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(Click for larger image) A message from Mark Bode: Hello out there, just a note to people who may want a Bode tattoo and live or are visiting in Europe I will be tattooing at Evil From The Needle, 232 Camden High street in London, on the dates above. I will be tattooing by appointment only so you must call ahead of time. Thanks! Mark Bode

• Drawn! names Ray Fenwick's Hall of Best Knowledge one of their Favourite Comics and Art Books of 2008 • Boing Boing spotlights Paul Di Filippo and Jim Woodring's Cosmocopia (you may remember the release party at our bookstore, where you can still purchase copies) • Venus Zine falls in love with The Lagoon by Lilli Carré • The Vancouver Courier reviews Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw • This much-discussed article by Steven Grant at Comic Book Resources has some nice things to say about Explainers by Jules Feiffer and Willie & Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin…

Presenting "Soft 9/11," conceived by Johnny Ryan, sewn by Jenny Ryan.

Some Fanta artist previews for the Post-It Show 3 at GR2. December 13, 2008 – January 14, 2009Reception: Saturday, December 13, 6:30 -10:00 Curated by artists Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson and Giant Robot, the exhibition is slated to feature nearly 2,000 works by over 95 noted contributors each starting at only $20. These pieces will be on standard-sized 3 x 3 Post-It notes. (Larger sizes of 4 x 4 and 6x 6 will also be available.) Tim Hensley: Steven Weissman: Johnny Ryan: (*Speaking of Mark Todd — he has a show at La Luz in LA coming January…

Don't forget, if you want your order shipped by our Standard shipping option within the U.S. to arrive before Christmas, tomorrow (Friday, December 12) is the deadline to get your order in! (UPDATE: our shipping folks have informed me that if you're shipping to a P.O. box, you'll want to select First Class or Priority Mail shipping rather than Standard.) After that, you'll have until Monday for USPS Priority Mail delivery and until next Friday for 2nd Day UPS. We'll post reminders for those deadlines as well. If you need some gift suggestions, check out our handy Holiday Gift Guide…

Or anything about the depictions involved. But I like it. More here.

Now available at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle: capacious, durable, environmentally-friendly canvas tote bags emblazoned with the likeness of Dan Pussey, the store's official mascot, as drawn by Daniel Clowes. These sturdy, smart-looking bags measure 18" x 12" x 6" — enough room for about a dozen copies of Gary Panter's Jimbo in Purgatory, one of our largest books — and have reinforced nylon webbing handles for your heaviest loads. Sure to last through years of comic conventions, farmer's markets, record stores, etc., all while broadcasting your excellent taste in comics and keeping pounds of paper and plastic…

• Newsarama talks to Greg Sadowski, editor of our forthcoming anthology of early Golden Age superhero stories Supermen! (with a bonus deleted story) • Dick Hyacinth's best-of-the-year long list includes his thoughts on a full baker's dozen of our 2008 releases • The River Cities' Reader includes Robert Pollard's Town of Mirrors in its holiday recommendations of rock-related coffee table books • At Comics Comics, Frank Santoro rediscovers an Eros Comix classic from the 1990s

Some magazine out there could do a lot worse than hire a 21-year old Australian to become their staff portraitist. For what it's worth, I really like what she's doing.