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Here's what you'll find from Fantagraphics on the "new arrivals" racks at your friendly neighborhood comic shop tomorrow (subject to last-minute change): • Krazy & Ignatz 1943-1944: He Nods in Quiescent Siesta • Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard • Fuzz & Pluck in Splitsville #5 by Ted Stearn (reoffered)• Interiorae #3 by Gabriella Giandelli I've also seen these listed by unofficial sources; who knows? • The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 14 (New Printing) • Sammy the Mouse #2 by Zak Sally Be an informed customer by checking out our descriptions and previews at the links above,…

Following yesterday's look at the newest volumes in our Krazy & Ignatz series of Krazy Kat reprint volumes, here's a look at an upcoming reprint: The Complete Sunday Strips 1925-1934, the giant hardcover compiling the 5 volumes covering the strip's second decade, in a second limited edition. Click here if the slideshow doesn't appear above.

The email one gets when one works at a comics publisher is way more fun than the email one gets when one works at, say, a shoe company.  

  Later this month, the great Robert Pollard will head out on tour with his new band, Boston Spaceships (featuring former GBV bassist Chris Slusarenko and Decemberists drummer John Moen), to promote not one but two new albums, as well as his first book, our very own Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard. Pollard will have ToM for sale at each stop on the tour, so don't forget to hit that ATM on the way down to the show. The tour kicks off Sept. 25th in Chincinnati. Don't miss it!    Thu 9/25 Cincinnati OH – Midpoint Music Festival Fri 9/26 Cleveland OH – Grog Shop Sat 9/27 Washington…

During those heady mid-1990s, Seattle's The Stranger (which has employed, at times, a slew of comics-related folks, from co-founder James Sturm, to former art directors Jason Lutes, Joe Newton, and Dale Yarger, and columnists like Tom Spurgeon and yours truly) was a hotbed for local cartooning. Strips would come and go and you could always count on the paper's back page for some quality cartoons. One of my all-time favorite Stranger strips was a short-lived feature by Jeremy Eaton, called Jackass. This surreal gem featured a disembodied head at the mercy of Eaton's imagination, and the results were always a great blend of…

As if we don't already have enough social networks to keep track of, we're now on the "social bookmarking" site Delicious! We've been bringing you our weekly "Blogosphere Roundup" link posts for a while, and we thought it might be nice if the links could be searchable and organized with tags so you can find related links (for instance, all the reviews of a certain book, or links pertaining to a particular artist). We'll still bring you our roundup posts every week, but now you can follow along in real time on our Delicious page or with the RSS feed.

We've added several new books to our roster of titles which are available with FREE signed bookplates as a bonus when you order directly from us! They include: Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell (signed by Bell, not by Ditko… are you crazy?)Deitch's Pictorama by Kim, Seth and Simon Deitch (shown below – signed by Kim only)Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers (shown above – signed by both Gilbert and Jaime!)The Education of Hopey Glass by Jaime HernandezPerla La Loca by Jaime HernandezBeyond Palomar by Gilbert HernandezAmor Y Cohetes by Gilbert,…

Here's a slightly belated look at the two ultimate entries (until we go back and reprint the early Eclipse volumes) in our Krazy & Ignatz series of Krazy Kat reprint volumes: 1943-1944 (top) and The Complete Sunday Strips 1935-1944, the giant hardcover compiling the last 5 volumes (bottom). Watch these video/photo slideshow teasers for exciting fold-out action, glinting gold foil stamping, and more. Click here and here if the slideshows don't appear above.

… though it's quite an impressive forgery of his late-1980s style: Spotted HERE. 

Here's what the Internet says about our books this (relatively quiet) week: • Kevin Church sandwiches a thumbs-up for Tim Lane's Abandoned Cars amongst some other reviews; Alan David Doane calls the book "thrilling"; • Blog Flumer Ken Parille says it best: "In anticipation of the forthcoming release of Daniel Clowes's Ghost World: Special Edition, I take a close look at the comic's closing line of dialogue" • Mano de Papel notes our publications in general (in Spanish) • Jog notes our New Comics Day releases and, while complimentary toward the books, doesn't care for our slideshow previews • Whatever…