Drawn and Quarterly? Fantagraphics? A Few Recent Releases?

Yes: Our new comics-reviewing team gives 'em a look-see

"...Adventures of Jodelle by Guy Peellaert and Pierre Bartier Fantagraphics; hardcover, 164pp; $45 www.fantagraphics.com..."

May 10, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Let Them Meatcake!

Here's the best from 17 years of Dame Darcy's comic-book Meatcake

"...of Dame Darcy's Meatcake comics has been out from Fantagraphics since July, and you're merely waiting for a slight..."

Oct. 5, 2010 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hey, Grownups! More Graphic Novels!

Three new releases from those geeky savants at Fantagraphics

"...banging a gong for some of what Seattle’s unstoppable Fantagraphics has going on:..."

Dec. 13, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

New in Graphic Novels

These are two books so ripe with sex, it's as if the subject has fermented in the pages

"...Celluloidby Dave McKean Fantagraphics Books, 282 pp., $35 Paying for Itby Chester Brown..."

June 10, 2011 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

God Save the Screen

Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly spent seven years hunting Mohawks for their mad, mammoth compendium, Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film

"...Carlson: No, not at all. Fantagraphics is such a fantastic publisher, and Gary Groth, the..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

E.C. Segar's Popeye Vol. 1: 'I Yam What I Yam'
and The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy: Volume 1

It's a good time for fans of the old funny pages

"...Fantagraphics, 200 pp., $29.95The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy: Dailies..."

March 16, 2007 Books Review by Ryan Rutherford

Garlandia

One family man's fight to survive divine assaults and a community turned against him becomes a rollicking, rambling epic, superbly rendered

"...Comics powerhouse Fantagraphics is the company responsible for this lyrical masterwork's production,..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

It’s Free Comic Book Day in Austin on Saturday

But then, it’s Free Comic Book Day everywhere on Saturday

"...and with no spare time for grabbing freebies from Fantagraphics or Drawn & Quarterly or Top Shelf or First..."

May 4, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Time for Another Graphic Novadose of That Kramer’s Ergot

Sammy Harkham’s new anthology is one long & strange & stunning trip

"...comics (or comix or, you know, sequential art) from Fantagraphics...."

May 25, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hey, Adults! Comics! Comics that are Funny, Weird, and Profound!

Reviewed: New School, Superzelda, My Dirty Dumb Eyes

"...New School by Dash Shaw Fantagraphics Books; hardcover, 340 pp; $40. www.fantagraphics.com..."

Sept. 2, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ed the Happy Clown? Ed the Happy Clown!

Chester Brown's early magnum opus is hardcovered for you

"...(Which Tales are, of course, from Seattle comics powerhouse Fantagraphics.)..."

Aug. 7, 2012 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Drawing Interest

Books with graphic value

"...and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditkoby Blake Bell Fantagraphics Books, 220 pp., $39.99 Bottomless Belly Buttonby Dash Shaw..."

July 11, 2008 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Big Books

Gift guide

"...Fantagraphics' Blab! No. 15, the latest in their annual Monte..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Comics Worth Spending Money on

Three Chronicle writers recommend 14 current comics, from standard superhero fare to funny-animal satire to slice-of-life drama.

"...Fantagraphics, $2.95..."

May 3, 2002 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postscripts

Upcoming events in Austin's literary life

"...of Jim Woodring, Peter Bagge, Jaime Hernandez, and others). Fantagraphics Books' 1985 GMC Vandura is "weather-beaten, corroded ... with..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Crossing the Lines

Women Comic Strippers

"...self-authored titles. According to Tammy Watson, marketing director for Fantagraphics Books, a forerunner in independent comic distribution, "It's not..."

May 12, 1995 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

Warped and Bloodied: Two New Books by Drafthouse Veterans

Giving the forgotten children of horror and exploitation the analysis they deserve

"...by Zack Carlson, Annie Choi, and Joseph A. Ziemba, Fantagraphics, 272 pp., $34.99..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Five Recent Graphic Novels to End This Crazy Year Right

We mean, if there’s any way to end it that’s other than wrong

"...1) HOUSE OF WOMEN..."

Dec. 14, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

KRAKATHOOOOM!! Free Comic Book Day Is Soon Upon Us Once Again!

Annual giveaway of popular sequential art stirs area interest, desire

"...Of course, this Saturday’s also a good time to..."

May 3, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The ATX Arts Scene Will Fill Your Saturday but Good

So much to do in this town, and here are just a few excellent ideas

"...part of that whole Twisted Sisters crowd promoted by Fantagraphics back in the day, having enjoyed her distinctive scratchboard..."

July 22, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Scott McCloud in Austin with The Sculptor this Weekend

The affable theorist of Understanding Comics waxes all fictional.

"...why did you choose First Second instead of, say, Fantagraphics or Drawn & Quarterly or Pantheon or somebody like..."

Feb. 4, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Doctors After Death, Doctors After Life

Dash Shaw's newest graphic novel walks darkly toward the light

"...Also, this new book from Fantagraphics is shorter, more of a novella or novelette, say,..."

Oct. 14, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pages And Pages of Free Comics

Flicking through this year's Free Comic Book Day comics

"...Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (Fantagraphics): In his 45 years of drawing the plucky round-eared..."

May 5, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Mome Vol. 14

The latest in the anthology series curated by Fantagraphics' Eric Reynolds and Gary Groth

"...Mome Vol. 14Fantagraphics, 120 pp., $14.99 (paper)..."

May 8, 2009 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Arigatou Gozaimasu, Mr. Sakai

Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai looks back on 25 years of his samurai rabbit

"...its ninth print, and it's a good seller for Fantagraphics, so they keep reprinting it...."

April 15, 2009 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

RAW Talent

The seasoning of Art Spiegelman's graphic chops

"...Spiegelman acknowledges that his sketchbooks don't share the sheer..."

March 27, 2009 Books Post by Jason Stout

Laura Warholic or, the Sexual Intellectual

Theroux has a knack for creative observations and clarity, as well as an undeniably vast knowledge of literature and sex

"...Laura Warholic or, the Sexual Intellectualby Alexander Theroux Fantagraphics, 878 pp., $29.95..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Books Review by Sofia Resnick

Books Gift Guide

Betsy and Me

"...Betsy and Meby Jack Cole Fantagraphics Books, 104 pp., $14.95 (paper)..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Books Feature by Rick Klaw

Blab! 17

Each year, Monte Beauchamp harvests and designs a collection of work from the world's diverse crop of illustrators, sequential artists, and the graphically obsessed. And each year, it rules.

"...Fantagraphics, 120 pp., $19.95 (paper) Each year, Monte Beauchamp harvests..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Loss Upon Loss

Legendary cartoonist, historian, and Texan Jack Jackson passes on

"...this talent his due. Gary Groth, the mastermind behind Fantagraphics, dismissed me in a finely targeted piece in The..."

June 16, 2006 Column by Louis Black

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