Fantagraphics

Fantagraphics Books got its start in 1976 by publishing The Comics Journal, an incendiary magazine of critical and journalistic advocacy that lambasted the comics industry for churning out mediocrity and squandering the potential of the medium. In 1982, fed up with a status quo consisting of superheroes and generic genre work, the company decided to enter the fray, publishing its flagship comics title, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez’s Love and Rockets. Ever since, Fantagraphics has sought out and published the world’s greatest cartoonists from the beginning of the form to the present day.