Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 edited by Greg Sadowski 432-page full color 7.5" x 10.5" softcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-408-5 See Previews / Order Now Alex Toth’s influence on the art of comic books is incalculable. As his generation was the first to grow up with the new 10-cent full-color pamphlets, he came to the medium with a fresh eye, and enough talent and discipline to graphically strip it down its to its bare essentials. His efforts reached fruition at Standard Comics, creating an entire school of imitators and…
Video: Love and Rockets Comic-Con Panel with the Hernandez Bros.
Love & Rockets from The Comics Journal on Vimeo. Courtesy of The Comics Journal, enjoy this video of the entire Love and Rockets panel at Comic-Con 2011 with Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez (moderated by a laryngitis-stricken Kristy Valenti of TCJ).
BEM 3D
Given a classroom assignment to create a toy design, Love and Rockets fan Ali Akbar sensibly thought, "Why not BEM?" Thus, this 3D rendering of everyone's favorite Gilbert Hernandez-created robo-gorilla-mecha-suit (as seen in the collection Amor y Cohetes). I'd buy wunna these… anna Roy action figure… anna Rocky & Fumble playset… anna Rena Titañon wrasslin' action doll… Thanks to Ali for sharing these images on the Love and Rockets Facebook page!
Daily OCD: 8/1/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Originally appearing from 1958 to 1960, these insouciant, stylish, and thrilling dramas should appeal to readers of all ages. If they don't hook a whole new batch of bande dessinée fans, France needs to take back the Statue of Liberty in a huff…. Both stories zip by with nary a dull patch. Confections lacking in gravitas, they nevertheless own the supreme virtues of lightness and panache. Tillieux's art is always easy on the eye…. If Spielberg is looking for a second franchise after Tintin, he couldn't go wrong with Gil Jordan." – Paul…
The Quiet Rrriot Redux
Last month, the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery opened our latest exhibit, The Quiet Rrriot: Visual Artists from the Riot Grrrl movement by Megan Kelso, Nikki McClure, Stella Marrs, and the response has been really amazing! For those of us who live in Seattle, the exhibit will be up for one more month, ending on August 31st. But for those of you not in the area, here are some pics from our opening night, with artists Megan Kelso and Nikki McClure in attendance! Here's Megan signing copies of her latest release Queen of the Black Black, a collection of work from…
Weekend Webcomics for 7/30/11: Kupperman, Weissman & more
Our weekly strips from Kupperman & Weissman, plus links to other strips from around the web. Running a bit late this week due to your humble compiler being a bit under the weather. — Up All Night by Michael Kupperman (view at original size): Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman (view at original size): And elsewhere: Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane: Cochlea & Eustachia by Hans Rickheit: Ectiopiary by Hans Rickheit: Humblug by Arnold Roth (6 new udpates!): Keeping Two by Jordan Crane: Lucky by Gabrielle Bell (daily diary strips all throughout July!): Maakies by Tony Millionaire: Truth Serum by…
Daily OCD: 7/29/11
Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Commentary: We're pleased (really) to see Adult Video News picking up on our announcement of The Complete ZAP Comix, despite some glaring fact-checking errors in their report (see if you can spot 'em!) • Review: "The coolest reprints of the year have hit the shelves as Fantagraphics tears it up by releasing Floyd Gottfredson’s run on the comic strip Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse. To start with, this is a great edition of the material. It looks great, the black and white art is classically bold and pops right off the pages at you, and it’s…
Lineup for our first EC book Corpse on the Imjin revealed
We just announced our EC Comics Library series less than a week ago and already we're full steam ahead on the books: Straight from editor Gary Groth, here is the lineup of stories for the first book in the series, Corpse on the Imjin and Other Stories, collecting the war stories written by Harvey Kurtzman and drawn by Kurtzman and others: Drawn by Kurtzman: November – December 1950 – Two-Fisted Tales #18 – Conquest January – February 1951 – Two-Fisted Tales #19 – Jivaro Death! March – April 1951 – Two-Fisted Tales #20 – Pirate Gold! September 1951 – Frontline…
Comic Book Art Show with Hans Rickheit
No, really. That's what the event is called: Comic Book Art Show. The brand-new art space GAS (Greenfield Art Salon) is opening their doors with a debut show that calls it like IT IS! Comic Book Art Show will feature complete comics from the Massachusetts-based art collective known as Mysterious Transmissions, featuring our own mysterious Fantagraphics artist Hans Rickheit. As GAS explains, "the show will consist of a number of short comic book stories from each artist, presented in their entirety and intended for reading on the gallery walls." See? Comic. Book. Art. Show. The show opens on Friday, August…
Up All Night by Michael Kupperman – Snake ‘N’ Bacon 2
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.
