Seattle skies may be grey, but tomorrow things will take on a purplish hue, as our own Ron Regé, Jr. rolls into town with his rock combo, Lavender Diamond! You can catch them Thursday, December 13th at the Sunset Tavern [ 5433 Ballard Avenue Northwest ] with local lass Shelby Earl opening the show. Alas, the concert is 21+, so you young'ins will want to try to stalk him outside the venue to get a book signed. And Fantagraphics will be on site with copies of Ron's latest masterpiece, The Cartoon Utopia, for sale! Now is your chance to get…
The Grammar of Rock by Alexander Theroux – Previews, Pre-Order
The Grammar of Rock: Art and Artlessness in 20th Century Pop Lyrics by Alexander Theroux 352-page 6.25" x 9.25" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-616-4 Ships in: January 2013 (subject to change) – Pre-Order Now National Book Award nominee, critic and one of America’s least compromising satirists, Alexander Theroux takes a comprehensive look at the colorful language of pop lyrics and the realm of rock music in general in The Grammar of Rock: silly song titles; maddening instrumentals; shrieking divas; clunker lines; the worst (and best) songs ever written; geniuses of the art; movie stars who should never have raised their voice in song…
Weird Horrors & Daring Adventures: The Joe Kubert Archives Vol. 1 – Now in Stock
Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Weird Horrors & Daring Adventures: The Joe Kubert Archives Vol. 1 by Joe Kubert; edited by Bill Schelly 240-page full-color 7.5" x 10.75" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-581-5 See Previews / Order Now Joe Kubert sealed his reputation as one of the greatest American comicbook cartoonists of all time with the four-color adventures of Sgt. Rock of Easy Company, Enemy Ace, and Tarzan, all done for DC Comics during the 1960s and 1970s (themselves already the subject of archival editions)… but he had been working in comics since the 1940s. In fact,…
Delphine by Richard Sala – Now in Stock
Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Delphine by Richard Sala 128-page two-color (with some full color) 7.25" x 10" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-590-7 See Previews / Order Now A mysterious traveler gets off the train in a small village surrounded by a thick sinister forest. He is searching for Delphine, who vanished with only a scrawled-out address on a scrap of paper as a trace. Richard Sala takes the tale of Snow White and stands it on its head, retelling it from Prince Charming's perspective (the unnamed traveler) in a contemporary setting. This twisted tale includes all…
Beyond Palomar: Love and Rockets Library by Gilbert for digital download
Following the releases of Heartbreak Soup and Human Diastrophism (Books 1 and 2 of the Palomar series from Love and Rockets) by Gilbert Hernandez, we're releasing the third book via comiXology called Beyond Palomar. Beyond Palomar collects two of Gilbert's groundbreaking works about the Central American hamlet of Palomar in one affordable book."Poison River" is a dizzying period piece often hailed as one of Hernandez's masterpieces. It traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother, all the way up to her subsequent escape and arrival in Palomar. Meanwhile, "Love…
Café Racer Benefit This Thursday with Jim Woodring and Ellen Forney!
It's been even more extra-heartbreaking to write this FLOG post in the wake of yesterday's tragedy at the Clackamas Town Center mall near Portland, Oregon. Earlier this year, Seattle had its own tragic shooting at beloved local hang-out Café Racer. This Thursday, December 13th, Café Racer and Brown Paper Tickets are hosting a very special benefit for the victims' families and the lone survivor of the shootings that took place on May 30, 2012, claiming five victims and impacting everyone involved in the Seattle artistic community. Brown Paper Tickets will be debuting their Artist Ticket Program, where a limited…
Daily OCD 12/11/12
The first* glass of spiked eggnog of Online Commentaries & Diversions: • Review: Metroland's Simcoe reviews Walt Disney's Donald Duck: A Christmas for Shacktown by Carl Barks and The Complete Peanuts: 1985 to 1986 by Charles M. Schulz. Glenn Perrett states, "Reading Carl Bark's "Donald Duck" stories from 60 years ago was entertaining. The animation and colours are excellent and sections such as "Story Notes" [etc.] . . . complement the wonderful comics making this book a nice addition to any library." And "The Complete Peanuts: 1985 to 1986 are sure to make the holidays more entertaining and makes…
Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 2 by Michael Kupperman – Previews, Pre-Order
Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 2 by Michael Kupperman 176-page full-color 7.25" x 10" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-615-7 Ships in: January 2013 (subject to change) – Pre-Order Now BARGAIN COMBO: Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vols. 1 + 2 Gift Set Price: $49.98 $39.98 Hot on the heels of his acclaimed Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910-2010 comes Michael Kupperman’s second all-comics collection of surreal slapstick and crazy non-sequitur goofiness, all from the pages of his beloved comic book series Tales Designed to Thrizzle. Tales Designed to Thrizzle Volume Two features two of Kupperman’s recurring duos: America’s favorite mustachioed physicist/writer double team of Twain and…
Nathan Bulmer Signing at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery!
The Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is proud to present a homecoming event with artist Nathan Bulmer, former-Seattleite now-Brooklynite, on Sunday, December 30th, signing from 2:00 to 4:00 PM! Bulmer has had work published in MAD Magazine, Time Out New York, Seattle Magazine, and The Comics Journal, and has a brand-new collection out now titled Eat More Bikes, from our dear friends at Koyama Press! Much like his web-comic of the same name, the all-new cartoons contained inside traffic in the same absurdist humour. You can buy more comics like Eat More Bikes at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, located at…
First Look: The Comics Journal #302
Behold, the new issue of The Comics Journal, an edition so awesome we made it a flip-book with TWO cover features: Gary Groth's newsmaking interview with the late Maurice Sendak on one side, and Kim Thompson's interview with Jacques Tardi on the other side. (To clarify, there aren't two separate covers; every copy has both covers and which one's the "front" depends on which way you turn it.) And there's a whooole lotta stuff in between. Look for excerpts to be posted on TCJ.com as the release date nears (early February being our current best guess). TCJ sets the agenda for intelligent comics conversation, so pre-order…
