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Fantagraphics Books & Rocketship are proud to present: A HOTWIRE COMIX RELEASE PARTY & SIGNING! WHO: Jonathon Rosen, Glenn Head, Sam Henderson, Danny Hellman, Mark Newgarden, David Sandlin, Chadwick Whitehead, Craig Yoe, R. Sikyorak, Doug Allen, Marc Dean Veca and other guests t.b.a.! WHAT: HOTWIRE COMICS Vol. 2 Release Party & SigningWHERE: Rocketship, 208 Smith St., Brooklyn, NY 11201WHEN: Friday, Feb. 22, at 8PM Insanity, dementia, stray bullets, hangovers, hillbillies, sci-fi, candy-rods, carnies, Wilhelm Riech, PCP, decayed portraits, Tijuana bibles, gags, mobsters, Mick Jones, zombies, paranoia, orgones, and psychedelia… it's all here! HOTWIRE COMICS Vol. 2 weighs in at 136 pages, 64 in full color,…

…is reality!

Found on Flickr, from user Jessie Johnson. Taken at Comic Relief in Berkeley.

Attention lovers of prose literature: we've put the entire first chapter (along with the indicia and Table of Contents) of Alexander Theroux's novel Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual online as a FREE download (PDF format, 260KB).

  Our pals at PanelToPanel.net are offering an exclusive signed bookplate edition of Jaime Hernandez's forthcoming THE EDUCATION OF HOPEY GLASS. Better yet, everyone who purchases a copy gets entered into a free drawing to win the bookplate's original art by Jaime, while a runner-up will receive a set of L&R trade paperbacks! Meanwhile, here's a new PTP interview with Jaime!

Ellen Forney: Better than Guy Deslisle, on par with George Perez! From last week's Entertainment Weekly.

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who entered our Scavenger Hunt contest! We only had one incorrect answer (and one that our judges are still looking into) out of 18 entries. Our randomly-selected Grand Prize 50%-off coupon winner is Michael Pang of Phoenix, Arizona. We've notified all the winners, so if you entered, check your inbox! For the record, here are the questions and the answers we were looking for: What is the name of the mermaid character in Dame Darcy's Meat Cake?Effluvia Buddy Bradley's pal Stinky was the lead singer of what band?Leonard and the Love Gods What artists make…

Ladies and gents, the great Carl Ballantine, taken yesterday in Los Angeles by Stephen Cox (who also took the awesome Larry Storch pic from the weekend).   

Yesterday saw the debut of the latest New York Times comic strip, LOW MOON by Jason! Huzzah! And it's a decaffeinated Western, no less.