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Graphic NYC catches up with Bob Fingerman about his forthcoming book, Connective Tissue, and more. 

We've just added 50 more items to our Clearance Sale and Closeout Deals categories, with savings of one-third to half off! We've got Bagge classics, Clowes novelties, pin-up books, great but obscure graphic novels, and much more at slashed prices. And we'll be adding still more in the coming weeks and months. Go! Browse! Buy!

It's the latest limited-edition self-published comic from Johnny Ryan: New Character Parade #2. I can't wait to see the "Tron of Finland" strip. Find out more and order it direct from Johnny.

• Review: The North Adams Transcript likes Beasts! Book 2 even more than Book 1 • Review: Rob Clough says Petey & Pussy by John Kerschbaum is the best humor-related publication of the year • List: At Funnybook Babylon, "25 Things Pedro Loves about Comics" leads off with Steven Weissman 's Li'l Bloody • Profile: 1979 Semi-Finalist names Eleanor Davis "Artist of the Week" • Blurb: Richard Cowdry's been getting into Dash Shaw's Mome stories • Blurb: The Scandy Factory previews our upcoming release of VHS box art, Portable Grindhouse • Things to see: Ben Catmull has started a blog •…

We're pleased to present Grant Geissman's Foreword and Monte Wolverton's Introduction to The Wolverton Bible by Basil Wolverton for your reading enjoyment here on our website. These two pieces both provide valuable biographical context as well as background information on the creation of Wolverton's Bible stories. We hope they entice you to check out the book, which is due imminently.

So where was I… Coming up on 40 hours without sleep and hoofing it from the 11 arrondissement to the 5th. I'm on my way to the legendary Un Regard Moderne when I spot this little gem: What if Dan Clowes was born French? We would all be referring to Ghost World as Shake Hair. By the way, Dan tells me Doofus (as played by Jack Black) makes a bicycle-seat-sniffin' cameo in Ghost World II: The Bob Skeetes Story!) Moving right along… Rounding the corner I loaf down the typical, rain washed, beautiful, Parisian alley/street and there IT is, out…

This post comes very late (I'm sick) but at 8pm TONIGHT in LOS ANGELES: In what should be the final Beasts-related event (I'm tired), the classy joint that is the Secret Headquarters comic shop is hosting a huge bunch of artists kindly marking up books of whatever sort you put in front of them. This is the only joint signing for both Beasts! books and it's a huge and remarkable line-up of confirmed artists. Well worth a visit to the shop if you're anywhere near LA. And who knows, maybe even Richard Sala will surprise us and show up. Anything could…

Friday is new webcomics day! First up, Johnny Ryan's Blecky Yuckerella gets historical, sort of, in this week's strip. And in this week's installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 32-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures: the tension continues to mount! And don't forget to catch up on our current 5-day chunk of Martin Kellerman's hilarious Swedish smash-hit Rocky, updated Monday-Friday! This week: Rocky faces success and sickness at Christmastime.

• Things to see: Happy Friday the 13th from the Jim Flora Blog • Review: Comics Waiting Room has the first word on Connective Tissue by Bob Fingerman (coming later this Spring), calling it "perversely hysterical" • Review: PLAYBACK:stl says Tales Designed to Thrizzle #4 by Michael Kupperman "brings more of the crazy" • Interview: du9 talks Bottomless Belly Button and Bodyworld with Dash Shaw; Belgian site XeroXed reprints the interview (in French) with some additional information • List: In the holiday spirit, the UCD Advocate's rundown of "Cartoon Sex" names Charles Burns's Black Hole "Creepiest," Robert & Aline Crumb's…

On loan to Buenaventura Press, from January 25th to February 3rd I was in France to attend Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême. My trip to Angoulême was bookended by brief stays in Paris, a city I hadn't visited in 8 1/2 years. Here are some photos I took while I was in France… I flew to Paris by way of Chicago… Looking back on this photo I genuinely envy The Sleeping Chef of O'Hare Airport, when I landed in Paris I had't slept for over 30 hours and I hadn't a clue as to where I would be…