Fantagraphics Blog Mike Baehr

The Internet weighs in on our books this week: • The Times names Daddy's Girl by Debbie Drechsler and Funeral of the Heart by Leah Hayes two of "the summer's best graphic novels" • NPR.org reviews and excerpts Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw; Sean T. Collins calls BBB "a deeply pleasurable, and rewarding, read" • Sean T. Collins also digs into Mome Vol. 12 • Chris Allen reviews Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell • Jeff Lester thinks Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 is so nice, he reviews it twice: once for The…

Mome contributor Andrice Arp has an art show opening at Secret Headquarters in L.A. on Friday Sept. 19. More info here.

We've got a new printing of this perennial favorite book in stock now. Read more info and order here; click here for a preview look.

Prompted by a recent customer query, here's a quick status update on our Humbug collection: it's still a bit delayed due to our painstaking production process, and is now looking like a late December/early January release. I've eavesdropped on many production discussions and I can tell you that there is incredible attention to detail going into this project. (If you missed it earlier, you can get a glimpse at the process right here.) It will absolutely be worth the wait!

Raymond Scott + Irwin Chusid/Barbara Economon + Drew Friedman = magic synergy that you can buy. (Via WFMU.)

Good news for people who pre-order Ghost World: Special Edition! Not only are you entered in our drawing for the limited-edition Ghost World exhibit silkscreen print, but the first 50 people to order the book (including everyone who's already ordered) will receive a FREE exclusive bookplate (shown above) signed by Daniel Clowes! This means they're already over half gone, and the book is due to arrive from the printer imminently, so the poster contest will be over soon… get your order in NOW!

Here's what you'll find from Fantagraphics on the "new arrivals" racks at your friendly neighborhood comic shop tomorrow (subject to last-minute change): • Krazy & Ignatz 1943-1944: He Nods in Quiescent Siesta • Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard • Fuzz & Pluck in Splitsville #5 by Ted Stearn (reoffered)• Interiorae #3 by Gabriella Giandelli I've also seen these listed by unofficial sources; who knows? • The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 14 (New Printing) • Sammy the Mouse #2 by Zak Sally Be an informed customer by checking out our descriptions and previews at the links above,…

Following yesterday's look at the newest volumes in our Krazy & Ignatz series of Krazy Kat reprint volumes, here's a look at an upcoming reprint: The Complete Sunday Strips 1925-1934, the giant hardcover compiling the 5 volumes covering the strip's second decade, in a second limited edition. Click here if the slideshow doesn't appear above.

As if we don't already have enough social networks to keep track of, we're now on the "social bookmarking" site Delicious! We've been bringing you our weekly "Blogosphere Roundup" link posts for a while, and we thought it might be nice if the links could be searchable and organized with tags so you can find related links (for instance, all the reviews of a certain book, or links pertaining to a particular artist). We'll still bring you our roundup posts every week, but now you can follow along in real time on our Delicious page or with the RSS feed.

We've added several new books to our roster of titles which are available with FREE signed bookplates as a bonus when you order directly from us! They include: Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell (signed by Bell, not by Ditko… are you crazy?)Deitch's Pictorama by Kim, Seth and Simon Deitch (shown below – signed by Kim only)Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers (shown above – signed by both Gilbert and Jaime!)The Education of Hopey Glass by Jaime HernandezPerla La Loca by Jaime HernandezBeyond Palomar by Gilbert HernandezAmor Y Cohetes by Gilbert,…