More absurdity! More hilarity! And more thrizzle than ever before! Join the mighty Michael Kupperman on Tuesday, February 26th at Book Court in Brooklyn for the book launch celebration of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Vol. 2! Meet the man that Publishers Weekly has said "…is pretty much his own genre of humor now," and watch him perform said humor starting at 7:00 PM, followed by a Q&A and a booksigning! And he'll be joined by comedian Mr. Ted Travelstead, who was my co-star in this Superchunk music video! (No joke!) Book Court is located at 163 Court Street (between Pacific &…
The fifth Jaime Hernandez Love and Rockets book on comiXology
Fantagraphics and comiXology have heard your desperate pleas for more digital Love and Rockets, we know you have precious bookshelf space and move every year. In the fifth Love and Rockets book from Jaime Hernandez's Locas series, Esperanza features mores stories to thrill you. Picking up where Book 4 Penny Century collection left off: An older and wiser Maggie faces down her demons while Ray tussles with the volatile bombshell Vivian. Taking its title from Hopey Glass's birth name, Esperanza follows the somewhat settled-down ex-punkette in her new life as a schoolteacher's assistant — which doesn't mean that her romantic…
The Adventures of Jodelle by Guy Peellaert & Pierre Bartier – Previews, Pre-Order
The Adventures of Jodelle by Guy Peellaert & Pierre Bartier 164-page full-color 10.25" x 13.25" hardcover • $45.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-530-3 Ships in: March 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Ensconced in the avant-garde of the extraordinary social and cultural upheavals that were drawing 1960s Europe into the building wave of postmodernism, a Belgian advertising dropout, fed up with the corporate world, conceived the first "adult comic book" virtually off the top of his head. By creating The Adventures of Jodelle, a deluxe comics album that wore its revolutionary Pop sensibility on its sleeve, Guy Peellaert obliterated the conventions of what had up to…
Daily OCD: 2/19/13
The fullest mailbox of Online Commentaries & Diversions: • Interview: Alex Dueben interviews Richard Sala about Delphine on CBR . "The main story, which is depicted with ruled borders, was always linear. But I allowed myself more room with the main character's inner life. All of that — the memories, dreams, fantasies, wishful thinking — all of that is depicted in panels with soft, cloud-like, non-ruled borders. And so I was able to add to the character's inner life — his thoughts and fears and confusion — as I went along." And, edit to the article, we also have The Hidden and The…
The EC Comics Library gets Ghastly in October
(final cover may vary) Following some hints and speculation here and there we're pleased to announce the upcoming 7th book in our EC Comics Library series. In October, just in time for Halloween, Fantagraphics will be casting off Sucker Bait and Other Stories illustrated by Graham "Ghastly" Ingels and written by Al Feldstein et al., a collection of 25 of Ingels's infamous horror stories from Tales from the Crypt, Shock SuspenStories, Vault of Horror and his showcase title Haunt of Fear. Reached for comment, noted horror afficionado and editorial kibbitzer Kim Thompson had this to say: "Until I re-read all these stories, I'd forgotten how inventively disgusting Al…
Fantagraphics Does Emerald City Comicon 2013!
Fantagraphics Books is bringing the Hate to the 11th Annual Emerald City Comicon here in our hometown of Seattle! Join us from Friday, March 1st through Sunday, March 3rd at Booth 510, along with our very special guests Peter Bagge, Ellen Forney, Michel Gagné, and Bill Schelly! Friday, March 1st4:00-6:00 PM Peter Bagge Saturday, March 2nd11:00-1:00 PM Bill Schelly1:00-3:00 PM Peter Bagge3:00-5:00 PM Ellen Forney5:00-6:00 PM Michel Gagné We're excited to present an exclusive limited-edition Peter Bagge t-shirt, featuring our anti-superhero, Buddy Bradley! (That's the design above, a take on…
Jodelle Door
As a recent thank you to Publisher Kim Thompson and editor Kristy Valenti (and more) for moving offices, I hatched up a scheme to paint the library door in our basement. If you haven't visited the Fantagraphics office recently, the lovely 70s shag carpet was ripped up awhile ago leaving the basement aesthetics a bit similar to that of a cattle kill floor. NO LONGER! Inspired by Guy Peellaert's smashingly neon art in Jodelle, Office Manager Steph Rivers and I pulled out the carbon paper to adapt the drawing to our door. Also called graphite paper and available at art…
7 Miles a Second: NY Times Bestseller
On Friday, the hard-hitting graphic novel 7 Miles a Second by David Wojnarowicz, James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook hit the New York Times Best Seller's List at #5. As profiled by George Gene Gustines "It chronicles his life as a young hustler on the streets of New York City." Check out the vibrant story of a man in the midst of the AIDS crisis coming to terms with his anger and impending death.
This Week in Fantagraphics Events: 2/18-2/25
Thursday, February 21st • Brooklyn, NY: Michael Kupperman presents Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 2 at the Greenlight Bookstore, as part of their literary humor series "Steamboat"! His fellow castaways include Saturday Night Live's Rachel Dratch and Dawn Fraser, and your host will be author and comedian Bob Powers. (more info)
Cover Uncovered: The End by Anders Nilsen
Anders Nilsen's The End is now in the can and off to the printer for release later in Spring. It's an 80-page hardcover collection of short strips and drawings created in the aftermath of the death of his fiancée in 2005. By turns wrenching, meditational, abstract, moving, and darkly funny, and encompassing both Nilsen's looser sketchbook style and his more finely rendered comics, it's truly a unique work. Some of the material was released as an Ignatz Award-nominated 32-page comic of the same name in 2007; this version is reformatted and, obviously, greatly expanded. See an 11-page excerpt right here.
