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Online Commentary & Diversions of the day: • News: Publishers Weekly has the scoop on RIP, MD, a new series of youth-oriented graphic novels we plan to start publishing next year in collaboration with animation studio Lincoln Butterfield • Review: "[Miss] Lasko-Gross… us[es] a dark and biting humor that both self-deprecates and pokes fun at alterna-teens along the way… The art pulls everything together wonderfully, …and each section receives a beautiful splash page or panel with an embedded title to welcome you into the vignette… Though Fantagraphics has billed A Mess of Everything as the second part of a trilogy,…

From Paul's blog, where there's more info: Tomorrow night: if you're in the Chicago area come out for The Show 'n Tell Show, a rare chance for designers and artists to get together (in front of an audience) and talk about their processes, successes, and failures. I'll be one of those failures, mainly presenting an evolution of the dozens of stages a couple of my books (especially the covers) went through before reaching their final versions.

  … Read part one at the Daily Crosshatch.

The Brinkley GirlsCartoon Art Museum exhibition: May 21 – August 23, 2009 Opening reception/event: Thursday, May 21, 7:00-9:00pmFree and open to the public  The Cartoon Art Museum presents The Brinkley Girls, a celebration of one of the most popular cartoonists of the early 20th century, Nell Brinkley. This retrospective, guest-curated by comics herstorian Trina Robbins, showcases over 30 lavishly illustrated newspaper tearsheets, magazine illustrations, original artworks and other highlights from Robbins's personal collection. Details regarding the opening reception and a special presentation by Trina Robbins will be announced shortly. About Nell Brinkley: For over thirty years Nell Brinkley's beautiful girls waltzed,…

MOME regular and Hall of Best Knowledge creator Ray Fenwick has not one, but two new objets d' art available from Chronicle Books, including this handsomely defiant journal based on one of his MOME pieces:

Here's a few days worth of buzz from Twitter… I don't know if I can make this a habit (and this might be borderline obnoxious), but we'll see: BeaucoupKevin: Between you, me and the fencepost, if DC or Marvel reprinted their Golden Age material in the Fantagraphics' SUPERMEN! format, I'd not mind. Triphibian: The Prince Valiant collection from Fantagraphics looks very, very sexy. http://www.fantagraphics.com/princevaliant Omnivoracious: New Fantagraphics catalog in the mail (candy!). Most enticing: Al Columbia's first book (http://tinyurl.com/oku8ge), Comics Journal 300. saratea: @valientthorr I'm still on my Little Lulu/Johnny Ryan/lotsa Fantagraphics/Top Shelf releases & I still pull out the…

It's your Online Commentary & Diversions for the day: • Review: "There is this old-fashioned comic feel that mixes so well with the overall theme and texture of this short. [In] Ganges #2… [Kevin] Huizenga's elegant neo-clear-line style brings a crispness and humor to these low-key slice-of-life stories, and the gray-blue duotone he has picked gives the art a new depth and complexity." – Hero Spy • Plug: "I’m also trying Blazing Combat, the war comic collection from Fantagraphics. I don’t know much about the series, so this should expand my knowledge of a type of comic I’m not much…

Somewhat belatedly, here are some photos from the Tony Millionaire exhibit opening and book signing at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery lo those 9 days ago. Click here for lots more, including images of all the artwork and a short video. Uncle Gabby & Drinky Crow join Dan Pussey on the store window: Outside, Jim Woodring and Ellen Forney have a chat: The dapper Mr. Millionaire: View of the exhibit: Jam-packed with Maakies fans: Dook dook dook! Messrs. Bagge & Millionaire:

  Whitney Matheson has the scoop on Charlie Brown & Snoopy's role in the legendary Apollo 10 mission, which celebrates it's 40th anniversary today. If you want to read the strips that Charles M. Schulz created during this time, get this volume of The Complete Peanuts.