Our weekly compilation of online reviews and such:
• Madinkbeard (aka Derik Badman) examines Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw
• Jog examines Deitch's Pictorama
• Comic Book Bin looks at Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 by the Hernandez Brothers; L.S.D. – Letras Sin Desperdicio also checks it out
• Publishers Weekly looks at Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975 by Patrick Rosenkranz
• Sequart gets in the first word on John Kerschbaum's Petey & Pussy, calling it "one of the best [books] of the year to date"
• The Guardian reprints excerpts from Matt Groening and Jonathan Franzen's introductions to The Complete Peanuts 1955-1956 and 1957-1958 respectively as those volumes see UK release
• Johnny Bacardi weighs in on Meat Cake #17 by Dame Darcy
• Artvoice looks at Krazy and Ignatz 1943-1944: He Nods in Quiescent Siesta by George Herriman
Here's the "and such":
• For Legacy.com, Zak Sally memorializes E.C. Segar
• On her website, Ellen Forney demonstrates some of her snazzy wedding invitation designs
• Johnny Ryan: ready for Halloween
• Here's a report from last Saturday's Cosmocopia event at our bookstore
• Scene Magazine looks at the Los Angeles Farmer's Market through the eyes and pen of Mark Kalesniko
• Print comments on the Vanity Fair interview with David Levine
• Drinks with Tony has a 3-part audio interview with Daniel Clowes from 2006 (an old link which resurfaced on Lout Shelter)
• Freezerbox profiles Bill Mauldin
• Comic Book Resources talks to Robert Goodin
• Drawn highlights John Cuneo's illustrations for the Society of Illustrators' call-for-entries poster for Illustration 51
• Conflict of Interest Dept. again: for comiXology, TCJ assistant editor Kristy Valenti interviews Tim Hensley about his soundtrack, as Victor Banana, for Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes
• Snake Eating Its Own Tail Dept: Love and Rockets/Comics Journal advertiser popidiot gives a nice plug to those publications on their blog, so here's some free extra advertising for them
• Sharing the sketchbook love: here's Nightcrawler as drawn by Colleen Coover, Jordan Crane, Linda Medley, and many others (via Drawn)