Fantagraphics Blog

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Couch Tag by Jesse Reklaw 176-page monochrome/color 6.25" x 9.25" hardcover • $26.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-676-8 See Previews / Order Now   This tragicomic, debut graphic novel by acclaimed cartoonist Jesse Reklaw (Slow Wave) presents a series of novellas about cats, toys, and card games that collectively comprise a thoughtful, sometimes dark and often funny memoir about family, childhood, death, mental illness, sex and drug abuse.

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips Vol. 4 (1941-1943) by Roy Crane 144-page full-color 10.5" x 14.75" hardcover • $49.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-698-0 See Previews / Order Now In the fourth volume of Fantagraphics' Captain Easy series, our eponymous hero and his loyal sidekick Wash Tubbs answer a newspaper ad that they don’t know is years out of date, and wind up stranded in Guatemala with a busted landing gear and only five dollars to their name. Whoops! They need all their wits and ingenuity to get them out of…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Black is the Color by Julia Gfrörer 72-page black & white 6" x 9" softcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-717-8 See Previews / Order Now Black is the Color begins with a 17th century sailor abandoned at sea by his shipmates, and as it progresses he endures, and eventually succumbs to, both his lingering death sentence and the advances of a cruel and amorous mermaid. The narrative also explores the experiences of the loved ones he leaves behind, on his ship and at home on land, as well as of the mermaids who jadedly…

  Larry Reid, manager of the Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery was highlighted in the GIFTED insert of the latest issue of The Stranger (Vol. 23, No. 12). He gives you all you need to know about shopping, eating and fun fun fun in Georgetown this holiday season. From The Complete Peanuts collection we're publishing to 'seven-inch slabs by the Stranglers' ("Golden brown, texture like sun…") available in the other half of the store known as Georgetown Records, there is plenty to stuff stockings with, hand over at Channukah or leave on a friend's desk as a secret gift.    We've got music…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Artists Authors Thinkers Directors by Paul Hornschemeier 112-page full-color 6" x 6.5" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-698-0 See Previews / Order Now One hundred influences — one hundred portraits from The New York Times best selling author of Life with Mr. Dangerous and Mother, Come Home. Culled from cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier's drawing blog, The Daily Forlorn (one of Tumblr's featured illustration blogs), Artists Authors Thinkers Directors is as stylistically varied as the subjects it explores. A scrawled, single line drawing of Lenny Bruce, a triangular Heisenberg… A stippled Stanley Kubrick, a bubbly Billy…

"Crane’s work is sheer energy." – Art Spiegelman “Crane’s art is stunning, combining simple cartoony figures with richly detailed backgrounds in clever, colorful layouts. It isn’t even necessary to read the dialogue or captions to follow the action; just scan Crane’s dynamic lines, which make every panel look like a unique work of pop art. [Grade:] A-.” – The A.V. Club "Though he was one of the genre’s pioneers, Roy Crane’s Captain Easy is arguably the most idiosyncratic of all the adventure strips. But it’s this blend of loud slapstick, young-boys-styled adventure and blatant sex appeal that make Captain Easy…

    Generous and thoughtful cartoonist Rina Ayuyang posted a lot of artwork and comics up on eBay to raise money for the people affected Typhoon Haiyan. While some are about to end their bidding cycles,  you have days left on a few and these are amazing! A 'littering' sketch by Jaime Hernandez, a signed Ghost World with a Enid sketch in it.    Here's Martin Cendreda's "Hopskotch" page from an early Mome is for the tried and true Fantagraphics' fan!      Here's a killer Jim Rugg drawing! Bid now! 100% of the proceeds from these art sales go to American Red Cross and…

Friends, we've just received a whomper of a blurb for Esther Pearl Watson's Unlovable Vol. 3, coming this Spring: "Esther's consistently original, hilarious and heart-felt work evokes the travails of puberty with painful accuracy. After perusing Unlovable Vol. 3 we immediately broke out in zits and had clumsy beginner sex." — Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman SQUEEEEE    For a Kickstarter pledge of $40 or more, pre-order this book signed by Esther Pearl Watson while supplies last!

Our campaign to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter is ongoing, and we're continuing to spotlight the books in question, a couple at a time. We've also put our season catalog online for you to browse. (Please note that all artwork, contents, prices, specs, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change.) Bomb Run and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)by John Severin, Will Elder, Harvey Kurtzman, et al. 264-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-749-9  The team of Harvey Kurtzman and John Severin was one of the most fruitful collaborations in the history of comics. The work they…

Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips Vol. 4 (1941-1943) by Roy Crane 144-page full-color 10.5" x 14.75" hardcover • $49.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-698-0 Ships starting next week! — Pre-Order Now In the fourth volume of Fantagraphics' Captain Easy series, our eponymous hero and his loyal sidekick Wash Tubbs answer a newspaper ad that they don’t know is years out of date, and wind up stranded in Guatemala with a busted landing gear and only five dollars to their name. Whoops! They need all their wits and ingenuity to get them out of this fix. Which they manage to do by…