Fantagraphics Blog

Xaime! Beto! Mario! My favorite photo of the Con: a next-generation fan enjoying a comic by a next-generation artist (Natalia's The Cat Eyes #1)! It became a daily thrill seeing what Moto Hagio would draw on our whiteboard for each of her signings: Stephen DeStefano was very generous with fans: Final done-in-one Day 4 update coming soon…

Online Commentary & Diversions: • Tunes: At Largehearted Boy, Cathy Malkasian provides a musical playlist for her new graphic novel Temperance • Interview: Snap Judgment's Stephanie Foo talks to Mome contributors Jon Adams & Robert Goodin, among others, about their superhero juvenilia in a slideshow with audio • History: At Comics Comics, Tim Hodler posts a 1954 letter from Charles M. Schulz to Walt Kelly provided by Jeet Heer • Plug: Eat, Sleep & Read! spotlights Artichoke Tales by Megan Kelso • Comic-Con: For MTV IGGY, Deb Aoki covers Moto Hagio's appearance at Comic-Con: "Besides signing copies of her new…

My name is Eric, and I'm a recovering Comicon attendee. Okay, that's a loaded opener and implies that I had an unhappy experience this year. I didn't; I just couldn't resist. But my way of navigating the show and finding ways to make it more enjoyable have definitely evolved over the years. I've been to every Comic-Con but one since sometime in the early-to-mid-1980s (and I'm only 39 — you do the math), long before the current convention center was built. I've gone as a child, an adult, a fan, a retailer representative, a journalist, a publicist, and a publisher….

Georgetown Records and Fantagraphics Bookstore Host a Party for COVER STORY: Odd, Obscure and Outrageous Album Art on Saturday, August 14. Spend a hot August night with cool music and art at Georgetown Records and Fantagraphics Bookstore in Seattle. The party celebrates the publication of COVER STORY Volume Two: Odd, Obscure and Outrageous Album Art on Saturday August 14 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Contributors Aja West and Cheeba preside over the festivities with a show of album art from the book, a book signing, and a rare combined DJ appearance. COVER STORY Volume Two: Odd, Obscure and Outrageous Album…

Barry Windsor-Smith fans, we are pleased to share the following announcement with you: Windsor-Smith Studio is pleased to announce the publication of POETRY A stunningly colored work printed by the giclée process, making the reproduction as beautiful as the original painting. This signed and numbered limited edition of 375, in a deluxe, foil stamped presentation folder, features a 20" x 12 3/8" image on 22" x 15" UltraSmooth heavy 100% cotton rag, acid free & pH buffered paper. The price is $135, including insured shipping. POETRY is available from Glimmer Graphics, at their web site:http://www.glimmergraphicsprints.com/Poetry.html  

Jamie Coville of TheComicBooks.com has posted audio of several panels at Comic-Con 2010, including: the Spotlight on Moto Hagio (MP3); the Spotlight on Peter Bagge (MP3); the Comics Criticism panel with R.C. Harvey, Gary Groth and others, moderated by Ben Schwartz (MP3); the Comics Reprints Revolution panel with Gary Groth and others (MP3); and the Bill Everett panel with Blake Bell & Wendy Everett (MP3). Thanks to Blake Bell for the tip-off! Illustration swiped from Johnny Ryan's Facebook page.

We packed three powerhouses of alternative comics behind one table and the result was one of our busiest signings in a week full of busy signings! Peter Bagge was kept busy by a long line of fans requesting sketches of Bizarro, Buddy Bradley and so on: He also used the occiasion to debut his band's new CD! Dame Darcy brought along her usual assortment of lovely couture dolls and other merch: Poor Tony Millionaire got lost in the convention hall for a while but quickly settled in for a brisk round of signatures and Drinky Crow sketches: Tony was joined…

Our Saturday morning kicked off, appropriately enough, with Mitch Schauer & Mike Vosburg, co-creators of our new all-ages graphic novel RIP M.D. Next up, Blake Bell, Andrei Molotiu (seen here talking with Douglas Wolk I believe) and Ben Schwartz & son joined us: Here's Ben meeting actor James Urbaniak, whom you may remember from his portrayal of Crumb in American Splendor and whose voice you may recognize as that of Dr. Thaddeus Venture: Tim Hensley met eager fans, hawked copies of his Victor Banana CDs, and signed copies of Wally Gropius: Carol Tyler brought some amazing collectibles to sell, including…

Twitter user Jesse Mack posted this glimpse of Michael Kupperman's artwork from The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex by Kristen Schaal & Rich Blomquist (who, Kupperman notes, met working on Kupperman's Snake 'n' Bacon Adult Swim pilot). In closely related news, Kupperman also notes that he contributed as a writer to the book Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk. And in a last bit of Kuppermanic news, he has the following piece in the Law & Order-themed art show "These Are Their Stories" at Gallery Meltdown in L.A. opening tonight at 8: