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Well that didn't take long: as promised, here's the second half of comics podcast The Backroom's video interview with Peter Bagge. Again, pardon the advertisements.

  Variety has the first news I've seen on Peter Bagge's development deal with FOX for a TV-show based on his Fantagraphics book, THE BRADLEYS.   

Today we received the first bound copy of Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons at the office, and much productive time was lost as we all gathered around to paw over it and snap blurry, grainy cameraphone pictures. UPDATE: Whoops, I jumped the gun there on that teaser — justifiably proud art director Jacob Covey has a better reveal planned, so forget what you've seen here and stay tuned! Sorry Jacob!

Comics podcast The Backroom (based out of my neighborhood comic shop) presents part 1 of a video interview with Peter Bagge (plus some commercials). We will, of course, bring you part 2 when it's posted.

Your latest batch of Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "Sometimes… an issue [of Mome] manages to hit perfectly, striking the ideal balance between new blood and Fantagraphics mainstays. It’s a standard that Volume 16 meets and exceeds, making for the best addition to the quarterly series in recent memory. … Taken together, it’s a vital and vibrant sign of life for both the series and the indie comics community at large." – Brian Heater, The Daily Cross Hatch • Review: "The aptly titled From Wonderland With Love features the best of contemporary Danish comics––and with weather like they have…

Monte Schulz appears on Shokus Internet Radio today from 4-6 PM Pacific Time for a 2-hour chat about his new novel This Side of Jordan. (And if you can't tune in, the program will be rebroadcast daily at the same time through Tuesday, October 20.)

Scheduled to make their way to comics shops this week: Mome Vol. 16 – Fall 2009 (note: mistakenly listed as Summer 2009 on Diamond's shipping list) – with the Mome debuts of cover artist Renee French, Nicolas Mahler, Archer Prewitt, & Ted Stearn, plus the usual mess of other great stuff. You Are There by Jacques Tardi & Jean-Claude Forest – the landmark Eurocomics graphic novel, newly translated and presented for North American audiences for the first time. More info and previews can, of course, be seen at the links above, so have a look-see, confirm availability with your local…

District of Columbians! This Sunday Oct. 18 at 5 PM at Politics & Prose, Paul Karasik presents "The Fletcher Hanks Experience!" a multimedia extravaganza narrated by Fletcher Hanks, Jr.! Buy a copy of You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!, get it signed with a sketch, and get a free Fletcher Hanks coloring book (with a super cool cover by Mr. Charles Burns). More info here; RSVP on Facebook here.

Holy smokes, there's no shortage of Online Commentary & Diversions today: • Review: "…Prison Pit… is nothing less than a continuous, no-holds barred, violent assault on the eyes. It is literally one god damned, bloody fight scene after another… The book's genius lies in Ryan's sheer nerve and imagination in setting up these battles; he constantly ups the ante in the most bizarre and inventive ways possible. … Ryan's love of body functions goes into full gonzo mode here. …you've got a book where body horror extends far beyond the repulsive into the truly sublime and inspired. … Despite the…