Fantagraphics Blog

For Valentine's Day we've teamed up with ComicsAlliance to give you a chance to win copies of two of our recent books about lovin' in its various forms: Young Romance: The Best of Simon & Kirby's Romance Comics and Dave McKean's erotic opus Celluloid. Contest details and your chance to enter are all over at the ComicsAlliance blog. Good luck!

Wednesday, February 15th • Los Angeles, CA: It's your last chance to see the Year of the Dragon group art exhibit at Giant Robot, featuring work from Fantagraphics artists Andrice Arp, Renee French, and Steven Weissman, among many others!  (more info) Joe Sacco at the Fantagraphics office, 04/09/07 // photo credit: Jacob Covey Saturday, February 18th • Portland, OR: Come hear Joe Sacco speak at the Portland Central Library from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Tickets for this event are free, and will be available 30 minutes prior to the program. Space at programs is limited, and seating is available on…

75 years ago today Hal Foster's Prince Valiant debuted in newspapers with the strip above (click to see it bigger) and quickly one of the most beloved comic strips of all time. To celebrate this milestone anniversary we are offering all of our Prince Valiant books at a 30% discount today only! This includes our new series of hardcover volumes (including pre-orders on Volume 5), which critics and fans agree are the definitive collections of Foster's masterpiece; it also includes our recent editions of the Prince Valiant Companion and the handful of our previous softcover editions we have left in…

If you want your Cannibal Fuckface collectible vinyl dolly to resemble the interior pages of the Prison Pit comics it springs from, good news: it's now available for pre-order in a black & white colorway from toy purveyors Monster Worship. Meanwhile, at VICE, Johnny has a new comic which reveals the horrifying truth about the iPad. UPDATE: Oh snap, Monster Worship is also taking pre-orders for a t-shirt!

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "…[T]hese comics are among the best in their genre without a doubt. …[This] period was certainly the period of Jack Kirby’s greatest commercial success, and also the period of work which posterity has most neglected. For that this book [Young Romance ] is to be cheered, though there is much else to be happy about in it. There is the excellence of Gagné’s restoration work. It’s of a kind of cleanness which in the past, in archival projects by others, has often resulted in garishness. …[I]t appears that Fantagraphics, perhaps by accident more…

Kupperman's back! Plus a new Mahler page and links to strips from around the web: — Angelman by Nicolas Mahler (view at original size): Up All Night by Michael Kupperman (view at original size): And elsewhere: The All-New Cartoon Boy Adventure Hour by John Kerschbaum at ACT-I-VATE: Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane: Humblug by Arnold Roth (two new updates): Lucky by Gabrielle Bell : Maakies by Tony Millionaire: The Pain — When Will It End? (plus answers to last week's "Ghandi or Batman?") by Tim Kreider: Les Petits Riens by Lewis Trondheim: Truth Serum by Jon Adams: What's in the…

This week's issue of OC Weekly features this Jaime Hernandez depiction of inequitably distributed afterglow — plus more sexy comics by others inside. (Hat tip: Entrecomics.) [Follow our Tumblr blog for lots more Things to See every day.]  

  Cartoonists will want to arrive early to Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday evening to preview the "Funny Valentines" ahow and experience visiting artist Frank Santoro's comic book layout workshop at 5:00 PM. Santoro is a columnist for The Comics Journal and teamed with Dash Shaw in the latest Kramer's Ergot anthology.   When wandering around Saturday's Georgetown Art Attack, don't forget to contribute to the Georgetown Music Store recovery fund. This neighborhood institution was the recent victim of a brazen burglary. Thieves literally tore the gates from the storefront and made off with valuable guitars and gear. Georgetown merchants are taking collective…