What’s in Store

Bookstore Events | June 17, 2015

 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

Books | June 17, 2015

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…

Heroes Con 2015

Event | June 15, 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 Comics Wednesday | June 12, 2015

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

Event | June 12, 2015

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        …

This Week’s Press Highlights

Blog | June 4, 2015

Read interviews with Fanta artists like Daniel Clowes, Josh Simmons, Richard Sala, Les McCann and Ed Luce. R. Crumb writes for WSJ, Hip Hop Family Tree drops monthly and Bleeding Cool tries to predict Eisner winners + more great reviews!

This Week in Fanta Events 6.2-6.7

Event | June 3, 2015

Thursday, June 4th Portland, OR – Floating World Comics is hosting a spectacular art show and book signing this Thursday with comics heavy-weight, Ed Luce to coincide with the recent release of the hardcover Wuvable Oaf collection (in stores now!) Floating World is one of our favorite comic shops in the whole wide world, and we love when they host our favorite artists in the whole wide world. What I’m trying to say is there’s going to be a lot of love at this art show and signing, and you’ll want to get in on this. Festivities run from 6-8…