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We've been busy bees making downloadable PDF excerpts available for several new and upcoming books. Unlike previously, when PDF previews were only available to registered users, these downloads are available to everyone (and of course they're free)! Download links are available on the product listing pages for the books listed and linked below. Try before you buy with these nice juicy chunks: • Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1959-1960 – read all the strips from January 1959!• Unlovable Vol. 1 – preview the first 20 pages!• Humbug – see what the Humbug hullabaloo is all about by reading the…

The issues we had that were delaying the shipment of orders have been resolved, so we should be back in the groove now. Thanks everyone for your patience!

"The Monster Show: New Works by Robert Goodin" opens tomorrow evening at Secret Headquarters in L.A. (More details here.) Impatient people or out-of-towners can check out the artwork in the Secret Headquarters Flickr set. (Update: Whoops, I should read our blog before I post on it, huh?)

  Secret Headquarters Presents: THE MONSTER SHOWNew works byROBERT GOODIN THIS FRIDAY the 6th at 8pm SECRET HEADQUARTERS3817 w. Sunset blvdLos Angeles, California 90026

• Excerpt: Publishers Weekly has an 8-page preview of Unlovable by Esther Pearl Watson • Interview: The Daily Cross Hatch polishes off their 3-parter with Lilli Carré • Things to see: The Daily Cartoonist has links to two vintage Jules Feiffer animations • Things to see: From Jim Woodring, sketchbook pages and Manhog's back half under assault • Things to see: On the Covered blog, Jon Adams's version of Woodring's Frank #1

YouTube link. Found via The Daily Cartoonist.

Head over to Bob Fingerman's Art Blog Thinger to see the full-size version. Connective Tissue is at the printer and due this Spring.

Here it is: the first public look at our long-awaited Humbug collection! This two-volume slipcased hardcover set assembles the never-before-collected, complete, original 11-issue run (1957-58) of the satirical magazine conceived and edited by Harvey Kurtzman and created by Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Jaffee (Kurtzman's MAD magazine cohorts one and all) and Arnold Roth. Click here if the embedded slideshow doesn't appear above, or to open a larger version in a new window. And if you haven't already, you'll also want to check out our exclusive feature "The Production Evolution of a Humbug Page."

Worth a bookmark.  

Go listen here for a Ralph Bakshi podcast reminiscing about his days with Gene Deitch at Terrytoons.