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This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new title. 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. Inner City Romance by Guy Colwell 200-page black & white 8" x 10" softcover$24.99 | 978-1-60699-813-7  "These gritty, sometimes hedonistic short stories about multiracial prison and low-income life spare no details of sex, drugs, or radical activism….Adults only; good for historical and social justice collections." –Martha Cornog, Library Journal    BONUS?! Guy Colwell is appearing…

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new title. 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. Inner City Romance by Guy Colwell 200-page black & white 8" x 10" softcover$24.99 | 978-1-60699-813-7  "These gritty, sometimes hedonistic short stories about multiracial prison and low-income life spare no details of sex, drugs, or radical activism….Adults only; good for historical and social justice collections." –Martha Cornog, Library Journal    BONUS?! Guy Colwell is appearing…

It's storytime at Fantagraphics headquarters: we've just received our advance copies of Robert Goodin's all-ages graphic novel, The Kurdles. Between the stunning watercolors and laugh-out-loud dialogue between characters, The Kurdles has immediately captured our hearts—especially those of us with wee ones. We're confident that this quirky little tale of a lost teddy bear will become a fast favorite. You can pre-order The Kurdles now and expect it delivered to your doorstep by April!

Before appearing at the Seattle Public Library last Friday, basketball legend, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was photographed at an elementary school last week hefting a nice stack of comics including basketball-friendly Michael Jordan: Bull on Parade and baseball-lovin' 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente by Wilfred Santiago. West Seattle Blog covers more of the story of Kareem's writing career but rest assured, the man has great taste in comics. Pick up a copy of Michael Jordan for yourself today! (Photo by West Seattle Blog's Patrick Sand)

Who or what are Kurdles? Are they man or beast—or something else entirely? As it happens, Kurdles are the denizens of Kurdleton, and Sally the bear runs into them as she tries to find her way home after being separated from her owner. So begins this 60-page all ages tale, and we have here a 9-page, downloadable excerpt for your viewing pleasure. At a generous 8.75" by 12", the oversized format of The Kurdles allows you and your little ones to be fully immersed in the lush watercolor world that Robert Goodin has created, not to mention all the individual details that one…

We're always looking for more reasons to scream Dame Darcy's names to the stars and she has new mermaid comic in the The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature: The World's Greatest Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals (The Graphic Canon Series) edited by Russ Kick. In this anthology, all the greatest fairy tales are presented pre-censorship and pre-sanitization. Hence, Darcy's fine sensual work will shock and amaze. Pick up the latest volume for new DD! Check out her website too for more on-going work or Facebook where every Thursday you get a new Voyage of the Temptress comic, like below!

This week from comiXology you can now enjoy the finest graphic novels: Michael Jordan: Bull on Parade by Wilfred Santiago (21). A thrilling, kinetic bio-epic about Michael "Air" Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time and most influential athlete in history, from the creator of the acclaimed and best-selling 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente. This tour de force explores Jordan's public successes and private struggles, with the depth of Santiago's passion for his subject shining through on every full-color page. Feel the sweat as you swipe for only $18.99!   "From a scuffle with Patrick Ewing in the book's opening pages to the…

Toronto Comics Art Fest 2015 and Fantagraphics are elated to announce a few grand special guests, Eleanor Davis and Lucy Knisley. Eleanor's instant sell-out book How to Be Happy is now back in stock so Canada can finally grab some copies. Lucy will be celebrating her second travelogue with Fantagraphics, Displacement, which came out right on the heels of An Age of License.   You can see just how crazy TCAF 2014 was in their timelapse video here (Fantagraphics table very right row [wo]manned by Jacq and Jen from 00:26-00:32 seconds)  TCAF 2014 TimeLapse – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival from Toronto Comic Arts Festival on Vimeo. We…

Portland, time to get high and then get low with the curated mess of SuperTrash: Hermaphro Chic, Movie Fetish, 21st Century Anxiety by Jacques Boyreau. The book signing starts at 8pm sharp on Saturday February 28th, taking place at Mother Foucault's Bookshop (523 SE Morrison Street), the music by Matt Danger and a performance by Catherine Candor. Alcoholic refreshments are provided so all will have a good time. Part psychedelic psychotronic, part poster book, part album cover book, part paperback pulp book. Interdisciplinary, quantal, and polyglottal, SuperTrash is Surrealism for the 21st century and you'll want a copy of this mega-slick-zine in your collection!

 Photo by Brittany Yantos   The new(ish) Geek Bar Beta in Chicago (1941 W North Ave.) is now home to a few good comic books. As you can see, patrons are digging into the goodness that is local cartoonists Lane Milburn's Twelve Gems and Lucy Knisley's An Age of License in addition to some classic punchy Fantagraphics comics: Meat Cake, Ghost World and Unlovable.   Photo by Peter Ranvestel For the geek in us all, Geek Bar Beta is fostering a pretty rad and inclusive environment for whatever your flavor is; be it cosplayers wanting to find people for team-ups, trivia, board games (just like Seattle's FANTASTIC Café Mox), and movie screenings. Especially…