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  Recently the Peanuts Creative Director, Paige Braddock, approached me to pitch some new ideas for t-shirt branding. Unfortunately the New York offices weren't totally sold on the comps I sent over (not enough Joe Cool perhaps?) so Paige is offering one of the designs on Snoopy's CafePress page to see how it does in the ol' marketplace. Thus, for the time being you can snag this Linus design on everything from a hoody to a mug to a dog sweater.  If Linus sells then some of these other designs may see the light of day…  

I couldn't help but think of Ghost World while reading this rather melancholy news bit out of England. 

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The love train for Dash Shaw's BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON has embarked as the book should be hitting comic shops this week. Largehearted Boy and BoingBoing follow-up the Comics Reporter's enthusiastic review last week with equally kind words.

I'm told this appears in a new Marvel comic called 1985, presumably set in more innocent times. Since I don't really know much more about this, I don't even have a comment except that I can't help but "hear" the dialogue in the voices of Comic Book Guy and Milhouse from the Simpsons. "Why, that is a rare photo of Sean Connery signed by Roger Moore."  

Apologies to Kirby and Fairey. 

  I picked this old dime novel up at a second-hand store years ago for the comics connection and excellent cover and back cover:     At the time, I didn't even look inside, but the book includes about two dozen strips near the end that help solve the book's mystery: The book is written by Jack Iams, whom I know nothing about, and is from Dell Publishing in 1948. Iams acknowledges a few comics-related folk in his 'Author's Notes': 'Acknowledgments' sounds unduly pompous in front of a murder mystery, but I would like to give credit for several assists,…

The Art of Peter Baggewith Mats!? & J.R. Williams Opening First Thursday, June 5th When: Thursday, June 5, 6:00pm – 9:00pm thru June 27Where: Floating World Comics, 20 NW 5th Ave., Portland, OR   UPDATE: Peter won't be at the opening on the 5th. (although JR and Mats!? will be) but he will be at the closing ceremony on the 27th of June!      

Courtesy our excellent intern, Alexa.