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FANTAGRAPHICS SERIALIZES HISTORY ONLINE

By Leroy Douresseaux
June 2, 2006 - 21:46

FANTAGRAPHICS SERIALIZES HISTORY ONLINE, ANNOUNCES MoCCA EVENTS

Beginning today, we are offering a daily treat every weekday on our 
website for the next few months. This fall, Fantagraphics will release COMICS AS ART: WE TOLD YOU SO, an oral history of Fantagraphics written by TOM SPURGEON (of The Comics Reporter.com fame). Originally slated for June, the book is running a bit behind and now won't be out until the fall. In the meantime, we're going to be uploading PDFs of the first chapter every weekend through August on our website, one two-page spread at a time. Daily links will be provided on Flog!, but you can also just bookmark this page:

http://www.fantagraphics.com/wtys/

Comics As Art: We Told You So tells of Fantagraphics Books' role in 
helping build and shape an art movement around a discredited, ignored and fading expression of Americana. Spurgeon and designer Jacob Covey have assembled an all-star cast of industry figures, critics, cartoonists, art objects, curios and groundbreaking publications to bring you a detailed account of Fantagraphics' first thirty years. 
The book is also quite funny, and in this first chapter you'll be privvy to some hilarious photos of Gary Groth and Kim Thompson as well as some great fanzine art from Fanta's earliest and most amateurish period.

To read the first two pages, visit http://www.fantagraphics.com/wtys/

The book is slated for release this year because, of course, it's Fantagraphics' 30th anniversary in 2006. In addition to Spurgeon's book, we've got a few other events lined up this year, beginning next weekend in New York City over the MoCCA Art Festival weekend.

On FRIDAY NIGHT, JUNE 9, ROCKETSHIP COMICS in Brooklyn (208 Smith St., http://rocketshipstore.blogspot.com/ ) is hosting a MoCCA 
kickoff party featuring an exhibition of original art by STEVEN 
WEISSMAN, JORDAN CRANE, JOHNNY RYAN, and JAIME HERNANDEZ. The show will feature about 8 to 10 recent pieces by all four artists, and Weissman and Crane will be onhand for the opening, along with Fanta's own GARY GROTH.

On SATURDAY NIGHT, JUNE 10, Fantagraphics and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund will be hosting a MoCCA afterparty at the Parkside Lounge (317 E Houston, within walking distance of the Puck Building).  There will be free drink tickets for the first 50 or so to show up, and the CBLDF will be selling an exclusive minicomic comic at the 
party featuring a number of Fantagraphics-published authors and 
auctioning off some amazing original art. It should be a fun event, 
and the Parkside Lounge should be a great place to relax after the 
long day at the MoCCA fest.

More details regarding the MoCCA Art Festival will be posted over the 
next week on our blog:

http://www.fantagraphics.com/blog/

We have an amazing line-up of authors in attendance this year (most 
of whom will undoubtedly show up at the aforementioned after parties 
as well), including: RICK ALTERGOTT, GABRIELLE BELL, JONATHAN 
BENNETT, ARIEL BORDEAUX, JORDAN CRANE, KIM DEITCH, BOB FINGERMAN, ELLEN FORNEY, LEAH HAYES, PAUL HORNSCHEMEIER, R. KIKUO JOHNSON, MEGAN KELSO, TIM KREIDER, MICHAEL KUPPERMAN, MARK NEWGARDEN, CAROL TYLER, STEVEN WEISSMAN, and KURT WOLFGANG. I'll post a complete schedule by the time the show rolls around next weekend.

Also, don't miss the MOME panel on Saturday at MoCCA, 4:30PM, 
moderated by Gary Groth and featuring Gabrielle Bell, Jonathan 
Bennett, David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, R. Kikuo Johnson and Kurt 
Wolfgang.

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