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The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

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Fall Arts 2011 Calendar

The 10 Best Books of 2010

Vocoders, bohos, and a blast of vertigo (in alphabetical order).

Poodles and Haters

Fantagraphics marks three storied decades of Seattle cartooning.

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Fantagraphics marks three storied decades of Seattle cartooning.

How to Enjoy Fall Arts

Our master events calendar: what to do, practically every night, from now to the end of the year.

Bring Your Slug to Work

Events of note for the week of June 21-27, 2006.

Cartoon Network

Comic-strip artists here (and elsewhere) are gathering to skewer art-establishment elitism.

This Week's Reads

George Saunders, Lori Hinton, and Marc Romano.

Academy Award–Nominated Shorts

Also: Dear Frankie, Downfall, Nobody Knows, and Up and Down.

This Week's Cartoons

David B., Shel Silverstein, Posy Simmonds, Jaime Hernandez, Bob Callahan, and Ho Che Anderson

This Week's Reads

Susan Orlean, Lawrence LaRose, and Jerry Stahl

Saved by the Beagle

A year ago, Seattle's Fantagraphics was on the brink of bankruptcy. Now it's in the black, thanks to good ol' Charlie Brown—and a pair of dogged believers who turned a cranky fanzine into the most widely respected comics publisher in America.

This Summer's Cartoon Books

A year ago, Seattle's Fantagraphics was on the brink of bankruptcy. Now it's in the black, thanks to good ol' Charlie Brown—and a pair of dogged believers who turned a cranky fanzine into the most widely respected comics publisher in America.

Class Clown

The newest in the "best" shorts competition falls short.

They've got mail . . .

. . . and they're out for revenge.