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Just one today: • Excerpt/things to see: On his blog Anders Nilsen posts a sequence from his new book Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes, along with a couple of other pieces

Here's a teaser for ya: Bob Fingerman has provided the image above, an outtake from his upcoming book Connective Tissue, for use on the exclusive signed bookplate that will be available when you order the book from us (we'll probably have it up for pre-order sometime in the next couple of weeks). Bob's the first — and won't be the last — artist to provide us with exclusive artwork for one of our free signed bookplates!

We're excited to introduce a new addition to our roster of online comics: Johnny Ryan's Blecky Yuckerella, as seen in Vice magazine, the Portland Mercury, and of course her very own collections from Fantagraphics! We'll be posting a new adventure starring America's smelliest, stupidest, stubbliest second-grader (and her disgusting friends) every week right here, starting right now! And of course it's time for the next installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 32-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures. In this week's installment: securing a meeting place. And don't forget…

Anchored by a 32-page story from first-timer Lilli Carré, the upcoming new issue of Mome features sophomore turns from Laura Park, Olivier Schrauwen and Gilbert Shelton and more exciting debuts and return appearances. Click here if the embedded slideshow isn't visible above, and/or to view it in a new window.

By THE BUSK. Found via the Flickr blog.

• Blurb: Comics on the Brain found Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1951-1952 at an unusual place and got a great bargain • Blurb: Manxom Vroom posts info about The Wolverton Bible by Basil Wolverton • Blurb: Newsarama looks at the April Previews, including glimpses at some of our upcoming releases • Oddity: A life-imitates-comics moment from Ellen Forney  

We've been busy bees making downloadable PDF excerpts available for several new and upcoming books. Unlike previously, when PDF previews were only available to registered users, these downloads are available to everyone (and of course they're free)! Download links are available on the product listing pages for the books listed and linked below. Try before you buy with these nice juicy chunks: • Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1959-1960 – read all the strips from January 1959!• Unlovable Vol. 1 – preview the first 20 pages!• Humbug – see what the Humbug hullabaloo is all about by reading the…

The issues we had that were delaying the shipment of orders have been resolved, so we should be back in the groove now. Thanks everyone for your patience!

"The Monster Show: New Works by Robert Goodin" opens tomorrow evening at Secret Headquarters in L.A. (More details here.) Impatient people or out-of-towners can check out the artwork in the Secret Headquarters Flickr set. (Update: Whoops, I should read our blog before I post on it, huh?)