Tag: Fantagraphics

Fantagraphics has now published four nice hardcover volumes collecting old Steve Ditko comics. Last year they released Steve Ditko's Mysteriuous Travellers, and here's an...

    By Bruce Lidl While wandering the aisles at the 2013 Alternative Press Expo in San Francicso this past weekend, overwhelmed by comics, comix, and knitted...

I find Dash Shaw's work to be strangely invigorating. I admit I had some reservations when I first saw the daunting heft of his Bottomless Belly Button, with its absurdly extended passage of a man running and profusely sweating, drawn in a style so crunchy that it makes Gary Panter look slick. The idea that all we cartoonists must now draw books that are at least three inches thick and that take several years of deprivation to accomplish thanks to the efforts of obviously dedicated workhorses such as Shaw and Craig Thompson was not a pretty one. But I was eventually to resign myself to this new order.

I don't know why this news hasn't been picked up at every entertainment blog everywhere. A comic book has been optioned for a live...

What was that we were saying about Fall shaping up? Love and Rockets: New Stories #6 is coming out in October, and will...

August! New month, more comics, 'nuff excitement. We have a shuftie round and picked out the comics we're looking forward to this month:   Jessica Lee: PALOOKAVILLE...

One of the things heard most frequently this weekend online was 'why is there no comic news coming out of SDCC'? You mean aside...

It's back to our old pal Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter, for the news that Fantagraphics are preparing a collection of Tony Millionaire's...

As revealed today by Tom Spurgeon on The Comics Reporter, Fantagraphics will be publishing a collection of short stories from Eleanor Davis into a...

(Photo from and © American Virus) When I moved to Los Angeles in the 80s, I lived in West Hollywood at the height of the...

Photo by Lynn Emmert. Fantagraphics co-founder and industry titan Kim Thompson has lost his battle with lung cancer. A statement was released below, but...

A two part conversation between Peter Bagge (Hate, Reset) and Zak Sally at TCJ.com plants the flag on the idea that Bagge's achievements need...