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Bardín the Superrealist cartoonist Max created the story and visuals for Malasombra, a dance piece choreographed and performed by the AuMents Contemporary Dance Company at the at.tension Theater Festival taking place this weekend at Flugplatz Lärz near Neustrelitz, Germany. Info via the Reprodukt blog; hat tip to The Comics Reporter. UPDATE: Via Twitter Brian Kolm of Atomic Bear Press sent us this video trailer of the piece — boy does it ever look fun, and I love the Raymond Scott-esque music!

Mome 22 is finally out, and is quickly making its way into your favorite comic book stores, and your mailboxes. While you wait, we've been taking a look at some of the artists making their debut, and taking a bow, in our grand finale edition of Mome! Today, we shine the spotlight on Victor Kerlow! As I was putting together this Flog post, Mike looked over my shoulder and said, "His stuff looks like it's from The New Yorker…" AND GUESS WHAT? His stuff HAS been in The New Yorker! You can't get anything past that Mike Baehr. This kinda…

The Alternative Press Expo have unveiled the poster and program cover for the 2011 APE festival featuring artwork by special guest Shannon Wheeler, who we'll have at our table debuting his new book with Steve Duin, Oil and Water. Stay tuned for more APEy details and announcements!

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. The Hidden by Richard Sala 136-page full-color 8.25" x 8.25" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-386-6 "Then there’s also Richard Sala’s new book The Hidden ($19.99) about a group of strangers [description redacted due to being based on preliminary and out-of-date info – Ed.] during a global crisis. I’m going to want…

Lots and lots of images to share, and lots and lots of overflow spilling over into links: • We linked to this a while back in Daily OCD, but the interview with Lilli Carré at art:21 includes the first glimpse of her sketchbook I've ever seen (along with other art) and daaaang; Lilli also drew Groo the Wanderer for Matthew J. Brady 's theme sketchbook (there's a good one by Jeremy Tinder too) AND did this illustraton for The New York Times AND this amazing letterpress print • Is Barack Obama losing his indie cred? Drew Friedman shares his illustration…

Noah Van Sciver drew this poster for the annual pre-SPX "SPXplosion" party/comics reading/Nerdlinger Awards ceremony at Atomic Books in Baltimore on Friday night (Sept. 9, 2011, 7-9 PM)! And he will be there in person along with all the other fine folks listed on the poster and surely many others! And so should you be!

Lilli Carré made this illustration for the bookplate/prints to be affixed in books acquired by the Montgomery County Public Library through a donation from SPX's 2011 Graphic Novel Gift Program — man oh man, that is one lucky library, for the books AND the prints!

Tim Lane teases his forthcoming short story collection in-progress, Folktales, with this eye-popping splash page. The story will also run in an upcoming issue of Strapazin. This is one of those times when I regret that we discontinued Mome.

I've been hoping Michael Kupperman's animated segments for Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse show would show up online, and lo, here's one on YouTube as pointed out by Michael on Twitter — watch it before the Viacom copyright elves make it disappear…

Shimura Takako announces that her new 28-page doujinshi Aoikitoiki (青息吐息) can now be ordered through Comic Zin for ¥420. There are a few sample pages you can check out from each of the 3 short stories, "Eve Confesses," "Friend of My Brother" and "Cover Girl": (I don't know whether shipping is available outside Japan, but presumably if you're ordering this comic you read Japanese and can suss that out on the Comic Zin website.)