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Fantagraphics is the largest publisher of creator owned comics in America. Beginning in the mid-1970s as publisher of The Comics Journal -- still the most widely respected comics periodical in the USA -- they expanded into classics reprints with their long runing series of Prince Valiant collections, and comics history with the erstwhile long running periodical Nemo. But things really took off when they launched their new comics line with LOVE & ROCKETS #1 (along with the less well remembered Don Rosa's Comics and Stories #1) in 1982. The rest is history. What follows is a listing of our core offering of Fantagraphics publications. Love & Rockets, which we specialize in, is listed on separate pages which you can link to from here. For the most part, we are only listing items here that are currently in print. The few items that are not in print are duly noted as such. The Copacetic Price on all in-print Fantagraphics publications is 10 - 20% off (or more!) of the retail/cover price. All the prices that follow incorporate this discount, unless otherwise noted. The fact that a particular item is not listed does not mean that we don't have it: if you're looking for an item from Fantagraphics that you don't see listed here, just let us know what you're looking for, and we'll get back to you; if it's from Fantagraphics, even if we don't have it at the moment, we can certainly get it for you (and sell it to you for 20% off if it's still in print-- and maybe even if it's not) if you're willing to wait a bit.


Title Author Publisher Price
Book of Changes Kristine McKenna Fantagraphics $12.75
($14.95 list)

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A truly great book of interviews by Kristine McKenna.  How did she manage to get all these great interviews with all these great people?  From Iggy Pop to David Lynch, From Tom Waits to R. Crumb, from Brian Eno to Artie Shaw, from Robert Rauschenberg to George Clinton, from Patti Smith to Kenneth Anger, the list goes on and on.  Each interview is acompanied by a swell illustration by a hep cat cartoonist.  Check it out!

The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove Gene Deitch Fantagraphics $34.95
($39.95 list)
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The complete collection of 78rpm artwork from the old Record Changer magazine

Fantagraphics' first successful (at least in our opinion) coffee-table book.  This one finally gets it right with this super-duper oversize (14 x 11”) hardcover that binds together 160 ultra-heavy stock pages featuring comics-legend, Kim Deitch’s dad letting it all hang out.  These illustrations range from spare Virgil Partch-esque single-panel cartoons that turn the spotlight on the frantic mindset of the compulsive record collector to the elegant and truly marvelous artworks that graced the covers of Record Changer magazine.  The pieces collected in this book provide the reader with, among other things, a visual charting of the rise of the bebop jazz sensibility in the late 1940s.  This book will propell you back to the days when the visual side of our popular music culture was often most successfully realized in the print medium (hard to believe, I know) and have you pulling out your old Bird & Diz platters before you can say klactoveesedsteen. 
Talk To Her Kristine McKenna Fantagraphics $14.40
($16.95 list)

Read more and comment... 		In her much anticipated follow-up to Copacetic favorite, Book of Changes, McKenna delivers the goods in once again getting together with an amazing amalgamation of personalities, and prying out a wagonload of insights from their veiled thoughts.  Subjects interviewed this time around include:  Robert Altman, Elvis Costello, Jacques Derrida, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Hell, Chrissie Hynde, Rickie Lee Jones, John Lydon, Guy Maddin, Russ Meyer, Joni Mitchell, Iggy Pop, Joey Ramone, Lou Reed, Eve-Marie Saint, Joe Strummer, Tom Verlaine and... Orson Welles!  And as if this isn't enough already, each interview is accomapnied by a full page illustration of the subject rendered by cool comics cats such as Megan Kelso, Charles Burns, Tony Millionaire, Rick Geary, Dan Clowes, Mary Fleener, and many others.
Rock Candy Femke Hiemstra Fantagraphics $24.99
($29.99 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Here she is, the Dutch Pop Surrealist Queen in all her glory.  This perky die-cut hardcover volume designed and edited by Jacob Covey contains a vibrant mix of painting, sketches, and mixed-media objets d'art.  Get a taste with this generous 15-page preview courtesy of the fine folks at Fantagraphics.