365 Reasons to Love Comics #282

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By Brian Cronin

Published Oct 9, 2007

Today's cool comic company has an interesting pedigree of producing amazing comic book works, but for years, astonishingly enough, their biggest sellers were their porn comics. You would also be astonished by the Archive.

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282. Fantagraphics Books

Founed by Gary Groth and Mike Catron in 1976 (Kim Thompson joined up the following year), Fantagraphics was an ambitious company from the start, devoted to demonstrating that comics could be an artform. That is something that is difficult enough to get across TODAY, so you can only imagine the difficulty of such an idea thirty-plus years ago!

For years, while they produced countless classic book after classic book, Fantagraphics' highest sellers were their line of high class pornography comics, Eros Comics.

More recently, their highest seller has been their massive undertaking of collecting the entire run of Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts...

In any event, the amount of classic comic books that has been collected by Fantagraphics is practically innumerable (not to mention their well-regarded comic magazine, The Comics Journal), but here, just for a sampling to blow your minds, are a few of their stable of artists (the amount of talent they have that I am NOT mentioning is practically enough to blow your minds!)...

Peter Bagge...