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Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics and The Comics Journal, Love and Rockets, and the publishers who followed in treating comics as a literature to be edited and argued about.
Part of Underground Comics
46 moments in this segment.
- - Gary Groth on a panel. Groth ran The Comics Journal and Fantagraphics, which by this point had begun publishing the comics its criticism argued for. Richard Howell sits at left and Steve Schanes at right.
- - Charles Burns - Big Baby excerpt from Comic Book Confidential (1988). Charles Burns reads Big Baby over an animated treatment of the strip, with music by Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet and Burns himself on vocals.
- - Daniel Clowes Interview - From Blab! Magazine, 1989. An interview first printed in Blab! issue four, with Daniel Clowes assessing his contemporaries and the state of the industry before the first Eightball had appeared.
- - Made In The USA report: Fantagraphics Comics (1992). A report from inside Fantagraphics in Seattle with Gary Groth, Kim Thompson, Larry Reid, Peter Bagge, Dennis Eichhorn and Roberta Gregory, taking in Hate, Eightball and Love and Rockets.
- - The Dummy Show - HATEBALL - With Peter Bagge and Daniel Clowes. Peter Bagge and Daniel Clowes recall the Hateball tour that took Hate and Eightball around the country, and what a signing queue for an alternative title looked like at the time.
- - Fantagraphics at Stumptown. The Seattle publisher's booth at the 2006 Stumptown Comics Fest in Portland, one of the small independent shows it works.
- - Chris Ware in Sollies-Ville. The author of Jimmy Corrigan at the 2009 French festival, a rare European appearance.
- - Palomar and Locas in hardcover. Fantagraphics' collected editions gather Gilbert Hernandez's Heartbreak Soup stories and Jaime's Hoppers strips from Love and Rockets.
- - Panel Borders: Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes. Alex Fitch talks to Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes, who each serialised their work in a periodical first, Ware in Acme Novelty Library and Clowes in Eightball. Ware's Jimmy Corrigan took the Guardian First Book Award in 2001 and Clowes was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2002 Academy Awards for Ghost World.
- - Chester Brown on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer Part 2 of 2. Chester Brown discusses Paying for It, the memoir in which he set down his use of prostitutes and argued for decriminalisation, a book that drew objection on publication.
- - Chester Brown on Studio 4 with Host Fanny Kiefer Part 1 of 2. Chester Brown is interviewed by Fanny Kiefer on Vancouver television about Paying for It, his comics memoir of paying for sex, discussing how he chose to render the material and the arguments the book provoked.
- - Daniel Clowes Modern Cartoonist w Mark Frauenfelder BoingBoing. Daniel Clowes takes questions from Mark Frauenfelder at a Hollywood comic shop launch event, covering Ghost World and the survey volume Modern Cartoonist, with an audience question session.
- - SPX 2012 - Jaime Hernandez: The Love Bunglers. Jaime Hernandez has followed Maggie Chascarillo and the people around her since 1981, and discusses The Love Bunglers at Small Press Expo.
- - SPX 2012 - Gilbert Hernandez: Love From The Shadows. Gilbert Hernandez built the Palomar stories into an intergenerational saga of a Central American town, and talks about the later books that moved away from it.
- - Kim Thompson. The Fantagraphics vice-president and co-owner, who translated much of the publisher's European list before his death in 2013.
- - Gilbert Hernandez. The younger of the two brothers who began Love and Rockets in 1981, whose Palomar stories run across three decades.
- - Gary Groth On The Origins of Fantagraphics & The Comics Journal. Gary Groth co-founded The Comics Journal and then Fantagraphics in reaction to what the comic book industry looked like in the 1970s.
- - Gary Groth On Who Reads Comics - Interview Part 8 -The Comic Archive. Gary Groth describes who actually buys comics and what they read, from a longer interview about the publishing business.
- - WORDS Literary and Creative Arts Festival: Joe Sacco. Joe Sacco describes combining oral history, memoir and reportage into comics at a point when, by his own account, almost nobody thought that could work.
- - A Conversation with Gary Groth, publisher of Fantagraphics. Gary Groth is interviewed by Ben Saunders about Fantagraphics reprinting EC Comics in artist-organised hardcover volumes.
- - Daniel Clowes Spotlight Talk SDCC 2016. Ambient footage made by Fantagraphics to run behind a Daniel Clowes and Eric Reynolds presentation at Comic-Con.
- - SPX 2016 Panel - Spotlight on Charles Burns & Daniel Clowes. Charles Burns and Daniel Clowes share a Small Press Expo stage with Fantagraphics editor Eric Reynolds, working through the careers that ran from Black Hole and Eightball to their current books.
- - SPX 2016 Panel - 40 Years of Fantagraphics. Forty years after a group of fans argued that comics could be art and founded Fantagraphics, a Small Press Expo panel gathers people who were there for it.
- - SPX 2017 Panel - Gilbert Hernandez & Jim Rugg in Conversation. Gilbert Hernandez, co-creator of Love and Rockets, and Jim Rugg of Street Angel talk at the Small Press Expo about craft and daily practice, how technology has changed their working methods, and staying productive over long careers.
- - Author and translator. Inio Asano appears with his English translator Jocelyne Allen at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
- - Clowes in Barcelona. The author of Eightball and Ghost World on a roundtable at the 2019 Barcelona comics fair.
- - SPX 2019 Panel - Jaime Hernandez and Katie Skelly in Conversation. Jaime Hernandez and Katie Skelly discuss their drawing styles, their pulp sources and the characters they keep returning to, with scholar Rachel R. Miller of Ohio State University joining the conversation at the 2019 Small Press Expo.
- - Conversation with Graphic Novelist Jaime Hernandez. Jaime Hernandez talks with Gary Groth at the Library of Congress about drawing Love and Rockets and about putting Latinx lives on the page over four decades.
- - The Gary Groth Shoot Interview. Gary Groth submits to a long-form interview covering the whole of Fantagraphics, from the Comics Journal years to the cartoonists the house built itself around.
- - Librairie D+Q presents: Adrian Tomine in conversation with Seth. Adrian Tomine and Seth discuss cartooning as work on the day The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist was published. Tomine self-published Optic Nerve from age sixteen and was picked up by Drawn & Quarterly in 1994, ground the two go over alongside Seth's Clyde Fans.
- - The JAIME HERNANDEZ Interview!. Jaime Hernandez, co-creator of Love and Rockets, discusses how he started drawing, why he builds his stories around women characters, the punk scene that ran through the early issues, and four decades of work made with his brothers.
- - Librairie D+Q presents: Sophie Yanow Launches The Contradictions. Sophie Yanow launches The Contradictions with Jason Lutes, a book that began as a webcomic and took an Eisner before its print edition.
- - Librairie D+Q Presents: François Vigneault launching Titan. Francois Vigneault launches Titan at the Drawn and Quarterly bookshop, a story of labour conflict between genetically engineered workers and Terran management on Saturn's moon.
- - Librairie D+Q Presents: Lee Lai Launching Stone Fruit. Lee Lai launches Stone Fruit, a book about a queer couple, the niece they look after and the family tensions that run underneath their playdates.
- - Michael Deforge Expozine 20 artist presentation. Michael DeForge presents an artist's talk at Expozine covering roughly fifteen years of work, starting with the posters and zines he made early on and running up to Birds of Maine.
- - Masterclass - Chris Ware (complète). Chris Ware gives a full masterclass at the Angouleme festival on how he builds a page.
- - THE COMPLETE EIGHTBALL by Daniel Clowes BOX SET | Ghost World | Fantagraphics | Underground Comix. Eightball ran Daniel Clowes's serialised stories through the 1990s, Ghost World among them, and the Fantagraphics box set collecting the whole run is gone through volume by volume.
- - GILBERT HERNANDEZ Interview! 40 Years of Love & Rockets!. Gilbert Hernandez talks through forty years of Love and Rockets and the working method behind the Palomar books.
- - Cartoonist Cartoonist Seth: in Conversation with Diana Tamblyn. Cartoonist Seth is interviewed by Diana Tamblyn at Museum London, talking about his graphic novels, his drawing practice and his attachment to earlier periods of cartooning.
- - Hernandez on the main stage. The Love and Rockets co-author takes questions in the Espai Univers at the 2025 Barcelona fair.
- - Jaime Hernandez in conversation. A question and answer session at the 43rd Barcelona comics fair, moderated by Borja Crespo.
- - Fantagraphics Interview | A conversation with Jennifer Chan Executive Director of Sales & Marketing. Jennifer Chan, executive director of sales and marketing at Fantagraphics, explains how the publisher schedules and produces its books, covering licensing, its library and omnibus formats, manga lines and what is planned next.
- - Episode 560 - Gary Groth talks 50 Years of Fantagraphics!. Gary Groth marks fifty years of Fantagraphics in 2026, covering the Comics Journal period, the current list and the Fantagraphics Underground imprint.
- - Joe Sacco on drawing the truth. Joe Sacco describes finding his way from cartooning into reporting and what keeps returning him to the hardest assignments.
- - Interview with the Vice-President of Fantagraphics, Eric Reynolds!. Fantagraphics vice president and associate editor Eric Reynolds talks about the house's fiftieth anniversary, its editorial process, new books by Kayla E. and Raquelle Jac, plans for collected Love and Rockets editions, and the careers of Noah Van Sciver, Simon Hanselmann and Ed Piskor.
- - The FUTURE OF LOVE & ROCKETS IN COLLECTED EDITIONS | Fantagraphics | Jaime & Gilbert Hernandez. An extract in which Fantagraphics discusses how Love and Rockets by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez will be gathered in future collected editions. The excerpt is pulled from a longer publisher interview.