In this month's Diamond Previews, editorial associate Kristy Valenti is asked a few questions about being a comics editor. Check it out for yourself at your local comic book store! You can also enjoy many a book that Valenti has edited include the Wandering Son series by Shimura Takako, Pretty in Ink by Trina Robbins, Nijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano or her Eisner-nominated The Love and Rockets Companion (co-edited by Marc Sobel). GO KRISTY!
Trina Robbins Presents The Brinkley Girls in Toronto!
TCAF'ers! On Thursday, May 8th, noted herstorian Trina Robbins presents the lecture The Brinkley Girls, World War I and American Patriotism in Women’s Comics at Ryerson University! For anyone who hasn't checked out Trina's Eisner AND Harvey Award-nominated collection, The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons 1913-1940, cartoonist Nell Brinkley had a fascinating career spanning four decades, where she shrewdly used her work to encode political messages, sympathizing with working women and making a series about First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. (Trina gave a talk about Nell Brinkley at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery back in 2011, and it…
witzend by Wallace Wood and various artists – Video/Photo Slideshow Preview
witzendby Wallace Wood and various artists 656-page black & white/color 9" x 12.5" x 2.75" two-volume slipcased hardcover set • $125.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-744-4 Ships in: June 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now When the formulaic constraints, censorious nature, and onerous lack of creator's rights in mainstream comics got to be too much for the brilliant cartoonist Wallace Wood in 1966, he struck out on his own with the self-published witzend. It became a haven for Wood and his fellow professional cartoonist friends where they could produce the kind of personal work that they wanted to do, without regard to commercial…
Providence: Janet Hamlin Lecture
The Rhode Island School for Design is happy to have Janet Hamlin a guest speaker on Wednesday, May 7th in Providence, RI. Hamlin will be talking about her time as the official courtroom artists at the military tribunal of Guantanamo Bay, from 2006 until NOW. RISD is one of the premiere art schools on the East Coast and Hamlin will not only be speaking but giving a drawing demo the next day for the students. Published in a book called Sketching Guantanamo, Hamlin's drawings and her accompanying text provide rare insight into the military courts of Guantanamo. Guantanamo Bay is one of the most…
New Digital Comics – Bagge, EPW and Jaime
New digital comics are out and available to download via comiXology and Sequential! Chill out, download some comics and enjoy them on the go, be you on the way to the beach, the bus home or freaking out at the dentist's office (which you can afford now that you don't have to spend as MUCH money on bookshelves). Buddy Bradley's back in Buddy Buys a Dumpnbsp;from Peter Bagge! Now in his 30s and married with child, onetime slacker hero Buddy Bradley gets a "real" job, shaves his head, dons an eyepatch, quits his "real" job and buys the local dump – because what…
Support Your Local Shops on Free Comic Book Day!
The comix community celebrates the colorful diversity of our often-marginalized medium this Saturday, May 3 with Free Comic Book Day. In a show of appreciation unique to our industry, publishers and retailers go to great expense to make exclusive editions available at no charge to consumers. The goal is to attract new customers or introduce regular readers to books they might otherwise overlook. With that noble intention in mind, allow us to suggest that Free Comic Book Day in no way prevents patrons from purchasing comics on Saturday. It would be wonderful to see comic book enthusiasts emulate the example…
This Week in Fantagraphics Events: 4/28-5/4
Friday, May 2nd• San Francisco, CA: The Opening Reception for the Gay Comics 3-Way with Justin Hall, Ed Lucy, and Jon Macy in attendance AND signing books is from 8-10pm. (more details) Saturday, May 3rd• Seattle, WA: FREE COMIC BOOK DAY at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. We'll be giving away our two beautiful comics, Don Rosa's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck plus Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree: Two-in-One. PLUS, the Intruder boys will present with their new issue. (more details) • Toronto, Canada: FREE COMIC BOOK DAY at the Beguiling. Ed Piskor will be signing his FCBD Hip Hop Family Tree: Two-in-One with friend Tom Scioli. (more details) Sunday, May…
Employee Highlight: Anna Pederson
We've recently had some new blood join our satanic circle in comics and are proud to highlight them. Meet Anna Pederson, badass at large currently at the warehouse who started back in January but was also an intern back in 2012! What other jobs and experiences have you had in the comics industry? Fantagraphics was my first comic industry initiation when I did a stint as an editorial intern my senior year of college. After moving to New York, I did another internship with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), because this industry is a labor of love, and you have…
We Are Comics
We are comics and so are you. Not pictured: Eric Reynolds, Mike Dean, Preston White, Paul Baresh, Anna Pederson, Larry Reid, TJ, Janice Headley, Dave Holmes, Jacob Covey, Matt Silvie and Dean. Our smooshed spiders-everywhere-in-the-trees-oh-god outtake.
Pirates in the Heartland: The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson Vol. 1 – First Look
A lovely book filled with depraved, degenerate art and the colorful story of the man who made it, Pirates in the Heartland: The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson Vol. 1 is due out in about 2 months, and we've got our advance copies to begin showing off. Above, one of the only borderline-SFW comics spreads we can show you from the book, and the beginning of a middle chapter of this volume's part of the biography by underground comix historian Patrick Rosenkranz, who also compiled the comics. This book is An Event and we're excited to get it out into…
