Werewolf Jones is back, baby! And so is everyone else in New York Times best-selling author Simon Hanselmann’s entire gang. Load up your tablet and get cozy with the crew because today marks the digital release of Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam. Megg the witch, Mogg the cat, their friend Owl, and Werewolf Jones struggle with depression, drug use, sexuality, poverty, lack of ambition, and other complex emotions in this new collection. It’s a laff riot! Megg & Mogg in Amsterdam assembles Hanselmann’s work from Vice, the Ignatz Award-nominated story “St. Owl’s Bay,” and other surprises, and can now be…
A European Debut in Digital
Prepare your tablets for lovely watercolors and heart-wrenching love because Manuele Fior’s 5,000 km Per Second makes its digital debut today. We’re also still catching up on exciting backlist choices! Winner of the prestigious Grand Prize at the 2010 Angouleme Comics Festival, 5,000 Kilometers Per Second is Manuele Fior’s Fantagraphics debut and details the love story between Piero and Lucia. Beginning when they are teenagers and ending with one last rendezvous as desperate, one-time lovers, this stunning book is broken down into five chapters spanning the globe. This delicate masterpiece can now be yours through both comiXology and Google Play. …
Digital Yucks and Yuckerellas
In an attempt to plug all the digital holes in your collection, we’re rolling out even more backlist titles on comiXology. This week is perfect for comedy lovers because it features past publications by Drew Friedman and Johnny Ryan. The genius illustrator Drew Friedman has been drawing and documenting the 20th Century’s greatest “Borscht-Belt” entertainers and they are all here in the three collections: Old Jewish Comedians More Old Jewish Comedians Even More Old Jewish Comedians! Names and faces of legends like Mel Brooks, Milton Berle, and Joan Rivers can now be proudly displayed in all their glory on your…
Check out THESE digital releases!
From an Italian innovator to an American stylistic treasure to modern musical history, today’s digital releases couldn’t be more different, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Italy’s Guido Crepax is one of the most acclaimed and innovative cartoonists of all-time and in the ’60s and ’70s, he created and chronicled the adventures of Valentina. Along with Valentina tales, legitimizing the erotic genre in comics at that time, Crepax’s unique take on the works of Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley are also included in The Complete Crepax: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Other Horror Stories. These stories, many never before published…
It’s Weissman Wednesday on comiXology!
Longtime fan favorite Steven Weissman has put out numerous books through Fantagraphics over the years and now some of the best are available to you digitally through comiXology. To go along with Weissman’s brilliant and surreal Barack Hussein Obama, we are now offering four books in his “Yikes!” series: Chewing Gum in Church Chocolate Cheeks Mean White Flower Day If you’re new to these comics or have been on the Weissman wagon for a while, make sure your personal reading device is stocked with these hilarious selections from the Fantagraphics backlist!
Buckle Up for More Backlist!
We’ve got no new digital releases today, but that’s not stopping us from delivering some more backlist Best-Ofs to you! Fire up your tablets because, for the very first time, these books will be available through comiXology: Out of the Shadows by Mort Meskin Buddy Does Seattle by Peter Bagge Buddy Does Jersey by Peter Bagge Pirates in the Heartland: The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson Vol. 1 by Patrick Rosenkranz Demons and Angels: The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson Vol. 2 by Patrick Rosenkranz
Zap on Your Tablet and Much, Much More!
Say goodbye to the most influential anthology of all-time and hello to an exciting selection of backlist titles as we introduce our weekly digital releases. This is it. The most important cartooning collective delivers one last issue of their uninhibited, id-stroking mad genius in this farewell 80-page giant issue of Zap. Zap #16 is the only issue to feature all eight Zapsters under one cover and, at long last, a woman joins the boy’s club as Aline Kominsky-Crumb delivers biting and witty strips herself. This final blowout issue not only showcases each artist individually, but also includes three double-page jams…
Today’s Massive Bulk of Digital Books
Is your personal reading device plugged in? Good, because it’s going to need all the juice to handle our digital offerings this week! First up is our next grisly gathering of EC stories by Reed Crandall. The High Cost of Dying and Other Stories captures Crandall’s fine line detail and collects stories such as “The Silent Towns,” a Ray Bradbury story about the last man and woman on Mars; “Carrion Death,” a stark horror story about man struggling through the desert with a corpse handcuffed to his wrist; and “Sweetie-Pie,” about a ghoul who sets up roadside hazards to procure…
Hip Hop Family Tree #6 and Blubber #2 Go Digital
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…
