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Well folks, we jumped the gun just a bit last week so this is a do-over with corrected art:  At last, the long-awaited next Gilbert Hernandez volume in the comprehensive Love and Rockets Library paperback series is nearly here! Luba and Her Family is at the printer now for release in July. This is the first book in this format to collect Gilbert's work past the original 50-issue L&R series. (We'll reveal the full Table of Contents and provide more previews in the not-too-distant future.) This book is also the debut of the new addition to our Art Department, Keeli…

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Boy oh boy, all the boys are signing at Hub Comics next weekend. Join Paul Hornschemeier, Charles Forsman and NBM's Jesse Lonergan on March 29th for a comics signing from 2-6pm. You can pick up Paul's new Artist Authors Thinkers Directors, a self-portrait through one hundred portraits, this sketchbook features the creators who shaped his (and many others') artistic views. And don't forget Forsman's new graphic novella about two buds on a road trip, Celebrated Summer, ranked #1 on The A.V. Clubs Best Graphic Novels and Art Comics of 2013!   

At last, the long-awaited next Gilbert Hernandez volume in the comprehensive Love and Rockets Library paperback series is nearly here! Luba and Her Family is at the printer now for release in July. This is the first book in this format to collect Gilbert's work past the original 50-issue L&R series. (We'll reveal the full Table of Contents and provide more previews in the not-too-distant future.) This book is also the debut of the new addition to our Art Department, Keeli McCarthy, who designed the cover based on the look established by Jacob Covey, with her own fresh twist. Welcome,…

Google welcomes Spring today with a lovely and charming animated logo by the one and only Eleanor Davis! Go look (if you miss it, it'll be archived here), then come back here to pre-order Eleanor's book How to Be Happy. Update: The Washington Post has the inside behind-the-scenes scoop!

Join Fantagraphics for our hometown show, Emerald City Comicon, on Friday, March 28th through Sunday, March 30th! We'll be joined by a slew of special guests, including Stan Sakai, Ellen Forney, Michel Gagné, and Fantagraphics editors, Gary Groth, Eric Reynolds, Mike Catron, and Kristy Valenti! Friday, March 28th4:30-5:30 PM            Ellen Forney Saturday, March 29th1:00-2:00 PM           Gary Groth, Eric Reynolds, Mike Catron, Kristy Valenti [Our editorial dream team will also be appearing on the panel Fantagraphics Books: Forecasting the Future of Misfit Lit
, on Saturday, March 29th. The Stranger's Paul Constant will lead the fantastic four in…

Another gorgeous volume of Hal Foster's magnum opus is off to the printer! Prince Valiant Vol. 9: 1953-1954 collects two more years of quests, danger, sorcery, family milestones, treachery, and comic relief from one of the greatest illustrators to ever grace the comics page. It almost goes without saying, but a reminder can't hurt: these volumes are scanned from original engraver's proofs, meaning that the strip has never looked better and making this the ultimate Prince Valiant series. This volume is expected to be available in early July; look for more sneak peeks between now and then, and pre-orders are…

Collector extraordinaire Glenn Bray will make a hometown appearance to sign his gorgeous new tome, The Blighted Eye: Original Comic Art from the Glenn Bray Collection! Join him on Sunday, April 6th at Arcana: Books on the Arts, and hear firsthand stories about his mind-boggling collection of original comic art, amassed over the last nearly 50 years — Charles Addams, Carl Barks, Charles Burns, Al Capp, Dan Clowes, Jack Cole, R. Crumb, Jack Davis, Kim Deitch, Will Elder, Al Feldstein, Virgil Finlay, Drew Friedman, Chester Gould, Justin Green, Rick Griffin, Bill Griffith, Matt Groening, George Grosz, V.T. Hamlin, Jaime Hernandez,…

Unlovable Vol. 3by Esther Pearl Watson 412-page two-color 5.75" x 5.75" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-737-6 Ships in: May 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now BARGAIN COMBO: Unlovable Vols. 1-3 Gift Set Price: $68.98 $55.18 Summer vacation is here and Tammy Pierce is back with more sometimes ordinary, often humiliating, occasionally poignant, and usually hilarious exploits! Her hopes, dreams, agonies, and defeats are brought to vivid, comedic life by Watson's lovingly grotesque drawings, filled with all the eighties essentials — too much mascara, leg warmers with heels, and huge hair, etc. — as well as timeless teen concerns like acne,…

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.   Cannon  by Wallace Wood 296-page black & white/color 11" x 7.5" hardcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-702-4    "The women when not naked are about to get naked, or may be pining for a time when they will be naked…A lot of the work is sublimely handsome, as is befitting a Wally Wood comic,…