Announcing Babel Babel is the long-awaited, unofficial sequel of sorts to David B.’s award- winning masterpiece, Epileptic. A boy’s world is shattered by his brother’s epileptic seizures and his growing awareness of turmoil in warring countries. As in Epileptic, David B. focuses on his relationship with his ailing brother, but delves deeper into their fantasy life and obsession with history. The two become fascinated by the Papuan Wars, and David discovers odd metaphorical parallels between those long-ago events and rituals and his brother’s struggle with his disease. The stunning two-color artwork evokes an extraordinary range of influences, from the boldness…
This Week’s Press Highlights
Praise for Not Funny Ha-Ha “It’s human, humane, and full of information that every person should have and many try to deny people from having. This is the rare book that is bigger than the sum of its parts.” Read more at Large Hearted Boy “It’s not only a beautifully-made and well-actualized book, but it’s also probably the most accessible and relaxed, while still being frank, discussion about abortion that I’ve ever seen…. It feels like Hayes is giving you a reassuring hug and a warm cup of tea and then calmly talking you through what your next few days…
What’s in Store
Prepare to party in Georgetown all weekend. This Friday, August 7 marks the 19th annual Dead Baby Bike Club Downhill Race. The reckless sprint ends in Georgetown about 7:00 PM, which marks the start of an apocalyptic party that includes BMX daredevils, drinking, tall bike jousting, drinking, punk and heavy metal mayhem, drinking, and…more drinking. Free entertainment all evening right outside the bookstore. Return to Seattle’s liveliest neighborhood on Saturday at 5:00 PM for the slightly more sedate Hot Off The Press book fest featuring special guests Noah Van Sciver, Ryan Boudinot, and Gina Siciliano presenting new works….
Stein and Ditko, Digitally
This week’s digital releases include two masterworks: one contemporary, one classic.
Winter 2016 Season Preview: part two
In our previous post we promised we’d reveal a new, upcoming title each day of the week. Today we’re sharing: 5000 KILOMETERS PER SECOND Winner of the prestigious Grand Prize at both the 2010 Angoulême Comics Festival in France and the 2010 Lucca Comics Festival in Italy, 5,000 Kilometers Per Second tells—or almost tells—the love story between Piero and Lucia, which begins with a casual glance exchanged by teenagers across the street through a window and ends with a last, desperate hook-up between two older, sadder one-time lovers. Executed in stunning watercolors and broken down into five chapters (set in…
Show us your piece of #HipHopHistory
Dig through your crates, dig through your pullbox and show us your piece of #HipHopHistory! We want to see your favorite vinyl, posters and band shirts. Upload a pic and tag it with #HipHopHistory and #Fantagraphics for a chance to win a bundle of covetable, collectible variant covers of the brand new monthly Hip Hop Family Tree #1 before it drops.
Fantagraphics Winter 2016 Season Preview
The historic heat wave currently hitting Seattle has us daydreaming about winter. There are so many cool things to look forward to- like wearing sweaters again and spending a lot of rainy days curled up with some good comics. We’ve got some especially fantastic ones set to be published during our Winter 2016 Season and we’ll be introducing a new one each day this week. Today, we’re proud to announce the upcoming: Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
This Week’s Press Highlights
Praise for Hip Hop Family Tree “The amount of research he’s done sets a rather terrifying new standard for anyone else inclined to study the birth of hip-hop…No less brilliant than Piskor’s journalism is his graphical skill.” Read more at NPR “While the stories were great, Ed Piskor’s art may be better. I loved the combination of realistic looks with comic conventions to create a book that looked like a hip hop daydream. I also loved the technique that made the comic look like something that had been in my parent’s basement since 1984 along with all my old records,…
New Comics Wednesday
Is there any better way to spend a sunny summer day than to take some fresh comics to the park? Leaf is the perfect companion for a shady spot under your favorite tree. This all-ages, wordless graphic novel offers a hopeful vision of the coexistence of the urban and natural worlds.
What’s in Store
More exciting news and debuts at our Hot Off the Press book fair at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday, August 8. The Intruder comix collective will publish the Extruder anthology, available for the first time here. Allen Gladfelter will present Casino Nation, a collection of the bankers, bureaucrats, criminals, and politicians responsible for the great recession of 2008 and the income disparity that lingers today. Original artwork from this series will be on display at adjacent All City Coffee. We’ll also have new comix, zines, and books from Noah Van Sciver, Gina Siciliano, Ryan Boudinot, Kelly Froh, Maire Masco,…
