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Win a copy of the Fables novel Peter & Max

Peter and Max

I mentioned on Sunday that I really enjoyed the first Fables novel, Peter & Max, but don't take my word for it -- Vertigo is giving away 10 copies of the book on their blog. All you have to do is head over there and post who your favorite Fables character is and why. The only difficulty I'd have is choosing between Bigby, Boy Blue and Cinderella ...

What are you reading?

Labor Days Vol. 2

Welcome once again to What are you reading?, the weekly column where the Robot 6 team runs through what comics and other stuff they've been checking out lately. As Chris is in Bethesda this weekend, I'm filling in for him as your host.

Our special guests this time are Philip Gelatt and Rick Lacy, creators of the Labor Days graphic novels published by Oni Press. Volume two, Just Another Damn Day, is now available in finer retail establishments everywhere. (You can check out a preview here).

See what they've been reading, as well as the rest of the Robot 6 crew, after the jump ...

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What Are You Reading?

Love and Rockets New Stories #2

Welcome, welcome, welcome to another round of What Are You Reading. I am very pleased this week to say that our guest is Jeet Heer, the peerless critic and historian who, when not writing introductions for Little Orphan Annie or Krazy Kat collections, can be found at the Sans Everything or the Comics Comics blogs.

Jeet and the rest of the crew have been reading a lot this week and are eager to share, so get clicking on that link pardners.

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Straight for the art | Cliff Chiang's SDCC sketches

Bigby and Snow White

Artist Cliff Chiang shares several sketches he did while at the San Diego Comic Con last week, including Zatanna, Argent, Bigby and Snow White (above), Adam Strange and Green Arrow.

SDCC '09 | The annual Fables one-page tale

Every year at Comic-Con, the creators of Vertigo's Fables hands out an original one-page comic to the attendees of their Fables Forum panel. You can check it out below, thanks to the always delightful Pamela Mullin, who posted it on the Vertigo Graphic Content blog.

”In the past two years we’ve handed out one-page Fables comics at the San Diego show that were basically throwaway gag pages. For the first time we decided to go the other way and do a serious, very dramatic Fables story, one that has far-reaching consequences for the series to follow. This one-page comic hints at what the second hundred issues of Fables will all be about,” Willingham said.

With one last cover, James Jean says farewell to Fables

Jean's covers to "Fables" #81, Vol. 9, and #49

Vertigo's Fables #81 hit shelves this week, marking the final issue for award-winning cover artist James Jean. On his blog, Jean breaks down the process for this last cover, a nod to the Pietà featuring Red Riding Hood and Boy Blue, with plenty of references to other covers he's created for the series since 2002.

At Geekanerd, Degan bids farewell to Jean, whose "covers for Fables were easily the most beautiful, most poignant, and at times, the most sexy." It's a nice retrospective, with plenty of commentary on individual covers.