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To get everyone excited about Volume 2 coming out soon, Fantagraphics and comiXology released Eye of the Majestic Creature Vol. 1 to add to your digital comics library. Leslie Stein's book is a collection of semi-autobiographical and fantasy-based comics that combine dry humor, psychedelia, and emotion to show the viewpoint of one person's world internally and externally. The story follows a young girl, Larrybear, and her talking acoustic guitar Marshmallow on their adventures through the countryside, Chicago, San Francisco and New York. While Larrybear struggles to connect with strangers, her friends, and her family to various degrees of success, her growing population…

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.   New School by Dash Shaw 340-page full-color 8.75" x 11.25" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-644-7 "Instead of a tidy narrative, [New School] is about art, about the art that's in the book itself…There's stuff going on at other levels, the intuitive, the leve of the unconscious, the subconscious I guess you could say….This…

We're thrilled to announce two of our esteemed artists will be guests-of-honor at the 2013 Locust Moon Comics Festival in Philadelphia: come say hi to Kim Deitch and Michael Kupperman! While Fantagraphics won't have a table ourselves, you can visit these fine gentleman direct on Saturday, October 5th, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. The festival itself takes place on Saturday, but events and festivities at Locust Moon Comics will spill across the weekend, including a Drink & Draw, a book release party, and post-con pancake breakfast.  The second annual Locust Moon Comics Festival will be held at The Rotunda,…

* Other People's Publications** Yeah, You Know Me. I'm a big fan of anthologies — I think they're a fantastic way of discovering new artists whose work you might be unfamiliar with, nestled beside the work of some of your favorites.  So, I was excited to see on our shelves The Big Feminist But: Comics About Women, Men, and the IFs, ANDs, & BUTs of Feminism, edited by Shannon O'Leary and Joan Reilly. There a quite a few Fantagraphics artists included: Ron Regé, Jr. submits the transcendent piece "Adam & Lilith," while Ulli Lust teams up with Kai Pfeiffer for…

The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley is the dazzling new story from Kim Deitch, about a young woman from upstate New York, cast to star in the mysterious film, The Goddess of Enlightenment. So, it seems perfect for Kim to present his latest work on the opening night of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, at the historical Castro Theater on Thursday, July 18th! It will be an amazing, enlightening evening, as they'll be screening the rarely-seen Louise Brooks film Prix de Beauté, starting at 7:00 PM. And then stick around afterwards as the adventures continue with…

Thousands of music fans descended on Georgetown on Friday for Honk Fest West. The festivities began outside Fantagraphics Bookstore with a touching tribute to Kim Thompson and ended with an epic battle between the Seattle Seahawk Blue Thunder drumline and Portland's Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers. Next up is the sensational Sub Pop Silver Jubilee on July 13.

Mark your calendars: Ed Piskor is bringing Hip Hop Family Tree to the 2nd Annual Cola-Con, a convention where comics meets hip hop — so basically, the perfect place for Piskor to be! Held in Columbia, SC, on October 25th & 26th, Cola-Con features comic book artists, vendors, visual artists, lectures, panels and music.  Ed will bring tha noise with a talk on the history of hip-hop music, everything from Grandmaster Flash to Public Enemy, and will be signing copies of his book! Cola-Con will be held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, located at 1101 Lincoln Street. 

"Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders." – Jim Woodring "It's a seemingly casual tour of a very rocky emotional landscape, drawn with a care and devotion I hardly ever see anymore. Leslie's pointillist panels reveal a ton but never impede the story — and instead kind of float along as the weight of the characters accumulates." – Dan Nadel "Part cute, part kind of creepy art-wise. The writing is serious and smart, slightly contradicting what the art is saying but this makes the work good. And real. And…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays Vol. 1: Call of the Wild by Floyd Gottfredson edited by David Gerstein with Gary Groth 280-page full-color 10.5" x 8.75" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-643-0 See Previews / Order Now We’re jumping from black and white to classic color — as Mickey Mouse makes his Sunday strip debut! Bright hues highlight our hero as he races through action-packed epics… taking him from Uncle Mortimer’s Inferno Gulch ranch to the icy peak of frigid Mount Fishflake! Back home in Mouseton, Mickey welcomes a famous co-star — Donald…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Green Eggs and Maakies by Tony Millionaire 120-page black & white 12.25" x 4.75" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-618-8 See Previews / Order Now We do like Tony Millionaire's Maakies, yes we do. For almost two decades, Tony Millionaire's Maakies has been one of the best and most popular weekly comic strips in America, running in over a dozen of the largest U.S. weekly newspapers including The Village Voice, L.A Weekly, Chicago Reader, and Seattle's The Stranger. (It was also a short-lived Adult Swim animated series, The Drinky Crow Show, in 2008.) As…