The indomitable Charles M. Schulz, aka Sparky, hits home the week after Thanksgiving by having our new Thanksgiving-themed books on the NY Times Best Sellers list. In this humourous collection, Woodstock goes through a variety of masks and outfits to disguise the fact that he is a bird during this poultry-fied food holiday. As for Snoopy, he decides it's time to visit some kin and enjoy a nice holiday with his brother, Spike, or so he thought… Snoopy's Thanksgiving is one of our many Peanuts gift books that fit small hands, big hearts and don't hurt your wallet. Check out Charlie Brown's Christmas Stocking (literally…
Now in Stock – Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It
Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make Itedited by Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins 280-page black & white 7" x 10" softcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-785-7 See Previews / Order Now 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 the first English-language anthology of its kind: an in-depth introduction to nine of the most exciting comic artists making work for a gay male audience in Japan. Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi and…
Now in Stock – Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictions by Frank Stack
Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictionsby Frank Stack 224-page black & white 7.75" x 10" softcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-808-3 See Previews / Order Now "Cult" cartoonist Frank Stack is best known as the artist behind Harvey Pekar's award-winning graphic novel, My Cancer Year (his art was featured in the American Splendor film), and as the creator of the first underground comic book, The Adventures of Jesus. Foolbert Funnies collects comics—inspired by Stack's pop culture-filled childhood and travails as a fine arts professor—that ran in National Lampoon and other publications. (For decades,…
Robert Williams Presents the Complete Zap Comix at Fantagraphics Bookstore
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery welcomes underground comix legend Robert Williams on Saturday, December 13 to celebrate the publication of the Complete Zap Comix Anthology with an exhibition and book signing. This event kicks off a weeklong series commemorating the monumental, multi-volume collection of comix that changed the future of this marginalized medium. From the time it first appeared in 1968 – peddled from a baby carriage on the streets of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district – R. Crumb's perversely perceptive observations in Zap altered the course of American counterculture. The Zap Comix collective came to include eight creative misfits, as…
Sheriff of Bullet Valley, Starring Walt Disney’s Donald Duck by Carl Barks – Cover Uncovered
Our half-height kids books celebrating Carl Barks' iconic duck family is back with a new collection of rip roaring adventures. This time, Donald Duck finds himself donning a sheriff's badge in order to ferret out the mysterious misbranding of cattle in Bullet Valley. And, as ever, Donald's intrepid and clever nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie are at his side, ready to help him when plans invariably go awry. The beautiful, bold cover design has been finished, and we're proud to show it off for you today! Sheriff of Bullet Valley is slated to be released Spring 2015, so keep your eyeballs…
Mark Frauenfelder interviews Ed Piskor at Meltdown Comics
During Ed Piskor's West Coast tour he hit up Meltdown Comics on sassy afternoon for a signing and while he was there, Boing Boing cofounder Mark Frauenfelder sat down to interview the cartoonist of Hip Hop Family Tree. Piskor's comic strip has been serialized on Boing Boing for the past two and half years and this was the first time he had met Mark. Sit back or sit up and draw to this nice 45 minute interview covering Piskor's backstory, drawing style and the research behind Hip Hop Family Tree. “I consider myself more than a cartoonist but also an archeologist on this…
Love and Rockets: New Stories #7 by Los Bros Hernandez – Excerpt
The seventh annual volume of Love and Rockest: New Stories begins with a six-page excerpt of Gilbert Hernandez's "Killer in Palomar", where the titular protagonist ruminates aloud with her friend, Theo, on the killings that happened as a result of a man seeing her in a movie. Then, we skip over to three pages of Jaime Hernandez's Maggie and Ray, discussing Maggie's upcoming reunion trip with Hopey. You can read the full nine page downloadable excerpt here, then head on over to the book page here to pre-order your copy for January delivery!
Dropping anchor at Linework NW 2015
Linework NW Illustration and Comics Festival announced its new set-up for the 2015 show in Portland, OR on April 18th and 19th. This highly regarded show is already changing up the format after a successful first year show. Expanding from a one day show at the majestic Norse Hall, Linework will now be two days BUT have different sets of cartoonists, zinesters, artists and printmakers tabling on Saturday and Sunday. A few publishers such as Fantagraphics, Ad House, Oni, Nobrow and more will be there both days as publishing 'anchors'. "The effect is more like a music festival than your typical comics show"…
NYC: New School presents Marguerite Van Cook
The New York Comics and Picture Symposium welcomes Marguerite Van Cook on the week of her graphic novel coming out to comic stores everywhere (and birthday!). Van Cook will be presenting at the 110th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium held on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 7 pm at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public. Please note 7 pm starting time. Van Cook will read from and discuss her original graphic autobiography The Late Child and Other Animals, accompanied by a slide show of…
Now in Stock – The Comics Journal Library Vol. 9: Zap The Interviews
Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: The Comics Journal Library Vol. 9: Zap The Interviewsedited by Michael Dean and Gary Groth 264-page color/black & white 10" x 12"softcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-788-8 See Previews / Order Now Here in one place are the definitive Comics Journal interviews with the cartoonists behind Zap Comix. Featuring: Supreme underground artist Robert Crumb on how acid unleashed a flood of Zap characters from his unconscious; Marxist brawler Spain Rodriguez on how he made the transition from the Road Vultures biker gang to the exclusive Zap cartoonists' club; Yale alumnus Victor Moscoso and…
