Fantagraphics Blog Press Highlights

Praise for Chicago “With an unabashed underground comix feel, Chicago is the counterculture hit of the year and a courageous bit of well-crafted storytelling.” Read more on Broken Frontier Read Glenn Head’s Comic Diary at The Comics Journal

Praise for Hip Hop Family Tree #1 “Hip Hop Family Tree not only has a terrific story to tell, but it tells it with great style. The pages of the book are textured to look like an old, three color print comic, which has the visual effect of the pops and crackles on a vinyl record….It’s accessible and enthusiastic without ever being pedantic or condescending, to the reader or to the book’s subjects, coming off ultimately as exactly what it should be- a labor of love documenting an important and underrepresented portion of history in a way that almost any…

Exclusive Fantagraphics preview: Jason’s If You Steal presents off-kilter short stories “With his simplified art style and wry sense of humor, Norwegian cartoonist Jason has crafted some immensely entertaining stories.” Read more at A.V. Club Unshelved reviews Peter Bagge’s Buddy Buys a Dump, Lucy Knisley’sDisplacement and The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez “Bagge’s humor is right out of a John Waters movie – loud, outrageous, sometimes transgressive.” Read more at Unshelved CBR TV: PETER BAGGE ON R. CRUMB, CRITICISM, WORKING FOR MARVEL & “FIRE!!” Watch at Comic Book Resource Praise for Hip Hop Family Tree “Ed Piskor continues to deliver…

Praise for Hip Hop Family Tree  “The amount of research he’s done sets a rather terrifying new standard for anyone else inclined to study the birth of hip-hop…No less brilliant than Piskor’s journalism is his graphical skill.” Read more at NPR “While the stories were great, Ed Piskor’s art may be better.  I loved the combination of realistic looks with comic conventions to create a book that looked like a hip hop daydream.  I also loved the technique that made the comic look like something that had been in my parent’s basement since 1984 along with all my old records,…

Praise for The Complete Eightball “A lovingly restored two-volume collection of Daniel Clowes’s seminal comic book series, gives readers old and new a chance to reassess the great cartoonist’s work, allowing them to trace back the roots of later masterpieces and to enjoy some of the caustic, experimental, and just plain strange short stories.” Read more at The Comics Journal   Praise for Jason’s If You Steal “Full of pop culture kitsch, genre-mashing experimentation, and quiet ennui-heavy contemplation” Read more at Comic Book Resource   Praise for Dörfler “In Dörfler, his debut graphic novel from Fantagraphics, Pittsburgh-based cartoonist Jeremy Baum…

Praise for Leah Hayes’ Not Funny Ha-Ha on Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Cosmopolitan, Bitch Media, MTV, Ravishly, Bust, and Publisher’s Weekly- “Hayes’ illustrations are straightforward and witty. She defines technical terms and medical processes, while still managing to capture the deeply personal, human side of the reproductive decisions a woman makes.” Read more at Huffington post “Conveys a feeling of comfort and openness, while also conveying the weight of the topic.” Read more at BuzzFeed “The book explains medical jargon and breaks down the physical process of having a termination, while still offering a very human portrayal of the experience.” Read…

Praise for The Complete Eightball The Complete Eightball tops the New York Times best seller list for graphic novels!   “Over 500 pages of subversive comics that made Clowes such a force in the comics scene and beyond.” Read more at the Amazon Book Review Blog- Omnivoracious “The Complete Eightball is without a doubt a masterwork “ Read more at AiPT! Praise for Black River “Simmons is a grimly witty take-no-prisoners storyteller, and his smart and violent tale is well paced and startling.” Read more at Miami Herald “This is a book about survival, told with delicacy and weight.” Read…