Today Fantagraphics and comiXology are teaming up to celebrate one of the all-time greats: Eisner Award winner Bill Griffith! Not only is Griffith’s underground comix collection Lost and Found available digitally for the very first time, but also all of his Zippy the Pinhead comic strip collections ranging from 2004 to 2013. Whether you are an avid Griffith fan catching up on all his work or someone who’s just being introduced to his unique brand of comedy, it’s all here! Starting today you can find all these books on comiXology: Lost and Found: Comics 1969–2003 Zippy the Pinhead: From Here…
What’s in Store: Northwest Exposure
Don’t miss the Northwest Alternative Comics exhibition at Washington State University’s Museum of Art featuring Jim Woodring, Peter Bagge, Ellen Forney, David Lasky, Max Clotfelter, Tom van Deusen, Eroyn Franklin, Taylor Dow, Mita Mahato, and Paul Chadwick, on view through December 17. Fantagraphics Bookstore curator Larry Reid served as a consultant and will speak (very briefly) at the opening reception on Thursday, October 6. Artist talks, workshops, and related activities are planned throughout the run of the show. WSU is conveniently located in the middle of nowhere, on the border between Washington and Idaho south of Spokane. Then tune up…
Check Out This Week’s Digital Lineup!
New comics from living legends and new favorites, underground artists and Fantagraphics Underground — this week’s got it all! We are proud to present four new digital debuts that both run the gamut of subject matter and celebrate the comics medium as a whole. Gilbert Hernandez is back is with a brand-new, full-color, sexually-explicit retelling of Bible parables. As only the unfettered id of Hernandez could conceive, Garden of Flesh retells the stories of Adam and Eve up to Noah’s Ark, blurring the lines between erotic and pornography. Find this book on comiXology and Google Play today! …
Banned Books Week Sale
Save 20% off select titles by Alison Bechdel, Daniel Clowes, Gilbert Hernandez and more, now through October 1st. Click to shop the sale.
Re/Read: Ghosts and Ruins by Ben Catmull
Re/Read is a regular feature by Fantagraphics Bookstore curator Larry Reid focusing on books worthy of closer scrutiny. With Halloween season fast approaching, we’ll look again at the exquisitely spooky opus Ghosts and Ruins by Ben Catmull. Ghosts and Ruins contains meticulously rendered drawings of haunted dwellings and the otherworldly creatures that inhabit them. An atmospheric narrative accompanies each image, revealing the mysterious circumstances of the illustrations. In this attractive hardcover volume, Catmull mines similar territory to his acclaimed comic book Monster Parade. Freed from the conventions of sequential comix, this work evokes the sinister charm of Edward Gorey,…
What’s in Store: Incomparable Cartoonist Charles Burns
Fantagraphics continues its commemoration of 40 years of publishing the world’s greatest cartoonists with an event focusing on one of the founders of the alternative comix movement. Charles Burns appears at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday, October 8 at 7:00 to discuss his graphic novel masterpiece Black Hole and other seminal works. Seattle native Charles Burns emerged from the Evergreen State College in nearby Olympia with Lynda Barry and Matt Groening in the mid-’70s. Together, this trio of gifted cartoonists popularized a new approach to contemporary comix. Burns came to the attention of future Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman, who…
Forbidden Humble Bundle Supports CBLDF
In honor of Banned Books Week, Fantagraphics has teamed up with Humble Bundle to offer a collection of controversial comics by some of our most popular artists including Jaime Hernandez, Simon Hanselmann, Matt Furie, Johnny Ryan, R. Crumb and more! When you purchase a bundle, not only do you get great digital comics at an amazing price, you also get to choose what portion of the proceeds will benefit our friends at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! How Does Humble Bundle Work? Pay What You Want— Name your price. Pay more than the average to upgrade your bundle and unlock additional…
SPX 2016: The Signing Schedule
In all its glory, here is the signing schedule for Fantagraphics Books at SPX 2016! Find us hugging the wall at booth W56-61 on September 17-18th at the North Bethesda Marriott Hotel and Convention Center
Re/Read: Big Baby by Charles Burns
Re/Read is an occasional column by Fantagraphics Bookstore curator Larry Reid that examines backlist titles you may have missed or are worthy of another read. This week we’ll focus on Big Baby by Seattle native Charles Burns. Big Baby collects four stories created by Burns between 1983 and 1992 from works published in RAW comix anthology and his syndicated “Big Baby” comic strip. Much like the Hernandez Brothers‘ Love & Rockets stories of this period, science fiction plays an important role, though Burns’ EC horror comics influences are more evident. His primary protagonist is a peculiar little boy with an…
SPX 2016: The Panels
In celebration of our 40th Anniversary, SPX has generously put together a slate of panels and workshops that feature our artists in a wide variety of topics that’ll inform and spark inspiration. Panels Saturday, September 17th, 2016 Comics Journalism with Joe Sacco and Sarah Glidden 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM White Oak Room Comics journalism is a form of journalism crafted by Joe Sacco in his award-winning graphic novels (Palestine, Safe Area Goražde, Fixer, Footnotes in Gaza, The Great War) and explored in depth by Sarah Glidden in her new release, Rolling Blackouts. Join these two amazing comics creators as…
