It’s all hip hop and humanoids on your digital reading devices this week with new releases from two Fantagraphics favorites. First up is the sixth issue of Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Famiy Tree monthly comic. This edition features the first hip hop movie, Wild Style, as Piskor breaks the film down and shows exactly how it fits into the wider pop culture landscape. Highlighting the people, places, and events that made Wild Style a cult classic, Hip Hop Family Tree #6 can be yours through comiXology. Today also marks the second volume of Gilbert Hernandez’s…
The Book of Hope is Now Digital
An exploration into quotidian moments and timeless humor, the Fantagraphics debut of Finnish artist Tommi Musturi The Book of Hope is now available digitally. In a way that only the medium of comics can, The Book of Hope slows the reader down to the rhythms of the silent life of a retired couple living in a rural countryside. But behind the static, routine moments, something bigger takes shape — a flash of encroaching death starts to consume the husband leading to all-encompassing visions and important questions. The strong presence of silence and nature reflect the arctic exotica of Musturi’s native…
New Gahan Wilson… Digitally
Our final digital release of 2015 is out there… Gahan Wilson’s Out There. Gahan Wilson is best known for his macabre Playboy cartoons — filled with charming monsters, goofy scientists, and melting victims — and his cutting-edge work in National Lampoon, but in 1964, Wilson brought his brilliantly wiggly-but-sophisticated pen line to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Wilson’s playfully black sense of comedy was on full display in the cartoons found in this magazine and Out There features over 250 of them Wilson drew during his tenure with the publication, as well as four covers he rendered —…
MOME Now Available on comiXology!
It is the holiday season and boy, do we have a gift for you! Every issue of MOME (all 22 of them) is now available on comiXology, each for the low price of $9.99. Every period of modern comics history has had its anthology that tapped into the zeitgeist and foreshadowed a new generation of cartoonists — Zap in the ’60s, Arcade in the ’70s, Raw and Weirdo in the ’80s. For the new millennium, there was MOME. This accessible, quarterly book put a spotlight on a regular cast of dozens of today’s most exciting cartoonists. Running from 2004 to…
New Digital Releases from Piskor and Sala
Nobody else in comics is able to express the past so kinetically as Ed Piskor or the macabre so masterfully as Richard Sala. They are both here this week with new digital debuts! Ed Piskor’s monthly Hip Hop Family Tree continues with issue #4 this week. The installment climaxes with the legendary rap battle confrontation between Kool Moe Dee and Busy Bee Starski, but also features Grandmaster Flash and the growing influence of Sugar Hill Records. Oh, and Blondie plays “Rapture” on something new called MTV too. Read Hip Hop Family Tree #4 on your own personal reading device through…
Two New Magnum Opuses Go Digital
This week’s digital releases include the English translation of The Eternaut and Carol Tyler’s Soldier’s Heart. That’s a lot to be thankful for! Fantagraphics is proud to present, for the first time in English, a graphic novel so powerful its main character’s image has become a potent symbol of the endless struggle against oppression — The Eternaut by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López. This seminal Argentine science fiction graphic novel was originally released as a serial strip from 1957–59. Juan Salvo, its inimitable protagonist, along with his friend Professor Favalli and the tenacious metalworker Franco, face what appears…
More Peanuts for Your Digital Collection!
This week’s digital release is Peanuts Every Sunday Vol. 3: 1961–1965. Since their original publication, Peanuts Sundays have almost always been collected and reprinted in black and white. But many who read Peanuts in their original Sunday papers remain fond of the striking coloring, which makes for a surprisingly different reading experience. The early- to mid-1960s strips in our latest volume houses the first golden age of Peanuts Sundays in one gorgeous, full-color book. Linus, Charlie Brown, Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, Sally, Patty, and Schroeder are all present, but the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. Peanuts Every Sunday Vol. 3:…
Digital Triptow and Even More Schulz!
This week’s digital releases features Robert Triptow’s highly-touted, underground-inspired Class Photo and two new Peanuts collections! Like any good writer, cartoonist Robert Triptow likes to invent stories. When he stumbled across a real-life class photo of an anonymous 1937 public school under a pile of garbage, his imagination took off. Several years later, the result is the utterly charming, completely original graphic novel Class Photo.
Digital Hip Hop Family Tree #3
Ed Piskor’s coolest comic magazine in the universe continues with the digital release of the third issue of Hip Hop Family Tree.
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