From the press release:
Legendary Master of Macabre Cartoonist Gahan Wilson Appears at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on Saturday, February 13!
February 2, 2010 – Seattle, WA. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to host a rare appearance by the incomparable Gahan Wilson. Best known for his grotesque gag cartoons commenting on contemporary culture, the revered [...]

Fantagraphics Books has given fans an inside look at the next volume of their Love and Rockets library: Gilbert Hernandez’s High Soft Lisp.
The images are posted over at their Flickr page, but I have cross posted a couple below, for those readers to lazy to click, along with the book’s solicitation blurb, and a video [...]

From the press release:
NEWAVE! Mini Comix Book Launch Party This Saturday at Fantagraphics Bookstore
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition and publication party for NEWAVE! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s on Saturday, January 30 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. This event promises to be both entertaining and enlightening. The public [...]

As a follow-up to Diamond Distribution’s Top 20 Publishers, Top 300 Comics, and Top 300 TPBs & GNs for December 2009, I have used the raw data to construct the sales charts for small press titles, published in December 2009.

To see the charts for independently published comics for December 2009, please click here.

What do I [...]

If you are in Seattle this weekend, I would highly recommend you pop by Fantagraphics Bookstore in Georgetown, and check out their 2010 Preview Exhibition, which opens this Saturday. They will be displaying work from several of their top releases from the coming year, including Gilbert Hernandez artwork from Love & Rockets New Stories #3, [...]

Diamond Distribution have provided Hypergeek with a full run-down of all of the Gold & Silver sponsor comics set to be arriving in stores for Free Comic Book Day 2010. Diamond had already announced the list of Gold sponsor titles (see here for my thoughts), so the new things here are really the Silver sponsor [...]

Fantagraphics have just informed Hypergeek that the brand new TJC.com has launched.

The Comics Journal is the only comic periodical that I have every really enjoyed, and I’ve been a subscriber for some years now. However, I’ll admit that the old TCJ website was rather lacking in features. This all changes today though, as the new [...]

As a follow-up to Diamond Distribution’s Top 20 Publishers, Top 300 Comics, and Top 300 TPBs & GNs for November 2009, I have used the raw data to construct the sales charts for small press titles in November 2009.

Diamond provided their own small press charts, but I chose to ignore them, for a couple of [...]

Fantagraphics Books just informed me that this weekend is their Bookstore/Gallery’s third anniversary. To mark the occasion, they will be celebrating in style with tons of celebrity guests from the indy comics world, including Peter Bagge. The event will also feature a performance from Peter Bagge’s band, and a solo set by Dame Darcy!

Sadly I [...]

Fantagraphics Books have just informed Hypergeek that they have a MASSIVE Cyber Monday sale on! Fantagraphics are one of my very favourite publishers, and seeing these sales, and not being able to pick anything up is killing me (I’m unemployed these days). I actually have an entire book case full of nothing but Fantagraphics products!

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