Blogosphere roundup for 7/18/08

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":

Monday night by contrasts on Flickr