This Week's Recommended Arts Events

On walls, on screens, and in crates, get some culture this week

"...Grab Free Comic Book Day specials from Archie, Dynamite, Fantagraphics, IDW, Marvel and more, including a special Star Wars..."

May 3, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

A New Chapter for Austin’s Small Bookstores

From serving neighborhoods to serving wine, how innovative local booksellers are filling the shelves

"...comics, and minicomics. Not just the hipster sensations from Fantagraphics or Drawn & Quarterly, which are there, but smaller..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Arts Feature by Joe Gross

Owen Kline Turns the Funny Pages

New movie looks at the grotesque and absurd sides of collection

"...all the while, actual alternative comics from publishers like Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly were selling a fraction of..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

The Perfect Date Night Is In the Details

A sort of recipe for showing your beloved (and yourself) some love

"...you recall the artist’s earlier House of Women from Fantagraphics and are glad that Top Shelf Comics has done..."

Sept. 22, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Zack Carlson Cracks the Vault on Terror Tuesdays at the Drafthouse

Wild and weird movie expert on the underground horror phenom

"...a Bleeding Skull book coming out this year through Fantagraphics in Seattle...."

Jan. 29, 2019 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

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

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

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

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

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

Eating My Way Through Two and a Half Decades of Comics

The Drawn and Quarterly 25th Anniversary Anthology

"...I’ve reviewed a fair amount of titles from Drawn..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Jillian Tamaki Schools Up Some Wicked Bittersweet Humor

SuperMutant Magic Academy, FTW

"...Tamaki, who recently received a Caldecott Honor for the..."

April 30, 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

Strong and Talented and Young

Austin's Raw Paw collective inhales life, exhales art

"...in a collection from, say, Drawn & Quarterly or Fantagraphics. And the thing's printed on a Risograph, Kauber's thin..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature 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

Three Cheers for Reading

Our favorite books of 2013

"...Genius continues to blossom at Fantagraphics – which released Dash Shaw's New School to intrigue,..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

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

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

Free Comic Book Day: Picking Through The Shelves

The annual graphic giveaway is this weekend, so what should you pick up?

"...in Action Time Buddies. On a more classical note, Fantagraphics digs into the archives for Prince Valiant, while Action..."

May 3, 2013 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

There's This 35-Year-Old Who's Totally Into Graphic Novels …

… and its name is Austin Books & Comics!

"...both, from the likes of Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics and Top Shelf and PictureBox and Oni and First..."

Aug. 30, 2012 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

Some Kind of Troll Inside Domy Books

Yes, some kind of hideous, godforsaken troll

"...Blexbolex's new No Man's Land and the latest from Fantagraphics in stock. Or how the store's now carrying titles..."

July 6, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Bedside Manner

So I'm trying this new thing …

"...And Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things (Fantagraphics Books) arrived today; it's a spinoff from the website..."

June 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

It's Free Comic Book Day

The where, what and how of comic collectors' favorite Saturday

"...Drawn & Quarterly: Marble Season Preview; Moomin Color Special Fantagraphics Books: Walt Disney's Donald Duck Family Comics; Crockett Johnson's..."

May 5, 2012 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"...for the rights of sex workers. Dave McKean's Celluloid (Fantagraphics), on the other hand, is an unfettered erotic fantasy..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

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

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

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