Dear Friends of Fantagraphics,
In this edition of the F.B.I. Informant newsletter:
• Holiday Gift Guide
• Recent Fantagraphics Releases Available Now
• Previews of Upcoming Arrivals
• Upcoming Events: Zippy Storms Seattle!
• New Website Features
Don't forget, you can keep up with all of our latest releases, events, new website features and other hi-jinks on FLOG! The Fantagraphics Blog.
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HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
We've put together a handy way to dive into your holiday gift shopping, with items for every interest and budget: browse these categories for some quick gift ideas!
• Quick Gift Ideas - A selection of great gift books for every interest
• Gifts Under $20 - Affordable books that still make a big impact
• Gift Sets & Special Editions - Deluxe boxed sets, value multipacks, and fancy-pants Special Editions
• Gifts for Kids - A quick selection of kid-friendly titles
• Novelties - Prints, cards and other miscellany
• Stocking Stuffers - Small items, big gift-giving fun
PLUS...
Don't forget, we're still offering FREE signed bookplates with selected books while supplies last, and we're frequently adding new titles — click here for the details and current selection.
RECENT FANTAGRAPHICS RELEASES
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200-page b&w/color 7.5" x 9.5" squarebound softcover magazine • $11.99 USD
Bob Levin gets drunk with Zap cartoonist S. Clay Wilson; Alex Robinson: from Journal hatchet job to critical acclaim; reviews of Ware, Hergé, Huizenga, Spiegelman, Hernandez and more; plus Joe Matt and the CCS Class of 2008.
Click here for a Video/Photo Slideshow on Flickr.
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By David Levine
128-page 8.5" x 10" black & white softcover • $19.99 USD
The best of five decades of portraits of American Presidents and their administrations, by perhaps the most influential caricaturist of the late twentieth century, gathered in a comprehensive and visually dynamic book.
Click here for a Video/Photo Slideshow on Flickr.
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By E.C. Segar
168-page 10.5" x 14.75" b&w/color hardcover • $29.99 USD
Our third volume collecting the entirety of Segar's original Popeye (Thimble Theatre) covers 1932-1934 and includes the never-republished extra-large strips set at the Chicago World's Fair and an insightful scholarly essay.
Click here for a Video/Photo Slideshow on Flickr.
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By Jason
64-page 7" x 10" black & white softcover • $12.95 USD
This superbly evocative story by the award-winning Norwegian cartoonist is a tale of childhood friendship and tragedy, and the terrible lingering aftereffects thereof. Gilbert Hernandez calls this one of the best graphic novels ever. Now back in print.
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By Jason
48-page 7" x 10" full-color softcover • $12.95 USD
Set in 1920s Paris, this is a deliciously inventive re-imagining of the great literary figures of the period (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Pound, and Joyce) as graphic novelists... and perpetrators of a thrilling, double-crossing heist! Now back in print.
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By Jason
120-page 7" x 10" black & white softcover • $16.99 USD
A sharp suite of short tales, ranging from funny to terrifying to surreal to touching, all told entirely in pantomime. Jason's clean, deadpan art style hides a wealth of emotion and human complexity, leavened with a wicked wit. Now back in print.
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By Ted Stearn
280-page 7" x 9" black & white hardcover • $24.99 USD
The hilariously bizarre further adventures of an irritable plucked rooster and an awkward but lovable bear take them on separate paths to the gladiatorial ring and a Quixotic task, with an unlikely climactic convergence.
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By Lilli Carré
80-page 7 3/8" x 9 3/8" black & white hardcover • $14.99 USD
A family is seduced by a siren song emanating from the lagoon after dark as it reverberates through weedy waters, eventually escaping the lagoon to creep into their windows at night, in this haunting, lyrical graphic novel debut.
Click here for a Video/Photo Slideshow on Flickr.
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By John Kerschbaum
128-page 6" x 9" black & white hardcover • $21.95 USD
This graphic novel debut reads very much like a Loony Tunes cartoon — if all of the anthropomorphic animals were kvetching, balding, foul-mouthed misanthropes. A twisted combination of mundane realism and gross-out slapstick.
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Click here for more recent releases!
UPCOMING ARRIVALS COMING SOON
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By Johnny Ryan
104-page b&w/color 6.5" x 8.5" softcover • $11.99 USD
America's stupidest second-grader returns for a third collection of gag strips, as seen in Vice magazine and elsewhere. Join Blecky Yuckerella and her supporting cast of absurdist goofballs for another gust of gross-out guffaws.
Click here for a Video/Photo Slideshow on Flickr.
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200-page 7.5" x 9.5" b&w/color squarebound softcover magazine • $11.99 USD
Norwegian comics superstar Jason on surrealism and death; Mark Tartulli on the tough world of the funny papers and the Lio movie; Christmas cards from a lineup of comics superstars; and the early years of Billy DeBeck's Barney Google.
Click here for a Video/Photo Slideshow on Flickr.
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Click here for more upcoming releases!
UPCOMING EVENTS
ZIPPY STORMS SEATTLE THIS SATURDAY!
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery welcomes Zippy the Pinhead creator Bill Griffith to Seattle for a rare Northwest appearance on Saturday, November 8, from 6-9 PM. We'll send out a reminder later this week; in the meantime, click here for more info.
Click here for our full listing of upcoming events in Seattle and elsewhere.
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
1201 South Vale Street (at Airport Way S.)
Seattle, WA 98108
Mon. - Sat 11:30 - 8
Sun 11:30 - 5
206-658-0110
NEW WEBSITE FEATURES
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