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A fan named Ross Adams went and got himself a tattoo of the Caligulon symbol from Johnny Ryan's Prison Pit Book 3, and then Johnny went and tweeted about it. No word as to whether Adams can now shoot destructive/transfigurative rays from his shin.

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "It should go without saying by now that any new volume of Love and Rockets is a must for any serious comics fan… [and] New Stories 4 is… one of the major events of the comics year … [A]nyone who loves brilliant cartooning technique should appreciate the way Jaime draws the casual sag of a post-coital naked body, or the way he illustrates a pre-schooler tugging at his mother, oblivious to any notion of 'personal space.' And anyone who’s alive in the world should be moved by this story’s depiction of life as…

Wilfred Santiago takes you "behind the pages," sharing some of his process art from 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente and showing how his sketches and thumbnails developed into the final pages. Cool! Click each image to dig 'em on Flickr. [See our Tumblr blog for more recent Things to See.]

Advance copies of Tales Designed to Thrizzle #7 by Michael Kupperman just arrived at the office and we're all pawing at them eagerly. You can get your very own world-premiere copy at Desert Island in Brooklyn this Thursday on the next stop of the Twain in the Membrane tour! Everyone else, it'll be in stores next month. Stay tuned for more and better previews, of course!

PREVIEWSworld presents a 4-page sneak peek at Gahan Wilson's Nuts, in comic shops this week (plus 3 pages from Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons as a bonus)!

Artwork continues to pour in for the benefit auctions for the family of Dylan Williams & Sparkplug Comic Books: above, a page of Stephen DeStefano's artwork from his 2010 graphic novel with George Chieffet, Lucky in Love Book 1: A Poor Man's History (ending in 5 days); below, "Water Goat," a new original drawing by Renee French (ending in 3 days). Click each image to go to the respective eBay auctions, and see additional contributions from David Lasky, Greg Stump and Skinner at The Divine Invasion and Profanity Hill.

 Johnny Ryan's latest strip for Vice is a surprisingly straight-up adaptation of the movie Zookeeper. I assume. Right? [See our Tumblr blog for more recent Things to See.]

Our weekly strips from Kupperman & Weissman, plus links to other strips from around the web (Kerschbaum's back!): — Up All Night by Michael Kupperman (view at original size): Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman (view at original size): And elsewhere: The All-New Cartoon Boy Adventure Hour by John Kerschbaum at ACT-I-VATE: Cochlea & Eustachia by Hans Rickheit: Ectiopiary by Hans Rickheit: Humblug by Arnold Roth (3 new strips this week): Maakies by Tony Millionaire: Les Petits Riens by Lewis Trondheim: What's in the Backpack by Victor Kerlow:

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Flavorwire's Emily Temple names Daniel Clowes's Ghost World one of "10 Disturbingly Brilliant Graphic Novels" (a list which includes many of the usual suspects along with some off-the-beaten-path selections): "This novel is a cult classic for a reason (and no, the reason is not Scarlett Johansson): its frank depiction of teenage life, especially in boring, suburban towns, and the awkwardness of growing up garnered an instant following, along with its cynical, hilarious protagonists. It is intensely strange, and yet somehow universal in its strangeness — because who doesn’t think their teen years were…

Excitement for our big art book Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture is building, and in that spirit fan Mike Ewing took to Twitter to point out this great compilation of Davis's animated television commercials for various products, posted to YouTube by user "chiefzabu." Fun stuff! One stars Ruth Buzzi and to my ear it sounds like the great Frank Welker in the Lectric Shave one.