This Week’s Press Highlights

Fantagrahics books and artists have been featured on MTV, XXL, Vulture and more.

hip-hop-family-tree-monthly-1-coverHip Hop Family Tree Drops Monthly!

“Marvel at hip-hop greatness.”

Read more at MTV.com

“Though hip-hop and comic book culture have often borrowed from one another, there has been relatively little in the way of direct intersections. Other than one-issue takeovers of existing series, the worlds have remained, for the most part, mutually exclusive. That’s all changing now, with the announcement that Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree will become a monthly comic book series.”

Read more at XXL

Dan Clowes in the news

“Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern are in negotiations to star in Wilson, Fox Searchlight’s adaptation of a Daniel Clowes graphic novel that will be directed by Craig Johnson, the helmer who directed ‘The Skeleton Twins’. Clowes, the acclaimed cartoonist who may be best known for his Ghost World comic that was later adapted into a movie, also wrote the script for Wilson.”

Read more at Hollywood Reporter

“Clowes’s comics work is as vital as it’s ever been.”

Read more at Vulture

Praise for Black River

“…the most well known comics in the Black River vein are The Walking Dead and Crossed. Neither of these titles comes close to capturing the despair and, more importantly, the horrific reality of violence that Black River contains.”

Read more at All Star Comics Melbourne

Black River is one of the most uncompromisingly brutal, bleak and violent books I’ve read in quite some time.”

Read more at Journeys in Darkness and Light

Praise for The Kurdles

“Bold, beguiling and beautiful, The Kurdles is the kind of book you will remember forever.”

Read more at Comics Review UK

Praise for Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen

“…they bring forth one of the most unexpected, truest tear-jerkers I have ever seen in a comic — you’ll get misty-eyed for them and for comics in the best possible sense.”

Read more at Vermicious

Class Photo, Book of Hope and You’ll Never Know named “Graphic Novels to Look for in Late 2015”

“Triptow weaves these imagined lives in and out like so many dedications in a yearbook, mixing in social satire, elegant cartooning, occasionally disgusting hilarity, and plenty of good, clean fun.”

Read more at River City Reading