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Fantagraphics To Publish Franquin's Last Laugh In 2013
Next year, Fantagraphics are to publish the Last Laugh by André Franquin in English – the first new attempt in decades,  Franquin was a true master in French comics, popular amongst critics and readers, and this is considered his later experimental masterpiece, Idées Noires. He also created the incredibly popular comic strips Gaston and Marsupilami, while[...]
Drawn & Quarterly, Fantagraphics, Oni And Top Shelf Solicitations For August 2012
(STK469795) (C: 0-1-2) SC, 4.75×6, 96pgs, PC    SRP: $17.95 FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS THE LOVE AND ROCKETS COMPANION: 30 YEARS (AND COUNTING) edited by Marc Sobel and Kristy Valenti The Love and Rockets Companion contains interviews with Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez, foldout family trees for both Gilbert's Palomar and Jaime's Locas storylines, unpublished art, a character glossary, timelines and the most[...]
Drawn & Quarterly, Fantagraphics, Oni And Top Shelf Solicitations For July 2012
Drawn & Quarterly, Fantagraphics, Oni and Top Shelf Which means new books from Robert Crumb, William Burroughs, Michael Kupperman, the new colour volume of Scott Pilgrim and a new Wasteland volume. DRAWN & QUARTERLY AYA: LIFE IN YOP CITY GN (W) Marguerite Abouet (A/CA) Clement Oubrerie Ivory Coast, 1978 It's a golden time, and the nation, an oasis[...]
Greg Baldino Reads Comics Journal #301
A lot of publications have now settled into a duel presence in print and online, others have made the jump to virtual completely (bOING bOING abandoned paper and thrived, while poor lamented Omni left the newsstands for cyberspace too soon and vanished into memory.) So it wasn't too terribly shocking when in 2009 The Comics[...]
Tuesday Runaround – No Longer The Master Of Your Domain
Also your name printed in The Collected Edition of the Carriers. DomainWatch: Has Fantagraphics let the domain TCJ.COM expire? This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking I come for your women But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online One day I will rule Until that day, read on. They say I am[...]
Things You Just Couldn't Get Away With These Days #197 (NSFWIYWIARPO)
Not safe for work if you work in a really puritanical office. Fantagraphics have been putting the entire archives of The Comics Journal online, including issues before it was called The Comics Journal and was The Nostalgia Journal. And here is a cover from issue 31 featuring DC Comics' Big Barda, drawn by the late Dave Cockrum.     You[...]
Mini-Glitch: Comics Journal #301
Not only is it less than retailers would pay from Diamond, but it is less than Diamond, and indeed Amazon, pay to Fantagraphics. Normally this would be called a loss leader.  But what's it leading to? Don;t ask questions Jump on The volume promises; a focus on R Crumb's most commercially successful project of his career, his[...]
Linda Medley Removes Name From Castle Waiting
The second volume of Linda Medley's  Castle Waiting as published by Fantagraphics. It's an entertaining, beautifully illustrated tale about he daily, everyday lives of fairytale characters, set in and around the abandoned castle of Sleeping Beauty. Originally self published, Fantagraphics have taken over publication chores, collecting the first series in graphic novel form, then serialising the second[...]
Fantagraphics Not Tardy About Translating Tardi
Bleeding Cool has been reporting a number of French translated projects from Fantagraphics of late as it mines the country's rich history of work But in the case of Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot they aren't hanging around. This new work, entitled La position du tireur couché or The Prone Gunman in France, [...]
Fantagraphics To Publish David B's The Armed Garden
That's as well a being a French comics auteur of course. And it seems that Fantagraphics, as part of their current attempto to translate every French comic book in existence, has seized upon his book, "Le Jardin armé et autres histoires" or The Armed Garden and are to publish it in August next[...]