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.
National Hot Dog Day
Today is National Hot Dog Day! The Fantagraphics staff (*cough, hard working interns, cough*) have taken this occasion to scour the archives for those tasty mystery meats treats appearing in our comics. We found dogs all overThe Complete Eightball, Megg Mogg Owl and Wally Gropius. Suggested ways to celebrate: Though you can no longer visit the (appetizingly-named) Funhole in Seattle, you can still recreate your own Jim Woodring hot dog by topping it with Pineapple, cream cheese & Sriracha. Sounds pretty good TBH. Also read the full cautionary tale “The Hot Dog with the Open Packaging” on Vice
This Week’s Press Highlights
Praise for The Complete Eightball “A lovingly restored two-volume collection of Daniel Clowes’s seminal comic book series, gives readers old and new a chance to reassess the great cartoonist’s work, allowing them to trace back the roots of later masterpieces and to enjoy some of the caustic, experimental, and just plain strange short stories.” Read more at The Comics Journal Praise for Jason’s If You Steal “Full of pop culture kitsch, genre-mashing experimentation, and quiet ennui-heavy contemplation” Read more at Comic Book Resource Praise for Dörfler “In Dörfler, his debut graphic novel from Fantagraphics, Pittsburgh-based cartoonist Jeremy Baum…
New Book Wednesday: The Octopus Rises & Fante Bukowski
The Octopus Rises by Ryan Boudinot Man, I had so many stab wounds, it was crazy. There I was at the conference center, and I hadn’t even adequately prepared my presentation. And so begins “Bleeding Man and Wounded Deer,” one of the stories in this collection of literary short fiction from the pen of acclaimed Seattle novelist Ryan Boudinot. Bouncing among experimental fiction, absurdist farce, paranoid futurism, and stinging satirical and stinging satire, Boudinot’s comic, inventive prose lays bare the hopes and anxieties of our age. From a heartbreaking and pitch-perfect account of the end of Bert and Ernie’s relationship,…
What’s in Store
Our Hot Off the Press fest on Saturday, August 8 will feature an amazing array of local artists in addition to special guest Noah Van Sciver, a prominent force in the minicomics movement. This event marks the debut of Desperate Times: The Summer of 1981, edited by Maire Masco. This essential Seattle zine was widely recognized for printing the first reference to “grunge” in a letter penned by future Fantagraphics staffer and Mudhoney front man Mark Arm to describe his then-imaginary band Mr. Epp and the Calculations. The six issues of this 25-cent tabloid serve as a time capsule of…
We Were Reading Fante Bukowski Digitally Before It Was Cool
One of today’s most prestigious and prolific cartoonists, Noah Van Sciver, is back. You can download and (unironically) love his new book on your own personal reading device starting today.
Comics Reporter interview Sammy Harkham on Crickets, Kramers and more
“I met the cartoonist and editor Sammy Harkham at a Comic-Con International either late in the period of my working at Fantagraphics or just after. I was younger then; Harkham was legitimately young. His Kramers Ergot series was on its first or second issue then. When the fourth volume of the anthology dropped in 2003, it was one of the stand up and notice moments that comics wasn’t going to let the previous decade’s industry-driven frustrations rob the art form of its momentum. Thoughtful and consistently of a high quality on the page, Kramers has gone on to become what many…
This Week’s Press Highlights
Praise for Leah Hayes’ Not Funny Ha-Ha on Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Cosmopolitan, Bitch Media, MTV, Ravishly, Bust, and Publisher’s Weekly- “Hayes’ illustrations are straightforward and witty. She defines technical terms and medical processes, while still managing to capture the deeply personal, human side of the reproductive decisions a woman makes.” Read more at Huffington post “Conveys a feeling of comfort and openness, while also conveying the weight of the topic.” Read more at BuzzFeed “The book explains medical jargon and breaks down the physical process of having a termination, while still offering a very human portrayal of the experience.” Read…
