We are beyond excited to be back at Comic-Con this year, along with our Special Guests Garth Stein and Matthew Southworth, Simon Hanselmann and Josh Pettinger, and Bill Griffith! We also have a full schedule of signings at our booth #1721 with a bunch of our amazing artists: Jaime Hernandez, Trina Robbins, Carol Tyler, Briana Loewinsohn, Conor Stechschulte, Charles Glaubitz, Mathew Klickstein, Chris Wisnia, and Robert Mailer Anderson! See the full schedule below, along with the panels and Fantagraphics Eisner nominations. And then of course, there’s our big annual Not-At-Comic-Con Sale, with 25% off just about everything on Fantagraphics.com! Scroll down for the 411 on that….
Fantagraphics at Comic-Con 2023
Fantagraphics is going to Comic-Con! We’ll be at booth 1721 with a full schedule of author signings, tons of new books (and books that aren’t even out yet!), merch, and more on July 19th-23rd. Stay tuned for the full schedule of panels + signings, but here’s our star-studded artist line-up:
Daniel Clowes “Monica” Book Tour
To celebrate the release of his long-awaited new book, Daniel Clowes is going on tour! Five years in the making, Monica marks the apex of creativity from one of the defining voices of the graphic novel boom over the past quarter-century. A new book from Clowes is always a huge event in comics and literary circles; Monica will be the biggest literary event of 2023–and you won’t want to miss these events!
Megan Kelso (Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories) Midwest Tour!
Renowned cartoonist Megan Kelso is hitting the road for events for her bestselling collection, Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories–if you’re in the Midwest, you’re in luck! Here are her stops:
Fantagraphics Rediscovers the Wonders of Marvel’s Atlas Comics
April 26, 2023—SEATTLE, WA—Fantagraphics is pleased to announce the publication of Fantagraphics Presents the Marvel Atlas Comics Library, a series of hardcover volumes reprinting comics from Marvel’s 1950s Atlas Comics line in both facsimile editions of individual titles and compilations of a single artist. Fantagraphics will publish five volumes a year with the first two volumes releasing in Fall 2023. Sequential reprintings of individual titles will comprise four volumes, with a fifth volume devoted to one of the many first-rate illustrators who worked for Marvel during this period. The collections will run the gamut from colorful, weird, deliciously pulpy stories…
The Fantagraphics 4/20 Sale–some HIGHlights!
Get it?? We’re taking 20% off our dopest books in honor of 4/20 and the sale runs from midnight 4/20/2023 to 11:59 PM—take advantage of this deal on our best comics for stoners while you can! A few of the featured titles: Below Ambition by Simon Hanselmann Megg and Werewolf Jones are Horse Mania. Horse Mania is a test of the audience’s patience, proudly the “worst band in town,” without any ambition to make it. Join the musicians as they battle through shoddy, distracted practice sessions, a squalid house show, and a doomed interstate tour. Watch as they drunkenly flail…
Sneak Peek at Fall 2023 New Releases!
We’re not going to let it go to our heads or anything, but our Fall catalog is pretty amazing: new books from Daniel Clowes, Ed Piskor, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, M.S. Harkness, and so many more! You can find the full catalog here (link), read on for some highlights. Totem by Laura Pérez Blurring the lines between the real and the spiritual, Spanish cartoonist Laura Pérez leads the reader through a dreamy journey from the Arizona desert to the land of the dead. The narrative slips through time and space, delicately drifting from reality to different states of consciousness. Like…
More Tour Stops for See You At San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture!
Don’t miss these fantastic events for See You At San Diego by Mathew Klickstein, a comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless intimate, hilarious, and often-thought provoking stories by nearly fifty of the most integral members of today’s convention and fandom community! Here are Mathew’s upcoming stops:
Fantagraphics Celebrates Two New Projects With Prolific Cartoonist Ed Piskor
MARCH 17, 2023—SEATTLE, WA—Fantagraphics is thrilled to announce two new books from Ed Piskor, Hip Hop Family Tree: The Omnibus releasing October 2023 and Red Room: Crypto Killaz! with issue #1 releasing May 2023. Red Room: Crypto Killaz!, the next chapter in Ed Piskor’s infamous series. Mistress Pentagram and the Red Room Players return in this all-new, four-issue miniseries. With variant covers by comics celebrities like Peach Momoko and Jim Rugg, splatterpunk has never looked so good! Hip Hop Family Tree has been a global phenomenon and perennial bestseller since the first (of four) volumes was published in 2013, spawning…
Daniel Clowes Returns with Monica
Fantagraphics to Publish Long-Awaited Comics Masterpiece MARCH 09, 2023—SEATTLE, WA—Fantagraphics is honored to announce the Fall 2023 release of Monica, the first original graphic novel by Daniel Clowes (Ghost World, Patience) in more than half a decade. Monica is the most personal and ambitious book of his storied career. Monica is a series of short, interconnected narratives that tell the life story — actually, stories — of its titular character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of observation and artistic inspiration to create his most complex and sophisticated graphic novel yet. Rich visual detail, masterful graphic storytelling, and a novelist’s attention to the vernacular rhythm of…
