Fantagraphics Blog

This Friday you can find cartoonists Justin Hall (editor and cartoonist from No Straight Lines), Ed Luce, and Jon Macy joining forces for a Gay Comics 3-Way art show at Magnet! The opening reception for the show, which runs through the month of May, will feature comics readings, signings, and geeky good times. A full array of queer comics and art will be available from all three artists, as well as from Northwest Press, during the reception from 8-10pm on Friday, May 2nd. Check out Justin's work from No Straight Lines and even pick up a copy while you're there!…

On Saturday, May 3 Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery celebrates Free Comic Book Day with complimentary comix and a tribute to Seattle's sensational Intruder crew on the last weekend of their awesome exhibition.     We'll be giving out a double dose of Don Rosa duck stories featuring Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck. And don't miss the collectible Hip Hop Family Tree Two-in-One by Ed Piskor with special guests. We'll also have free copies of the Barrio Mothers anthology from our Portland counterparts at Sparkplug and Floating World, as well as a special edition of Paul Pope's The Invincible Haggard West…

Toronto, put on your party pants! Ed Piskor is gonna shake the shack this Saturday at The Beguiling's Free Comic Book Day event! On Satuday, May 3rd from Noon-6pm, Ed Piskor will be signing and sketching in free copies of his Hip Hop Family Tree Two-in-One comic book (in addition to your Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1 graphic novels). Cartoonist and Ed's studio mate, Tom Scioli, will also be there signing his FCBD book, Transformers Vs. G.I. Joe.  The fun is only a few days a way. Show up EARLY 'cause those books are gonna be gone fast!The Beguiling…

It's a happy day for the Love and Rockets fans in the office (i.e. all of us): advance copies of Luba and Her Family are in the house! This is the latest Gilbert Hernandez volume in the Love and Rockets Library softcover omnibus series and the first to collect Gilbert's work from the post-Volume 1 era. Whether you're the kind of completist who needs all the books, or the kind who just wants to read all the stories in the proper narrative order, or a new reader who wants to jump on with a good, more recent starting point, you…

The terrific meltdown in the grocery line of Online Commentaries & Diversions:      • Review:nbsp;Cosplayers by Dash Shaw "It's a clever idea, and Shaw brings surprising insight to the very short stories. He uses different panel configurations and color palettes to break each story up into scenes, as if they were movies themselves, and his deft linework makes it all look easy." –Bridgid Alverson, Robot 6     • Review: Locust Moon on New School by Dash Shaw "…golly-gee wide-eyed comic classicism mixed with an antiquated, old-testament use of language and heavy moral seriousness, all in service of a surprisingly traditional and very relatably human story of a young kid's worship,…

Momotaro, pen & ink and watercolor with acrylic glazes, 1987 Castle Waiting creator Linda Medley asked us to pass along the following message, and we are more than happy to oblige! The painting I donated to the CAPS auction to benefit the Sakai family back in December is now up for bids! Here’s some info about the painting, if you are interested: the illustration is from the Japanese folktale Little Peachling and was originally done for the front cover of one of my earliest children’s books, Favorite Tales from Many Lands, written by Walter Retan and published by Grossett & Dunlap in 1989. This was painted on illustration…

Los Angeles! We told you before and we'll tell you again! Tonight is pure joy and a celebration of The Blighted Eye: Original Comic Art from the Glenn Bray Collection with a special book release party at Wacko/Soap Plant. Collector extraordinaire Glenn Bray will be joined by special guests, Todd Hignite and Robert Williams, who each supplied a foreword to this exceptional book! Get a copy of this gorgeous book featuring artwork from all of your favorite cartoonists and even a section of special Krampus commissions Bray had made once he exhausted the world's supply.  See you tonight from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at the La Luz de Jesus…

This Friday, April 25th, the digital comics reader Sequential has put up four new titles for your digital reading pleasure. The sultry black inks of Jaime Hernandez shine in Penny Century, Esperanza, God and Science while Richard Sala splatters a deadly palette on the page with his latest graphic novel the 50 page full-color Violenzia, which is not available in print! Download a great read today. 

Today, Joyce Farmer announced at the Penn State Libraries talk on Underground comics that Jim Woodring's Fran is the next recipient for the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize! Sponsored by Penn State University Libraries and administered by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize is presented annually to the best graphic novel, fiction or non-fiction, published in the previous calendar year by a living U.S. or Canadian citizen or resident. Fran is the first Fantagraphics books to win the prize (a runner-up…

Bomb Run and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)by John Severin, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder et al. 264-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-749-9 Ships in: June 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now The team of Harvey Kurtzman and John Severin was one of the most fruitful collaborations in the history of comics. The work they did combines the taut emotional and psychological insights of Stephen Crane with a verisimilitude so gritty that it seems as if they are reporting from the scene. Together with inker and friend Will Elder, whose own obsession for detail…