Fantagraphics Blog

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. It's a great week if you like classic comic strips with adventure on the high seas! Read on to see what comics-blog commentators are saying about our releases this week, check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. Buz Sawyer Vol. 1: The War in the Pacific by Roy Crane 240-page black & white/color 9.25" x 9.25" hardcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-362-0 "Beginning another vintage reprint project for Fantagraphics, this time focused on Roy Crane’s post-Wash Tubbs/Captain Easy series, an initially…

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Plug: "The Comics Journal: long known as a magazine where you can look at never before released sketches from R. Crumb next to essays about Wonder Woman’s bondage past next to in-depth interviews with superhero comics auteurs next to oral histories of underground dudes you didn’t even know you were interested in until you read about their entire lives. We could go on that tangent forever, but instead we’ll just direct you here to pre-order." – Sam Hockley-Smith, The Fader • Plug: "In Mezzo and Pirus’ King of the Flies, characters who die in…

Peter Bagge is the subject of a major feature at Spain's largest newspaper, El Mundo. It's all in Spanish and it sure is snazzy.

   Last week, Amazon.com temporarily reduced the price of our $125 Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons to a ridiculously low $30. Several prominent folks, including our old pal Neil Gaiman, tweeted and/or blogged about it, and at one point on Monday night, the book had risen to #16 on Amazon's sales charts for ALL books, and to #1 in the bargain books category. Somehow, this led to the following actual, real email exchange about the comic strip Dilbert. A week later, the debate rages on. In other words: Just Another Week at Fantagraphics Books. Kim Thompson wrote: That Bargain Books section is…

Minneapolis comics maven Sarah Morean recently visited Zak Sally's studio with Tom Kaczynski and documented the occasion with a bunch of photos and the brief video above. O, the sights! View the full set of photos here.

Peter Bagge could be doing a sketch for YOU! // This pic taken at SDCC 2010. Can you imagine?… getting your books signed by the great Peter Bagge?!  You can make it a reality this weekend, Friday, March 4th – Sunday, March 6th, at the 9th Annual Emerald City Comicon! (Tickets still available at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Georgetown!) Swing by the Fantagraphics booth at space #808 on Saturday, March 5th from 10:00 am to Noon. Bagge will be signing copies of the latest Hate Annual #8, and additional works, such as Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me…

MONTE SCHULZ TOURS WEST COAST IN MARCH TO PROMOTE THE RELEASE OF THE NEW NOVEL, THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER   SEATTLE, WA, FEB. 2, 2011 — This March, Fantagraphics Books will publish The Last Rose of Summer, a novel by Monte Schulz. To support the release, the author will tour several cities on the West Coast in late-February and March: Sat., Feb. 26, 4PM • Tecolote Book Shop, Santa Barbara, CATues., March 1, 7:30PM • Warwick's Books, La Jolla, CAThurs., March 3, 6:30PM • Bay Books, Coronado, CAFri., March 4, 6PM • Latitude 33 Bookshop, Laguna Beach, CASun., March 6, 5PM • Skylight Books, Los Angeles,…

The work of French cartoonist Jacques Tardi was introduced to American audiences more than three decades ago. His work was championed by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly, who included him in their prestigious RAW anthology in the early 1980s. For the remainder of the century, several North American publishers endeavored to draw attention to Tardi. Yet with the exception of the alternative comics cognoscenti, his work remained marginalized in the United States. Only with the persistence of Seattle-based Fantagraphics Books — who have published no fewer than five Tardi titles in the past 2 years – has this acknowledged genius…

Hey, remember that cover art for Wandering Son (Hourou Musuko) Vol. 1 by Shimura Takako that we were so excited to debut last week? Well it turns out we were a little TOO excited as the version we showed you was incorrectly cropped. Here's the corrected version above; we've also fixed it in the original post, which contains more information about the book. Sorry about that folks!