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  Cartoonist Josh Simmons of The Furry Trap, House and the on-going Jessica Farm recently got behind the camera. Soon to be released, The Leader features the same home-brewed style of horror as Simmons' comics, the kind that happen in  your backyard or the parking lot of your local grocery store. Watch the trailer now and start counting your sleepless nights until this short film is released.

  Today the loverly interns, Matt and Mike, helped me set up the Geek Girl Con table. YES, we do have geek girl interns but they were working on some comic book stuff at home base. Ain't I lady enough? Geek Girl Con is from 9am-6pm on Saturday and 9-5 on Sunday. Stop by the booth 214 for some EXCELLENT Saturday signings at Noon to 2pm with Megan Kelso and Ellen Forney and from 3-5pm with  Justin Hall, Roberta Gregory. GGC is at The Conference Center, located at 8th and Pike in downtown Seattle, WA, right across the street from…

Everybody wants the Love and Rockets Northeast Tour flyer! And who can blame them? That iconic Jaime Hernandez artwork and our design wunderkind Tony Ong's coloring and typography are a killer combo. It's not for sale, but here's a free PDF download so you can print your own copy! Let's just say that it's licensed for individual non-commercial use, so no selling your printouts, OK? But if you live in one of the tour cities and want to print out a bunch to give away or even do a little volunteer street-teaming, we and the tour venues would dig that…

This much: That's our pal Gavin Lees in Reykjavik at Nexus, the only comic shop in Iceland, with their giant sign for Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes by Carl Barks! Thanks Gavin for sending the pic (and for the post title and lead-in which I stole from his email).

 Friday, Sept. 14 • Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 15 & 16 • SPX, Bethesda, MD Tuesday, Sept. 18 • Atomic Books, Baltimore, MD Wednesday, Sept. 19 • Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia, PA Friday, Sept. 21 • The Rock Shop, Brooklyn, NY Sunday, Sept. 23rd • Brooklyn Book Festival, Brooklyn, NY September 14th-23, the seminal Love and Rockets creators Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez will tour from Washington D.C. to Brooklyn as part of the 30th Anniversary of Love and Rockets. Signings and readings await the Northeast this fall. First stop on the Love and Rockets train…

Love and Rockets: New Stories #5 by Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez 104-page black & white 7.5" x 9.25" softcover • $14.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-586-0 Ships in: September 2012 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Order this or any other Love and Rockets book and receive this FBI•MINI comic shown at left as a FREE bonus! Click here for details. Limit one per customer while supplies last. How do you follow up a one-two punch like Jaime Hernandez’s stunning two-part masterpiece “The Love Bunglers” from LRNS #3 and #4, which sent Maggie and Ray’s relationship in a startling new direction, as well as…

The sweetest smelling Online Commentaries & Diversions:   •Review: Partially and fully-reviewed on Em & Lo and SUNfiltered respectively is new book Significant Objects by Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker. Em and Lo said, "The book also organizes the stories and objects into groups that will be more familiar to thrift-store shoppers, based on the items’ original intended use: novelty items, figurines, kitsch, toys, etc." •Plug: Significant Objects editor Joshua Glenn showed up on Benjamin Walker's WFMU show "Too Much Information" as a correspondant. As if you needed another reason to listen to TMI. •Plug: Bookstore of our dreams, Powells,…

The Love & Rockets 30th Anniversary tour is heading to the East Coast, and before their appearance at the 2012 Small Press Expo, you can catch the Brothers Hernandez in Washington DC! Join Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez at the Politics & Prose Bookstore on Friday, September 14th for a signing and celebration of 30 years of incredible storytelling, starting at 7:00 PM. This all-ages event is FREE and open to the public! Politics & Prose Bookstore is located at 5015 Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, DC.

We miscounted! It turns out that, almost 3 years after we first offered it to what appeared to be an almost-immediate sellout, we actually have 4 copies left of the Pim & Francie: Collector's Edition by Al Columbia. Each copy of this special limited Collectors Edition comes with an original sketch hand-drawn and signed by Al Columbia. This sketch is on a separate sheet of paper which is tipped in (inserted without adhesive) to the book. See below for a representative example of a typical sketch. This special edition was strictly limited to 50 copies and is available exclusively only…