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Fantagraphics Books
Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn’t know existed or wouldn’t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.
The work of artists such as R. Crumb, Peter Bagge, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Dan Clowes, Joe Sacco, Chris Ware, Jim Woodring, Jessica Abel and others has continued to gain commercial momentum and critical recognition over the last 20 years by combining the social relevance of the previous generation of underground comix artists, attention to personal and psychologal veracity, and formal experimentation and innovation.
Fantagraphics’ authors have garnered more favorable press attention than any publisher’s in the history of the medium. Recent books alone have received significant, positive coverage in TIME, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and others. Fantagraphics was ranked among the top five most influential publishers in the history of comics in a recent poll by an industry trade newspaper; it was the only independent publisher on the list, and the only contemporary publisher named alongside corporate behemoths Marvel and DC.

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Fantagraphics Books

Jessica Abel / Rick Altergott / Ho Che Anderson / Max Andersson / Peter Bagge / Vaughn Bode / Steve Brodner / Ivan Brunetti / Charles Burns / Daniel Clowes / Dave Cooper / Jordan Crane / Robert Crumb / Sophie Crumb / Dame Darcy / Kim Deitch / Steve Ditko / Jules Feiffer / Ray Fenwick / Bob Fingerman / Jim Flora / Ellen Forney / Hal Foster / Drew Friedman / Francesca Ghermandi / Gipi / Roberta Gregory / Bill Griffith / Fletcher Hanks / Gilbert Hernandez / Jaime Hernandez / Los Bros Hernandez / George Herriman / Paul Hornschemeier / Kevin Huizenga / Igort / Jason / R. Kikuo Johnson / Ted Jouflas / Mark Kalesniko / Kaz / Martin Kellerman / Walt Kelly / Megan Kelso / Hank Ketcham / Aline Kominsky-Crumb / Tim Kreider / Michael Kupperman / Harvey Kurtzman / Tim Lane / Roger Langridge / Miss Lasko-Gross / Matthias Lehmann / Bob Levin / Cathy Malkasian / Bill Mauldin / Linda Medley / Tony Millionaire / Mark Newgarden / Anders Nilsen / Thomas Ott / Gary Panter / John Pham / Robert Pollard / Sergio Ponchione / Spain Rodriguez / Johnny Ryan / Joe Sacco / Stan Sakai / Richard Sala / Zak Sally / Wilfred Santiago / Charles Schulz / E.C. Segar / Shag / Dash Shaw / Josh Simmons / Ed Sorel / Ted Stearn / Carol Swain / Alexander Theroux / Frank Thorne / Lewis Trondheim / Carol Tyler / Chris Ware / Steven Weissman / Robert Williams / Barry Windsor-Smith / Jim Woodring

Music:

SUB POP RECORDS, BARSUK RECORDS, SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS, K RECORDS, ESTRUS RECORDS, Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard, Bill Frisell, The Action Suits, The Rheas, Fox Hollow, Extravagant Bachelor, Space Cretins, Paul "Diamond" Blow, The Miracle Workers, Harvey Danger, Mudhoney, These Arms Are Snakes, Bloodloss, Monkeywrench, Gas Huffer, 764-Hero, Fall-Outs, Model Rockets, Minus 5, Robin Hitchcock and the Venus 3, Archer Prewitt, Cheap Suit Seranaders, Arks, Victor Banana, Death by Doll, Al Columbia, Low, Yo La Tengo, Built to Spill, Flaming Lips, Throwing Muses, Sub Pop, Kinski, The DTs, Chinas Comidas, The Moon Spinners, Zak Sally

Movies:

Ghost World, Art School Confidential, Crumb, Comic Book Confidential, American Splendor, Persepolis

Television:

The Drinky Crow Show, Snake 'N' Bacon

Books:

La Perdida, Artbabe, Doofus, King, Bosnian Flat Dog, Pixy, Death and Candy, Hate, The Bradleys, Neat Stuff, Cheech Wizard, Junkwaffel, Beasts and Priests, Trucker Fags in Denial, Glam Warp, Freedom Fries, Schizo, Hee, Haw, Misery Loves Comedy, Black Hole, Big Baby, El Borbah, Skin Deep, Monster Parade, Pussey!, Art School Confidential, Ice Haven, 20th Century Eightball, Caricature, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Ghost World, Eightball, Sheep of Fools, Muzzlers Guzzlers and Good Yeggs, The Pogostick, The Biologic Show, Uptight, The Last Lonely Saturday, The Clouds Above, Weasel, Underbelly, Overbite, Ripple, Crumple, Suckle, Dan and Larry, Reflections, The Complete Crumb Comics, The Book of Mr. Natural, Mystic Funnies, The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat, Your Vigor for Life Appals Me, Self-Loathing Comics, R. Crumb Sketchbooks, Art and Beauty, Id, Zap, Weirdo, Love That Bunch, Belly Button Comix, Scrublands, Meat Cake, Terr'ble Thompson, The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove, Shadowland, The Stuff of Dreams, Beyond the Pale, Waldoworld, All Waldo Comics, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Canvas, Beg the Question, Minimum Wage, White Like She, I Love Led Zeppelin, Monkey Food, Old Jewish Comedians, Warts and All, Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental, The Magic Bottle, Interiorae, Wish You Were Here, Grenuord, The Wipeout, Tits Ass and Real Estate, No More Shaves, Naughty Bits, Life's a Bitch, Zippy the Pinhead, Holy Moly, Deadpan, Let Us Be Perfectly Clear, The Three Paradoxes, Love and Rockets, Palomar, Locas, Luba, Whoa Nellie!, Penny Century, Ganges, Baobab, You Call This Art?!, Cats Don't Exist, Meow Baby!, The Left Bank Gang, The Living and the Dead, Why Are You Doing This?, You Can't Get There from Here, Sshhhh!, Hey Wait..., The Iron Wagon, Night Fisher, Ape, Filthy, Scary, Alex, Mail Order Bride, Why Did Pete Duel Kill Himself?, Underworld, Rocky, The Squirrel Mother, Why Do They Kill Me?, The Pain... When Will It End?, Tales Designed to Thrizzle, The Louche and Insalubrious Escapades of Art D'Ecco, Fred the Clown, Zoot Suite, Hwy. 115, Runaway Comic, Niger, Chimera, Bardin the Superrealist, Castle Waiting, Anywhere but Here, Darling Cheri, Maakies, Billy Hazelnuts, Sock Monkey, Sex Rock and Optical Illusions, We All Die Alone, Monologues for the Coming Plague, The End, Cinema Panopticum, Tales of Error, Dead End, Greetings from Hellville, Jimbo's Inferno, Jimbo in Purgatory, Poor Arnold's Almanac, Angry Youth Comix, Blecky Yuckerella, What're You Lookin' At?!, Portajohnny, But I Like It, Palestine, Notes from a Defeatist, Safe Area Gorazde, The Fixer, Usagi Yojimbo, In My Darkest Hour, Delphine, The Grave Robber's Daughter, Mad Night, The Chuckling Whatsit, Peculia, Peculia and the Groon Grove Vampires, Maniac Killer Strikes Again!, Evil Eye, Swamp Preacher, Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality, Nightmare Alley, My True Story, Struwwelpeter, The New Adventures of Jesus, Fuzz and Pluck, Foodboy, Invasion of the Mind Sappers, The Illustrated History of Union County, The Crystal Ballroom, The Nimrod, Harum Scarum, The Hoodoodad, Late Bloomer, The Job Thing, Chewing Gum in Church, The Kid Firechief, Champs, White Flower Day, Don't Call Me Stupid, Measles, Acme Novelty Library, Jimmy Corrigan, Quimby the Mouse, The Freebooters, Young Gods, Opus, Adastra in Africa, Hysteria in Remission, Malicious Resplendence, Seeing Things, The Frank Book, Trosper, The Book of Jim, Blab, The Devil in Design, Beasts!, Bete Noire, The Bush Junta, Hotwire Comix and Capers, Mome, Zero Zero, The Classic Pin-up Art of Jack Cole, The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo, An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini, The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora, The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora, The Glamor Girls of Don Flowers, The Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward, The Pin-Up Art of Bill Wenzel, Romance Without Tears, Innocence and Seduction, Will Elder: Chicken Fat, Will Elder: The Mad Playboy of Art, Passionella and Other Stories, Feiffer: The Collected Works, Tantrum, Stuff and Nonsense, He Done Her Wrong, Prince Valiant, Little Orphan Annie, Blackmark, Our Gang, Pogo, Krazy and Ignatz, Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace, The Merchant of Dennis, B. Krigstein Comics, B. Krigstein, Daydreams and Nightmares, Nine Lives to Live, Top Hats and Flappers, Arf Museum, Modern Arf, Powerhouse Pepper, Wolvertoons, The Complete Peanuts, Popeye, The Comics Journal, Outlaws Rebels Free Thinkers and Pirates, Squa Tront, The Pirates and the Mouse, Black Images in the Comics, The Comics Go to Hell, The Sandman Papers, Hanging Out with the Dream King, Rebel Visions, The Great Comic Book Heroes, Reading the Funnies, Tales of Terror, The Enigma of Al Capp, Talk to Her, Book of Changes, RAW, Chance in Hell, Modern Swarte, Arf Forum, The Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger, Kafka, Confessions Romances Secrets and Temptations, Harry the Rat with Women, Things Just Get Away From You, Walt Holcombe, Misery Loves Comedy, Arf Forum, Percy Gloom, Cathy Malkasian, Just When You Thought Things Couldn't Get Worse, Edward Sorel, House, Josh Simmons, Human Diastrophism, The Girl from HOPPERS, Maggie the Mechanic, Heartbreak Soup, I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!, Fletcher Hanks, Paul Karasik, The Fun Never Stops!, Meanwhile... A Biography of Milton Caniff, R.C. Harvey, Johnny Ryan's XXX Scumbag Party, Chance in Hell, The Kat Who Walked in Beauty, Devilish Greetings, Mean, Grotesque, Sergio Ponchione, I Killed Adolf Hitler, Where's Dennis The Magazine Cartoon Art of Hank Ketcham, Zippy Walk a Mile in My Muu-Muu, Beyond Palomar, Perla La Loca, Betsy and Me, Laura Warholic or the Sexual Intellectual, Popeye Volume 2 "Well Blow Me Down!", The Last Musketeer, LUST Kinky Online Personal Ads from Seattle's The Stranger, Hotwire Comics Volume 2, More Old Jewish Comedians, Maakies with the Wrinkled Knees, Shag A to Z, Daddy's Girl, Funeral of the Heart, Hall of Best Knowledge, The Education of Hopey Glass, Willie and Joe The WWII Years, Jessica Farm, Amor Y Cohetes, Comic Arf, Explainers, Bottomless Belly Button, Strange and Stranger, Abandoned Cars, Where Demented Wented, Deitch's Pictorama, The Portable Frank

Heroes:

Jessica Abel, Rick Altergott, Ho Che Anderson, Max Andersson, Andrice Arp, David B., Peter Bagge, Donna Barr, Monte Beauchamp, Gabrielle Bell, Marc Bell, Jim Blanchard, Mark Bode, Vaughn Bode, Ariel Bordeaux, Steve Brodner, Matt Broersma, Chester Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Eddie Campbell, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Ben Catmull, Martin Cendreda, Alex Chun, Irwin Chusid, Daniel Clowes, Sue Coe, Santiago Cohen, Jack Cole, Joe Coleman, Al Columbia, Dave Cooper, Colleen Coover, Marco Corona, Jacob Covey, Jordan Crane, Robert Crumb, Sophie Crumb, John Cullen Murphy, John Cuneo, Dame Darcy, Dan DeCarlo, Eldon Dedini, Gene Deitch, Kim Deitch, Simon Deitch, Steve Ditko, Evan Dorkin, Julie Doucet, Debbie Drechsler, Jeremy Eaton, Dennis Eichhorn, Will Elder, Jules Feiffer, Lyonel Feininger, Bob Fingerman, Mary Fleener, Jim Flora, Don Flowers, Ellen Forney, Hal Foster, Frank Frazetta, Renee French, Drew Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, A.B. Frost, Neil Gaiman, Camille Rose Garcia, Rick Geary, Francesca Ghermandi, Gabriella Giandelli, Gipi, Will Gould, Harold Gray, David Greenberger, Roberta Gregory, Bill Griffith, Milt Gross, Gary Groth, R.C. Harvey, Leah Hayes, Rory Hayes, Glenn Head, David Heatley, Herge, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Los Bros. Hernandez, Mario Hernandez, George Herriman, Burne Hogarth, Walt Holcombe, Paul Hornschemeier, Kevin Huizenga, Igort, Greg Irons, Jack Jackson, Jason, JIS, R. Kikuo Johnson, Ted Jouflas, Mark Kalesniko, Gil Kane, Kaz, Martin Kellerman, Walt Kelly, Megan Kelso, Hank Ketcham, Chip Kidd, Molly Kiely, Jack Kirby, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Tim Kreider, B. Krigstein, Peter Kuper, Michael Kupperman, Harvey Kurtzman, Alexandre Lafleur, Tim Lane, Andrew Langridge, Roger Langridge, Miss Lasko-Gross, Matthias Lehmann, Jacques Loustal, Jason Lutes, Rick Marschall, Mark Martin, Leila Marzocchi, Joe Matt, Lorenzo Mattotti, Max, Winsor McCay, Linda Medley, Otto Messmer, Mike Mignola, Tori Miki, Frank Miller, Tony Millionaire, Walter Minus, Alan Moore, Pat Moriarity, Bill Morrison, Victor Moscoso, Jose Munoz, Dan Nadel, Mark Newgarden, Anders Nilsen, Thomas Ott, Gary Panter, Philippe Paringaux, Russell Patterson, Harvey Pekar, Donald Phelps, Chris Polkki, Christopher Priest, Ted Rall, Eric Reynolds, Don Rosa, Arnold Roth, Johnny Ryan, Joe Sacco, Greg Sadowski, Stan Sakai, Richard Sala, Zak Sally, David Sandlin, Wilfred Santiago, Charles M. Schulz, E.C. Segar, Seth, Gilbert Shelton, Bill Sienkiewicz, Robert Sikoryak, Kenneth Smith, Francisco Solano Lopez, Ed Sorel, Spain Rodriguez, Tom Spurgeon, Bob Staake, Frank Stack, Ralph Steadman, Ted Stearn, Fredrik Stromberg, James Sturm, Carol Swain, Joost Swarte, Osamu Tezuka, Alexander Theroux, Hunter S. Thompson, Kim Thompson, Frank Thorne, Rich Tommaso, Alex Toth, Lewis Trondheim, Carol Tyler, Henriette Valium, Penny Moran Van Horn, Gore Vidal, Reed Waller, Bill Ward, Chris Ware, Steven Weissman, Bill Wenzel, Mack White, J.R. Williams, Robert Williams, Bill Willingham, Barry Windsor-Smith, Basil Wolverton, Monte Wolverton, Wallace Wood, Jim Woodring, Bernie Wrightson, Craig Yoe

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Now in stock: American Presidents, Man of Rock, & Sshhhh!

American Presidents By David Levine For more than a half century, David Levine has taken on the most powerful men of the free world with only his pen and a bottle of India ink. That pen has proved ...
Posted by Fantagraphics Books on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:46:00 PST

Daily webcomics: read Rocky Mon.-Fri.!

We are pleased to present Monday-Friday installments of Swedish cartoonist Martin Kellerman's smash-hit comic strip Rocky, in English for the first time anywhere (until they appear in our second Rock...
Posted by Fantagraphics Books on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:01:00 PST

Halloween Sale - up to 25% off!

We've put together a generous selection of our most spine-tingling horror and monster comics and, for the month of October, we're brutally slashing the prices by up to 25% off! From mildly macabre all...
Posted by Fantagraphics Books on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:51:00 PST

Now in stock: The Comics Journal No. 293

The Comics Journal No. 293Edited by Mike Dean and Kristy Valenti; Gary Groth, Executive EditorThe Journal's Bob Levin interviews Zap artist S. Clay Wilson, best known for his panoramas of sex and viol...
Posted by Fantagraphics Books on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:36:00 PST

Clowes & Zwigoff Host Ghost World Screening!

UCB's PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE HOSTS GHOST WORLD SCREENING AND BOOK RELEASE PARTYJoin the Pacific Film Archive in celebrating the charmed works of two Bay Area originals: Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff and carto...
Posted by Fantagraphics Books on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:31:00 PST

Now in stock: Krazy and Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips 1925-1934 (2nd Ed.)

Krazy and Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips 1925-1934 By George Herriman We said we would never reprint it... but popular demand overwhelmed our will! Our second limited-edition printing of this d...
Posted by Fantagraphics Books on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:47:00 PST

Woodring & DiFilippo Present Cosmocopia at Fantagraphics

JIM WOODRING AND PAUL DIFILIPPO PRESENT COSMOCOPIA AT FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSTORE & GALLERY ON OCTOBER 11, 2008Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, in association with Payseur & Schmidt, is pleased to host ...
Posted by Fantagraphics Books on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:23:00 PST

Now in stock: Castle Waiting Vol. II No. 12

Castle Waiting Vol. II No. 12By Linda MedleyThis is the long-awaited special all-bowling issue, as Henry, Dayne, Chess, Tolly, Peace and Simon wage an all-out ninepin war... and it turns out one of th...
Posted by Fantagraphics Books on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:20:00 PST

Upcoming book pre-order orgy!

The following books are now available for pre-order! Click the cover images for more info about each book. And of course we'll be bringing you previews as the release dates get closer. All are expecte...
Posted by Fantagraphics Books on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:06:00 PST

Now in stock: new Meat Cake, Sublife and Ghost World: Special Edition!

Ghost World: Special Edition By Daniel Clowes This deluxe new edition of our most popular book ever expands the original graphic novel  which tells the story of two best friends, Enid and Rebecca,...
Posted by Fantagraphics Books on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:36:00 PST