Comixology & Fantagraphics Launch Series of Cartoonist-Focused Bundles with Exclusive Content Today sees the launch of four bundles by acclaimed cartoonists, Jaime Hernandez, Chuck Forsman, Tony Millionaire and Peter Bagge available for a limited time across comiXology’s entire platform with a new bundle released every Friday. Each cartoonist bundle will include an exclusive mini comic digitally that is not available anywhere else. Each of today’s cartoonist-focused bundles offers critically acclaimed graphic novels and single issues such as God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls (Jaime Hernandez) Celebrated Summer (Chuck Forsman), Billy Hazelnuts (Tony Millionaire) and Hate # 1-20 (Peter Bagge) at…
REMOVE FROM WISHLIST: PUT THE COMPLETE ZAP ON LAYAWAY TODAY!
Have you always wanted to own the The Complete Zap Comix box set but never thought you could afford it? Well now you can- with the Fantagraphics Layaway Plan. The Complete Zap Comix collects every issue of Zap – every cover, every story, and even the Zam mini comic jam and previously unpublished 17th issue – all in a slipcased, hardcover set! You’ll get not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4 but a total of 5 handsome volumes! Featuring work by Crumb, Moscoco, Wilson, Rodriguez, Shelton, Mavrides, and Williams. Plus, an introduction by founder R. Crumb and an oral history of Zap by Patrick Rosenkranz. Zap is the most…
What’s in Store
Plan your social calendars for a sensational series of events at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery this fall. On Saturday, October 10, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, Warren Bernard presents Cartoons for Victory with an exhibition from his fascinating archive of World War II home front ephemera, a slide talk, reception, and book signing. On Friday, October 30 at 6:00 PM the store hosts Short Run Marathon III featuring work of special guests at the Short Run Comix & Arts Festival including Charles Forsman, Melissa Mendes, Jim Woodring, Krish Raghav, Bruce Bickford, and Sam Alden, with live music by Lisa…
New Comics Wednesday: Terror Assaulter by Benjamin Marra
“Nothing is spared in this searing and hilarious indictment of US foreign policy over the last decade, whether it be neocon philosophy, the state of American masculinity and sexuality or the male power fantasy in escapist entertainment.” – Broken Frontier “A saucy blend of over the top violence, in your face graphics and themes of exploitation movies.” – Comics Beat “It’s an over-the-top tribute to the black-and-white boom of the late ’80s, but OMWOT takes it a step further. It’s the comic that the weird kid in your class would draw after half-watching an “erotic thriller” on cable in 1992,…
What’s in Store
The fun never stops at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. Visit us this weekend and enjoy our wildly entertaining Georgetown arts community while you’re at it. The Georgetown Art Attack on Saturday from 6:00 to 9:00 PM features wonderful visual and performing arts presentations throughout the historic neighborhood, including original drawings from Gina Siciliano’s amazing graphic biography of Artemisia Gentileschi at the bookstore.
Digital Debut: Terror Assaulter
Rain justice down upon your personal reading devices with the digital release of Terror Assaulter (O.M.W.O.T.)
This Week’s Press Highlights
Praise for Chicago by Glenn Head “A titillating, brutal comics memoir… There’s always something pornographic about a good memoir. Even if there’s no actual sex in the tale, we’re still drawn to the forbidden thrill of seeing behind closed doors and witnessing parts of the human experience we’re not supposed to discuss in polite society. We crave the sweet release of seeing someone else be as shitty and stupid as we fear we might be. In his breathtaking new semiautobiographical graphic novel, Chicago, Glenn Head is the best kind of emotional-smut peddler, offering a mouthwatering medley of humiliations, obsessions, jealousies,…
Fantagraphics at SPX 2015
THE premiere small press show is almost upon us! SPX 2015 in Bethesda, MD will be THE place to be come September 19th-20th. Fantagraphics will be there with all the books, guests, and smiling faces you could ever want. Don’t miss the chance to party with us by checking out all the details here:
New Comics Wednesday: Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia
Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia There’s an absence of authority in the town of Alexandria, and the teens are trying to keep their makeshift society together until their parents return. But students keep dying mysteriously, local band The Crotchmen rock the nights away, freshmen palm readers and seers have lines out the door, and Ben Schiller has had it up to HERE with her sister Empathy’s disappearing act. It’s a punk summer vacation that might not make it to fall. “A book that’s relatable, terrifying and an incredible portrait of adolescence.” – Comic Book Resources “Accessible while addressing complex themes,…
What’s in Store
A puzzling Jim Woodring project is featured at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery this week. Cosmocopia includes a full-color print, a Woodring inspired hand-bound novelette by steam punk pioneer Paul Di Filippo, and a 513-piece jigsaw puzzle of a wondrous Woodring image (pictured above). This signed limited edition box set is on sale for $30 while supplies last. Discover treasures like this every time you visit the bookstore.
