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.
An Evening with Mario Hernandez at the Cartoon Art Museum!
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, CA has proudly hosted the exhibit Love and Rockets: A 30th Anniversary Celebration since last October. Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and they're saying good-bye with the legendary Mario Hernandez himself! Join Mario on Thursday, March 7th from 7:00-9:00 PM as he discusses his contributions to the groundbreaking comic book series. Learn about the formative years of Los Bros Hernandez as Mario goes behind the scenes of Love and Rockets, one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed indie comics of all time. This event is free and open…
The Complete Peanuts 1987-1988 (Vol. 19) by Charles M. Schulz – Previews, Pre-Order
The Complete Peanuts 1987-1988 (Vol. 19) by Charles M. Schulz 344-page black & white 8.5" x 7" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-634-8 Ships in: March 2013 (subject to change) So what do we have for Peanuts fans this time around? An ill-considered attempt at flirting sends Charlie Brown to the school doctor… Linus's ongoing romance with the too-young "Lydia" of the many names continues… Snoopy is joined in the trenches by his brother Spike… Sally engages in a career as a playwright by penning the school Christmas play but mixes up Gabriel and Geronimo… A hockey mishap sends Snoopy to the doctor…
The Hidden waits for you at comiXology
Fantagraphics and comiXology continue the reign of terror created by Richard Sala's comics. The Hidden poses many questions to its reader: Is this the end of the world? How did it happen? Why did it happen? There is one man who knows… Take a walk with the dazed survivors of a mysterious worldwide catastrophe. They are bound for a place, somewhere in the desert, where a terrible truth awaits them. This is the full-color, unadulterated horror graphic novel that Sala fans have been waiting for. This nightmarish story combines classic and modern horror themes and genres with a unique twist,…
Your Last Minute Valentines
Hey, you're a busy person. We get that. Or maybe you and your sweetie boo said you weren't doing anything but then you found a six pack of that craft brew you love so much or the full Battlestar Galactica series on DVD waiting for you. Well, we've got some cards for you to print out fast at work, while everyone is reading the cards their moms mailed to the office. They aren't going to save you but its better than handing someone a Slim Jim you bent in the shape of a heart while filling up your car at…
Sexytimes at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery!
Last weekend, it was a sexytime, indeed, at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery as we launched our latest exhibit for Sexytime: The Post-Porn Rise of the Pornoisseur! Editor Jacques Boyreau joined us from Portland to sign this impressive collection of vintage porn posters from the '70s! Reprints of those posters adorn our gallery wall, including such titles as New Wave Hookers and Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle! Our musical guest for the night was Olympia, WA-based artist Poppet, aka Molly Rainey, whose orchestrated electro-loop-pop had everyone dancing… … including Poppet herself! Georgetown's Little Black Devil Burlesque babes dropped by to deliver kisses…
First Look: 50 Girls 50 and ‘Tain’t the Meat…
Why looky what we have here, it's advance copies of the next two books in our EC Comics Library series! 50 Girls 50 and Other Stories collects Al Williamson's complete Weird Science & Weird Fantasy science fiction tales, with 3 written by Ray Bradbury, plus work by Frazetta, Krenkel, Torres, and more, backed up by expert EC essayists. Chock full of rocketships, weird aliens, time travel, bizarre planets, dinosaurs, and trademark EC twist endings, it's the classic, fan-fave stuff! Check out the table of contents and read 3 complete stories in our 22-page excerpt available here, where you can also pre-order your copy. Good…
Penny Century hits the ring with comiXology
The lovely Penny Century demanded to be available digitally along with Maggie, Hopie, Ray and Luba. Fantagraphics and comiXology present the fourth Locas volume in Jaime Hernandez's Love and Rockets series. First… wrestling! Penny Century starts off with a blast with “Whoa, Nellie!,” a unique graphic novelette in which Maggie, who has settled in with her pro-wrestler aunt for a while, experiences that wild and woolly world first-hand. Then it’s back to chills and spills with the old cast of Hopey, Ray Dominguez, and Izzy Ortiz — including Maggie’s romantic dream fantasia “The Race” and the definitive Ray story, “Everybody…
