Tag Archive | "Fantagraphics"

Robert Crumb – Genesis exhibition

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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Over at the Fantagraphics blog they’ve some pictures and a write up from Patrick Rosenkranz of the Robert Crumb Genesis exhibition at the Portland Art Museum. It looks very impressive, but what struck me most were the wonderfully life-sized Crumb figures hung from the ceiling….

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Roberta Gregory’s new website/book

Saturday, June 5, 2010

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I have so many great memories of reading and selling Roberta Gregory’s wonderfully acerbic comic Naughty Bits in years gone by. It was a viciously funny comic and was one of those comics guaranteed to appeal to non comic shop people (this was the early 90s remember – comic shops weren’t the lovely, open, all [...]

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Freeway – Mark Kalesniko’s Alex returns. I rejoice.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

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Is it wrong to think that this will be on my best of year list even before it’s been published? Mark Kalesniko returns to the life of his tortured, alcoholic, dog faced protagonist who we last saw in the wonderous Alex. There’s going to be just as much anger, just as much depression, just as [...]

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Tardi: J’Accuse – It Was the War of the Trenches

Monday, May 10, 2010

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It Was the War of the Trenches By Jacques Tardi Published by Fantagraphics I’ve been pretty delighted to see the crew at Fantagraphics translating and publishing some of the excellent work of acclaimed French BD artist Jaques Tardi over the last year or so (with more to come), but I’ve been especially keen to read [...]

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Avoid the Future talks to Joe Daly

Monday, May 10, 2010

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Avoid the Future has a good interview with South African cartoonist Joe Daly as Fantagraphics publishs his new graphic novel, Dungeon Quest, discussing DQ and others from his unusual and interesting ouevre, like Scrublands and the Red Monkey Double Happiness Book (all books worth checking out if you are looking for something new and a [...]

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Teens beware – this could be you. Charles Burns’ Black Hole brought disturbingly to life:

Sunday, April 25, 2010

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Over on the Fantagraphics website they have these couple of disturbing images created by photographer Max Oppenheim based on the characters from Charles Burns’ Black Hole for 125 magazine. (Although compared with the actual comic, these are nothing).

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Fantagraphics to publish manga

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Dirk at Journalista confirms that Fantagraphics, one of the homes of quality comics publishing in our book, is to publish a manga line (although I suppose since Fanta used to publish Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo you could say they’ve published a manga series before). From Dirk’s post on Journalista: “For the past four years or [...]

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Almost Silent

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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New in this week from Fantagraphics is Almost Silent, a collection of four earlier original graphic novels by the brilliant Jason. Regulars will know we love Jason’s work and if you’ve been meaning to read some and somehow never quite got round to grabbing the earlier works then this lovely little hardback is the perfect [...]

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Mr Natural – the tree decoration, the hardback ….

Saturday, December 12, 2009

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Go on, someone create a Robert Crumb themed Christmas tree using these Mr Natural papercraft toys from the Toy-A-Day blog. The timing is perfect, since Fantagraphics have just announced that the first ever hardback edition of The Book Of Mr Natural will be available in March 2010. (via Fantagraphics blog) And whilst on the Toy-A-Day [...]

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Dear Santa….. Gahan Wilson’s Fifty Years Of Playboy Cartoons

Sunday, November 29, 2009

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Over on the Fantagraphics website, they’ve a couple of sneak peaks for those of you thinking about getting the rather gorgeous 3 volume collection of Gahan Wilson’s Playboy cartoons. First there’s Neil Gaiman’s introduction as a nice entree followed by 25 pages of Gahan cartoons to download and really get your teeth into. And after [...]

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TCJ 300 free online

Monday, November 16, 2009

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The 300th issue of the excellent Comics Journal, one of the best reads about the medium you’ll find in the English language (and now the final issue in the traditional format as it moves to a bi-annual, larger format), is now available to read free online – From Dirk’s description of the line-up in #300: [...]

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Strange Suspense: the Steve Ditko Archive

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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Okay, I see a lot of books and comics passing my desk every week but ye gods this stood out – pre comic code Steve Ditko. Let me just say that again: STEVE DITKO!! The first volume of Fantagraphics’ Strange Suspense: the Steve Ditko Archives goes on sale today, collecting material from the first couple [...]

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Everyone is Stupid…

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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Rejoice, a new Peter Bagge collection hits the shelves today from Fantagraphics, Everyone is Stupid Except Me & Other Astute Observations. I do like Bagge’s sarcastic, satirical style, offset by his very cartoony characters.

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