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Steven Weissman was on a birthday bender last week and didn't turn in his "Chocolate Cheeks" strip… Actually, we just skipped a week because I was at MoCCA in NY and wasn't able to update the site. In any event, Ribs says "Here's this week's strip: ripped from the headlines!" (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

Irwin Chusid notes the passing of jazz composer/arranger (and Jim Flora cover subject) Bill Finegan. 

The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 By Thomas Ott Swiss horror master Thomas Ott returns with the first full-length graphic novel of his career. When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the moment, he puts it into his pocket. As the guard lives a solitary, monotonous life, the numbers on the paper awake his curiosity. To find out their hidden meaning could add a new meaning to his life as well, so the…

Angry Youth Comix Vol. 2 #14 By Johnny Ryan In this issue Boobs Pooter reveals THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST JOKE! 24-page black & white 6.75" x 10.25" comic • $3.50 Add to Cart • Read More…

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table at the 2008 MoCCA Art Festival this past weekend! Great turnout, incredible guests, an intense early-summer NYC heat wave, and a couple of visits from emergency service personnel made it a memorable show! Once I'm caught up with business here, I'll write up a full run-down with photos and a bit of video; in the meantime, you can spend a few seconds looking over some real-time text updates I sent to our Twitter page during the show..

Pocket Full of Rain and Other Stories By Jason This multifaceted anthology collects over 25 stories from the first decade of Jason's career, including his remarkable calling card, the novella-length thriller "Pocket Full of Rain," which has never before been published in English. Like a number of his initial stories, "Pocket" is actually drawn with realistic human beings instead of blank-faced animal characters — a true revelation for Jason fans. In fact, this book showcases three distinct styles: his earliest "realistic" drawing style (used to unsettling effect in some particularly creepy stories), an intermediate "bighead" cartoony style that still features…

The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 11 (New Softcover Printing) By Robert Crumb MR. NATURAL COMMITED TO A MENTAL INSTITUTION!!! This freshly reprinted volume contains Crumb classics Dirty Laundry #2 (the ground-breaking Crumb/Kominsky jam), the last of the Arcade strips, full-cover covers for books, comics and LPs, and Crumb’s complete 40-page epic Mr. Natural serial from the pages of the Village Voice. In it, our hero, having given up on the "wise man" business, has sent away all his students and lives a quiet life. But during a particularly arduous meditation, he wrestles with the Devil, and at last achieves total…

We are pleased to announce that the FREE signed bookplates that we offered along with selected books in our last Ultimate Catalog are now available to customers on our website! Bookplates are available with over 50 of our most popular titles, from cartoonists like Peter Bagge, Charles Burns, Dan Clowes, Kim Deitch, the Brothers Hernandez, Tony Millionaire, Joe Sacco, Jim Woodring and many more! Click here for the complete selection! The bookplates are uniquely designed for each book (that's the plate for The Frank Book above), and each bookplate is printed on acid-free cardstock and hand-signed by the author. Note…

Kick off your weekend right with your weekly installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks"! In this week's strip… just what did "Sweet" Chubby Cheeks see at the park? (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

We're in the process of making a few enhancements to the website here, one of which was launched today: now you can select to search our products by title only, or by full description, by checking the buttons that say "Titles" or "All" respectively on our Product Search bar to the left. (Before, you had to go to our Advanced Search page to narrow your search like this.) We hope this makes finding what you're looking for just a bit quicker and easier!