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; Tony Millionaire: "The Invisible Death Throes of Zyk and Kadab at the Garden of Gethsemane." From Encyclopaedia of Hell, forthcoming from Feral House in summer 2011.  

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Love from the Shadows by Gilbert Hernandez 120-page black & white 5.75" x 8.5" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-406-1 Previews & Ordering Info The third in Gilbert Hernandez’s line of original hardcovers featuring Love and Rockets’ “Fritz” in her guise as a Z-movie actress (the first two were Chance in Hell and The Troublemakers) is a trippy thriller that stars Fritz in no fewer than three roles. A beautiful waitress (Fritz, of course) and her hospital nurse brother (also Fritz) visit their estranged father, a once successful but now retired writer (amazingly…

Houstonians, get ready for a double whammy with an amazing double bill: Jim Woodring and Marc Bell come together for Walpurgis Afternoon, a joint art show at Houston's Lawndale Art Center which opens on Friday, April 22, 2011. As part of the opening reception, Jim will give a demonstration of the mighty giant dip pen, only its second public performance and the first outside of Seattle. And the following day, Saturday, April 23, Jim and Marc appear at Domy Books in Houston for a comics signing from 6-8 PM. Unmissable!

We have obtained the last remaining available copies of the new self-published issue of Sammy Harkham's great comic book series Crickets and are once again offering them for mailorder! Crickets #3 by Sammy Harkham 48-page duotone 8.5" x 11" comic book • $8.00 Order Now! Crickets #3 dedicates the bulk of its oversized pages to the first part of a new story, "Blood of the Virgin," which tracks the upside down world of exploitation movie making in Los Angeles in the early seventies through the eyes of an ambitious young film editor who catches a big break. Rounding at the…

'Tis the season for the newspaper-format anthology comics. Floating World released the new issue of their Diamond comic today as a supplement to this week's Portland Mercury, with a wraparound cover by Paul Pope (who intros our new Captain Easy book) and the lineup you see in the flyer above, including a new story by Dash Shaw. We'll be nabbing our personal copies at the Stumptown Comics Fest this weekend; outside Portland, copies will be available via various distributors — see the Floating World announcement for more details.

Catching up on several days' worth of Online Commentary & Diversions: • List/Plugs: In an article titled "Fantagraphics: The Greatest American Comics Publisher," GUY.com's Rob Gonsalves says "What the Criterion Collection is to DVDs, Fantagraphics is to comics. Any self-respecting collection of graphic novels, any library public or personal, needs to sport at least one Fantagraphics book," and recommends a nicely idiosyncratic top-20 list of our publications which includes some of our more obscure releases • Review: "While there definitely were some hardships, Clemente’s life was as unique and joyful as his persona and ball playing skills were, and Wilfred…

The Comics Reporter broke the news that the next volume of Mome, number 22, will be the last. CR's Tom Spurgeon commented and spoke to Mome editor Eric Reynolds about ending the long-running anthology; Rob Clough talked to Eric at TCJ.com; and Sean T. Collins comments at Robot 6. We thank the three of them and everyone else who has been a proponent of the series. I for one will miss the publication and abhor the vacuum its departure will leave, but look forward to Eric's future editorial efforts and future work from Mome's long list of contributors. Pictured above,…

Is this a panel from Ganges #4? Kevin Huizenga said that his preceding, now removed post specifically was not, so by inference… ? Or maybe it's a panel from something older that I can't immediately identify, which Kevin decided to post for his own inscrutable reasons. Good ol' Kevin "No Context" Huizenga. Sigh. Anyway, cool panel.

Presenting a brand new book from our good friends at Rosebud Archives: Skippy Vs. the Mob. "This important new book collects, for the first time, the only continuity Percy Crosby ever drew in his widely-syndicated Skippy comics, and features a comprehensive essay by the artist’s courageous daughter, chronicling an astonishing history of fraud, persecution, and betrayal. Here, for the first time, is a story ripped from the headlines — a spiraling saga that grew far too large for one man to handle." Rosebud's Jonathan Barli showed me a copy at the MoCCA fest last weekend and it is a beautifully…