Coming Attractions: Holidays 2010
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWere you a good boy or girl this year? Did you avoid Internet snark, practice goodwill towards your fellow human being, and cross with the light? Yeah, neither did I. So, as Black Friday and Cyber Monday approach, I offer the following list of graphic novel gift books, designed to help you [...]
Continue ReadingFantagraphics vs Cool Guy
This profile of the Seattle Fantagraphics store in a college newspaper gives us all a chance to admire their gold leaf signage, but it also presents yet another example of the eternal conflict of art and people with mustard in their goatees as they argue the merits of graphic novels in bookstores and what that means for bathroom privileges.
Continue ReadingBrit nerds like Clowes in Paul
Paul is a comedy due next year that follows two English comics nerds -- played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost -- on a cross country trip that includes Comic-Con. But along the way they meet up with a cute little alien named Paul, portrayed by CGI and voiced by Seth Rogen. Hijinks ensue. It's directed by Greg Mottola who made Superbad and Adventureland, so color this promising.
Continue ReadingEXCLUSIVE: A month of Previews: Lucky in Love
On the occasion of Veterans day, what better book to preview than the extraordinary LUCKY IN LOVE by George L. Chieffet and Stephen DeStefano. The story follows Lucky Testatuda, a young man from New Jersey who discovers a lot about life and love in World War II. Stationed in the Air Force in the Pacific Theater, life for Lucky is a mix of worrying about death, inflicting fiery death upon others, and confronting the differences between fantasy and reality.
Continue ReadingTo do tonight 10/30: Charles Burns at FBI Store
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet CHARLES BURNS: X’ED OUT Slide Talk, Print Exhibition and Book Signing Saturday, October 30, 6:00 to 9:00 PM Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery 1201 S. Vale Street, Seattle, WA 98108 206.658.0110 Open Daily 11:30 – 8:00 PM, Sunday until 5:00 PM
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween: David B.
Robot 6 previews THE LITTLEST PIRATE KING by David B., due any day from Fantagraphics, and dealing with...pirate zombies. Oh yeah. It's based on a short story by Pierre Mac Orlan.
Continue ReadingComing Attractions: October 2010
By Torsten Adair The following is a selection of new comics titles due to be published in October 2010. This list is not comprehensive, as there are over 275 books scheduled. These are just the titles which caught my eye. If you would like to browse forthcoming comic strip books at your leisure, click here. Instead, I have selected titles which caught my interest. These are not necessarily titles I will purchase, but which I will definitely look at once they arrive at my local comics shop or bookstore.
Continue ReadingDash Shaw adapts Blind Date 2
Experimental, award-winning cartoonist Dash Shaw is obsessed with the reality show Blind Date. Don't ask why -- it just is.
Continue ReadingThe Best Jaime Hernandez comic of all time?
At The Factual Opinion, Tucker Stone and Michel Fiffe ponder whether LOVE AND ROCKETS #3 might just be the best comic by Jaime of all time. In which case it would be one of the greatest COMICS of all time.
Continue ReadingStephen DeStefano’s Monday Strip
Only three were produced, alas, but they are swell. We have censored some salty language for our younger readers -- read the shocking unexpurgated version in the link!
Continue ReadingComing Attractions: Fall 2010: Comic Strips
By Torsten Adair -- The following is a selection of new comic strip titles due to be published this Fall 2010. This list is not comprehensive, as there are over 200 books about comic strips scheduled from September to December. These are just the titles which caught my eye. Although you are welcome to debate the definition of "comic strip" in the comments, for my purposes I'm including single-panel cartoons as well as books about comic strips in this list.
Continue ReadingTonight To Do: Millionaire and Ryan at Family
Family Bookstore is pleased to host the launch of two new books from Fantagraphics Books: Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird Tony Millionaire
Continue ReadingNice Art: Richard Sala’s HIDDEN site
Few creators beside Richard Sala have the chops to pull this off as it should be pulled off:
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William S. Burroughs’ long-lost graphic novel coming out at last
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Fantagraphics has just announced via PR the publication of a long-lost but much alluded to comic strip by William S. Burroughs and British artist Malcolm McNeill called Ah Pook Is Here. The strip ran in the English magazine Cyclops as “The Unspeakable Mr. Hart” until the magazine folded, at which time [...]
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