Fantagraphics Blog

Brian Heater at The Daily Cross Hatch has complete, must-see coverage of Tuesday's Humbug event with (L to R above) Arnold Roth, moderator Gary Groth and Al Jaffee at the Strand Bookstore in NYC, including full audio of the talk, video clips, and more photos. Thanks Brian, and great job!

Lots of review love from The Stranger this week: • Review: "Blazing Combat… [is] packed with gloriously miserable… war stories covering everything from the battle of Thermopylae to Vietnam… all beautifully captured by comics legends like Archie Goodwin, Alex Toth, Joe Orlando, and Gene Colan in appropriately murky grays… Fantagraphics has slapped together a nice, hefty… hardbound collection that's worth a read, whether you're a comic nerd, war buff, one-legged veteran, or one of those snooty I-only-read-graphic-novels types. Bombs away." – Jonah Spangenthal-Lee, The Stranger • Review: "Miss Lasko-Gross's autobiographical comics are the best in the field since [Lynda] Barry…

"Neither of us is proud of it," says New Yorker cartoonist Zachary Kanin about his comics jam with Dash Shaw, as posted on the New Yorker "Cartoon Lounge" blog.

"Poison River, a graphic novel by Gilbert Hernandez, gave me a master lesson in real writing. It was beautiful beyond words and violent and tender and heartbreaking. From that moment on, I knew what kind of writer I wanted to be. It's the great unknown novel of the 20th Century." – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao), "Life-Changing Art," Baltimore Magazine We're very grateful to Diaz for his public love of Love and Rockets, and Oscar Wao is definitely recommended for L&R fans. (Crass commercialism: Poison River is available in its own volume as…

Friend of Fantagraphics and local jazz composer Andrew Boscardin has a new CD inspired by his favorite comic book artists, Four-Color Heroes. He has a gig this Friday (UPDATE: SATURDAY NIGHT!) night in Georgetown, neighborhood home of the Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery. As Andrew points out to Seattlest, stop by the gallery before the show and catch our current Jaime Hernandez / Stan Sakai exhibit and then go catch Andrew's Nickel and Brass Septet at the Mix.

  Drawger has the full monte.

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Mike mentioned Jim Blanchard's new limited-edition Trucker Fags In Denial print earlier this week, but did you know Jim will be at Stumptown this weekend, selling them?  We'll be at Stumptown, too. Come on down and say hi and stimulate our economy, won't you? 

Michael Kupperman's Snake'N'Bacon the TV show pilot is going to be broadcast as part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block of programming, on May 10th at 12:45 AM. Based on his comic book, Tales Designed to Thrizzle, the cast includes Kristin Schaal, Dan Bakkedahl, Bill Hader, Peter Serafinowicz, James Urbaniak, Brian Stack, and David Rakoff, in live-action and animated segments. We've seen the pilot and guarantee you will not regret setting your DVR so you can watch it over and over. Meanwhile, look for Thrizzle #5 later this month, and the first collection of the series (including issues 1 thru 4,…