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Jewish Images in the Comics by Fredrik Strömberg 424-page black & white 6" x 6" hardcover • $26.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-528-0 Ships in: June 2012 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Jewish Images in the Comics showcases more than 150 comic strips, comic books and graphic novels from all over the world, stretching over the last five centuries and featuring Jewish characters and Jewish themes. The book is divided into chapters on Anti-Semitism, the Old Testament, the Holocaust, Israel, the Golem and much more, featuring everything from well-known comics like Art Spiegelman’s Maus and the work of Will Eisner to much more…

The most-current Online Commentaries & Diversions:  •Interview: MTV Geek questions Noah Van Sciver about his new graphic novel, The Hypo, and why he chose to focus on the man before the president. ". . . it’s important to see who [Lincoln] became, or I should say how he became is more spectacular when you think about who he was, and where he came from, because I don’t even know if that’s possible anymore, to come from nothing and then become a president, you know?"   •Review: Drew on ComicAttack.net reviews kid-friendly The Adventures of Venus by Gilbert Hernandez. "It’s not…

Not a ton going on this week… I s'pose we're all either recovering from CAKE, or gearing up for… SAN DIEGO! (More details about that coming soon.) Monday, June 18th • New York City, NY: Tim Kreider will be doing a signing at the Half King Restuarant & Bar at 7:00 PM! (more info) Friday, June 22nd • St Louis, MO: Kevin Huizenga will be doing a signing at Star Clipper, along with Dan Zettwoch, at 7:00 PM! (more info)  Saturday, June 23rd • Brighton, UK:  There's gonna be a midsummer midnight 35mm-print screening of the Daniel Clowes movie Ghost World…

That's right, the 'Bat-Bandit' will appear in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 3: High Noon at Inferno Gulch which is now available for to ORDER in the US and Canada. We hope you enjoyed the teasers because it scared the INK outta Mickey (and the interns).    

Found this on front door of Fantagraphics. Guess we've been warned too. . . Someone call Mickey Mouse .

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship to our mail-order customers: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 3: High Noon at Inferno Gulch by Floyd Gottfredson 280-page black & white/color 10.5" x 8.75" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-531-0 See Previews / Order Now “Ya still think it pays to fight dirty?” No bad guys can beat Walt Disney’s classic Mickey; no other “modest mouse” has seen more two-fisted action or outrageous comedy! And now our big-eared hero is back with more edge-of-your-seat adventures: traveling from Umbrellastan to Texas — and duking it out with villains like Dr. Vulter, Pegleg Pete,…

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Recently Fantagraphics stopped by Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum in Columbus. This structural testament to housing and preserving original cartoon strips makes it a one-of-a-kind-place. Curator Jenny Robb said hello but my after-hours and behind the scene tour guide was librarian Caitlin McGurk! Students of OSU and traveling scholars (like me!) can request to see original art and read books in the main reference room. The room itself is lined with popular comics reference material, less Marvel's Anatomy and more History of Chinese Comics that was written by a scholar rather than a draw-er.  Caitlin pulled…

Just a harmless joker… ignore him and he'll get tired! Let's hang up the laundry and forget— GASP