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SHOCK AND AWE AT GEORGETOWN SECOND SATURDAY ART ATTACK ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 Adventurous arts enthusiasts are again invited to invade Georgetown on Saturday, October 11 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM for the Georgetown Second Saturday Art Attack. This lively celebration of creative diversity features provocative programming in visual, performing, and applied arts at over 30 locations throughout the historic Georgetown industrial arts district. Among the many highlights: Georgetown artist Tina Randolph's cement and encaustic paintings on steel panels at Revival Home & Garden; a Day of the Dead group show, "Día de los Muertos," including Chris Lefebvre, Amaranta Ibarra,…

Today we're bringing you an advance look at Bill Schelly's upcoming biography of all-time comics great Joe Kubert, Man of Rock (coming next month). Click here if the slideshow doesn't appear above.

Flog!'s North Carolina Bureau Chief Rob Clough attended the opening of the Dash Shaw show at Duke this past Friday night and was kind enough to provide us with this exclusive report: 

Dash Shaw's show BOTTOMLESS at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University debuted on Thursday, September 25th. The well-attended opening was a multi-media affair that was as much about process as it was about a final product. The way that curator Diego Cortez designed the show gave a unique glimpse into Shaw's method. By juxtaposing Shaw's original pencils against his color sheets on the walls of the exhibit, the viewer could see the way Shaw composes color for his pages is unusual. On display were pencils and color pages from his webcomic BodyWorld and MOME short stories "Train" and the upcoming "Satellite CMYK". That latter story may well be his best effort yet.

There were also some other unusual entries, like a drawing Shaw made of himself and Barack Obama as surfers.

The Boston Phoenix talks to Robert Pollard about Town of Mirrors and his new band, Boston Spaceships.

About eight years ago I took these photos of Jim Lee's figure for Raphael, the Ninja Turtle. And, yes, I do dream of doing the equivalent of Batman Collected with TMNT. And, yes, I realize that I'm no Geoff Spear but, actually, the person I was trying to be in Photography school was David Levinthal.

This show includes Zak Sally and Tom Kaczynski and looks pretty darn good to me!    

Gary Groth, Kim Thompson and myself are all headed east this weekend to attend one of our favorite shows of the year:     Taking place Saturday and Sunday in Bethesda, MD, SPX is the last great East Coast show of the year, and we'll be there in full force with a slew of signings, events, debuts, etc. To wit:  FANTAGRAPHICS SPX SIGNINGS: SATURDAY 12PM: Paul Karasik & Miss Lasko-Gross1PM: Paul Karasik & Tim Krieder2PM: Dash Shaw & John Kerschbaum3PM: Dash Shaw 4PM: Lilli Carré  SUNDAY 12PM: Paul Karasik & Miss Lasko-Gross1PM: Lilli Carré2PM: John Kerschbaum & Tim Krieder3PM: Paul Karasik & Dash Shaw4PM: Dash Shaw FANTAGRAPHICS-RELATED PANELS: Sat. 1:00PM: Kim Thompson:…

Before you watch the McCain/Obama debate in a few minutes, get yourself in the right frame of mind by taking an advance look at American Presidents, our upcoming volume of Presidential portraits by master caricaturist David Levine (coming next month). Click here if the slideshow doesn't appear above.