This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators and web-savvy comic shops are saying about them (more to be added as they appear), check out our previews at the links, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. 
Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen
by Dylan Horrocks
228-page full color 7" x 10" hardcover • $29.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-790-1
"Like Hicksville, it's about comic book artists and the allure of comic books. And also like Hicksville, it, too, is worthy of an award." –Marc Frauenfelder, BoingBoing
"Do yourself a favor and pick this book up now, instead of a month from now when it's the graphic novel everyone is talking about." –Dan Greenfield, 13th Dimension
Michael Jordan: Bull on Parade
by Wilfred Santiago
200-page full color 5.75" x 7.5" hardcover • $24.99
ISBN: 978-1-60699-711-6
"…this book breaths with potent comic book electricity, phrasing court pivots and jump-shots with the same bombast as celestial superhero brawls." –Sean Edgar, Paste Magazine
"Wilfred Santiago was a protégé of Ho Che Anderson (remember him?) and as such is a proponent of the sort of honest, experimental and energetic kind of storytelling that can only come from life on the fringes of both real life and the comics world. Santiago's artwork is driven and manic with odd color choices, which are all about externalizing the inner life of his characters." –Bart Croonenborghs, Broken Frontiers