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Time for the lucky 13th 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 episode: Try, try again. We also have our first Monday-Friday chunk of Martin Kellerman's Rocky up now. We'll be keeping a rolling 5-strip archive going, but this is your last chance to catch the first strip before the next one goes up on Monday. As a reminder, registration is no longer required to read our webcomics; they're free for all! (We did have a few technical glitches along…

Ivan Brunetti on An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Vol. 2 from Yale University Press on Vimeo. Description for this video produced by Yale University Press (link if you don't see it embedded above): "Ivan Brunetti on An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories, Volume 2 from Yale University Press – Video director John Kuramoto brings together dozens of images from leading indie comics artists featured in the book, along with commentary by its editor, award-winning cartoonist Ivan Brunetti. For more info, visit yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300126716"

Our technical crew is working on fixing the broken images and strange style issues on the site. We should hopefully be back to normal shortly. UPDATE: We're back to normal. Whew!

American Presidents By David Levine For more than a half century, David Levine has taken on the most powerful men of the free world with only his pen and a bottle of India ink. That pen has proved to be mightier than the sword as Levine skewered, illuminated, satirized and condemned every president of the 20th century, as well as the most significant presidents from colonial times and the Civil War era. His drawing of Lyndon Johnson revealing a scar in the shape of Vietnam is considered one of the most recognized (and most copied) of the Vietnam era. His…

Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert By Bill Schelly Joe Kubert’s extraordinary career spans the history of the comic book in America: he began drawing comics in 1938, just as Superman made his debut in Action Comics #1, and continues to be one of the most vital cartoonists working today, writing and drawing both mainstream comic book characters as well as, more recently, graphic novels of his own conception. Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert provides a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the career of one of the most distinctive, dynamic artists in the history of comics….

Sshhhh! (New Printing) By Jason From the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning author comes this sharp suite of short tales, ranging from the funny to the terrifying to the surreal to the touching, all told entirely in pantomime. Like Chris Ware, Jason's clean, deadpan style (featuring animal-headed characters with mask-like faces) hides a wealth of emotion and human complexity, leavened with a wicked wit. Jason's work has also drawn comparisons to Art Spiegelman for the similar ways both artists utilize anthropomorphic stylizations to reach deeper, more general truths, and to create elegantly minimalist panels whose emotional depth-charge comes as an…

Behold: Jaime Hernandez's Wonder Woman sketch for the Wonder Woman Day benefit auctions. (Via Forbidden Planet Intl.)

Johnny Ryan says and we quote: VICE UK made these t-shirts using the covers I drew for their boys and girls student guides. Click the image and it will take you to the VICE site and you can buy one.