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Barnaby Vol. 1 by Crockett Johnson Edited by Eric Reynolds &...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:30:32 -0700

Barnaby Vol. 1
by Crockett Johnson

Edited by Eric Reynolds & Philip Nel; Introduction by Chris Ware; art direction by Daniel Clowes

320-page black & white (with some color) 11” x 6.75” hardcover • $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-60699-522-8

Before authoring one of the most beloved children’s book series of all time — Harold and the Purple Crayon — cartoonist Crockett Johnson created the comic strip Barnaby for over ten years (1942 to 1952). Its subtle ironies and playful allusions never won a broad following, but the adventures of 5-year-old Barnaby Baxter and his fairy godfather Jackeen J. O’Malley was and is a critical favorite.

Fantagraphics introduces the wonders of Barnaby to a new generation of children and parents alike. Co-edited by Johnson biographer Philip Nel (Dr. Seuss: American Icon) and Fantagraphics Associate Publisher Eric Reynolds, with art direction by graphic novelist Daniel Clowes (Ghost World), this five-volume Barnaby series will collect the entirety of the original newspaper strips from 1942-1952. The first volume collects all the strips from 1942 and 1943.

Barnaby revolved around a precocious five-year-old named Barnaby Baxter and his fairly godfather Jackeen J. O’Malley. Yet O’Malley, a cigar-chomping, bumbling con-artist and fast-talker, was not your typical protector. His grasp of magic was usually specious at best, limited to occasional flashes, often aided and abetted by his fellow members in The Elves, Leprechauns, Gnomes, and Little Men’s Chowder & Marching Society.

Barnaby’s deft balance of fantasy, political commentary, sophisticated wit, and elegantly spare images expanded our sense of what comic strips can do. With subtlety and economy, Barnaby proved that comics need not condescend to readers. Its small but influential readership took that message to heart.

rapisaurio: Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko....

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:57:38 -0700

rapisaurio:

Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko. Blake Bell. Fantagraphics Books.

Right now through Memorial Day weekend this book and about 250 other items are 75% off!

warrensmith888: Fantagraphics is having an awesome Memorial Day...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:55:28 -0700

warrensmith888:

Fantagraphics is having an awesome Memorial Day Sale. I just found Willie and Joe: The WW II Years ($10.00 softcover) by Bill Maudlin, The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers ($5.00!), Out of the Shadows by Mort Meskin ($6.75), and the EC Fanzine Squa Tront #2 ($2.50) with some rare Jack Davis art that hasn’t been seen in decades.

https://www.fantagraphics.com/

If you want cheap books that collect amazing comics, you need to go to their website. You can download sample PDFs as well.

75% off about 250 items!

guttersnipercomics: Here’s what I scored in Fantagraphics’...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:54:09 -0700

guttersnipercomics:

Here’s what I scored in Fantagraphics’ Memorial Day sale. I easily could have picked up a lot more stuff, but I have a feeling my wife would have murdered me had I done so. Go check out the sale here.

75% off about 250 items!

Wow! We just found some old Kim Thompson photos! What a handsome...

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:44:32 -0700

Wow! We just found some old Kim Thompson photos! What a handsome polyglot.

Land sakes we have a lot of books coming out this summer and we...

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:24:12 -0700

Land sakes we have a lot of books coming out this summer and we need to clear out space in our warehouse. Hence we are offering our biggest discount ever —75% OFF! — on a huge assortment of over 250 items.

Treat yourself to our first Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse box set for just $12.50! Get our big fancy Love and Rockets hardcovers Locas II and Luba for 10 bucks each! Recent collections of classic material by Roy Crane, Mort Meskin, Alex Toth,Bill Mauldin, Simon & Kirby and more are $10 and under! Pick up super-cheap books by a globe-spanning roster of artists including Dave McKean, Moto Hagio,Joost Swarte, Bill Griffith, Joe Sacco, Jim Woodring, Megan Kelso, Jason, Charles Burns, Lorenzo Mattotti, Johnny Ryan, Drew Friedman, Esther Pearl Watson, Carol Tyler and many more favorites! Take a chance on something you haven’t heard of before! Graphic novels for the price of comic books! Comic books for around a buck! And don’t forget the gifts for your friends & family! Click here to see the whole lineup.

The sale is on now and runs all Memorial Day weekend — we start taking it down at the end of the day on Monday, May 27, 2013. Don’t miss out — order now!

(Please note: coupons and other discounts do not apply to these sale items. The deals are crazy enough as it is! Due to the expected high volume of orders please allow 1-2 extra days for processing and shipping.)

A Jim Woodring charcoal drawing, colorized: “The sickly...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:55:15 -0700

A Jim Woodring charcoal drawing, colorized: “The sickly sweet colors of the transdimensional crossroads of Life after Man (AKA Divinorum) applied by John Winters and reproduced here for your secular samadhi visualization needs.”

desertislandbrooklyn: Gene Deitch, 1949 From The Cat on a Hot...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:56:39 -0700

desertislandbrooklyn:

Gene Deitch, 1949

From The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove, now out in paperback.

Guy Peellaert’s The Adventures of Jodelle reviewed &...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:53:12 -0700

Guy Peellaert’s The Adventures of Jodelle reviewed & previewed at It’s Nice That.

evilhorse: Don’t question Prince Valiant’s good...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:16 -0700

evilhorse:

Don’t question Prince Valiant’s good taste!

Them’s fightin’ words. From our Prince Valiant FCBD comic, and also the upcoming Volume 7.

edpiskor: The endpapers at the back of the book. Gonna nap...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:40:39 -0700

edpiskor:

The endpapers at the back of the book. Gonna nap now..zzzZZzzzZZ…

Just some of the many notables in Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree.

torontocomics: Fantagraphics’ TCAF report is a lot of fun. Go...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:34:39 -0700

torontocomics:

Fantagraphics’ TCAF report is a lot of fun. Go check it out!

http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=TCAF-in-photos.html&Itemid=113

Thanks!

Latest BHO from Ribs.

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:32:07 -0700

Latest BHO from Ribs.

mkupperman: Remember when they combined Momma with Marmaduke?...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:14:46 -0700

mkupperman:

Remember when they combined Momma with Marmaduke? That was horrible.

Michael Kupperman mashup.

mistahphil: Ad for Crap by J.R. Williams, 1993. We used to...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:04:25 -0700

mistahphil:

Ad for Crap by J.R. Williams, 1993.

We used to publish Crap.

Trying to figure out the best place to put our new Chuck Forsman...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:55:00 -0700

Trying to figure out the best place to put our new Chuck Forsman risograph prints for TEOTFW. www.fantagraphics.com/teotfw

Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:11:07 -0700

Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
by Ulli Lust (translated by Kim Thompson)

464-page two-color 6.75” x 9” softcover • $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-60699-557-0

See Previews / Order Now

Back in 1984, a rebellious, 17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive, and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece.

Miraculously combining a perfect memory for both emotional and physical detail with the sometimes painful lucidity two and half decades’ distance have brought to her understanding of the events, Lust meticulously shows the who, where, when, and how (specifically, how an often penniless young girl can survive for months on the road) of a sometimes dangerous and sometimes exhilarating journey. Particularly haunting is her portrait of her fellow traveler, the gangly, promiscuous devil-may-care Edi who veers from being her spunky, funny best friend in the world to an out-of-control lunatic with no consideration for anything but her own whims and desires.

Universally considered one of the very finest examples of the new breed of graphic novels coming from Europe, Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life won the 2011 Angoulême “Revelation” prize, and Fantagraphics is proud to bring it to English speaking readers.

Guess what book proof just slid into our home plate?...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:26:00 -0700

Guess what book proof just slid into our home plate? www.fantagraphics.com/mullinbaseball

inkstuds: Mixtape by Gilbert Hernandez made a couple of years...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:31:08 -0700

inkstuds:

Mixtape by Gilbert Hernandez made a couple of years ago.

1–LOVE OF THE COMMON MAN- TODD RUNDGREN
2–LIVING WITHOUT YOU- MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND
3–I DROVE ALL NIGHT-ROY ORBISON
4–MAMBO SUN–T REX
5–ROCK BOX–RUN DMC
6–COMPLETE CONTROL–THE CLASH
7–CONTACT HIGH–IKE AND TINA TURNER
8–DISTURBANCE–THE MOVE
9–SUCH A NIGHT–ELVIS PRESLEY
10–SHE WAS HOT–THE ROLLING STONES
11–LIVING SIN–EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER
12–THE DAY MY BABY GAVE ME A SURPRISE–DEVO
13–SMOOTH DANCER–DEEP PURPLE
14–AVENUE A–THE DICTATORS
15–CAROL BROWN–FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS
16–GIRLFRIEND (REMIX)–AVRIL LEVINE W/LITTLE MAMA

Beto tunes!

kurtwolfgang: BIG SALE! GO BUY SOME CRAP! Give Kurt Wolfgang...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:33:50 -0700

kurtwolfgang:

BIG SALE! GO BUY SOME CRAP!

Give Kurt Wolfgang some money.