Please note- the sale is NOT taking place at our bookstore in Georgetown, but rather, our headquarters in Roosevelt. Directions: From I-5 heading north you will get off on the Lake City Way exit shortly after the university. You will make a left at the first light, NE 80th St. And then a rather quick left again, on 11th Ave. NE. About a block down, we will be the big red barn-like house on your left, with a chain link fence around the property. Residential area. Street parking is limited. Bike, bus and carpool when possible. Getting directions? Put in…
Two years ago today
We miss you Kim.
This Week’s Press Highlights
Praise for Black River “Black River, unlike the many other post-apocalyptic stories, doesn’t give its reader the satisfaction of a glimmer of hope. Nothing is going to get better. No one is going to survive.” Sequential Slate “It’s this molasses drip of eventuality that Simmons hooks us on, demonstrating that humanity may morph into its simplest and truest form when the darkest of hours is upon us.” Cleaver Magazine Praise for Ofelia: A Love and Rockets Book “Engrossing, sexually explicit, violent, and satirical.” Booklist June 17, 2015 Praise for Wandering Son Vol. 8 “Wandering Son won critical acclaim for its…
Graham and Gilbert Go Digital!
This week, our digital offerings through comiXology include Graham Ingels’ new EC collection and Gilbert Hernandez’s innovative issue of Blubber.
What’s in Store
If you arrived at Fantagraphics Bookstore moments after Daniel Clowes was seated for his signing in April, you missed your chance to pick up an advance copy of The Complete Eightball. All 30 copies of the handsome slipcase volume were snatched up within minutes. We finally have them back in stock. Relive your misspent youth, or discover the appeal of these deranged comix if you were too young to fully appreciate them when first released. We still have a sizable selection of original Eightball comic books as well as collections from the series like Ghost World, Caricature, and Like a…
New Comics Wednesday
The long wait is finally over. The Complete Eightball 1-18 by Daniel Clowes is in stores now! Praise for The Complete Eightball 1-18: “Daniel Clowes is…widely considered a one-man embodiment of nineties cool.” – The New Yorker “With an acrid storytelling voice and a clean, spare drawing style, Mr. Clowes used Eightball… to skewer pop culture, spin surrealistic horrors and sympathetically portray youth adrift.” – The New York Times “A comic book that eviscerated the medium.” – Publisher’s Weekly Best Books of Summer 2015 “A better-than-perfect facsimile of an iconic comic book.” – Boing Boing “Clowes’s comics work is as vital as it’s…
Fantagraphics Garage Sale
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Heroes Con 2015
Called America’s Favorite Comic Book Convention, Heroes Con of Charlotte, NC certainly knows how to pull a crowd of fans and artists. While Fantagraphics themselves won’t be there, we highly highly recommend you check out some of our artists who’ll be learning some Southern charm this coming weekend.
New this week: Blubber #1
New this week: Blubber #1 by Gilbert Hernandez Featuring six mostly wordless, thoroughly surreal adventures featuring a cast of misfits, monsters, and anthropomorphs that could only spring from the id of the great Hernandez Get it online at Fantagraphics.com or at your local comic retailer. “Blubber highlights the amazing longevity and tireless creativity that marks out Gilbert Hernandez as one of our living comics treasures.” –Broken Frontier “Does it matter what they’re about? No, and you want to be surprised anyway, because it’s Beto and he’s going to take you on a wild ride anyway. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.” – 13th Dimension
San Diego Comic-Con 2015: The Debuts
Can’t make it to comic-con? You can pre-order debut titles on Fantagraphics.com 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. In stores September 2015 …
