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Oh my glob, you guys! The great Tony Millionaire is one of the featured artists in the forthcoming release The Adventure Time Encyclopaedia: Inhabitants, Lore, Spells, and Ancient Crypt Warnings of the Land of Ooo Circa 19.56 B.G.E. – 501 A.G.E, out later this month from our friends at Abrams. (FYI: Renee French is another featured illustrator!)  And on Saturday, August 3rd, the La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles will be hosting an awesomely algebraic book launch party with Tony! More details will be announced soon, but be sure to mark your calendar now.  The La Luz de…

Finally! Fantagraphics and comiXology get busy and produce this happily-ever-maybe-never volume of romance comics called Young Romance by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Exciting, innovative, and beautifully drawn romance stories by two towering titans of the field (and originators of the genre).In such best-selling titles as Young Love and Real Western Romances, Simon and Kirby delighted a generation of girls and women (and probably a fair number of boys and men as well) with hundreds of charming and endlessly inventive stories of love and heartbreak. This never-before reprinted material painstakingly restored in full color and edited by Michel Gange. 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. The Daniel Clowes Reader: A Critical Edition of Ghost World and Other Stories, with Essays, Interviews, and Annotations  edited by Ken Parille 360-page color/black & white 6.25" x 9" softcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-589-1  "This beautiful collection gives the critical treatment to 10 of Clowes' most important comics stories which it includes in…

Catching up on the remainder of our publishing announcements that went out via The Comics Reporter during Comic-Con. Get more details at the respective CR links:  Reported here, something completely different from Joe Sacco: Coming next year, BUMF will be a collection of all-new short humorous fiction in the vein of his satirical story in The Comics Journal #302 (or, for you old-schoolers, his comic series Yahoo). Last but not least, we're pleased to be bringing Jim Woodring's seminal classic The Book of Jim back into print next year in a new, expanded edition collecting more of Woodring's early work than the original trade…

West coast, get ready! The legendary Gary Panter is hitting the road with his avant-garde noise combo, Devin, Gary & Ross, opening for Sub Pop Records' dynamic duo No Age. 08-18 Arcata, CA – MexNwoW08-19 Eugene, OR – Cozmic Pizza08-20 Seattle,WA – Washington Hall08-21 Portland, OR – Backspace 08-22 Chico, CA – Cafe Coda08-23 Berkeley, CA – Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 08-24 Bolinas, CA – TBA Sadly, tour dates are too tight for us to arrange any book signings, so you'll just have to bring your copies of Dal Tokyo to the concert venues to get 'em signed….

Linda Medley, cartoonist of the Castle Waiting series, sent in this fan art she made back in 1987 of Gilbert Hernandez's Tonantzin. Here she is in as drawn by Beto: Featured in part of The Children of Palomar book coming to a store near you, she's a fiery character of the Love and Rockets family and you're sure to fall in love with her too.

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Ghosts and Ruins by Ben Catmull 84-page black & white 10.25" x 8.5" hardcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-678-2 See Previews / Order Now   Who doesn't love a good ghost story? This gorgeous, coffee-table art book is a compendium of old, forgotten haunted houses imagined by artist Ben Catmull, along with the stories and rumors of who haunts them, and why. Each spread features a different haunted house, lovingly and exquisitely rendered in scratchboard on masonite, with a short, nightmare-inducing description of each scene. In "Drowned Shelley," for example: A chorus of frogs…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:  Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 by Willard Mullin; edited by Hal Bock and Michael Powers 240-page black & white/color 9.25" x 12.25" hardcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-639-3 See Previews / Order Now From "Babe" Ruth to the "Baby" Mets, Willard Mullin, "Sports Cartoonist of the 20th Century," was there, daily producing beautiful, tearful, insightful, morally charged, and outrageously hilarious cartoons. Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Williams, Musial, Maglie, Berra, Robinson, Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Maris, and hundreds more make history anew in this astounding collection, rescued and restored from the pulped pages…

photo credit: our good pal Jonas Seaman It's sad, but true: our good friends at Americaware are calling it a day — so this is your very, very last chance to score some comfy tees and hoodies featuring artwork by comics legends Peter Bagge, Jim Blanchard, Basil Wolverton and Jim Woodring. Quantities are super-limited (I'm already seeing "out-of-stock" notices on their website!), and these designs will not be reprinted! Don't miss out!

We brought back a couple of doorstops from San Diego — Eisner Awards for Pogo Vol. 2: Bona Fide Balderdash by Walt Kelly, named Best Archival Collection/Project — Strips, and "Moon 69" by Michael Kupperman from Tales Designed to Thrizzle #8 (and the Vol. 2 collection), named Best Short Story! You can catch Kupperman at the SPX-plosion in Baltimore and as a special guest at SPX in Bethesda. Maybe you’ll get a copy with those special Eisner stickers on them! (We'll be forwarding the statuettes to Michael and Pogo editor Carolyn Kelly as soon as we get bored with spinning the little globes around.) Hurrah and congratulations!