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The Printed Matter 9 art show is on now at GRSF! Steven Weissman's in it (he's got the announcement on his blog) along with some of our other favorite folks! We/you missed the opening but it's on through Jan. 12.

Impatient and/or francophone Jason fans can read the first 10 pages of his next album L'Île aux 100000 Morts (Isle of 100,000 Graves) at the website of his French publisher Glénat. We'll have the English edition out in Spring 2011.

Michael Kupperman provided this cover illustration & design for Gojira: King of the Monsters, a new novella by National Book Award-nominated author Jim Shepard from NYC small press Solid Objects.

Special Exits: Joyce Farmer from DANGEROUS MINDS on Vimeo. Richard Metzger of Dangerous Minds sat down for a filmed chat with Joyce Farmer about her "extraordinarily powerful" new graphic memoir Special Exits.

Esther Pearl Watson & Mark Todd are having a holiday sale on select prints, shirts and books in their Funchicken online shop, including this awesome 4-color glow-in-the-dark Unlovable silkscreen!

Congratulations to Stephen DeStefano for being nominated for an Individual Achievement Annie Award ("Animation's Highest Honor") for Character Design in a Television Production for his work on Cartoon Network's Sym-Bionic Titan! (It's an awesome show.)

Back from holiday hiatus and making up for lost time! Here's this week's Weissman, plus links to other strips from around the web: — Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman (view at original size): — And elsewhere: Belligerent Piano by Tim Lane: Lucky by Gabrielle Bell: Maakies by Tony Millionaire: Ectiopiary  pages 51 & 52 by Hans Rickheit: Truth Serum by Jon Adams: Amazing Facts… and Beyond! with Leon Beyond by Kevin Huizenga:

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: Cathy Malkasian's Temperance is one of Largehearted Boy's Favorite Graphic Novels of 2010: "I have been creating a list of my favorite graphic novels of all time, and as the list grows smaller, one title remains near the top of the pile. Cathy Malkasian's debut, Percy Gloom, skillfully told (and illustrated) its story, and wholly transported the reader into an alternative world. Malkasian is back with another stellar graphic novel, Temperance, a dark and literate dystopian fable centered on themes of violence and control." • Review: "…Joyce Farmer… in the ’70s contributed to the…

(Click image to embiggen) Behold! A never-before-seen Daniel Clowes sketch from 1992 provided to us by the great Barbara Manning, who (as previously noted) is playing a show at the Sunset Tavern here in Seattle in mere hours, sharing the bill with Peter Bagge's band Can You Imagine?! It's all a big circle of comics and music and love! Thanks to Barbara for sending us this image!