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 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…

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…

Cheech Wizard and Hip Hop Digitally

Cheech Wizard and hip hop have always made a perfect pair, so it’s fitting that they are the subjects of today’s digital releases. Once upon a time at two-thirty in the afternoon, on the enchanted island of York, lived a Wizard… a mild-mannered, lovable Wizard who wore a big hat to mask his true identity. But who is under the hat? Who is Cheech Wizard? Vaughn Bode created Cheech in 1956 and the character remained a constant companion for the rest of Bode’s life, surfacing in his college papers, underground comix, the National Lampoon, and in the world of graffiti…

Daniel Clowes “Patience” Book Tour

  Arriving in March 2016 Daniel Clowes travels America to celebrate the release of Patience, the most anticipated graphic novel of 2016! Patience is the first all new, original graphic novel from Daniel Clowes (Ghost World) in over a half-decade, and also the biggest and most ambitious book yet in a storied career that includes multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards, a PEN Award, and an Academy Award nomination. Patience is an indescribable psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially “Clowesian,” and utterly unique in the author’s body of…

Josh Cotter at Comix Experience

 Comix Experience in San Francisco boasts an impressive lineup of guests and books that have been a part of their monthly graphic novel club. Artists such as Liz Suburbia, Neil Gaiman, Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba, and Ryan North have joined book club members either in store or via simulcast for a discussion and Q&A about their work. We’re very pleased that the February special guest will be Josh Cotter with his soon to be released, Nod Away. Cotter will be in store to do a public signing beginning at 6 PM, and then a private meeting for club members…