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Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Mome Vol. 20 – Fall 2010 by various artists; edited by Eric Reynolds 120-page color/b&w 7" x 9" softcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-365-1 Ordering Info & Previews We have reached the landmark 20th volume of Mome. For those of you who read the box scores, that’s 5 years, 20 volumes, 72 artists, and 2,352 pages of comics. Much is new in this anniversary volume. Fantagraphics' flagship anthology now boasts a new design courtesy of art director Adam Grano (who also chips in a few pages of art), and we have 4 other…

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "…[T]he third annual volume proves to be the best yet, combining eccentric drama, bright fantasy, captivating whimsy and appalling human frailty into a package of stunning graphic intensity. […] Stark, challenging, charming and irresistibly seductive, Love and Rockets: New Stories is a grown up comics fan’s dream come true and remains as valid and groundbreaking as its earlier incarnations — the cutting edge of American graphic narrative." – Win Wiacek, Now Read This! • Review: "What to say that others haven’t? I’m not steeped enough in Jaime’s work to say that his contribution…

Congratulations to Monte Schulz, whose 2009 novel, THIS SIDE OF JORDAN, published by Fantagraphics, was the Award Winner in the "Fiction: General" category of the 2010 Best Book Awards sponsored by USA Book News!  Look for Schulz's next novel, THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER, in December from Fantagraphics.  

Michael Kupperman dukes it out with a gaggle of other NYC-based cartoonists in FISTICUFFS!, a cartoonists battle royale at 92YTribeca on November 18 at 9 PM. "It’s like Iron Chef, but the secret ingredient is punch lines instead of asparagus," says the description. Click here for more info & tickets.

Thanks to Love and Rockets fan "Endometria Jones" for sharing this snap of "my old chevy wagon, circa early 90s" on the L&R Facebook page!

Thanks to Charles Burns fan Harris Smith for sharing this pic of his tattoo based on the cover of Black Hole #7! Show us your Burns tattoos at his exhibit opening & signing on Saturday!

SPX 2010 – Spotlight – Jaime Hernandez from Small Press Expo on Vimeo. Bill Kartalopoulos provides the intro and Jaime & Gary take it from there. 'Nuff said!

The Littlest Pirate King by David B. 48-page full-color 8.5" x 11.25" hardcover • $16.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-403-0 Ships in: November 2010 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now For decades they have roamed the seas, this shipload of undead pirates. They are desperate to die, but every time they try to dash their ship to splinters and end their miserable existence, a malevolent God scoops them out of danger. And so they have no choice but to continue to sail the seas, looting and killing. Until one day, having exterminated yet another ship of the living, they come across a little pink…

Toys in the Basement by Stéphane Blanquet 32-page full-color 8.5" x 11.25" hardcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-402-3 Ships in: November 2010 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now http://www.fantagraphics.com/toysinthebasement 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 underground society…

Online Commentary & Diversions from Friday to today: • Review: "In The Sanctuary, Nate Neal traces back the history of manipulation, power battles and betrayal to a single cave, thousands of years ago. The story unfolds entirely in a Paleolithic language Neal created, rendering the action subtle as a tribe careens toward possible chaos amidst the battles contained. […] In the dynamics that Neal presents, you can see your country, your town, your work place and your family, all rolled into one cautionary tale. In stark black and white, Neal’s art exhibits much sophistication, while still maintaining a required roughness,…