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This has been making the blogosphere rounds all morning, but just in case you missed it, Daniel Clowes has spilled a few beans about his next book. Blogfume can show you the way…

This blog post is to announce the television broadcast premiere of Snake'N'Bacon the TV show. The pilot is going to be broadcast as part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block of programming, on May 10th at 12:45 AM. The cast includes Kristin Schaal, Dan Bakkedahl, Bill Hader, Peter Serafinowicz, James Urbaniak, Brian Stack, and David Rakoff, in live-action and animated segments based on Michael Kupperman's riotous comic books. Please tell your grandpa, tell your senator, tell your adversaries, and tell yourself to watch! Oh, and have you purchased the BRAND NEW Tales Designed to Thrizzle #5? 

For your viewing pleasure, here is a video and photo slideshow preview of the brand-new edition of Usagi Yojimbo Book 7: Gen's Story, which we just got in stock last week. This is a newly redesigned edition of this all-ages classic, and the final Fantagraphics Usagi volume to be given the new design treatment, so now you can complete your collection! This book is in stock now, and is scheduled to be in stores approximately 4 weeks from now. Click here if the slideshow embedded above is not visible, and/or to view it larger in a new window (recommended).

You'll Never Know, Book 1: A Good and Decent Man By C. Tyler You’ll Never Know is the first graphic novel from C. Tyler (Late Bloomer) and sure to be one of the most acclaimed books of the year. It tells the story of the 50-something author’s relationship with her World War II veteran father, and how his war experience shaped her childhood and affected her relationships in adulthood. “You’ll Never Know” refers not only to the title of her parents’ courtship song from that era, but also to the many challenges the author encountered in uncovering the difficult and…

The Brinkley Girls: The Best of Nell Brinkley's Cartoons 1913-1940 By Nell Brinkley; edited by Trina Robbins For over thirty years Nell Brinkley’s beautiful girls pirouetted, waltzed, Charlestoned, vamped and shimmied their way through the pages of William Randolph Hearst’s newspapers, captivating the American public with their innocent sexuality. This sumptuously designed oversized hardcover collects Brinkley’s breathtakingly spectacular, exquisitely colored full page art from 1913 to 1940. Here are her earliest silent movie serial-inspired adventure series, “Golden Eyes and Her Hero, Bill;” her almost too romantic series, “Betty and Billy and Their Love Through the Ages;” her snappy flapper comics…

Uh oh, I'm starting to post Twitter reviews. We're through the looking glass here, people. • Review: "Jaime Hernandez again shows mastery in portraying both recognizable situations and complex emotions [in The Education of Hopey Glass]. The illustrations are beautiful. The man has achieved perfection with his drawing style." – Koen (translated from Dutch) • Review: "Linda Medley's Castle Waiting… [is a] beautifully designed volume… 457 pages of glorious black and white illustration… The artwork is absolutely charming, hearkening back to older pen-and-ink styles, but with a cartoony touch to it. The characters are individually realized, both by the art…

Our own Eric Reynolds nails this full-page illo of Ol' Dirty Bastard for HEEB magazine.

Ray Fenwick has a new t-shirt design up for sale at Tiny Showcase, don't ya know. Or is it an older design in new colors? In any case, save me one!

Make a pledge to Maximum Fun and The Sound of Young America and you could get a copy of Ghost World: Special Edition as a thank-you gift. (There's lots of other good stuff to choose from, too.) Vote for good radio with your dollars!

Following the stunning success of the Eisner Award winning I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets, a second volume collecting the stories of Fletcher Hanks, "You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!", will debut at MoCCA in June. Volume II contains more than TWICE as many Fletcher Hanks stories than Volume I as well as an introduction written by Paul Karasik and illustrated with drawings never before published by the elusive Super Wizard of the Inkwell, Fletcher Hanks. Together the two volumes will comprise The Complete Fletcher Hanks, the artist who created 51 tales in a hailstorm of creative fury during…