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Above, Paul DiFilippo and Jim Woodring pose with their new collaborative book/objet d'art Cosmocopia (from our fine friends at Payseur & Schmidt) at the release party and exhibit opening at our Seattle bookstore on Saturday night. Click here for lots more photos. Below, DiFilippo reads an excerpt from the book (video link): A couple more photos:

Stuff about our books from around the web… pay close attention, there's some publishing news sprinkled in here: • The Globe and Mail looks at various graphic novels including Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw • The Star Clipper Blog reviews Sublife Vol. 1 by John Pham • Spanish site Tinta Digital looks at King by Ho Che Anderson (Google translation) • Lady, That's My Skull examines Ghost World: Special Edition by Daniel Clowes; Plastic Scene also gives it a look • Hero Spy chooses Sergio Ponchione's Grotesque as its first-ever Featured Comic • Comics' By Products praises Usagi Yojimbo Book…

The Inkstuds podcast updated yesterday with a new interview with Abandoned Cars creator Tim Lane — go listen.

Time for the twelfth 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. In this week's episode: Oh Elzie Crisler, so cute and yet so bad! And guess what? You no longer have to be registered and logged in to read our webcomics (though we still encourage you to sign up)! We've decided that we want to share the fun with everyone. Why now? Because starting Monday we'll be bringing you (drum roll)… …daily (Mon.-Fri.) installments of Rocky, the hilarious smash-hit Swedish comic strip by…

This exhibit opens tomorrow evening at 6PM at scott eder gallery in Brooklyn and includes work by a slew of Ignatz Series fumettisti including series founder/co-publisher Igort (Baobab), Marco Corona (Reflections), Gabriella Giandelli (Interiorae), Gipi (Wish You Were Here), and Lorenzo Mattotti (Chimera) along with other greats. More info and online preview right here. Another must-see!

John Hankiewicz presents the first half of a four-page collaborative strip he did with Onsmith for this month's issue of Chicago Artists' News.

John Pham has a joint release party for his Sublife Vol. 1 and Ron Regé Jr.'s Against Pain at Family in LA on Sunday October 19 at 7 PM. Music by Ron in the guise of Discombobulated Ventriloquist. Sounds like a must-go to me!

While going through some of Craig Yoe's comic books here at the office I came across a particularly great example of the old pulp coloring. Why they didn't bother to just build the entirety of the suit's black color with cyan I don't know… (That's a Boody Rogers comic page.)    UPDATE: "Jacob, Man, you and Frank Santoro should have a blog where you just say stuff that doesn't make sense to anyone." – Tom Devlin.

Response to our free signed bookplate offer has been so great, we're replenishing our limited quantities when and where we can. We've just restocked Dash Shaw (shown above) and some Dan Clowes, and more are hopefully on the way soon. Click here for the full selection. (Disclaimer: Signature plates are limited in quantity and available only while supplies last. In the event that we run out, signature plates will not be backordered. Bookplates are not available separately from their respective books and are only available to individual consumers.)

Above: Drew Friedman's killer illo for this article in The New York Observer.