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Today is New Comics Day! In the second series of comics to be released digitally after Love and Rockets going digital, Michael Kupperman's critically-acclaimed humor series Tales Designed to Thrizzle #3 and #4 are now available for download at $2.99 each. Thanks to comiXology you can buy issue #3 that has long been sold out featuring devil girls and their Owls, Snake'n'Bacon, The Mysterious Avenger, history of porno coloring books and much, much more. "Is there anything more delightful than a new issue of Michael Kupperman’s hilarious comics? …I submit to you that there is not." – Newsarama "Be warned:…

Speaking of cool clothes, the Love and Rockets shirts that premiered at Comic-Con International in San Diego for the L&R 30th Anniversary can now be on your back! Graphitti Designs is ready for your orders and has a whole new batch of shirts printed. Six different styles and one additional option for women's sizes (in the dark blue) makes it a bit hard to choose. Better buy them all!    

photo credit: our good pal Jonas Seaman Where do Fantagraphics staffers get all those cool t-shirts and hoodies that you see us wearing at conventions? Why, Americaware! And they just happen to be having a Summer Sale on t-shirts and hoodies featuring artwork by comics legends Peter Bagge, Jim Blanchard, Basil Wolverton and Jim Woodring. Those Woodring hoodies like the one I was wearing in San Diego are now 50% off! Blanchard tees, like the one I'm wearing in the pic above, are only $9.99! Even the full-color Woodring tees are 50% off! This sale is for a limited time…

 The short-toothiest Online Commentaries & Diversions:   •Plug: Island of Dr. Moral and Mome contributor Jem Eaton (aka Jeremy Eaton) is have a big ol' summer art blow out. From now until July 29th you can purchase original pages of art at half their normal price. Parodies galore in four color fury with that Eaton touch can hang on your wall; it is hard to pass up art with titles like ROCK NERD FEVER!   •Review: Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man gets a ringing endorsement from Captain Comics. Andrew Smith bluntly states, "If you're not buying…

Hey, look what came out while we were at Comic-Con! It's in comic shops now and available from our mail-order operation: Tales Designed to Thrizzle #8 by Michael Kupperman 32-page full-color 6.75" x 9.5" comic book • $4.95 See Previews / Order Now BARGAIN COMBO: Tales Designed to Thrizzle – Thoroughly Thrizzled Pack Price: $44.34 $35.47 Add to Cart Break out your crayons as Red Warren, "America's Grandpa," brings you his highly educational "Train & Bus Coloring Book." The guests at a sophisticated weekend party sure get nervous when a certain mystery writer shows up on her goat. Learn the…

Recently arrived and now shipping from our mail-order department: No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics by various artists; edited by Justin Hall (cover art by Maurice Vellekoop) 328-page black & white/color 7.75" x 10.25" hardcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-506-8 See Previews / Order Now Queer cartooning encompasses some of the best and most interesting comics of the last four decades, with creators tackling complex issues of identity and a changing society with intelligence, humor, and imagination. This book celebrates this vibrant artistic underground by gathering together a collection of excellent stories that can be enjoyed by all. No Straight…

Recently arrived and now shipping from our mail-order department: Significant Objects edited by Joshua Glenn & Rob Walker 242-page full-color 6" x 8.25" flexibound softcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-525-9 Available with two different covers (book design by Jacob Covey) — make your choice when ordering. See Previews / Order Now Significant Objects began in 2009 as a bold online inquiry into the relationship between narrative and the value of everyday objects. It has been the subject of speculation by everyone from NPR to litbloggers to The New York Times’ Freakonomics crew. Some theorized about the project’s hypothesis, others about its methods…

Sooooo, I'm at Seattle's Pike Place Market yesterday morning with my daughter near the fish-throwing guys. We're standing out on the curb next to an empty cop car, waiting for a friend. The back seat windows in the cop car are rolled down and I just happen to catch something out of the corner of my eye. I look closer, between the bars, the backseat is completely empty aside from a large ziplock bag with something familiar inside…   Evidence of a crime scene? Something more nefarious? If there are any Seattle law enforcement officials who can shed some light…

  In all the Comic-Con prep and lead up, you might have missed a very nice preview of Jaime Hernadez's God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls. Ada Price of Publishers Weekly on God and Science says,"This 7 page preview showcases young super-heroines contrasted with super-heroines at the end of their careers, a raucous prison break, and a confrontation in space." Seven solid black-and-white pages await you.   PW also shared the love for Jaime Hernandez in a God and Science review stating,"For what's essentially an evocative throwback to the kid's superhero comics of yore, there's a lot going on…

Well, what can I say, but… ╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ No, actually, I have to say it was the BEST SDCC EVER!  And here's a buncha reasons why: • In honor of Eisner-winner Tom Spurgeon, I'm gonna write this FLOG post in bullet point, Comics Reporter-style.  As our own Steven Weissman said on Twitter, Tom was everyone's Comic-Con crush this year.  Getting to hang out with him was definitely one of my highlights, and I was delighted to hear stories of the olden days of Fantagraphics, sigh.  God, we're so boring and nice now. • Speaking of Tom, his brother Whit wins…