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If I'm not mistaken, this is the first look we've had at a completed page from Paul Hornschemeier's next joint, Forlorn Funnies #1, which is a'comin' sometime next year. [Follow our Tumblr blog for lots more Things to See every day.]

Now available for our mail-order customers: Tales Designed to Thrizzle #7 by Michael Kupperman 32-page full-color 6.75" x 9.5" comic book • $4.95 See Previews / Order Now In this issue Quincy, M.E. makes his comic book debut, struggling through the fantastic landscapes of his own dreams in “Quinception,” in which St. Peter also gets his own comic book. Snake ‘n’ Bacon make an appearance in “Reservoir Dogs 2,” where the gang reunites for another caper. Twain and Einstein deal with some family issues, McArf the Crime Dog takes a bite out of scum, and the origin of The Hamanimal!…

Now available for our mail-order customers: Jason Conquers America by Jason et al. 32-page black & white/color 6.75" x 10.25" comic book • $4.99 See Previews / Order Now Celebrating 10 years of Jason being published in the US, this comic-book-format one-shot is a Jason fan’s dream, with lots of previously unpublished Jason strips and artwork, an interview with Jason’s colorist Hubert, a checklist of all Jason’s books, a Q&A with the man himself, and a visual tributes gallery by several American cartoonists to the towering, taciturn Norwegian genius including Michael Allred, Kim Deitch, and Rich Tommaso.

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. (And keep those clicking fingers warmed up because this means they'll also be available from us via mail-order starting tomorrow!) Jason Conquers America by Jason et al. 32-page black & white/color 6.75" x 10.25" comic book • $4.99 "A $5 pamphlet-format thing with some previously unpublished strips and other material…

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Lou Reed's work in his collaborative Poe adaptation with Lorenzo Mattotti, The Raven, helps him rank #64 on Whitney Matheson's 100 People of 2011 list at USA Today Pop Candy • List: Comics Worth Reading's Johanna Draper Carlson names her top 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2011, with Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 1: Race to Death Valley by Floyd Gottfredson in the #5 slot: "I was astounded to discover that once upon a time, Mickey Mouse comics were really good! And exciting!… Plenty of good background material puts it all in context…

Critic and writer Ken Tucker counted down his Top 10: The Year in Music on NPR's Fresh Air, a list which included 9 albums and one book, Kevin Avery's Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson: "Nelson, who died in 2006 at age 69, was part of the first generation of rock critics, instrumental in bringing attention to musicians including Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, New York Dolls and Warren Zevon. The book is both an anthology of his best writing and a tragic recounting of a life that shut down too soon." The book has previously…

Laura Park shows you the humane way to kill an apple and then a delicious thing to do with its carcass in another tasty-sounding and hilarious recipe comic at Saveur! [Follow our Tumblr blog for lots more Things to See every day.]

Bill Griffith: Lost and Found – Comics 1969-2003 by Bill Griffith 392-page black & white/color 8" x 10" softcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-482-5 Ships in: December 2011 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Order this book and receive this FBI•MINI comic shown at left as a FREE bonus! Click here for details. Limit one per customer while supplies last. Bill Griffith is best known as the creator of the Zippy daily comic strip, currently running in over 300 newspapers nationwide, but Zippy was conceived as an underground comix character before he became embraced in the main- stream, and Griffith himself was…

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions:    • List: USA Today's pop culture maven Whitney Matheson starts counting down her People of the Year at Pop Candy, with Jim Woodring kicking things off at #100 ("This year the artist constructed a seven-foot-long fountain pen that even Lloyd Dobler would be proud to own") and Leslie Stein coming in at #78 ("She had me at the talking guitar: The Brooklyn-based cartoonist's Eye of the Majestic Creature provided a joyous reading experience") • List (Audio): Jim Woodring's Congress of the Animals and Johnny Ryan's Prison Pit Book 3 are among the books discussed…

Not only is Wilfred Santiago’s 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente on Sports Illustrated’s "The Year in Sports Media" list at #34, the magazine had Wilfred provide some commentary of his own, in cartoon form. Click the image above for a closer look at the scan, provided by Wilfred.