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7 Miles a Second by David Wojnarowicz, James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook 68-page full-color 9" x 12" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-614-0 Ships in: January 2013 (subject to change) – Pre-Order Now 7 Miles a Second is the story of legendary artist David Wojnarowicz, written during the last years before his AIDS-related death in 1992. Artists James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook unsentimentally depict Wojnarowicz's childhood of hustling on the streets of Manhattan, through his adulthood living with AIDS, and his anger at the indifference of government and health agencies. A primal scream of a graphic novel, 7 Miles a…

There's been some great Prison Pit fan art since the series started but if I were Johnny Ryan I'd be putting my feet up and basking in this one for a while: Guy Davis renders the unnamed hulking oafspawn from Book 4. Dig it bigger here.

Turkey smurkey. It's a holiday weekend — put down that comic book, get off the couch, and come buy more comic books! Thursday, November 22nd • Salvador, Brazil: Max launched his retrospective exhibition, Panóptica, at the Instituto Cervantes de Salvador! Check out the FLOG for pics and reports from previous stops on this exhibit's tour! (more info)  Friday, November 23rd • Seattle, WA: The Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery has extended our exhibit for Noah Van Sciver's The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln and Frank M. Young & David Lasky's The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song to today! Beat the stampedes…

The Heart of Thomas (トーマの心臓 / Thomas no Shinzō) by Moto Hagio 528-page black & white (with some color) 7" x 9.5" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-551-8 Ships in: December 2012 (subject to change) – Pre-Order Now BARGAIN COMBO: The Heart of Thomas + A Drunken Dream Gift Set Price: $64.98 $51.98 The setting: A boys' boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th Century. One winter day, fourteen year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after sending a single, brief letter to another boy at the school: To Juli, one last time. This is…

As Jen mentioned earlier this week on the FLOG, the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery recently launched an exhibit spotlighting two graphic novels that bring history to life: Noah Van Sciver's The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln and David Lasky's The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song! It was originally scheduled to run through today, but Larry now tells me that on Friday, November 23rd, the exhibit will be, well, history, so check it out while you still can! If you missed our opening reception, then dang it, you missed a truly awesome time. The great Jim Woodring was droppin' some…

The strongest umbrella in the wind of Online Commentaries & Diversions:  • Review: Paul Constant of The Stranger looks at The Last Vispo: Visual Poetry 1998-2008, edited by Nico Vassilakis and Crag Hill. "As an art book, it demands hours of investigation. . . For those linguistic pioneers looking to find the future of fiction, this could be one of the most informative poetry anthologies to be published in the new millennium." • Review: NPR's My Guilty Pleasure looks at the Jacques Tardi graphics novels of Adèle Blanc-Sec who is "young writer with the brains of Sherlock Holmes, the body…

Hello, loyal mail-order customers! Just a friendly reminder that in order for your shipment to be delivered in time for the Christmas holiday, we must receive your order before 5 PM Pacific time on the following dates (note that these are guidelines and not a guarantee of delivery): International – Global Mail: Tuesday, November 27 International – Airmail: Monday, December 10 Domestic – Media Rate/UPS Ground: Friday, December 14 Domestic – Priority Mail: Monday, December 17 Domestic – 2nd Day UPS: Thursday, December 20 See our Shipping Charges & Information page for more general information on shipping methods, rates and…

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 it (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the link, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. Castle Waiting Vol. II #18 by Linda Medley 24-page black & white 6.75" x 10.25" comic book • $3.95 "I do believe Castle Waiting Vol. II #18 wraps up the current storyline for Linda Medley’s long-running fantasy comic…" – Joe McCulloch, The Comics Journal "If I had $15, I’d keep…

Please join us this Saturday, November 24 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM for the festive release of The Last Vispo Anthology, edited by Northwest literary artists Nico Vassilakis and Crag Hill. The reception will feature short readings by contributors James Yeary, Donato Mancini, Robert Mittenthal, Joseph Keppler and Gustave Morin, as well as editors Hill and Vassilakis. The exhibition will include 14 prints from the anthology. Musical entertainment will be provided by Lori Goldston (former Nirvana and Earth cellist, and recent Stranger "Genius Award" recipient) performing with former Black Cat Orchestra band mate Kyle Hanson. This event marks the departure…

This week, Fantagraphics and comiXology are thankful to release Tim Lane's Abandoned Cars for your digital reading devices. This collection of graphic short stories, noir-ish narratives that are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters that populate its pages. Lane’s characters exist on the margins of society—alienated, floating in the void between hope and despair, confused but introspective. Some of them are experiencing the aftermath of an existential car crash—those surreal moments after a car accident, when time slows down and you’re trying to determine what just happened and…