Want to win a giant stocking stuffed with all the best books from Fantagraphics? Enter our Naughty or Nice contest! What you can win: Naughty list (18+): Nice list (all ages): How to Enter 1. Choose whether you’d like to win the Naughty or Nice stocking 2. Share the photo on Twitter, Facebook and/or Instagram. Tag it #NaughtyFTW or #NiceFTW. Each post = 1 entry. 3. Tag a friend That’s it! Contest Rules Entry period: December 9th -December 16th. Be sure to follow us on social so we can tag you as the winner. Winners will be selected at random from qualifying…
What’s in Store (Best of 2015 Edition)
It’s time that I select my favorite comix of 2015. Lots of incredible books to choose from this year. I was particularly impressed with the quality of self-published and small press editions, which I’ll list separately on the bookstore’s Facebook page. – Larry Reid, Curator, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery Black Light: The World of L.B. Cole. The colorful covers of golden age comix are the focus of this exceptional and long overdue volume on mid-century master L. B. Cole. Essential. We Are Gypsies Now. Tacoma-born media artist Danielle de Picciotto chronicles her nomadic adventures with husband and collaborator…
Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter
Derek Van Gieson’s Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter is part fine-art book, part travelogue documenting the author’s turbulent and fruitful period of time spent in New York City. Through drawings, paintings, photography, and short fiction, Van Gieson delivers an intense experience wrought with heartbreak, joy, destruction, perseverance, and whimsy. Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter echoes influences of seminal artists like George Grosz and Richard Brautigan through its unique ability to entertain and engross. Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter is sure to serve as an art object, conversation piece, and a well-worn carry-on for years to come. “One of the…
Eternaut art on display in Berlin
“Mafalda and Eternauta are Saving the world” – the critical Art of Argentinian comics, is an impressive installation/projection on display now through January 17th, in Berlin. “Immigration, Art and Politics are the DNA of Argentinian Comic-Artists. One is an Argentinian with german roots, one was born in Paraguay. A third one is italian, a fourth one from Uruguay. The next is from Andalucia and the last one has roots in Libanon and Malaga. We are talking about the writer Hèctor Germán Oesterheld, the Artist Francisco Solano López, about Hugo Pratt Alberto Breccia, Quino and Miguel Rep. They are…
Good Grief! All Peanuts Products 20% Off at Fantagraphics Bookstore!
Fantagraphics Bookstore commemorates the 50th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas television special by offering 20% off all Peanuts products through Christmas Eve. With over 50 popular Peanuts titles in stock, you’re sure to find the perfect affordable gift for everyone on your list. How the cantankerous Peanuts characters came to be so closely associated with Christmas was serendipitous. In his introduction to The Complete Peanuts 1963 – 1964, animator Bill Melendez recalls he and Charles Schulz received a call from producer Lee Mendelson saying “he had just sold a Peanuts Christmas show…and we both asked him what show was…
New Comic Book Day!
In stores this week: Violenzia by Richard Sala Hip Hop Family Tree #4 by Ed Piskor The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958 (Paperback) by Charles M. Schulz The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958 Gift Box Set (Paperback) by Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Every Sunday: The 1950’s Box Set by Charles M. Schulz
New Digital Releases from Piskor and Sala
Nobody else in comics is able to express the past so kinetically as Ed Piskor or the macabre so masterfully as Richard Sala. They are both here this week with new digital debuts! Ed Piskor’s monthly Hip Hop Family Tree continues with issue #4 this week. The installment climaxes with the legendary rap battle confrontation between Kool Moe Dee and Busy Bee Starski, but also features Grandmaster Flash and the growing influence of Sugar Hill Records. Oh, and Blondie plays “Rapture” on something new called MTV too. Read Hip Hop Family Tree #4 on your own personal reading device through…
Happy Holidays from Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics wishes you an anxiety-free holiday! Panel from Nancy Likes Christmas by Ernie Bushmiller
New Comic Book Day
Two new classics hit comic book shelves today! Look for Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Vol. 8: The Tomorrow Wars (also available as a gift set with Vol.7) and Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant Vol. 12: 1959-1960 When a magic cloak sends Mickey to the future, he expects to see wild high-tech innovations — but he didn’t count on high-tech warlord Pegleg Pete, whose robot Mekka Men hold the World of Tomorrow in an iron grip. It’s up to Mickey, Minnie, and fembot femme-fatale Mimi to end this electronic enemy’s reign of terror! Floyd Gottfredson, artist of Mickey Mouse from 1930-1975, created…
Two New Magnum Opuses Go Digital
This week’s digital releases include the English translation of The Eternaut and Carol Tyler’s Soldier’s Heart. That’s a lot to be thankful for! Fantagraphics is proud to present, for the first time in English, a graphic novel so powerful its main character’s image has become a potent symbol of the endless struggle against oppression — The Eternaut by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López. This seminal Argentine science fiction graphic novel was originally released as a serial strip from 1957–59. Juan Salvo, its inimitable protagonist, along with his friend Professor Favalli and the tenacious metalworker Franco, face what appears…
