The Internet weighs in on our books this week:
• The Times names Daddy's Girl by Debbie Drechsler and Funeral of the Heart by Leah Hayes two of "the summer's best graphic novels"
• NPR.org reviews and excerpts Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw; Sean T. Collins calls BBB "a deeply pleasurable, and rewarding, read"
• Sean T. Collins also digs into Mome Vol. 12
• Chris Allen reviews Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell
• Jeff Lester thinks Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 is so nice, he reviews it twice: once for The Savage Critics, once for io9; plus more reviews from The Star Clipper Blog and Marc Singer; Rocketship also gives it a quick plug
• Our favorite fictional comic shop clerk recommends several of our new releases (though her page count for The Portable Frank is missing a zero)
• If you can read Greek, maybe you can tell us what Back to Mono is saying about Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes
• Speaking of Clowes, Amazon's Omnivoracious blog gives the rundown on Ghost World: Special Edition
And in other links:
• Mome artist Tim Hensley discovers Comic Life
• Here's a great poster by Tim Lane
• The Comics Reporter interviews John Pham
• Back to School with Johnny Ryan! Plus, how 'bout some Angry Youth Comix-based fan art? (links NSFW, as if it needs saying)
• Stephen DeStefano has a tale of meeting Ditko
• Found via Delicious: Annotations of The Complete Peanuts on WikiBooks
• Noah Berlatsky has contrary opinions about Kim Deitch, particularly his cover for The Comics Journal #292
• The New York Times looks at the "R. Crumb's Underground" exhibit in its current incarnation at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art
• I'm not sure what this is all about, but there's a lovely picture of Jimbo in Purgatory with a couple of other oversized comics books
• Photographer Seth Kushner takes a spooky portrait of Michael Kupperman
• For her column at comiXology, The Comics Journal assistant editor Kristy Valenti runs down the Ivan Brunetti/Dan Clowes/Adrian Tomine panel at Bumbershoot
• The Oregonian talks about Crumb and the undergrounds with Rebel Visions author Patrick Rosenkranz
• Ger Apeldoorn has scans of a vintage profile of and cartoons by Hank Ketcham
• Bob Levin has a funny anecdote about interviewing S. Clay Wilson for the next issue (#293) of The Comics Journal
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