-750-5 Ships in: August 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Shimura Takako’s groundbreaking, critically acclaimed, and beloved Wandering Son continues to explore gender identity among its cast of middle school students in our 7th volume. Nitori-kun gets his first signs of acne. This may well be the end of the world. But when he turns to nationally famous model Anna-chan for help, events take an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Nitori-kun and Chiba-san are scouted by…
Fantagraphics punks out with Sacred Heart
Fantagraphics has forged through the digital wilderness and secured the international publishing rights to Liz Suburbia's popular webcomic Sacred Heart—which is about present day high-schoolers in an unholy land—as a one-shot graphic novel in Summer 2015. There's an absence of authority in the town of Alexandria, and the teens are trying to keep their makeshift society together until their parents return. But students keep dying mysteriously, local band The Crotchmen rock the nights away, freshmen palm readers and seers have lines out the door, and Ben Schiller has had it up to HERE with her sister Empathy's disappearing act. It's…
ComiXology Celebrates 45 Years of Comic-Con with 45 Cent Sale
ComiXology is celebrating 45 years of Comic-Con International this week by discounting a different graphic novel or collection every day! Today, you can get Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 for just 45¢! Sale goes until 11:59 EST.
Vaughn Bodé’s Cheech Wizard Resurfaces With Fantagraphics
JULY 25, 2014, SAN DIEGO, CA — Cheech Wizard is the "Kilroy was Here" of the late 20th century: whether it's spray-painted on the wall of an abandoned building, splayed on the pages of an old comic book, exalted in a Beastie Boys song, or tattooed on the skin of a friend, everyone has been exposed to Vaughn Bodé‘s art in some form or another. But the comics in which Cheech Wizard first appeared have been out of print for years. In April 2015, Fantagraphics is proud to offer a newly designed, oversized Cheech Wizard omnibus: The Big Book of…
The 4th Annual Not-at-Comic-Con Sale!
The internet is abuzz with Comic-Con tweets, status updates, instagram photos, and #SDCC hashtags, which means it must be time for our 4th Annual Not-at-Comic-Con Sale! Lusting after Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2, Lucy Knisley's travel memoir An Age of License, Jim Woodring's Jim, or the other new releases debuting at our booth? Been meaning to pick up that next volume for your Love & Rockets collection? Looking for a gift to cheer up your comics-loving friend who is bemoaning not being in San Diego? Starting today and for the duration of Comic-Con—until midnight PST on Sunday,…
Heroes of the Comics by Drew Friedman – Video/Photo Slideshow
Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Booksby Drew Friedman 184-page full color 9" x 12" hardcover • $34.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-731-4 Ships in September 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Featuring approximately 75 full-color portraits of the pioneering legends of American comic books, including publishers, editors, and artists from the industry's birth in the '30s, through the brilliant artists and writers behind EC Comics in the '50s. All lovingly rendered and chosen by Drew Friedman, a cartooning legend in his own right. Featuring subjects popular and obscure, men and women, as well as several pioneering African-American artists. Each subject…
Weekly OCD 7.22.14
This week's pre-Comic-Con warmup of Online Commentaries and Diversions: Review: How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis "This collection of short stories about people desperately trying to suppress or embrace or just somehow deal with all the difficult emotions careening around in their brain just underscores what those who have seen Davis’ work in scattered anthologies already suspected: that she is a tremendous talent, and one of the smartest voices working in comics today." – Chris Mautner, Robot 6 Review: Pirates in the Heartland: The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson edited by Patrick Rosenkranz "Ultimately, Wilson is a perfect…
