Fantagraphics Blog Mike Baehr

Kevin Huizenga, Ted May and Dan Zettwoch, co-creators of the recently-canceled (and consistently great) strip Amazing Facts… and Beyond! with Leon Beyond, are seeking to keep Leon alive in online form by accepting commissions (strips on a topic of your choice, prices ranging from a paltry $30 up to $200), donations in any amount, and subscriptions in what they call a "Beyondathon" of fundraising. Read Leon's plea and open your wallet!

Flickr user vin dog assembled this nifty animation using frames scanned from Chris Ware's Quimby the Mouse.

20/20 Club members: check your inbox for details on how you can have a chance to buy one of a scant handful of recently-unearthed copies of the outrageously out-of-print #$@&! The Official Lloyd Llewellyn Collection by Daniel Clowes! Plus there's an incredible bonus if you combine it with an order of $100 or more. All the details are in the email; if you're a 20/20 Club member and you don't receive the email, for pete's sake write me at "mbaehr" at this here "fantagraphics.com" domain before the end of the week so I can add you to our mailing list…

• Review: Bookforum says of the two volumes of Beasts!: "Covey’s brave band of 180 artists… put these mythological and folkloric beings on vivid display. The distinct and varied styles of the cartoonists, illustrators, and graphic artists give further evidence of each creature’s unique characteristics… The enthusiastically detailed evocations in these books give us all reason to believe." • Review: Dear Stranger reads The End #1 by Anders Nilsen and declaims "It’s sad. In that way that things are only ever sad when they’re really honest, so it’s beautiful, but you feel a bit guilty for thinking so — because…

Our esteemed colleagues over at the McSweeney's publishing house are having one of their occasional nanners sales. You can get that Charles Burns poster for half off, the new Spiegelman thing for almost half off, issue #13 of the Quarterly (the Ware-edited all-comics issue) is just $10, a bunch of other great stuff is $5 or even just a buck… just about everything is on sale and McSweeney's quality is, of course, unimpeachable. Ends in a couple of days.

Last-minute notice! Better call that number shown above to make sure there's still space available. More about the program here.

• Review: In a blog post simply titled "Rave Review," Mark Evanier says of Humbug, "The material is excellent. It's Kurtzman, Elder, Davis, Al Jaffee, Arnold Roth and a few others working at the peak of their awesome powers. The package is excellent. It's well-designed and well-printed, and I can't think of a way in which it could have been improved. We've seen a lot of fancy comic book reprint projects lately but this may be my favorite. Buy it. Just buy it." • Review: Comics Worth Reading checks out Anywhere but Here by Tori Miki, concluding "Did I like…

• Review: Comic Book Resources gives 4 stars to Boody. The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers, saying it "features some of the nuttiest comics you'll ever read… Boody Rogers presents an off-kilter world of hilarity that seems like an oft-unheralded link between the Golden Age of the newspaper strips and the underground cartoonists of the 1960s." • Review: In the weekly Robot 6 "What Are You Reading?" roundup, Chris Mautner says of Humbug, "It’s a really impressive collection of work… and the production design here is nothing short of stunning. Fantagraphics really knocked this one out of the park in…