An eighth installment of the acclaimed quarterly comics anthology spotlights the work of some of the contemporary world's most popular rising cartoonists, in a volume that features concluding chapters of Lewis Trondheim's "At Loose Ends" and contributions by 2006 Eisner Award Most Promising Newcomer nominees, including Jonathan Bennett and R. Kikuo Johnson. Original.

A first collection of the Eisner Award-winning illustrator's late-1990s comics work includes "King of Persia," "Swollen Holler," the bonus tale "Hails at Sea," and several additional pieces.

by Various This accessible, reasonably priced, quarterly anthology spotlights a cast of a dozen of today's most exciting cartoonists. Mome is quickly earning a reputation as one of the premiere literary anthologies on the market, and the only one compromised entirely of comics. Highlights of the seventh volume include: the concluding chapter of Lewis Trondheim's "At Loose Ends," an autobiographical diary comic that portrays the acclaimed French cartoonist at a crossroads in his life and work; the Mome debut of Portland cartoonist T. Edward Bak; contributions from Mome regulars such as 2006 Eisner Award "Most Promising Newcomer" nominees Jonathan Bennett and R. Kikuo Johnson, as well as Tim Hensley, David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, Sophie Crumb, Kurt Wolfgang, Martin Cendreda, and Gabrielle Bell.

A complete volume of Peanuts strips introduces the character of Woodstock and features such storylines as Snoopy's visit to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, Linus's involvement in Miss Othmar's teacher's strike, and the gang's short-lived baseball winning streak.

A complete volume of "Peanuts" strips covers a two-year period that places a particular focus on Snoopy in his "World War I Flying Ace" persona and includes a brief visit from Snoopy's original owner, Lila, in a collection that reflects the influence of the Vietnam war.

by Gilbert Hernandez Gilbert Hernandez returns to that funky little Central American hamlet of his with another story set in the "Sopa de Gran Pena" days starring "The Children of Palomar" - in this case the obnoxious and picked-on Gato (whom LR fans will remember as Pipo's husband-to-be), Soledad, Guero, Pintor, and Arturo. The quintet of troublemakers' explorations across a bottomless chasm results in two of the kids coming face to face with... well, we won't spoil the surprise. But Sheriff Chelo is on the case and saves the day! With the very earliest Palomar stories recently released in a redesigned and affordable format in the Heartbreak Soup volume, these new stories of Palomar come along at the perfect time, and the superswanky Ignatz format provides Beto with a perfect canvas.

There's few days left until Christmas. The characters from the apartmentcomplex introduced in the first issue continue to casually cross and meet, asthe ghostly rabbit follows and observes them, reporting back to his shadowymaster in the basement. Chiara goes to work and Marco spies on her with hisbinoculars. Nico plays at home, while his mother, Giulia, chats and smokes withher friends. Lorenzo steals his mother's earrings to buy some dope and get high.The children of the ghost family play in the garden. Meanwhile Angela, the oldwoman, is excited at her new project: She sends Irina to the library to pick upsome book about hallucinatory mushrooms and peyote. She repeatedly phones hernephew, a research worker living and working in the USA. She has plans involvingthe rabbit and his master. Is it possible to somehow guide thehallucinations?...