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  I don't buy many serial comics these days. Okay, to be perfectly honest, I don't buy any. Omega the Unknown was the only ongoing mainstream comic I've "collected" more than one or two issues of over the last several years. And even that I probably would have enjoyed it more in collected form, but it was actually kind of fun to get into the habit of buying a serial comic again. Unfortunately, once that ended, nothing else caught my eye. I have a neighborhood comic shop that I stop into fairly often when I'm out walking my daughter, and more…

A preview of Miss Lasko-Gross' new graphic novel, A MESS OF EVERYTHING, is up now at ACT-I-VATE. I recently visited my parents in California and took this book with me to read. I accidentally left it there, and this weekend my mom told me how much she liked it. "Poor Melissa!," she said. Go read the preview and pre-order, already!

"Special Nice Cosmic Hyperdeath" is the name of the show, at Secret Headquarters this Friday, new and newish drawings and paintings, also, very small run minicomics of Josh Simmons' recent stories: "In a Land of Magic," "Cockbone," and "Batman."

Go here for a very good interview with Daniel Clowes, conducted at the Angouleme Festival in January. 

Earlier today, I was downtown and happened to see the mayor of Seattle a few feet away from me. That's nothing compared to Bush Junta collaborator Ethan Persoff meeting John Ashcroft. Too fucking weird. 

  Between being a father myself and having a preternatural predilection for nostalgia, I can relate to this short piece in the New Yorker all too well, although unlike that writer, it's no surprise to me that the great Gene Deitch is the missing link uniting it all. By the way, that Spike Jones trailer for the Where The Wild Things Are really is pretty cool. Thank goodness Zack Snyder wasn't a Maurice Sendak fan…  

Judging from the banner atop their website, Comics Comics is published in Kings County. The Comics Journal is published here in King County.  Comic Art magazine is published by Buenaventura Press in California, whose name is derived from a storied paradise peopled by black Amazons ruled by Queen Califia.  Thus we settle the question of the comics family's royal roots. …Another useless post.

• Review: The A.V. Club gives Humbug an A-minus: "Fans of vintage Mad will immediately be at home thanks to familiar artists and attitudes, although Humbug ultimately feels a bit like an alternate-universe Mad, one 1950s grown-ups could stack between Playboy and Harper’s on the coffee table… Humbug remains a fascinating showcase for a group of artists operating at the height of their powers and inspiration. The lovingly assembled package — beautifully reprinted and filled out with extras like a long Roth and Jaffee interview — doesn’t hurt either." • Review: The A.V. Club says "The Wolverton Bible shows the…

Dig this eye-popping, bone-crunching cover for the Spanish edition of Tim Lane's Abandoned Cars, coming later this year from our colleagues at La Cupula. From Tim's blog.

Drew Friedman & Peanuts: two great tastes that taste great together. For The New Republic, via Drew's blog.