This edition of What’s in Store focuses on Who’s in Store, a brief look at the culture mavens staffing Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. On Sundays from 11:30 to 5:00 PM, and during most special events, we have the lovely and talented Janice Headley behind the counter. Janice specializes in contemporary comix, independent music, and esoteric popular culture. When she’s not at the store, Janice supervises social media for listener powered KEXP FM. (You’ll often hear her lilting voice on station promotional spots.) Her commitment to comix is demonstrated by her role as co-organizer of the phenomenally successful Short Run Comix…
Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree to Drop Monthly
MAY 26, 2015—SEATTLE, WA—Deconstructed: The New York Times best-selling book series Hip Hop Family Tree is making its debut as a monthly comic book with new covers, splash pages, a “director’s commentary” by Ed Piskor that traces the creator’s motivations, processes, and research involved in making this masterpiece—plus other surprises! Hip Hop Family Tree is the first monthly comic in Fantagraphics’ 39-year history. The first issue traces the very beginning of hip-hop: it spotlights the breakdancers, graffiti artists, DJs, and MCs who formed hip-hop culture in the tenement rec rooms of the south Bronx in the 1970s. Readers will discover who…
This Week’s Press Highlights
Fantagraphics Books and Artists are featured in Paste Magazine, the A.V. Club and more! Praise for Wuvable Oaf– “Luce has done considerable work to fully immerse the audience in this world, and hopefully it won’t be too long a wait before he invites readers back to spend more time with Oaf and his eclectic group of friends.” Read more at A.V. Club
FU News!
Two new publications are on the horizon for Fantagraphics Underground…
What’s in Store
Welcome to “What’s in Store,” the first of a weekly column highlighting comix, artists, and activities at the fabulous Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle. And we do have a lot in store this summer. Make your vacation plans now.
New Comics Wednesday: May 20th, 2015
March or wander into your local comic book shop to pick up the latest releases from Fantagraphics. Out today: Wandering Son Vol. 8 Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Vol. 7: “March of the Zombies” Find a store near you: http://www.comicshoplocator.com/storelocator
Help Sam Jackson Raise Money for the Huichol People and Get a Free Copy of Jack Jackson’s Los Tejanos
Sam Jackson is following in the honorable footsteps of his father —Jack Jackson, the great underground cartoonist and graphic historian and documentarian— in more ways than one: he is an artist and a man of conscience. The tribal lands of the Huichol people are currently, to quote from their web site, “under siege by mining companies and agro business polluters who have illegally obtained land, water and mining rights. While the Huichols hold title to their lands in their mountain homeland, they do not have formal title to the sacred sites on these desert lands that they consider to be…
Wuvable Oaf at Secret Headquarters
Great things are happening this Friday in Los Angeles, because Ed Luce is going to be signing copies of the recently released Wuvable Oaf collection in all it’s hardcover glory at Secret Headquarters.
Photographer and Writer Seth Kushner Passes Away
We at Fantagraphics offer our deepest condolences to the family of Seth Kushner, who passed away on May 17th, 2015. Seth was a deeply talented and inspirational photographer, writer and friend of comics who was able to capture a depth and creativity through his portraiture that few could. Best illustrated through the collaborative book, Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origin of American Comics, Kushner told an evocative story of his subjects like Jaime Hernandez, Peter Bagge, and Dash Shaw through his photography. He is also the co-creator of online publications like Trip City, and Graphic NYC, and numerous other projects. After…
Daniel Clowes at Meltdown Comics
May, 14 2015 – Daniel Clowes will be at making his first Los Angeles appearance in several years at Meltdown Comics on June 5th to celebrate the release of The Complete Eightball, a two-volume collection of the influential and iconic comic book series, from Fantagraphics Books. On Friday, June 5th, from 6-10 PM, Meltdown will be opening its Los Angeles doors to fans new and decades strong for a night complete with prizes, a book signing, costume contest, and an interview between Clowes and Mark Frauenfelder from Boing Boing. Entry will be free with the purchase of Eightball
