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Juxtapoz magazine sics Nicholas Gurewitch (Perry Bible Fellowship) on Tony Millionaire (Maakies), hilarity ensues in two parts.

Via Zack Soto on Twitter.

Tonight Paul Hornschemeier and Jay Ryan begin the Midwest/East Coast portion of their tour at Quimby's in Chicago. If you'll be anywhere in the area tonight, stop by. Paul will be reading "Beginning Paragraphs to Stories I'm Not Going to Write" and "Voice Overs for Non-existent Movie Trailers." Look for tour updates from Paul here. Wednesday, November 11, 7pmQuimby's Bookstore1854 West North AveChicago, IL Tomorrow Paul Hornschemeier and Jay Ryan will be on the radio before their Milwaukee event at 4:30 on WMSE 91.7FM. You can listen to it live online, or it listen to it once it's archived here. The details for the Milwaukee show are:Thursday, Nov 12th, 7pmThe Sugar…

Just arrived in our warehouse (already!) and ready to ship: The Comics Journal #300 Edited by Mike Dean & Kristy Valenti; Gary Groth, Executive Editor A spectacular anniversary issue featuring intergenerational dialogues between the cream of the cartooning biz: Alt wiz Kevin Huizenga and reigning Maus king Art Spiegelman; indy comics publisher/cartoonist/musician Zak Sally and Love and Rockets co-creator Jaime Hernandez; Bottomless Belly Button auteur Dash Shaw and Asterios Polyp elder auteur David Mazzucchelli; inflammatory muckraker Ted Rall and editorial cartoonist Matt Bors; super-popular Zits! cartoonist Jim Borgman and newly syndicated Keith “Knight Life” Knight; Martin Luther King chronicler Ho…

Dash Shaw has a newly redesigned website, including a section devoted to his new book, The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. (coming next month from Fantagraphics). Check it out.   

  Photo by my pal Kurt Schlosser. 

Designed by Chris Ware. 

Richard Stoner sent us these amazing photographs he took of Jacques Boyreau's SuperTrash show at the Warhol Museum. If you like these pics, you need to pre-order Portable Grindhouse NOW.       This one's for Sean Collins, who I imagine is making plans for a trip to Pittsburgh right now. 

Scheduled to arrive at ye olde comic shoppes this week: Strange Suspense: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 1, collecting all the gloriously gruesome and lurid horror comics that oozed from Ditko's pen in the pre-Code first two years of his career in one spanking hardcover… …and Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days by Al Columbia, which critics call "a fractured masterpiece," "stunning," and "messed up," and Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter declares "the book of the week"! Visit the links above to check out descriptions, previews and reviews, contact your local comickery to confirm availability, and then hie…

Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "The different techniques — ink on paper, watercolor, pencil, black or color, collage, digital manipulation, minimalist drawing, patchwork, cartoony lines… — associated to the different strategies and presences of 'comics' elements in these variations will make us wonder, on the one hand, on a progressive dilution of any formal determination in relation to this art (bringing it closer, thus, to freer or more conceptual artistic disciplines, in which the gesture is more important than, say, talent, virtuosity, technical prowess), and, on the other hand, in the phantasmatical emergence of an unifying idea (a name:…