The curtain should be coming down towards the end of today on our standalone graphic novels site. With the much more flexible and dynamic new FPI webstore now having every graphic novel listed there too the time has finally come to wind down the GN site and move everything to the new home. It won’t affect the actual range however since I will still be adding exciting graphic novels from the big publishers and the small, known names and fresh talent alike, with the benefit of better layout, more felixibility, better images and the ability to host some previews pages and allow users to add their own reviews. Up, up and away.
And in the spirit of adding new graphic novels, Fantagraphics titles for August are on the site; comics fans will be thrilled to hear that Gilbert Hernandez, one of the most important cartoonists/writers working in the genre, will be wrapping up his post-Palomar series this summer with Luba: Three Daughters. And as a bonus he is also starting a series of Fanta’s Ignatz series, The New Tales of Old Palomar, also in august.
The Ignatz range is a sort of halfway house between comic issues and a full graphic novel, coming in irregular issues, comics page count but with proper stiff covers and flaps. Since they are drawing on some of the best artists and writers but come in at the price of a deluxe comic they offer a very low-cost path to exploring creators some readers may not have picked up on yet. Richard Sala also begins an Ignatz series with Delphine #1 in August; these three new Fantagraphics titles alone have some of us here very, very excited!
Wed, Apr 26, 2006
General