Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint. Many notable cartoonists publish their work through Fantagraphics, including Jessica Abel, Peter Bagge, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, Roberta Gregory, Joe Sacco, and Chris Ware.
Fantagraphics was founded in 1976 by Gary Groth and Mike Catron at College Park, Maryl...
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Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint. Many notable cartoonists publish their work through Fantagraphics, including Jessica Abel, Peter Bagge, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, Roberta Gregory, Joe Sacco, and Chris Ware.
Fantagraphics was founded in 1976 by Gary Groth and Mike Catron at College Park, Maryland. Kim Thompson joined the company in 1977, and soon became a co-owner with Groth. The company later moved to Stamford, Connecticut, then Los Angeles, and finally in 1989 to its present location in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
Fantagraphics publishes The Comics Journal (TCJ), a magazine that covers comics as an art form from a critical perspective. (From 1981 to 1992, Fantagraphics also published Amazing Heroes, a magazine much lighter in tone than TCJ, which examined comics from a hobbyist's point of view as opposed...
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