Here's another 2012 sneak peek for you — Out of the Shadows, the first-ever collection of comics by unjustly overlooked Golden Age great Mort Meskin, edited by Steven Brower, author of our 2010 Meskin bio From Shadow to Light. Steven posted this cover art over on his blog, where he also reveals a spiffy-looking compilation of Golden Age Western comics he put together for powerHouse Books. They're both coming out this Spring — we've got more info on the Meskin book here on our website, and stay tuned right here for updates!
First Look: Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 2 by Michael Kupperman
To kick off the new year Michael Kupperman has revealed the cover for the second book collection of his smash hit comic series Tales Designed to Thrizzle! The book will be part of our Fall/Winter 2012 season, which we're currently pounding into shape. Stay tuned for updates and more info!
Daily OCD: 12/30/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Love and Rockets: New Stories #4 lands at #4 on Comic Book Resources' Top 100 Comics of 2011, with Chris Mautner saying "The hype and acclaim surrounding Jaime Hernandez's conclusion to his 'Love Bunglers' saga has been overwhelming, and every ounce of it is deserved. This is simply a phenomenal achievement in comics. I'd be hard pressed to think of a better comic that came out this year," and Sean T. Collins saying "…[L]et's add to the chorus praising Jaime's 'The Love Bunglers' as one of the greatest comics of all time, the…
Weekend Webcomics for 12/30/11: Kupperman, Mahler & more
Our weekly strips from Kupperman & Mahler (Weissman is on holiday hiatus), plus links to other strips from around the web: — Up All Night by Michael Kupperman (view at original size): Angelman by Nicolas Mahler (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by Tim Lane: Forming by Jesse Moynihan: Humblug by Arnold Roth (3 updates this week, continuing serialization of his unpublished 1979 strip Downtown): Maakies by Tony Millionaire: Les Petits Riens by Lewis Trondheim: What's in the Backpack by Victor Kerlow:
Everything Is an Afterthought in The New York Times
David Hajdu (author of The Ten-Cent Plague) reviewed Kevin Avery's Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson: for The New York Times Sunday Book Review: "Paul Nelson, a propagandist committed to some dubious values, had a gift for imbuing disreputable, even dangerous ideas with discomforting grace. You might almost say he was the Leni Riefenstahl of rock criticism…. "Still, he matters — and not only as an exemplary case of a good mind applied to wrongheaded purposes. He was on to something legitimate when, in his 20s during the early ’60s, he took the ambitions of…
Up All Night by Michael Kupperman – The Hoardy Boys
This weekly strip by Snake ‘n’ Bacon and Tales Designed to Thrizzle creator Michael Kupperman runs weekly in the Washington City Paper and here on the Fantagraphics website.
Angelman by Nicolas Mahler – page 5
We are proud and pleased to be publishing our first Nicolas Mahler book (a full-color hardcover, no less) in April 2012: Angelman. We are serializing the first quarter of the book with the rest of our weekly digital comics… at the end of which, you will be so absorbed in Angelman’s travails that you will have no choice but to pick up the book. Enjoy!
Daily OCD: 12/29/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Love and Rockets: New Stories #4 is ComicsAlliance's Best Comic of 2011, with Jason Michelitch saying "The final 15 pages of 'The Love Bunglers' isn't just the end of a great new issue of a Bros. Hernanadez comic book. It isn't just the sixth part of a fantastic serialized graphic novel that's run since last year. It is the culmination of nearly thirty years worth of nuance, gesture, shading, pacing and dialogue — of angst, mania, fear, friendship, anger, and love. It is the finale to an epic of human scale feeling and…
Swamp Talk
This is the last week to view the sensational exhibition "Playing Possum: The Pogo Art of Walt Kelly" at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. The critical and popular response to this show has been nothing short of phenomenal. The exhibition will be on view through next Wednesday, January 4. We'll be open every day 11:30 to 8:00 PM except Sunday, January 1, when we'll be closed for New Years Day. Kelly's historic strips are being offered for sale at remarkably affordable prices. Several of these wonderful works remain available. If you can't make it to the space, feel free to call Fantagraphics curator…
Tony Millionaire Art Show & Book Signing at Floating World, Portland
Break out the beer, Portland, 'cause the great Tony Millionaire is headed your way on Thursday, January 5th! Our friends at Floating World Comics will be helping him toast his latest masterpiece, the gorgeous collection 500 Portraits! Not only will Tony be signing, but there will be an art show of work from the book, spanning two decades of illustrations that Tony created for The Believer, as well as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Ephemera Press Historical Maps, The Wall Street Journal, and others. So, come celebrate with our masterful millionaire from 6:00 to 10:00 PM at…
