Acclaimed by Library Journal, Booklist, and YALSA; praised by sports writers from Sports Illustrated and ESPN; and enjoyed by thousands of readers of all ages — Wilfred Santiago's graphic biography 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente is now coming in a new paperback edition! Presenting the tragically short life of the legendary major leaguer with faithful accuracy and expressive storytelling and artwork, 21 is a landmark in sports biography — and a great comic book. We're in pre-press with the printer right now and the book is scheduled to hit stores in September. More sneak peeks are on the way…
Fantagraphics at BEA 2014
This week Book Expo America is happening in New York City! From Thursday, May 29 – Saturday, May 31, 2014 at the Javits Center, NYC, Associate Editor Eric Reynolds will be pushing our fall line of comics including Lucy Knisley's An Age of License, Hip Hop Family Tree Book Two by Ed Piskor, the Zap collection, and Michael Jordan by Wilfred Santiago. The second volume of Barnaby is RIGHT THERE on the top left-hand shelf, truly drool worthy.Fantagraphics is at table 1927 right next to W.W. Norton. Stop on by to flip through some of the most amazing comics by world's greatest cartoonists, grab a Free Comic Book Day Comic…
New Comics Day 5.28.14
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. The Amateurs by Conor Stechschulte 64-page black & white 6" x 9" softcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-734-5 "Stechschulte's dark humour and claustrophobic art style make this an intense and disquieting read." –Frederik Hautain, Broken Frontier "…readers take in something comics can capture better than prose, the blankness of a mind already gone…[Stechschulte's] approach to storytelling, eschewing…
Fantagraphics Datebook
Don't miss the dazzling array of attractions at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in the coming weeks and months. The action begins with the Georgetown Carnival on Saturday, June 14 from noon to 10:00 PM. Cheer on our entry in Hazardfactory's famous Power Tool Races and enjoy free concerts by Fantagraphics friends like Jack Endino's Earthworm, Mark Pickerel, Ancient Warlocks, Tummy, and more! Acrobats, carnival games, sideshows, burlesque, beer gardens and so much more. All free, all day. On Sunday, July 13 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM two extraordinary artists, Eleanor Davis and Esther Pearl Watson, appear at the store…
Fantagraphics at CAKE 2014
Guess who's coming for dinner and that dinner is CAKE?! Fantagraphics with a smashing line-up of cartoonists will be in Chicago May 31-June 1st for the next greatest thing in comic shows. The show is opening Saturday and Sunday this week from 11am-6pm at 3656 N Halsted. Special Guest Tony Millionaire will be at a table RIGHT NEXT to our signing books all day, all weekend. The map on the site was a bit too tiny even for my magnifying glass soooo just look for us at table 6-7. Jacq Cohen is repping us and is usually dressed to the nines. …
Doctors by Dash Shaw – Excerpt
Dash Shaw is having a prolific year, with no signs of slowing down. His newest graphic novel, Doctors, is due this Fall. As with his other sci-fi-tinged stories, Shaw uses futuristic technology to explore human issues — this time, the ethics and emotional impact of interrupted mortality. In our downloadable preview, an older woman with a seemingly idyllic life finds romance with a younger man — but her daughter appears with an unbelievable claim that her life as she knows it is not what it seems. Doctors will be on call (in stores) in September (and available at SPX) and…
An Age of License by Lucy Knisley – Cover Uncovered
One of our most anticipated books of the year, An Age of License by best-selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley is officially at the printer for September release, and we are pleased to unveil the final cover art for you right here. Knisley's engaging cartoon travel diary maps a physical and emotional journey as she travels through Europe on a book tour. The book has its big debut at Comic-Con in San Diego in July (where Lucy is a special guest!) and, for folks who won't be there, pre-sale on our website is on now. (Publishing press & pros, we'll have a…
Strange Suspense: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 1 (Paperback) – Photoset Preview
"Strange Suspense offers page after lurid four-color page of Ditko's weird monsters, rubber-faced crooks, and abstracted landscapes… The book is a white-knuckle trip through Ditko’s fevered imagination." – The A.V. Club "This book is chock-full of intense faces and monsters and colors. Strong blacks, horror comics, mean revenge, strange surgery…It's all horror comics from before Fredric Wertham illegalized good-time comic books." – Vice "The tales in this tome are sheer pre-Comics Code Authority horror, complete with stabbings, decapitations, mutilations, and disintegrations. …Ditko's talent jumps off the page and one of the benefits of reading the stories in chronological order is seeing…
Savannah, GA: Mermaid Parade with Dame Darcy
Saturday, June 21 Savannah, GA: There's no more fun, or witchy, way to ring in the changing seasons than to celebrate the summer solstice with renaissance woman and artist, Dame Darcy! June 21st, on Tybee Island beginning at 1 pm, a mermaid parade full of art, glitter, and fishy frolicking, will commence in front of Fannies on the Beach, and party through town to the back river beach near the pier where there will be a picnic, live music, prizes, and the crowning of the Mermaid Queen, so wear your most creative mermaid best! Along with being a animator, dollmaker, musician, fashion model,…
More HATE and UNLOVABLE on comiXology
Feel the no-love wash over as comiXology continues the serialization of Hate by Peter Bagge and Esther Pearl Watson's Unlovable Book 2 where slobby chicks rule! In issue #11 of Hate, Buddy and Lisa hit rock bottom: their disgusting and pathetic behavior ostracizes them from all their friends, including the usually tolerant George Hamilton III, who moves out in a huff. In fact, Buddy and Lisa can't even stand each other, but they're all they have left now! This bitter orgy of alcoholism, desperate sex, and bad attitudes is only $1.99 for 25 pages. "I love Hate!" – Matt Groening Esther Pearl Watson's Unlovable Book 2 continues in Issue #3 "Bum…
