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…by animator Nick Cross in this music video (I forget where I first spotted this): Danko Jones – King Of Magazines from Bad Taste Records on Vimeo.

Speaking of the Beasts! print show opening tomorrow, Jacob Covey has been previewing some of the prints that will be on display and for sale there on the Beasts! blog (including Tom Neely's "Skinwalker," above). This show is going to be incredible.

While we wouldn't complain if you blew your entire art budget at our Beasts! print show, here are some other worthy things to spend your money on:   • If you would like to buy some original pages from House, or perhaps some X-rated ABBA fan art, or commission a portrait of your kittycat, Josh Simmons has your hookup (hat tip: Spurge) • Maybe you'd like to buy a limited-edition print based on Jaime Hernandez's cover art for the Criterion DVD of Divorce Italian Style? (Detail above — via Spurge again) • Lots of good stuff at the WFMU Benefit…

Regular edition! • The Washington Post names Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw one of the 6 "Best Comics of 2008" • The Wall Street Journal profiles David B. • Our own Kim Thompson provides some Eurocomics commentary in a letter to The Comics Reporter • Look for Paul Hornschemeier's "Bearsly Windinski" in the next issue of Time Out Chicago, and the German edition of The Three Paradoxes not quite as soon

A couple of interviews for your Friday listening pleasure: • Inkstuds has an audio chat with Ivan Brunetti • On his Mr. Media internet radio program, Bob Andelman talks to Joe Kubert biographer (Man of Rock) Bill Schelly

Time for the new installment of Steven Weissman's in-progress pages from "Blue Jay," an epic 32-page story from Chocolate Cheeks, the next collection of the Yikes! gang's adventures. In this week's episode: Dear Diary… And don't forget to catch up on our current 5-day chunk of Martin Kellerman's hilarious Swedish smash-hit Rocky, updated Monday-Friday!

  First Dave Stevens, then Forrest J. Ackerman, and now Bettie Page. 2008 has been a brutal year for some of the icons of my Southern California adolescence.

(Click for larger image) A message from Mark Bode: Hello out there, just a note to people who may want a Bode tattoo and live or are visiting in Europe I will be tattooing at Evil From The Needle, 232 Camden High street in London, on the dates above. I will be tattooing by appointment only so you must call ahead of time. Thanks! Mark Bode

• Drawn! names Ray Fenwick's Hall of Best Knowledge one of their Favourite Comics and Art Books of 2008 • Boing Boing spotlights Paul Di Filippo and Jim Woodring's Cosmocopia (you may remember the release party at our bookstore, where you can still purchase copies) • Venus Zine falls in love with The Lagoon by Lilli Carré • The Vancouver Courier reviews Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw • This much-discussed article by Steven Grant at Comic Book Resources has some nice things to say about Explainers by Jules Feiffer and Willie & Joe: The WWII Years by Bill Mauldin…

Presenting "Soft 9/11," conceived by Johnny Ryan, sewn by Jenny Ryan.