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…
MORE RAGE PER PAGE, MORE SLAUGHTER FOR YOUR DOLLAR! The Real Deal Comes to Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics is proud to announce the complete collection of the provocative Real Deal Comix. The deluxe 176-page hardcover will be released in May 2016. A vital collection of sociopolitical comics history, Real Deal Comix was inspired by a shared frustration with racial tensions in south central Los Angeles. Creators Lawrence Hubbard (a.k.a. RawDog) and H.P. McElwee (a.k.a. R.D. Bone) created Real Deal Comix in their spare time as an incendiary yet satirical response to the brutality and inequality witnessed firsthand in their community. Dubbing the genre “Urban Chaos,” Hubbard and McElwee tell stories of inner city lives on the precipice, where everyday tasks…
Fantabucks are back! Spend $50 and get $100 with this 2-for-1 coupon
You know those websites that offer “coupons” to “groups” or “groups” of “coupons”? We’re offering own special home-grown version of that for a very limited time (January 1-4, 2016)! Here’s the deal: Each FantaBucks 2-for-1 Coupon costs just $50 and gets you a unique coupon code worth $100 toward your next purchase of $100 or more on Fantagraphics.com! That’s like getting half off $100 worth of merchandise! You can buy as many coupons as you like, but you can only use one coupon per order and you must redeem each coupon entirely in a single purchase. Beginning on Monday, January…
New Comic Book Day: Gahan Wilson’s Out There
Check out a video preview of our latest release, Gahan Wilson’s Out There. A video posted by Fantagraphics Books (@fantagraphics) on Dec 30, 2015 at 11:53am PST
New Gahan Wilson… Digitally
Our final digital release of 2015 is out there… Gahan Wilson’s Out There. Gahan Wilson is best known for his macabre Playboy cartoons — filled with charming monsters, goofy scientists, and melting victims — and his cutting-edge work in National Lampoon, but in 1964, Wilson brought his brilliantly wiggly-but-sophisticated pen line to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Wilson’s playfully black sense of comedy was on full display in the cartoons found in this magazine and Out There features over 250 of them Wilson drew during his tenure with the publication, as well as four covers he rendered —…
A New Dimension with Jim Woodring at Fantagraphics Bookstore
Join us at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday, January 9 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM as Jim Woodring and collaborator Charles Barnard present Frank in the 3rd Dimension, a sensational publication featuring 3-D renderings of Woodring’s signature motifs This anxiously anticipated 3-D imagery was unveiled in a presentation last March at Cornish Theater and was included in the “Genius” exhibition this fall at Seattle’s Fry Art Museum. Woodring’s visionary imagery uniquely lends itself to this treatment. The 3-D process for Frank in the 3rd Dimension involved creating more than 150 layers per drawing in order to sculpt each image…
Video Preview: Cheech Wizard’s Book of Me by Bodé
Cheech Wizard’s Book of Me hits comic shops today in all its troops glory. Check out this preview video and order yours at Fantagraphics.com/wizardbookofme A video posted by Fantagraphics Books (@fantagraphics) on Dec 23, 2015 at 2:24pm PST
What’s in Store
At this time of year, as the attention of much of the world turns to events in Palestine 2,000 years ago, it’s instructive to revisit Joe Sacco’s masterwork of comics journalism, Palestine. The book illustrates his observations in Gaza and the West Bank (including the town of Bethlehem) on two trips to the region in the early 1990s. A current reading reveals little has changed in the nearly 25 years since Sacco’s visits. Here’s hoping the new year brings progress on the elusive promise of Peace on Earth. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery will be open on Christmas Eve until…
