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 —…
Cheech Wizard and Hip Hop Digitally
Cheech Wizard and hip hop have always made a perfect pair, so it’s fitting that they are the subjects of today’s digital releases. Once upon a time at two-thirty in the afternoon, on the enchanted island of York, lived a Wizard… a mild-mannered, lovable Wizard who wore a big hat to mask his true identity. But who is under the hat? Who is Cheech Wizard? Vaughn Bode created Cheech in 1956 and the character remained a constant companion for the rest of Bode’s life, surfacing in his college papers, underground comix, the National Lampoon, and in the world of graffiti…
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…
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