This week’s digital offerings include debut graphic novels from two incredible artists, an old favorite re-entering the fold, and a few massive backlist publications. First up is one of the most talked-about debut graphic novels in the last decade — My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 1 by Emil Ferris. Set against the political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, this fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes is filled with B-movie horror and pulp, while she tries to solve the murder of her holocaust survivor upstairs neighbor. Read this masterpiece for yourself through comiXology and Google Play. …
Fantagraphics at Emerald City Comic Con 2017
The behemoth comic show that is Emerald City Comicon is celebrating its 15th anniversary! It wouldn’t be where it is today without the little guys, so us little guys are going to be repping the comics at Emerald City Comic Con hard at BOOTH 210 with some new releases, old favorites, and everything in between! The Books Eartha by Cathy Malkasian Eartha is an expansive tale of pastoral life, city corruption, greed, and addictions, and reverberates with questions plaguing us today, such as the alienating effects of hyper-connectivity and the self-destructive obsession with novelty. Malkasian’s drawing is notable for its rigorous…
What’s in Store: Socially Relevant Art, Comix and More!
The next few months at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery will feature an amazing array of accomplished artists from across the country and around the world. Please support our efforts at elevating the discussion on important issues facing our global society in these unsettling times. Enlightening entertainment for everyone. This Saturday, February 11, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, Regina Schilling presents Hey Lady #7, a small press publication and exhibition focusing on Sylvia Rivera, the civil rights pioneer who was a crucial voice for people of color, transgendered, and low income communities throughout her life. Over 30 original works by…
Blubber On Your Tablets!
Blubber is back! And we’ve got some backlist books by a few of the medium’s most interesting artists available on your tablets for the first time. Let’s jump right into this week’s digital debuts! Explore the Tower of the Sindog in the latest issue of Gilbert Hernandez’s solo underground side project Blubber. Issue 4 features mummies, zombies, fauns, sex, snowmen, and a new super heroine Red Tempest. Find out why Hernandez is considered one the greatest living cartoonists by picking up Blubber #4 from comiXology. As mentioned above, we’ve also got backlist releases from two…
Digital Underground
This week we have two new Fantagraphics Underground releases. That means your tablet is about to get strange and stranger. Let’s get to it! At long last, what you’ve been waiting for — a big collection of Gerald Jablonski’s psychedelically underground, absurdly avant-garde comics: Farmer Ned’s Comics Barn. Jablonski has been comics’ best-kept secret for decades, telling the tales of imposter ants, bear-faced grumps, and stoic farmers with pun-laden word balloons that wildly snake around the page. This book also includes a discussion with Gary Groth and it can all be yours through comiXology today. You…
What’s in Store: Hey Lady featuring Sylvia Rivera
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to host a release party and art exhibition for Regina Schilling’s Hey Lady #7 on Saturday, February 11. The new issue focuses on Sylvia Rivera, a civil rights pioneer who was a crucial voice for people of color, transgendered, and low-income communities throughout her life. Hey Lady is a colorful celebration of women’s contributions to global art and culture. Olympia resident Regina Schilling selects a subject for each issue and invites women artists worldwide to contribute portraits. Past personalities include artist and musician Yoko Ono, actress Nichelle Nichols, Andy Warhol superstar Candy Darling, musician…
Al Columbia Comes for Your Tablets
Are you ready for even more existential dread? Great! Because today marks the digital debut of an Al Columbia classic, as well as two more back issue books from the Fantagraphics vault. Collecting more than a decade’s worth of art excavations, comic strips, animation stills, and more, this broken jigsaw puzzle of a graphic novel tells the story of two childlike imps. The brilliant backdrops hint at further layers of reality lurking under each gingerbread house and behind every sunny afternoon. Experience the lingering fear of reading Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days now digitally through comiXology and Google…
What’s in Store: Wood Work
The enduring influence of the late Wallace Wood can’t be overstated. From his work at EC, MAD, Marvel, and beyond, Wood left an indelible mark on American culture that resonates to this day. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery celebrates the legacy of this amazing artist through February 9. Wallace Wood came to prominence with his work for EC comic books, which enjoyed circulation in the millions, but were vilified by politicians, preachers, and crusading child psychologist Dr. Fredric Wertham. Together, they convinced the public that these comics were the cause of juvenile delinquency and social deviance. The establishment of the Comics…
2017 Eisner Hall of Fame Nominees
Congratulations to all of the 2017 inductees and nominees for the Eisner Hall of Fame! This years judges have already chosen four names to include in the induction including cartoonist Milt Gross, Golden Age Wonder Woman co-creator H.G. Peter, Spy vs Spy‘s Antonio Prohias, and underground cartoonist Dori Seda. Four more inductees will be chosen by voters from the following list of 17 nominees, and announced at the 2017 Eisner Awards Ceremony during Comic-Con International in San Diego. The Nominees: Peter Bagge Howard Cruse Steve Englehart Justin Green Roberta Gregory Bill Griffith Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez Francoise Mouly Jackie Ormes George Pérez P. Craig…
A Digital Dose of Elder and Sala
Today’s digital releases present us with a new look at old work by two of the all-time great cartoonists. The Million Year Picnic and Other Stories is another fantastic collection in our EC Library and the very first highlighting the work of Will Elder. The collection includes all 15 of Elder’s humorous Panic stories (“The Night Before Christmas” got the first issue banned in the entire state of Massachusetts!), all seven of his tales from the pages of Weird Science and Weird Fantasy, and a special horror story that hasn’t been seen since its original publication more than 60 years ago….
