We are pleased to bring you "Diaflogue," a new semi-regular series of exclusive Q&As with Fantagraphics artists conducted by various members of our staff! Leading things off: Peter Bagge interviewed by Larry “The Love God” Reid, curator and events coordinator for Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. We’re anxiously awaiting the arrival of HATE ANNUAL #8. Can we expect the responsibilities of parenthood to have an effect on the maturity of Buddy and Lisa? Yes — or an effect on their immaturity. As a father yourself, how much of your child-rearing experience will we find reflected in Buddy? Lots. The big difference,…
Now in stock: It Was the War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardi
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: It Was the War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardi 120-page black & white 7.75" x 10.5" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-353-8 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, has long been an obsession of Jacques Tardi’s. (His very first — rejected — comics story dealt with the subject, as does his most recent work, the two-volume Putain de Guerre.) But It Was the War of the trenches is Tardi’s defining, masterful statement on the subject, a graphic novel…
Now in stock: Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Classic Pin-Up Art of Jack Cole (Softcover Ed.) By Jack Cole; edited by Alex Chun 104-page b&w/color 7.5" x 10.25" softcover • $18.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-284-5 Add to Cart • More Info & Previews In the rarefied realm of classic cartoon pin-up art, nobody did it better than Jack Cole. With his quirky line drawings and sensual watercolors, Cole, under Hugh Hefner's guiding hand, catapulted to stardom in the 1950s as Playboy's marquee cartoonist, a position he held until his untimely death at the age of 43. Jack Cole has been justly…
Now in stock: Penny Century: A Love and Rockets Book by Jaime Hernandez
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Penny Century: A Love and Rockets Book (Love and Rockets Library — Locas Book 4) By Jaime Hernandez 240-page black & white 7.5" x 9.25" softcover • $18.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-342-2Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Picking up right after Perla La Loca, the third volume of the definitive “Maggie” series repackaging, this compilation of stories from Jaime Hernandez’s solo comic Penny Century and his subsequent return to Love and Rockets (Volume II) charts the further lives of his beloved “Locas.” But first… wrestling! Penny Century starts off with a blast…
Now in stock: High Soft Lisp (Love and Rockets Book 25) by Gilbert Hernandez
Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: High Soft Lisp (Love and Rockets Book 25) By Gilbert Hernandez 144-page black & white 6.5" x 9.75" softcover • $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-318-7Add to Cart • More Info & Previews While supplies last this book is available with a signed bookplate (pictured below) as a FREE premium! “Five six. Hundred twenty-eight pounds. Forty-three twenty-two thirty-six. High soft lisp. Genius level I.Q.” That’s how motivational speaker Mark Herrera sums up Rosalba “Fritz” Martinez, bombshell, former punkette, former psychiatrist, “Z” movie star — in this supremely sexy, constantly surprising graphic novel. And Herrera…
Now in stock: The Complete Peanuts 1975-1976 (Vol. 13) by Charles M. Schulz
Arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to North American customers: The Complete Peanuts 1975-1976 (Vol. 13) By Charles M. Schulz 344-page black & white 8.5" x 7" hardcover • $28.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-345-3Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Good grief, Charlie Brown, we're halfway there! That’s right! With this volume, The Complete Peanuts reaches the halfway point of Charles M. Schulz’s astounding half-century run on the greatest comic strip of all time. These years are especially fecund in terms of new canine characters, as Snoopy is joined by his wandering brother Spike (from Needles), his beloved sister…
Now in stock: Sand & Fury: A Scream Queen Adventure by Ho Che Anderson
Arrived at our warehouse and ready to ship: Sand & Fury: A Scream Queen Adventure By Ho Che Anderson 144-page two-color 7.5" x 9" softcover • $16.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-321-7Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Sand & Fury is a story of blood, of sex, of death — of sound and retribution. It opens as a girl by the side of a desert road accepts a ride from a stranger. How could she know that behind that wheel sits the angel of death? Of course, even the angel of death once had a life. During that life, death was a…
Now in stock: King of the Flies Vol. 1: Hallorave by Mezzo & Pirus
Arrived at our warehouse and ready to ship: King of the Flies Vol. 1: Hallorave By Mezzo & Pirus 64-page full-color 9" x 12.5" hardcover • $18.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-320-0Add to Cart • More Info & Previews Set in a suburb that is both nowhere and everywhere, King of the Flies is a glorious bastard, combining the intricacy and subtlety of the best European graphic novels with a hyperdetailed, controlled noir style derived from the finest American cartoonists. Mezzo and Pirus, previously best known in Europe for a series of cynical, brutal gangster stories, have abandoned their guns and gals for this…
New Comics Day 3/31/10
A heaping helping of Fantagraphics is due to arrive in comic shops this week. More info and your rundown of blogospheric plugs follows: High Soft Lisp (Love and Rockets Book 25) By Gilbert Hernandez 144-page black & white 6.5" x 9.75" softcover • $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-318-7 At Comics Alliance, Douglas Wolk calls it "The most riveting, chilling graphic novel I've read so far this year" and "a great, shockingly dark piece of work." At Comics Comics, Joe McCulloch describes this correctly as "the newest of Fantagraphics ‘classic’ line of tall(-ish), thin(ner) softcovers, an all-Beto book collecting short stories featuring the…
Diaflogue: Peter Bagge exclusive Q&A
This interview originally appeared on Flog! The Fantagraphics Blog. –Ed. We’re anxiously awaiting the arrival of HATE ANNUAL #8. Can we expect the responsibilities of parenthood to have an effect on the maturity of Buddy and Lisa? Yes — or an effect on their immaturity. As a father yourself, how much of your child-rearing experience will we find reflected in Buddy? Lots. The big difference, as always, is that I was the father of a 5-year-old 15 years ago, while Buddy is going through it now, so there are different references and cultural touchstones here and there. The gist is…
