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You saw the first one in Mome Vol. 16 and The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D., and the second one appears in Mome Vol. 20 next month. If you've been asking yourself things like "are these for real?" or "why?" or "huh?", Dash explains it all.

We had the honor of witnessing Jim Woodring accepting his Stranger Genius Award for Literature at the majestic Moore Theatre in Seattle on the evening of Friday, September 17. Prior to the speeches cupcakes printed with edible portraits of the winners (or representations of their work) were available (and delicious). I assumed that the ceremony was bing filmed, or else I would have taken video instead of photos, but unfortunately no footage has yet surfaced. Luckily, Jim has posted the text of his acceptance speech, which was a humdinger. Click here for more photos.

The fan tattoos are really coming out of the woodwork over at the Love and Rockets Facebook page, where Daniela Smith Brito shares this moody-looking Maggie.

Our weekly strips from the Steves: — Monday's Strip by Stephen DeStefano (view larger) Originally run as an experiment on Stephen's blog starting in 2008, Monday's Strip is re-presented here. — Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman (view at original size):

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "We are witness to a man's life unfolding, unraveling, before us in a series of postcards that leave nothing — or is it everything? — to the imagination. I don't know Drew Weing, or whether he's lucky or good, but in Set to Sea , he has reminded me once again just how much story you can share in a brief flurry of comic panels, so long as you know how to trim the sails and catch the wind." – Steve Duin, The Oregonian • Review: "…Set to Sea… is so much more…

Can you tell we've been rooting around in our warehouse a lot lately? Our most recent find: vintage copies of two thought-to-be-lost issues of the seminal magazine on classic comic strips (edited by Rosebud Archives' Rick Marschall): Nemo: The Classic Comics Library #2 dates from 1983 and includes an exclusive interview with Siegel & Shuster and their early pre-Superman "Superman" story; a history of William Randolph Hearst; early Western funnies by Fred Harman; a history of superhero strips; a Caniff Terry and the Pirates tale; and a profile of Art Young. Nemo: The Classic Comics Library #30 from 1989 features…

From now through the end of the day September 30, 2010, take at least 20% off comics and graphic novels by international creators! Our slogan is "Publisher of the World's Best Cartoonists Since 1976," and we mean it when we say THE WORLD. Beyond North America our creators hail from such far-flung locales as Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, and the UK. (We've also published some Latin American creators over the years but that stuff's out of print. And we're not including our neighbors to the north this time around —…

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Commentary: "I was a long-standing fan of the art of graphic critique from my youngest days. I’d first come across Bill Mauldin’s one-panel portraits of Willie and Joe in my teen years. These WWII G.I.s were foot soldiers for democracy, serving and surviving in the trenches and roughly rendered in charcoal and ink. And they revealed to me how powerfully political perspectives can be expressed with tremendous warmth and humanity." – Michael Dooley, Voice: AIGA Journal of Design • Plug: "I haven’t had a chance to read the new Zippy the Pinhead collection, Ding…

Remember last week when we reported that Gilbert Hernandez did a cover for an upcoming comics one-shot from Dark Horse focused on a character from the web series The Guild? (That's a mouthful.) Well Peter Bagge did one too, as revealed today by USA Today Pop Candy.

We discovered an inventory SNAFU, so Frank Vol. 1 by Jim Woodring has been upgraded from "Sold Out" to "We Got Plenty"! This softcover volume contains Frank material currently not in print elsewhere (including 32 pages of full-color stories), so if you're a recent Frankophile and you don't have this stuff in your collection, now's your chance!