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,…
Humble Bundle: Comics & Books for Music fans
Fantagraphics is proud to announce our participation in the latest Humble Book Bundle; featuring comics and books sure to please any music fan. Two Fantagraphics titles included in this bundle are: Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 1 and Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind.
Digital Releases Highlight the Stimulating, Stirring, and Sidesplitting
A couple of sensational debuts and an out-of-print backlist selection are featured in this week’s digital releases.
