Good news for people who pre-order Ghost World: Special Edition! Not only are you entered in our drawing for the limited-edition Ghost World exhibit silkscreen print, but the first 50 people to order the book (including everyone who's already ordered) will receive a FREE exclusive bookplate (shown above) signed by Daniel Clowes! This means they're already over half gone, and the book is due to arrive from the printer imminently, so the poster contest will be over soon... get your order in NOW!

Here's what you'll find from Fantagraphics on the "new arrivals" racks at your friendly neighborhood comic shop tomorrow (subject to last-minute change):

• Krazy & Ignatz 1943-1944: He Nods in Quiescent Siesta
• Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard
• Fuzz & Pluck in Splitsville #5 by Ted Stearn (reoffered)
• Interiorae #3 by Gabriella Giandelli

I've also seen these listed by unofficial sources; who knows?

• The Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 14 (New Printing)
• Sammy the Mouse #2 by Zak Sally

Be an informed customer by checking out our descriptions and previews at the links above, and happy shopping!

Following yesterday's look at the newest volumes in our Krazy & Ignatz series of Krazy Kat reprint volumes, here's a look at an upcoming reprint: The Complete Sunday Strips 1925-1934, the giant hardcover compiling the 5 volumes covering the strip's second decade, in a second limited edition. Click here if the slideshow doesn't appear above.

The email one gets when one works at a comics publisher is way more fun than the email one gets when one works at, say, a shoe company.

Later this month, the great Robert Pollard will head out on tour with his new band, Boston Spaceships (featuring former GBV bassist Chris Slusarenko and Decemberists drummer John Moen), to promote not one but two new albums, as well as his first book, our very own Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard. Pollard will have ToM for sale at each stop on the tour, so don't forget to hit that ATM on the way down to the show.

The tour kicks off Sept. 25th in Chincinnati. Don't miss it! 

• Thu 9/25 Cincinnati OH - Midpoint Music Festival
  
• Fri 9/26 Cleveland OH - Grog Shop
  
• Sat 9/27 Washington DC - Black Cat
  
• Mon 9/29 Philadelphia PA - Johnny Brendas
  
• Tue 9/30 Boston MA - Paradise
  
• Wed 10/1 New York City - Highline Ballroom
  
• Fri 10/3 Ann Arbor MI - Blind Pig
  
• Sat 10/4 Dayton OH - Dayton Music Festival
  
• Mon 10/6 Chicago IL - Double Door
  
• Tue 10/7 St Paul MN - Turf Club
  
• Thu 10/9 Champaign IL - High Dive
  
• Fri 10/10 St Louis MO - Bluebird
  
• Sat 10/11 Memphis TN - Hi Tone
  
• Tue 10/14 Austin TX- Parish
  
• Wed 10/15 Dallas TX - The Loft
  
• Fri 10/17 Atlanta GA - The Earl
  
• Sat 10/18 Nashville TN- Mercy Lounge
  

Also, Pollard & Co. are sponsoring a contest to create the first official Boston Spaceships music video. There's a week left in the voting, go here to check out the finalists. Here's my favorite:

During those heady mid-1990s, Seattle's The Stranger (which has employed, at times, a slew of comics-related folks, from co-founder James Sturm, to former art directors Jason Lutes, Joe Newton, and Dale Yarger, and columnists like Tom Spurgeon and yours truly) was a hotbed for local cartooning. Strips would come and go and you could always count on the paper's back page for some quality cartoons. One of my all-time favorite Stranger strips was a short-lived feature by Jeremy Eaton, called Jackass. This surreal gem featured a disembodied head at the mercy of Eaton's imagination, and the results were always a great blend of humor, Dada, and handsome cartooning.

The reason I mention the strip is that Eaton has written a pretty great post-mortem of the strip, ten years later, featuring everything you could possibly hope to learn about Eaton's process along the way. Once you're done reading it, go buy the collection from our own Jason T. Miles' press, Drink Me.  

We've added several new books to our roster of titles which are available with FREE signed bookplates as a bonus when you order directly from us! They include:

Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell (signed by Bell, not by Ditko... are you crazy?)
Deitch's Pictorama by Kim, Seth and Simon Deitch (shown below - signed by Kim only)
Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers (shown above - signed by both Gilbert and Jaime!)
The Education of Hopey Glass by Jaime Hernandez
Perla La Loca by Jaime Hernandez
Beyond Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez
Amor Y Cohetes by Gilbert, Jaime & Mario Hernandez (signed by all 3!)

Some conditions apply; click here for more details and the complete list of books available with this FREE premium!

Here's a slightly belated look at the two ultimate entries (until we go back and reprint the early Eclipse volumes) in our Krazy & Ignatz series of Krazy Kat reprint volumes: 1943-1944 (top) and The Complete Sunday Strips 1935-1944, the giant hardcover compiling the last 5 volumes (bottom). Watch these video/photo slideshow teasers for exciting fold-out action, glinting gold foil stamping, and more. Click here and here if the slideshows don't appear above.

... though it's quite an impressive forgery of his late-1980s style:

Spotted HERE.