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 Colin Marshall interviews Alexander Theroux about Laura Warholic on his latest Marketplace of Ideas podcast. Listen here. 

Tonight in Toronto: THE WORLD OF STEVE DITKO, a Canuckian book launch for Toronto author BLAKE BELL on Wednesday, June 18th from 7PM-9PM at the Lillian H. Smith Library (239 College St., Toronto). And yes, FREE.    

Pursuant to yesterday's link to NY Magazine's feature on BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON creator Dash Shaw, NY Mag's VULTURE blog follows-up with Dash's vision for a revamped GHOST RIDER (seriously) as well as offers an exclusive 20 page excerpt from BBB. For FREE! Meanwhile, Van Jensen interviewed Dash for CBR, and posted a review of BBB at ComicMix, calling it "the first great graphic novel of 2008."

Courtesy Lewis Trondheim. Watching Trondheim draw this freehand, in just a couple of minutes, was kind of incredible: 

I'm only going to one comic convention the rest of the year, and for only one reason.

Bookslut's "Indie Heartthrob" interview of the week features none other than our own Dash Shaw.

  Miss Lasko-Gross has a new 8-page strip online at SMITH mag. 

 Dash Shaw is profiled in New York Magazine. "Young Dash Shaw has written the graphic novel of the year," writes Dan Kois of BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON. Meanwhile, Rob Clough has a great review at Sequart.

Here's a bunch of autographs by EC/MAD folks — Jack Kamen, Al Fedlstein, Angelo Torres, Russ Heath & Marie Severin — as well as Michael Chabon.