Tag: Fantagraphics

You’re not likely to come out of a Cathy Malkasian book without being spooked by something you can’t quite put your finger on even though it lingers and gets you a little bit down....

The surprise graphic novel hit of the start of 2017 is Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters. It's both a sui generis story (a young girl growing up in Chicago imagines herself as...

This week, Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins create a powerful history for a fictional place while Fantagraphics enters the superhero comics space with Crime Destroyer. As always we score books here on an all...

For years Fantagraphics has been THE place for incredible cartoonists to flex storytelling muscle. Over the weekend, the publisher announced more details on their new initiative in the world of superhero comics. The new...

Anya Davidson's 'Band for Life' is one of the boldest graphic novels of the year, an eye splitting trip into the lives of am indie punk rock band and their misadventures. Call it Josie and the Pussycats for the post-iTunes generation. Here Davidson talks about her own music tastes and band as well as the history of the strip and her use of color.

This year's Small Press Expo was another love-in. Glen Weldon wrote all about it for the NPR blog In theory, SPX seems a lot like many of the other comic-cons that have been popping up across...

The first in a projected seven-book science fiction series, Joshua W. Cotter’s Nod Away draws you in with the human drama, but keeps the science fiction elements of the story mostly at bay, creating a...

Italian comics maestro Guide Crepax is getting what I'm willing to bet is his first ever US art exhibit this weekend at the Scott Eder Gallery in Dumbo.

"I think the reason I made comics was because I liked to write as much as draw."

Daniel Clowes new graphic novel Patience drops in late winter and it's sure to be the comic book event of the first half of 2016. Promised as a SF tale about time travel and...

Here's a book that has received little attention but SHOULD, especially in a world where cartoonists are still being imprisoned and worse for their beliefs. Fantagraphics has just published The Eternaut by Héctor Germán Oesterheld...

In a world where the word unfettered is used quite a bit, Gilbert Hernandez can truly be said to be unfettered. The Love and Rockets grandmaster is a prolific graphic novelist (in the last couple of years alone, Speak of the Devil, Loverboys, Bumperhead, and Marble Season) and no subject matter is too raw or shocking. His The Twilight Children (drawn by Darwyn Cooke) is currently coming out from Vertigo, and here's a brand new project, Garden Of Flesh which promises Gilbert's own take on Biblical tales: