Fantagraphics Blog

Raymond Scott + Irwin Chusid/Barbara Economon + Drew Friedman = magic synergy that you can buy. (Via WFMU.)

Is anyone else mildly annoyed that the Daily Show is on hiatus at all between now and the election? This is the home run derby and they are getting lobbed softballs with this "lipstick on a pig" hooey. Can I make a donation somewhere to keep this from happening the rest of the way out? Help us, Jon Stewart, you're our only hope…

Good news for people who pre-order Ghost World: Special Edition! Not only are you entered in our drawing for the limited-edition Ghost World exhibit silkscreen print, but the first 50 people to order the book (including everyone who's already ordered) will receive a FREE exclusive bookplate (shown above) signed by Daniel Clowes! This means they're already over half gone, and the book is due to arrive from the printer imminently, so the poster contest will be over soon… get your order in NOW!

Here's what you'll find from Fantagraphics on the "new arrivals" racks at your friendly neighborhood comic shop tomorrow (subject to last-minute change): • Krazy & Ignatz 1943-1944: He Nods in Quiescent Siesta • Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard • Fuzz & Pluck in Splitsville #5 by Ted Stearn (reoffered)• Interiorae #3 by Gabriella Giandelli I've also seen these listed by unofficial sources; who knows? • The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 14 (New Printing) • Sammy the Mouse #2 by Zak Sally Be an informed customer by checking out our descriptions and previews at the links above,…

Following yesterday's look at the newest volumes in our Krazy & Ignatz series of Krazy Kat reprint volumes, here's a look at an upcoming reprint: The Complete Sunday Strips 1925-1934, the giant hardcover compiling the 5 volumes covering the strip's second decade, in a second limited edition. Click here if the slideshow doesn't appear above.

The email one gets when one works at a comics publisher is way more fun than the email one gets when one works at, say, a shoe company.  

  Later this month, the great Robert Pollard will head out on tour with his new band, Boston Spaceships (featuring former GBV bassist Chris Slusarenko and Decemberists drummer John Moen), to promote not one but two new albums, as well as his first book, our very own Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard. Pollard will have ToM for sale at each stop on the tour, so don't forget to hit that ATM on the way down to the show. The tour kicks off Sept. 25th in Chincinnati. Don't miss it!    Thu 9/25 Cincinnati OH – Midpoint Music Festival Fri 9/26 Cleveland OH – Grog Shop Sat 9/27 Washington…

During those heady mid-1990s, Seattle's The Stranger (which has employed, at times, a slew of comics-related folks, from co-founder James Sturm, to former art directors Jason Lutes, Joe Newton, and Dale Yarger, and columnists like Tom Spurgeon and yours truly) was a hotbed for local cartooning. Strips would come and go and you could always count on the paper's back page for some quality cartoons. One of my all-time favorite Stranger strips was a short-lived feature by Jeremy Eaton, called Jackass. This surreal gem featured a disembodied head at the mercy of Eaton's imagination, and the results were always a great blend of…

As if we don't already have enough social networks to keep track of, we're now on the "social bookmarking" site Delicious! We've been bringing you our weekly "Blogosphere Roundup" link posts for a while, and we thought it might be nice if the links could be searchable and organized with tags so you can find related links (for instance, all the reviews of a certain book, or links pertaining to a particular artist). We'll still bring you our roundup posts every week, but now you can follow along in real time on our Delicious page or with the RSS feed.