Fantagraphics Books
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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 is currently located in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle, Washington
Fantagraphics was founded in 1976 by Gary Groth and Mike Catron at College Park, Maryland. Kim Thompson joined the company in 1977, and became a co-owner with Groth.
While Fantagraphics is dedicated to promoting comics as an art form and has published critically acclaimed and award-winning series and graphic novels such as Ghost World, Hate and Love and Rockets, for many years it was financially dependent on its pornographic Eros imprint.
In 2003 Fantagraphics almost went out of business due to the failure of its then-distributor to the book trade. Fantagraphics was saved by a restructuring and a successful appeal to comic book fandom that resulted in a huge number of orders. After restructuring, the company has had greater success with such hardcover collections as The Complete Peanuts, distributed by W. W. Norton & Company.
In 2006, Fantagraphics opened its own retail store in Seattle.
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[edit] Publications
[edit] Comics
- Acme Novelty Library
- Artbabe
- The Adventures of Captain Jack
- Angry Youth Comics
- Anything Goes!
- Black Hole
- Critters
- Dalgoda
- Doofus
- Eightball
- Evil Eye
- Fission Chicken
- Frank
- Grit Bath
- Hate
- Jim
- Journey
- La Perdida
- Love and Rockets
- Meatcake
- Naughty Bits
- Neat Stuff
- Poor Arnold's Almanac
- Raisin Pie
- Real Stuff
- Schizo
- The Stuff of Dreams
- Usagi Yojimbo (up to volume 7)
- Tales Designed to Thrizzle
[edit] Anthologies
[edit] Magazines
- Amazing Heroes - a defunct publication devoted mostly to mainstream comics
- The Comics Journal — magazine of comics news and criticism
- Honk - magazine of comics news and criticism
- Nemo, the Classic Comics Library - a defunct magazine devoted to classic comics
[edit] Important graphic novels
- Ghost World by Dan Clowes
- Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
- King by Ho Che Anderson
- Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Dan Clowes
- Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez
- Locas by Jaime Hernandez
- Palestine by Joe Sacco
- Safe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco
[edit] Classic comics compilations
- The Complete Crumb Comics
- Dennis the Menace
- Feiffer: The Collected Works
- Krazy Kat
- Little Orphan Annie
- The Complete Peanuts
- Pogo
- The Complete E. C. Segar Popeye
- Powerhouse Pepper
- Prince Valiant
