FLOG! Entries for Mike Baehr - May 2008

Chocolate Cheeks for 5/30/08

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Kick off your weekend right with your weekly installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks"! In this week's strip... just what did "Sweet" Chubby Cheeks see at the park? (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

Search and ye shall find

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We're in the process of making a few enhancements to the website here, one of which was launched today: now you can select to search our products by title only, or by full description, by checking the buttons that say "Titles" or "All" respectively on our Product Search bar to the left. (Before, you had to go to our Advanced Search page to narrow your search like this.) We hope this makes finding what you're looking for just a bit quicker and easier!

Blogosphere roundup for 5/30/08

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Reviews and commentary found 'round the Web this week:

• ComicMix on the latest volume of The Complete Peanuts

• Occasional Superheroine and The Comics Reporter on Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button — the latter's Tom Spurgeon enthuses "Bottomless Belly Button reaches so high and executes so much of what it does so well that it shames you into reconsidering every other book you may have praised recently."

• Newsarama on The Last Musketeer by Jason

• Comics Worth Reading's Johanna Draper Carlson explains why she named Linda Medley's Castle Waiting one of the "Best of 2006"

• Sequart on Willie & Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin

• Sequart again on Ellen Forney's Lust

• Sexuality in the Arts and Noah Berlatsky each comment on the Schulz feature in The Comics Journal #290 (the former via Uncivilsociety.org)

• Dick Hyacinth places Jessica Farm Vol. 1 by Josh Simmons and Ganges #2 by Kevin Huizenga on his "Halfway point (more or less) best of 2008" list

• The Star Clipper Blog on R. Kikuo Johnson's Night Fisher

Bonus! Here are some non-review links:

• My Year Online reports on Martin Kellerman's appearance at the Oslo Comics Expo

• Our pals at WFMU are auctioning a copy of the first printing of Love and Rockets #1 with Fantagraphics co-founder Mike Catron's business card stapled to the cover

• A fan report from last weekend's Shag event at our storefront

• What happens when you read too much Daniel Clowes

• Art Speculum and Kim Ditch?

• Speaking of Kim Ditch Deitch, here's a portrait of him (and Waldo the Cat) by photographer Seth Kushner:

Jim Flora's Sunday Morning

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From Irwin Chusid:

Jim Flora Art LLC continues its limited edition fine art print series with an uncirculated black & white pen and ink drawing from the mid-1990s entitled Sunday Morning. This is the latest-life work by the artist we have offered in a numbered edition. Two prints are now listed on eBay at a launch price [now sold out]. Price will increase for subsequent prints in the edition. Our previous limited edition prints are available at JimFlora.com.

Fine art works:
http://www.jimflora.com/fineartworks.html

Album cover art:
http://www.jimflora.com/albumcoverart.html

Listen to Jules Feiffer

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You can stream the Mr. Media interview with Jules Feiffer, which broadcast yesterday, with this handy dandy BlogTalkRadio player right here:

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Dash Shaw's Satellite CMYK

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Dash Shaw reveals a page from "Satellite CMYK," his contribution to Mome Vol. 13 (coming this Fall).

Shag pix

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Loads of Shag fans came out for his exhibit opening and book signing at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery last weekend. Even Dan Pussey dressed up for the occasion! See lots more photos in our Flickr stream, and our pal "Sedanman" has a great set, too.

Online Friends Sale: final days!

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Attention MySpace friends, Facebook fans, Flickr contacts, Twitter followers etc! This week is your last chance to save 20%-25% off all your online purchases at Fantagraphics.com as part of our 2nd Annual Fantagraphics Online Friends Appreciation Sale, which ends Saturday May 31. Click here for all the details!

Steve Brodner's Raw Nerve

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Opening June 7 at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, a Steve Brodner solo exhibit titled "Raw Nerve." See a preview here. (Via Steve's "Person of the day" blog.)

Blog review roundup for 5/23/08

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Here's the past week's worth of blogospheric activity that we've found:

• Occasional Superheroine says Kevin Huizenga's Ganges #2 is "a must-have"

• Sequart on Ganges #2 and Matt Broersma's Insomnia #3

• The Star Clipper Blog on The Living and the Dead by Jason

• I Against Comics and the North Coast Journal on The Education of Hopey Glass by Jaime Hernandez

• Chris Beckett profiles our Mome anthology series and interviews co-editor Gary Groth

Chocolate Cheeks for 5/23/08

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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.)

Read the intro from our first Dennis the Menace volume

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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!

Hate & skate

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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.

Read James Sturm's intro to Jason's Pocket Full of Rain

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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.

Chocolate Cheeks for 5/16/08

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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.)

Blog review roundup for 5/16/08

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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

Feiffer at the Strand - video

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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.)

Father's Day sale

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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.

Members Preview: Pocket Full of Rain

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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...)

Sneak peek video & photos: Pocket Full of Rain

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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.