Fantagraphics Blog

We had to again express our thanks when at about 6am PST on Tuesday, we hit $150,000 on our Kickstarter campaign for our 2014 Spring-Summer Season. We are thankful for your support, passing on the word to your friends and taking up that coveted shelf space over the years. Making our goal within a week was an unexpected surprise.   Since we have so many books still available for pre-order and some great 'warehouse finds' like the Dave Stevens' King Kong poster, a special Richard Sala premium (announcing soon….) and more, we have decided on our (first?!) stretch goal.  If we hit 200,000…

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.) Prince Valiant Vol. 9: 1953-1954 by Hal Foster 112-page full-color 10.25" x 14" hardcover • $34.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-735-2 In our ninth volume, Arn tries his hand at being a warrior, Merlin is bewitched by Nimue, and Tillicum and Boltar have a son named Hatha — the first inter-racial baby "born" in…

Don't forget! Tomorrow night at 6pm in Furman Hall on the NYU School of Law campus there is the (Un)covering Guantanamo Panel with Janet Hamlin.  The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and the ACLU are delighted to bring together a panel of speakers with unparalleled experience depicting and reporting on the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and the military commission trials taking place there. Included on this panel are Janet Hamlin, artist behind Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013, and Carol Rosenberg, who wrote the foreword for the book. This distinguished group of journalists will…

You simply can't have a panel about "brave women" in comics without having our own Trina Robbins in the mix! So, join them on Wednesday, November 13th from 10:00 AM to Noon for the panel "Brave Women in Comix Then & Now: San Francisco Comix Scene from 1970 to Today." As you no doubt know, that city was the epicenter for "American Underground Comixs" in the '60s and '70s, breaking ground for new genres in comixs for women, gays, Latinos, and other diverse groups. This is sure to be a rare intellectual and art event that will bring forth unknown…

Since we're asking you to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter (we're thisclose to our goal!), we thought we'd 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.) Young Romance 2: The Early Simon & Kirby Romance Comics by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby; edited by Michel Gagné 200-page full-color 7.75" x 10" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-732-1 From tears to soda fountains, from mobsters to pretty ingénues in freshly pressed dresses, the stories of…

Dear friends, as you know we are running a Kickstarter campaign through the month of November (ending December 5th) and have been absolutely swept away by your show of support for Fantagraphics. We are so very grateful that you believe in excellent comics and graphic novels. We are, as you might have seen via Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram or our Flog, updating many of the premiums with more copies of signed books So much so that we arm-wrestled all the cartoonists (and won, you guys should never challenge Gary) and have added MORE signed books to our list of premiums….

These beautiful prints by Tim Lane, Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez, and Drew Friedman just a few of the rewards in our Kickstarter campaign for our Spring-Summer 2014 season. Get ‘em before they’re gone!

Since we're asking you to support our Spring-Summer 2014 season on Kickstarter (and you're coming through in spades so far!), we thought we'd 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.) Judgment Day and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)by Joe Orlando, Al Feldstein, Ray Bradbury et al. 184-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-727-7 Joe Orlando was a mainstay at EC, especially on science fiction, and this collects 23…

"[Hornschemeier's] art encompass[es] many different styles, from richly layered classical surrealism to densely structured and primary color-heavy McSweeney's-style illustrations. But taken together, the work exhibits an instantly recognizable and distinctive panache." – Publishers Weekly "Hornschemeier's style is every style. …a formidable creative." – Byron Kerman, PLAYBACK:stl "Paul avoids the hammering sentimentality and labored connect-all-the-dots obviousness of too much contemporary work, in any media." – Jonathan Lethem Artists Authors Thinkers Directors by Paul Hornschemeier 112-page full-color 6" x 6.5" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-698-0 Due to arrive in about 2-4 weeks. Click the thumbnails for larger versions; get more info, see more previews…

Visitors to Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday are in for a treat. Among the many highlights of Marathon: A Short Run Art Show are neo-deco delights from Peter and Maria Hoey of Coin-Op press. Equal parts Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Winsor McCay, and Chris Ware, these comix, flipbooks and fine art prints are wondrous beyond words. You have got to come see this show.   Arrive early as hometown hero Peter Bagge signs copies of the fantastic new edition of Everybody is Stupid Except For Me as well as other recent publications from 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Then stay late for a set at 8:00 by Tummy…