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The Jim Woodring documentary, THE LOBSTER AND THE LIVER, is screening at Seattle's Grand Illusion Cinema this Friday, February 11th, 2011 at 7pm and 9pm (part of a week-long run for the documentary at the Grand Illusion ). Jim Woodring will be giving a Q&A after the 7pm screening, and Fantagraphics has provided some Woodring books to give away to a few lucky attendees. Don't miss it!

• Some magazine illustrations from Richard Sala's archives • Ronald Wilson Reagan by our own Jason T. Miles • A previously unseen Jim Flora piece at the Jim Flora Art blog • Jim Blanchard did this custom-painted Chicken Little figurine a few years ago • An older Chrome Fetus strip by Hans Rickheit that has been excised from his upcoming Folly collection And more Things to See from the past week: • New illustrations from Matthias Lehmann at his Bloc-Notes blog • Various strips and illustrations by Jason at his Cats Without Dogs blog • Steven Weissman's latest "I, Anonymous"…

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: PLAYBACK:stl's Steve Higgins puts What I Did by Jason on his Top Graphic Novels of 2010: "In my recent review of What I Did, I stated, 'Each story on its own is unquestionably superb, and readers will delight in the moods Jason evokes and the artistic techniques he employs. Together the stories in What I Did are sterling examples of Jason’s fantastic skill as both an illustrator and a storyteller that are well worth the purchase in spite of their vast differences in tone, style, and content.' And it’s still true." • List:…

From the official announcement: Mascots presents an edited version of the collected paintings from Ray Fenwick's recently published book. The works, not unlike a group of short stories, are a collection of vignettes and staccato bursts of narrative that combine to form a surreal-and vaguely familiar-parallel world. Like Fenwick's previous work, the paintings are driven by language and typography, occupying a space where visual art, comics, prose and poetry bleed into one another. Ray Fenwick is an artist living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has shown in Canada and the U.S. and is the author of two books. His…

Looking forward to our collections of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse by Floyd Gottfredson? Never seen the strip and want to see what the hubbub is about? Get a daily dose! D23: The Official Disney Fan Club is running classic Disney newspaper strips including Gottfredson's Mickey, Donald Duck by Al Taliaferro & Bob Karp, and Scamp by John Ushler. New strips every day!

Straight from Jim Woodring, it's the front jacket art for his highly-anticipated new Frank graphic novel Congress of the Animals, coming in May! Click it to see it 57% bigger.

Happy Valentine's Day! Johnny Ryan illustrates a report on global sex trends and unleashes the "Whorenado" for Vice.

Thanks to Twitter user "squidita" for posting these snaps of Jaime Hernandez's artwork in the "Novelas, Love and Other Adventures" exhibit at Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) in San Jose. Death of Speedy originals! The exhibit continues through March 26 so there's still plenty of time to check it out.

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Twilight of the Assholes: Cartoons & Essays 2005-2009 by Tim Kreider 288-page black & white 8" x 9.5" softcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-398-9 Previews & Ordering Info Tim Kreider's first cartoon collection, The Pain — When Will It End? was one of the few bastions of sanity throughout the awful aberration in American history known as the Bush Administration. The end of his second volume of political cartoons, Why Do They Kill Me?, saw its author in despair over the 2004 election. In this new volume, Twilight of the Assholes, as reality…

This past week on TCJ.com: Rob Clough reviewed Only Skin #6, by Sean Ford; Mr. Cellar’s Attic, by Noel Freibert; and Courtship of Ms. Smith, by Alexis Frederick-Frost. R.C. Harvey got some advice from a trio of cartoonists. Chris Ware talked to Matthias Wivel at Komiks.dk: Part One, Part Two. R. Fiore on Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Library Vol. 20. Rob Clough looked at John Stanley’s Nancy comic books. In his Minis Monday column, Rich Kreiner traced a different kind of underground comics lineage via Colin Tedford’s Square Dance #4. R.C. Harvey close-read Jan. 35 comic strips. Our Angoulême coverage….