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You won't believe how many debuts we're bringing with us to Bethesda for  the 2012 Small Press Expo on September 15th & 16th! Here's your SPX shopping list — bring extra bags to carry everything: • The Lost Art of Ah Pook Is Here: Images from the Graphic Novel by Malcolm McNeill (not officially out 'til October!) In 1970, William S. Burroughs and artist Malcolm McNeill agreed to collaborate on a book-length meditation on time, power, control, and corruption that evoked the Mayan codices and specifically, the Mayan god of death, Ah Pook. McNeill created nearly a hundred paintings, illustrations,…

Wednesday, September 5th • Seattle, WA: Our exhibit Game Over: Failed Alternative Video Games is finally, well, over at the Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery! It's your last chance to see these hilarious adaptations for yourself! (more info) Friday, September 7th • Dallas, TX: Josh Alan Friedman will be signing copies of the newly-reissued Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental, as well as playing some blues at The Mason Bar! Despite being a bar, it's an all-ages shindig! (more info) Saturday, September 8th • Seattle, WA: Help us welcome the great Gary Panter to the Fantagraphics Bookstore…

* Other People's Publications** Yeah, You Know Me. While we all eagerly await the release of Barack Hussein Obama, Larry has somehow unearthed an older title from cartoonist Steven Weissman! Originally released in 1999 on Alternative Press, The Lemon Kids, Book 1 is a collection of stories that Steve was self-publishing under the Yikes title, and some stories that were included in the Last Gasp Comix & Stories anthology. Fans of our other Yikes titles like Chocolate Cheeks and Chewing Gum in Church will definitely want to get their hands on this lost classic while supplies last! The Fantagraphics Bookstore…

  The official state slogan of Illinois is "Land of Lincoln," making it the perfect location to celebrate the release of The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln! Join Noah Van Sciver on Wednesday, September 19th at Quimby's in Chicago, with special guest, John Porcellino, who will be debuting King-Cat #73! Together, they’ll be reading from and showing slides of their work, answering questions, and signing books. The event kicks off at 7:00 PM. Quimby's is located at 1854 W North Ave. Gather up your pennies and five dollar bills, and head down there, Illinoisans.

Get blighted with our friends at the Elysian Brewing Company on Friday, September 21st, as they debut "Blight," the latest from our 12 Beers of the Apocalypse collaboration!  "Blight" is a perfect seasonal Pumpkin Ale, available on draft, and in exclusive 22 oz. bottles with labels featuring the artwork of the great Charles Burns from his weirdly apocalyptic Black Hole series.  The official tapping begins at 4:00 PM, followed by a survival demo by Bryan & co. at 5:30 PM, with Spuds in the Hole from 4:00 to 7:00 PM!   Come by and collect the next stamp in your…

Get haunted with the latest exhibit at Giant Robot's GR2 Gallery in Los Angeles, featuring our own John Pham alongside Rob Sato. Here's a sneak peek at one of John's paintings that I swiped from his Facebook page (sorry, John): Haunts runs from September 8th through 26th at GR2 [ 2062 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA ] with an opening reception event on Saturday, September 8th from 6:30 – 10:00 PM.  Tell him we say hi!

He's been all over the west coast, and even took the sights and sounds of Black Power across the pond to England… and now we're thrilled to announce that Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 is making its New York City area debut this fall! Join author Pat Thomas on Saturday, September 29th at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts [ 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn ]. He'll be giving his acclaimed slideshow presentation, and will be spinning records from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. And on Sunday, September 30th, Pat will be joined by special guest, Aaron…

Tuesday, August 28th • Denver, CO: Join Noah Van Sciver for the release party for The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln at Kilgore Books! (more info) Saturday, September 1st • London, England: It's your last chance to check out an art exhibit of movie posters from the golden age of American porn, as seen in  Sexytime: The Post-Porn Rise of the Pornoisseur! (more info) • Seattle, WA: Our very own Larry Reid, curator extraordinaire of the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, has teamed up with local artist John Ohannesian for a piece in the exhibit Elvistravaganza, which opens at Bumbershoot: Seattle's…

Residents of this charming coastal town in Oregon need not fear: it's not an environmental disaster heading your way, merely the writer and artist behind the acclaimed graphic novel, Oil & Water! Steve Duin and Shannon Wheeler will be the special guests at the Manzanita Writers’ Series on Saturday, September 15th, to discuss what happened to other coastal towns after the Deepwater Horizon spill with a reading and discussion of the book starting at 7:00 PM. The Manzanita Writers’ Series meets at the Hoffman Center, located at 594 Laneda Avenue, across from the Manzanita Library, about two hours west from…

* Other People's Publications** Yeah, You Know Me. I'm super-excited to announce that the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is now carrying work from Koyama Press, one of my absolute favorite small press publishers, run by the lady I've deemed "The Nicest Woman in Comics"™, Ms. Annie Koyama. And one of the titles we now have in stock is Root Rot, the forest-themed anthology edited by Annie and Michael DeForge last year, featuring Mome-vets like T. Edward Bak, Joseph Lambert, and Jon Vermilyea, alongside some other excellent artists like Derek M. Ballard, Dan Zettwoch, Hellen Jo, and many more. Some of…