#foolbert funnies

[fantagraphics]

This Week's Press Highlights:

Praise for Black River “Black River, unlike the many other post-apocalyptic stories, doesn’t give its reader the satisfaction of a glimmer of hope. Nothing is going to get better. No one is going to survive.” Sequential Slate

“It’s this molasses drip of eventuality that Simmons hooks us on, demonstrating that humanity may morph into its simplest and truest form when the darkest of hours is upon us.” Cleaver Magazine

Praise for Ofelia: A Love and Rockets Book “Engrossing, sexually explicit, violent, and satirical.” Booklist June 17, 2015

Praise for Wandering Son Vol. 8 “Wandering Son won critical acclaim for its sensitive portrayal of two fifth-graders experimenting with cross-dressing and changing gender roles…The series gets deeper and more complex as it goes along.” Barnes and Noble Manga Roundup

Praise for Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictions “As funny as ever… This is fun stuff to look at, and the more readers know about historic art, the more fun it will be. “ Booklist June 17, 2015

[fantagraphics]

These three bueats are now out at a comic bookstore near you! 

Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictions by Frank Stack 

"Foolbert Funnies is a definitive collection of comic art by one of the quirkiest and most intriguing artists to emerge from undergrounds. As a former college art professor, Frank Stack brought a unique approach to his art, blazing his own trail. And what could be more appropriate for an underground comics cartoonist than that?" –Jason Sacks, Comics Bulletin

Spawn of Mars by Wallace Wood and Al Feldstein

  "…the reason I'm almost guaranteed to eventually pick this up: shelf porn. I'd probably buy 'Wally Wood sci-fi reprints' as a digest, but this is going to eventually look so damn good on the oversized shelf. It's the smuggest reason to buy anything ever, but I don't care." –Jim Dandendeau, Topless Robot 

A Valentine for Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz 

"Schulz was truly one of the game's great ambassadors." - Former National Baseball Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey

"Novelty Peanuts books are the best kind of novelty book." - The Comics Reporter

[fantagraphics]

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:

Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictions by Frank Stack

224-page black & white 7.75" x 10" softcover • $24.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-808-3

See Previews / Order Now

"Cult" cartoonist Frank Stack is best known as the artist behind Harvey Pekar's award-winning graphic novel, My Cancer Year (his art was featured in the American Splendor film), and as the creator of the first underground comic book, The Adventures of Jesus. Foolbert Funnies collects comics—inspired by Stack's pop culture-filled childhood and travails as a fine arts professor—that ran in National Lampoon and other publications. (For decades, Stack's work was published under the pseudonym "Foolbert Sturgeon" to protect his career.) In Foolbert Funnies, you will find adventuress Dirty Diana; nostalgic time traveler Frank Crankcase; commonsensical Dr. Feelgood; politician Paddy Booshwah; "Southern Fried Homicide"; and a host of Amazons, artists, and pulp heroes, all depicted in Stack's scratchy, hatchy "crowquill" style. This "best of the rest" is a tribute to a Texan who's been quietly creating observational, iconoclastic art for more than forty years.

[fantagraphics]

Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictions by Frank Stack

224-page black & white 7.75" x 10" softcover • $24.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-808-3

Ships in: December 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now

"Cult" cartoonist Frank Stack is best known as the artist behind Harvey Pekar's award-winning graphic novel, My Cancer Year (his art was featured in the American Splendor film), and as the creator of the first underground comic book, The Adventures of Jesus. Foolbert Funnies collects comics—inspired by Stack's pop culture-filled childhood and travails as a fine arts professor—that ran in National Lampoon and other publications. (For decades, Stack's work was published under the pseudonym "Foolbert Sturgeon" to protect his career.) In Foolbert Funnies, you will find adventuress Dirty Diana; nostalgic time traveler Frank Crankcase; commonsensical Dr. Feelgood; politician Paddy Booshwah; "Southern Fried Homicide"; and a host of Amazons, artists, and pulp heroes, all depicted in Stack's scratchy, hatchy "crowquill" style. This "best of the rest" is a tribute to a Texan who's been quietly creating observational, iconoclastic art for more than forty years.

[fantagraphics]

"Sometimes drawing cartoons is the only thing you can do."

So begins the foreword, written by Bob Levin, of Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictions. This 19-page, 2.6 MB downloadable excerpt for our collection of Frank Stack's underground comix contains the full foreword, the full seven-page introduction by Frank Stack himself, and the first six pages of comics.

Foolbert Funnies is expected to land in bookstores by the end of 2014, which is rapidly approaching, so make sure you've got your pre-order in!