It's time for your weekly installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks"! Ribs says this week's strip is "totally gangster style!" (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

With the new softcover edition of the first volume of Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace due any day now, we decided this would be a good time to reprint Brian Walker's informative introduction to the volume here on our website. Click on through to read!

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More photos from Saturday's launch party for the Peter Bagge-designed Manik Skateboards at our storefront can be seen here on Flickr.

Here's one more thing to whet your appetite for the arrival of Jason's Pocket Full of Rain: today we've posted the introduction by James Sturm here on our website for your reading enjoyment.

It's time for your weekly installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks"! In this week's strip: checkers with Chubby Cheeks. (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

Here's what's come up on our ego-surfing adventures this week:

• Jog on Funeral of the Heart by Leah Hayes and Insomnia #3 by Matt Broersma (plus a couple of non-Fanta titles)

• Jeff Trexler compares 1950s Dennis the Menace to Blue Velvet

• Notes from the Junkyard on Bob Powell's "The Wall of Flesh," which appears in The Comics Journal #290

• Scrubbles.net on The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960 (Vol. 5) (plus a handful of movies)

• Comics And...Other Imaginary Tales on Castle Waiting by Linda Medley

• Ruben Bolling on our forthcoming Humbug collection

• The Daily Cross Hatch on Funeral of the Heart by Leah Hayes

• The Stranger has a lunch date with Jules Feiffer's Explainers

• Matthew Brady on Perla La Loca by Jaime Hernandez

• Alan David Doane on Mome Vol. 11 and the Hernandez Brothers' Amor Y Cohetes

• USA Today Pop Candy's Whitney Matheson says she's "completely engrossed" in Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button

Here is the Strand bookstore's video widget, from which you can watch last night's Jules Feiffer presentation. (As a bonus, you can also watch Gary Panter with Jonathan Lethem.) If you come across this blog entry in the future and don't see the Feiffer link (or there's a live video feed going on), click the "highlights" tab; if you still don't see the link, click here to access the video on the Strand website. (And if you keep navigating the "highlights" tab, you'll find Alexander Theroux's reading from last February as well.)

Tell Dad "thanks" for not chucking your comics collection, or "sorry" for emulating Dennis the Menace, by giving him the gift of comics for Father's Day. Whether your Dad's a member of the Greatest Generation, a product of the Underground era, or just likes sexy pin-up cartoons (and what Dad doesn't), we've got the perfect gift. From now through Father's Day (June 15, 2008), save 15% on a selection of great Dad-centric gift items.

Today we've already brought you one sneak peek at Pocket Full of Rain, the upcoming collection of early work from Norwegian cartoonist Jason; now registered users can get a further free preview in the form of a downloadable 15-page excerpt from the title story. These previews are exclusive to registered Fantagraphics.com users, so sign up and/or sign in to view.

(As a reminder, 20/20 Club members receive these previews two weeks before we post them on the website, just one of many great reasons to join up...)

Another first look at an upcoming book today, this time Pocket Full of Rain, the hotly-anticipated collection of early work by Jason, which is due in June and now available for pre-order. Watch the video above and click here for a gallery of preview photos.