Tag: Fantagraphics

Rumors about Fantagraphics launching a smaller, micro press had been floating around for a while and in advance of SPOX they've made it official....

More news through from San Diego, as Fantagraphics have announced that they'll be collecting the webcomic 'Sacred Heart', by Liz Suburbia, as a one-shot...

Fantagraphics has released a bunch of previews of their summer hits, including Simon Hansellman's Megahex, Carol Swain's Gast and the Drew Friedman cartoonist portrait...

by Benjamin Rogers -- Once again the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo was a huge success. CAKE 2014 featured over 120 exhibitors and drew 2,200 attendees over the course of the weekend, a ten percent increase from last year’s show. Conference organizer Neil Brideau said that CAKE was excited to continue increasing its scope, noting that “this was the first year we’ve had a large international presence.” He highlighted some artists who travelled a long way to attend the show such as Inés Estrada of Mexico, and Philippa Rice and Luke Pearson of the UK.

Continuing a move to acquire some books that fit in with their art comix profile while not being obvious choices, Fantagraphics will collect Wuvable...

Fantagraphics has posted an except from Jaime Hernandez's The Love Bunglers, coming in April. This reprints the story from Love and Rockets #3-4 which...

Lucy Knisley was one of the breakout cartoonists of 2013 with Relish, a charming, warm illustrated memoir mixing food and memory which even included...

Jesse Reklew will be signing COUCH TAG at 7 at Desert Island in Brooklyn tonight. As I think I mentioned only a few posts...

Since all the Santa's are in the stores and it's christmas carols non stop already, I might as well start posting my book rec's...

So to no one's surprise, the Fantagraphics Kickstarter has reached its goal of $150,000. With 22 days to go this could get a lot bigger—or people could just say "mission accomplished" and walk off. But given the nature of Kickstarter I'd be shocked if that happens.

Fantagraphics, publisher of some of the greatest comics ever, hopes to publish more of them in next year's line, but the death of co-founder Kim Thompson in June has left some problems, both with managing the line and cash flow; the books Kim was working on as publisher and translator had to be delayed and that has left them with a budget shortfall.

Over 1578 pages of material, the last three issues of The Comics Journal included 11 pages by or about women cartoonists. Is this exclusion hurting diversity in comics or just the dying breath of pap pap comics?