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It's a happy day for the Love and Rockets fans in the office (i.e. all of us): advance copies of Luba and Her Family are in the house! This is the latest Gilbert Hernandez volume in the Love and Rockets Library softcover omnibus series and the first to collect Gilbert's work from the post-Volume 1 era. Whether you're the kind of completist who needs all the books, or the kind who just wants to read all the stories in the proper narrative order, or a new reader who wants to jump on with a good, more recent starting point, you…

The terrific meltdown in the grocery line of Online Commentaries & Diversions:      • Review:nbsp;Cosplayers by Dash Shaw "It's a clever idea, and Shaw brings surprising insight to the very short stories. He uses different panel configurations and color palettes to break each story up into scenes, as if they were movies themselves, and his deft linework makes it all look easy." –Bridgid Alverson, Robot 6     • Review: Locust Moon on New School by Dash Shaw "…golly-gee wide-eyed comic classicism mixed with an antiquated, old-testament use of language and heavy moral seriousness, all in service of a surprisingly traditional and very relatably human story of a young kid's worship,…

Momotaro, pen & ink and watercolor with acrylic glazes, 1987 Castle Waiting creator Linda Medley asked us to pass along the following message, and we are more than happy to oblige! The painting I donated to the CAPS auction to benefit the Sakai family back in December is now up for bids! Here’s some info about the painting, if you are interested: the illustration is from the Japanese folktale Little Peachling and was originally done for the front cover of one of my earliest children’s books, Favorite Tales from Many Lands, written by Walter Retan and published by Grossett & Dunlap in 1989. This was painted on illustration…

Los Angeles! We told you before and we'll tell you again! Tonight is pure joy and a celebration of The Blighted Eye: Original Comic Art from the Glenn Bray Collection with a special book release party at Wacko/Soap Plant. Collector extraordinaire Glenn Bray will be joined by special guests, Todd Hignite and Robert Williams, who each supplied a foreword to this exceptional book! Get a copy of this gorgeous book featuring artwork from all of your favorite cartoonists and even a section of special Krampus commissions Bray had made once he exhausted the world's supply.  See you tonight from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at the La Luz de Jesus…

This Friday, April 25th, the digital comics reader Sequential has put up four new titles for your digital reading pleasure. The sultry black inks of Jaime Hernandez shine in Penny Century, Esperanza, God and Science while Richard Sala splatters a deadly palette on the page with his latest graphic novel the 50 page full-color Violenzia, which is not available in print! Download a great read today. 

Today, Joyce Farmer announced at the Penn State Libraries talk on Underground comics that Jim Woodring's Fran is the next recipient for the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize! Sponsored by Penn State University Libraries and administered by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize is presented annually to the best graphic novel, fiction or non-fiction, published in the previous calendar year by a living U.S. or Canadian citizen or resident. Fran is the first Fantagraphics books to win the prize (a runner-up…

Bomb Run and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)by John Severin, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder et al. 264-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-749-9 Ships in: June 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now The team of Harvey Kurtzman and John Severin was one of the most fruitful collaborations in the history of comics. The work they did combines the taut emotional and psychological insights of Stephen Crane with a verisimilitude so gritty that it seems as if they are reporting from the scene. Together with inker and friend Will Elder, whose own obsession for detail…

Don't forget! Tonight at  Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles Love and Rockets' Jaime Hernandez will be on a 7pm panel at Meltdown Comics with fellow cartoonists and animators Pendleton Ward, Bryan Lee O'Malley and Thompas Herpich. They will be interviewed by Inkstuds radio show host, Robin McConnell and cartoonist, Brandon Graham in what will be a packed room. After the panel, Jaime will be signing books INCLUDING the newest collection The Love Bunglers.  There will be free tickets available at the door so you can still go loiter and hope to meet one of the cartoonists. It will also be broadcasted LIVE via MeltdownTV here. Pick…

We didn't really change the cover art for Wandering Son Vol. 7 by Shimura Takako from the preliminary mockup before we sent it to press, but let's make it official anyway. Don't Takatsuki-san and Nitori-kun look adorable in their winter outfits? The book will be out in the dog days of summer, so this snowy scene will help you think cool thoughts. Zits, a ski trip, drama club, and just plain drama are in store for our gender-questioning teen heroes in this seventh installment of the beloved series. As always, be on the lookout for future previews, put in your…

"Charles Schulz was an innovative genius of American comics and also the marathon man, drawing strip after strip, writing the storyboards for the TV specials, creating a fantasy world that connected kids as well as adults, and all based on powerful iconic characters who express deep feelings of loneliness and resentment and despair." — Garrison Keillor, from his introduction The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 (Vol. 1) – Paperback Ed.by Charles M. Schulz 298-page black & white 8.25" x 6.5" softcover • $22.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-763-5 Due to arrive in about 2-3 weeks. Click the thumbnails for larger versions; get more info, see more…