What Do We Love About Fantagraphics? Their Humble Nature
Ah, oral history. A genre built to tell the stories of SNL, porn films, and whatever piqued Studs Terkel's curiosity this week.
And now Fantagraphics. Tom Spurgeon is putting the finishing touches Comics as Art: We Told You So, an oral history of Seattle's little comix company that could. It was going to be published this summer, but it's been delayed until fall to give them time to make it ever-so-much closer to perfect.
In the meantime, however, they're publishing a spread a day on a special blog. According to Fantagraphics:
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.(About that subhead: What did Fantagraphics tell you so? That comics were more than large-breasted women in skin-tight, cleavage-baring costumes. That they were art, dammit. And whaddya know, they were right.)
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