Our fantastic designers have done it again! Here is the cover art for the fifth volume of our acclaimed series on the inimitable Steve Ditko. Titled Dripping with Fear, this volume features another 200-plus pages of meticulously restored, full-color, early Ditko work, including the beginning of Ditko's collaborations with renowned fetish artist Eric Stanton and an introduction by editor Blake Bell. We expect Dripping with Fear to be released by March 2015, and the book is already available for pre-order! More previews forthcoming.
NYC: Massive at McNally Jackson
Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to the hyper-masculine world of Japanese gay manga. Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It is a survey introduction to a diverse and important group of men responsible for some of the most emblematic gay manga drawn for fellow gay readers. McNally Jackson Books of New York invites you to visit this world for a night on Sunday, January 18th when the editors and designers behind the anthology gather for release party. Join Anne Ishii, Graham Kolbeins and Chip Kidd when the fun and book signing starts at 7pm. The gang…
Hurricane Isle and Other Adventures: The Best of Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs – First Look
Our first look of 2015 is off to a great start with stacks of advance copies of Hurricane Isle and Other Adventures: The Best of Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs. Smelling of fresh inks and new paper, this collection of Roy Crane's adventure comic strip is a delight to open on this grey, rainy Monday morning. Hurricane Isle is due out in February, and you can pre-order your copy right here, right now!
Inner City Romance by Guy Colwell – Photoset Preview
Inner City Romanceby Guy Colwell 200-page black & white 8” x 10” softcover$24.99 | 978-1-60699-813-7 Due to arrive in 2-4 weeks. Click on thumbnails for larger versions; get more info, see more previews, and pre-order your copy here: http://www.fantagraphics.com/innercityromance
Down with OPP*: Youth Is Wasted by Noah Van Sciver
* Other People's Publications** Yeah, You Know Me. While we eagerly await the release of Saint Cole next month, Seattleites and travelers can stop by the Fantagraphics Bookstore to pick up Noah Van Sciver's collection Youth Is Wasted, out last year via AdHouse Books! Youth Is Wasted compiles several short stories from Van Sciver, some that appeared in his self-published comic book series Blammo, and some published elsewhere, like our very own Mome anthology. Van Sciver's amazing piece 1999 is reprinted here, which first appeared as a mini-comic from Retrofit: I remember reading it on the plane on the way…
January Book-A-Day Sale: Ghosts and Ruins
Today's book of the day: Ben Catmull's gorgeous hardcover coffee-table art book of ghost stories, Ghosts and Ruins! Catmull's images are evocative, haunting masterpieces that never tread in graphic imagery, choosing instead to suggest horrors far more frightening than what they explicitly depict. With just the right touch of humor to balance the terror, Ghosts and Ruins is sure to please fans of Edward Gorey or Tim Burton, and makes a perfect gift book for the ghost story fan in your house. Ghosts and Ruins is available all day today at 30% off! Previews and photosets are available on our order page.
January’s Book-A-Day Sale: Couch Tag
Next up in our January Book-A-Day sale is Jesse Reklaw's first long-form work, the tragicomic graphic memoir Couch Tag. Presented as a series of comic novellas that together comprise a thoughtful, sometimes dark and often hilarious memoir about childhood, family, death, mental illness, sex and drug use, the entire book is told through cleverly inviting conceits like cat histories and card games. The graphic novel is told in five parts: In "Thirteen Cats" (featured in The Best American Comics), Reklaw discovers coping mechanisms that mimic his family pets; "Toys I Love" relates the author's pre-pubescent brushes with deviant sexual activity, and the…
January’s Book-A-Day Sale: We All Die Alone
Up for grabs today at 40% off is Mark Newgarden's collection of syndicated comics, We All Die Alone. Newgarden's syndicated strip in such publications as L.A. Weekly and The New York Press encouraged a fervent following and exerted a fresh influence on the medium. Today they remain as vital and entertaining as when they first appeared. In addition to compiling his comics, this book is a full picture of the artist, his influences, and his many other careers. And for today only, we're marking this book at 40% off! Grab your copy now, while we still have stock at our warehouse!
January’s Book-A-Day Sale: The End and The Raven
Anders Nilsen's The End is a collection of short strips about loss, death, paralysis, and transformation. It is a concept album in different styles, a meditation on paying attention, an abstracted autobiography and a travelogue, reflecting the progress of his struggle to reconcile the great upheaval of a death, and finding a new life on the other side. For today only, The End is on sale at 20% off until 11:59 PST. Tomorrow, January 2nd, we'll be highlighting Lou Reed and Lorenzo Mattotti's The Raven! Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem of the same name, this book visualizes an extraordinary…
January 30 Days of Fantagraphics: Book-A-Day Sale
It may be the end of 2014, but we're raring to go on January 1st with YARAS (Yet Another Ridiculously Awesome Sale!). For the entire month of January, we'll be highlighting a book a day with discounts galore and all kinds of extra tidbits and special deals. We don't even know what they'll all be yet! So don't let the post-holiday doldrums bog you down. Books will draw on a loose theme each week, and tomorrow we start with… The End! Both literally and figuratively, tomorrow will see the book The End, by Anders Nilsen, on sale all day at 20% off….
