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Jason brought our attention to this fan's tattoo based on the cover of The Last Musketeer, by Brazilian tattoo artist Marlon Miná. Nice work!

From filmmaker John Kinhart comes this excellent short video interview with Kim Deitch about The Search for Smilin' Ed.

THIS is one of my most favorite things I've ever seen. Please click through and support this project. If Jim Woodring pulls this off, he will be the cock of the cartoonist block for all eternity, short of Charles Burns building a 2 story-tall Winsor Newton Series 7 and inking the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Watch the video. If anyone else outside of possibly Chris Ware proposed this, you would laugh at them. But in Jim's able hands, you can't help but BELIEVE. I am sold. Just listen to him. If you are a cartoonist, especially, I implore you: click the above…

Jordan Crane is a silkscreening fool in the runup to Comic-Con, just having released two new editions, Flutter to Fly and Leave Taken, on his Reddingk site, following the zombie print from a couple of days ago. Gorgeous as always.

Online Commentary & Diversions: • Plug: "Based on reviews, [Werewolves of Montpellier] sounds really good. The art reminds me of Chris Ware or Chris Onstad, and I’m a fan of deadpan, sardonic humour. Do want!" – Werewolf News • Plug: Joe Gordon of the Forbidden Planet International Blog recommends the works of Jacques Tardi for your Bastille Day reading: "…[W]ith the always fine folks at Fantagraphics translating and publishing Tardi’s work in English several of his works are now easily accessible even to anyone who doesn’t read a word of French. A long-standing interest in the history of World War…

Once more Paul Hornschemeier has a shirt design on shirt.woot, $10 today only, $15 thereafter. To celebrate Paul has put all of the shirts in his own Forlorn Funnies Shirt Shop on sale for a limited time. I hope mine arrives in time for Comic-Con.

Just dropped off at the office today: our advance copies of A Drunken Dream and Other Stories by Moto Hagio. It's pretty! Designer Adam Grano has outdone himself on this one, and of course the contents are gorgeous too. Pick up your copy at Comic-Con next week and have it signed by Moto Hagio — she'll be there all 4 days! It should be widely available next month.

Looky here, it's the first advance copy of Too Soon? Famous/Infamous Faces 1995-2010 by Drew Friedman, which arrived in the office yesterday. Yes, we'll have copies for sale at Comic-Con! It should be widely available around the beginning of September.

To: Tony Millionaire, Johnny Ryan, Tim Hensley  From: Eric Reynolds Hey, would you three be up for a late-August signing at Family for your new books? Sammy is interested and I think it could be cool.  ———————————————————   To: Eric Reynolds, Johnny Ryan, Tony Millionaire From: Tim Hensley Do you mind if I pass on this? Hopefully, Johnny and Tony won't mind.  Thanks, Tim.  ———————————————————    To: Eric Reynolds, Tony Millionaire From: Johnny Ryan I wasn't going to do it, but since Tim isn't going to be there I'll do it.  ———————————————————    To: Eric Reynolds, Johnny Ryan   From: Tony Millionaire …

The Complete Peanuts 1977-1978 (Vol. 14) by Charles M. Schulz introduction by Alec Baldwin 344-page black & white 8.5" x 7" hardcover • $28.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-375-0 Ships in: August 2010 (subject to change) This item will be available for order on its release date. Stay tuned for updates. As the 1970s wind down, the last two recurring Peanuts characters have fallen into place: Snoopy’s brother Spike and the youngest Van Pelt sibling, Rerun. But that doesn’t mean Schulz’s creativity has diminished; in fact, this volume features an amazing profusion of hilariously distinctive new one- (or two-) shot characters! For instance, in…