Fantagraphics Blog

Ed Piskor is heading to Miami Book Fair International the week before Thanksgiving to give them ol' whatfor on a Making Music with Comics panel.  He'll be joining the likes of Fantagraphics' Peter Bagge, Paul Pope and Vivek J. Tiwary at 11am on Saturday, November 23rd to rock your socks off while jawing on about Hip Hop Family Tree.   Details to come on their website soon but feel free to grab your day planner, smart phone or recently shaved dog to jot down the details:    Saturday, November 23Centre Gallery (Room 1365-Building 1, 3rd Floor)11 a.m.Making Music with ComicsED PISKOR on Hip Hop…

Seven years ago this weekend, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery quietly opened for business in Seattle. (Following a 6-week shakedown, we hosted our grand opening gala in December 2006.) Featuring challenging contemporary comix, graphics, illustration, experimental music and other marginalized media, the space was quickly woven into the cultural fabric of the region. We have since attracted a remarkable array of artists and patrons from across the country and around the world. Thank you all so much! Please come visit the store and see the astonishing new exhibition by Jim Woodring. (Yes. He really drew them with the giant pen.) Peruse…

If you live in Pasadena, you better attend this! Quoted directly from their press release: Jaime Hernandez, co-creator of the famed Los Bros Hernandez's alt-comic Love and Rockets, is a legend with fans everywhere. Among the most notable is Pulitzer Prize-winning author (and comics and graphic novels lover) Junot Diaz, who's cited Los Bros as a major influence on both his writing and his sensibilities. This month the much-anticipated deluxe edition of Diaz's short story collection, This Is How You Lose Her, comes out. But the buzz hasn't been about the stories, because this time the big story's actually been…

Start spreadin' the news, New York! For one weekend this fall, author Pat Thomas is bringing Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 back to town. Join him at the appropriately-named Revolution Books [ 146 West 26th Street ] on Monday, November 4th at 7:00 PM.  And then cross the bridge on Tuesday, November 5th for a reading at the "Student Center" [ at East 27 Street and Campus Road ] of Brooklyn College, CUNY at 2:15 PM. At both events, Pat will be spinning discs, lecturing via a multi-media presentation, and signing both the book and…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: The Secret History of Marvel Comics: Jack Kirby and the Moonlighting Artists at Martin Goodman's Empire by Blake Bell & Dr. Michael J. Vassallo 304-page black & white/color 7.25" x 10" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-552-5 See Previews / Order Now   Marvel Comics — home to virtuous heroes like Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and The Avengers – has a hidden sordid past, stretching back to long before the first Marvel Comic rolled off the presses. Authors Blake Bell and Dr. Michael J. Vassallo pull back the curtain on the real-life…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Impossible Tales: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 4 by Steve Ditko; edited by Blake Bell 240-page full-color 7.25" x 10" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-640-9 See Previews / Order Now   More great 1950s shockers from the co-creator of Spider-Man! Steve Ditko's prolific work for Charlton Comics in the years before his legendary stint at Marvel has never been properly reprinted — until now! The Steve Ditko Archives series keeps getting better, with more thrilling stories of suspense, mystery, haunted houses, and unsuspecting victims, all given extra oomph by Ditko's increasingly ingenious layouts and…

Vip: The Mad World of Virgil Partch by Jonathan Barli 208-page full-color 10.25" x 12.25" hardcover • $49.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-664-5 Ships in: October 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Only a few months after the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor and the same year that Albert Camus offered the world his bleak vision of man’s existence by introducing his philosophical dictum of The Absurd, Virgil Partch burst onto the scene with his own twist on the phrase. Partch was a cartoonist who offered comic counterpoint to the grim headlines and a unique perspective on human nature in the pages of the…

The latest installment of stories from Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez is available as Love and Rockets: New Stories #6 is released BOTH in print and digitally via comiXology. Love and Rockets enters its fourth decade with this installment of its acclaimed graphic novel-format iteration, featuring both old friends and new faces, and some genuine surprises… The cover shows Gilbert's new star Killer in a pose and milieu that will bring back memories for long-time fans – imitating the hammer-wielding Luba in her adopted Palomar. That's because Killer has discovered that her great-grandmother Maria (Luba's mother) starred in a late 1950s…

To celebrate the publication of The High Fidelity Art of Jim Flora, our fourth anthology of Jim Flora artwork — and one which features all of Flora's known album covers — the infamous Mambo for Cats is dancing yet again! Although the original print run sold out last year, a new revived edition is now available. It's about album-cover size (40% smaller than the original screen print), and is produced on different paper with different inks thru an entirely different printing process (inkjet, or giclée). One other significant difference: the screen print was on cream-colored stock; the giclée stock is…

photo credit: why, Marguerite Van Cook! Wednesday, October 16th • New York City, NY:  Don't miss the opening reception for a new exhibit from James Romberger (collaborator behind New York Times Best Seller 7 Miles a Second) and Rick Prol at the Dorian Grey Gallery! (more info) • Minneapolis, MN:  Don't miss Peter Bagge, signing at Magers & Quinn Bookstore tonight for his new Drawn & Quarterly title The Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, starting at 7:00 PM! (more info) photo credit: Joshin Yamada, Stumptown 2012 Friday, October 18th • Iowa City, IA:  And then Peter Bagge is heading…