Fantagraphics Blog

Today's Online Commentary & Diversions (with one carried over from yesterday's post-less day): • Review: "Normally I wouldn’t put in a spoiler warning for a few blog notes, but this is a special case. I’m going to be talking about Love and Rockets: New Stories #3, which contains what is arguably one of the best comics stories ever… It’s so easy to take the Hernandez Bros. for granted: they’ve been around so long, put out work regularly, and often use the same characters. So the temptation is to just think that they’re a stable public resource, like the library or…

The Georgetown Art Attack returns to its old haunt on Saturday, October 9 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM with the diverse array of challenging visual and performing arts that have come to characterize this unique cultural outing since its inception in 2007. Please join us to celebrate the creativity of this singular Seattle arts community. Among the highlights of the October 9 Art Attack: "Developing a Translation of Relation," prints and drawings by Jameson Hubbard at the Georgetown Arts and Cultural Center; the haunted Georgetown Trailer Park will be granting treats to visitors in costume and Comet Lodge Mercantile is…

Behold Drew Friedman's glorious cover illustration for today's issue of The Village Voice, showing Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Andrew Breitbart, and Dr. Laura in their natural habitat. See it unsullied by typography (and read a comment from someone purporting to be Breitbart) on Drew's blog.

Al Roker talked to Jean Schulz about the upcoming 60th anniversary of Peanuts on NBC's Today show this morning. Watch video above or here.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Uni Keratin's VIVIAN VAGICORN. 

Hans Rickheit is selling the original pages for his 2009 graphic novel The Squirrel Machine, so if you're a fan of exquisitely crafted, highly detailed, mind-bending artwork, go pick out your favorite page before it's gone.

Periodic clips & strips — click for improved/additional viewing and possible artist commentary at the sources: • Jason presents two cover illustrations: one for a biography of Henrik Ibsen, the other for a 1989 issue of a Norwegian fanzine (oh yeah, and the cover for his next Fanta collection What I Did is in there too) • Steven Weissman's latest "I, Anonymous" spot and some sketchbook pages here and here • A couple of witty recent entries on the Covered blog: Valerie Fletcher's version of The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 and Anthony Vukojevich's take on Eightball #2 • Dave Cooper gives…

This week's comic shop shipment is slated to include the following new titles. Read on to see what comics-blog commentators are saying about our releases this week, and contact your local shop to confirm availability. Rip M.D. by Mitch Schauer & Michael Vosburg et al. 88-page full-color 7.5" x 9.25" softcover • $12.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-369-9 "[Rip M.D.] seems to be a comic more geared to a juvenile public, but should be pretty cool because there are a lot of monsters, really violent werewolves, zombies, and best of all, vampires that do not sparkle!" – Submundo Mamão (translated from Portuguese) "Rip M.D….

Quite possibly the world's first Beat Poet action figure, now available to order from Presspop in Japan! The figurine, packaging and accessories were all designed by Archer Prewitt (also responsible for their previous figurines of music pioneers Raymond Scott and Robert Moog) and feature a cloth jacket, glasses, beaded necklace, papercraft Uncle Sam hat and book, and a CD of live poetry readings. It's adorable!

Publishers Weekly presents a 10-page sneak preview of The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Vol. 1 by Jacques Tardi with the first 10 pages of part 1,"Pterror over Paris"!