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	Comics publisher Fantagraphics drawn into a financial crisis
		Fantagraphics also published Daniel Clowes' "Ghost World," which formed the basis for the Academy Award-nominated 2001 movie of the same name.
		Fantagraphics is contemplating warehouse sales and a mail-order sale over the next few weeks to raise enough money to get through June.
		"Fantagraphics is a force in the underground-comics scene," he said.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/124315_fantagraphic30.html (887 words)

	Fantagraphics Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint.
		The company, located in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, was founded in 1976 by Gary Groth and Mike Catron.
		While Fantagraphics, which has published such critically acclaimed and award-winning series and graphic novels as Ghost World, Hate and Love and Rockets, is dedicated to promoting comics as an art form, the company for many years was financially dependent on its pornographic Eros imprint.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fantagraphics_Books (197 words)

	artbomb.net
		Fantagraphics took out loans to cover the shortfall, which are now due.
		Fantagraphics is a company of some thirty people, some of whom have now been laid off in the search for financial balance.
		If anyone has the right to be pissed off, it's Fantagraphics, who have fought in their weird and idiosyncratic way over three decades for a better medium, only to be told that no-one cares.
	www.artbomb.net /brainpowered.jsp?col=24&more=false (1274 words)

	village voice > books > by Joy Press
		In its 27 years of existence, Fantagraphics has been sued (and cleared) three times for libel and defamation of character—mostly famously in the '80s by comic book writer Michael Fleischer because of comments made by SF novelist Harlan Ellison during a Comics Journal interview.
		The first comic Fantagraphics published, in 1982, was the extraordinary Love and Rockets by L.A. brothers Gilbert, Jaime, and (initially) Mario Hernandez, which in part followed two punk Latino chicks from teendom through adulthood.
		Fantagraphics lost about $70,000 when their distributor went bankrupt a few years back.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0328/press.php (1479 words)

	The Comics Journal: Newswatch
		As word spread through the fan community, some commented on message boards that Fantagraphics was merely suffering the just deserts of its own hubris, predicting that the publisher had such a reputation for narrow-minded snobbery and brutal criticism that comics readers would not lift a finger to keep it from sinking.
		Fantagraphics, by contrast, already had longstanding phone, mail and e-mail sales operations set up and was better equipped to handle the flood of orders that came in response to its plea for help.
		Some critics objected that it was manipulative of Fantagraphics to solicit orders in support of its endangered publications and then to hold up the still unpaid creators of those books as a lure for further orders.
	www.tcj.com /254/n_fanta.html (2809 words)

	The Official Peanuts Website - NEWS
		Fantagraphics Books is proud to announce the most eagerly-awaited and ambitious publishing project in the history of the American comic strip: the complete reprinting of CHARLES M. SCHULZ's classic, PEANUTS.
		Fantagraphics Books co-publisher Gary Groth said that publishing THE COMPLETE PEANUTS represented the apex of the company's 27-year commitment to publishing the best cartooning in the world.
		FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS has been the leading proponent of comics and cartooning as legitimate forms of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976.
	www.unitedmedia.com /comics/peanuts/news/news_101303.html (1222 words)

	The Stranger - News - City - Fantagraphics Comic Tragedy
		In a lengthy e-mail sent out to comic book fans and other readers, Fantagraphics' owners said they need to raise about $80,000 in the next month to meet current loan obligations, and called on loyal readers to pitch in by each buying two or three books to help cover the shortfall.
		In response to the crisis, Fantagraphics has already laid off five of the 30 people who work at the company, he says.
		Larry Reid, Fantagraphics' former publicist and a well-known fixture in Seattle's arts scene, says the potential loss of Fantagraphics would be a significant blow to Seattle's artistic life.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=14483 (412 words)

	Fantagraphics to republish 50 years worth of 'Peanuts'
		Fantagraphics, a darling in the world of underground comics (and publisher of the revered Comics Journal), was in talks with Schulz before his death three years ago.
		Eric Reynolds, director of marketing for Fantagraphics, says "Peanuts" is "arguably the greatest newspaper strip of all time." Or, at least, the past 50 years, he qualifies.
		This past year was touch-and-go, fiscally speaking, for Fantagraphics.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/143997_peanuts.html (560 words)

	COMICON.com: Is Fantagraphics Bankrupt?
		They seem to still be shipping books, and reportedly had a good experience at the recent Alternative Press Expo, and have a number of really cool projects lined up, not the least of which seems to be their collection of Peanuts material.
		It is the case that about a year ago, Fantagraphics was in somewhat dire straits when loans came due that they had taken out in the wake of their book trade distributor's bankruptcy.
		Fantagraphics issued a general plea for interested comics readers to buy material directly from Fantagraphics.
	www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=010098 (669 words)

	Boing Boing: Excellent article about Fantagraphics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		...Fantagraphics is more like Sub Pop—a well-known, highly regarded, but still relatively small publisher, most of whose best sellers wouldn't sell enough to stay on a major label for more than an album or two.
		For Fantagraphics, being put in charge of The Complete Peanuts is akin to Sub Pop being handed the Beatles' master tapes for reissue.
		And Fantagraphics has done the strip right, with gorgeous design (the art director is Palookaville artist Seth, aka Gregory Gallant, whose style was deeply influenced by Schulz) and ambitious outlay (Fantagraphics is planning two a year for the next 12 and a half years, 25 volumes covering 50 years of weekly strips, including Sundays).
	www.boingboing.net /2004/09/16/excellent_article_ab.html (250 words)

	Fantagraphics Books Inc. - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
		Fantagraphics Books, an independent publisher of comic books and comics criticism, scored a big hit in 2004 when it purchased the multiyear rights to reprint, in its entirety and in chronological order, Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts.
		The company, which eschews the traditional superhero and horror content of its rivals in favor of a more sophisticated approach, has a roster of titles that include reprints of classic Robert Crumb comics, as well as Daniel Clowes' Ghost World, which was adapted to film in 2001.
		Fantagraphics was founded in 1976 by company president Gary Groth.
	www.hoovers.com /fantagraphics/--ID__127594--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml (229 words)

	Seattle Weekly: Arts: Saved by the Beagle by Michaelangelo Matos
		But Fantagraphics stopped being a small operation sometime during the 1980s, after Groth and Thompson began publishing comics as well as comics criticism.
		All of which made Fantagraphics much beloved and universally admired (well, except by those stung by the Journal) and, frequently, put it on just this side of bankruptcy.
		If that's the case, though, Fantagraphics is more like Sub Pop—a well-known, highly regarded, but still relatively small publisher, most of whose best sellers wouldn't sell enough to stay on a major label for more than an album or two.
	www.seattleweekly.com /features/0437/040915_arts_fantagraphics.php (3606 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Seattle's Fantagraphics Books will release 'The Complete Peanuts' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When it debuted in 1950, the world of "Peanuts," was a bit different than the one most of us are familiar with.
		The early "Peanuts" gang shown in Fantagraphics Books' "The Complete Peanuts" was "cruel," says co-publisher Gary Groth.
		Fantagraphics will release the full 50 years of Charles Schulz's work in 25 volumes over the next 12-½ years.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2001857267_peanuts15.html (1157 words)

	Fantagraphics Books
		Every person I've shown the binder of Xeroxes to, and that includes the boys at Fantagraphics, has begged me to allow them to make copies, and working with Shane on this collection of Patterson illustrations is the only thing that could get me to break my streak of books featuring 1950s pin-up cartoon artists.
		It never gets old teasing Gary and Kim about the fact that Fantagraphics is almost as old or older than most of their employees.
		So basically the Fantagraphics story is a story of a few young men and women insisting over and over something should exist until, partly by their own hand, it did.
	www.fantagraphics.com /blog (2021 words)

	Fantagraphics Romance - My Lovely Valentine
		Fantagraphics Romance - Love is in the air.
		Here is something on romance that we've found from Fantagraphics.
		These Fantagraphics Romance are ideal for the romantic mood on valentines day.
	www.mylovelyvalentine.com /Fantagraphics-Romance.htm (71 words)

	ICv2 News - Fantagraphics To Reprint The Complete Peanuts
		Fantagraphics will reprint the complete 50-year Peanuts cycle in chronological order, with each reprint volume containing two years worth of daily and Sunday strips.
		At the request of the Schulz family, Fantagraphics is reprinting the Sunday pages in fl-and-white (reportedly Schulz was never happy with the coloring of his work).
		Eric Reynolds of Fantagraphics told ICv2 that sifting through the early strips was like a form of archaeology as the reader uncovers the foundations of an edifice that is still in its formative stages.
	www.icv2.com /articles/home/3553.html (546 words)

	fantagraphics in trouble? help em out! \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		UH OH, Fantagraphics Books in Seattle, home of chris ware, dan clowes, r.
		Fantagraphics has put out some great stuff, and even if they're making up every word of their sob story, this is as good a time as any to show 'em some love.
		Fantagraphics only has consumers, so this is one time I join the all-American cry: Consume!
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/26053 (1715 words)

	The Complete Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz - Fantagraphics Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We should all be thankful that Fantagraphics was put in charge of this project and that they have lavished it with the devotion that it deserves.
		Volume Four (these are the exact same editions as of those copies sold indivdually) of The Fantagraphics Books edition of the Complete Collected Peanuts, collecting every daily and Sunday strip from the years 1955 through 1958 -- 1,461 strips in all.
		Since then, the company has been at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al.
	home.earthlink.net /~copaceticcomicsco/CompletePeanuts.html (2107 words)

	Fantagraphics Celebrates 25 Years At Modern Times In San Francisco
		Fantagraphics Books is the world's leading publisher of cutting-edge work by today's most popular alternative comic artists, as well as collections of work by the greatest of the underground comix artists and classic comic strips.
		Since 1976, Fantagraphics founders Gary Groth and Kim Thompson have produced groundbreaking comics that treat the medium as a serious means of expression on the level of film, theater, or literature.
		Known for the most part simply as "Spain", Spain Rodriguez was an active participant in the revolutionary underground comix movement of the 1960s and 70s.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /news/103480312663406.htm (425 words)

	PopImage
		For over 27 years Fantagraphics has been at the forefront of Comics journalism and alternative comics publishing.
		Abel's new Fantagraphics series is LA PERDIDA, the "lost one." A young American woman named Carla travels to Mexico City to search for her Mexican roots and her ex-boyfriend Harry.
		After arriving in the city, she says, "I had this immediate feeling that everything would be OK, that I would find the Mexico I was looking for, that it still existed." What she finds is an alcoholic ex-boyfriend who ignores her, and his jaded American expatriate friends.
	www.popimage.com /content/viewnews.cgi?newsid1054410636,30965, (1931 words)

	Jaime Hernandez
		Mostly self-taught, Jaime assimilated these influences, and in 1981 with his brothers Gilbert and Mario self-published the first issue of Love and Rockets.
		It was immediately picked up by Fantagraphics Books and ran for 50 issues until the brothers decided to pursue solo projects.
		Jaime is now focusing most of his time on a new ongoing series, Penny Century, which won the 1998 Harvey Award for Best New Series.
	www.mica.edu /comics/artist_j_hernandez.html (121 words)

	Fantagraphics Books -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fantagraphics Books -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		It was founded in 1976 by (Click link for more info and facts about Gary Groth) Gary Groth and Mike Catron.
		Fantagraphics is a company dedicated to promoting comics as a respectable art form, although it is financially dependant on its adult-oriented sub—division, Eros Comix.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fa/Fantagraphics_Books.htm (254 words)

	Drawn! The Illustration Blog » Blog Archive » Fantagraphics + Blog = Flog
		is written by Fantagraphics co-owners Gary Groth and Kim Thompson, and is a “forum for commentary and discussion with the comic industry’s preeminent publishers.”
		This entry was posted by Johnny on Thursday, June 16th, 2005 at 8:56 pm and is filed under Comics, Blogs.
		You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
	drawn.ca /2005/06/16/fantagraphics-blog-flog (146 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Fantagraphics Books needs your help
		Nonetheless, Fantagraphics Books -- the foremost publishers of comics-as-literature in the United States (and, in full disclosure, my employers) -- has roughly a month to raise $80,000 or face a possible bankruptcy.
		We are proud of our long-term commitment to comics as an art form and our dogged determination to push excellence down everybody's throats.
		I've listed some items you might be interested in purchasing from Fantagraphics.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/05/30/002416.php (1694 words)

	The Comics Journal: ¡Journalista!
		(Comics Publishing) Fantagraphics Books, the publisher of the magazine which sponsors this weblog, is deep in debt due to loans taken out several years ago, and must raise $80,000 in the next month or face a possible bankruptcy.
		Fantagraphics Books has just celebrated its 27th year publishing many of the finest cartoonists from all over the world as well as our flagship publication, the magazine people love to hate, The Comics Journal.
		Correction, June 3rd: In the original press release printed above, Fantagraphics' bookstore distributor was referred to as "the W.W. Norton Company".
	www.tcj.com /journalista/zarch200305D.html (6951 words)

	MILE HIGH COMICS presents THE BEAT at COMICON.com \| 2: CASTLE WAITING returns from Fantagraphics -- UPDATED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Also in PW Comics Week, an article on Fantagraphics Spring publishing plans including the exciting news that Linda Medley's CASTLE WAITING will finally be coming back into print.
		Eric Reynolds, Fantagraphics publicity, says that Medley and Fantagraphics will restart the series as a bimonthly periodical comic in July.
		That image is a mock-up done for promotional purposes and today was the first glimpse I'd ever gotten of it, and wow am I underwhelmed...I was under the impression that Fantagraphics was known for their sophisticated design and production.
	www.comicon.com /thebeat/archives/2005/10/castle_waiting.html (394 words)

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