Love and Rockets' Jaime Hernandez snapped this quick picture while at HeroesCon this week. You never can get enough of Hopey or Maggie.
Editors Notes: Kim Thompson on New York Mon Amour
[In in the return of our Editors Notes series, Kim Thompson interviews himself (in a format he's dubbed "AutoChat") about New York Mon Amour by Jacques Tardi , now available to order from us and at a comics shop near you. – Ed.] This is going to be a particularly discursive and rambling one, so reader, be forewarned. I don’t want to see any complainin’ in the comments section about how self-indulgent this is; you’re being told that going in. That said… Okay, so… New York Mon Amour. This is what, your eighth? Ninth Tardi book? I’ve reached the point…
Editors Notes: Kim Thompson on New York Mon Amour
[In in the return of our Editors Notes series, Kim Thompson interviews himself (in a format he's dubbed "AutoChat") about New York Mon Amour by Jacques Tardi , now available to order from us and at a comics shop near you. – Ed.] This is going to be a particularly discursive and rambling one, so reader, be forewarned. I don’t want to see any complainin’ in the comments section about how self-indulgent this is; you’re being told that going in. That said… Okay, so… New York Mon Amour. This is what, your eighth? Ninth Tardi book? I’ve reached the point…
Your Pogo strip-search update!
I'm pleased to report that thanks to a few tips, we've got 103 of the 104 Sunday POGO pages we need for the next book (three of them include black and white panels from book reprints that we've colored to match the surrounding strips, but that's just between you and us). The August 19, 1951 strip remains the problem child — or "chile," as one of Kelly's characters might say. We have a 1/3 Sunday page tearsheet, and have been able to track down two of the three panels from the missing top strip as this sequence appears in a book,…
Daily OCD 6/21/12
The up-to-the-minute Online Commentaries & Diversion: •Plug: Our newest Jacques Tardi release, New York Mon Amour is out and available at your favorite comic shops. One of our such shop, Forbidden Planet, is very excited to have it in stock. Joe says, "I’m so glad the Fanta crew has been making these titles available again to English language readers." •Interview: WMFU host of Too Much Information, Benjamin Walker, questions Michael Kupperman about comics as a serious form of literature at his MIT Center for Civic Media conference talk. Kupperman: "You see high points. You have to build to that…
Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man by Carl Barks – Previews, Pre-Order
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man by Carl Barks 248-page full-color 7.5" x 10.25" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-535-8 Ships in: Any day now to our North American mail-order customers! Pre-Order Now Since Fantagraphics’ first release in this series focused on Donald Duck, it is only right that the second focus on Carl Barks’s other great protagonist, and his greatest creation: The miserly, excessively wealthy Scrooge McDuck, whose giant money bin, lucky dime, and constant wrangles with his nemeses the Beagle Boys are well-known to, and beloved by, young and old. This volume starts off with “Only a…
Our Heroes at HeroesCon This Weekend!
Fantagraphics won't be at this weekend's Heroes Con ourselves, but some of our artists sure will be! If you're in the Charlotte, NC-area, head out to the Charlotte Convention Center and meet 'em in the "Indie Island"! • Jeffrey Brown | AA-417• Dave Cooper | AA-515• Colleen Coover | AA-113• Jaime Hernandez | AA-415 • Roger Langridge | AA-220• Jim Rugg | AA-537• Rich Tommaso | AA-422• Drew Weing | AA-444 You can even catch our artists in some panels, if you're so inclined! Saturday, June 23rd • 12:30 PM // Approaches to Humor, Room 203A: Sure the Convention is…
First Looks: Captain Easy Vol. 3, Sexytime
Here are your first glimpses of a couple books we have coming out in the August/September timeframe. They're both big, beautiful and unabashed! Up top we have Captain Easy Vol. 3 by Roy Crane, continuing the globe-trotting adventures of Easy and his pal Wash Tubbs from the Sunday pages of 1938-1940. And below that is Sexytime from Portable Grindhouse mastermind Jacques Boyreau, collecting eye-popping vintage skin-flick posters in an oversized coffee-table art book. Hit their respective links for additional sneak peeks and to pre-order your copies, and stay tuned for more previews!
Crumb/Groth tête-à-tête en Français
From our fine colleagues at Éditions Cornélius comes this gorgeous and excellently-titled hardcover collection La Crème de Crumb, of interest to Fantagraphics loyalists because a) duh, it's Crumb and b) it includes the 1988 interview with Crumb from The Comics Journal #121 by our fearless leader Gary Groth, translated into French (as are all the comics, natch). Francophone Seattleites take note, we'll have a couple of copies for sale at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery next week.
New Comics Day 6/20/12: New York Mon Amour, Out of the Shadows, Mickey, L&R reprint
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 York Mon Amour by Jacques Tardi, Benjamin Legrand & Dominique Grange 84-page black & white/duotone 8.25" x 10.75" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-524-2 "Four short stories by the French Tardi set in New York City. The biggest thing about Tardi is his range, even within the confines of a single…
