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Reviews and commentary found 'round the Web this week: • ComicMix on the latest volume of The Complete Peanuts • Occasional Superheroine and The Comics Reporter on Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button — the latter's Tom Spurgeon enthuses "Bottomless Belly Button reaches so high and executes so much of what it does so well that it shames you into reconsidering every other book you may have praised recently." • Newsarama on The Last Musketeer by Jason • Comics Worth Reading's Johanna Draper Carlson explains why she named Linda Medley's Castle Waiting one of the "Best of 2006" • Sequart on…

From Irwin Chusid: Jim Flora Art LLC continues its limited edition fine art print series with an uncirculated black & white pen and ink drawing from the mid-1990s entitled Sunday Morning. This is the latest-life work by the artist we have offered in a numbered edition. Two prints are now listed on eBay at a launch price [now sold out]. Price will increase for subsequent prints in the edition. Our previous limited edition prints are available at JimFlora.com. Fine art works: http://www.jimflora.com/fineartworks.html Album cover art: http://www.jimflora.com/albumcoverart.html

You can stream the Mr. Media interview with Jules Feiffer, which broadcast yesterday, with this handy dandy BlogTalkRadio player right here: Open in your default playerDetach into a separate window

Dash Shaw reveals a page from "Satellite CMYK," his contribution to Mome Vol. 13 (coming this Fall).

Loads of Shag fans came out for his exhibit opening and book signing at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery last weekend. Even Dan Pussey dressed up for the occasion! See lots more photos in our Flickr stream, and our pal "Sedanman" has a great set, too.

Attention MySpace friends, Facebook fans, Flickr contacts, Twitter followers etc! This week is your last chance to save 20%-25% off all your online purchases at Fantagraphics.com as part of our 2nd Annual Fantagraphics Online Friends Appreciation Sale, which ends Saturday May 31. Click here for all the details!

Opening June 7 at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, a Steve Brodner solo exhibit titled "Raw Nerve." See a preview here. (Via Steve's "Person of the day" blog.)

Here's the past week's worth of blogospheric activity that we've found: • Occasional Superheroine says Kevin Huizenga's Ganges #2 is "a must-have" • Sequart on Ganges #2 and Matt Broersma's Insomnia #3 • The Star Clipper Blog on The Living and the Dead by Jason • I Against Comics and the North Coast Journal on The Education of Hopey Glass by Jaime Hernandez • Chris Beckett profiles our Mome anthology series and interviews co-editor Gary Groth

It's time for your weekly installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks"! Ribs says this week's strip is "totally gangster style!" (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

With the new softcover edition of the first volume of Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace due any day now, we decided this would be a good time to reprint Brian Walker's informative introduction to the volume here on our website. Click on through to read!