We know you've been on the edge of your seats waiting for the next volume of Shimura Takako's acclaimed manga series, Wandering Son. Here is our finalized cover art for Wandering Son Volume 8, in which our beloved protagonists continue to navigate through their gender identities while maneuvering through another school year. Takatsuki-kun works up the courage to go to school in a boy's uniform, and Nitori-kun confesses his desire to wear girl's clothes to Anna-chan, his girlfriend. And Doi-kun, a character of questionable motives, finds himself drawn to Nitori's adult trans friend, Yuki-san…but to what end? Grab your pre-order of Wandering…
In Solidarity: February 12
In Solidarity — Bodé
New Digital Comic Releases
Wednesday is not only New Comics Day in the stores but also new comics day online and on your favorite digital reading device. comiXology has a swank-and-huge list of titles that came out today! Love & Rockets: New Stories #7 finds Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez writing and drawing at the top of their game. In Jaime's stories, Maggie and Hopey take a road trip to visit a 'sick friend' while Ray visits some old sick friends of his own. Gilbert offers a suite of stories, including a sweeping epic of derring-do in which Fritz as Morgan Le Fey teams up with Aladdin;…
LA: SLANG Aesthetics! Art Exhibit with Robt. Williams
Los Angeles – Get ready for a powerhouse exhibit, LA. A new exhibition of works by Robert Williams will be on display for SLANG Aesthetics! presented in conjunction with 20 Years Under the Influence of Juxtapoz Magazine, opening at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery on February 22nd. The godfather of surrealist art and underground cartooning, Robert Williams will be unveiling 25 new oil paintings to celebrate his breadth of work as an artist as and the founder of Juxtapoz Magazine, celebrating an accomplished 20 years of print. This will be his first LA exhibit in over a decade, and is being presented in conjuction with the…
Lovely Guy Colwell Art Show on Valentine’s Day at Fantagraphics Bookstore
Don't miss the publication party for Inner City Romance this Saturday featuring sweet original art by Guy Colwell at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. The exhibition fittingly opens on Valentine's Day from 6:00 to 9:00 PM and coincides with the 7th anniversary of the colorful Georgetown Art Attack. Guy Colwell's comic book serial Inner City Romance appeared in 1972, illustrating the unvarnished reality of an emerging urban counterculture. As Matt Gonzalez observes in Juxtapoz magazine, "Colwell's art is motivated by two primary sentiments: first, a deep political strain meant to expose and offer commentary on political, economic, and racial disparities that exist in our…
New Comics Day: 2.11.15
This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. Love and Rockets: New Stories #7 by Jaime Hernandez and Gilbert Hernandez 100-page black & white 7.25" x 10.5" softcover$14.99 | 978-1-60699-770-3 "Jaime has always been brilliant at investing his characters with personality & emotion, and his illustration of Maggie speaks volumes….the latest edition of Love and Rockets: New Stories has a…
In Solidarity: February 10
In Solidarity
Hurricane Isle and Other Adventures: The Best of Captain Easy and Wash Tubb by Roy Crane – Photoset
Praise for Roy Crane: "Freed from the tiny confines of the black-and-white daily strip, Crane brilliantly exploited the vastly larger canvas of the full newspaper page, wildly varying the sizes, shapes, and arrangement of the panels. His distinctive drawing style, an appealing blend of simplified realism and broad cartooniness, also set Easy apart. While not quite as large as the original newspaper broadsheets, this volume’s oversize pages fully convey the strip's formidable visual impact." – Gordon Flagg, Booklist "Crane's art is stunning, combining simple cartoony figures with richly detailed backgrounds in clever, colorful layouts. It isn’t even necessary to read…
In Solidarity: February 9
In Solidarity — Todd Alcott
EC Comics Slipcase Vol. 2 – First Look
Our next volume of slipcased EC Comics books is coming soon to a bookstore near you! Due out in April, the EC Comics Slipcase Vol. 2 will collect Fall Guy for Murder, Child of Tomorrow, Zero Hour, and Sucker Bait. Featuring Johnny Craig's crime and horror stories, "Ghastly" Graham Ingels' horror, Al Feldstein's solo science fiction stories, and Jack Kamen's science fiction gems, this boxed set will delight any comics collector. Pre-order this boxed set now, and we'll have more previews to whet your appetite in the next few weeks.
