For everyone who has missed out on getting tables at SPX, I just noticed this on their website:

EXHIBITORS

Registration for 2007 will open on January 21, 2007. Forms will be available for download then.

See: http://www.spxpo.com/registration.shtmlI really encourage folks wanting to exhibit at SPX to register as quickly as possible. It is a ( Read more... )

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I urge everyone to pre-order Nick Bertozzi's The Salon, being published by Griffin Books. The Salon is now being offered in the Diamond Previews catalog for you to pre-order for purchase at your favorite comic book store. You can find it on page 281 of the Previews catalog and the Diamond Item Code for The Salon is: JAN07 3652. The book should ( Read more... )

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Publishers Weekly has a new interview with cartoonist Dash Shaw about his new The Mother's Mouth graphic novel from Alternative Comics:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6397274

Wayne Alan Brenner of The Austin Chronicle has new reviews of a number of Alternative Comics graphic novels, including:

• The Mother's Mouth


• The Placebo Man


• Pizzeria Kamikaze

Library Journal today has their Xpress Reviews - "First Look at New Books" -- including reviews of twenty-one graphic novels:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6401099.html#Graphic

Included is their review of Pizzeria Kamikaze by Etgar Keret and ( Read more... )

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Today's CNN story about the world’s tallest living man at 7’9” being called to help save a dolphin (by reaching down its throat to remove a hunk of plastic) led me to do some Google image searches for Bao Xishun.


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