Fantagraphics Blog

Call it a Love Hate relationship: Visitors to the Fantagraphics booth #207 at this weekend's sold-out Emerald City Comicon in Seattle will be the first in the country to get copies of Buddy Buys a Dump. The third volume of Peter Bagge's Buddy Bradley stories includes the Hate Annual adventures with a new 20-page conclusion. Come see. Ellen Forney and David Lasky will sign at our booth today at 4:30 following their informative panel discussion on health care in the comix community. Don't miss the panel on Fantagraphics' future on Saturday at 1:00 PM in room TCC 301 with panelists…

We're so excited to have the legendary Dutch cartoonist, illustrator and designer Joost Swarte joining us in New York City in April! And in conjunction with his appearance at the 2014 MoCCA Fest, the Society of Illustrators presents Joost Swarte: Urban and Urbane, an exhibition of original artwork, sketches, prints and documentation that survey multiple facets of Swarte’s career — from RAW to The New Yorker to his architectural projects — with a special emphasis on his images of urban life, real and imagined. The exhibit will be on view through April 26th in the MoCCA Second Floor Gallery at…

The Complete Peanuts 1991-1992 (Vol. 21)by Charles M. Schulz 344-page black & white 8.5" x 7" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-726-0 Ships in: May 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Peanuts enters its final decade, and The Complete Peanuts enters its homestretch, with material that is perhaps the most overlooked of Schulz’s career and soon to be reconsidered by scholars with this volume. Schulz’s cartooning has never looked more confident, and his sense of humor never more unrestrained. This is the 21st volume (of 25) of the perennial, bestselling series that collects every single one of the 18,000-plus Peanuts strips…

At last we can reveal the slipcase artwork for our two-volume complete collection of witzend, coming this Summer. Occupying the fertile but seldom-trod ground between the undergrounds and the "overground" mainstream (sometimes called "groundlevel comics"), witzend was created in 1966 by Wallace Wood and ran for 13 issues over nearly two decades, providing a forum for unfettered expression by creators used to toiling under commercial restrictions — in other words, a place for Wood and his friends to let their freak flags fly. And oh, what a list of friends he had. We'll get into that later… in the meantime, see…

"I love Hate, particularly the increasingly oddball Buddy Bradley stories…. Every comics fan should have the vast majority of whatever Peter Bagge has in print…" – Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter "…Bagge’s vivid caricatures animate the most routine of actions, effectively suggesting how cozily, in this life, the mundane cohabits with the outrageous." – Rich Kreiner, The Comics Journal "…Bagge truly pulls out all the stops in depicting extreme familial weirdness. His dialogue is as sharp as ever, his line is quite lively and his uncanny ability to depict the creeping weirdness of suburbia is even more disturbing than in…

The San Francisco library is currently hosting an exhibit based on Pretty in Ink: American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013, the ultimate collection of female comic herstory! Featuring photos, letters, original artwork, toys, comic books and other ephemera, this exhibition captures women cartoonists from the late 19th century to now! And on Thursday, March 27th, author Trina Robbins will discuss her work, and sign copies of the book in the main library, at 6:00 PM in the  Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room on the lower level. Come see and hear all the pretty at the main library of the San Francisco Public Library…

This Saturday, March 29th the new Appleseed Comic Con is sponsoring a screening of Ghost World, the Terry Zwigoff-directed film adaptation of the Daniel Clowes comic! Join the gang at 8pm at the Fort Wayne Cinema Center for a pre-show drink & draw (complete with artist alley) followed by the fim at 9:30pm. Only $7 to see this Oscar-nominated classic with Thora Birch, Scarlett Johannson and the incredible Steve Buscemi.   And don't forget to buy your tickets now for Appleseed Comic Con! It's coming up in MAY and special guests include Peter Bagge and Ed Piskor. Ghost World  Fort…

We got the green light from our esteemed colleagues over at Disney to start the presses running on the next volume of Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse strips! Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 5: Outwits the Phantom Blot is at the printer getting ready for its debut in June. As usual, it'll be stuffed full with two years of crisply-reproduced daily strips starring Mickey and his menagerie of pals and foes in their thrilling, funny, and masterfully-told adventures, along with loads of bonus essays and related artwork. Reserve your copy now!

Get through detention with Unlovable! Loosely based on a teenager's diary from the 1980s found in a gas-station bathroom, Unlovable is the remarkable story of Tammy Pierce, as filtered through the pen of Los Angeles artist Esther Pearl Watson. Since serialized from the pages of Bust magazine, you'll laugh so hard you'll cry at the sometimes ordinary, sometimes humiliating, often poignant and frequently hilarious exploits of '80s teen underdog Tammy Pierce: big hair, boogers, boys and other high school pitfalls. Only $4.99 for 100 pages of fun in Unlovable Book 1 #1 "Another Crappy Day" to read on your digital…

The Love Bunglersby Jaime Hernandez 112-page black & white 9" x 11.25" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-729-1 Ships in: April 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now "There are certain things about my family Mom always preferred to keep hush hush." The suppression of family history is the initial thread that ties together The Love Bunglers, featuring Hernandez's longtime Love and Rockets heroine Maggie. Because these secrets can't be dealt with openly, their lingering effect is even more powerful. But Maggie's ability to navigate and find meaning in her life — despite losing her culture, her brother, her profession, and her…