Fantagraphics Blog

Courtesy Seth: 

Go here and here for some great vintage Peanuts commercial art. 

Our beloved neighborhood of Georgetown is profiled in the NY Times, and look who's featured front and center!

Courtesy Kim Deitch, oh yeah: 

Courtesy Jordan Crane (who, I should add for the record, has since expressed hatred of this sketch): 

Kick off your weekend right with your weekly installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks"! In this week's strip… just what did "Sweet" Chubby Cheeks see at the park? (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

We're in the process of making a few enhancements to the website here, one of which was launched today: now you can select to search our products by title only, or by full description, by checking the buttons that say "Titles" or "All" respectively on our Product Search bar to the left. (Before, you had to go to our Advanced Search page to narrow your search like this.) We hope this makes finding what you're looking for just a bit quicker and easier!

Reviews and commentary found 'round the Web this week: • ComicMix on the latest volume of The Complete Peanuts • Occasional Superheroine and The Comics Reporter on Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button — the latter's Tom Spurgeon enthuses "Bottomless Belly Button reaches so high and executes so much of what it does so well that it shames you into reconsidering every other book you may have praised recently." • Newsarama on The Last Musketeer by Jason • Comics Worth Reading's Johanna Draper Carlson explains why she named Linda Medley's Castle Waiting one of the "Best of 2006" • Sequart on…

From Irwin Chusid: Jim Flora Art LLC continues its limited edition fine art print series with an uncirculated black & white pen and ink drawing from the mid-1990s entitled Sunday Morning. This is the latest-life work by the artist we have offered in a numbered edition. Two prints are now listed on eBay at a launch price [now sold out]. Price will increase for subsequent prints in the edition. Our previous limited edition prints are available at JimFlora.com. Fine art works: http://www.jimflora.com/fineartworks.html Album cover art: http://www.jimflora.com/albumcoverart.html

… to Gary Groth and Jason Miles in Los Angeles. "ABC," boys. Second prize is a set of steak knives.