The Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators is hosting “30 Years of Fantagraphics,” a retrospective art exhibition of original art published by Fantagraphics. The show will include pieces spanning three decades of publishing, including pieces by Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, Peter Bagge, Joe Sacco, Jim Woodring,Frank Frazetta, Tony Millionaire, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Robert Crumb, Drew Friedman and dozens of other revolutionary cartoonists.
Fantagraphics has been one of the great bastions of adult oriented comics (not x-rated, although they have those too). They are probably best known for the “Love and Rockets” series, although they also publish a lot of books as well as the always under-rated Comics Journal which has almost singlehandedly created comics journalism. But really all of this is secondary, go see it for the great art.
For more information go to www.fantagraphics.com
Image above by Jamie Hernandez from the “Mechanics” series.