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The Fantagraphics Summer 2024 Releases Include Books from Charles Burns, Powerpaola, Tommi Musturi and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • November 15, 2023

We’re catching up again today post-Thought Bubble with the 2024 publisher line-up announcements. Below you can check out everything you can pick as part of Fantagraphics Summer 2024 releases. Fantagraphics…

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Salome’s Last Dance – Frisk Your Noodle and Head to a Higher Dimension in Daria’s Tessler’s New Graphic Novel from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • November 14, 2023

Looking for a phantasmagoric, psychedelic trip into the id, ego, and all things in between? Perhaps Salome’s Last Dance, a new graphic novel from acclaimed artist and printmaker Daria Tessler…

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Preview: Hip Hop Family Tree Omnibus – The Ultimate Edition of Ed Piskor’s Award-Winning Series Coming from Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 10, 2023

Ed Piskor’s acclaimed series Hip Hop Family Tree gets a new collection from Fantagraphics. Details below. Celebrate 50 Years of Hip Hop with Ed Piskor’s HIP HOP FAMILY TREE: THE…

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Preview: BRABA – Fantagraphics to Publish New Brazilian Comics Anthology in 2024

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 21, 2023

One last press release to go into the weekend on and just check out some of the incredible art previewed below from BRABA, a new anthology of Brazilian comics coming…

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Fantagraphics to Publish Book Two of Emil Ferris’s ‘My Favorite Thing is Monsters’ in April 2024

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 19, 2023

They don’t come more “eagerly anticipated” than this! The second book of My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris will be published in April 2024 by Fantagraphics. Back in…

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Fantagraphics and MSX: Mangasplaining Extra to Publish Manga Titles ‘Search and Destroy’ and ‘Wandering Cat’s Cage’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 17, 2023

As we recover from two weeks of South London Comic and Zine Fair coverage and the SLCZF weekend we’re very grateful to Fantagraphics and MSX: Mangasplaining for giving us an…

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Now #12 – The Latest Edition of the Medium-Championing Anthology Features Work from J Webster Sharp, Bhanu Pratap, Cynthia Alfonso and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 21, 2023

Comics anthologies that give space to emerging voices alongside established and renowned creative forces on the indie scene are always to be admired. It’s been a little while since we…

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Fantagraphics to Publish ‘Monica’, Daniel Clowes’ First Graphic Novel in Five Years

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • March 9, 2023

Well we hardly need a build-up intro in to this press release from Fantagraphics. Daniel Clowes’ first graphic novel in five years will be on its way to us later…

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The Forest – An Eerie Journey Into Loss and Grief from Thomas Ott and Fantagraphics Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 28, 2023

Seeking to escape the grim atmosphere of a family wake, a young boy slips out of his home and into the dark forest that surrounds it. There, amongst its foreboding…

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“We Never Learned That We Shouldn’t Be Doing This” — A Conversation with Los Bros Hernandez Looking Back on 40 Years of ‘Love and Rockets’

  • by François Vigneault
  • February 10, 2023

In the four decades since they self-published the first issue of Love & Rockets with their brother Mario, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have crafted ground-breaking narratives that rewrote the rules…

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“It’s Essential We Acquire First-Hand, Primary Sources of Personal Anecdotes and Memories” – Mathew Klickstein on the Archival Importance of ‘See You at San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 8, 2023

Mathew Klickstein’s ambitious project See You at San Diego from Fantagraphics Books is described as a “comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless intimate,…

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Maria Bamford and Scott Marvel Cassidy’s OGN ‘Hogbook and Lazer Eyes’ to Be Published by Fantagraphics in June

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • January 6, 2023

Hot on the heels of their double Broken Frontier Awards win this week we have the first press release of the year from publisher Fantagraphics. Details of Hogbook and Lazer…

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No One Else – R. Kikuo Johnson Explores Fractured Family Relationships in the Wake of a Bereavement

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 28, 2022

Winner of the Outstanding Graphic Novel in the 2022 Ignatz Awards, No One Else is a sensitively observed family drama from The New Yorker cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson. It’s one…

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Squeak the Mouse – Massimo Mattioli’s Brutally Funny Parody of Cartoon Violence Excess, Collected by Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 20, 2022

Years before Itchy and Scratchy were satirising the cartoon violence of Tom and Jerry on The Simpsons Italian artist Massimo Mattioli was providing far more brutal parodies of the animated…

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Fantagraphics Celebrates 40 Years of ‘Love and Rockets’ by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • July 20, 2022

With Love and Rockets – the seminal series by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez – reaching its landmark 40th anniversary this year there’s lots planned in celebration. With a special 40th…

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Lure – Lane Milburn Explores Climate Change, Privilege and the Commodification of Art in His Socially Relevant Sci-Fi Story from Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2022

It hardly needs saying that science fiction has always been a powerful medium for allegorical explorations of contemporary socio-political issues. Lane Milburn’s graphic novel Lure, from Fantagraphics, is an excellent…

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Scoop Scuttle and His Pals – Fantagraphics Takes the High Energy Slapstick of Basil Wolverton’s “Crackpot Comics” to New Audiences

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2022

As so much previously uncollected, or otherwise near impossible to find, vintage material has become available in print compilations over the last decade or so, it hasn’t always been the…

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Fantagraphics to Publish ‘Keeping Two’ by Jordan Crane in March of 2022

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 30, 2021

News of a major new release from Fantagraphics coming in the first quarter of next year. The full press release with details of Keeping Two by Jordan Crane runs below….

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