When not working as an Emmy-winning writer for animated series like Camp Lazlo, Phineas and Ferb, SpongeBob SquarePants, the cartoonist Kaz has been drawing his weekly Underworld comic strip since 1992. Come celebrate the first comprehensive collection of his clever creation on February 13 with a book signing and art exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. Underworld: From Hoboken to Hollywood collects the most memorable strips from the 23 year lifetime of the strip, together with photos, anecdotes, and related Underworld ephemera. The strip, which enjoyed a long run in Seattle weekly The Stranger, chronicles a degenerate society populated by parodies of…
New Comic Book Day: Frank in the 3rd Dimension by Jim Woodring
This is your chance to see Frank as you’ve never seen him before. Not the stark black-and-white Frank. Not even the glorious fully-painted Frank. No, this is Frank in the third dimension: about as real as you can get him. Frank and Frank’s world are already hallucinatory, but seeing him in the most technologically advanced and artistically crafted 3-D ever produced is an experience that has to be savored to be believed. The 3-D process for Frank in the 3rd Dimension involves creating more than 150 layers per drawing in order to round and “sculpt” each image into full, volumetric…
The Book of Hope is Now Digital
An exploration into quotidian moments and timeless humor, the Fantagraphics debut of Finnish artist Tommi Musturi The Book of Hope is now available digitally. In a way that only the medium of comics can, The Book of Hope slows the reader down to the rhythms of the silent life of a retired couple living in a rural countryside. But behind the static, routine moments, something bigger takes shape — a flash of encroaching death starts to consume the husband leading to all-encompassing visions and important questions. The strong presence of silence and nature reflect the arctic exotica of Musturi’s native…
Sneak Peek: The Complete Crepax
The Complete Crepax is darkly sexy, surreal and erotic. We can’t wait for you to get your hands on this horror themed edition of Valentina stories. Coming this Spring and available for pre-order now at Fantagraphics.com/crepax
New Comic Book Day: Book of Hope
Book of Hope by Finnish cartoonist Tommi Musturi hits stores today. Check out a video preview and order your copy from Fantagraphics.com. Under the Radar gives Book of Hope by Tommi Musturi 7/10 in this review: “…filled with weird jokes, funny cartoon gags, and surprisingly poignant observations on aging, death, and—yes—hope…the books’ portrayal of the little scenes that make up life and lend it its meaning are uniformly lovely. The illustrations are beautiful, and without trying to spoil anything, the later chapters more than live up to the name of the book. It’s a nice, off-kilter story about…
Preview: Patience by Daniel Clowes
Advance copies of Patience by Daniel Clowes have arrived at the Fantagraphics office and they are glorious. Check out a preview below and pre-order your book at Fantagraphics.com/patience A video posted by Fantagraphics Books (@fantagraphics) on Jan 13, 2016 at 12:38pm PST
What’s in Store (Wonderful Winter Edition)
Thanks to everyone who came out to the publication party for Jim Woodring ‘s sensational Frank in the 3rd Dimension on Saturday – an amazing array of luminaries from Seattle’s art, music, and comix communities. We sold out of the book at the signing, but have more copies in stock now. Come view this visionary work at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery through February 10.
Invisible Ink- now available with bookplates by Bill Griffith
Get Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist with a limited edition bookplate featuring an original drawing, sketched and signed by Bill Griffith.
Crossing Eden Makes Its Digital Debut
Monte Schulz’s Jazz Age Trilogy of historical fiction novels are collected for the first time in Crossing Eden and available on your own personal reading device. Crossing Eden is the story of an American family on the eve of the Great Depression. It’s also the tale of a nation in the last months of the “Roaring Twenties”, a glittering decade of exuberance and doubt, optimism and fear. Monte Schulz’s grand opus includes big business, family drama, speakeasies, séances, bank robberies, lynchings, circuses, and skyscrapers. Crossing Eden’s grand tapestry of American experience is available now on Google Play.
Daniel Clowes withdraws from Angouleme Grand Prix consideration
Earlier this morning, news broke that the list of 30 nominees for this year’s Grand Prix d’Angouleme was announced, and did not include a single female creator. The Grand Prix is a lifetime achievement award, and the winner is named president of the following year’s Angouleme International Comics Festival. In the event’s 43-year history, just one woman, Florence Cestac, has been awarded the Grand Prix. Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) and Posy Simmonds (Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe) have been among those nominated in years past. In the wake of today’s announcement, Fantagraphics Books and Daniel Clowes endorse the French group BD…
