Fantagraphics Blog

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Like a Dog By Zak Sally One man’s heartfelt and irreverent record of his time on this rock, Zak Sally’s unflinchingly veracious book, Like a Dog, is both direct and oblique, which we find rather miraculous considering the messy and murky waters of human experience it manages to navigate. Like a Dog is among the few comic book testimonials burdened by the yen to understand and articulate the mundane and the magnificent. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself laughing and crying as you claw your way through each hard fought…

We are pleased to debut a brand new weekly strip in this week's webcomics update: The House of No by Mome contributor Derek Van Gieson! These are Derek's rejected New Yorker cartoons, and we'll be adding a new one every week. We'll leave it up to you to guess why they were turned down — for our money, they're pretty damn funny. And in our veteran strips: All-y all-y in-come-free! It's this week's Blecky Yuckerella strip by Johnny Ryan…. …and the Zip-a-Toned adventures of Barack H. Obama continue in this week's strip from Steven Weissman!

Happy day-before-Halloween — lots of treats in today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Bookmark: And I thought I was thorough! Hats off to Love and Rockets fan blog Love & Maggie, your one stop for comprehensive L&R/Hernandez Bros. link gathering, commentary and more (hat tip to Mike Sterling) • Profile: Newcity's Beatrice Smigasiewicz talks to Paul Hornschemeier about the conclusion of his Mome serial "Life with Mr. Dangerous" and other topics: “People are routinely surprised to find that in person I joke around all the time and am obsessed with comedy: they think that I must walk around in a…

The lovely and talented Dame Darcy will be gracing the fair city of Seattle for the Seattle International Cabaret Festival. Come enjoy music, a reading of Meat Cake, cabaret, and short films. Details follow, and check Dame Darcy's blog for all her latest news. Can Can Presents Seattle International Cabaret Festival Dame Darcy featured at Pensione Nichols (a Victorian Bed and Breakfast where we are doing parlour shows) 1923 1st Ave. downtown Near Pike Place market. These shows are early in the evening because the Cabaret shows are later at a selection of Related Venues. "Poe's Peculiar Parlour" shows will…

And, yes, that gag is on page 666 of our stupifying collection of the master cartoonist's Playboy work.

(click image to enlarge) See part 1 for more info about the book.

Monte Schulz will be participating in a real-time tweetchat today, hosted by LitChat from 4PM-5PM EST. Follow Monte on Twitter, or use tweetchat and the "#LitChat" hashtag. 

In light of our announcement about the newly revamped, semi-annual version of The Comics Journal debuting next year, we have new subscription options available for 6-issue (3 year) and 3-issue (18 month) subscriptions. Also, we are ceasing to offer online-only subscriptions. If you are a current subscriber, details about the transition from your old subscription to your new one have been sent to you in the mail. We've made sure that, in every case, current subscribers will come out ahead on the deal. Going forward, all new subscriptions will begin with the first issue of our new expanded semi-annual edition,…

We recently received the following email: "Hello, my name is Daniel Maw and I am a graduate art student at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Recently, I worked with some of my fellow graduate colleagues (we range in age from 23 to 31) to curate a show highlighting contemporary print media in all its facets. I recommended we show the work of Chris Ware, including Jimmy Corrigan. In order to showcase the epic nature of this comic we elected to purchase two copies, cut the bindings off each, collate the pages, and display all [390] pages in a grid on…