Come and sit-in on one or more of these panels! Or hole up in the room waiting for a Pokemon panel happening afterwards. Either way, you’re learning about the amazing authors and books that we publish, and we couldn’t ask for anything more! Plus, our panels are so cool that they’ve been featured on Hollywood Reporter as panels to make sure you catch during the convention! Thursday, July 21st Love and Rockets: Past, Present, and Future Love and Rockets by brothers Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez is one of the most influential comic series to ever be published. Rounding on 35…
New Digital Releases from Piskor and Stein
Today we are proud to present new digital releases from two young artists on the cutting edge of comics — Ed Piskor and Leslie Stein. Hip Hop Family Tree Volume 4 continues Piskor’s award-winning, best-selling history of hip hop music. This new book charts the rise of Dr. Dre and Def Jam Records and introduces new branches of the “tree”: Will Smith, Salt-n-Peppa, Rakim, and Biz Markie. Find this book on comiXology and Google Play. Also from Piskor is the 11th issue of the monthly Hip Hop Family Tree series! Famed producer and DJ Rick Rubin graces the cover and…
Hip Hop history is American history
Hip Hop Family Tree not only explores the history of a musical genre, but also the socio-political climate from which it emerged. This latest volume explores the racial tensions between Black communities and government agencies in the mid 80’s- from the the war on drugs to the leveling of “crack houses” by LAPD militarized battering ram tanks. Ed Piskor (literally) illustrates how the famous hip hop lyrics “The roof is on fire” were elevated to anthemic status and connects it to the context of the oft-forgotten bombings by West Philadelphia police that destroyed the compound of MOVE activists; taking the lives…
LOVE AND ROCKETS: THE MAGAZINE returns!
Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez to revive their beloved series Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce that Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez’s beloved Love and Rockets will return this fall in the same magazine format that fans fell in love with during its original 50 issue run from 1982-1996. Love and Rockets has been Fantagraphics’ flagship publication since its initial magazine debut in 1982, and the new series (Vol. IV, for those keeping track) will launch on the eve of the title’s 35th anniversary in September 2016 and continue every four months thereafter. The new format and schedule comes after a decade of the Love…
What’s in Store: An Intruder Tribute
On July 9, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery pays tribute to the phenomenal Intruder comix tabloid on the occasion of its final issue. It’s hard to overstate the influence of this publication on the local comix community. Over the course of 20 issues, this resourceful collective of Seattle cartoonists has elevated the careers of a number of artists including editor Marc Palm, Max Clotfelter, Tom van Deusen, Ben Horak, Brittany Kusa, James Stanton, Seth Goodkind, Marie Hausauer, John Ohannesian, Darin Schuler, Brandon Lehmann, David Lasky, Scott Travis, Joe Garber, and Billis Helg, among many others. It has inspired several sister publications…
Patience is a New York Times Best Seller for 15 weeks and counting
Since it’s debut, Patience by Daniel Clowes has remained on the The New York Times Best Sellers list for 15 consecutive weeks and counting.
What’s in Store: More Clowning Around
Drop by Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery this Saturday, June 25 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM as Tatiana Gill hosts a clown coloring contest from her new book Down to Clown. We’ll have cool prizes and free corn dogs, cotton candy, caramel corn, and more! All entries will be exhibited through July 7. An added attraction at the Hot Off the Press book fair on July 9 is a rare show by seminal Seattle punk band Chinas Comidas led by literary artist Cynthia Genser, who will also give a spoken word performance. The band will play new material from their Songbook…
Drinky Crow Goes Digital
Today marks the digital debut of a brand new Maakies collection by Tony Millionaire called Drinky Crow Drinks Again. That, and more Millionaire madness in this week’s digital releases. Drinky Crow Drinks Again is the latest collection of Tony Millionaire’s weekly strip featuring a crow, a monkey, and many other inebriated weirdos. Millionaire’s Maakies is one of the longest running and most decorated comic strip in America and this book collects more than 200 weeks worth from the past half-decade for the very first time. Drinky Crow Drinks Again blends vaudeville-style humor and breathtaking linework and can now be found…
San Diego Comic-Con 2016: The Debuts
Each week leading up to San Diego Comic-Con (July 20th-24th) we’ll be rolling out announcements on early bird debut books, special guests, panels, and signing schedules; all happening this year at the biggest comic and pop-culture convention in the country. Check back for updates so you don’t miss all the action! Meat Cake Bible By Dame Darcy Dame Darcy is one of the sui generis artistic talents of the past two decades — musician, actress, fortune teller, dollmaker, Gen X/feminist icon, and last but not least, cartoonist to the core — and has been bewitching readers for more than 20 years with her neo-Victorian…
What’s in Store: Intruder, Sammy Harkham, and More!
Mark your calendars for Saturday, July 9 from 5:00 to 9:00 PM as we welcome acclaimed indie comix artist Sammy Harkham and wish a fond farewell to the Intruder at the second annual Hot Off the Press book fair at Fantagraphics Bookstore! This colorful festival features tables of local handcrafted comix and zines by many of the Northwest’s most admired artists. Special guest Sammy Harkham will sign copies of the newly released Kramer’s Ergot 9 anthology as well as his alluring self-published serial Crickets. Another attraction is Seattle artist Josh Simmons signing the latest installment of Jessica Farm project,…
