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For March 2016 from Fantagraphics… that's a hell of a lot of boards. Is that… a new Dan Clowes graphic novel? Squinting my eyes… looks like it. I bet Shia Labeouf can't wait to start adapting it!   For March 2016 from Fantagraphics… that's a hell of a lot of boards. Is that… a new Dan Clowes graphic novel?[...]

Early this month, Fantagraphics announced their new ten book library of the work of Italian comics creator Guido Crepax.: Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce a 10-book series beginning November 2015 collecting the comics of Italian maestro Guido Crepax, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the creation of his character Valentina A composite of Louise Brooks,[...]

You know what's fantastic? A book sale! Fantagraphics will be having a warehouse sale from Wednesday March 25th through Wednesday April 1st In order to make space for all of the news book they will be housing over the next few years, they are clearing out a huge chunk of inventory and generously offering issues[...]

Coming in June from Fantagraphics, a brand new comic from Gilbert Hernandez, the co-creator of Love And Rockets, Blubber #1. What's this? An all-new, stand-alone, one-shot comic book from one of our greatest living cartoonists? Christmas has come early! Featuring six mostly wordless, thoroughly surreal adventures featuring a cast of misfits, monsters, and anthropomorphs that could[...]

From Fantagraphic Books comes The Complete Zap Comix collection, which compiles every cover and every story in Robert Crumb’s underground comics world.

Fantagraphics will be publishing Benjamin Marra's Terror Assaulter: O.M.W.O.T (One Man War On Terror) in full in the Autumn of 2015 They describe the book thus, Cartoonist Benjamin Marra brilliantly satirizes America's obsession with justice – and disinterest in consequences – via a highly stylized, hyper-masculine style that evokes 1980s independent comics and, to a lesser[...]

The Love Bunglers  From Fantagraphics, by Jaime Hernandez It began so many years ago And now, decades later, we have the end of the story of Maggie and Hopey A story that started with such brightness, vivacity and genuine excitement has changed as Maggie has settles into middle age with a thud as an apartment manager[...]

Although he is a primarily a comic book creator for independent publishers such as Fantagraphics, he has become a well-known figure among fans His comic series, Hate!, made him a popular figure among comic book fans and underground music lovers in the 1990s as many of us Generation Xers saw a lot of familiar situations[...]

It's one thing for a reader, a fan, a retailer, or a fellow comics creator to mix up the Hernandez Brothers. Even though the styles of the creators of

The table of Fantagraphics and BOOM!'s best marketing people discussed the importance of knowing site writers' preferences before submitting books for reviews, using a Buzzfeed writer who created the Lumberjanes personality quiz as a good example for those with similar style books. But one quick Google search and a public Twitter account later, and an entire[...]

The Agua Castello and the Strat agency should be ashamed of Whoever manages this page: let people talking alone and continue as if nothing had happened is a strategy of ostrich The illustrator credited with the piece, Rui Fazenda, has now placed a password on his website… Fantagraphics does some comparisons, as they also say "Fuck you, Agua[...]

The illustrations are cartoony, manga-ish, and easy on the eyes, too. Fantagraphics had a well-appointed little booth and display, and they were being sure to give out this book as a proof as well as their Fall catalog. Lucy Knisley returns to print in this very honest autobio travelogue Ah Age of License featuring her 2011 travels[...]

Diamond, Image, and IDW were front and center with what I'd call "mini" displays compared to big cons, but with all the necessary space for having short meetings with publishers, retailers, and libraries. More far-flung were Fantagraphics, Nobrow, and Boom/Archaia, each couched more closely to their large distributors Add to that the graphic novels published by[...]

Of Love And Rockets, of March Book One and Bluffton: My Summers with Buster. And of Fantagraphics and Image Comics ruling the roost… Who wins of course, well, that's for the night of the show… Best Short Story "Go Owls," by Adrian Tomine, in Optic Nerve #13 (Drawn & Quarterly) "Mars to Stay," by Brett Lewis and Cliff Chiang, in Witching Hour (DC) "Seaside Home," by[...]

By one of our West Coast corespondents Gavin Lees: No comics event in Seattle would be complete without the presence of Fantagraphics.  They are an institution in the city — and also the world — when it comes to quality, arts-first cartooning.  Their somewhat flippant tagline of "Publisher of the World's Greatest Cartoonists" has never been[...]

So, yes, this looks rather good. Conor Stechschulte's debut book The Amateurs is being reprinted by Fantagraphics in May And more remastered than reprinted, the original self published title from 2011 is getting a bit of a makeover Watercolour cover art for a start. One part Samuel Beckett, one part Laurel and Hardy, one part Texas Chainsaw[...]

Oopsie! Two Free Comic Book Day comics appear to be a little on the naughtier side than might have been expected. Both Ipso Facto from Automatic Pictures and Hip Hop Family Tree Two-In-One from Fantagraphics were both solicited as all-ages titles. But, whether due to language, nudity, subject matter or violence, they have now been reclassified[...]

Out in April comes Cosplayers, a new comic book one shot from cartoonist Dash Shaw. Published by Fantagraphics, who last year also published New School, 3 Stories and more, it's labelled a one shot with the description, Annie and Verti are two teen cosplayers with too much time on their hands Annie wants to act, and Verti[...]

Buy It Now for $2000…. Keep an eye on Skottie Young's eBay sales here. A Life More Talboty May gives us a DVD documentary of the life of Bryan Talbot, courtesy of Digital Story Engine. Two Cans Of Fanta Lucy Knisley takes two travel memoirs to Fantagraphics. Fall 2014 brings An Age of License, which recounts Knisley's charming and romantic adventures across[...]

This is Justin M Damiano by Dan Clowes. Read the whole thing here. This is a teaser to HowardCantour.com by Shia LaBeouf. http://vimeo.com/44601849 From

While Fantagraphics have put out English language Prince Valiant collections in the past, there's a new edition on the way  that offers something more Size. Marvel writer Rafa Marín has mentioned a new restored version, in colour, from Manuel Caldas' black and white restoration work with the original colours reconstructed, rather than old scanned-in newspapers. And it[...]

But maybe it could be. Last year, co-founder of Fantagraphics Kim Thompson died, and many books and publications had to be cancelled as a result, something that hit the publisher's bottom line considerably And now, with cash-flow biting, they have turned to their readers to see if they can pay it forward a little and fund[...]

Bob Fingerman is the creator of the ground-breaking indie comic Minimum Wage that ran from 1995-1999, published Fantagraphics The series came to a conclusion in an open-ended enough way that it left fans guessing if it might ever return In 2013, Image Comics collected the 10 issues of the comic in remastered form with plenty[...]

1 for $29.99 from Fantagraphics, following up on their Carl Barks library volumes continuing with Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Trail Of The Unicorn" (Vol 6) It looks like the publisher is putting the entire Don Rosa Duck Adventure strips back into print, from 1987 to date And knowing Fantagraphics respect for creator relations, and Don Rosa's[...]

Not the biggest number of the day (see our earlier post on the Dark Knight Returns #2 cover for that) , but certainly the biggest surprise of the just-concluded Heritage comic art session — and likely a record for a Dan Clowes piece by a significant margin — is this sale of the cover of[...]

Fantagraphics have issued the following release; Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson died at 6:30 this morning, June 19 "He was my partner and close friend for 36 years," said Gary Groth. Thompson was born in Denmark in 1956 He grew up in Europe, a lifelong comics fan, reading both European and American comics in Denmark, France, and Germany[...]

In November, Fantagraphics are publishing the 2004 work of Austrian cartoonist Ulli Lust's travelogue comic Today Is The Last Day Of The Rest Of Your Life, in English Set in 1984, it's the story of her seventeen year old self's journey hitch-hiking across Italy, the sex, the drink, the drugs and… the life Across four hundred[...]

Fantagraphics Books have bought their domain name fantagraphics.com in 1995 and currently register it through Network Solutions But the publisher of The Comics Journal, Love And Rockets, Hate, Naughty Bits and so many translations, archival comics and experimentations with the form seem to have forgotten to renew their it The domain expires today and, thankfully,[...]

Louis Falcetti writes for Bleeding Cool; The Fantagraphics/Drawn & Quarterly panel is simultaneously not like other panels, yet very much like other panels, but at the same time, not at all like other panels It's not like other panels because it's not held in a cavernous hall filled to the brim with sweaty, rabid fans[...]

Peter Bagge is collecting his non-Hate work into Peter Bagge's Other Stuff, in April next year from Fantagraphics, 135 pages for $19.99 Here's a run down of what we can expect. During the 1990s and 2000s, Peter Bagge worked mostly on his "Buddy Bradley" stories in Hate and a series of standalone graphic novels (Apocalypse Nerd),[...]