Krazy and Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips 1925-1934
By George Herriman

We said we would never reprint it... but popular demand overwhelmed our will! Our second limited-edition printing of this deluxe hardcover (limited to 600 copies this time) compiles the first five Krazy & Ignatz softcover collections books we published, comprehensively collecting the years 1925 through 1934, under hard covers. It's not a slipcase, it's a single hardcover book. The covers to the original five softcover books are NOT included, but literally everything else is. And yes, we are similarly collecting the years 1935-1944 and, eventually, 1916-1924, as those softcover volumes are completed. (Since we get asked this once in a while — even though it's covered in the first one we did, at the end of the book, ahem — YES, we will go back and reprint the years prior to 1925, after we publish everything through 1944, when the strip ended.) Because of the limited nature of this item, we are not distributing this through traditional bookstores or Diamond distribution. A beautiful, must-have brick of a book for the Ignatz in you (though lobbing it at any unrequited love interests WILL cause serious physical harm — be warned).

600-page black & white 9" x 12" hardcover • $75.00
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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.

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.

Here are the book reviews that turned up around the web on this relatively quiet week:

• The incredibly-named I Love Rob Liefeld recommends Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 for fellow L&R newbies; the more sensibly-named Read About Comics looks at the issue as well; Johnny Bacardi gives it an "A" (scroll about halfway down)

• Former Fantagraphics intern Michael Jewell recommends The Complete Love and Rockets in Savannah College of Art & Design's District

• Brazilian blog Quadrinhos Coquettes takes note of Mome

• Comic Book Bin looks at Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell

• The Forager Blog takes a trip down Matthias Lehmann's HWY 115

• Comics And... Other Imaginary Tales takes an advance look at a few of our late-Fall releases

And some other articles of interest:

• Here's what appears to be all the dialogue from Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom translated into Japanese

• Comic Book Resources profiles Kevin Huizenga

• Thomas Ott: the Brad Pitt of scratchboard! (according to this funny Angry Mum cartoon)

• The Duke University Chronicle talks to Dash Shaw

• I hadn't seen this before: the Chicago Hero statuette from Chicago Comics, designed by Chris Ware and sculpted by Alex Ross

• Drawn! features David Levine

• The Boston Phoenix talks Boston Spaceships (his new band) and Town of Mirrors (his new book) with Robert Pollard

• If our selection of Fantagraphics iPhone wallpapers doesn't include what you're looking for, you can make your own like Tim of Sparky Malarkey did

Time for a new installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 32-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures. In this week's episode: somebody gets Rocky Roaded! (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

Chicagoans! You've got 2 hours to hie ye'self down to Quimby's to see a reading by Anders Nilsen at 7 PM. Sez Anders on his blog, "I'll be showing a sort of preview of the forthcoming Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes (Monologues II-Fantagraphics Books, due out in February) as well as a video-ized version of the strip Event, which first appeared in Mome, back in 2005, and was originally conceived as a video, not a comic strip. Which explains why it doesn't really look like one. Joe Meno and Arthur Nersesian are also reading."

Next week we'll be making a full announcement of all of our guests and programming at SPX (Oct. 4-5 in Bethesda, MD) — stay tuned! In the meantime, here's a 30-second YouTube commercial for the Expo to give you a glimpse of the scene:

We've got a brand-new selection of downloadable wallpapers featuring recent and upcoming Fantagraphics titles. Just click on the size that matches your monitor resolution and the image will open in a new window; if you're on a PC, right-click the image and select "Set As Background"; if you're on a Mac, control+click and select "Set As Desktop Background." (We don't know what the procedure is for iPhones, but if you have one, you probably do, right?) And for our complete selection of wallpapers, click right here!

Scheduled to arrive in comic shops across the U.S. today, a few of our most eagerly-anticipated titles of the year:

• The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 (Vol. 10) by Charles M. Schulz
• Ghost World: Special Edition by Daniel Clowes
• Sublife Vol. 1 by John Pham

As usual, you can read up on the books and check out our multimedia previews before you make the trip to your shop of choice by clicking the links above.