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Rejected New Yorker cartoons by Mome contributor Derek Van Gieson, added weekly. Visit Derek’s website for more of his work, and look for his accepted strips and illustrations in the pages of the New Yorker. {mosimage}

{product_snapshot:id=1651,true,false,false,right} Introduction by Michael Dowers Before we get started it must be said that this book is not about all mini comix. This book is about a small group of comix creators who were inspired by an alternative comix art form known as underground comix. With no other way of getting published they became their own publishers and went on to produce handmade mini comix themselves. This book is certainly not the last word about mini comix. Mini comix themselves would cover every comic book genre imaginable… This is the story of the underground mini comix of the 1980s… October,…

Rejected New Yorker cartoons by Mome contributor Derek Van Gieson, added weekly. Visit Derek’s website for more of his work, and look for his accepted strips and illustrations in the pages of the New Yorker. {mosimage}

Don't miss an opportunity to get a sneak peek at some of the great books you'll be reading later this year at the FANTAGRAPHICS 2010 PREVIEW event this Saturday, January 9 at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle. On display will be work from Fantagraphics favorites like Peter Bagge (HATE ANNUAL #8), Tony Millionaire (BILLY HAZELNUTS AND THE CRAZY BIRD), Jim Woodring (WEATHERCRAFT), Jason (WEREWOLVES OF MONTPELLIER), Michael Kupperman (TALES DESIGNED TO THRIZZLE #6), Richard Sala (THE HIDDEN), and Gilbert Hernandez (LOVE & ROCKETS NEW STORIES #3), as well as new offerings from masters like Jacques Tardi and Carol Tyler…

FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS AND THE STRAND PRESENT: An evening with GAHAN WILSON Signing and discussing his new book: GAHAN WILSON: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons Tuesday, January 19, 7PM THE STRAND BOOKSTORE12th & BroadwayNew York, NY   Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons By: Gahan WilsonPrice: $125.00 • ISBN- 978-1606992982Full Color Three hard covers in an embossed slipcase with a plexiglass back. A complete collection of Gahan Wilson's comic strips, including pieces from Playboy and National Lampoon. Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read, and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the second half…

Rejected New Yorker cartoons by Mome contributor Derek Van Gieson, added weekly. Visit Derek’s website for more of his work, and look for his accepted strips and illustrations in the pages of the New Yorker. {mosimage}

The under-construction tarp wasn’t even off and The Comics Journal’s new website started sending ripples through the blogosphere. It’s still growing with new features being added almost daily, but check out the site’s hard launch today, Monday Dec. 14, and experience what everybody’s talking about. See top-tier critics R. Fiore and R. C. Harvey duke it out over 9 Chickweed Lane; Anne Ishii and Roland Kelts on the industry and aesthetics of manga; blogging by Shaenon Garrity; reviews of The Wolverton Bible and Junko Mizuno’s latest; a critical dissection of Gilbert Hernandez’s erotic Birdland; and essays and columns by Jeet Heer,…

Rejected New Yorker cartoons by Mome contributor Derek Van Gieson, added weekly. Visit Derek’s website for more of his work, and look for his accepted strips and illustrations in the pages of the New Yorker. {mosimage}

As seen in the pages of Previews, these are the books and comics slated for release by Fantagraphics Books in March, 2010. Please note that all details, including cover art, prices, specs, contents, and release dates are preliminary and subject to change. IT WAS THE WAR OF THE TRENCHES by Jacques Tardi 128 pgs / BW / 7.75 x 10.5 / HC / $24.99 ISBN 978-1-60699-353-8 World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, has long been an obsession of Jacques Tardi’s. It Was the War of the Trenches is Tardi’s defining, masterful statement on the…

Rejected New Yorker cartoons by Mome contributor Derek Van Gieson, added weekly. Visit Derek’s website for more of his work, and look for his accepted strips and illustrations in the pages of the New Yorker. {mosimage}