The first publisher was Fantagraphics ( volume one ; 38 regular issues, plus one Summer Special and three Color Specials ).

In 1981, Hernandez and his brothers Jaime and Mario published the first issue of Love and Rockets, which was quickly picked up by Fantagraphics Books, who republished the earliest materials in a new series starting in 1982.

The first issue was published by Fantagraphics Books in 1989, soon after the end of Clowes's previous comic series, Lloyd Llewellyn.

The Fantagraphics booth at the Stumptown Comics Fest 2006. Fantagraphics was founded in 1976 by Gary Groth and Mike Catron at College Park, Maryland.

The Kirby Award was managed by Dave Olbrich, a Fantagraphics employee and later publisher of Malibu Comics.

Ware started self-publishing the series starting with # 16, which was distributed by Fantagraphics, with subsequent issues distributed by Drawn and Quarterly.

First published by Fantagraphics in 1990 it ran for 30 issues, and was one of the best-selling alternative comics of the 1990s, at its height selling 30, 000 copies an issue.

First published by Fantagraphics in 1990 it ran for 30 issues, and was one of alternative comics best-selling titles.

Deitch won the 2003 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue / Story for The Stuff of Dreams ( Fantagraphics ) and in 2008 he was awarded an Inkpot Award.

He wrote a comic called Trucker Fags in Denial, which was originally published as a comic strip in the Portland-based publication Exotic and was published as a comic book by Fantagraphics in 2004.

Recently, it was announced that Fantagraphics will be publishing a collected form of Zap Comix, to be released in Fall 2012.

The Jack Kirby Award for achievement in comic books was presented from 1985-1987 by Amazing Heroes magazine, and managed by Fantagraphics employee Dave Olbrich.

" Omaha " the Cat Dancer became the subject of the eponymous comic book series published from 1984 to 1993 by Kitchen Sink Press ; it was relaunched by Fantagraphics Books through 1995.

In March 2010 it was announced that Shogakukan would partner with the American comics publisher Fantagraphics to issue a line of manga to be edited by Matt Thorn.

Anderson was one of the creators to submit ideas when Fantagraphics put out a call for adult comics and the submission became I Want to Be Your Dog.

His current graphic novel Scream Queen was published by Fantagraphics.

Critters was an animal anthology comic book published by Fantagraphics Books from 1985 to 1990 under the editorship of Kim Thompson.

His semi-pornographic superhero adventure, The Exhibitionist, was published in the United States at Fantagraphics under their sub-label Eros Comix .< ref? http :// www. atomicavenue. com / atomic / titledetail. aspx? TitleID = 5682 </ ref?

His comic Blite was published by Fantagraphics.

Gregory told stories from all parts of Bitchy's life ( including one set in the Middle Ages ) in the 40-issue series Naughty Bits, which was published by Fantagraphics from 1991 to 2004.

A complete Humbug collection of all 11 issues was reprinted February 2008 in a two-volume slipcased edition by Fantagraphics Books.

It includes annotations by John Benson, a lengthy 2005 interview with Arnold Roth and Al Jaffee, plus a four-page explanation of exactly how restoration of the magazine was accomplished by Fantagraphics.

* Focus on Jack Cole by Ron Goulart ( Fantagraphics Books, 1986 )

* Fantagraphics published a set of 50 trade paperbacks reprinting all of the strips written by Hal Foster, including those drawn by John Cullen Murphy.

* The Definitive Prince Valiant Companion compiled by Brian M. Kane, Fantagraphics Books, 2009.

His complete comics and selections from his sketchbooks have been published by Fantagraphics in seventeen volumes of comics and ten volumes of sketches to date.

It is very popular in large parts of Europe ( especially in Belgium and France ), but except for a few pages by Fantagraphics in the early 90s ( as Gomer Goof ), there is no published English translation.

* All of the daily and Sunday strips from 1931-1935 were reprinted by Fantagraphics in the 1990s, in five volumes, each covering a year, from 1931 to 1935.

In April 2008, Fantagraphics Books released a two-volume set of Mauldin's complete wartime Willie and Joe cartoons, edited by Todd DePastino, titled Willie & Joe: The WWII Years ( ISBN 978-1-56097-838-1 ).

Books 1 – 7 are published by Fantagraphics Books ; Books 8 + are published by Dark Horse Comics.

Love and Rockets ( comics ) | Love and Rockets # 16 by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, 1985, Fantagraphics Books.

This led to their work being published by the then just established Fantagraphics books.

After its resumption, Love & Rockets continued to be published by Fantagraphics on an annual basis.

Also released in 1992, The Comics Journal Interview CD ( Fantagraphics, 2002 ): Contains 15-20 minute audio excerpts with five of the most influential cartoonists in the American comics industry: Charles Schulz, Jack Kirby, Walt Kelly ( interviewed by Gil Kane in 1969 ) and R. Crumb.

* Fantagraphics Books has published four volumes of a series collecting Kelly's Our Gang comic book stories ( 1943 – 45 ) with cover art by Bone creator Jeff Smith and introductions by Leonard Maltin and Kelly chronicler Steve Thompson.

* In February 2007, Fantagraphics Books announced that it would begin publication of The Complete Pogo, a projected 12-volume series collecting the complete chronological run of daily and Sunday strips, to be overseen by Jeff Smith and Kelly's daughter Carolyn.

* Coventry ( comics ), a 3-issue comic book series by Bill Willingham, published by Fantagraphics

Since 2005, Fantagraphics has been co-publishing the Ignatz Series, edited and produced by the Italian artist Igort.

By the 1980s, several independent publishers, such as Pacific, Eclipse, First, Comico, and Fantagraphics had started releasing a wide range of styles and formats — from color superhero, detective, and science fiction comic books to black-and-white magazine-format stories of Latin American magical realism.

Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint.

From 1985 – 1987, Fantagraphics coordinated and presented ( through Amazing Heroes ) The Jack Kirby Award for achievement in comic books, voted on by comic-book professionals.

Eros Comix is an adult-oriented imprint of Fantagraphics Books, established in 1990 to publish pornographic comic books.

Archival editor David Gerstein previously worked at Egmont and is author of Nine Lives To Live-A Classic Felix Celebration, a collection of 1920s Felix the Cat comic strips published by Fantagraphics Books.

( Fantagraphics, 2011, ISBN 1606994122 ) -- collects all 9 issues of the all-ages comic book of the same title.

Doofus has appeared in various publications, including the Seattle Stranger, Heavy Metal, and comic books published by Fantagraphics Books such as Doofus, Doofus Omnibus, Raisin Pie and later issues of Hate.

In 1989, Fantagraphics published the first issue of his periodic comic collection Eightball.

The graphic novel, published in 2001 by Fantagraphics Books, is an assembly of nine stories first published in comic form in 1993 ; the single volume edition includes an introduction by Edward Said.

The Harvey Awards, named for writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman ( 1924-1993 ) and founded by Gary Groth, President of the publisher Fantagraphics, are given for achievement in comic books.

Waid entered the comics field during the mid-1980s as an editor and writer on Fantagraphics Books ' comic book fan magazine, Amazing Heroes.

The books, released by Fantagraphics Books in 25 separate volumes ( so far ) combine Seth's signature aesthetic with Schulz's minimalistic comic creation.

She has since appeared through various other comic titles such as Critters from Fantagraphics Books and one-shots such as Cutey Bunny's Pearl Harbor Beach Party from Rip Off Press.

With this in mind, other publishers ( including Capital City ( whose Nexus comic outsold several Pacific titles ), Comico, Aardvark-Vanaheim, Educomics, Quality, Eagle, Eclipse, First, Vortex, New Media, Fantagraphics, Mirage ) " feared that having Pacific, a rival publisher, as their distributor could result in their being cut off from comic shops.

In 2005, he started a comic book series called Tales Designed To Thrizzle, published by Fantagraphics.