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Ed Piskor is heading to Miami Book Fair International the week before Thanksgiving to give them ol' whatfor on a Making Music with Comics panel.  He'll be joining the likes of Fantagraphics' Peter Bagge, Paul Pope and Vivek J. Tiwary at 11am on Saturday, November 23rd to rock your socks off while jawing on about Hip Hop Family Tree.   Details to come on their website soon but feel free to grab your day planner, smart phone or recently shaved dog to jot down the details:    Saturday, November 23Centre Gallery (Room 1365-Building 1, 3rd Floor)11 a.m.Making Music with ComicsED PISKOR on Hip Hop…

The latest installment of stories from Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez is available as Love and Rockets: New Stories #6 is released BOTH in print and digitally via comiXology. Love and Rockets enters its fourth decade with this installment of its acclaimed graphic novel-format iteration, featuring both old friends and new faces, and some genuine surprises… The cover shows Gilbert's new star Killer in a pose and milieu that will bring back memories for long-time fans – imitating the hammer-wielding Luba in her adopted Palomar. That's because Killer has discovered that her great-grandmother Maria (Luba's mother) starred in a late 1950s…

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability.   Fran by Jim Woodring 104-page black & white 7.25" x 9.75" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-661-4 "a simultaneous prequel *and* sequel to Jim Woodring's excellent Congress of the Animals from 2011, a book which seemed to shatter the cyclical exploits of the artist's "Frank" universe so as to provide an ending of sorts,…

Get ready for APE this weekend in San Francisco! Associate Publisher Eric Reynolds will be selling you all your favorite comics and a couple of new shiny debuts! Visit table 112-115 for a whale of a time with plenty of special guests. • Couch Tag by Jesse Reklaw  Veteran alternative cartoonist Jesse Reklaw, creator of the long-running weekly comic strip Slow Wave, delivers this tragicomic graphic memoir, his first long-form work. Presented as a series of comic novellas that together comprise a thoughtful, sometimes dark and often hilarious memoir about childhood, family, death, mental illness, sex and drug use, the…

Fantagraphics and comiXology bring you the the next volume in the Frank series by Jim Woodring, Congress of the Animals! A chain of events propels Frank out of the Unifactor and into a world where he is on his own at last; and like so many who leave home, Frank finds himself contending with realities of which he had no previous inkling. In Congress of the Animals we are treated to the pitiful spectacle of Frank losing his house, taking a factory job, falling in with bad company, fleeing the results of sabotage, escaping the Unifactor in an amusement park ride…and so…

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. Treasury of Mini Comics Vol. 1 by various artists; edited by Michael Dowers 848-page black & white/color 5" x 6.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-657-7 "It's a rich resource for this strata of the industry… most of us would consider it a steal to get our hands on some of this…

Come one, come all to the NYC art opening to celebrate the James Romberger and Rick Prol's show this October 16th. The reception will take place at the Dorian Grey Gallery on 9th Street (near Ave A.) from 6pm 'til 9pm. If you enjoyed Romberger's Fantagraphics graphic novel 7 Miles a Second or Post York from Uncivilized Books, this is the place to be! The show will run from October 16h-November 17, 2013 and the gallery hours are Tuesday-Sunday 12pm-7pm. Dorian Grey Gallery 437 East 9th Street (at Avenue A)New York, NY 10009 516.244.4126 info@doriangraygallery.com

  Two Fantagraphics' cartoonists have been give the green light to make a full season of animated cartoons for Nickelodeon. Dave Cooper and Johnny Ryan are in the full she-bang, a full 26 episodes of PIGGOATBANANACRICKET and we are oh-so excited! Cooper told the Ottawa Citizen, "This is pretty big. I'm pretty excited about it. My life is going to be very different from now on." And Johnny Ryan stated, "The plan is to create a cartoon that is hilarious and incredibly weird. I want it to be something that kids not only talk about at school the next day…

Coming up this October, Ed Piskor will be speaking at the Chicago Ideas Week on the panel called Hip-Hop: Movement Beyond the Music. This panel is on Saturday, October 19th from 4-5:30pm. What began at a house party in the Bronx has swelled into an international cultural movement influencing our music, fashion, advertising and collective identity. Forty years after the birth of hip-hop, industry voices gather around the mic to deconstruct how it impacts us all- whether you know it or not.   Ed will gather around the mic with Reggie Osse (Combat Jack Show), Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University),…

Remember last summer when when Scott Kirkpatrick made that awesome drink inspired by Love and Rockets Ghost of Hoppers (scroll way down) was created and featured at the Rye on Market in Louisville, KY today? Well, he's back with another recipe! This time based on Julio's Day by Gilbert Hernandez. Quite the mixologist, Kirkpatrick says "I wanted something that contained elements that would be available to Julio in his world and also ingredients that represented youth and old age." Julio's Day 1 oz. Cazadores Blanco (young tequila) 1 oz. Cazadores Añejo (aged tequila) .75 oz "Marquez Syrup" .5 oz Dolin…