Here are the book reviews that turned up around the web on this relatively quiet week:
• The incredibly-named I Love Rob Liefeld recommends Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 for fellow L&R newbies; the more sensibly-named Read About Comics looks at the issue as well; Johnny Bacardi gives it an "A" (scroll about halfway down)
• Former Fantagraphics intern Michael Jewell recommends The Complete Love and Rockets in Savannah College of Art & Design's District
• Brazilian blog Quadrinhos Coquettes takes note of Mome
• Comic Book Bin looks at Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell
• The Forager Blog takes a trip down Matthias Lehmann's HWY 115
• Comics And… Other Imaginary Tales takes an advance look at a few of our late-Fall releases
And some other articles of interest:
• Here's what appears to be all the dialogue from Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom translated into Japanese
• Comic Book Resources profiles Kevin Huizenga
• Thomas Ott: the Brad Pitt of scratchboard! (according to this funny Angry Mum cartoon)
• The Duke University Chronicle talks to Dash Shaw
• I hadn't seen this before: the Chicago Hero statuette from Chicago Comics, designed by Chris Ware and sculpted by Alex Ross
• Drawn! features David Levine
• The Boston Phoenix talks Boston Spaceships (his new band) and Town of Mirrors (his new book) with Robert Pollard
• If our selection of Fantagraphics iPhone wallpapers doesn't include what you're looking for, you can make your own like Tim of Sparky Malarkey did