Your late Friday Online Commentary & Diversions:
• Review: "Jaime [Hernandez]'s entry [in Love and Rockets: New Stories #1]… is like a huge riff on what might have happened if superhero comics started their evolutionary path by focusing on more female-centered concerns instead of testosterone-fueled fisticuffs… Gilbert's contributions are hard to describe, mainly because they are so surreal. They really have to be experienced and interpreted on your own." – John Jakala, Sporadic Sequential
• Plug: GrassrootsModern works in a nice mention of Beasts! Book 1 and Book 2 in their spotlight on Tiny Showcase
• Preview: Wow Cool gives our upcoming anthology Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s a major plug, saying "Bug your local shop to order about a thousand of these"
• Preview: Boing Boing Boing Boings Jordan Crane's forthcoming Uptight #3
• Interview: The National Post's huge spate of pre-TCAF Q&As includes one with Dash Shaw. Sample quote: "When I'm not drawing I just walk around wondering what to do. It's sad."
• Oddity: "…last night I had a dream about an issue of Thrizzle that was in a sideways format and written by Art Spiegelman and illustrated by Steve Ditko…" – Timmy Williams, The Daily Cross Hatch