Colorful Comix and a Carnival at Fantagraphics Bookstore

Bookstore Events | May 29, 2015

Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to welcome two exceptional cartoonists on Saturday, June 13 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. Brooklyn-based artist Koren Shadmi will join Seattle cartoonist and educator Greg Stump presenting new works. This event coincides with the 10th annual Georgetown Carnival featuring art, music and more throughout the historic arts community.     

This Week’s Press Highlights

Press Highlights | May 28, 2015

Fantagrahics books and artists have been featured on MTV, XXL, Vulture and more. Hip Hop Family Tree Drops Monthly! “Marvel at hip-hop greatness.” Read more at MTV.com “Though hip-hop and comic book culture have often borrowed from one another, there has been relatively little in the way of direct intersections. Other than one-issue takeovers of existing series, the worlds have remained, for the most part, mutually exclusive. That’s all changing now, with the announcement that Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree will become a monthly comic book series.” Read more at XXL

Fantagraphics at CAKE 2015

Event | May 27, 2015

Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, or CAKE!, is taking place at the Center on Halsted on June 6-7th. We’ve got a run down of new books to check out, favorite cartoonists to meet, and happenings around the show.

What’s in Store

Fantagraphics Book Store & Gallery | May 27, 2015

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

Press Releases | May 26, 2015

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

Press Highlights | May 21, 2015

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

Help Sam Jackson Raise Money for the Huichol People and Get a Free Copy of Jack Jackson’s Los Tejanos

Blog | May 19, 2015

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…