Stuff about our books from around the web… pay close attention, there's some publishing news sprinkled in here:
• The Globe and Mail looks at various graphic novels including Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw
• The Star Clipper Blog reviews Sublife Vol. 1 by John Pham
• Spanish site Tinta Digital looks at King by Ho Che Anderson (Google translation)
• Lady, That's My Skull examines Ghost World: Special Edition by Daniel Clowes; Plastic Scene also gives it a look
• Hero Spy chooses Sergio Ponchione's Grotesque as its first-ever Featured Comic
• Comics' By Products praises Usagi Yojimbo Book 1: The Ronin by Stan Sakai
• Sequart examines Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers
• Sequart also rounds up four recent issues of titles in our Ignatz Series
• Newsarama strongly recommends Most Outrageous: The Trials and Tresspasses of Dwaine Tinsley and Chester the Molester by Bob Levin
• Comiquero gives Daniel Clowes' Eightball its due (en Español; Google translation)
• Mike Sterling notes a couple of interesting things about our latest volume of The Complete Peanuts
• The self-described "DC Nerd" at Comic Fodder also enjoys Tales Designed to Thrizzle by Michael Kupperman
• Conflict of Interest Dept: For comiXology, Kristy Valenti presents the first of a two-part essay on how Daniel Clowes' Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron "freaked [her] right out"
• Have you heard about our forthcoming anthology of abstract comics? Contributor Grant Thomas shares his contributions
• Speaking of forthcoming anthologies, here's a peek at another one, courtesy of cover colorist Jim Blanchard
• Metabunker checks out Scrublands by Joe Daly
• The Forbidden Planet International blog calls Mark Kalesniko's Alex "the best book about an alcoholic dog ever published"
• Ookworld takes a quick look at Krazy & Ignatz 1941-1942 by George Herriman
• Newsarama calls Jessica Farm Vol. 1 by Josh Simmons "a real stunner of a book"
• PLAYBACK:stl looks at The Portable Frank by Jim Woodring
• Something from 2006 that showed up in my alerts today for some reason and it's so good I'm sharing it again: for the Minneapolis City Pages, Zak Sally talks Popeye
• The Comic Book Haters video podcast takes on Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes (their faux poster is pretty great too)
Whew, I think this might be the longest list yet. Let's keep going with some interviews and other links of interest:
• Courtesy of Bully, a fine selection of Lucy Van Pelt beatdowns
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and The Globe and Mail profile David Levine
• As the Boston Spaceships tour rolls on, so do the interviews with Robert Pollard: Smile Politely, the Chicago Sun-Times (with an interesting look at Pollard's creative process for songwriting and visual art), the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• In The Wall Street Journal, Laura Warholic scribe Alexander Theroux reviews The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder
• Musician Ryan Adams enthuses about the artwork of Leah Hayes as seen on the cover of his new LP and in her two publications from Fantagraphics
• Calvin and Hobbes as drawn by Paul Hornschemeier
• Observe illustrator Bob Staake creating a New Yorker cover
• Comic Book Resources profiles Willie & Joe creator Bill Mauldin
• talking cupcake is a fan of Ray Fenwick
• Minneapolis City Pages declares "Jim Woodring is God"
• Comic Book Resources talks Zippy with Bill Griffith, who also answers reader questions at Boston.com
• Frankensteinia: The Frankenstein Blog looks at some Frankenstein-related early Roger Langridge work
• Here's Zak Sally again, talking about Jaime Hernandez and the Twin Cities Book Festival
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