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The latest installment of stories from Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez is available as Love and Rockets: New Stories #6 is released BOTH in print and digitally via comiXology. Love and Rockets enters its fourth decade with this installment of its acclaimed graphic novel-format iteration, featuring both old friends and new faces, and some genuine surprises… The cover shows Gilbert's new star Killer in a pose and milieu that will bring back memories for long-time fans – imitating the hammer-wielding Luba in her adopted Palomar. That's because Killer has discovered that her great-grandmother Maria (Luba's mother) starred in a late 1950s…

To celebrate the publication of The High Fidelity Art of Jim Flora, our fourth anthology of Jim Flora artwork — and one which features all of Flora's known album covers — the infamous Mambo for Cats is dancing yet again! Although the original print run sold out last year, a new revived edition is now available. It's about album-cover size (40% smaller than the original screen print), and is produced on different paper with different inks thru an entirely different printing process (inkjet, or giclée). One other significant difference: the screen print was on cream-colored stock; the giclée stock is…

photo credit: why, Marguerite Van Cook! Wednesday, October 16th • New York City, NY:  Don't miss the opening reception for a new exhibit from James Romberger (collaborator behind New York Times Best Seller 7 Miles a Second) and Rick Prol at the Dorian Grey Gallery! (more info) • Minneapolis, MN:  Don't miss Peter Bagge, signing at Magers & Quinn Bookstore tonight for his new Drawn & Quarterly title The Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, starting at 7:00 PM! (more info) photo credit: Joshin Yamada, Stumptown 2012 Friday, October 18th • Iowa City, IA:  And then Peter Bagge is heading…

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.   Fran by Jim Woodring 104-page black & white 7.25" x 9.75" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-661-4 "a simultaneous prequel *and* sequel to Jim Woodring's excellent Congress of the Animals from 2011, a book which seemed to shatter the cyclical exploits of the artist's "Frank" universe so as to provide an ending of sorts,…

"The Complete Peanuts has framed Charles Schulz’s enduring masterpiece about as well any lifelong fan could’ve hoped." – "The Best Comics of the '00s: The Archives," The A.V. Club "Charles Schulz was an American treasure — an artist, philosopher, and keen observer of human life." – Bill Clinton "The Complete Peanuts confronts us afresh with what a brilliant, truly modern and totally weird idea it was to create a comic strip about a chronically depressed child…" – TIME "Fantagraphics has won numerous awards for this series and they deserve them all for creating such a wonderful archive of this American treasure….

The Complete Peanuts 1987-1990 Gift Box Set (Vols. 19-20) by Charles M. Schulz two 344-page black & white 8.5" x 7" hardcovers in a custom slipcase • $49.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-681-2 See More Previews / Order Now! A boxed set of the nineteenth and twentieth volumes of The Complete Peanuts, designed by the award-winning graphic novelist, Seth. Shipping shrinkwrapped, with volumes 1987-1988 and 1989-1990 packed in a sturdy custom box designed especially for this set, it's the perfect gift book item. (For more information on the contents of each volume, see the individual product listings linked above.) "The Complete Peanuts has framed Charles…

Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the debut of a 20th century masterpiece: George Herriman's enduring Krazy Kat strip (though she'd been around as a character for a couple of years prior). We're celebrating by offering all of our available softcover Krazy & Ignatz Sunday strip collections for 20% off for the next 100 hours! That means the sale ends at 6 PM PST on Friday, October 18.

Just an evening?! Well, we'll take what we can get of acclaimed cartoonist Michael Kupperman! The evening in question is this Sunday, October 20th at the PhilaMOCA. Kupperman will host a retrospective of his career thus far, including illustrated readings of his work and screenings of his animation including the Adult Swim pilot SNAKE ‘N’ BACON, plus brand new pieces. Brand new pieces!!! Doors are at 7:00 PM, and the awesomeness starts at 7:30 PM.  PhilaMOCA is located at 531 N 12th Street in Philadelphia.

Meet Mike and Wolf. Mike's the skinny one; Wolf narrates. Having just finished high school, they're each taking two tabs of acid and then they're hitting the trail to get away from their humdrum lives. So begins Celebrated Summer, Charles Forsman's graphic novella following up his acclaimed debut book TEOTFW, in this downloadable 6-page excerpt. The book is due to hit shelves in a couple of months; pre-order direct from us now and you'll also receive a bonus mini-comic, a prequel of sorts focused on Wolf, as a free bonus.

Get ready for APE this weekend in San Francisco! Associate Publisher Eric Reynolds will be selling you all your favorite comics and a couple of new shiny debuts! Visit table 112-115 for a whale of a time with plenty of special guests. • Couch Tag by Jesse Reklaw  Veteran alternative cartoonist Jesse Reklaw, creator of the long-running weekly comic strip Slow Wave, delivers this tragicomic graphic memoir, his first long-form work. Presented as a series of comic novellas that together comprise a thoughtful, sometimes dark and often hilarious memoir about childhood, family, death, mental illness, sex and drug use, the…