Fantagraphics Blog

Presenting a brand new book from our good friends at Rosebud Archives: Skippy Vs. the Mob. "This important new book collects, for the first time, the only continuity Percy Crosby ever drew in his widely-syndicated Skippy comics, and features a comprehensive essay by the artist’s courageous daughter, chronicling an astonishing history of fraud, persecution, and betrayal. Here, for the first time, is a story ripped from the headlines — a spiraling saga that grew far too large for one man to handle." Rosebud's Jonathan Barli showed me a copy at the MoCCA fest last weekend and it is a beautifully…

Can Johnny Ryan's crack commando squad rescue a commercial pitch-man from the clutches of Satan's underworld? Find out at Vice Magazine. (And see more of Johnny's Vice comics in the new collection Take a Joke!)

At his Here There Be Monsters blog, Drew Weing has a nice little announcement about his acclaimed hit book Set to Sea going back to press for a second printing. So, if you're currently having a hard time finding the book (though we do still have mail-order copies), it should be widely available again before too long.

Photos of the Daniel Clowes exhibition that just opened at this year's Fumetto comics festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, by Erika Clowes at DanielClowes.com.

R. Crumb illustration of B.B. King, 2001, newly produced as a limited-edition etching by Wildwood Serigraphs. Already sold out, but still a feast for the eyes.

The latest Drew Friedman showbiz portrait available in a limited edition from Drew Friedman Fine Art Prints is of TV comedy pioneer Ernie Kovacs. As always, the description includes a finely-written bio of the subject by Irwin Chusid.

You can help Dash Shaw make his animated feature film The Ruined Cast and receive some great pledge gifts (including having your likeness drawn as an "extra" and having a private movie screening with co-producer/filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell if you're a richie-pants) by contributing funds via Kickstarter. Why does Dash need to raise money this way? So he can raise more money. He explains: "We’re raising the resources to get the project in its best shape to present to production financiers. We’re making a movie that's difficult to compare to another, so the burden of proof is on us to…

Inspired by Robert Crumb's recent visit to New York City, Drew Friedman drew this portrait of Crumb in Times Square and wrote a brief appreciation of the man for Vanity Fair.

The Peter Bagge art show currently on display at Scott Eder Gallery in Brooklyn is online for viewing, with some great pieces still available for buying. Above: original art for the back cover of Neat Stuff #2.

A new pin-up by Beto, from the collection of Steven Weissman.