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Courtesy Bill Griffith:

Animator and cartoonist Gary Leib delivers a short history of Manhattan's Meatpacking District for the NY Times.  UPDATE: Gary was kind enough to send me a few stills from the piece, and also tells me that this animation is the first of four created for the Times. Each piece is about a minute long, and is a very personal take on different parts of NY. The original score is by NY based jazz genius Michael Hashim. So stay tuned to the NYTimes.com for more!  

Courtesy Seth: 

Go here and here for some great vintage Peanuts commercial art. 

Our beloved neighborhood of Georgetown is profiled in the NY Times, and look who's featured front and center!

Courtesy Kim Deitch, oh yeah: 

Courtesy Jordan Crane (who, I should add for the record, has since expressed hatred of this sketch): 

Kick off your weekend right with your weekly installment of Steven Weissman's "Chocolate Cheeks"! In this week's strip… just what did "Sweet" Chubby Cheeks see at the park? (Remember, you must be registered and logged in to read.)

We're in the process of making a few enhancements to the website here, one of which was launched today: now you can select to search our products by title only, or by full description, by checking the buttons that say "Titles" or "All" respectively on our Product Search bar to the left. (Before, you had to go to our Advanced Search page to narrow your search like this.) We hope this makes finding what you're looking for just a bit quicker and easier!

Reviews and commentary found 'round the Web this week: • ComicMix on the latest volume of The Complete Peanuts • Occasional Superheroine and The Comics Reporter on Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button — the latter's Tom Spurgeon enthuses "Bottomless Belly Button reaches so high and executes so much of what it does so well that it shames you into reconsidering every other book you may have praised recently." • Newsarama on The Last Musketeer by Jason • Comics Worth Reading's Johanna Draper Carlson explains why she named Linda Medley's Castle Waiting one of the "Best of 2006" • Sequart on…