FLOG! Entries for Mike Baehr - September 2008

Now in stock: Krazy and Ignatz: The Complete Sunday Strips 1925-1934 (2nd Ed.)

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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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Preview video/slideshow: Man of Rock

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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.

Preview video/slideshow: American Presidents

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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.

Blogosphere roundup for 9/26/08

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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

Chocolate Cheeks for 9/26/08

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Nilsen at Quimby's TONIGHT!

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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."

See you at SPX

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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:

New desktop/mobile wallpaper downloads

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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!

NEW: Ghost World: Special Edition by Daniel Clowes
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NEW: Hey, Wait... by Jason
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NEW: Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers
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NEW: Mome Vol. 12 cover by Olivier Schrauwen
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NEW: The Portable Frank by Jim Woodring
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NEW: Sshhhh! by Jason
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NEW: Sublife Vol. 1 by John Pham
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New poll: Special Editions?

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We have a new poll on the website today: "Following Palestine and Ghost World, what should get the Special Edition treatment next?" Will your vote help a book idea become reality? Who knows! Look in the right column on Flog or our home page for the poll module and cast your vote. And click here for the results of our previous poll, "Which is your favorite of Jason's recent books?" It was a pretty close race!

New Comics Day 9/24/08

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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.

When Will It End?

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Two can play at this game. (Created without Tim's permission, but somehow I don't think he'll mind.)

The Office

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Our own Eric Reynolds recently posted some nice photos of our glamorous office on his Flickr page. Behold! (Above: our library.)

Now in stock: Castle Waiting Vol. II #12

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Castle Waiting Vol. II #12
By Linda Medley

This is the long-awaited special all-bowling issue, as Henry, Dayne, Chess, Tolly, Peace and Simon wage an all-out ninepin war... and it turns out one of them has heretofore unsuspected bowling skills! Like all good sports competitions it's a high-stakes battle to the very last frame. Meanwhile, back in the kitchen, Dinah and Jain pull out more and more dresses from the bottomless trunk and use a not-terribly-resistant Rackham to model them. All this, plus conjectures about what the heck's going on with the mysterious, elusive, and somewhat sinister Dr. Fell.

24-page black & white 6.75" x 10.25" comic book • $3.95
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Blogosphere roundup for 9/19/08

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This week's book buzz from blogs and beyond:

• The Forager Blog takes a concise look at You Can't Get There from Here by Jason (via Sean T. Collins)

• Jan Stephens looks at Tales Designed to Thrizzle by Michael Kupperman

• ComicList reviews Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell; also, Four Realities reprints Dave Sim's review of the book from Ditkomania

• Bust is "so beyond excited" for the release of Ghost World: Special Edition by Dan Clowes; Brazilian blog Suburbana plugs the book in Portugese

• Sean T. Collins on Jason's Pocket Full of Rain and other Stories

• The Daily Cross Hatch looks at The Portable Frank by Jim Woodring

• The Village Voice examines Deitch's Pictorama by the brothers Deitch

• The Forbidden Planet International blog looks at the UK edition of Maggie the Mechanic by Jaime Hernandez

Other internet items of interest:

• From Jessica Palmieri, photos of the opening reception of "Kim Deitch: A Retrospective" at MoCCA; WNYC profiles Deitch and presents two audio interview clips (via The Beat, who also report from the exhibit opening)

• A Fantagraphics rejection letter from 1995

• du9 presents an interview with Kevin Huizenga

• Rod McKie names Robert Crumb and Gahan Wilson two of the World's Greatest Living Artists

• Desk Space has a brief interview with Leah Hayes

As a reminder, you can keep up with these links in real time on our Delicious page and RSS feed, or by adding us to your Delicious network.

Preview video/slideshow: Castle Waiting Vol. II #12

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As promised, here's an advance look at the new upcoming 12th issue of Linda Medley's Castle Waiting Vol. II, the long-awaited bowling issue! It's in stores now and if all goes well we should have it in stock here on the website next week. Click here if the slideshow doesn't appear above.

Chocolate Cheeks for 9/19/08

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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: a change of scene. Also, Steven says "I've already redrawn the first panel, but I'll leave it like this for whomever wants to see it this week." Oo, exclusive outtake deleted bonus scene! (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

Upcoming book pre-order orgy!

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The following books are now available for pre-order! Click the cover images for more info about each book. And of course we'll be bringing you previews as the release dates get closer. All are expected to arrive between now and the end of October. For more, see our Upcoming Arrivals page.

(Coincidentally, today is Joe Kubert's 82nd birthday!)

And new editions of these out-of-print books by Jason:

New Comics Day 9/17/08

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Just one new title from us scheduled to arrive at comic shops today:

• Castle Waiting Vol. II #12 by Linda Medley

This is a rare instance of a title arriving in stores before we receive it ourselves, so head on down to your local store and snap it up! (Also, we haven't had a chance to upload the preview for this issue yet, but it's coming soon.)

Zak Sally: Rejected!

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Zak Sally presents two cartoons he submitted unsuccessfully to Nickelodeon magazine.

First look: The Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim Flora

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Flora-philes rejoice! On the Jim Flora blog, Irwin Chusid reveals the cover design for The Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim Flora, the third in our series of Flora art books, which is due just about a year from now.