Finally in stock and shipping now from our mail-order department: The End of the Fucking World (TEOTFW) by Charles Forsman 176-page black & white 5" x 6.5" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-667-6 See Previews / Order Now — The first 50 orders we receive for this book will come with a signed Risograph print exclusively for Fantagraphics customers! Please select your preference before adding the item to your shopping cart. TEOTFW follows James and Alyssa, two teenagers living a seemingly typical teen experience as they face the fear of coming adulthood. Forsman tells their story through each character's perspective, jumping between points of…
Guns and Roses and Comix
Our longtime friend Duff McKagan of Guns and Roses fame dropped by Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Thursday to pick up copies of Henry and Glenn Forever ahead of a national tour with his group Loaded. "Don't tell Henry," he implored. (Ooops.) Speaking of loaded: Hop on your bike and head down to the Dead Baby Bike Downhill Party tonight where you'll find abundant beverages and free sets by more than 20 bands on five stages throughout the historic Georgetown neighborhood. Don't miss BMX daredevils, DJs, tall bike jousting, unmitigated mayhem and merriment into the wee hours. The bookstore will stay…
In Case We Die by Danny Bland – Photoset Preview
"Danny Bland's prose is a fist through a medicine-cabinet mirror. In Case We Die is filled with degenerate tales, violent outbursts and underbelly laughs, but Bland's debut novel really surprises with its moments of tenderness and insight and redemption." – Mark Yarm, author of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge "Our anti-hero is floating in a tiny lifeboat made of heroin, graveyard shifts & rock music. His companions are two fabulous women; a bombshell who robs banks & a beautifully pale rock violinist who can barely dodge suicide. ICWD is much funnier & more satisfying than any…
In Case We Die by Danny Bland – Video/Photo Slideshow Preview
In Case We Die by Danny Bland; illustrated with photos by Lance Mercer 248-page black & white 6" x 8.5" hardcover • $26.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-675-1 Ships in: August 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now EXCLUSIVE OFFER: If you pre-order the book direct from Fantagraphics, when the book is released you'll receive a code for a FREE download of the audiobook via email from Local 638 Records, with chapters read by a mind-blowing all-star lineup of music and cultural luminaries. See the full lineup here. "It wasn’t the pounding headache or the all too familiar taste of blood in my mouth that…
Dash Shaw to teach SAW Workshop 2014
Grab your pencils, paper and prepare to be rapped on the knuckles! Dash Shaw will be at SAW, The Sequential Artists Workshop, in Gainesville, Florida guiding and teaching YOU on February 24-28th of 2014. If learning from a master of comics and animation sounds like fun to you then sign up now for the workshop! And wonder of wonders, Mome veteran Gabrielle Bell is teaching the week after—you might need to take some serious time off of work. Check out New School while you wait, it might be required reading! More info to come soon, keep your eyes on the SAW website.
Apocalyptic Party and Afternoon Art in Georgetown
Georgetown once again hosts the annual apocalyptic Dead Baby Downhill Bike Race & Party this Friday evening, August 2. Demented depravity on a grand scale – beer, bands, BMX, and the ever-popular tall bike jousting! (Did we mention beer?) For the convenience of raucous revelers, Fantagraphics Bookstore and Georgetown Records will remain open until 9:00 PM. This Saturday, August 3 from 11:00 to 3:00 PM, enjoy an Afternoon Delight, as art studios and galleries throughout Georgetown reprise their July Art Attack attractions. One of your last chances to take in the sweet Soda Pop exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery and the fantastic Charles Peterson photography show…
Ben Catmull & Josh Simmons at Floating World Portland!
Get ready for a night of frightening fun as two of our excellent artists descend upon Floating World Comics on Wednesday, August 7th! Join Ben Catmull as he unveils his latest work, Ghosts and Ruins — a compendium of old, forgotten haunted houses. Also on the bill that evening is Josh Simmons, who will be signing his most sinister work yet, The Furry Trap! Both gentlemen will be signing from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, so don't miss it! Floating World Comics is located at 400 NW Couch St. in downtown Portland.
His Wife Leaves Him by Stephen Dixon – Photoset Preview
“Stephen Dixon is one of the great secret masters — too secret. I return again and again to his stories for writerly inspiration, moral support and comic relief at moments of personal misery, and, several times, in a spirit of outright plagiaristic necessity: borrowing a jumpstart from a few lines of Dixon has been a real problem-solver in my own short fiction. Please read him, you.” — Jonathan Lethem “Dixon is one of the few writers whose new work I will put everything aside to read, which is to say he is in the company of Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, and…
His Wife Leaves Him by Stephen Dixon – Video/Photo Slideshow Preview
His Wife Leaves Him by Stephen Dixon 416-page 6.5" x 9.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-604-1 Ships in: August 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Stephen Dixon, one of America’s great literary treasures, has completed his first novel in five years. His Wife Leaves Him is as achingly simple as its title: A man, Martin, thinks about the loss of his wife, Gwen. In Dixon's hands, however, this straightforward premise becomes a work of such complexity that it no longer appears to be words on pages so much as life itself. Dixon, like all great writers, captures consciousness. Stories matter here,…
Fearsome fun at Fantagraphics Bookstore with Ben Catmull and Josh Simmons on August 10!
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery hosts two of the country’s most accomplished young cartoonists on Saturday, August 10. Josh Simmons and Ben Catmull will appear from 6:00 to 9:00 PM to sign copies of recent publications from Fantagraphics Books. Ghosts and Ruins is Ben Catmull's follow-up to his wildly popular debut Monster Parade. With a rendering style suggestive of Edward Gorey's gothic masterworks, Catmull ingeniously imagines haunted dwellings and the circumstances of their otherworldly occupants. Ghosts and Ruins provides a perfect complement of exquisite art and enchanting narrative. Josh Simmons’ recent collection of short stories similarly explores a sinister world of undiluted horror. By turns…
