We are pleased to announce a collection of award-winning novelist and poet Alexander Theroux's poetic works, due to be published this upcoming April. Over 660 poems are included in Collected Poems, showcasing an astonishing variety of sonnets, odes, ballads, free verse, dramatic monologues, and ruminations. Here is the final cover design for Collected Poems, and you can pre-order your copy now for an April delivery. We'll have more previews of Theroux's literary work in this book soon, so keep your eyes peeled on our Flog and other social media!
Now in Stock: Displacement by Lucy Knisley
Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Displacementby Lucy Knisley 168-page full color 5.5" x 7.5" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-810-6 See Previews / Order Now New York Times best-selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic memoir series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise. (The book's watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them.) In a book that is part graphic memoir, part travelogue, and part family history, Knisley not only tries to connect with her grandparents,…
January Book-A-Day Sale: Cork High and Bottle Deep
Today's January Book-A-Day Sale is intoxicating… Well, intoxicated. Hot on the heels of last year’s VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch comes this brand new collection of intoxicated insanity! Virgil Partch, tutor to the tanked, scholar of the sloshed, professor to the plastered, and endowed with a scholarship from the School of Advanced Study of Alcoholic Endeavor, flung himself into months-long research of the most arduous kind in order to produce — for our collective betterment — this report on the hangover, and how one may acquire it. Collecting the top shelf of VIP’s drink-themed artwork including well-known favorites, this…
January Book-A-Day Sale: Darling Chéri
Today's Book-A-Day Sale features artist Walter Minus' first American book: Darling Chéri. Darling Chéri is the sensually illustrated story of a young career woman who awakens one morning to not only the light of an early dawn but also to the realization that love has left her current relationship. Immediately she begins penning a brisk farewell note to her soundly sleeping boyfriend before pursuing the love that has since left. Celebrated throughout Europe for his captivating illustrations of fashionable and scantily clad females, Walter Minus' colorful work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Marie-Claire, Elle, The New Yorker, Maximal and L'Entreprise, and in countless…
January Book-A-Day Sale: I Want to Be Your Dog
Today's Book-A-Day title comes from the same artist who drew King – A Comics Biography, a graphic depiction of civil rights advocate Martin Luther King. I Want to Be Your Dog is altogether another kind of beast and debuts Ho Che Anderson's foray into erotic storytelling. With a distinctive visual style and expert writing, Anderson tells the interlocking stories of submissive relationships set within Toronto's African-American community. This five-part thriller mixes in a healthy dose of sex and violence as it explores social and sexual politics in a visually stunning volume you'll turn to again and again! This edition contains over 30 new…
Sheriff of Bullet Valley, Starring Walt Disney’s Donald Duck by Carl Barks – First Look
Bullets are flying in Bullet Valley! In other words, advance copies of our next Carl Barks book, Sheriff of Bullet Valley, have arrived at the Fantagraphics office, to much celebratory hollerin'. With such page-popping colors and wild wild west-style adventures, it's been impossible not to dig in. Sheriff of Bullet Valley, Starring Walt Disney's Donald Duck is due out in March, but you can get ahead of the game with a pre-order now! Get it now as an investment for the giggles and love of reading it will instill in your kids for years to come.
SF: Guy Colwell at Pegasus Bookstore
This collection has been a long-time coming! On Friday, February 27th cartoonist, painter and activist Guy Colwell will be at Pegasus Bookstore in San Francisco for the release of Inner City Romance. This blood-pumpin', needle-stickin' collection features comics on social politics like racial activism, harassment, prison, black culture, ghetto life, the and the sex trade. It portrays the unpleasant realities of life in the inner city, where opportunities were limited and being on the lowest end of the economic ladder meant that one's vision of the American dream was more about survival than lifestyle choices. Colwell will be in conversation with author Bob Levin about his…
New York: Opening Reception for The Last Vispo
Thursday, January 22nd New York, NY – Visual poetry is often description as the intersection of word play and art. But whether you approach the medium as a poet or an artist, the renderings are often moving, playful, and linguistically creative. Because this form of poetry IS visual, there's no better way to experience it than through the latest exhibition at the AC Institute in NYC. The exhibition, titled "The Future is Here Again" will run from January 22nd-Februrary 7th, but this opening night reception will feature music from the alternative chamber music string trio, Speed Bump. Currated by ACI director, Holly Crawford…
January Book-A-Day Sale: Celluloid
Starting with today's Book-A-Day sale title, we'll be starting a new theme: "Inside Your Locker." For the next seven days, delve deep inside Fantagraphics' locker for some sensual, decadent books to brighten your day and stimulate the senses. Dave McKean dipped his (vastly talented) artistic toe into erotic waters with his graphic novel, Celluloid, a 2011 Fantagraphics release about a woman's discovery of a film projector in an apartment, and the mysterious doorway it opens when the film burns out. As the artist says: "There are so many comics about violence. I'm not entertained or amused by violence, and I’d rather not…
Dripping with Fear: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 5 – Excerpt
Continuing our highly praised series cataloguing and exploring Steve Ditko's extensive, decades-long portfolio of work, Dripping with Fear: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 5 features another 200+ pages of meticulously restored, full-color artwork, featuring the time period when Ditko began sharing a studio with fetish artist Eric Stanton. Our generous 21-page, downloadable excerpt includes the full 11-page introduction by editor Blake Bell and the complete first story, titled "Journey's End." Read on, then head over to our product page to place your pre-order for the book's February delivery!
