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And THEN… Fantagraphics publisher Gary Groth and I both submitted a panel pitch about the book, titled HOW COMIC-CON CONQUERED THE PLANET, featuring Maggie Thompson, San Diego Comic-Con Chairman and co-founder Mike Towry, San Diego Comic-Con early committee member Wendy All, scholar/author Dr Erin (ONLY AT COMIC-CON) Hanna, San Diego Comic-Con co-founder David Clark, San[...]

From 1971 on, Murphy drew the strip from Foster scripts and pencil sketches until strip #2241 in 1980, when Murphy drew the solo with scripts by his son Cullen Murphy. Brian Kane posted the following; Prince Valiant, sketches and finished work. "I was screwed over by Gary Groth and Fantagraphics, which has kept the 6-volume "Hal Foster's Prince[...]

This version is an attempt to fix that. In Pictopia by Don Simpson In the Bleeding Cool comments which I just read, Gary Groth, publisher of Fantagraphics, then and now, replies to someone who blamed Fantagraphics, saying "It was originally published and commissioned by Fantagraphics, as the article clearly indicates We even reprinted it in our Best[...]

Humanoids' Mark Waid couldn't make it but Fantagraphics' Gary Groth, Boom Studios' Ross Richie, Dark Horse's Mike Richardson and IDW's Dirk Wood did The stream just wrapped. Along the way, Steve Geppi talked about the importance of communication from retailers, publishers and distributors, recommending that everyone needed to stay in their lane, publisher, retailers, distributors, that[...]

He will be joined by a number of publishers, including Gary Groth of Fantagraphics with whom Geppi had quite the turbulent relationship with back in the days that The Comic Journal rolled the roost, He is joined by Ross Richie of Boom Studios, Dirk Wood of IDW and former Fantagraphics and Boom editorial employee Mark[...]

Hell, I even saw Gary Groth in the comments. So we got to hear stories of Heroes World, of DC Comics getting Diamond exclusivity, of DC's right to buy Diamond but without the intent to, and of monopoly Steve talked about his intent for Diamond to succeed by being the best at the cheapest price, and[...]

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[...]

Guests include Farel Dalrymple, Craig Yoe, Tom Scioli, Ed Piskor, Gary Groth, Danny Hellman, Trina Robbins, and Jim Rugg. They say: "PIX  is devoted solely to creator-owned, self-published, small-press, and handmade comics, artists books and other visual works Admission is free and the event is open to the public.  The event will give Pittsburghers the opportunity[...]

The Comics Journal published at the end of the year, headlines with a final in depth interview between Maurice Sendak and Journal publisher Gary Groth. Here is a snippet Possibly the snippet. SENDAK: Bush was president, I thought, "Be brave Tie a bomb to your shirt Insist on going to the White House And I wanna have[...]

This year, it was to include a stage interview between Crumb and Gary Groth. They quoted an unnamed sexual assault crisis groups describing him as "sick and deranged", talked to a government spokesman who said Crumb's work couldn't be displayed without classification, which would probably be refused, and finally quoted anti-child abuse campaigner Hetty Johnston saying the[...]