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From Fantastic Four #263 (1984): P.S. If this post makes no sense to you, be grateful.  UPDATE: My pal Robert Goodin pointed out to me that the name of the character referred to in this panel, a Mr. Alden Maas, is an anagram for Neal Adams. John Byrne was a good 20 years ahead of the curve of the science community when it came to dismissing a crackpot! I knew re-reading these comics would pay dividends.

San Francisco, you will be overwhelmed. Details at the Beasts blog.

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• The Seattle Times casts a well-deserved spotlight on the often-overlooked writing in Beasts! Book 1 and Book 2 • The Daily Blog's "10 for '08" includes Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers • Comic Book Resources, counting down the "Best 100 Comics of 2008," slots in Sublife Vol. 1 by John Pham at #72 and Tales Designed to Thrizzle by Michael Kupperman at #70 (with #60-1 still TBA) • The Beat presents the Metro's R. Sikoryak's Frank Miller's Archie • The Stranger points out a recent in-strip visit to Seattle by Zippy the Pinhead

Note that new comics are scheduled to arrive in comic shops on Friday this week, rather than the traditional Wednesday, due to the holiday. From us you can expect the new softcover edition of Beasts! Book 1 — as always, you can find more info and previews of the book at the link.

A shorty today: • The Oregonian presents excerpts from Beasts! Book 2 • Angry Asian Man looks at John Pham's Sublife Vol. 1 • Here's a Lilli Carré illustration in The Chicago Reader (hat tip: Paul Hornschemeier)

Beasts! Book 1 (Softcover Edition) By various artists; curated by Jacob Covey After selling out two hardcover editions, Beasts! returns in a beautiful new softcover edition. Beasts! is a classic mythological menagerie, comprised only of creatures that were thought at one time to actually exist, depicted by about a hundred of the most acclaimed artists and cartoonists coming from the most avant-garde ambits of the art world. The Beasts project has fired the imaginations of luminaries such as Tony Millionaire, Souther Salazar, Jeff Soto, Dave Cooper, Tim Biskup, Seonna Hong, Jeremy Fish, James Jean, and Jay Ryan, who will present…

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Thanks to Steven "Ribs" Weissman for supplying us with a batch of signed book plates for his book Mean, now available for the first time, and to Richard Sala, for replenishing our supply of signed bookplates for The Grave Robber's Daughter. As always, these are available exclusively from Fantagraphics when you order their accompanying books, at no extra charge! Some conditions apply; click here for more details and the complete list of books available with this FREE premium!