We are very happy to present the groundbreaking, decades-long anthology Wimmen’s Comix this week. Today also marks the digital return of Jordan Crane and even more goodies from our backlist. In the late ’60s, underground comix changed the way comics readers saw the medium, but there was an important pronoun missing from the artistic revolution. In 1972, ten women cartoonists got together to rectify the situation and produce the first and longest-lasting all-woman comics anthology Wimmen’s Comix. Within two years the Wimmen’s Comix Collective had introduced cartoonists like Roberta Gregory and Melinda Gebbie and would go on to publish artists…
Previews: Fantagraphics Releases for December 2009
As seen in the pages of Previews, these are the books and comics slated for release by Fantagraphics Books in December, 2009. Please note that all details, including cover art, prices, specs, contents, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change. KING: THE SPECIAL EDITION by Ho Che Anderson 6.625 x 9.75, HC, 288 pages, Full Color, $34.99 ISBN 978-1-60699-310-1 Ho Che Anderson spent over 10 years researching, writing, and drawing King, a monumental graphic biography that liberates Martin Luther King Jr. from the saintly, one-dimensional, hagiographic image so relevant in pop culture. Here is King – father, husband,…
