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This month PREVIEWS is spotlighting "Manga & More: Comics from Around the World," and since we here at Fantagraphics pride ourselves on being Publisher of the World's Greatest Cartoonists, the shoe certainly fits. See below for additional info, sneak peek images (click 'em for larger versions), and links to previews for our May 2013 offerings! This info was prepared for retailers, but we're also sharing it here to encourage everybody to order these books from your local comic shop!  Hit the links below for complete info on each title, and see the whole lineup here.   NEW VOLUME OF THE BEST-SELLING…

Monday, March 4th •  Gainesville, Florida:  Hopefully you're all signed up to take Ron Regé, Jr.'s week-long workshop at SAW, the Sequential Artists Workshop! I am very jealous of all of you! (more info) Thursday, March 7th •  San Francisco, CA:  The mighty Mario Hernandez will be discussing his contributions to the groundbreaking Love and Rockets series at the Cartoon Art Museum from 7:00 to 9:00 PM! (more info) Friday, March 8th •  New York City, NY:  The Art of Harvey Kurtzman, a comprehensive retrospective of MAD creator Harvey Kurtzman, opens at the Society of Illustrators! (more info) •  Minneapolis,…

We're excited to announce that Dash Shaw will be a special guest at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design this Friday, March 8th! (As our own Mike Baehr put it, "At the behest of Professor Sally, I'd wager.") Join him at Auditorium 150 at 1:00 PM as he discusses his comics and cartoons, and debuts new material! This event is open to the public, so come one, come all! The Minneapolis College of Art and Design is located at 2501 Stevens Avenue, just south of downtown Minneapolis, next to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Children’s Theatre Company.

Two-Gun Zilch is coming… to the Society of Illustrators in New York City for the exhibit The Art of Harvey Kurtzman, a comprehensive retrospective of MAD creator Harvey Kurtzman, opening this Friday, March 8th! Co-curators Monte Beauchamp and Denis Kitchen have assembled the most comprehensive assemblage of Kurtzman art to date, culled from private and family collections. Highlights include: Kurtzman life drawings from 1941; rarely-seen late ’40s strips done for the New York Herald-Tribune and well as for Marvel’s Stan Lee; key covers, strips and full stories Kurtzman created for MAD, Frontline Combat, Two-Fisted Tales, Humbug and Help!, sometimes in…

The next issue of Love and Rockets: New Stories is still about 6 months away from hitting shelves. Too early to get hyped up for? Never, says we! And excitement reaches a fever pitch whenever Gilbert Hernandez sends in his original pages for scanning. More Killer in Palomar… Poison River revisited… oboy! I snuck the stack out of safekeeping in our art department for a quick snapshot.

(not final cover) The Comics Reporter let the monkey out of the bag: in November 2013 we'll be publishing Sock Monkey Treasury: A "Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey" Collection! This big fat hardcover collects all the Dark Horse Sock Monkey comics, the Uncle Gabby graphic novella, The Glass Doorknob storybook, and The Inches Incident graphic novel. These comics have been hailed as modern all-ages classics and we're delighted to bring them to you in a single, sure-to-be-gorgeous tome. The precocious sock monkey Uncle Gabby and his innocent pal Mr. Crow are the heroes of this funny, unsettling and endearing collection. Follow them as…

Join us for a reception and book signing featuring Geneviève Castrée's Susceptible exhibition and music by Ashley Eriksson on Saturday, March 9 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery. Castrée is a gifted cartoonist, visual artist and musician raised in Quebec and currently residing in Anacortes, Washington, where she is central to the lively cultural climate in that remote island community. She will display original work from her first full-length graphic novel Susceptible and give a brief presentation on her creative process. Eriksson, another Anacortes resident, is best known for her band Lake. The group composed the music that plays at the…

Yes! We are all set-up and ready for you to come buy some comics from us at Booth 510 at the 11th Annual Emerald City Comicon! We'll be joined by our wonderful guests: Friday, March 1st4:00-6:00 PM            Peter Bagge Saturday, March 2nd11:00-1:00 PM            Bill Schelly1:00-3:00 PM             Peter Bagge3:00-5:00 PM            Ellen Forney5:00-6:00 PM            Michel Gagné We've got our exclusive limited-edition Peter Bagge t-shirt in stock, featuring our anti-superhero, Buddy Bradley! Get yours while supplies last, along with a debut copy of Peter Bagge's Other Stuff, not due in stores until May!…

The best looping GIF of Online Commentaries & Diversions:   • Review: Publishers Weekly gives a Starred Review to Messages in a Bottle by B. Krigstein. "Krigstein’s stories are sometimes epic and sprawling, sometimes compressed and confined…His mastery of chiaroscuro, and his dramatic composition and layout, applied across a very wide range of subject matter, are what make this gorgeous collection so essential." • Review: The AV Club also shows extreme love for the comics of B. Krigstein in his new collection Messages in a Bottle. Noel Murray writes, "Krigstein treated each assignment as a chance to put theory into…

'Tain't the Meat… It's the Humanity! and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)by Jack Davis  & Al Feldstein 224-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-578-5 Ships in: March 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now  BARGAIN COMBO: 50 Girls 50 + 'Tain't the Meat… It's the Humanity! (The EC Comics Library) Gift Set Price: $57.98 $46.38 Order this book and receive the Jack Davis's Tales from the Crypt Halloween mini-comic shown here as a FREE bonus! Limit one per customer while supplies last. With its pitch-perfect blend of laughs, terror, and gore, as delineated by some of the finest cartoonists…