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  From The Underground To The Basement: Cartoons, Drawings & Signs by Justin Green Who: Comic Underground Legend & Master Sign Painter, Justin Green What:  From The Underground To The Basement:  Cartoons, Drawings & Signs When:  Show opens with a reception Sat., March 8th 6pm.  Closes Sat. April 12th, 2008 Where:  Shake It Records, 4156 Hamilton Ave., Cinti., OH 45223  Ph: 513-591-0123 Why: Read below. Opening Reception Saturday, March 8th 6 PM @ Shake It Records 4156 Hamilton Ave in Northside Cincinnati. Shake It Records is hosting a rare art show with underground comic legend & master sign painter, Justin Green….

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For the month of March, we're helping you put some bunny in your basket for Easter and beyond by offering 20% off all Usagi Yojimbo titles! Brimming with exciting swordfights, authentic locales and costumes, drama and humor, Stan Sakai's tales of a rabbit ronin (with a colorful cast of his allies and foes) is an all-ages classic that will get the kids in your life hooked on great comic storytelling. Stock up now for holidays, birthdays, bar/bat mitzvahs… and extra copies to keep for yourself. (Sale ends 11:59 PM Pacific time, March 31, 2008.)

It's crazy hectic here at Fantagraphics so I only have a moment to thank all the people submitting art to the open call slot in BEASTS! Book Two. Deadline is Monday morning when I come into the office (I originally said March 1st but that's a Saturday). I'm pretty amazed and grateful at the response (170 submissions already) and have no idea how I'll choose the art to be published. THANKS EVERYONE! * That beautiful piece above submitted by Ian Huebert. (His site www.themilkmachine.com is not currently up.)

It's your Leap Day installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks!" In this week's strip: an update on the condition of Lumpy Noodle. (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

From the Never In America files: an Australian publisher is using a Jim Blanchard piece from Glam Warp in a high school history textbook. More info and larger image at Jim's blog.

From Variety: "To learn how to format a screenplay, [Diablo] Cody picked up a shooting script for Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World at a local bookstore."

LUST: Kinky Online Personal Ads from Seattle's The StrangerBy Ellen Forney Multimedia reading and performancePlus! Dazzling dancer Fuschia FoXXX! (Voted one of the Stranger's "Sexiest Citizens"!) Scantily-clad boy AND girl sirens, including Holly Chernobyl! (Also voted one of the Stranger's "Sexiest Citizens"!) Chocolate kisses! More!! Thursday, February 28, 7pmBailey/Coy Books414 Broadway Ave. E. (across from QFC) Ellen Forney's follow-up to her wildly popular I Love Led Zeppelin is a collection of cartoons celebrating the sometimes stunningly crude, sometimes surprisingly sweet online world of kinky personal classifieds. Forney has for several years been illustrating the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger's "Lustlab" classified ads by interpreting the most…

This week's free preview is a downloadable 10-page excerpt from Jessica Farm Vol. 1, the first installment in a life-spanning epic by House author Josh Simmons. These previews are exclusive to registered Fantagraphics.com users, so sign up and/or sign in to view. (As a reminder, 20/20 Club members receive these previews two weeks before we post them on the website, just one of many great reasons to join up…)