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	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 (215 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Fantagraphics Books
		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.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fantagraphics-Books (1256 words)

	History
		Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2001, 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.
		Fantagraphics Books is categorically against the idea of relegating the art form of comics to the trading-card "collector's" mentality through speculative pricing of its titles and encourages retailers to charge no more (and no less) than cover price.
		Fantagraphics Books' goal is to produce comics for an audience that tends to appreciate comics as a serious means of expression on the level of film, theater, or literature.
	home.houston.rr.com /hectorflores/history/history.html (738 words)

	Joe Sacco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was serialized as a comic book from 1993 to 2001 and then published in several collections, the first of which won an American Book Award in 1996.
		He has also contributed short pieces of graphic reportage to a variety of magazines, on subjects ranging from war crimes to blues, and is a frequent illustrator of Harvey Pekar's American Splendor.
		Collected and published in Notes from a Defeatist (2003), Fantagraphics Books, ISBN 1560975105.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Sacco (774 words)

	The Comics Journal: Newswatch
		Inexperience with the book trade resulted in our erring on the side of overprinting our books too heavily throughout 2002, so that our anticipated profit is in fact sitting in our warehouse in the form of books.
		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.
	www.tcj.com /254/n_fanta.html (2809 words)

	The Stranger \| Seattle \| 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.
		Operating on a scale "we weren't used to," Fantagraphics overprinted many titles, and about $1 million worth of inventory in the form of unsold books remains on hand, Thompson 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 (406 words)

	Comics publisher Fantagraphics drawn into a financial crisis
		One of the country's largest publishers of art comics, Fantagraphics Books in Lake City, says it's in crisis, facing debts of more than $70,000 and the possibility of shutting down or selling out.
		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.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/124315_fantagraphic30.html (945 words)

	artbomb.net
		Fantagraphics is a company of some thirty people, some of whom have now been laid off in the search for financial balance.
		Groth has been looking to book publishing as a model for longer than most, and was well aware of the literary giants first published by pornographers.
		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)

	Jessica Abel
		Though little-seen by her fans, it was this self-published series that led to an offer from Fantagraphics and her current success, and this volume presents the best of these five comic books, as well as other short strips, to a larger audience for the first time.
		MIRROR, WINDOW is the first book collection by Jessica Abel, one of the most exciting young cartoonists to emerge in the late 1990s.
		Collecting the first four issues of her ARTBABE series from Fantagraphics and more, MIRROR,WINDOW proves Abel to be one of the brightest lights in comix to watch as we proceed into the next century.
	www.fantagraphics.com /artist/abel/abel.html (1000 words)

	Fantagraphics Books Solicitations For April 2003
		A lengthy, meandering experiment in reader tolerance, this first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a nonetheless pleasantly-decorated look at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth) who is given the opportunity, in his mid-thirties, to meet his father for the first time.
		Fantagraphics' second volume in this classic reprint series highlights Kelly's masterful use of dialect and puns, his satirical gift and his bee-yu-tee-ful drawings of the swamp and its inhabitants.
		Fantagraphics Books is proud to publish the tenth issue of the legendary magazine about EC Comics and artists, SQUA TRONT.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /news/104034693831752,print.htm (1093 words)

	Powell's Books - Palestine by Joe Sacco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fantagraphics Books is pleased to present, for the first time, a single-volume collection of this 288-page landmark of journalism and the artform of comics.
		Since the first issue of Palestine was published, Sacco has gained widespread praise for the depth of his research, the sensitivity of his handling of a delicate subject, as well as for the craft exhibited in his dynamic, sophisticated layouts and bold narrative.
		When he finally returned again to Portland in mid-1992, it was with the intention of communicating what he had witnessed and heard during his Mid-Eastern jaunt — to combine the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comics storytelling to explore this complex, emotionally weighted situation.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=65-156097432x-2 (868 words)

	fantagraphics in trouble? help em out! \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		I can't remember being as deeply moved or disturbed by any book in the last 20 years as I was by Jimmy Corrigan.
		and have even more of a right to say they've had to be insistant about the excellence of their books; any casual perusal of a DC or Marvel superhero book with the male-gender fantasies, spandex and awful formulaic and unfelt writing is a testament to how truly excellent (and unprecedented) fantagraphics' output has been.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/26053 (1686 words)

	Saved by the Beagle (Seattle Weekly) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		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).
		Love and Rockets wasn't the first American independent comic book of the post-underground era, but it was the one that codified the publisher's reputation as a champion of visionary comics art.
	www.seattleweekly.com /features/0437/040915_arts_fantagraphics.php (3576 words)

	The Official Peanuts Website - NEWS
		Fantagraphics will launch THE COMPLETE PEANUTS in a series designed by the cartoonist SETH (Palookaville, It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken) and produced in full cooperation with United Media, Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, and Mr.
		Since the early 1980s, 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.
		His comic book series Palookaville and graphic novel It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken are regarded as modern classics of the form.
	www.unitedmedia.com /comics/peanuts/news/news_101303.html (1222 words)

	The Complete Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz - Fantagraphics Books
		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.
		And, Lucy, this book’s cover girl, has grown up and forcefully elbowed her way to the center of the action, proudly wearing her banner as a troublemaker, or, in Schulz’s memorable phrase, a “fussbudget”.
		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.
	home.earthlink.net /~copaceticcomicsco/CompletePeanuts.html (2302 words)

	Alibris: Fantagraphics Books
		Norwegian cartoonist Jason's latest graphic novel (his fifth to be released by Fantagraphics) chronicles one of the oldest love triangles in the world: Mad scientist creates monster, mad scientist creates woman for monster, mad scientist...falls in love with the woman he created for the...
		With a childlike mastery of the obvious, an inspired sense of mischief, and hilarious insight into the human divine, Jis' comics at once recall the sensibilities of both Jules Feiffer...
		If you are not satisfied for any reason, return the item for a full refund of the item price.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Fantagraphics_Books (217 words)

	Ignatz Line Brings Euro Format to the U.S. - 11/15/2005 - Publishers Weekly
		Fantagraphics Books is bringing a new comic book format to North America.
		Fantagraphics v-p Kim Thompson compares the Ignatz format to the traditional comic, which is often called a pamphlet, to distinguish it from graphic novels.
		The first Ignatz book was the first issue of Babel, by Epileptic cartoonist David B. It was published in North America by Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly but since then Fantagraphics has been the publisher for all the books in North America.
	www.publishersweekly.com /article/CA6283773.html (626 words)

	Usagi Yojimbo Dojo - FAQ: Questions about comicbook lettering.
		Because of that Fantagraphics tends to lean more of its advertising to a more mature audience, and Usagi is more of an all readers type of book.
		That's why Fantagraphics is great with trade paperbacks because they're always keeping them in print, in fact the first book just went through its fourth printing last year.
		A lot of their computers basically were destroyed when a leak on the roof went undetected: the entire computer system was flooded out, and they lost a lot of books on their computers.
	usagiyojimbo.com /intro/faq/faq_publishers.html (1895 words)

	Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Brief
		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.
		If you've respected what Fantagraphics stands for and what we've done for the medium, if you've enjoyed our books, and if you want to insure that this proud tradition continues into this new and ominous century, we're asking you to help us now in our especial hour of need by buying some books.
		We've published some some of the best books ever over the last year -Gene Deitch's (yes, that Gene Deitch!) THE CAT ON A HOT THIN GROOVE; B. KRIGSTEIN, Greg Sadowski's definitive biography of the pioneering artist from the '50s; the magnificent FRANK collection; and the third volume of the extraordinary KRAZY KAT series.
	www.comicbookresources.com /news/newsitem.cgi?id=2279 (1027 words)

	Fantagraphics Books - F.B.I. Informant Volume VI #8 September 14, 2005 - The Comics Review Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fantagraphics walked away with three Eisner awards from the San Diego Comic-Con, two having to do with Peanuts.
		The covers to the original five softcover books are NOT included, but literally everything else is. And yes, we plan to similarly collect the years 1935-1944 and 1916-1924, as those next ten softcover volumes are completed.
		Jessica Abel was one of the hottest rising stars in the indy-comics scene of the 1990s, a reputation she first established with her series Artbabe, then cemented with the five-issue miniseries La Perdida (soon to be released in graphic-novel format by Pantheon).
	www.thecomicsreview.com /forums/showthread.php?t=968 (2851 words)

	USATODAY.com - Compilation grows from early 'Peanuts' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Schulz fans may be surprised by what they find in the early editions of Peanuts —; for example, a not-so-ambitious Lucy.
		Over the next 12½ years, Seattle-based publisher Fantagraphics plans to issue an encyclopedia-size compilation of Peanuts cartoons: 25 volumes covering every daily and Sunday strip of the popular comic by the late Charles Schulz.
		Fantagraphics began discussing the compilation with Schulz in 1997.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2004-03-14-peanuts_x.htm (479 words)

	Used Book Central Search / keyword(s): graphic novels
		Crumb, Robert: 049177 Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2 New No Jacket Hard Cover Book-New 1-56097-537-7 Seattle, Washington 2005 This 17th volume collects a creatively fertile period for Crumb, having given up the editorial reins of his own legendary Weirdo magazine, allowing Crumb to get back to the proverbial drawing board.
		Altergott, Rick (Edited by Kim Thompson): 047591 Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2 New No Jacket Trade Paperback Book-New 1-56097494-X Seattle, Washington 2002 A slap-happy goon with a prediliction for women's "stinkies" snatched from the laundry basket, Doofus is the most dismaying comic-book hero you'll find this decade.
		Cohen, Santiago (Introduction by R.O. Blechman): 045011 Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2 New No Jacket Trade Paperback Book-New 1-56097-454-0 Seattle, Washington 2000 This engrossing tale of an ancient soldier's quest for wisdom and justice amidst the chaos of medieval life resonates with the archetypical immediacy of a children's fable, but don't let that fool you.
	www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,keywords2,graphic+novels.html (764 words)

	Fantagraphics Books
		Not quite comic books, not quite graphic novels, Wareâs work mines art history, popular culture, and personal experience, capturing a queasy sense of reality of modern life in a âretroâ style distinctly his own.
		This book presents a fitting tribute to the life and art of one of the world's all-time best cartoonists in a wider-ranging career retrospective.
		With a full 104 Sunday pages this time around, this particular book is jam packed with little room for extras, but we did squeeze in a half-dozen or so pages' worth of never-before-seen Herriman memorabilia (all in color), including a spectacular full-color New Year's card illustration done for a friend.
	www.fantagraphics.com /blog (2536 words)

	Fantagraphics Collects 'Locas' Stories - 6/21/2004 - Publishers Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This fall, Fantagraphics Books will publish Jaime Hernandez's Locas, a mammoth hardcover collection of comics stories from the first 50 issues of the award-winning Love and Rockets comics series, originally published between 1982 and 1995.
		They've been scattered through a bunch of books, but they collectively make up a single long narrative, and Locas presents them as a continuous 700-plus-page graphic novel.
		In an interview with PW, Hernandez said he had worked to cut the book down: "it's okay for the book to be thick, but not that thick." He's also just completed a long story about popular Locas heroine Maggie Chascarillo.
	www.publishersweekly.com /article/CA428437.html (362 words)

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