Fantagraphics Books
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Image:Fantagraphicslogo2.gifFantagraphics 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. Kim Thompson joined the company not long after meeting Groth, then in College Park, Maryland, in the summer of 1977, and the two became co-owners. In 2003, the company nearly went out of business, but was saved by a restructuring and an outpouring of support from customers.
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. After restructuring, the company has found greater success through such hardcover collections as The Complete Peanuts.
Publications
This list is incomplete
COMICS
- Acme Novelty Library
- Angry Youth Comics
- Critters
- Doofus
- Eightball
- Evil Eye
- Fission Chicken
- Frank
- Hate
- Jim
- Love and Rockets
- Meatcake
- Neat Stuff
- Raisin Pie
- The Stuff of Dreams
- Usagi Yojimbo (up to volume 7)
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
GRAPHIC NOVELS
HARDCOVER COMPILATIONS