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There's not too many people I'd follow into a psychedelic swamp, but Gary Panter is definitely one of them. 

The ever-intrepid Peter Bagge hit the New Hampshire primary beat for Reason mag and reports back in his latest strip. See! Pete riding the Straight Talk Express. See! Pete inadvertently hurting Ron Paul's feelings. See! Pete ogling Hillary Clinton's ass. 

It seems Mayor Michael Bloomberg has declared this Paul Hornschemeier week in New York City, beginning tomorrow! First up, we have this in the early evening:   ABOVE: Paul Hornschemeier, Dialectic on Preference, 2004  Dave Eggers curatesLots Of Things Like ThisApril 2 – May 10, 2008 Opening reception:Wednesday, April 2, 6-8pm With works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leonard Cohen, David Berman, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Georges Braque, Jeffrey Brown, R. Crumb, Henry Darger, Marcel Duchamp, CM Evans, Shephard Fairey, David Godbold, Alasdair Gray, Philip Guston, Paul Hornschemeier, Jay Howell, Chris Johanson, Maira Kalman, Kenneth Koch, David Mamet, Quenton Miller, Tucker Nichols, Alice Notley, Ron…

Courtesy Dame Darcy (sorry, this was a tough one to photograph without getting any glare):      

Good ol' G.W. Bush hopes to kick-start the U.S. economy by giving everyone a tax rebate this year. We say, what better way to use your windfall than by affirming your freedom to read great comics! In honor of Tax Day on April 15, save 15% on select books in our Politics & World Affairs category all throughout the month of April 2008! Whether fictional satire skewering our malevolent and/or less-than-competent leaders, journalistic comics reporting from conflict-torn regions, or trenchant commentary on societal issues, these books present the finest in topical cartooning and exemplify our time-honored tradition of freedom of…

Our pal Pam Noles attended Drew Friedman's discussion and book signing for More Old Jewish Comedians at L.A.'s Skylight books (with guests Ben Schwartz and portrait subject Carl Ballantine) on Saturday and sent us a whole bunch of photos which we've loaded up on Flickr. Read Pam's account of the event here!

Here are the last of the Krazy Kat strips drawn by seven-to-eleven-year old Italian kids, courtesy of their teacher Alessandro Santi. (See previous FLOG!s for batches one, two and three; see the entire set in a slideshow on Flickr.) Incidentally, Alessandro asked us if we were going to reprint the Eclipse volumes featuring the first nine years of Krazy Kat Sundays, and the answer to that is yes, starting in 2009. But we're going to gang them together into three big KK volumes, each containing three years' worth.

  The New York Times had a great feature yesterday on one of America's greatest living cartoonists, the inimitable Al Jaffee.

Courtesy Ben Catmull:

And it's quite handsome.