Re:Read is an occasional column by Fantagraphics Bookstore curator Larry Reid examining backlist books you may have missed or merit another look. This time we’ll focus on Gerald Jablonski’s visionary masterpiece Farmer Ned’s Comics Barn from Fantagraphics adventurous FU Press imprint. I’ve always been drawn to “outsider” art, characterized by deeply obsessive expression. Gerald Jablonski’s work seamlessly combines the naïve sensibilities of folk artists like Reverend Howard Finster with the meticulous sophistication of cartoonists like Daniel Clowes – fluid, yet strangely formal. Farmer Ned’s Comics Barn alternates between dense, intricate narratives and spare, wordless renderings. Amazingly, in an appended…
Hot Off the Press Book Fair feat. Jim Woodring & Lilli Loge
Fantagraphics Bookstore hosts the 4th annual Hot Off the Press Book Fair with special guests Jim Woodring and Berlin cartoonist Lilli Loge on Saturday, July 14 from 5:00 to 9:00 PM. Small press exhibitors include Czap Books, Paper Press Punch, Kilgore Books, FU Press, Short Run Micropress, Fogland Studios, Cold Cube and others with appearances by local artists Simon Hanselmann, DW, Marc Palm, Tom Van Deusen, Max Clotfelter, Rhodora Jacob, Sarah Romano Diehl, Kelly Froh, Alex Graham, Brandon Lehmann, Laura Knetzger, Hella Handa, and many more. Jim Woodring’s latest book, Poochytown, will debut at the fair, the latest and…
Digital Purgatory
This week’s digital releases feature a brand new FU Press book and a variety of titles from your backlist wish list. Let’s do it! For the committed outsider, adolescence can be a nightmare. Purgatory by Casanova Frankenstein, a truly distinct and remarkable artist, may at first appear to be the tale of a classic case of teenage avoidance, but this is not a story about dysfunctional coping techniques. No, it’s a triumphant story of an individual who doggedly refuses to be atomized by the masses. Taken right from the artist’s raw sketchbook, Purgatory can now be yours through comiXology. …
Digital Underground
This week we have two new Fantagraphics Underground releases. That means your tablet is about to get strange and stranger. Let’s get to it! At long last, what you’ve been waiting for — a big collection of Gerald Jablonski’s psychedelically underground, absurdly avant-garde comics: Farmer Ned’s Comics Barn. Jablonski has been comics’ best-kept secret for decades, telling the tales of imposter ants, bear-faced grumps, and stoic farmers with pun-laden word balloons that wildly snake around the page. This book also includes a discussion with Gary Groth and it can all be yours through comiXology today. You…
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! …
FU News!
Two new publications are on the horizon for Fantagraphics Underground…
