Yeah, it’s kind of frustrating when people don’t RTFA. For the rest of you: Fantagraphics has never been a huge money-making operation. They got sued by someone who didn’t like something that Harlan Ellison said in an interview in The Comics Journal, and ended up with huge legal bills that they paid off by starting a porn comics line, Eros, that probably isn’t a money-maker anymore (along with most other print porn). Their Peanuts reprint series has done well, but again, we’re not talking DC or Marvel numbers; a lot of local comics shops don’t carry any Fantagraphics books, except maybe for a few of the back numbers of relatively big indie artists like Los Bros Hernandez or Bagge or Clowes. The fact that Thompson had such a heavy workload at his age, instead of chilling by the pool, should be an indicator of what the real deal is.
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