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As part of our "Tardi Tuesday" presentation, here is a "lost" preview of West Coast Blues , one of the batches of photos & video that we never got a chance to upload last summer. Better late than never! Click here if the embedded player isn't visible below or to enlarge it in a new window (recommended).

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 Ships in: October 2010 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now 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 the War of…

A lot of catching up to do with this batch of clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing and possible artist commentary at the sources: • A couple of things Bill Griffith has recently shared on Facebook: the rejected first draft of the home screen for the Zippy Comix iPhone app, and a "lost" Wacky Packages design that Bill says is "almost sacrilegious" • Dr. Hermes Retro-Scans presents "The Photo-Finish!", a 4-page Kim Deitch story from Corn Fed, 1972 (via ¡Journalista!) • At Potrzebie, Bhob Stewart presents Roy Crane's 1920s Mexico sketchbook (via ¡Journalista!) • Jim Woodring presents "Spectacularly…

Here's a Facebook campaign we can get behind: "Let Noah Van Sciver Draw Howard the Duck for Strange Tales." Honestly, that sounds like about as ideal a match as Frank Santoro doing Silver Surfer.

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "…Moto Hagio, whose work might officially be classified as shōjo manga, …is apparently one important, daring renegade in the manga world. This handsome collection that encompasses almost four decades (from 1971-2007) of Hagio’s short stories comes complete with a thorough, illuminating interview with Hagio conducted by the volume’s translator, Matt Thorn. […] Hagio’s collection of 10 short manga stories [A Drunken Dream and Other Stories is] filled with unexpected twists and endings." – Terry Hong, BookDragon (Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program) • Review: "Malkasian weaves her story carefully [in Temperance], pulling the different…

Could it be? Peter Bagge's Hate Annual is… back on an annual schedule? We'll be soliciting it for sometime in Spring 2011 — just 12 months (or less!) after the last issue! And oh yeah, how 'bout that cover! Jeezum crow!

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 Ships in: October 2010 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now 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 artists making their…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Zippy: Ding Dong Daddy from Dingburg by Bill Griffith 216-page black & white/color 8.5" x 8.5" softcover • $18.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-389-7 Ordering Info & Previews In Zippy’s latest collection of daily and color strips (with additional pages!), the tour of “Dingburg” continues; we drop in on dozens of Dingburgers and observe them in their natural habitat. The city “inhabited entirely by pinheads” can be seen as a metaphor for the world we live in today — or not. In any event, we watch as Zippy the Pinhead and his fellow Dingburg residents…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s by various artists; edited by John Benson and Greg Sadowski 320-page full-color 7.5" x 10.5" softcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-343-9 Orderin Info & Previews Of the myriad genres comic books ventured into during its golden age, none was as controversial as or came at a greater cost than horror; the public outrage it incited almost destroyed the entire industry. Yet before the watchdog groups and Congress could intercede, horror books were flying off the newsstands. During its peak period (1951-54) over fifty titles…

Just arrived in our warehouse and ready to ship: Fire & Water: Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics by Blake Bell 192-page full-color 9" x 12" hardcover • $39.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-166-4 Ordering Info & Previews This book is available with a signed bookplate as a FREE premium! The bookplate has been uniquely designed for this book, and each bookplate is printed on acid-free cardstock and hand-signed by the author Blake Bell and Bill Everett's daughter, Wendy Everett! (Click here for more books available with signed bookplates.) Please select your preference above before adding the item to your…