Fantagraphics Blog

OhmyGOD. Our friends at PressPop have curated the show of my comic/music/critter-lovin' dreams!!! Three Sides Chicago: Squares, Squirrels & Dots spotlights the work of Archer Prewitt, alongside Sam Prekop and Eric Claridge, who also happen to be his bandmates in The Sea & Cake. The Tokyo exhibit opens today (Monday, March 26th) in Tokyo at Shibuya Parco B1F LIBRO, and when the show closes on April 8th, all three gentlemen (pun not intended) will be at the store for a signing! And then on April 4th, a simultaneous show will open at the Trancepop Gallery in Kyoto featuring different artwork from…

Sorry this slipped through the cracks last week, everyone! Last Wednesday's comic shop shipment included 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. Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies 1943-1945 by Ernie Bushmillerintroduction by Daniel Clowes 336-page black & white 8.5" x 8.5" flexibound softcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-360-6 "This is lovely material, lovingly presented, as satisfying a production-style execution of a strip collection as I've seen in a…

* Other People's Publications** Yeah, You Know Me. Once Upon A Time… the FLOG kicked off an occasional column titled "Down With OPP," where we spotlighted books from other publishers that you can find at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle. And this week, we're looking at The Brothers Grimm's Snow White, as illustrated by our own Camille Rose Garcia, out now on Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins. I love the way Camille captures the classic story with her whimsical watercolor illustrations! The colors are vibrantly reproduced on glossy pages in this petite hard-bound book, with some fanciful…

"forty dave cooper characters for Paris, 2011" Serigraph Print, edition of 85 19.5 x 27.5″ Rivoli paper, acid free, 280 gr. 1 colour $78 More info, close-up and signing pics, and a link to buy are all on Dave's blog. Suh-weet.

Rob Walker, co-founder of the Significant Objects project, was a guest on today's episode of Public Radio International's Studio 360 with host Kurt Andersen (who also happens to have contributed a story). Andersen interviewed Walker on location at Vintage Thrift in Manhattan and the two chose three new Objects for listeners to assign Significance to in Studio 360's Significant Objects story contest. Listen to the segment here or embedded below: And hey, designer extraordinaire Jacob Covey just finalized the two — yes, two! — covers for the book. That's right, because we're crazy, we're publishing the book collection with two…

Join our own Gary Panter at Shelf Life 2, a one-day event in Los Angeles featuring panels, workshops, a bazaar, and more!  This "big day for small press" is tomorrow, Saturday, March 24th at the University Park Campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Gary is teaming up with graphic designer Chip Kidd for a special panel, moderated by Byron Coley. That kicks off at 12:30 PM in the Gin D. Wong Auditorium (Harris Hall 101). And then stick around to check out all the small press exhibitors, and take some workshops on everything from bookbinding to…

You know, Trubble Club, the weird and wonderful jam comics produced by a Chicago-centric collective of the same name that includes Fanta-family folks Lilli Carré, Laura Park and Jeremy Tinder among many others. After 4 minicomic collections they've put together a doozy of a package for Vol. 5: a full-color Sunday funnies-style newspaper of all-new strips. They've brought in a few ringers to participate in addition to their regulars, AND it comes with a silkscreen print. You can buy a copy for 8 bucks from The Post Family online shop. Chicagoans can buy it at Quimby's. I got my order…

What happens when you have to miss a couple of days of the comics internet is that it takes you almost the whole rest of the week to get fully caught up on Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Library Journal's Martha Cornog gives a nice shout-out to Carl Barks and recommends Oil and Water by Steve Duin & Shannon Wheeler as one of "30 Graphic Novels for Earth Day 2012": "Wheeler’s atmospheric, ink-washed greys capture eccentric residents from crabbers to a pelican-rescue team, and Duin’s script catches the ironic resiliency of people exploited by the very industry that feeds…

Due to privacy concerns I'm slightly uneasy about posting photos of other people's babies, but this is too good not to share, so I'll just leave it anonymous and say that it came via Kevin Huizenga, who says "Wanted: more readers like [this]."