Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery celebrates its 9th anniversary in wild style with the Cheech Wizard Show, Mark Bodé, Laura Knetzger, and more! Our festive holiday gala on Saturday, December 12 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM marks the debut of Cheech Wizard’s Book of Me featuring a fabulous show of tributes to the alluring art of the late Vaughn Bodé and a rare reunion of his extended family. The Cheech Wizard Show includes original drawings by Vaughn and Mark Bodé in addition to an amazing array of local and regional artists: Michael Leavitt premieres a new piece from his ongoing HiPop…
Support Small Business this Saturday at Fantagraphics Bookstore
Small Business Saturday on November 28 encourages consumers to patronize small local shops in response to the breathless hyperbole surrounding “Black Friday.” Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery fully supports this effort (while appreciating the irony of the campaign’s sponsorship by some of the world’s largest corporations.) The bookstore commemorates the occasion in appropriate fashion with an appearance by Seattle cartoonist Colleen Frakes signing copies of her recent small press graphic memoir Prison Island. The book chronicles the artist’s unconventional upbringing on a remote island penitentiary near Tacoma, Washington, where her parents worked in corrections. Join us this Saturday from 6:00…
Not Funny Ha-Ha and Planned Parenthood
The year 2015 has seen some of the most dramatic federal and state challenges to the legal and safe access women have to reproductive and sexual healthcare. At the center of it, Planned Parenthood. A partially federally funded organization that provides specialized healthcare to men and women, and primarily of a lower income. Due to malicious and false attacks against Planned Parenthood, many politicians have sought to defund all of PP via legislative grandstanding and posturing. Even though the “charges” brought against PP’s legality has since been struck down, the damage has been done in many states where they have…
The Captivating Comix of Colleen Frakes at Fantagraphics Bookstore
Seattle cartoonist Colleen Frakes grew up on McNeil Island near Tacoma, Washington – the last functioning federal island penitentiary – where both of her parents worked in corrections. Her unorthodox adolescence is the subject of a new graphic memoir Prison Island. Frakes will sign copies of the book at Fantagraphics Bookstore on Small Business Saturday, November 28 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. The isolation of a small island community magnified the complexities of adolescence. Employing a spare rendering style, it soon becomes clear the convicts weren’t the only people held captive on the remote prison island. Ordinary teenage activities…
The Eternaut: Video Preview
Some books are so handsomely designed that they really need to be observed in video to fully comprehend. Eternaut is one such book and this shiny new English edition will be a welcome addition to your bookshelf. The Eternaut Fantagraphics is proud to publish, for the first time in English, a graphic novel so powerful its main character’s image (much like Che Guevara’s) has become a potent symbol of the endless struggle against oppression; “Juan Salvo” appears on walls and in subways throughout Latin America to this day. This seminal Argentinian science fiction graphic novel was originally released as a serial…
New Comic Book Day!
Humpday is here! And that means shiny new comics are hitting stores right now. You can find the following just-released titles at a local comic book shop or online at Fantagraphics.com Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge Gift Box Set: “Only A Poor Old Man” and The Seven Cities of Gold” by Carl Barks Peanuts Every Sunday Vol. 3 by Charles M. Schulz The Eternaut by Héctor Germán Oesterheld
More Peanuts for Your Digital Collection!
This week’s digital release is Peanuts Every Sunday Vol. 3: 1961–1965. Since their original publication, Peanuts Sundays have almost always been collected and reprinted in black and white. But many who read Peanuts in their original Sunday papers remain fond of the striking coloring, which makes for a surprisingly different reading experience. The early- to mid-1960s strips in our latest volume houses the first golden age of Peanuts Sundays in one gorgeous, full-color book. Linus, Charlie Brown, Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, Sally, Patty, and Schroeder are all present, but the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. Peanuts Every Sunday Vol. 3:…
Wizards and Lizards at Fantagraphics Bookstore
I’m like Vaughn Bodé, I’m a Cheech Wizard, Never quittin’, So won’t you listen. – Beastie Boys, “Sure Shot” The enduring influence of the late Vaughn Bodé is the subject of a fascinating exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery opening Saturday, December 12. The Cheech Wizard Show celebrates the store’s 9th anniversary and the debut of Cheech Wizard’s Book of Me, the most comprehensive volume to date of this amazing American artist. Special guest Mark Bodé will appear to present this important publication. Vaughn Bodé’s mystical motifs became ubiquitous in the underground comix and science fiction scenes of the 1960s…
New Comic Book Day: Dinomania, Ducks, and more!
Dinomania stomps into comic book shops today and it is truly a beast, weighing in at nearly 6 lbs! Winsor McCay fans will delight in the unearthed, never-before-published strip Dino. Author Ulrich Merkl also explores McCay’s influences from movie monsters like King Kong to Gertie the Dinosaur. This book has something for everyone fond of these fantastic creatures. Check out a great preview at Forbidden Planet and pick it up at your local shop or order it from Fantagraphics. Today’s shipment also includes a new volume of adventures from the Dona Rosa Library, “The Last of the Clan McDuck”…
Look ahead: Winter & Summer catalog previews
Curious about upcoming Fantagraphics releases? Check out our 2016 Winter & Summer catalogs, which include details about highly anticipated titles like Dan Clowes’ Patience, Boys Club by Matt Furie and comics anthology Kramer’s Ergot #9. Winter 2016 Summer 2016
