Daniel Clowes created the cover art for The Stranger this week

Inside you'll find a fantastic interview by Sean Nelson who calls The Complete Eightball "the stunningly smart and innovative comic that did what almost no other comic seemed able to do at the time: enter the culture of people who didn't like comics."
Read more: The Masterpiece That Helped Transform Comics and Culture

Over at the Seattle Weekly, Roger Downey writes that "It's an early but by no means immature work, establishing Clowes as perhaps the best exemplar extant of the underground-comic sensibility of the late 20th century."
Read more: Time in a Box: Fantagraphics Collect the First 18 Issues of Daniel Clowes' Eightball

You can listen to an interview with Lucy Knisley on NPR's Fresh Air as she discusses her latest travelogue, Displacement .
Listen here: 'Displacement': The Frustrations, Fears and Absurdities Of A Cruise Upended

Joe McCulloch reviews Arsène Schrauwen by Olivier Schrauwen in American Book Review, writing "This is a book of imagination and tale-telling."
Read more: A Silly Clown