This is one plague you'll want to be infested by! Yes, the countdown continues with the latest beer in our 12 Beers of the Apocalypse series, a collaboration with our friends at the Elysian Brewing Company in Seattle. And on this Saturday, April 21st, they'll introduce you to Peste, a chocolate chili ale sure to swarm your taste buds! Peste will be available on cask, draft and in bottles with labels featuring the artwork of the great Charles Burns from his weirdly apocalyptic Black Hole series. The official tapping of Peste begins at 2:00 PM, followed by a brand-new survival…
Cruisin’ with the Hound: The Life and Times of Fred Tooté by Spain Rodriguez – Previews/Now in Stock
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Cruisin' with the Hound: The Life and Times of Fred Tooté by Spain Rodriguez 136-page black & white 7.5" x 10.25" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-461-0 See Previews / Order Now "They were all there, the pimps, the fags, the whores, the curious, the alcoholic, the weird of the late ’50s… blues lovers, Canadian bikers, thrill seekers, junkies, insomniacs, hepcats…” So begins “Down at the Kitty Kat,” one of the 20-plus never-before-collected memoirs and yarns by Spain Rodriguez, one of the original gang of Zap Comix provocateurs. Although…
Daily OCD: 4/16/12
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Here’s the thing about Pogo. There’s never been anything like it. It’s utterly unique and individual in the same fashion that Peanuts, or Calvin and Hobbes or Little Nemo or any other of the great 20th century comic strips are…. It’s a much weirder strip than I think most people give it credit for and that is certainly something worth both recognizing and admiring." – Chris Mautner, Robot 6 • Review: "I highly recommend anyone who has an interest in LGBT issues to pick up Wandering Son, regardless of whether or not you read…
This Week in Fantagraphics Events: 4/16-4/23
We're busy as bees getting ready for our Spring conventions! MoCCA! Stumptown! TCAF! Here are some other fine events to keep you busy in the meanwhile: Tuesday, April 17th • New York City, NY: The legendary Gahan Wilson will be teaching a Master Class in Cartooning at MoCCA! (more info) Still from "In Suspense" by Lilli Carré Friday, April 20th • Chicago, IL: Lilli Carré launches her exhibit Moving Holds at Western Exhibitions! More information about this show is coming to the FLOG this week! Saturday, April 21st • Boston, MA: The 2012 Boston Comic Con kicks off today, with…
Weekend Romance at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery!
Thank you to everyone who came out to the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery for the opening reception of our new exhibit, “Young Romance: The Best of Simon & Kirby’s Romance Comics” with our special guest, Michel Gagné (seen above), editor of our brand new collection of the same title! Gagné's interpretive exhibit features enlarged examples of Simon and Kirby’s romance comics, which he spent five years restoring for this gorgeous new collection. Michel gave a great presentation on his delicate restoration process, which you can watch below (YouTube link)! WARNING: I have to apologize — I'm not the best filmographer,…
Master Cartooning with Gahan Wilson at MoCCA!
Photo by Christina Foxley, courtesy The Strand Bookstore NYC Learn cartooning from the master himself! The legendary Gahan Wilson will be teaching a special Master Class this Tuesday, April 17th in New York City! Join Gahan at MoCCA from 7:00 to 9:00 PM as he shows and tells you how to make your own humorous cartoons. Using his own life and career as reference points, Gahan will give you pointers and advice about the art and business of cartooning that only this master of the medium can provide. Classes are held at MoCCA, located at 594 Broadway, Suite 401 (between…
Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental by Drew & Josh Alan Friedman
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental [New Edition] by Drew Friedman & Josh Alan Friedman http://www.fantagraphics.com/anysimilarity 88-page black & white 9.25" x 12.25" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-521-1 See Previews / Order Now Finally back in print, Any Similarity… is a collection of Drew Friedman’s earliest comic strips and illustrations, featuring his most obsessively stippled black-and-white panels and his most hilarious wise-guy takes on the stars and demi-stars and never-quite-stars of that swamp we like to call showbiz. In these strips, many of them…
Daily OCD: 4/12-4/13/12
Today's (and yesterday's when it was slow) Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "The Dutch artist and designer Joost Swarte has a tremendous reputation among cartoon-art aficionados, given his tiny body of comics work. The answer to the title of his 40-year retrospective, Is That All There Is?, is: 'Pretty much, yeah.'… Plot is beside the point. Swarte is more concerned with formal purity, and with making the deep structures of cartooning visible. He pares his art to mechanical, hard-edged vectors and curves: caricature triple-distilled into symbolic visual shorthand, with every line canted just so. His geometrically precise, nearly architectural…
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Benefit Fashion Show!
Not only does the Threadless t-shirt company keep us lookin' good, but now they're also helping defend our first amendment rights with a benefit for the mighty Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! Tonight, Friday, April 13th, they'll be hosting the CBLDF/THREADLESS C2E2 Fashion Show Welcome Party, launching a colossal new "Comics-On-Tees" collection featuring artwork by Jeffrey Brown, Anders Nilsen, Paul Hornschemeier, and Jeff Lemire, based on a story from Jeffrey! Raffle prizes will include a plethora of awesome Threadless swag, including original retail art, and great CBLDF items, including classic signed comics, exclusive prints, and more! Giant games of Mario…
Comics: Philosophy & Practice at the University of Chicago!
Hey Chicago! Stop whatever you're doing (yes, that means reading the FLOG) and go register for this NOW! Space is limited, and you do NOT want to miss out. It's the Comics: Philosophy & Practice conference at the University of Chicago, held May 18th-20th. And the line-up will make any comics-fan's head spin: it features Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Gary Panter, Joe Sacco, Carol Tyler, and Chris Ware, as well as Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, Phoebe Gloeckner, Justin Green, Ben Katchor, Françoise Mouly, Seth, and Art Spiegelman… WOW. Oh, and did I mention it's…
