Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Tucker Stone counts down The Best of 2011 at comiXology. and we sure like the looks of his top 5: At #5, Jim Woodring's Congress of the Animals: "Deftly exploring the individual's relationship with labor, consequence and love, Congress of the Animals might be Woodring's least nightmarish work yet. (Although there's still a decent portion of it involving face-robbed humanoids that you shouldn't leave lying open if you have junkies visiting.)" At #4, Prison Pit Book 3 by Johnny Ryan: "Back in 2009, when Ryan began Prison Pit, it was a revelation; a…
Weekend Webcomics for 12/23/11: 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: Amazing Facts… and Beyond! with Leon Beyond by Kevin Huizenga: Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane: Humblug by Arnold Roth (4 updates this week, continuing serialization of his unpublished 1979 strip Downtown): Lucky by Gabrielle Bell : Maakies by Tony Millionaire: Truth Serum by Jon Adams: What's in…
Palestine Revisited
For perhaps obvious reasons, I invariably find myself re-reading Palestine this time of year. Twenty years ago, cartoonist Joe Sacco visited the biblical lands of the Middle East and reported his observations in a groundbreaking series of comic books that would help change our perceptions of the troubled occupied territories. It's a sad commentary that reading this book twenty years later, it seems like it could have been written yesterday. With every read — going on a dozen now — I find something new in Sacco's brilliant tale. I recall not long after beginning work as Fantagraphics marketing and promotions…
Deck Us All with Boston Charlie!
We were honored and delighted to have members of Seattle choral group Choir of the Sound (including Kim Thompson's lovely wife Lynn Emmert, second from right) perform Walt Kelly's Okefenokee holiday classic "Deck Us All With Boston Charlie" at the "Playing Possum: The Pogo Art of Walt Kelly" exhibit opening and book launch party for Pogo – The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder (and annual Fantagraphics Bookstore anniversary/holiday party) at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery a couple of weekends ago. Turn up your speakers, grab a cup o' nog, hit "play" on the video above…
Oh Joy!
For your shopping pleasure, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery will remain open an extra hour until 9:00 PM this Friday, December 23. So sled down to Georgetown for some holiday cheer. We close at 5:00 PM on Saturday, December 24 and remain closed on Sunday, December 25. Come back and visit on Monday, December 26. We'll be open normal hours 11:30 to 8:00 PM the rest of the week.
Up All Night by Michael Kupperman – Time Bum 4
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 4
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!
Wandering Son (Hourou Musuko) Vol. 2 by Shimura Takako – Now in Stock
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Wandering Son Vol. 2 by Shimura Takako 228-page black & white (with some color) 7" x 9.5" hardcover • $19.99presented in traditional right-to-left format; original Japanese title: 放浪息子 (Hourou Musuko)ISBN: 978-1-60699-456-6 See Previews / Order Now In the second volume of Shimura Takako's superb coming-of-age story, our transgendered protagonists, Shuichi and Yoshino, have entered the sixth grade. Shuichi spends a precious gift of cash from his grandmother on a special present for himself, a purchase that triggers a chain of events in which his sister Maho learns…
Daily OCD: 12/22/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: NPR's Glen Weldon names The Best Comics of 2011, including Pogo Vol. 1 ("Walt Kelly's hugely influential strip gets the deluxe treatment it deserves"), Mark Twain's Autobiography 1910-2010 by Michael Kupperman ("The silliest, funniest, most bracing, and really-I-wasn't-kidding-when-I-said-silliest, book of the year"), and Wandering Son Vol. 1 by Shimura Takako ("An insightful, empathetic and deeply moving manga about a boy who wants to be a girl and a girl who wants to be a boy") • List: Megamedia conglomerate music-video website VEVO names Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of…
We made the big time!
Spoofed in MAD? I've never been so proud! We made it, ma! *Snif* (Kim thinks this is from a few years ago, but MAD just put it online today.)
