Tag: Fantagraphics

It's Monday.  The work week has just begun.  That means it's time to start making weekend plans.  If you're in Portland, OR, you can...

After the stunning and sold out $500 slipcased edition of Zap Comix was published by Fantagraphics last year, I wondered if they would give...

Fantagraphics has been teasing something new from Daniel Clowes for a few weeks and now and here's the official word: Patience, a new 180-page graphic novel from Clowes is coming in March 2016. It's described as "an indescribable psychedelic science-fiction love story." Certainly the art seems like a technicolor throwback to some of Clowes earlier genre-influenced work, as well as The Death Ray.

It's time for our annual look at some of the comics coming out for this weekend's MoCCA Festival, being held this year at Center...

Coming in March 2016. Five years in the making. pic.twitter.com/oChHUyKbQm — Fantagraphics Books (@fantagraphics) April 6, 2015 It's been way too long since we've heard from...

Beloved comics figures Jen Vaughn is leaving her marketing position at Fantagraphics, and Tom Spurgeon has her exit inerview: VAUGHN: The plan was to stay...

Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar—a masterpiece of small town life, longing and the search for love—survived a challenge and will remain on the shelves at the school library in Rio Rancho, NM Betsy Gomez reports for the CBLDF.

Sadly I can't embed the local news scare quotes story here but the transcript is almost as good. A mother in Rio Rancho, NM found her son had checked out Gilbert Hernandez' PALOMAR from the school library, and then things got dangerous!

Benjamin Marra's saucy blend of over the top violence, in your face graphics and themes of exploitation movies is coming to Fantagraphics in Fall 2015 with a large scale edition of TERROR ASSAULTER: O.M.W.O.T. (One Man War On Terror). Marra's work deals with the same themes of simplistic adventure and alpha males who kill and kiss with impunity...and a layer of self-awareness means that you can read it, enjoy the violence and not feel guilty afterwards. What is not to love here, people?

Do I really need to say any more? After more than a year, a new issue of Love and Rockets: New Stories is coming out in a few weeks. While everyone else is popping the champagne, I'll celebrate by running the nine page preview of new work by the incomparable Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez.

You guys! You guy! Ohmigod! Cartoonist Tony Millionaire and animator Matt Danner are trying to make a hybrid CGI/live action movie based on Millionaire's Sock Monkey books. Danner—WWE Slam City, Hotwheels—has penned a script and the duo re attempting to line up financing for the film.

By Bruce Lidl A number of comics publishers today joined comiXology's no-DRM initiative, and will start offering their titles without digital anti-copying technology. Comixology's announcement at...