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Peter Bagge has a whooole buncha new original art offerings on his Comic Art Collective page: recent illos, Apocalypse Nerd pages, even a bunch of classic Neat Stuff pages! Go, look, buy.

Teaser time! Just last week Gahan Wilson sent us the new original art for the cover of our forthcoming definitive collection of his National Lampoon strip Nuts (it's looking like a 2012 release) — here's a scan courtesy of our production wiz Paul Baresh. This one's high on my personal list of projects I'm looking forward to!

This month's issue of Booklist includes reviews of four of our recent publications, excerpted below: The Littlest Pirate King: "David B.’s swirly touches and jolting figures have the unnerving quality of a not-quite nightmare, and the sometimes frank bloodiness and scary passages are probably right in line with the reality of kids’ unwhitewashed imaginations. What’s most refreshing is how well this maintains a sense of subversiveness while ending on an oddly touching, though definitely vexing, note." – Ian Chipman Special Exits: "Emotional and physical crises are depicted naturalistically, never hyped up to tug the heartstrings or extort pity, and the…

*(Alternate post title: "Betolicious") Let's flash back a few years to the video for "Bootylicious Rockwilder Remix" by Destiny's Child featuring Missy Elliott… Say, what is that Beyoncé's wearing? Can we get a better look? Why that's… that's… …that's a (re-styled) Gilbert Hernandez New Love #1 t-shirt! (Via Carol Hernandez on Facebook. Post title inspired by Sean T. Collins’s Bowie Loves Beyoncé Tumblr.)

…about a certain beloved cartoonist and his work drawing the beloved adventures of a certain beloved family of cartoon ducks, but if not, head over to Robot 6 for the exclusive scoop and interview with Gary Groth! We've been sitting on this news for a while and we couldn't be more excited. Our official announcement is in the pipeline and coming soon.

Happy New Year! If you're like me you've been on a holiday weekend bender — a comics-reading bender, that is! — and you need a little hair of the dog to start your year off right. We're pleased to announce the woozy, bleary-eyed return of our New Year's Hangover Sale: all this week, take 20% OFF everything on our website (including our already-discounted clearance items) Monday, January 3 through Monday, January 10, 2011! Just use the coupon code HANGOVER when you check out and you'll receive 20% off everything in your order. (If you prefer to shop by phone, just…

Pre-coloring, as presented on Jason's Cats Without Dogs blog. From the 4th story in Athos in America, a short story collection à la Low Moon due in late 2011. Jason has embraced the brush again.

After all these years we're still blown away when fans have their favorite Fantagraphics characters inked permanently on themselves. Here's a few fan tattoos that have been shared with us via the Fantagraphics and Love and Rockets Facebook pages over the last couple of months: Darren Brown's arm full of Maggie, inked by Jason Mcafee at Temple Tattoo in Oakland, CA: Ghost World's Enid & Rebecca on Gastón Victorica, inked by El Buho: Dan Clowes's Blue Bunny on Nicole Radcliff's arm: Vaughn Bodé's "self" on David Dickie: A teeny tiny trio of Drinky Crows from Billy Foster, inked by Ace Farren…

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • List: At Entertainment Weekly, Ken Tucker names The 10 Best Graphic Novels and Comics of 2010, including: "Ostensibly Japanese comics aimed at the adolescent-girl market, these so-called Ten Stories of the Human Heart are lush mixtures of dreamlike imagery and realistic depictions of young people’s yearnings, hopes, reveries, and fears. Gathering representative work from four decades of publication, A Drunken Dream [and Other Stories] exerts a hypnotic pull on the reader, Moto Hagio knows both her commercial audience and her ideal audience — which is to say, the world." "A long-form narrative about the decline…

Buz Sawyer Vol. 1: The War in the Pacific by Roy Crane 240-page black & white/color 9.25" x 9.25" hardcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-362-0 Ships in: February 2011 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Roy Crane created the adventure comic strip with Wash Tubbs, and many a superhero owes a debt to Crane’s square-jawed, hard-hitting adventurer Captain Easy. But during World War II, he left the Captain Easy strip to create a more realistic fighting man, a Navy pilot named John Singer Sawyer, who fought in the Pacific Theater from 1943 until V-J Day in 1945. This book, the first in…