Fantagraphics Blog FantaBlog

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators are saying about our releases this week, check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. Freeway by Mark Kalesniko 420-page black & white 7" x 10" softcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-356-9 "In a week dominated by republished works and more recent books once again offered through Diamond, cartoonist Mark Kalesniko gets a prize for releasing a gaint book of brand new work. It's an extended meditation on changes in the way we live and…

I would have totally missed Comics Alliance's posting of this illustration of Masters of the Universe characters purportedly by Gilbert Hernandez if Sean T. Collins hadn't pointed it out on Robot 6.

We just got the go-ahead to share this image with you — a 3D rendering of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 1: Race to Death Valley by Floyd Gottfredson, created by our art department to give you a sense of the book as an object in space (and your first look at what the spine looks like). Cooooool. Click the image for a bigger version.

Who else but Johnny Ryan could illustrate Vice magazine's article about the flamboyant sometimes-gay German street punks who took on the Nazi Youth during WWII?

PW offers up a generous 11-page excerpt from Wilfred Santiago's upcoming graphic biography 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente, flashing back from the playing field to Clemente's Puerto Rico childhood.

No, really.  He does. Join Kim on Wednesday, March 23rd at 7:00 pm, as he presents a screening of the 1963 Jean-Luc Godard masterpiece, Contempt, at Seattle's Central Cinema. As he explains, the screening is "Part of their regular 'let a prominent Seattleite choose their favorite movie and talk it up' feature. If you've never seen Godard's Contempt, it is well worth seeing in a theatrical setting (in this case projecting from a Blu-Ray disc, which is the next best thing to a actual film), so grab your chance. If you've seen it, you probably know that it's always worth…

Dig this slideshow of Carol Tyler and the kids of Amelia High School in Cincinnati as Carol does the artist-in-residence thing in freshman English class. Here's Carol's take on her Screened-in Porch blog. Lucky kids!

I just mentioned Mome contributor Tom Kaczynski's small-press publishing concern Uncivilized Books in passing; see his wares here (from Tom and fellow artists Dan Wieken, Jon Lewis & Gabrielle Bell) and follow the Unciv blog here and even (gasp) on Twitter. (Above: Unciv mascot/spokesentity Adalbert Arcane.) Next time I see Tom at a comics fest I'm buying 'em all.

• More from the mid-aughts Arthur magazine archives: "Trauma Valley" (not to be confused with Profanity Hill) by our own Jason T. Miles and "Post-Election Funnies" from John Hankiewicz, Megan Kelso and others • Dame Darcy started a new illustration series inspired by her new Southern-Gothic surroundings; that and more in her latest blog update • The unpublished first version of Daniel Clowes's portrait of Bill Murray for GQ (shown on the Clowes blog alongside the final version) • Warren Beatty as John McCabe by Jim Blanchard • The true-life story of Bambi Bembenek as illustrated by Richard Sala for…

From Jason, an as-yet uncolored page (and a bit of behind-the-scenes info) from the 5th of 6 stories in his upcoming book Athos in America (due late this year). For past glimpes, search Flog for "Athos".