Tag: Fantagraphics

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?

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...