Are you ready to get Ghastly? Our next EC Comics Library volume Sucker Bait and Other Stories, featuring the nauseatingly expressive artwork of Graham Ingels, is a couple of months from haunting your shelves, as evidenced by the acrid arrival of advance copies in our cobwebbed lair. The Old Witch serves up a cauldron-ful of grue and rue in over two dozen classic creepfests, reprinted in glorious, gory-ous black and white. Peek through your fingers at 3 full stories and pre-order your copy right here.
Experience Nirvana with Bruce Pavitt on December 7 at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
November 19, 2013 – Seattle, WA. The Seattle music scene in 1989 was on the precipice of altering the course of global pop culture. Ironically, the punk music of the Pacific Northwest was having difficulty gaining traction beyond a small but enthusiastic regional following. While critically acclaimed, the embryonic movement was in imminent danger of a premature demise. In an effort to draw international attention to their fledgling label, Sub Pop sent their three marquee acts to Europe. The rest, as they say, is history. Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989 is Bruce Pavitt’s account of this pivotal period of…
Jim Woodring at Olympia’s Danger Room
An interview and book signing by everyone's favorite Jim Woodring to take place at Danger Room on Saturday, December 7th at 3pm. For a hoppin' good time head over to the downtown Olympia Library for a live drawing demonstration by Jim and his GIANT pen Nibbus Maximus at 7pm. (The poster pretty much sums it up!) Jim will also be signing copies of his book FRAN so either bring your copy or buy the newest installment of his series set in the surreal Unifactor. 201 W 4th Avedowntown Olympia360.705.3050 info@dangerroomoly.com downtown Olympia Timberland Library313 8th Ave SE Olympia WA 98501
Experience Nirvana with Bruce Pavitt on December 7 at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
November 19, 2013 – Seattle, WA. The Seattle music scene in 1989 was on the precipice of altering the course of global pop culture. Ironically, the punk music of the Pacific Northwest was having difficulty gaining traction beyond a small but enthusiastic regional following. While critically acclaimed, the embryonic movement was in imminent danger of a premature demise. In an effort to draw international attention to their fledgling label, Sub Pop sent their three marquee acts to Europe. The rest, as they say, is history. Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989 is Bruce Pavitt’s account of this pivotal period of…
Spring-Summer 2014, part 9: Ducks! Rosa! Barks!
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.) Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Son of the Sun (The Don Rosa Library Vol. 1) by Don Rosa 208-page full-color 8.5" x 11" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-742-0 “Great howling crashwagons!” The Richest Duck in the World is back — and so are noisy nephew Donald, wunderkinder…
Kickstarter Update: Swell Shirts and more
We thank all of you for your support and love of great comics. We've been adding new things daily so here are few great ones! The new aim is still $200,000 so we can continue on with Kim Thompson's excellent taste in bande dessinee and the tradition of translating foreign comics in English for future generations. So find a gift for a friend or another one for yourself today! For only $20, you can get Guardsmen of Infinity #1, an EARLY zine by Gary Groth who typeset the whole damn thing with a Leroy lettering system (for you fellow…
Black Is the Color by Julia Gfrörer – Photoset Preview
"Beautiful. Gfrörer has a light touch in finding the yearning and humor amongst life's hard luck and even harder truths. A genuinely romantic and sensitive book." – Sammy Harkham "Julia Gfrörer is amongst the most promising artist/authors of her generation. Her work is spare and elegant, yet the hand of the artist is always evident in her line. Her characters inhabit cold or desolate environments, often on the brink of inanition or beyond, yet still yearning to love and be loved. Do not be misled by this artist's sylphlike appearance and those great carrot-colored ramparts at her ear. Gfrörer is…
Kickstarter update: new rewards including R. Crumb & Jack Davis prints
Our Kickstarter campaign is steaming ahead toward its first stretch goal and we have been busily adding new incentives to keep up with demand. For big spenders, we have an EXCLUSIVE signed folio of R. Crumb prints, limited to 10 copies, for $1000: Don't have a G to burn? How about a signed Jack Davis print for just $25? Or somethin' sexy we unearthed in our warehouse — a vintage Omaha the Cat Dancer silkscreen print signed by Reed Waller & Kate Worley for $40 or more. It's big! No wall space? We've got a 3-volume Hooked on Comix DVD set for a pledge of $50…
Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955 (Vol. 1) Introduction by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Author and film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has put his introduction to Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955, titled "Peanuts: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," on his blog in its entirety for your reading enjoyment. Here's the first paragraph to get you started: It was one thing to read Sunday color Peanuts comic strips from 1952 to 1955 at the rate of one per week, when they came out — and not only because they would have wound up in the trash like the rest of the Sunday paper, long before my brothers and I went to sleep that night. And it's quite another thing to…
Kim Deitch Exhibition at the Scott Eder Gallery Brooklyn!
Get ready for the most splendorific show to hit the Scott Eder Gallery: an exhibition of art by Underground Comix legend Kim Deitch! Spanning 30 years of work, the show will feature art from his most recent graphic novel, The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley, and includes pieces from classics such as The Search for Smilin' Ed, Stuff of Dreams… and the infamous cat, Waldo. The show opens on Friday, December 6th, with an artist reception from 6:00 to 9:00 PM with the delightful Mr. Deitch himself. In addition to original artwork, silkscreen prints, t-shirts, and…
