Since it’s Valentine’s Day and we’re in the mood for some lurve, how about this classic cover art borrowed from the newly published Young Romance: Simon & Kirby’s 1940s – 50s Romance Comics from Fantagraphics. Sure, we could have had something more swooningly romantic, but as this just hit the shelves last week it seems [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 25, 2011
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Seattle is the place to be this Friday – the awesomeness that is Peter Bagge will be in the Fantagraphics (1201 S. Vale Street) store Friday November 25th from 7pm – comics, signings, chat and brews will be the order of the evening, followed by decamping to next door club Mix where Bagge’s “power pop [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 10, 2011
Two Dutch giants of illustration and comics have recently seen their complete comics work collected in major editions. And even though they have the same background, their output couldn’t be more different. Joost Swarte is well-known as the inventor of the term ligne claire, and, with his extremely stylised version of the graphic style [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 28, 2011
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Noted comics creator and commentator Trina Robbins discusses some of the subject matter of her Fantagraphics book The Brinkley Girls, 1920s illustrator Nell Brinkley (via Graphic Eye): Trina Robbins talks Nell Brinkley from Gavin Lees on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Saturday, August 27, 2011
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Walt Kelly’s Pogo is one of the greatest comic strips I’ve ever read. It’s simply brilliant; quaint and sweet on the surface but deeper readings reveals layers of very smart political and social satire. And as you can clearly see, Walt Kelly’s artwork is magnificent. The scheduled ship date of September was a deadline that [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 21, 2011
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Love & Rockets: New Stories #4 by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez ships in September (hopefully). Will it be brilliant? Probably. Will it be as good as Love and Rockets: New Stories #3, where Jaime Hernandez gave us a look at Loca Maggie after three years of absense in two beautiful tales The Love Bunglers and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 19, 2011
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Over at Reprodukt, the famous German publisher, they’re celebrating 20 years of publishing. And as part of the celebrations they’ve asked their artists to do something a little different for a gallery exhibition; draw a page from another Reprodukt artist. First one up to bat is Jason: I chose to do a page from Daniel [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 5, 2011
Coming in October, Fantagraphics are starting a brand new reprint series, in affordable yet beautiful hardcovers of Carl Barks’ absolutely classic Donald Duck comics. For a little background I’ll pass you over to Fantagraphics’ PR: “Barks alternated between longish, sprawling 20- or 30-page adventure yarns filled with the romance of danger, courage, and derring-do, whose [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 23, 2011
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Saw this on Tom’s Comic Reporter earlier – Fantagraphics have announced their intention to publish the EC Comics Library. But not by individual title as all previous reprint projects have done. This time Fantagraphics are going to be collecting together work by specific artists with a schedule of 4 per year, in glorious black and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 8, 2011
The Fantagraphics Flog has a fab video shot by Ian Burns of Jim Woodring’s entire presentation on his new Congress of the Animals that he have recently at Elliot Bay Book Company, a nice chance for most of us who love Woodring’s amazing artwork but who couldn’t be at the event to catch up with [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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Good news for fans of vintage 60s pop material: Fantagraphics (one of our favourite publishers) recently announced (in their own, “you have to find it if you’re really interested” kind of way, burying it deep in their site) that they have acquired the publishing rights for the English language editions for two classic albums by [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 28, 2011
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Fresh in this week, new Gilbert Hernandez from Fantagraphics, Love From the Shadows. Can’t resist splashing some Los Bros art on here for all to enjoy because, well, because it is Gilbert Hernandez and because we can never get enough of Los Bros, they just make our days better: (cover to Love From the Shadows [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 16, 2011
I didn’t plan for this to become some sort of regular feature, but as long as publishers keep announcing new stuff that looks great for the coming year we’ll keep bringing it to your attention. We’re deep into January now and we’re starting to see the publishing schedules from various publishers firmed up. And 2011 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 15, 2011
Completely forgot to mention this a while back, but thought it needed covering just in case you missed it. It’s going to be a great year for Fantagraphics (and for us comic fans) – as they’ve recently announced that they’ve acquired the right from Disney to produce what may well become the definitive Carl Barks [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 29, 2010
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Kim at Fantagraphics posts up this short video of the great Jacques Tardi at work on the sequel to his powerful It Was the War of the Trenches (an astonishing work, I read some of it in French, was very pleased when Fanta announced they were issuing an English language translation of it – see [...]
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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