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All hail Gary Panter.

WON!   Not won.  

Since we mentioned Jordan Crane and his daughter Andalucia a few posts ago, I thought we should link to this video since we never have before. It's Lavender Diamond's first music video, "Open Your Heart." Lavender Diamond features cartoonist Ron Rege, Jr. on drums and is the fella at the end that the singer, Becky, embraces. But wait, that's not the only comics connection: the cameo of the man in the hat with the little girl? Jordan and Andalucia!  

Castle Waiting Vol. II #11 By Linda Medley A fable for modern times, Castle Waiting is a fairy tale that's not about rescuing the princess, saving the kingdom, or fighting the ultimate war between Good and Evil — but about being a hero in your own home. In this issue: with nary a strip-mall in sight, the castle folk enjoy an evening of bowling and clothes shopping; and Jain learns some interesting details concerning lovable Doctor Fell's puzzling condition. 24-page black & white comic book • $3.95 Add to Cart • Read More…

FANTAGRAPHICS NEW YORK COMICON SIGNING SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY:

3 – 5PM: DASH SHAW (The Bottomless Belly Button, Mome)

SATURDAY:

11AM – 1PM: CRAIG YOE (Arf!)

1 – 3PM: PAUL KARASIK (I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!)

1 – 3PM: MICHAEL KUPPERMAN (Tales Designed to Thrizzle)

3 – 5PM: MISS LASKO-GROSS (Escape from "Special")

3 – 5PM: DASH SHAW (The Bottomless Belly Button, Mome)

SUNDAY:

11AM – 1PM: LEAH HAYES (Funeral of the Heart)

11AM – 1PM: DASH SHAW (The Bottomless Belly Button, Mome)

1 – 2:30PM: KIM DEITCH (Shadowland, The Stuff of Dreams)

1 – 3PM: GLENN HEAD (Hotwire Comix)

1 – 3PM: CRAIG YOE (Arf!)

3 – 4PM: LEAH HAYES (Funeral of the Heart)

3 – 5PM: MISS LASKO- GROSS (Escape from "Special")

4 – 5PM: KIM DEITCH (Shadowland, The Stuff of Dreams)

New York Comic Con, taking place April 18-20 at the Javits Center in New York City, is the East Coast's biggest popular culture convention, and in 2008 Fantagraphics Books – the west coast's biggest alternative comics publisher – will join the ranks of exhibitors for the first time. Publishers Gary Groth and Kim Thompson will be on hand all weekend, hosting round-the-clock signings for several authors and debuting several new titles at the show.

We ended voting on our poll question "Which part of our product listings do you find most useful or persuasive?" and more than half of you who responded said "Preview images & downloads." We're already stepping up our efforts to give you more of what you want (and now that Flickr is hosting videos, watch for video previews in the near future), so thanks for your feedback! See the final poll results here. If you have any other comments, please drop us a line. For our new poll, we're asking what your primary consideration is when making a purchase from…

Time for another daily photographic sneak peek at an upcoming book that we recently received "in the flesh" at the office. Today it's the latest and final (for now) volume in our Love and Rockets Library reprint series, Amor Y Cohetes, collecting all the stand-alone non-continuity stuff from L&R Vol. 1. For a Flickr slideshow, click here, or to browse manually, click here.

There are a few artists who I've been wanting to post about before I get swamped with fatherly duties. I'll be trying to do that over the next week or so. Up first… Meg Hunt is still a young illustrator but one whose details you can look at and see that she works hard to flesh out her images for her own development as an artist– her clients probably wouldn't notice if she spent half the time she does on her work. Which is exactly why I enjoy watching her evolve and why she's someone who will be working for…

Fun with the new Flickr video feature from Ray Fenwick: (By the way, now that there's video on Flickr, we've added a few clips to our own stream.)