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Cartoonist Jason Mixes Fact And Fiction In Upcoming OGN ‘Good Night, Hem’

Three interconnecting short stories starring Ernest Hemingway comprise the latest graphic novel by Norwegian cartoonist Jason, coming this Fall from

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August 26, 2021 Brendan M. Allen 765 Views comics, Fantagraphics, Good Night Hem, Jason, OGN
Comics Reviews 

Classic Comics Cavalcade: Life Is Like A Hurricane In ‘Uncle Scrooge And Donald Duck’ Vol.1

Disney’s DuckTales is probably the ultimate Saturday morning cartoon. The original was a mix of adventure, comedy, and fun, and

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August 15, 2021 Tony Thornley 1004 Views Classic Comics Cavalcade, Disney Comics, Don Rosa, Donald Duck, Fantagraphics, Uncle Scrooge, Walt Disney
Comics Reviews 

Advance Review: The Plot Begins To Thicken Like Day Old Blood In ‘Red Room’ #3

Three issue into Ed Piskor’s horrifying shared universe and we begin to see a larger story emerging from the blood

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July 26, 2021 Olly MacNamee 886 Views Ed Piskor, Fantagraphics, horror, Red Room #3, torture porn
Comics 

Preview: ‘It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be’ Is A New Coming If Age Graphic Novel From Lizzy Stewart

Written and illustrated by Lizzy Stewart, It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be is a new graphic novel drawn

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July 23, 2021 Olly MacNamee 1097 Views coming-of-age, Fantagraphics, It's Not What You Thought It Would Be, Lizzy Stewart
Comics Reviews 

Gruesome, Gory And Glorious: Ed Piskor’s ‘Red Room’ #1 Reviewed

Here in the UK we have a savoury spread known as Marmite. A yeast extract that famously is either loved

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May 19, 2021 Olly MacNamee 1917 Views Ed Piskor, Fantagraphics, horror, torture porn
Comics 

“A Modern Day E.C. Comic”: Previewing Ed Piskor’s Sci-Fi/Horror ‘Red Room’ #1?

Ed Piskor has always stuck me as both ambitious and a creator who follows the beat of a different drum.

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May 13, 2021 Olly MacNamee 1257 Views Cartoonist Kayfabe, Fantagraphics, horror, horror/sci-fi, Jim Rugg, peach momoko, Red Room #1, sci-fi
Comics 

After Three Decades In The Making Barry Windsor-Smith’s ‘Monsters’ Is Finally Released

Tomorrow, Tuesday April 27th, sees the release of the 360-page behemoth that is Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith. Over three decades

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April 26, 2021 Olly MacNamee 1005 Views Barry Windsor-Smith, Fantagraphics, monsters
Comics Reviews 

Women’s History Month Doesn’t Have To End In March — ‘The Flapper Queens’ Reviewed

Women can draw anything. But in the 1920s, newspapers hired (and even sought out) female cartoonists to draw comic strips

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April 1, 2021 Rachel Bellwoar 1110 Views Edith Stevens, Eleanor Schorer, Ethel Hays, Fantagraphics, Fay King, Nell Brinkley, The Flapper Queens, Trina Robbins, Virginia Huget
Comics Events 

Ed Piskor Announces ‘Red Room’ FCBD Issue And Series From Fantagraphics

As part of this year’s line-up of free comic books to be distributed on FCBD 2021 is Ed Piskor’s Red

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March 18, 2021 Olly MacNamee 1422 Views Ed Piskor, Fantagraphics, Marvel, peach momoko, Red Room, Red Room Free Comic Book Da, X-Men Grand Design
Comics Reviews 

Pretty Maids All In A Row: Katie Skelly’s ‘Maids’ Reviewed

Unless you’re aware of the Papin Sisters going in, Katie Skelly’s Maids doesn’t wear it’s true crime origins on its

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October 21, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 1145 Views Fantagraphics, katie skelly, Maids
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Advanced Review: ‘The Cloven’ Treads New Territory With New, Goat-Human Species 

There aren’t many famous faun in fantasy. If you’ve read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe then you’re probably

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July 23, 2020 Rachel Bellwoar 1383 Views Fantagraphics, Garth Stein, Matthew Southworth, The Cloven
Manga 

Kago Shintaro’s ‘Dementia 21’ Returns With Second Volume

After delivering an inter-dimensional epic with The Princess of The Never-Ending Castle, Kago Shintaro returns with a new volume of

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February 21, 2020 Tito W. James 1527 Views Dementia 21, ero guro, Fantagraphics, fashionable paranoia, Kago Shintaro
Comics 

Comicon’s Most Progressive Comics Of 2019

Welcome to Comicon.com’s Best of the Year Awards, gathering the best comics and comics talent of 2019. This year we

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December 31, 2019 Erik Amaya 1840 Views Best of 2019, BTTM FDRS, Fantagraphics, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Gender Queer, IDW, Lion Forge, Mooncakes, They Called Us Enemy, Top Shelf
Comics 

Comicon’s 7 Best OGNs of 2019

Welcome to Comicon.com’s Best of the Year Awards, gathering the best comics and comics talent of 2019. This year we

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December 27, 2019 Erik Amaya 3288 Views Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter, Best of 2019, BTTM FDRS, Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Dear Justice League, Fantagraphics, IDW, Penny Nichols, Polar: The Kaiser Falls, Superman of Smallville, They Called Us Enemy, Top Shelf
Comics 

BTTM FDRS Serves Food For Thought And Genuine Scares

With BTTM FDRS, Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore have created one of the most terrifying monsters to ever take

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June 19, 2019 Rachel Bellwoar 1676 Views 0 Comment Ben Passmore, BTTM FDRS, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Fantagraphics
Comics 

Hobo Mom: A Seamless Collaboration That Doesn’t Provide All The Answers

From the pens of Charles Forsman (The End of the Fxxxing World) and Max de Radiguès (Bastard), Hobo Mom is

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January 15, 2019 Rachel Bellwoar 1780 Views 0 Comment Charles Forsman, Fantagraphics, Hobo Mom, Max de Radigues
Comics Events 

Social Critique Through Science Fiction: Ezra Claytan Daniels Talks Upgrade Soul & BTTM FDRS

A few weeks back, Comic Arts LA was held during the weekend of December 8th – 9th. The show, now

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December 19, 2018 Gary Catig 2012 Views 0 Comment Ben Passmore, BTTM FDRS, Comic Arts LA, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Fantagraphics, Lion Forge, Upgrade Soul
Comics 

Grooving To The Beat Of Fantagraphics’ I Am Young

Located in Edinburgh, the Greenfriars Bobby Fountain (in the book “Greenfriars” has an apostrophe) commemorates a dog that stood over

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October 29, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 1974 Views 0 Comment Fantagraphics, I Am Young, M. Dean
Comics Manga 

Roly Poly Is A Candy-Colored Rollercoaster

Roly Poly is a graphic novel created by Daniel Semanas that fuses visuals from American Pop Art, K-pop, internet culture, and Manga. The story

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September 4, 2018 Tito W. James 2579 Views 0 Comment Daniel Semanas, Fantagraphics, K-Pop, manga, Phanta, Pop Art, psychedelic, Roly Poly
Comics 

Learning About The Female Body Doesn’t Have To Be Uncomfortable In Fantagraphics’ Fruit Of Knowledge’

There’s a great episode of Orange Is The New Black (“A Whole Other Hole”) where a bunch of the girls

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August 24, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 2669 Views Fantagraphics, Fruit of Knowledge, Liv Strömquist
Comics 

Fantagraphics Publishes Disney Masters Series, Offers Special Subscription

Fantagraphics Books is rolling out their new Disney Masters series, which spotlights artists from around the world who have worked

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May 11, 2018 Hannah Means Shannon 2672 Views Disney Masters, Fantagraphics, Romano Scarpa, subscription
Comics 

The End of the F***ing World Began With A Graphic Novel

I try to make my own TV decisions and not follow hype but watching Netflix’s The End of The Fucking

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March 16, 2018 Rachel Bellwoar 2562 Views Charles Forsman, Fantagraphics, Netflix, The End of the Fucking World
Comics 

A Spirit Of Hope In ‘Run For It: Stories Of Slaves Who Fought For Their Freedom’

I found myself reading Marcelo D’Salete‘s Run For It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought For Their Freedom (translated by Andrea Rosenberg

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February 20, 2018 Koom Kankesan 3407 Views Black History Month, Fantagraphics, Marcelo D'Salete, Run For It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought For Their Freedom
Comics 

The Next Best Thing To Holding Original Pages: Fantagraphics’ Jaime Hernandez Studio Edition

The Jaime Hernandez Studio Edition from Fantagraphics, simply titled Xaime, is a coveted object for die-hard Jaime Hernandez fans. Clothbound,

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January 17, 2018 Koom Kankesan 2872 Views Comic Art, Fantagraphics, Jaime Hernandez Studio Edition, Xaime
Comics 

America As A Genre In Tim Lane’s Happy Hour In America #1

Tim Lane’s Happy Hour in America #1 from Fantagraphics has fantastic art. I’d heard of Tim Lane before and had

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December 28, 2017 Koom Kankesan 3193 Views Art Comics, Fantagraphics, Happy Hour In America #1, Steve McQueen, Tim Lane
Comics 

Time And Tide In Jaime Hernandez’s Angels And Magpies

Angels and Magpies, the latest of the softcover collections featuring Jaime Hernandez‘s work from the pages of Love and Rockets,

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December 19, 2017 Koom Kankesan 5345 Views Angels and Magpies, Comic Art, Fantagraphics, Jaime Hernandez, Love and Rockets
Comics 

Teen Angst, Tragedy, And Telekinesis – I Am Not Ok With This By Chuck Forsman

This month sees the release of Charles “Chuck” Forsman’s new graphic novel, I Am Not Ok With This, from Fantagraphics.

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December 1, 2017 Hannah Means Shannon 5379 Views Chuck Forsman, comic strips, Fantagraphics, I Am Not Ok With This
Comics 

Charles Burns’ Black Hole Gets A Fantagraphics Studio Edition In December

Fantagraphics produce an amazing line of art-focused large-format books called Fantagraphics Studio Editions. Previously featuring the work of Hal Foster,

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November 3, 2017 Hannah Means Shannon 2171 Views Black Hole, Charles Burns, Comic Art, Fantagraphics, Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Charles Burns' Black Hole
Comics Events 

SPX ’17: Jim Rugg And Gilbert Hernadez On The Indie, The Mainstream, And Comic Art

At Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland, on Saturday, September 16th, a panel with Gilbert Hernandez and Jim Rugg in

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September 16, 2017 Hannah Means Shannon 2426 Views Fantagraphics, Gilbert Hernandez, Jim Rugg, Love and Rockets, Shelly Bond, Small Press Expo 2017, SPX '17, Street Angel
Comics 

A Pacifist Treehugger Changes His World In Johnny Appleseed

Fantagraphics have newly released Paul Buhle and Noah Van Sciver’s Johnny Appleseed, a saga of a person who became the

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September 4, 2017 Hannah Means Shannon 2798 Views Art Comics, biography, comics, Fantagraphics, Johnny Appleseed, Noah Van Sciver, Paul Buhle
Comics 

Last Girl Standing – Trina Robbins’ Rock & Roll And Comics Memoir This Month From Fantagraphics

Fantagraphics are publishing Trina Robbins’ memoir of a life in Rock and Roll as well as in comics, Last Girl

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September 1, 2017 Hannah Means Shannon 3079 Views comix, Fantagraphics, Last Girl Standing, music, Trina Robbins
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