No update next week due to Comic-Con, but the next one will be a two-fer. In this week's web reviews:
• The Stranger weighs in on Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button
• Sean T. Collins looks at Mome Vol. 11
• The Toronto Star, Newsarama, Javier Hernandez, ComicMix and Maclean's on Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell – see this previous Flog post for even more recent links related to this book
• On the NPR website, Laurel Maury looks at Willie & Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin; The Miami Herald also takes a look
• Til the Last Hemlock Dies looks at I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! by Fletcher Hanks
• Vice loves Johnny Ryan's Angry Youth Comix #14
• Sequart continues their detailed examination of Love and Rockets Vol. 1 with issue #34
• Sequart also looks at the anthology fanzine Mineshaft #19
• Sequart additionally examines The Comics Journal #291
• The Alex Ross Collector looks at Ross's covers for TCJ #216 and #223
• Newsarama digs the Comic Arf anthology
In other news:
• Here's what the hardworking Roger Langridge is up to lately
• Empire magazine names Usagi Yojimbo the 31st-greatest comic book character of all time (the highest-ranking alt-comics character on the list is Vladek Spiegelman, at #13)
• du9 presents a 2004 interview with Daddy's Girl author Debbie Drechsler
• The latest cat-n-comix find on Flickr, from user "contrasts":
