Fantagraphics Blog

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. Treasury of Mini Comics Vol. 1 by various artists; edited by Michael Dowers 848-page black & white/color 5" x 6.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-657-7 "It's a rich resource for this strata of the industry… most of us would consider it a steal to get our hands on some of this…

Jean-Christophe Menu just sent this very sweet strip to us today. Thanks, J-C.

* Other People's Publications** Yeah, You Know Me. The Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is thrilled to offer up the debut graphic novel of a rising star in Seattle's comics scene: Max Badger Woodring! Winner of a 2012 Xeric grant, this self-published tome is stunningly impressive. Come by the store and see for yourself!   In fact, if you come by the store this Saturday, October 12th for his dad's book release party for Fran, I bet you could get your copy signed! The Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is located at 1201 S. Vale Street in Seattle's Georgetown district. Open daily 11:30…

Saturday, October 12th • New York City, NY:  Authors Blake Bell and Dr. Michael J. Vassallo celebrate the release of The Secret History of Marvel Comics: Jack Kirby and the Moonlighting Artists at Martin Goodman's Empire at the Society of Illustrators, with very special guests Al Jaffee and Stan Goldberg! Wow, wow, wow! All those in attendance will receive a special limited edition, tipped-in plate for the book, signed by the authors, and the cost of admission also gives you access to an exclusive signing session and catered reception afterwards (with cash bar). (more info) • Seattle, WA:  Join visionary…

Come one, come all to the NYC art opening to celebrate the James Romberger and Rick Prol's show this October 16th. The reception will take place at the Dorian Grey Gallery on 9th Street (near Ave A.) from 6pm 'til 9pm. If you enjoyed Romberger's Fantagraphics graphic novel 7 Miles a Second or Post York from Uncivilized Books, this is the place to be! The show will run from October 16h-November 17, 2013 and the gallery hours are Tuesday-Sunday 12pm-7pm. Dorian Grey Gallery 437 East 9th Street (at Avenue A)New York, NY 10009 516.244.4126 info@doriangraygallery.com

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013 by Janet Hamlin 172-page full-color 11.25" x 8.25" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-691-1 See Previews / Order Now Camp X-Ray in the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, opened in January, 2002 in the wake of the 9-11 attacks to house alleged terrorists — off the American mainland, unaccountable to the U.S. judiciary — in "indefinite detention." Newer and more permanent prisons were later built miles away, and continue to house terrorist suspects today. The United States government does not allow photographs of…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Love and Rockets: New Stories #6 by Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez 100-page black & white 7.5" x 9.25" softcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-679-9 See Previews / Order Now 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…

"Yes, there are cannibals, racially insensitive caricatures, cripples (let’s not dress it up with the politically correct terminology), bodily functions, etc. But the glue are the almost Beckettian scripts. or at least Ionescoesque. Rodrigues played with form often….  These are conceptual, writerly, formalist masterpieces. "I refuse to analyze why, because nothing sucks the joy of out humor more than analyzing it. It’s like explaining a joke, and humor, much like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. That said, Charles Rodrigues created a whole lotta unbeautiful beauty and for that i am eternally grateful." – Bob Fingerman, from his…

Spend the weekend in the warehouse with Hans Rickheit! Harvard Book Store is opening up their 6500 sq. ft. warehouse in Somerville to the public this weekend, and are inviting dozens of local businesses to join them, including our friends at Million Year Picnic. On Sunday, October 6th, Hans will be signing at their table from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Bring your copies of Folly and The Squirrel Machine to the Harvard Book Store Warehouse, located at 14 Park Street in Somerville, MA. 

Ray and Joe: The Story of a Man and His Dead Friend and Other Classic Comics by Charles Rodrigues edited by Bob Fingerman 184-page black & white (with some color) 8.25"x 10.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-668-3 In Stock! See More Previews / Order Now Fantagraphics is proud to announce the release of the first volume of another great, under-appreciated, quintessentially American cartoonist. "Black as sin and decay and perversion" is how National Lampoon editor Tony Hendra described the work of Charles Rodrigues. By all accounts, this small, politically conservative, devout Catholic, was a good-natured dumpling of a man. But inside lurked an untapped…