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Michael Kupperman & Bob Fingerman are among the guests at King Con this weekend in Brooklyn. Go see 'em!

It's the Rip M.D. creative team of Mitch Schauer, Mike Vosburg and Michael Lessa (missing: Justin Yamaguchi) at the Golden Apple Comics booth at last weekend's Long Beach Comic Con. Look how excited they are! Check out more photos in this album on Facebook.

From Carol Tyler's Screened-in Porch blog (take note: Carol has a blog!) comes news that she'll be a guest at 44: Small Press & Artist Book Fair taking place tomorrow (Saturday, November 6, 2010) at the Contemporary Arts Center in her hometown of Cincinnati, OH. More info at the links above; RSVP on Facebook here.

Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery was as jam-packed as it's ever been for Charles Burns's book signing and exhibit opening last Saturday, October 30. If you were claustrophobic, it was not the place to be! On the other hand, if you give half a toot about comics, it was exactly the place to be! The signing line stretched far into the distance and beyond the edge of this photo. Charles was happy as a clam chatting with fans all night and signing copies of Black Hole and his newest book X'ed Out — until they sold out, that is. Several fans…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Vol. 1: Pterror Over Paris and The Eiffel Tower Demon by Jacques Tardi 96-page full-color 8.5" x 11.5"  hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-382-8 Ordering Info & Previews Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War I Paris and a parody of same, Adèle Blanc-Sec has been enchanting, thrilling, and puzzling readers worldwide through four decades. With various American attempts to publish Adèle having dribbled into nothing decades ago, Fantagraphics Books, fresh from its triumphs with Tardi’s West Coast Blues, You Are There, and It Was…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Toys in the Basement by Stéphane Blanquet 32-page full-color 8.5" x 11.25" hardcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-402-3 Ordering Info & Previews With appearances in such anthologies as Zero Zero, Blab! and Kramer's Ergot, Stéphane Blanquet has been delighting and terrifying American readers with his superslick, ultradetailed creepiness. So it makes perfect sense that his first graphic novel to be published in the U.S. would be… a children's book? Yes indeed. Our hero, attending a Halloween party in an embarrassing pink bunny costume (he wanted to be a pirate) stumbles across a secret…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Unlovable: The Complete Collection by Esther Pearl Watson two hardcover volumes in custom slipcase, 832 pages, two-color, 5.75" x 5.75" • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-397-2 Ordering Info & Previews Loosely based on a teenager’s diary from the 1980s found in a gas-station bathroom, Unlovable is the remarkable story of Tammy Pierce, as filtered through the pen and brush of Los Angeles artist Esther Pearl Watson. This boxed set collects the complete, acclaimed two-volume saga of Tammy’s sophomore year of high school in 1989. Tammy has built a devoted following over the last several…

Two features too big for our "Daily OCD" roundup today: First, Destroy All Movies!!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film gets the cover (seen above) of this week's issue of The Austin Chronicle! Marc Savlov of the Chronicle, who says "Destroy All Movies!!! is more than a reference book for the Mohawk-obsessed: It's a feat akin to taking your shitty punk rock band on a world tour in a crappy '72 Ford Econoline circa 1983. Hard work, but man, when you're done you know you've really been somewhere," talks to the book's editors Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly, the…

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "I know what you're all thinking. Does [Destroy All Movies!!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film] adequately up the punx? The answer is a resounding, 'Yep!' […] There's a little more attention paid to Nick Zedd and Lydia Lunch than I think is deserved, but otherwise the book is perfect. […] This one will live above your toilet tank for years and make shitting so much fun." – Nick Gazin, Vice • Review: "Dave Cooper's produced [Bent,] another book's worth of sketches and oil paintings of weird looking women. Some of Cooper's…

The Georgetown Second Saturday Art Attack returns on Saturday, November 13 with challenging visual and performing arts presentation throughout the historic industrial arts corridor. Among the many highlights on November 13: The AV Club, a new Georgetown film and video showcase located in the alley between Flora and Ellis behind Tacoma Screw, will feature the installation, "Ohio," by Laura Wright, which serves dual functions as an environmental installation and as the ambience for AV Club Cinema media presentations; the Georgetown Trailer Park Mall launches the Fourth Annual Holiday Bazaar including new work by Mark Tweed in the Lula B Lightning…