It’s here! It’s here! It’s finally here! We Told You So, the book celebrating our 40th anniversary is here and ready to read and enjoy on your tablets. In 1976, a fledgling magazine held forth the idea that comics could be art. In 2016, comics can now be enjoyed by an adult readership and are reviewed favorably in the New York Times. We Told You So: Comics as Art is an oral history about Fantagraphics Books’ key role in helping build and shape an art movement around a discredited, ignored, and fading expression of Americana. It includes appearances by Chris…
Digital Releases by Hanks, Luce, and Wood
Fletcher Hanks, Ed Luce, and Wally Wood make up our digital dream team this week. They are also accompanied by some rather risqué backlist titles. Here we go . . . Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur: he wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all his stories between 1939 and 1941. Whether it’s the superhero Stardust dolling out poetic justice or the jungle protectress Fantomah tearing evildoers limb from limb, pop surrealism and violent mayhem are abundant in all of Hanks’s work. Originally featured in two paperbacks, this deluxe volume collects all of Hanks’s previously published material, plus…
We’re Thankful for New Digital Comics
A cornucopia of classic comics and more backlist favorites are on the menu for this week’s digital comics releases. All good things (and when we say good, we mean GREAT) must come to an end and today marks the release of the very last collection in the Complete Peanuts. Volume 26 collects all of Charles Schulz’s rare non-strop Peanuts art from gags to storybooks to recipes — all things no true Peanuts library would be complete without. As a fitting end to the series, Jean Schulz provides an emotional introduction. The Complete Peanuts Vol. 26 can now be found on…
Digital Cosplayers and More
The cosplayers are back to brighten your holiday spirits and more backlist titles come out to play in this week’s round of digital releases. What do you get the cosplayer who has everything? What do you get your best friend to show her how much she means to you? Cosplayers Annie and Verti return to do some holiday shopping in this all-new one shot from the acclaimed artist Dash Shaw. Find A Cosplayers Christmas on comiXology today. Our log of backlist titles available through comiXology is expanding each week and today we welcome these fantastic books into the fold: Problematic:…
Today’s New Digital Releases
Maybe comics will help. Here’s today’s new digital debuts. The EC Comics Library continues with Voodoo Vengeance by Johnny Craig, whose style is eerily crisp and contemporary. This collection features pulp shockers of all kinds, along with seven Craig crime classics. It can be found on comiXology and Google Play. If you can’t get enough of EC, today also marks the debut of The Comics Journal Library Vol. 10: The EC Artists Part 2. This volume of conversations includes definitive interviews with the creators behind the EC line, including talks with Harvey Kurtzman, Ray Bradbury,…
Digital Releases: New Love and Rockets and more!
Today marks the beginning of a new chapter for Love and Rockets and heralds in a collection of one of punk rock’s best artists—all on your tablets and personal reading devices! Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez are back with brand-new stories in Love and Rockets Vol. IV #1! You get Maggie and Hopey! You get Princess Animus! You get Fritz and Pipo! You get it all! The punk friends and family drama begins again right here—catch the first issue of the new ongoing series on comiXology today. Also, to continue celebrating the return this series, we’re…
This Week’s Digital Releases
Old favorites Fuzz and Pluck are back with a brand-new adventure and an incredible artists makes their Fantagraphics debut . . . this week in digital releases! You might know Ted Stearn’s Fuzz and Pluck from Zero Zero or Mome. You might know them from their own series and previous collection. The only thing you need to know now, however, is that they’re back! Carrying on their tenuous, co-dependent friendship, the irritable rooster and awkward bear find themselves on a ramshackle barge slowly drifting out to sea. How they got there, how they will escape, and all the classic cartooning…
Bill Griffith and Zippy Go Digital!
Today Fantagraphics and comiXology are teaming up to celebrate one of the all-time greats: Eisner Award winner Bill Griffith! Not only is Griffith’s underground comix collection Lost and Found available digitally for the very first time, but also all of his Zippy the Pinhead comic strip collections ranging from 2004 to 2013. Whether you are an avid Griffith fan catching up on all his work or someone who’s just being introduced to his unique brand of comedy, it’s all here! Starting today you can find all these books on comiXology: Lost and Found: Comics 1969–2003 Zippy the Pinhead: From Here…
Check Out This Week’s Digital Lineup!
New comics from living legends and new favorites, underground artists and Fantagraphics Underground — this week’s got it all! We are proud to present four new digital debuts that both run the gamut of subject matter and celebrate the comics medium as a whole. Gilbert Hernandez is back is with a brand-new, full-color, sexually-explicit retelling of Bible parables. As only the unfettered id of Hernandez could conceive, Garden of Flesh retells the stories of Adam and Eve up to Noah’s Ark, blurring the lines between erotic and pornography. Find this book on comiXology and Google Play today! …
Digital Madness!
We’re especially excited about this week’s digital releases, which feature new reprints, old favorites, and an Argentine debut! More rage per page! More slaughter for your dollar! Real Deal, a self-published independent comic book created by Lawrence “Rawdog” Hubbard and H.P. “R.D. Bone” McElwee, in finally collected in all its glory. Combining classic Mad magazines with Blaxploitation films, Real Deal is full of convicts, hustlers, drug addicts, and murderers and straddles the line between satirizing and showing the harsh realities of urban life. The entire collection can now be found on comiXology. The Longest Day of…
