The thirteenth issue of literary magazine McSweeney's is devoted entirely to comics with graphic contributions from a veritable 'who's who' of avant garde creators including R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, Los Bros Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, and Julie Doucet and essays from Michael Chabon, Ira Glass, John Updike, and Chip Kidd.  Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan) edited the enormous 260-page hardcover, which comes with an elaborate dust jacket that contains two mini-comics, and retails for a very reasonable (considering the package) $24.00. 

The new issue of McSweeney's, which Rory Root of Comic Relief in Berkeley, told ICv2, 'reminds me of RAW magazine more than anything else I've seen in a long time,' has been in some stores for over a week and has been selling very well.  One distributor sold out a shipment of over 700 copies in a single day, and Root, whose store is one of the biggest venues for independent, alternative comics in the country, told ICv2 that the new issue was 'selling like hotcakes.'